New video out for Wax Meaknix’ ‘Freak Boutique’ was just dropped by Electric Talon Records. See it here: This new video is in support of ‘Mobocracy Deluxe’, a record released on October 28 via Electric Talon Records as jewel case, streaming, and digital download on the label’s Bandcamp page: https://bit.ly/3gbELfp Waxim “Wax” Ulysses Mekanix is an…
RELEASE YEAR: 2022 BAND URL: https://www.revocationband.com/ It’s no secret (or is it?) that the Bostonian progressive deathrashers Revocation have been one of my favorite modern bands since the first time I heard their follow-up to their debut (“Empire Of The Obscene”²⁰⁰⁸ which had started it all, unless you count the year of Cryptic Warning ‘2005-2006’…
PIL & BUE: Brand New Double Single From Norwegian Progressive/Metal/Rock Duo NOW STREAMING; Fourth Full-Length ‘Special Agents’ Set For Release Feb 24th via INDIE RECORDINGS PIL & BUE: Brand New Double Single From Norwegian Progressive/Metal/Rock Duo NOW STREAMING; Fourth Full-Length ‘Special Agents’ Set For Release Feb 24th va INDIE RECORDINGS. Listen To The Singles ‘Special…
Photo credit: Runar Haugeland Norway’s IN THE WOODS… have premiered a second track from their upcoming new full-length, “Diversum”! You can listen to “The Malevolent God” at this location: On “Diversum”, IN THE WOODS… continue with their very own mixture of avant-garde, progressive black rock/metal and manage to deliver another epic and unique masterpiece following untrodden paths and pagan tongue. True to their spirit with changes, with…
Rise Betty Rise is the debut EP from Betty’s Nuklear. Established in 2021 and hailing from the Garden Route, on the coast of South Africa, the band deliver groovy alternative desert rock, packed with super intergalactic power, wrapping their music in imagination and abstract emotion. The line-up includes Chad Abnett (Lead Vocals), Dean Clarke (Guitar),…
Foto: Danil Røkke Fèleth slipper “Divine Blight” 11. november! “Divine Blight” er det neste albumet til Alta-bandet Féleth. De debuterte i 2020 med «Depravity» som ble godt tatt imot både nasjonalt og internasjonalt med sterke anmeldelser. På grunn av pandemien ble det verken noe turne eller spillejobber. Pandemien klarte for så vidt ikke å stoppe…
[photo credit: Mathias Blom] Melancholic Metal Masters KATATONIA Announce New Album, Sky Void of Stars, Scheduled for Worldwide Release on January 20, 2023 via Napalm Records Now Available for Pre-Order HERE! Official Music Video for First Single, “Atrium”, Revealed Meritorious masters of melancholic metal KATATONIA carry on their legacy of rearranging the order of…
Legendary Californian singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist BRANT BJORK (also founder of Kyuss, ex-Fu Manchu) presents his fourteenth solo album “Bougainvillea Suite” through Heavy Psych Sounds. Get ready to groove like never before! “An understated marvel.” – Prog Magazine“A bit like The Doors or Iron Butterfly indulging in a groovy bit of dusty desert rock.” –…
FLESHGOD APOCALYPSE (IT) Special Guest: Omnium Gatherum Support: Imperial Slave og Azteca CC: 380 kr ID: 18 år Røverstaden – https://oslokonserthus.no/program/fleshgod-apocalypse-ex-deo Billetter: tix.no/nb/event/9450/fleshgod-apocalypse-omnium-gatherum-supp-imperial-slave-azteca OBS! Grunnet Covid-19 er konserten dessverre flyttet fra 3. november 2021 til 2. november 2022. Kjøpt billett vil gjelde ny dato. Italienske FLESHGOD APOCALYPSE har siden førsteskiva «Oracles» skapt seg et solid…
South African stoner rock cult Ruff Majik releases their first new music since the critically acclaimed 2020 album The Devil’s Cattle. Frontman and chief songwriter, Johni Holiday splatters latest single She’s Still A Goth with 80’s tinged goth saturated rock and roll synth-wave. Biting down on a dirty riff and even filthier backbeat the song…
