The notoriously raucous Capitol Hill Block Party (CHBP) has announced the complete day-by-day music lineup for the July 26TH – 28TH Seattle festival. Purity Ring, Telekinesis and others will join The Flaming Lips, Girl Talk, Pickwick, STRFKR and more helping to make the weekend a true musical spectacle. The Flaming Lips new album The Terror was released today to great reviews with Pitchfork giving the record a 7.8 and Rolling…
Sweden’s pioneers of twisted melodic death metal – have released their legendary debut album, The Book Of Truth, as a digital download today in North America! To purchase the deluxe re-issue of The Book Of Truth, please visit iTunes or Amazon for a digital download. Besides the album tracks found on The Book Of Truth, this download also includes all tracks from the super rare demos, Wake The Dead and…
Sweden’s classic rock heavyweights SPIRITUAL BEGGARS have released their new album, Earth Blues, today in North America! To purchase Earth Blues, please head over to iTunes for a digital copy or CM Distro for various physical formats. Earth Blues is the band’s 8th studio release and marks SPIRITUAL BEGGARS’ 20th anniversary as a band. The band’s lineup includes current and past members of metal heavyweights ARCH ENEMY, CARCASS, OPETH,…
Gunslinger is a genre-jumping group of musicians/producers and DJs. Forged by the musings of Anthem and mad tinkering of Vidal, Gunslinger pairs past with present, blending classic song structure and vocals with years of professional electronic dance experience to create one of the most natural and original sounds of any genre. Anthem (from Southern California) and Vidal (from Lisbon Portugal) originally met online and worked together sending music files back…
Papa Emeritus II and his Nameless Ghouls from Ghost B.C. have released their second psalm INFESTISSUMAM, out today via Loma Vista Recordings. The 10-song offering was produced by Grammy® Award winning producer Nick Raskulinecz (Foo Fighters, Queens of the Stone Age, Alice in Chains) in Nashville, TN and debuted today at #1 on the iTunes Rock Album Chart. SPIN hailed INFESTISSUMAM as “one of the most anticipated heavy metal records of…
Coliseum just dropped a video for their (uncharacteristically) sunshine-drenched album closer “Fuzzbang”. http://youtu.be/keYkSydKiVc And in case you missed it they dropped a new song/video (in which an impromptu show is shut down by the 5-0) last week, the fittingly titled “Bad Will”: http://youtu.be/rhsYl9Tgq54 The band’s lengthy run of non-impromptu shows is less than a month out now. 4-27 Kent, UK- Platform 5, Ashford 4-28 Cornwall,…
The fifth album from THE PSYKE PROJECT entitled “Guillotine” is already available at the band’s BandCamp, where it can be streamed and downloaded, but on May 6th the album will finally be released physically in Europe as 180 gr. gatefold vinyl with inlay cd. On May 7th, the day after the physical release, THE PSYKE PROJECT will hit the road for a twelve date tour through Europe alongside the Czech…
Denver death metal tyrants ENEMY REIGN are pleased to announce the release of Tormented To Oblivion LP next month! The nine track slab of wax will feature remixed and remastered tracks from the band’s ravaging (and unreleased) Diametrically Opposed EP featuring original throat Sherwood Webber (ex-Skinless) as well as remixed and remastered choice cuts from their critically-lauded, Between Hell and Oblivion full-length. Preorders of the Tormented To Oblivion vinyl edition…
Argentine trio Las Kellies will be announcing an extensive European tour very soon and return with a brand new video which offers a sneak peek at their forthcoming album – due out on Fire Records in July. For this track they’ve gone all slowed down dub, with the sexy, nighttime vibe of Peaking Lights. The video for “Golden Love” was directed by DM BROS (who have produced all of Las Kellies’ videos). The…
The London-based band’s debut album, The Circle and The Blue Door, is set for an April 30 release via Metal Blade/Rise Above Records. Decibel Magazine’s Editor-in-Chief Albert Mudrian dubbed the album the “best debut of 2013” and overseas outlets like the BBC (“a modern demonic sound”), Terrorizer (“their brand of gothic psychedelia is set to take 2013 by storm”) and Subterranea/Metal Hammer (“Purson are the UK’s new ambassadors for the…
