Name: Whitechapel "Orphan" by Metal Blade Records
Duration: 4 min 40 s
Description: Whitechapel "Orphan" from the album "Kin"

Whitechapel "Orphan" from the album "Kin"

Whitechapel "Orphan"

Track no. 1 of the "Resonance" EP Available NOW on iTunes & Bandcamp!

Breakfast Toast

Taken from the upcoming album "Awakening The Forest" 
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ALUNAH - Heavy Bough

Based on my sister Sasha’s eponymous, unpublished short story. Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/7vkp28QDkOZ6bcMIUi6LkA

She wakes up to find scales under her pillow,
Whispers to the mirror, “Is it time to let go?”
His world’s black and white, but hers is getting clearer,
Dreams of the ocean draw closer to her.

While she feels the pull of the changing tide,
He clings to the shore, trying to hide,
Her future’s vast as the open sea,
He’s anchored in doubt, refusing to see.

As she jingles her bracelets, sounding the call,
He just wishes he weren't there at all.

She’s calling, she’s yearning, she’s beginning to flee,
She’s chasing, she’s changing, becoming the sea.
Riding the waves that whisper her name,
Breaking the bonds, unleashing the main.

She's into witch doctors and superstitions, 
As if on a mission to challenge his love 
Makes him talk to people who he finds quite fishy, 
And one of these days, he'll have had enough.

But one of these days, lit by the setting sun, 
He'll have his grounded world turned upside down.

She’s calling…


It sparkles, it shimmers, it sends golden rays
Onto the onlookers and his silly face.

She’s calling…

She’s going to the sea.

Mira Is Going to the Sea

Atoma

Dark Tranquillity – Atoma

The Last Kind Words

Clouds Over California

Catharsis

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NEW TRACK! - 'Remnants' - from 'Of Breath and Bone' - Be'lakor's forthcoming album. Pre-orders will be available from 8 May 2012 at www.belakorband.com. Visit www.facebook.com/belakorband for more news.

Remnants

Track taken from the upcoming album »I, The Mask« (Release Date: 01.03.19)

I, The Mask

I Am Above

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'The Pulse of the Dead' from our debut album 'Time Tears Down' - out August 2nd, 2013!

The Pulse of the Dead

'Function or Perish' from our debut album 'Time Tears Down' - out August 2nd, 2013!

Function or Perish

Metal Blade Records history by Dan Slessor:
Founded upon owner Brian Slagel's enduring drive to find great bands and get their music out to as many people as possible, since 1982 Metal Blade has brought wave after wave of powerful, innovative, and often genre-defining music to the ever-hungry metal masses. It is this ethos that has seen Metal Blade build up a stunning and diverse catalogue, weather the various storms facing any independent label, and in an age of declining record sales boast the most successful years of its existence as it strides into its fourth decade.

What perhaps makes this achievement all the more notable is the fact that Slagel never even intended to start a label. Working in an LA record store and writing for various publications, Slagel was acutely aware that many great bands in the local metal scene were being ignored, and he decided to release a compilation of tracks drawn from these ranks. "There were a lot of really good bands and I was just bummed out that nobody could hear them. It just seemed like I could help them out and have some fun at the same time, and that compilation was the first Metal Massacre," he states. Collating tracks from then unknown bands including Ratt, Bitch, Cirith Ungol, and Metallica amongst others, the compilation sold out immediately. "How important is Metal Blade to our career? They're only the reason we are enjoying the worldwide success we have today," states Metallica's James Hetfield. "Without Brian's openness to some raunchy teens with a crap sounding cassette tape we would be who knows where, and playing who knows what!" With the popularity of the tape spurring Slagel on, the first seeds of Metal Blade were sown. "After the success of those compilations I just started putting out records of bands that I was friends with, but without ever really intending it to be a label at all," he explains. "After I put out four or five releases I started to feel like something was happening, and I decided to quit the record store and quit college and see where it went."

Battling through the first few lean years, when the label consisted solely of Slagel working out of his mom's poorly ventilated garage in the San Fernando Valley, it gradually grew in both revenue and stature. Within a few years Metal Blade would go on to release the debuts of Slayer, Armored Saint, Trouble, and Corrosion Of Conformity amongst others, fanning the flames of the burgeoning metal scene and launching careers of bands that would go onto reap global success. "Without Metal Blade, there is a damn good chance we never would've made it out of L.A," says Slayer's Kerry King. "That was the one bit of luck we needed. You can be the most awesome band on the scene, and if no one notices you, you don't catch on. And Brian Slagel is still one of the biggest metalheads I know!" This genuine love and devotion to metal is central to the relationship many of the artists have with Metal Blade, and King Diamond credits much of its relevance and strength to this passion. "I refer to it as having 'boots on the ground'," the mighty Dane states. "It's not like a major label where some people might be into what you're doing but a lot of them just see it as a job – there's a genuine love for metal there. Through staying true to that and doing their own thing they've carved out a very specific niche that they control, and as an artist it's wonderful to be a part of that."over the years. Clearly without those people we couldn't do what we do, and to everyone out there who has helped us along by being a fan we are so very grateful to you."

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Whitechapel "Orphan"

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