Glovertown blackened heavy metal project Mistwalker has released a new single. Entitled “Graceless Ebb”, the track was released on Friday, May 17th, 2024 and features Aaron Powell of Fog Lake on guest vocals. The track was mixed and mastered by Julien Levesque at JL.LV Audio.
Along with the track’s release the Bandcamp page for the track features numerous links to donate to relief funds and organizations for Palestinians. We’d encourage you to donate to one or more of these organizations if you’re able to.
“What shall become of this island, another century down the road? Abandoned hopes and towns of ghosts, left scattered amidst the bones.”
Mistwalker – Oceanic Heritage June 24th, 2023 Blackened Heavy Metal Viridian Records Glovertown, Newfoundland
Mistwalker returns to the turbulent history of Newfoundland and Labrador on their 2023 full length album Oceanic Heritage. With this the black metal project led by multi instrumentalist Greg Ravengrave makes the third entry in the ‘Newfoundland Trilogy’, preceded by 2017’s Alexander Bay, and 2018’s Terra Nova. The album covers a wide range of topics, such as the ancient Viking settlers on “L’Anse Aux Meadows”, to more recent events such as the damage of Hurricane Igor on the track “Igor’s Wrath”.
Mistwalker delivers much more than a history lesson as the album is loaded with fierce and fast songs just as heavy as their inspirations. After the melancholic piano overture of “Home”, you’re thrown into “Oceanic Heritage”, a tempest of a title track that ravages the listener with ten minutes of black metal fury. Every new riff of this track hits like a tidal wave.
Other highlights include “Beaumont-Hamel” and “Mystery Veteran”. These war themed tunes bring speed metal into the mix and offer some galloping guitar, and in the case of “Beaumont-Hamel” pummeling drums that make it sound like a battlefield.
“L’Anse Aux Meadows” was another track I found myself returning to. I mean it’s a black metal album, of course the Viking song’s going to be a banger. That intro is such a good hook I’d let it invade and pillage my ears any day.
Coming in at just over an hour the album is a powerhouse that is not to be overlooked by extreme metal fans. Oceanic Heritagebrings a trilogy born from a burning passion for the past to an epic conclusion.
Final Verdict: 8/10 Great
Favourite Tracks: “Oceanic Heritage” “Beaumont-Hamel” “Mystery Veteran” “L’Anse Aux Meadows”
We also released the 60th episode of the Heavy NFLD Official Podcast in which we take a journey through the surprisingly vibrant grunge revivalist movement in Newfoundland. You can listen to it on Bandcamp and YouTube.
Albums Archived – Amer Ali – Chasing the Sunrise [Hard Rock / Single] – Amer Ali – Face in the Clouds [Hard Rock / Single] – Amer Ali – Flying Bee [Hard Rock / Single] – Amer Ali – Forever [Hard Rock / Single] – Amer Ali – Never Say I Don’t Care [Hard Rock / Single] – Arrested Development – Arrested Development Demos [Hardcore Punk / Demo] – Artach – Hell on Halloween [Black Metal / Single] – Bazooka – Demo 2022 [Beatdown / Demo] – Chimp Apparatus – Beermobile [Rough Mix] [Hardcore Punk / Single] – Chimp Apparatus – James, Give Me Your Skateboard… [Remix] [Hardcore Punk / Single] – Defense Force – Live Like Death [Garage Punk / Live EP] – Jaded Truth – Bitter [Grunge / EP] – Knarl – Demo 2022 [Hardcore / Demo] – Nemophilist – 62.8084 N 92.0853 W [Dark Ambient / Single] – Nuclear Casket – Acrimony [Dungeon Synth / EP] – Nuclear Casket – Irascible [Dungeon Synth / EP] – Wiremouth – EP2 [Hardcore / EP]
Montreal / Glovertown blackened heavy metal project Mistwalker performed twice at The Rockhouse back in August as part of their Atlantic Annihilation Tour. Their performance on the second night was also filmed, thanks to Ousamah Yassin from Øbelisk.
You can watch Mistwalker’s set through our YouTube embed below.
