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Pain of Salvation to tour North America in May 2022

Swedish progressive metal / rock pioneers and innovators PAIN OF SALVATION are set to return to North America for tour dates supported by Klone in May. Additionally, PAIN OF SALVATION will be performing at the Cruise To The Edge and at the ProgPower USA festival event. PAIN OF SALVATION – North American Tour 2022 w/ special guests Klone:May 2-7 Port Canaveral, FL – Cruise To The EdgeMay 10 Austin, TX – Come And Take It LiveMay 12 Phoenix, AZ – The Nile TheaterMay 13 Pomona, CA – The GlasshouseMay 14 San Jose, CA – The RitzMay 16 Salt Lake City, […]

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Album Review: Skumstrike – Deadly Intrusions

Ah, Quebec! Home of Mononc’ Serge, black metal, Poutine, black metal, and a little band we all know and had better respect, VOIVOD. Oh, and GORGUTS. Oh, and…now SKUMSTRIKE! Beginning with the soft, soothing intro track as all albums should, ‘Caustic Poison’ comforts and gives peace and if you believe that, stop reading, this fuck is not for you! Surprisingly battle-hardened despite having only a demo and 3 EPs under its bullet belt, the duo of ZS and LA [drums, vocals and string bedevilment respectively] go straight for the balls on ‘Blood Red Vision’, a slaughter-stomp if ever there was […]

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New Bhleg single ‘Befruktad jord’

The time has come to unveil ‘Befruktad jord’ (‘Nourished Soil’) – the second single of BHLEG’s upcoming album, Fäghring which is due for release on April 1. The fourth and closing instalment of BHLEG’s compositional tetralogy Ár is a concept album about springtime. As such, it is permeated by a considerably warmer ambiance than the colder and more barren feeling of its predecessor: their winter opus Ödhin from 2021. Besides the traditional rock instrumentation, this song features hurdy-gurdy and hand drum – performed by the band’s multi-instrumentalist S. – as well as nyckelharpa courtesy of J. Ask. HEAR ‘Befruktad jord’ […]

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Album Review: BA’A – Egregore

A relative new arrival to black metal, France’s BA’A stirred up things a bit with 2020’s Deus qui non mentitur, the debut embracing the overarching aspects of the genre without seeming beholden to tradition to the point of obstinance. Now don’t get me wrong, I can fully respect a BOLT THROWER-esque refusal to move either “forward” or “backward” sonically, it’s just that to have put up such an image for BA’A – especially given the pedigree of its members – would’ve seemed dishonest. And thus, credit where due. Not having nearly enough French to even begin deciphering Egregore lyrically, I’ll […]

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Steve Von Till (Neurosis) Announces U.S. Summer Tour – Shares First Episode of New Live Series ‘A Remote Wilderness’

STEVE VON TILL has announced a full North American Summer tour in support of his recent releases which include 2020’s No Wilderness Deep Enough, last year’s ambient A Deep Voiceless Wilderness and his debut book Harvestman: 23 Untitled Poems And Collected Lyrics. The tour starts in Minneapolis on July 1, covers both coasts, Chicago, Texas and includes a performance at Wyoming’s Fire in the Mountains festival. For a full list of dates see below. Tickets and updates are available HERE Last year, Von Till joined forces with the highly esteemed Roadburn Festival to broadcast a performance for their 2021 online […]

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Album Review: Midnight – Let There Be Witchery

There aren’t many good things to come out of the Buckeye State. As a Michigander there are the obvious “sportsball” rivalries, but mainly Ohio’s just something to avoid driving through on your way to get anywhere else. Don’t wanna “get any on ya” or anything. And yet, this is where the nasty blackthrashspeed of founder and sole member Athenar has thriven for nearly two decades now. Thus, I’ve promised myself this review will only take as long to write as a listen through his fifth under the black banner of MIDNIGHT. Thoughts of some piss-poor “intro” get flushed septic-ward once […]

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US death metal legends BRUTALITY to release new album in May

Being a band with a well-documented turbulent career, BRUTALITY managed to have a fine body of discography work in their on-and-off career. Four studio albums that put them among the best death metal bands that the Tampa scene, in Florida, has exported to the world. And we’re talking Tampa, Florida, home of the best US death metal bands. When BRUTALITY announced, in October 2020, the band would be splitting up, the whole world was left stranded – once again – except for one person. Michael H. Andersen, Emanzipation Productions A&R, saw that as an opportunity to release a kind of […]

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Porcupine Tree announce first tour in 12 years; share new song; album out in June

GRAMMY® Award-nominated British rock band PORCUPINE TREE will celebrate their long-overdue return to the global stage with new dates confirmed in North and South America. The legendary group’s first tour since October 2010 in support of their latest album Closure/Continuation, will kick off September 10 at Toronto Ontario’s Meridian Hall, followed by concerts in Montreal, QC; Boston, MA; New York, NY; Philadelphia, PA; Washington, DC; Chicago, IL; Irving, TX; Denver, Co; San Francisco, CA and Los Angeles, CA; continuing with eagerly awaited October performances in Mexico City, Mexico (October 4) and Santiago, Chile (October 7). The North and South American […]

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Album Review: Dark Meditation – Polluted Temples

With a PR sheet name-dropping everyone from VENOM to PRIEST to DANZIG and mentioning the members’ previous “punk ethos” Polluted Temples could’ve gone either way. Shiver-inducing images of early ‘00s CRADLE OF FILTH or any DANZIG after III: How The Gods Kill plagued my mind, but on a ridiculous bright and sunny Monday morning in February, 2022, I gathered my courage and… After the mercifully short ‘Prelude’, ‘Babalon.Money.Magick’ is…oh, yes, now I see where the DANZIG influence comes from, but it’s not even good DANZIG, instead sloughing forward with all the energy of a greasy devilock and half the passion. […]

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AMENRA, CAVE IN, And MARISSA NADLER Brought Together For Songs Of Townes Van Zandt Vol. III LP, Confirmed For April Release Via Neurot Recordings And My Proud Mountain

Neurot Recordings in conjunction with My Proud Mountain announces the third record of the Songs Of Townes Van Zandt series, which was started in 2012, featuring various artists covering the works of beloved American singer-songwriter Townes Van Zandt. Songs Of Townes Van Zandt Vol. III features new renditions of nine classic tracks as interpreted by AMENRA, CAVE IN, and MARISSA NADLER. Steve Brodsky of CAVE IN stated about being part of the record, “In the winter of 2010, I did a solo tour with Scott Kelly of Neurosis and Bob Wayne. It was the three of us and Ansgar Glade […]

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