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New Track from YOB

Eugene, Oregon's DOOM band, YOB, has released a new track from it's forthcoming album The Great Cessation called "Burning the Altar." This epic clocks in at just over 12:30.

The Great Cessation have five tracks and runs about 62 minutes according to YOB.

The titles include:

Burning The Altar
The Lie That Is Sin
Silence Of Heaven
Breathing From The Shallows
The Great Cessation

The tentative release date is for the album is late July.

Listen to the new track at YOB's MySpace page here

Review: Rhino - Dead Throne Monarch

Rhino, Dead Throne Monarch (2009)
Arctic Music Group
Format: CD

Dead Throne Monarch immediately opens by accosting the eardrums with the short, heavy grunts emanating from lead singer/guitarist Javier Galvez’s wicked windpipes. Immediately joined by Sergio Robles rumbling bass and Julen Gil’s thunderous skins, one quickly realizes that this album isn’t meant for a relaxed listening session—it’s here to completely trample and assault you.

This is Rhino’s second full-length album, and it’s not the stuff of dreams, but what nightmares are made of. Containing heavy influences across the entire spectrum of metal—grooving at times and kicking your ass to the pavement at others—it runs the full gamut, from slow lumbering beats and sluggishly slow guitars reminiscent of something found in an Electric Wizard epic, to fat groovy chords, chunky harmonics and deliberate rhythms that smack you around and brutalize your senses.

Galvez shows amazing range vocally throughout the album, moving from razor blade gargled heavy doom to actual melodic metallic crooning ala Chris Cornell when Soundgarden still mattered. He also brings a wicked axe that hacks and slashes with thick, chunky and aggressive chops. Robles bass is almost understated on most of Dead Throne Monarch as it meshes so well with the lead guitar and drums. Gil’s playing adds perfectly to the diversity of the album, delivering slow high-hat crashes accompanied by a snail’s pace beating that erupts at times to a full blown in your face thrashing double bass.

Yes, Dead Throne Monarch assaults, but it does slow down in parts, providing depth not found in most metal bands classified in the doom sub-genre. But even slowed, Rhino rarely loses stride; a majority of the time the album stirs deep emotions that make you want to hurt someone because Rhino’s hate, angst and rage are so palpable. The one sole exception is the acoustically based Wendigo, which really doesn’t seem to fit well with the rest of the album.

We can highly recommend Dead Throne Monarch to anyone who loves heavy, well done metal. From Doom/Stoner lovers to people more into Thrash—it really has something for everyone, and it doesn’t get lost in diversity, allowing almost everything to be enjoyed equally. This is truly some of the best Metal that Spain has to offer. It’s worth your hard earned jack and will leave you pumped.

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You can here clips of from Dead Throne Monarch at Rhino's MySpace page here

If you want to pick up a copy, swing by All That is Heavy here

COUGH and ELDER LPs - Available on May 22nd

RUN NOW and get your super limited edition vinyl copies of COUGH - Sigillum Luciferi and ELDER - S/T. Electric Earth has both of them available for pre-order and will ship them on May 22nd.

COUGH's Sigillum Luciferi is 2 LPs, heavy gatefold sleeve and Vinyl. It's limited to 500 copies.

ELDER's S/T - comes with a heavy gatefold sleeve and vinyl. It's limited to 400 copies in black and 100 copies in a red/orange swirl.

Here are some images of the vinyl goodness supplied by Electric Earth:

Covers for COUGH - Sigillum Luciferi and ELDER - S/T

COUGH - Gatefold and Vinyl

ELDER - Super Limited Red/Orange Vinyl and Gatefold

OCEAN CHIEF Interview with Björn Andersson

Neutronium Core took some time with Ocean Chief guitarist Björn Andersson's to find out about the bands upcoming release. For those of you not in the know, Ocean Chief hails from Sweden and putting out some heavily Nordic Mythology and viking themed Doom/Sludge metal since 2001. We found out about the new album they are recording for Electric Earth and what to expect when it hits shelves in the next month or two.

The Core: How is the new album coming along? Being your third full-length album is it getting any easier or more difficult?

Björn Andersson: Good question… But the process of making new songs is the same as before. It’s been coming up with a bunch of good riffs along with some jamming to get the right feeling out of it. Quite simple I'd say!

The new songs are like the previous ones we have done, which were recorded during one weekend in our rehearsal room. Jocke and Tobbe have the skills to pull that off using the simplest of means. And that’s a good thing because we never want a clean, polished sound.

The one time we entered a "real" studio was when recording the TOR album back in 2004.

The Core: Have you decided on a name for the album yet?

Björn: Yep. It will be called Den Förste.

[The Core: I believe it means “The First” in English]

The Core: How has working with Electric Earth been treating you?

Björn: All good. He (Jelle of Electric Earth) is a fan of our work and we are fans of his. Teamwork and friendship among like-minded heavy souls can’t go wrong.

The Core: Any plans to release the new album on vinyl?

Björn: It's on VINYL ONLY! Perhaps there will be a reissue out on CD later on, only time will tell...

The Core: When will you be on tour to support the album? When are you going to come to the states?

Björn: No tour plans as we speak. We are lazy motherfuckers when it comes to that… One off shows here and there will do it for us, at least until next year.

Coming to the States would be cool, and we're totally up for it! But as I said, we need someone to pull our strings and get us there since we are quite unable to do it ourselves.

The Core: Any tracks that you are really digging on the new album that will blow us away?

Björn: Of course! There's 3 new songs on the album, and they are all sweet psychedelic DOOMED out stuff.

