Zaryathus Announcement

Today, Zaryathus has decided that it will be releasing the remaining hardhouse/dance songs on a short EP. The classical inspired ambient atmospheric music that Zaryathus has been producing for the upcoming album 'The Obliteration of Planet 13' will be released in the near future under a different name. This name has yet to be decided.

The name of Zaryathus' upcoming EP has also yet to be decided, however it is expected that it will be uploaded to the internet and available for free download at some point today. As soon as more details come through, they will be released on here; The Asylum Music Group website.

New Zaryathus Album

The second Zaryathus album, The Obliteration of Planet 13, is nearing completion. As soon as the album is finished it will be uploaded to the internet for free download by all.

Zaryathus has made a statement indicating that the previous album, Music of the Solar Winds, is quite different to this upcoming release. While the album still contains hardhouse and elements of dance; The Obliteration of Planet 13 focusing on more of an dark sci fi atmospheric style, drawing from heavy dark classical music such as Carl Orft's Carmina Burana - O' Fortuna.

First Deconstructed Surface Release

Hey everyone,

This is the first Deconstructed Surface release. Recorded on the 15th of April, 2010, this is a recording of the bands jam session. Its packed full of improvised progressive djenty riffs.

Album name: Revelations, Jam Sessions [15.04.2010]
Total running time is 19 minutes, 40 seconds

Tracklisting:

1. Children of the Gods
2. Within the Serpent's Grasp
3. The Serpent's Lair
4. Secrets
5. A Matter of Time
6. Serpent's Song
7. Out of Mind

Format: MP3
Compression: RAR
Size: 16.73mb
Bitrate: 128 kbps


Link:

http://www.mediafire.com/?qyzjy5yxmmm


album cover coming soon

Another Month Goes By

Once again another month goes by without any posts by the AMG. Its been a slow time lately for the AMG music with all its main members frantically completing various work and study related assignments.

However, there a few updates that I can type up for everyone. But first I'll throw down the names of four more bands that are worth checking out.

The 4 Bands of the Month are:
1. Arc of Ascent
---a New Zealand stoner doom band that is basically brilliant
2. Quantum Heresy
---another recent djent band that follows the trends that are becoming pretty damn popular
3. Behindert
---a solo project that is somewhere between the sound and styles of Keith Merrow and Chimp Spanner
4. Maigra
---a band that incorporates djent into groove, similar vocals to Devil Driver



Alright, now for the news. Two of the AMG bands have created their own MSN accounts and emails so that you can get in contact with them directly. Perhaps ask them to support at a gig or what have you.

Deconstructed Surface:
------- deconstructed-surface@msn.com

The Blue Devil:
------- the-blue-devil@msn.com

As Paris Hilton would Say "Like, O. M. G."

Yea, its coming dreadfully close to a month since my last little post. Since then the bands of the asylum music group have done practically nothing but drink, smoke and die at the amount of university assignments due.

Thankfully one of these assignments involves a couple of the bands (The Blue Devil & Deconstructed Surface) having proper band photos taken, so some good comes out of it.

Other than that I recording of a live performance by Deconstructed Surface has turned up, and once I get ahold of it, I will upload it to mediafire and multiupload so you can download it for free. However, this is an unofficial recording. Whoever recorded it was in the bar at the time of the gig, so chances are it was done using a cellphone or dictaphone.

Ok so I need to catch up on the bands of the week posts. Screw introductions and descriptions; by now you should know that if I upload them as a band of the week, then they are bloodly good. And you should all go download them with out hesitation. Buy it, but yea, a few offer free downloads. Legend!

So heres 5 bands of the week to make up numbers, plus a bonus. :)

1. Vortice (djent, groove)
2. In-Quest (death, groove)
3. LiquorWorks (djent, progressive, atmospheric) official website
4. Periphery (djent, progressive, metalcore)
5. Proton Kinoun (atmospheric)

A note about Periphery...
The vocals absolute suck. If you can find, download (or buy) the deluxe edition. It has a 2nd cd with the instrumental versions of each song. Blew my mind. Brilliant. Just a shame they had to throw in this emo pussy shit vocals that djent bands seem to be doing.

The Asylum Music Group News & Updates

There are a few things that need to be said and done for this post so I am just going to get straight to the point:

The songs Through Hell and The Darkened Dawn, currently by The Blue Devil will no longer be their songs. Instead, the writters of those two songs (Chris and Matt) have decided that they are more suited for their latest project Deconstructed Surface, a mixture of death, djent and progressive music. The Blue Devil will focus on the southern rock, stoner and sludge songs it has been writting, drawing influences mainly from Deftones, Spiritual Beggars, Down and Black Sabbath.

The three members of The Blue Devil (Matt: guitar/bass/vocals, Chris: guitar/vocals, and Dave: drums) may soon be joined by a fourth member, Andy Shone (Scientist, ex - Gate 13, ex -Nullifier), who will take the role of permanent frontman/vocalist depending on how he gels with the band. The first trial run is set for this upcoming Saturday. New posts will be put up as this progresses.

Lastly, the upcoming new feature to this blog: Redjent, will be launched during this week, with the first two riffs being finalised and prepared for recording. The first two riffs are the main riffs from the legendary Enter Sandman by Metallica and unmistakeable masterpiece Walk by Pantera (R.I.P Dimebag).

Band of The Week

God, I'm suppose to do another one of these things. Well I said I would. Anyway, this band has two albums to date, I personally like the earlier album, but the second one is rated best.

They combine deathcore and groove with the intoxication that is djent. What more do I really need to say. If you've read at least one or two other Band of The Week posts you know that these bands are much better than what they are given credit for.

The Band of the Week is...

Mistaken Element

Visit them at:

Official Website

Myspace

Encyclopaedia Metallum

Last.fm

Metal Underground