San Francisco-based sludge-mangling duo BLACK COBRA will uncoil across the country in Brooklyn this week for a devastating one-off show as part of the diverse Brain-Cave Festival. The annual festival showcases an incredible array of artists of all natures from around Brooklyn and abroad for four days. Undoubtedly the most punishing act set to perform at this year’s installment, BLACK COBRA will take one of the main headlining slots of…
Our favorite living, loving legend (she’s just a woman), Baby Dee is no stranger to the road – her vaudevillian soul has been spirited all over the world, performing in any situation your mind could muster. Like situations involving monkeys, unicycles and a one-eyed dwarf, if you know what we’re saying. Lucky for all of us North Amerikaners, Yanks and Canucks alike, Dee‘s revving her engines for a quick dash…
This summer, in celebration of their recent collaboration, What the Brothers Sang, Dawn McCarthy and Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy hop on the “Milk Train” to take their show on the road– performing live at various places of public assembly! In true Dawn and Bonnie fashion, they’re covering as many hot-zones with hot cover songs (and more, natch!) as possible, including festivals, venues, a town hall, and a historic synagogue. Accompanying them…
Antarctic rock-gods GWAR today released the first line-up for this year’s GWAR-B-Q, located at Hadad’s Water Park in Richmond, VA. This year sees the event entering its fourth consecutive year while offering its most bone-crushing line-up yet, setting the stage for what will certainly be the most massive GWAR-B-Q in the history of the human or any other race! The event is scheduled to take place Saturday August 17th,…
The ongoing reign of terror from INTEGRITY continues in 2013, with the release of the iniquitous outfit’s tenth full-length, Suicide Black Snake. Beyond an indisputable history as being an ultra brutal live act and basically being the most metal act associated with the top reigning champion acts of the 90s hardcore/metal scene, INTEGRITY has morphed into more of a musical entity, releasing countless splits and limited vinyl releases, taking…
One year after the release of their highly regarded debut Ekpyrosis (Periodic Destruction), North German Melodic Death Metallers BURIAL VAULT are back with their second album. With Incendium the quintet is about to release more than an ordinary album. Inspired by Ray Bradbury’s “Fahrenheit 451” the band developed a concept that embodies a metamorphosis of a human in an inconvenient future both on musical as on textual level. This dynamic…
Savannah Stopover Music Festival, in partnership with Dollhouse Productions, announced today the release of the Stopover Sessions @ Dollhouse Studios on the newly launched Savannah Stopover Sessions bandcamp page. During the three-day Festival March 7-9, 2013, six Stopover bands participated in live, intimate studio recordings in support of the Festival. Participating artists included: Field Report (Milwaukee, WI), Country Mice (Brooklyn), HOTT MT (L.A), young buffalo (Oxford, MS), Fine Peduncle…
Additional details have been announced for Toddstock II v6.5, a June 17-22 celebration of the 65th birthday of renowned multi-faceted artist Todd Rundgren. Family, friends and fans will join Todd Rundgren at Toddstock II v6.5, held at the historic Nottoway Plantation & Resort in White Castle , Louisiana. Toddstock II v6.5 will culminate with an exclusive Todd Rundgren performance for Toddstock attendees on Saturday, June 22, the final night…
The first full-length solo debut from Martin Smith, God’s Great Dance Floor, Step 01, is set to release April 23 amidst five-star acclaim. Leading up to the release of the album, iTunes® and LifeWay Christian Stores are both offering significant, exclusive pre-buy offers for this collection of personal revival songs from the former Delirious? frontman, co-founder and primary songwriter. Born out of a reinvigorated season of living in…
Swedish Grind-guerillas EXHALE have revealed the artwork and track listing for their third full-length effort When Worlds Collide. Dutch illustrator Dennis Sibeijn (Slayer, Exodus, Aborted,) was chosen to put tband’s visual aspect of When Worlds Collide into the most twisted and modernistic form possible. The album was recorded, mixed and mastered at Hoborec Studios (Inevitable End, We Are The Damned, etc) with Ulf Blomberg handling production duties. When Worlds Collide is…