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Actor/Horror Icon COURTNEY GAINS Announces New Album, Safe Haven

Renowned actor and celebrated horror icon Courtney Gains, known for his unforgettable roles in classic films such as Children Of The Corn and The ‘Burbs returns to the world of music with his new album, Safe Haven. Combining his innate talent for storytelling with a passion for music, Gains delivers a collection of captivating tracks that showcase his multifaceted artistry. Safe Haven is not only a musical endeavor worth celebrating but a testament to Gains’ artistic evolution. Perhaps best known for his role as Malachi in the 1984 classic Children Of The Corn, Gains demonstrates a remarkable departure from that […]

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PRIMORDIAL To Release How It Ends September 29th Via Metal Blade Records; New Video/Single Now Playing + Preorders Available

Long-running, Dublin, Ireland-based Pagan metallers PRIMORDIAL will release their tenth full-length, How It Ends, on September 29th via Metal Blade Records. Watch PRIMORDIAL’s ‘Victory Has 1000 Fathers, Defeat Is An Orphan’ video at THIS LOCATION PRIMORDIAL has nothing to prove. Having lasted thirty-two years and now returning with their devastating new studio offering, the Irish band has made it clear they are a primal force who consistently lay it all on the line. The follow-up to 2018’s critically lauded Exile Amongst The Ruins, How It Ends sees them delivering more of their seminal blend of Celtic and black metal, with […]

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MOON COVEN: new single ‘Gilded Apple’ available

Malmö-based psychedelic doom and heavy rock foursome MOON COVEN present a new track taken from their fourth studio album, Sun King, due out August 25th on Ripple Music. Listen to new single ‘Gilded Apple’ Two years after unleashing their juggernaut third record and Ripple Music debut, Slumber Wood, upon the world, MOON COVEN are now ready to shift the Earth’s axis and mesmerize the masses once again with a fresh set of tunes in the sheerest tradition of modern heavy psychedelia: Sun King. Entirely recorded and produced by the band, their fourth studio album is a generous and compelling 9-track […]

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OCTOBER TIDE Reveals New Album & Tour Details

Sweden’s masters of melodic, doomish death metal, OCTOBER TIDE, will release their seventh studio album, The Cancer Pledge, on October 6th via Agonia Records. The album will arrive four years after its predecessor, In Splendor Below, and will coincide with a headlining tour of Europe. Recent output has seen OCTOBER TIDE tone down on the doom particle, and throw the listener in a colder embrace of a melodic death metal rainstorm. This trend remains consistent on The Cancer Pledge, and overlaps with the direction spearheaded by guitarist Fredrik Norrman (ex-Katatonia, ex-Trees Of Eternity, Thenighttimeproject), keen on rejuvenating OCTOBER TIDE with […]

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CROWBAR Announces US Headlining Tour; Tickets On Sale Now

CROWBAR today announces a US headlining tour! The twenty-four-date journey begins September 7th in Fort Walton Beach, Florida and runs through October 5th in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Support will be provided by Primitive Man as well as Bodybox, on select dates. Additionally, the band will play a special show with Venom Inc. on October 1st in Iowa City, Iowa. Tickets are on sale NOW! See all confirmed dates below. CROWBAR w/ Primitive Man: 9/07/2023 Downtown Music Hall – Fort Walton Beach, FL 9/08/2023 Conduit – Orlando, FL 9/09/2023 The Orpheum – Tampa, FL 9/10/2023 Gramps – Miami, FL w/ Primitive Man, […]

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DAWN OF A DARK AGE: Transumanza cover unveiled

The cover artwork of Transumanza, the new album realized by DAWN OF A DARK AGE, is unveiled and Kjetil Karlsen is the author of the photo portrayed on it. The album scheduled for Dec. 8th in digipak CD, LP and digital format can be pre-ordered HERE Transumanza is a work that more than others tells about Vittorio Sabelli’s roots and musical vision. A talented jazz musician, here he manages to combine the iconoclastic fury of avantgarde black metal with the refinement and experimentation of the clarinet sound which becomes the main protagonist of a work that emerges from the ancient […]

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GRAILS: Neurot Recordings To Reissue Band’s First Album, The Burden Of Hope, In September; Preorders Available Now

Neurot Recordings will reissue The Burden Of Hope, the debut album from multidimensional sonic explorers Grails, in late September, twenty years after its original release through the label. Originally formed under the moniker Laurel Canyon, the name of the group was changed to GRAILS to coincide with the original release of The Burden Of Hope in October 2003. Intuitively communicated and entirely instrumental, the band’s instrumentation collides with sober melodies and massive emotion. They deliver their fair share of ambient noise – shivery violins, a trickle of a high-hat, the amplified scrape of a guitar string – but rounded out […]

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VIOLENT LIFE VIOLENT DEATH Premiere ‘Light Behind’ Video

Charlotte (NC) – Metallic Hardcore heavyweights VIOLENT LIFE VIOLENT DEATH, in collaboration with No Echo, have premiered the a lyric video for ‘Light Behind’, the second single from forthcoming album Break.Burn.End. VIOLENT LIFE VIOLENT DEATH have reached a new level of intensity on their most assaultive release yet with Break.Burn.End, which will be released September 15 on CD, vinyl, and digital formats via Innerstrength Records. Stream ‘Saying Your Name Is To Choke On Ash’ on Youtube Sometimes violence is the answer. Break.Burn.End drives that point home with unparalleled lethality. Don’t say we didn’t warn you. FFO: Hatebreed, Every Time I […]

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BLIGHT HOUSE: ‘Florida Man Hails Satan’ Premiered By Toilet Ov Hell; Blight The Way Album From Rhode Island Death Duo Sees Release On Syrup Moose Records

“…a solid mid-tempo heater driven with some clanky-ass D-beat-adjacent beats and some chunky riffs that somehow both sound dry and smeared in rotting milk.” – Toilet Ov Hell ‘Florida Man Hails Satan’ is the new smash hit from Charlestown, Rhode Island’s demented grind/death sect BLIGHT HOUSE. The track precedes the band’s Blight The Way full-length, out next week on Syrup Moose Records. Since 2014, BLIGHT HOUSE worked under a malaise of dementia born of illness and isolation. The very name of the band is an homage to this. Yet as the rest of the world was forced into these same […]

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ARMORED SAINT: Second Leg Of North American Tour With W.A.S.P. Canceled

The eagerly anticipated second leg of ARMORED SAINT’s North American tour supporting W.A.S.P. has been canceled due to extensive back injuries suffered by W.A.S.P.’s Blackie Lawless during the European leg of the run. The tour will be canceled so Lawless can complete a full recovery. Tickets and VIP packages can be refunded at the point of purchase. ARMORED SAINT vocalist John Bush comments, “To say we are super bummed about the tour being canceled would be an understatement. We were all prepping hard, and I was looking forward to turning 60 years old in Wheeling, West Virginia. That being said, […]

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