The 4th song we recorded is to be released as a split CD with Sweden’s DOMEDAG (which includes members of Runemagick). This will be THE NORTHERN LIGHTS part 2, which will be released by Aftermath Music in late 2009.

The Core: Anything else?

Björn: Thanks for your support and interest in OCEAN CHIEF! Check out the new LP when it's released, I’m sure old fans will like it and hopefully we'll get some new ones too!

We will keep you informed on when the album is expected to land and where you can pick up a copy. Thanks to Björn Andersson for his time.

If you want to check out the new track from Den Förste, swing by Ocean Chief's MySpace page here

You can also pick up TOR or the very limited split-LP with Kongh in the All That Is Heavy online store here

Black Pyramid Interview

Massachusetts' Doom band Black Pyramid's Andy Beresky (guitars, vocals) and Clay Neely (drums) took time out from kicking major ass to talk to Neutronium Core about the new album, plans for the tour and a few other things.

The Core: Congratulations on the new album, how has the response been?

Clay: Well, it leaked before it was released so that's my first taste of 21st century 'success'. It's only available through our label's record online distribution at the moment but so far we've been very happy that so many people have enjoyed it and had many kind words about the CD.

Andy: The response has been overwhelmingly positive, considering the "official" release date isn't until July 14th. You can only get the album at this point from Meteorcity's All That Is Heavy store, or from us directly at a show, but still, a good number of people have heard it and seem to be digging on it. Truthfully I was surprised and flattered by some of the comments and comparisons.

The Core: Any chance on touring beyond the North East to support the new album?

Andy: We're hoping in the fall to tour down the Northeast, and also the upper Midwest, plus we'll be playing the Stoner Hand of Doom festival in the fall, and we're really excited about traveling to Maryland for that one.

Clay: If the opportunity is right and there's a remote chance we won't dig ourselves into an insurmountable financial hole, we're up for touring anywhere.


The Core: It seems like the two biggest areas for new DOOM in the U.S. is in Massachusetts and Maryland, is it something in the water?

Andy: Well, the whole Maryland, DC, and Virginia area has always been a haven for great doom over the years. Mass may not be as much of a "doom capital", but it's not like there has ever been a real drought in quality doom and sludge. Grief and Warhorse were both from here, Planet Gemini has been recording quality Mass doom for awhile. Now you've got some newer bands like Elder and Bloodhorse making a name for themselves, and although we're tight with Elder and a lot of the rock and metal bands, you don't have that same sense of a tight scene that's similar to an extended family like you find around the DC area. Not yet anyways...

Clay: It's unfluoridated in my town, that's all I can tell you. Maybe that helps.

The Core: You are writing new material for the upcoming split with Old One, how did you get hooked up with them?

Andy: Well, we were both on the most recent Stonerrock.com compilation, and both of our contributions seemed to have been appreciated, so when they asked us to do a split with them, it seemed like it would be a good fit. Splits are always a good thing, as both bands basically get automatic exposure to the others audience. With us and Old One, you've got two bands doing two totally different things, and yet the sounds are still pretty compatible.

The Core: Any insight on what the new material is about?

Andy: It's going to be two songs, one is more of a war metal number in the vein of "No Life King", but it has a bit more of an arrangement musically. Lyrically, it's called "Warswine", so you can pretty much guess what that one's all about. The second song is epic and complicated, it's got more of an old-school doom vibe to it, with some strange twists and turns. It's definitely the most experimental thing we've worked on up to this point.


The Core: How did you come up with the name Black Pyramid? Does it signify anything in particular?

Andy: Well, we needed a name, I had suggested The Eye In The Pyramid, then someone said "why not just Pyramid?" Then it became Black Pyramid, which does have a little more meaning to us. The suggestion of a pyramid refers to our sound: heavy, old, and monolithic. Adding the "black" to it references the more out there aspects of the band, the UFO and psychedelic connotations.


The Core: Will Meteorcity or Electric Earth be pressing any vinyl for your self-titled album? If so, when can we expect to see it?

Clay: Yes, Electric Earth will be releasing a double gatefold later on this summer. We're extremely excited to work with them again as they are an extremely proficient operation that has supported us from the get go. It's a bonus that we get to release our full length with them. Also, we have an extra vinyl only bonus track that will hopefully encourage some vinyl sales.

The Core: Anything else you want to discuss?

Andy: Just like to thank you for your support of the band, and for taking the time to help us out a bit. To everyone else out there, read books that make you think, listen to music that makes you deaf, and drink beer that makes you drunk; get away from this reality by creating your own...


A MAJOR thank you to Black Pyramid for taking the time to talk to us.

Find a way to go and see Black Pyramid live this summer when they come to your town.

Make sure to buy the new album and don't forget to pick up the Visions of Gehenna 7" (there are only 400 copies in the world and All That is Heavy has them in stock) so jump on over there and show Black Pyramid your support by buying something!

You can buy the full length self-titled album here

You can buy Visions of Gehenna here

When the vinyl comes out we are going to post a review, so stay tuned.

New Track from Ocean Chief

Swedish DOOM/Sludge band, Ocean Chief, has posted a new song to their MySpace page (click here) and a "sample".

We will assume that this yet to be named song is a snippet from the new album set to hit later this year.

This will be Ocean Chief's 3rd full-length album, which has yet to be titled, but will be available from Belgium's Electric Earth Records. The band also has two splits, one with RUNEMAGICK (on Aftermath) and one with KONGH (on Land O Smiles).

We will contact the band and see if we can extract some more information about the new album, maybe some insight on the new tracks and when they will be coming to the states!