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Ascend Ascend: Janaka Stucky Live In Seattle With Lori Goldston 2xLP From Prolific Writer Out On Neurot Recordings

“Janaka Stucky is extraordinary, and his work riveting.” – Jimmy Page Neurot Recordings today unveils Ascend Ascend: Janaka Stucky Live In Seattle With Lori Goldston from prolific writer, poet, and performer JANAKA STUCKY. Praised by Jimmy Page as “riveting,” JANAKA STUCKY’s book length poem, Ascend Ascend, published by Jack White’s Third Man Books in 2019, gets a mesmerizing treatment on this album by the same name, accompanied by experimental cellist Lori Goldston. Goldston, known for her work with several acts – including Nirvana, Cat Power, and Earth – provides otherworldly layers of distortion and natural reverb over Stucky’s dirge-like vocal […]

Prophecy Fest announce exclusive AGALLOCH reunion show

The makers of Prophecy Fest are thrilled and proud to announce that US metal legends AGALLOCH have agreed to perform their much longed for reunion show in the original line-up exclusively in the Cave of Balve this year. AGALLOCH comment: “After nearly eight years since the band broke up, AGALLOCH are reforming with the intent of playing limited shows”, guitarist Don Anderson writes on behalf of the trio. “The line-up remains the original three: vocalist and guitarist John Haughm, guitarist Don Anderson, and bassist Jason Walton. We will be aided by Hunter Ginn (Canvas Solaris, Sculptured, Radical Research Podcast) on […]

SVARTANATT Unveil New Single ‘Child Of The Devil’

SVARTANATT returns with the new single ‘Child Of The Devil’. Following their 2016 self-titled debut album and 2018’s Starry Eagle Eye, the Swedish classic rock outfit are now set to release their third studio full-length, Last Days On Earth, during the fall of 2023. ‘Child Of The Devil’ offers a first taste of the new album, and delivering melodious guitars, heavy organ, high-energy drums, groovy basslines and unique, sharp vocals. SVARTANATT on the new single: “‘Child Of The Devil’ is the first single from our third upcoming album, Last Days On Earth. The song is about a person who has […]

Wytch Hazel Drops ‘A Thousand Years’ Lyric Video and announces London show with Spell & Parish

Ascending British hard rock sect, WYTCH HAZEL, will release its new album, IV: Sacrament, on June 2 via Bad Omen Records. Recorded with long-time producer Ed Turner (Purson), and tracked in a converted Baptist chapel in rural Wales, the record is a resounding achievement and glittering treasure chest that builds on the momentum of the band’s celebrated 2020 album III: Pentecost, glorified by Under The Radar as “an invocation of rock and roll at its purest and, more specifically, of all that made the New Wave of British Heavy Metal in the late ’70s so special” and compelled Metal Injection […]

DUSKWOOD: new single ‘Deathproof’ streaming

Somerset-based up-and-coming heavy and stoner rockers DUSKWOOD release a burning hot third track taken from their sophomore full-length, The Last Voyage, to be issued on May 12th via Ripple Music. Stream DUSKWOOD’s new single ‘Deathproof’ HERE DUSKWOOD don’t do things by halves when it comes to launching their fuel-driven anthems like rockets into outer space, and no prisoner is taken when their wall of razor-sharp riffs hits those amps on top of Liam Tinsley’s gritty and commanding vocals. Think the stadium-worthy power of Wolfmother colliding in the desert dust with Kyuss’ fat sunbaked grooves: fearless and relentless. Don’t wait any […]

Norway’s blackened death metallers NEXORUM announce their sophomore album Tongue Of Thorns out on May 19th 2023 via Non Serviam Records

Blackened death metal machine based in Trondheim, Norway NEXORUM proudly announce the new album to follow up their 2020 debut. Perceived as a bombastic, audial onslaught, the band’s debut full length Death Unchained was unleashed upon the masses in February 2020, receiving much praise by fans and reviewers around the globe. NEXORUM’s sophomore album Tongue Of Thorns will be released on May 19th 2023 via Non Serviam Records. Events of the past years led NEXORUM down a much darker path, emphasizing the elements of black metal in the band’s music. As the second horseman of Revelations is currently pushing the […]

MIDNIGHT: Tickets For The 20 Years Of Hell, Speed, And Sleaze USA Tour 2023 On Sale Now

Cleveland blackened thrash punks MIDNIGHT are celebrating twenty years of sonic debauchery with a massive North American tour later this Spring! Support on The 20 Years Of Hell, Speed, And Sleaze USA Tour will be provided by Spirit Adrift and Spiter from May 1st through May 20th, then Early Moods and Necrofier from June 1st through June 16th. Tickets are on sale now. See all confirmed dates below. MIDNIGHT w/ Spirit Adrift, Spiter: 5/01/2023 The Pyramid Scheme – Grand Rapids, MI 5/02/2023 Mag Bar – Louisville, KY 5/03/2023 The Radio Room – Greenville, SC 5/05/2023 Underbelly – Jacksonville, FL 5/06/2023 […]

MARGARITA WITCH CULT: new video ‘The Witchfinder Comes’ streaming

UK doom rockers MARGARITA WITCH CULT present an intoxicatingly heavy second video taken from their awaited self-titled debut album, to be released on April 21st through Heavy Psych Sounds. About new single ‘The Witchfinder Comes’, the band comments: “A macabre tale of an impending witch hunt climaxing with the subject running in fear over the spiraling coda. The slab of bludgeoning ’70s style proto-metal is a stadium-sized version of the song which first appeared on the band’s demo cassette which brought the band to the public eye in 2022.” Watch new video ‘The Witchfinder Comes’ on The Sleeping Shaman Get […]

Morrison Graves streaming forthcoming debut Division Rising via CvltNation and Bandcamp

Hear/share the full Division Rising album via Bandcamp or CvltNation Portland, OR band MORRISON GRAVES are streaming their forthcoming debut album Division Rising in full via CvltNation. MORRISON GRAVES is a psychedelic rock project from Oregon, USA. Their moody, fuzzed-out, sound draws influences from late 60’s fuzz and garage, surf, psychedelia, and indie rock. But they infuse these atavistic leanings with heavy saturated guitars and metalgaze drone reminiscent of Black Angels and Dead Meadow. Meanwhile, vocalist Ryan Brown croons over the proceedings like a young Jim Morrison or early Mark Lanegan’s tuneful wail in Screaming Trees. The group features multi-instrumentalist […]

TENHI announce new album and release lyric video

From a decade of twilight, Finnish dark folk ensemble TENHI return to the light with a lyric video for the new track ‘Saattue’ as the first single taken from their forthcoming album, Valkama, which has been slated for release on June 9, 2023. WATCH ‘Saattue’ PRE-ORDER Valkama On further news, parallel to the release of Valkama on June 9, 2023, TENHI will also make a limited hardcover slipcase box available under the title Collected Works 2023. The box will contain all TENHI recordings from 1997 to 2023 on 14 vinyl LPs, which are for most part remastered and include Valkama […]