(Photographer Daniel Craig Johnson) In a world that is rapidly headed towards the extinction of life as we know it, BLVD HVNNY is borne… The darker side of Cito, lead singer of WONDERboom, El Cantante and Absinthè, has finally manifested into the electro-goth-rock outfit, BLVD HVNNY (Blood Honey). Initially, this project was studio-based, with programmed…
RELEASE YEAR: 2022 BAND URL: https://oakinoslo.bandcamp.com/ The brilliant Norwegian prog rockers OAK are back with a new and deeply satisfying full-length album that encompasses everything that made their previous offerings great while also looking to the future. The hauntingly bleak and emotive opening track, ‘Highest Tower, Deepest Well’, is a masterclass in light and shade, and…
RELEASE YEAR: 2022 BAND URL: https://www.tyrantsofchaosband.com/ Some say that in the constant pursuit of reinventing itself heavy metal is losing its roots. I don’t know if there’s any truth to that but I do know that it’s cool to listen to just a bare bones no frills heavy metal record akin to old Iron Maiden…
Photo: Nickelback (c) PR Nickelback vender tilbake til ungdommen i «Those Days», ny musikkvideo ute nå! Se videoen her Det nye albumet «Get Rollin’» gis ut via BMG 18. november I dag har rockebandet Nickelback delt den offisielle musikkvideoen til «Those Days», den andre singelen fra deres etterlengtede nye album «Get Rollin’», som skal slippes…
RELEASE YEAR: 2022 BAND URL: https://fogosofficial.bandcamp.com/album/corpses-and-ashes The Spanish act named Fogos released this bleak opus of theirs a few months ago, and what they bring to the table is harsh, oppressive black metal with a convincingly nihilistic aura to it and an abundance of intensity. Fast-paced and tightly executed, these fuckers mean business and their ten-track…
RELEASE YEAR: 2022 BAND URL: https://tomboffinland.fi/ Don’t you love it when a band with a generic name (and their country’s name in the moniker to boot) releases a great album? Such is the case with the, to me at least, previously unknown Finnish melodic doom/death metal act Tomb Of Finland (told you so!) and their…
Photographer – Pablo Ferao / Creative Madness Lab Rosy Finch releases haunting video for their new single Purgatorio. Atmosphere in music is the primordial ooze from which all sound must emerge, the glue that holds everything together whilst highlighting the sounds housed within. Spain’s Rosy Finch use every tool at their disposal to create an…
RELEASE YEAR: 2022 BAND URL: https://www.starcircus.co.uk/ The marvelous outfit known as Star Circus, which hails from London, is the real fucking deal and delivers a scorching slab of fist-pumping, arena-sized rock loaded with more hooks than you and I deserve. Oh, you want superb melodies, massive riffs, crashing drums, and raunchy vocals too? Fret not as…
SPECTRAL WOUND + HELLRIPPER Friday 28. October Doors 20:00 Tickets: 275,- https://www.ticketmaster.no/event/spectral-wound-hellripper-billetter/697135 id:20 Spectral Wound play black metal, unadulterated and unadorned. Against the grain of both atmospheric and militaristic strands of the genre, Spectral Wound carves a space beyond the fetish of nature or the puerile romance of power. Without God, without Satan, without Odin,…
The new album from ex-Porcupine Tree bassist Colin Edwin, award-winning composer/vocalist LEF, King Crimson’s Pat Mastelotto, and Marta Sui Tubi’s Carmelo Pipitone. O.R.k’s highly anticipated new album, Screamnasium is out today and to coincide with the release the band have announced they will be taking Screamnasium on the road in Europe in spring 2023. The tour see’s the band play their first…
