Who in their right mind schedules a tour in the Northern U.S. and Canada for January and February? Apparently, Lord Of The Lost does, and on a brutally cold evening with just a sliver of the moon showing, they brought the appropriately named Dark Winter Tour to the Theatre of the Living Arts in Philadelphia. Joining them for this subarctic madness were The Birthday Massacre and Wednesday 13. Continue reading
One of the most successful and much loved punk rock bands of all time, California legends The Offspring, today announce a brilliant, brand new album Supercharged. A follow up to the massive 2021 Top 4 album Let The Bad Times Roll, the new record will be released on the 11th October through Concord Records, and the album pre-order begins today (Friday 7th June). The band have also today released a huge new single “Make It All Right” which is out and streaming everywhere now. Continue reading
New Orleans avant-garde post-metallers Thou have announced a new album, Magus, due out August the 31st on their brand new label Sacred Bones Records. The band prolific band just released a stunning new album on May 1st, The House Primordia, and are promising three EPs worth of music leading up to the album drop. The band have decided to take a different approach and release three EPs ahead of the full-length, each of which the band note “are all a complete sonic departure from Magus and from each other…”. Check out the first new single, ‘The Changeling Prince.’
Magus will be Thou’s first full-length since 2014’s Heathen. In the months leading into the new album, Thou will be releasing three drastically different EPs: The House Primordial on Raw Sugar, Inconsolable on Community Records, and Rhea Sylvia on Deathwish, Inc. Each record will focus on a particular sound-noisy drone, quiet acoustic, and melodic grunge-all of which is incorporated into the new record, subsumed in the band’s more standard doom metal.
Thou – Magus track listing:
1 – Inward
2 – My Brother Caliban
3 – Transcending Dualities
5 – Sovereign Self
6 – Divine Will
7 – In the Kingdom of Meaning
8 – Greater Invocation of Disgust
9 – Elimination Rhetoric
10 – The Law Which Compels
11 – Supremacy
Magus is available on August the 31st on Sacred Bones Records. For more details and pre-order information.