Nightmare Records To Release New CDs From Fracture, Manticora, More...
Date: Saturday, September 18 @ 22:13:35 UTC
Topic: Album Release News


New releases from Nightmare Records include Fracture's Simple Chaos, Manticora's Safe, Tetrafusion's Altered State, and Toxxic Toyz's Mutation -- all due out October 12.

"Fracture pride themselves as being one of very few bands out of Australia to have delved into a genre of music that is vastly becoming popular. Ask the band and the will say that they would call their music 'Metal' but composition of their music has it otherwise. It's Progressive Metal!!



"Fracture was formed in early 2007, after a meeting with a mutual friend that they had in common. David Bellion on Vocals, Tony Markou on guitars. At first it was an exploration of ideas, sounds, experiments and various recordings that gave them the urge to create a unique sound. David, having sung in various metal bands through the years, most notably Neue Regel, Vaudxdvihl, and Star Chamber, brought forward a lot of new and exciting ideas, sounds, mixtures and shades of light and dark musical composition, with and exceptional ear for detail and perfection.

Tony, along the same lines, played in various bands through the years, in various genres. From Blues to hard rock and heavy metal. After years persisting with his passion, he realised that he needed to push his own boundaries and limits and start something fresh. Upon meeting David, it was an instantaneous realisation that they could really work well as a team, and create something they can honestly say is their best work to date.

Joined Later by Mark emblin on drums the band began working on their debut album, Simple Chaos. Delivering a collaboration of musical styles, emotion filled composition and lyrics, and a dynamic approach, Fracture has certainly created their masterpiece."

"Manticora, Denmark?s reigning metallic champions are weighing in with their seventh full length entitled Safe. Manticora is an amalgam of power metal, technical thrash and orchestrated epic metal that bring on a solid sonic assault to the listener live or recorded.

Each album since the bands third release has brought profile tour opportunities that they?ve gladly accepted due to the rave reviews and accolades they?ve received in the metal media. Manicora will tour Europe in Sept / Oct. and will play a series of higher profile metal festivals around the world to support this new release."

"Tetrafusion?s blend of complex, technical metal blended with a highly-intellectual melodic structure offers an eclectic brand of progressive rock and metal along the likes of Porcupine Tree, Rush Dream Theater, Cynic, Tool and Muse. Originally an instrumental band, the band released their debut record Absolute Zero to critical acclaim, which quickly launched the band into the underground metal scene, sans-vocals, along the likes of Scale The Summit, Animals As Leaders, Liquid Tension Experiment, and Canvas Solaris, and was hailed as one of the top ten albums of 2009 by Ultimate-Guitar.com. Also commented Mark Michell in a recent interview with Examiner.com about the new release: 'We really took a new direction musically. It's our first record to feature vocals, and we didn't want to have 'Absolute Zero, Part 2' with vocals over it, so we decided to just completely change our approach. I think Altered State's biggest slogan is "substance over style," where as our debut was very style-oriented and straight forward. We definitely have our progressive, crazy fast heavy moments, but we took a step back and gave it a lot more atmosphere which is something I think we needed on many levels.'"

"This is an extremely powerful sophomore album for a band that has been around playing the French scene since 2003. Toxxic Toyz brand of music is a blending of extremely aggressive heavy rock and melodic power metal with great technical proficiency, tendencies and great song writing, Vocalist David Mcbee's voice fits this music perfectly, he's got a raw attitude basted in melody that brings listening accessibility, lyrically this album is screaming to the sleeping masses of the world not aware that they're becoming slaves to the new world order, wake up, it's now or never, wake up you sheeple, it's TIME TO WAKE UP and reclaim your freedom. The freedom of the mind, the freedom of independent thought, freedom of our spirit to rise above the corporate media's calculated social programing.

"This band believes in the raw rock attitude of no keyboard embellishments, it's in your face and it's all good. The songs clock in between 5-7 minutes in length without getting boring due to the band's ability to blend old school riffs into more up-tempo technical and aggressive mature structures."

[Source: Connecting Music]







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