Glovertown / Montreal blackened heavy metal outfit Mistwalker has announced that they are going on indefinite hiatus as a live band. While the project’s main focus of being a solo writing and recording project of sole member Greg Ravengrave will continue, the live band will be taking a break from shows for the foreseeable future.
The hiatus was announced via the band’s social media pages on Friday, November 3rd, 2023. As a result the band also dropped out of their upcoming show at Traxide on November 24th alongside World Eaters, Anna Pest, and Ashbreather.
Rest assured that new music from the project will continue, and that the live band will return at some point in the future.
On this episode of the podcast I take you through a journey of the killer local bands we played with while my band Mistwalker and our friends in Obelisk were on tour across the Maritimes!
Released August 31, 2023
All songs belong to the original artists. Podcast recorded by Greg “Akhenaten” Ravengrave.
Tracklist:
01. S.W.E.A.T. – “You Are Only Free When You Are Dead” 02. Tunt – “Obey the System” 03. Sedmi – “Grey” 04. Messe – “Sceance Tenante” 05. Ritual Warfare – “Alcohol and Misery” ~ Story Time ~ 06. Mutated Void – “Slash the Altar” 07. Medvsa – “Miserable” 08. Electrika – “Agonia” ~ Story Time ~ 09. Raped God 666 – “The Eyes of Hate” 10. Obelisk – “Maggot Christ”
Glovertown blackened heavy metal trio Mistwalker performed as the headliner on the first night of Heavy NFLD Fest Vol. I at The Rockhouse. We caught part of their set on camera and it’s now live on our YouTube channel.
Check out the Mistwalker set through our YouTube embed below.
Glovertown blackened heavy metal outfit Mistwalker, which has since relocated to Montreal, along with Montreal death metal / sludge metal trio Øbelisk, have announced a full three week tour of the Maritimes in August of 2023. The Atlantic Annihilation Tour will make its way through Eastern Quebec, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia before eventually making its way to Newfoundland.
The bands will perform in Corner Brook on August 16th at The Corner Pocket on West with local support from The Mill and October Wasp. They will then make their way to Glovertown on August 17th, Mistwalker’s hometown, where they will be joined by short sets from Defense Force, Wretched Fiend, and Nemophilist. The bands will then hit St. John’s for a series of three shows. Two of these shows will take place at The Rockhouse on the evenings of August 18th and 19th where the bands will headline both shows but play different sets each night. On the 18th they will be joined by Winterhearth, InfectDead, and Everose, while on the 19th they will be joined by The Skeats, Dendron, and Jaded Truth. On the 19th they will also play a matinee show at the Gower Street United Church alongside Bazooka, Sick Puppy, and Buck 50’d, courtesy of Barely There Media.
Full list of tour dates:
July 22nd – Montreal @ The Rat Trap w/ Beef Baron, S.W.E.A.T. August 4th – Trois-Rivieres @ Taverne Royale w/ Tunt August 5th – Quebec City @ Le Knock-Out w/ Sedmi August 6th – Rimouski @ Underground Rimouski August 8th – Fredericton @ Broken Record Bar and Music Room w/ Fogger August 10th – Charlottetown @ Howie’s Records w/ Omnivide August 11th – Halifax @ Radstorm w/ Ritual Warfare August 12th – Halifax @ Good Robot Brewing Company w/ Mutated Void August 16th – Corner Brook @ The Corner Pocket on West w/ The Mill, October Wasp August 17th – Glovertown @ Tucker’s Pit w/ Defense Force, Wretched Fiend, Nemophilist August 18th – St. John’s @ The Rockhouse w/ Winterhearth, InfectDead, Everose August 19th – St. John’s @ Gower Street United Church w/ Bazooka, Sick Puppy, Buck 50’d August 19th – St. John’s @ The Rockhouse w/ Dendron, The Skeats, Jaded Truth August 22nd – Yarmouth @ TBA August 23rd – Saint John @ McGill’s w/ Swarm of Pestilence August 25th – Sherbrooke @ Bar Le Magog w/ Raped God, Electrika
This tour is sponsored by Heavy NFLD, Geomorph Records, and Viridian Records.
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