Modern metal outfit The Tale Untold released their new album ‘Counterculture’ last Friday and shared a lyric video for ‘The Craving’ to celebrate!
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Metal-punk trio BAT hit you with the perfect Hallows Eve movie list for horror maniacs in their music video for the track ‘Horror Vision’, from their latest album ‘Under The Crooked Claw’ out now via Nuclear Blast. So if you’re looking for inspiration for a horror filled weekend, go check it out!
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Rising punk rock act Winona Fighter announced their debut album ‘My Apologies To The Chef’ to be released in February 2025 via Rise Records and shared their new single and video ‘Attention’!
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Punk rock supergroup Implants unveiled the music video for ‘Radio Out’, a track from their recently released album ‘Annihilation’ (out via Cyber Tracks), featuring El Hefe of NOFX!
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Pop punk powerhouse Taylor Acorn teamed up with Charlotte Sands on her latest single ‘Final Nail’, out now for your listening pleasure including a fiery music video!
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Boston based metal act Major Moment released a heartfelt and emotive animated video for the track ‘You’ll Never Know’, out now on all streaming platforms!
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Atlanta-based rock quartet Starbenders shared their new single and video ‘Tokyo’, a first taste of their yet to be announced upcoming 4th album, set for release in early 2025 via Sumerian Records!
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A couple of weeks ago, Florida rockers The Haunt shared their latest single ‘Masochistic Lovers’, featuring Craig Mabbitt of Escape The Fate, out via Nettwerk Music Group! A teaser from their still to be announced forthcoming album!
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Boston-based Major Moment released music video and single ‘Staged’, in anticipation of the release of their upcoming album ‘The Pain That Makes Us Grow’ set for release in late this year!
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New England extreme metal powerhouse Escuela Grind unleashed yet another scathing single last week with ‘Toothless’, a track from their soon-to-be released new album ‘Dreams on Algorithms’, out next month via MNRK Heavy!
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Album Reviews
Maul’s second full length album “In The Jaws of Bereavement” is aggressive and brutally unhinged, one of the grittiest modern death metal albums released this year out via 20 Buck Spin since October 4th.
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Know, oh prince, that in the years following their self-titled debut, there was an age undreamed of for Stygian Crown. Hither came ‘Funeral for a King’, their sophomore record, heavy riffed, soaringly vocaled. Fists in the air, with gigantic melodies and gigantic doom, to tread the beer-drenched stages of your summer festivals under their sandaled feet. Taken from the Cruz del Sur Chronicles.
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Civerous packs the sophomore “Maze Envy” with modulation of black/death metal, there are some nuances of blackened death metal that serve a dreary atmosphere. Out via 20 Buck Spin since last week, March 22nd.
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Dipygus self-titled third album brings treats fans of old school death metal with something fresh, raw and disgusting, out now via Memento Mori.
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Hulder on its second full length album “Verses In Oath” presents an enthralling mixture of pagan/folk black metal with many unforgettable epic moments, out via 20 Buck Spin today, February 9th.
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Cincinnati, Ohio based melodic black metal outfit Valdrin is back with a bombastic symphonic offering inspired by fictional magical realms and magic. “Throne Of The Lunar Soul” is out now via Blood Harvest.
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Black Stone Cherry have their eighth studio album, ‘Screamin’ At The Sky’, set for release on Friday 29th September via Mascot Records. After a rather not so hard and heavy styled album, we are happy to say that they’re back with 12 hard, heavy, blues-rock infused songs, the BSC we all fell in love with in the past!
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Lunar Chamber is one of the most unique bands in the subgenre of progressive technical death metal. Their debut EP “Shambhallic Vibrations” is such a mind-boggling record full of sophisticated riffing and a bizarre ethereal atmosphere, released via 20 Buck Spin.
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Out of this world musicianship, a journey through musical subgenres delivered with a groovy sauce on top of it. Parrhesia of Animals As Leaders has it all.
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Brutal deathcore mixed with the classical influences that has been their trademark since the beginning together with the strong voice of Ben Duerr, Shadow Of Intent is building their own masterpieces.
Photo Reports
Time to celebrate 35 years of psychedelic stoner rock: we caught MONSTER MAGNET at one of their stops on their anniversary tour, bringing us together with support DAILY THOMPSON a night full of psychedelic infused Stoner-Rock at LKA Longhorn in Stuttgart, Germany! And they showed that they’re still an excellent live band and still the benchmark against which established and upcoming bands must measure themselves.
Hed pe is a veteran band with 30 years under their belt and are well known for their eclectic blend of nu-metal, reggae, hip-hop and punk rock. They have really created and sustained a unique niche in the industry and it’s not surprising they continue to show up for their loyal fans, who in turn made the night at The Eclectic Room in Angola, IN great!
Between their festival summer dates in Europe, CLUTCH have given a few club shows called the “New World Samurai Tour 2024”. On one of the hottest days of German summer 2024 they turned up the heat some degrees more with an outstanding gig at Substage in Karlsruhe. Supported by Green Lung, a great night of blues and stoner infused rock and some notes of classic NWOBHM left a happy crowd.
While on the road supporting In This Moment and Ice Nine Kills on tour in the USA, the Swedish metallers of Avatar came to bring their “Great Metal Circus” to the Clyde Theatre in Ft Wayne, Indiana. One of the few headlining stops they’re doing, providing people the chance to get the full experience and freakshow treatment that usually comes with the band, providing a night to remember for many there! Support came from locals Mantra of Morta!
Fans were definitely ready to “FACE IT”, the show with Nothing More, Veil Of Maya and Of Virtue, that is! Concert-goers were lined down the sidewalk and around the block in anticipation of the concert at Kemba Live in Columbus, Ohio. And what a fantastic night it became!
The El Corazon venue in the center of Seattle came alive with a burst of energy when Greek extreme metal legends Rotting Christ took over the stage there a couple of weeks ago!
A selection of Rachel’s best captures of 2023, with pictures from bands like Mudvayne, Nonpoint, Drowning Pool, From Ashes To New, Shinedown, Fozzy, Butcher Babies, Sumy Cyco, Black Stone Cherry and Saliva!
Nonpoint, one of our photographers’ favorite bands to see live, made a stop at The Eclectic Room in Angola, Indiana on their “The Milliion Watts Tour 2023” and with the help of (hed)pe, Sumo Cyco and VRSTY turned the night in an absolute barn burner!
Drowning Pool, Salive, Adelitas Way and Any Given Sin are touring the US with “The SNAFU tour” and we got to enjoy a great night of American metal/rock in Fort Wayne, Indiana!
After a long break, THE CULT, the iconic rock band, is back on tour in Europe and the UK in June and July 2023. With a very limited number of gigs, we were on-site for their only German show in Stuttgart on June 15th, 2023. Opening act was Lili Refrain.
