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SHERPA stream new album, Land Of Corals, in full

Stream new album Land Of Corals Four years after their sophomore record, Tigris & Euphrates, and an acclaimed performance at Roadburn Festival, the creative duo of Matteo Dossena and Franz Cardone (aka SHERPA) take us on yet another singular and immersive aural journey with their new album, Land Of Corals. Their hybrid marriage of shoegaze, atmospheric doom/post-metal and electronics blossoms in lush textures and slow but rewarding build-ups, with Dossena’s airy vocals making for a highly tantalizing ride. Darkness and light coexist seamlessly throughout the album’s 40 minutes — either through the trip-hop-meets-drone vibe of intro track ‘Silt’ and the […]

JASON BLAKE: Sonic Perspectives Premieres ‘An Aversion To Fervor’ From Slightly Different Paths Instrumental Solo Album By Warr Guitarist

Sonic Perspectives is hosting the premiere of ‘An Aversion To Fervor’, the latest preview from Chicago-based progressive Warr guitarist JASON BLAKE preceding the release of his Slightly Different Paths album. Through both his playing in progressive/instrumental trio Aziola Cry and his own solo work, JASON BLAKE has been establishing himself as one of the most distinguished technicians on the Warr guitar; a unique twelve-string instrument incorporating the range of a guitar and bass that is played by tapping the strings in a touchstyle technique. Through a rapidly prolific succession of varied records in recent years, JASON BLAKE been building an […]

ARMORED SAINT Announces North American Tour With Queensrÿche; Tickets On Sale Now

Iconic heavy metal outfit ARMORED SAINT will return to the stage this Spring supporting Queensrÿche! The trek, which commences on March 27th, 2024 in Anaheim, California and runs through May 21st, 2024 in Las Vegas, Nevada, includes several ARMORED SAINT headlining shows scattered throughout. Comments ARMORED SAINT vocalist John Bush, “Hello SAINT fans, We are happy to announce that we will be hitting the road again in March 2024 to team up with our good friends and one amazing band, the mighty Queensrÿche! Playing shows with Eddie [Jackson], Michael [Wilton], Todd [La Torre], Casey [Grillo], and Mike [Stone] is always […]

ULVER ANNOUNCE REISSUE OF 1993 DEMO, VARGNATT, OUT ON PEACEVILLE ON DECEMBER 8

ULVER announce that their classic 1993 promo-tape will be reissued on Peaceville Records. 2023 marks thirty years since its recording and the record shows ULVER’s Black Metal rooted background before the band began to evolve outside of the genres confines. Widely known for high-calibre soundscapes and exquisite experimental and electronic art as part of their continual and ever-shifting evolution, ULVER’s beginnings amalgamated ethereal black metal with delicate folk-inspired passages. Despite the rough edges, the band’s material stands out with its highly unconventional compositions when compared to the more primitive and raw offerings from other fast rising acts in the Norwegian […]

BRODER’s Skarpretterfossilet Out Now

The barbarians have smashed through the gates… Denmark’s BRODER has officially unleashed Skarpretterfossilet. The band’s third and most violent outing to date favors chaos over composition with five scathing tracks of war metal, culminating in the primal 15-minute assault on your senses, ‘Byldemor’. Skarpretterfossilet is out now on Extremely Rotten Productions. Stream and download the digital edition at broder-dk.bandcamp.com. Get the album on vinyl, CD, and cassette at extremelyrottenprod.com/store Skarpretterfossilet Tracklisting: En sten på et alter Kraniekløversken Bondejagt Marvdram Byldemor BRODER started out slow in 2014, with droning doom, but metamorphized into a blackened sludge wasteland with the 2018 album, […]

SUPER PINK MOON: new video ‘GodEater’ streaming

Ukrainian multi-instrumentalist and Somali Yacht Club frontman Ihor Pryshliak aka SUPER PINK MOON shares the lyric video for his new track ‘GodEater’ taken from the upcoming new album Inertia, due out November 17th on all streaming services. Stream SUPER PINK MOON’s new track ‘GodEater’ Discover latest single ‘FearKnight’ “A rich waterfall of sound.” – Everything Is Noise “Triumphant and bordering on uplifting.” – Metal Hammer UK SUPER PINK MOON was created in 2019 as a solo project of Somali Yacht Club guitarist and vocalist Ihor Pryshliak in Lviv, Ukraine. Gracefully interweaving post-rock, shoegaze and indie rock, his sophomore album Iron […]

Actor/Horror Icon COURTNEY GAINS Releases Live Video of ‘Good Times’

Musician, actor, and celebrated horror icon COURTNEY GAINS, most known for his role as Malachi in the 1984 horror classic Children Of The Corn, has shared a live-shot video of the song ‘Good Times’ off his newest album, Safe Haven. The video was filmed live on October 14 during Gains’ performance at the Devil’s Fork Metal Fest at the Haunted Pyramids in Lawndale, North Carolina. Gains comments on the live footage, which saw his band perform their distinctive brand of rock in front of a decidedly metal-centric crowd, “I have been playing ‘Good Times’ for years, it always gets people […]

Unreleased Gram Parsons Live LP Out 11/24 for Record Store Day

Fifty years after GRAM PARSONS ’ passing, Amoeba Music and Polly Parsons have announced the release of a special two-LP live recording from GRAM PARSONS And The Fallen Angels titled The Last Roundup: Live From The Bijou Cafe In Philadelphia March 16th, 1973, the first available live performance of GRAM PARSONS And The Fallen Angels and his first new solo material to be released in four decades. Recently unearthed from Amoeba Music’s vault and featuring Emmylou Harris on vocals, The Last Roundup: Live From The Bijou Cafe Pn Philadelphia March 16th, 1973 will be released on November 24 as part […]

CIRITH UNGOL: Cult Heavy Metal Icons Unveil ‘Looking Glass’ Single; Dark Parade Full-Length Nears Release On Metal Blade Records

Cult heavy metal icons CIRITH UNGOL today unveil their latest single, ‘Looking Glass’, with an accompanying lyric video. The monolithic new track comes by way of the band’s impending sixth full-length, Dark Parade, set for release on October 20th via Metal Blade Records. Few bands in the history of the heavy metal underground have a story as remarkable, improbable, or uplifting as that of CIRITH UNGOL. Formed in Ventura, California in the early 1970s, rather than passively channeling their influences, the band was driven to forge an altogether heavier, darker, more apocalyptic sound the world had never experienced before. It […]

Serpents Oath unleash the first single from their upcoming album Revelation, ‘Blood Covenant’

As black metal fans the world over wait hungrily for Revelation, the third album from Belgium’s SERPENTS OATH, the band have opened fire with a vicious new single taken from the album – ‘Blood Covenant’! The unbridled fury and ritualistic darkness of ‘Blood Covenant’ can be experienced in a new video, available to view now at the Odium Records YouTube channel Speaking about ‘Blood Covenant’ the band said:“When picking singles, we always try to give a diverse selection, so the listener gets a good taste of what to expect from the album. With this first single, that is even more […]