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CLOAKROOM ANNOUNCE NORTH AMERICAN SPRING 2022 HEADLINE TOUR

Northwest Indiana trio CLOAKROOM announce Spring 2022 headline tour dates throughout North America. The 15-date tour surrounds an appearance at Desertfest NYC 2022. CLOAKROOM are touring in support of their new album Dissolution Wave out now! Order and stream Dissolution Wave HERE CLOAKROOM TOUR DATES: May 07 Columbus, OH @ Big Room Bar May 08 Nashville TN @ DRKMTTR May 09 Atlanta, GA @ The Earl May 10 Asheville, NC @ Static Age Records May 11 Charlotte, NC @ Neighborhood Theatre Side Stage May 12 Baltimore, MD @ Metro Gallery May 13 Philadelphia, PA @ Ukie Club May 14 Queens, […]

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Rivers Of Nihil Debut The Work Documentary

RIVERS OF NIHIL unleashed The Work on the world back in September of 2021. In continued celebration of the album, the band are prepared to finally release a mini-doc that offers a look into the creative process and recording of The Work. The short film was directed by Mike Trueheart, who also helmed the band’s music video for ‘Clean’ and instrumental playthroughs for ‘More?’, and ‘The Void from Which No Sound Escapes’. Follow the band’s creative process around Reading, PA with producers Carson Slovak and Grant McFarland on YouTube HERE RIVERS OF NIHIL are set to return to the road […]

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VERMÖRD: No Clean Singing Hosts Exclusive Stream Of Nostalgic Predictions Debut Full-Length From Baltimore Black/Death Metal Trio; Album Sees Release This Friday

The extreme metal authorities at No Clean Singing are currently hosting an exclusive stream of Nostalgic Predictions, the debut album from Baltimore, Maryland-based black/death metal outfit VERMÖRD. The stream precedes the independent release of the album this Friday. Crafting intense, epic, ominous, music, VERMÖRD’s aggressive approach is more realized than ever on Nostalgic Predictions. With rapid drumming and tremolo-picked riffs backed with occasional chugging chords, the band infuses components of sinister death metal into a wholly blackened aura, with technical and progressive tendencies and melodic elements instilled throughout, noting Necrophagist, Emperor, Decapitated, and Dark Funeral as reference points. Nostalgic Predictions […]

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FITM Lineup Update

As a final update for the Music Lineup of Fire In The Mountains 2022, we have a bit of bad news followed by a bit of good news. Unfortunately, through a mix up of communication between United States and overseas booking, Emma Ruth Rundle’s rescheduled dates from her postponed European tour have made it so she will have to bow out from this year’s event. While we are sad to see Emma go, we have already been in talks with her camp about bringing her on board to deliver her powerful music and incredible performance in the very near future […]

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JORDAN BLUM To Release New Book, Opeth: Every Album, Every Song

Acclaimed metal journalist Jordan Blum (Metal Injection, Prog Magazine, PopMatters) is pleased to announce that he will release his book Opeth: Every Album, Every Song on April 29th. Using a meticulously crafted mixture of original analysis and behind-the-scenes research, this book digs into all facets of OPETH’s output to discover how they innovated and evolved with practically every release. After all, each ‘observation’ – from their 1990s black metal classics (Morningrise and My Arms, Your Hearse) and 2000s progressive death metal masterpieces (Blackwater Park and Ghost Reveries) to their stunning progressive rock/jazz fusion excursions of the 2010s (Pale Communion and […]

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ARTHUR BROWN unveils first video single of the title track and details of his new album, Long Long Road

ARTHUR BROWN is now premiering the animated video single of the balladesque title track taken from his forthcoming new full-length Long Long Road, which has been slated for release on the very day of Arthur’s 80th birthday, June 24. The album details of Long Long Road can be viewed below. The video clip ‘Long Long Road’ is now available for immediate publication via THIS LOCATION ARTHUR BROWN comments: “This album as well as this song were written in collaboration with Rik Patten, a good friend and a superb musician”, explains the beloved singer. “While we were working on Long Long […]

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OPETH Reveals New Track ‘Width Of A Circle’; Preorders For In Cauda Venenum (Extended Edition) Featuring Six Bonus Tracks Available Now + North American Co-Headlining Tour With Mastodon Nears

OPETH is peerless. Since 1990, the Swedes have eclipsed convention, defiantly crushed the odds, and, most importantly, crafted thirteen stunningly beautiful, intrinsically intense albums to become one of the biggest progressive rock/metal bands on the planet… And they’re only getting better, even after selling more than two million records and hitting the #1 in the German album charts with their album Sorceress in 2016. Now readying for a North American tour with Mastodon in April and May of this year, the band around unmatched frontman Mikael Åkerfeldt announces the release of In Cauda Venenum (Extended Edition) for May 13th. This […]

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Legendary Swedish progressive folk-fusion-rock band KAIPA share lyric video for the title track from the upcoming album Urksog

Legendary Swedish progressive folk-fusion-rockband KAIPA are set to return with their 14th studio album titled Urksog. The new album is due out on April 29th, 2022 on InsideOutMusic. The album also features new drummer Darby Todd. The band are pleased to share the lyric video for the album’s first single, the title track ‘Urksog’. Check it out HERE Hans Lundin comments as follows “The song ‘Urskog’ takes us straight into the heart of the Swedish primeval forest, evoking images of old folklore with its Swedish lyrics. Both the music and the lyrics came to me in a most natural way. […]

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I KLATUS: Decibel Magazine Premieres ‘Solstice Of Wind’ From Chicago Sludge Trio With Members Of Yakuza, Indian, Lair Of The Minotaur, And More; Targeted Sees Release Via Dead Sage

Decibel Magazine is hosting an exclusive premiere for Chicago-based esoteric sludge/doom metal trio I KLATUS, formed by members of Yakuza, Indian, Lair Of The Minotaur, and more. Featuring guest vocals from Valentina Levchenko and cello from Alison Chesley (Helen Money), ‘Solstice Of Wind’ is the opening song to the band’s impending fourth album, Targeted, nearing April release through their own Dead Sage label. I KLATUS’ Tom Denney offers with the ‘Solstice Of Wind’ single, “Air as an element is often associated with breath, life, communication, and the holy spirit connection. The solstice is when a star reaches its solar maximum. […]

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MICHAEL SCHENKER GROUP Announces US Dates For The 50th Anniversary Universal – World Tour 2022

Few rock guitarists on this planet have had such a lasting influence on so many renowned musicians as MICHAEL SCHENKER. With his outstandingly fluid style, inexhaustible wealth of ideas, and instinctive feel for hooks and melodies, MICHAEL SCHENKER is a living legend who, despite his longstanding and distinguished history, still impresses with his unflagging energy and drive. The blond stringsman from Sarstedt, Germany (near Hanover) began his international career in the early 1970s with the Scorpions, achieved worldwide fame after joining British rock group U.F.O., and then seamlessly continued his exceptional global success story under his own name, as well […]

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