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PLANET DESERT ROCK WEEKEND: full lineup revealed

Vegas Rock Revolution’s Planet Desert Rock Weekend has revealed the full lineup for its fifth edition, with twenty international heavy rock, psych and doom acts to take the Las Vegas stages over the January 30th-February 2nd, 2025 weekend! Curated by Vegas Rock Revolution founder John Gist, Planet Desert Rock Weekend has become a major event for all heavy rock fans nationwide and beyond. More than just a festival, it’s an experience: Planet Desert Rock is designed to be an intimate weekend where festival-goers can hang out with likeminded rockers and the musicians that create amazing music — it’s a party […]

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Album Review: Wuldorgast – Cold Light

‘Obscured In Shadows’ throws its head back in a magisterial and mighty howl from the start, ascending and descending riff patterns, a definite early ‘00s DARKTHRONE vibe to both the tempo and Feral Spirit’s (henceforth F.S.) vocal proclamations not unlike Fenriz of the aforementioned, who shan’t be again, because there’s at once something fresh about what WULDORGAST is bringing this early on in Cold Light. Neither blanching at the idea of stretching a song to just under the breaking point as in the opener, nor averse to the “get in, do damage, get out” aesthetic, ‘Natural Life Is Eternal Battle’ […]

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KARLA KVLT: New German Sludge/Post-Rock Trio Formed By Members Of Eisenvater And Melting Palms To Release Debut LP, Thunderhunter, Through Exile On Mainstream February 21st

Exile On Mainstream is thrilled to welcome back Markus E. Lipka, the driving force behind Eisenvater with his new band, KARLA KVLT. Together with his son Johann Wientjes on drums and his daughter-in-law, Teresa Matilda Curtens, on bass and vocals – both also in Melting Palms – the trio delivers a raw and monolithic album that is unique in style and approach. The alternative music scene in the 1990s vibrantly questioned traditional listening approaches and came up with some of the most interesting concepts in that sense. While it was bands like Melvins, Unsane, Swans, and Cop Shoot Cop on […]

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Album Review: The Kearns Family – Together And Alone

Take a husband and wife old-time music duo, give them a sound to paint to, a touch of JOHNNY DOWD, and more than a little style. Now, take those two, put them in the Mojave Desert, and put a few mics in the room. What comes out is Together And Alone. ‘The Dust’ immediately resonates, bell-clear and crystalline despite its title, Susan Kearns’ upright bass already as integral to the sound as the weathered, careworn voice of Pat. Grains of BRETT DETAR are sifted through vocal cords just this side of brittle, a breath away from brimstone and heart-deep in […]

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Album Review: The Brood – For The Dark

Come to think, it’s really not all that rare for a punk/hardcore band to start up, then spend years playing in local dives, squats, basements and VFW halls before deciding to crank out an actual album. I’d even add that, as a genre, the type of punked up hardcore THE BROOD is on about is more geared to a live setting, where the band and the crowd become one heaving, moshing organism than something you’d toss onto a record player. But that’s not keeping the Philadelphia crew from delivering with For The Dark. ‘Sinkhole’ is exactly that from the start, […]

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Final Coil release new video – ‘The Making Of Stay With Me’ – before heading out to Europe

As they prepare for their first live dates on European soil FINAL COIL have released a fascinating new film documenting the creation of their amazing recent video, ‘Stay With Me’. ‘Making Of Stay With Me’ takes fans behind the scenes and gives a great insight into the work that goes into creating a top class promotional video. FINAL COIL front man Phil Stiles shares his thoughts on this very different video release for the band and on an incredible 2024… “As we countdown to our first ever live dates in France and Belgium, it’s amazing to look back across a […]

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Album Review: Barren – The Hanged Man

New Jersey’s BARREN arrives with its debut, The Hanged Man. ‘Unheard’ begins with the all-too-common sound of the church bell, winds blowing in the darkness, and a wail over a plain – but still somehow interesting – chord structure. There’s a feeling of an extended prelude here, though, as a true song never takes shape. Vocalist/guitarist/bassist Andrew Campbell does seem to be desirous of some sort of purging, and his delivery is understandable, while carrying the burden of desperation. There’s something of the Akron – Cleveland, OH sound in ‘Death Interrupted’, bands like ULTRALORD and FISTULA coming to mind in […]

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DEMISER Announces US Winter Tour With Nunslaughter

South Carolina hell bringers, DEMISER, will join Nunslaughter for a two-week US tour this Winter. The Pestis Infernum Tour runs from January 31st in Washington, DC through February 15th in Atlanta, Georgia. Additional support will be provided by Desolus. The band comments, “DEMISER is fuckin’ stoked to hit the road! After a year in wait, we return to the East Coast with our brothers in blasphemy – the mighty Nunslaughter – with speed demons Desolus in tow! This time, in support of our latest offering Slave To The Scythe, bangers like ‘Hell Is Full Of Fire’ and ‘Phallomancer The Phallomancer’ […]

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Album Review: Bedsore – Dreaming The Strife For Love

Aside from a split album with Japan’s MORTAL INCANTATION, 2020’s slow grower, Hypnagogic Hallucinations was the last we’d heard from BEDSORE… until now. When I refer to the debut as a “slow grower”, the mistake would be to view that as a bad thing, especially in this case. Neither one to chop the tail off a song unnecessarily to meet some self-enforced track length, nor to draw out a piece to the snapping point for the same reason, there was a lot going on in BEDSORE, even from the start. And thus, it’s no real surprise that, if anything, the […]

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