Devildriver spent most of 2018 touring incessantly behind their new album Outlaws Til The End Vol. 1 (Napalm Records). Now you can watch pro-shot footage of their blistering full performance at this past Bloodstock Open Air Festival. Continue reading
Australian metalcore leaders Northlane have made an update on social media, claiming they are nearly done writing their new album. The band actually played a brand new song recently live, ‘Vultures’. The new Northlane album will be the follow up to 2017s acclaimed release Mesmer (UNFD). The new album will also be the recorded debut of new member bassist and backing vocalist Brendon Padjasek.
With some terrible news to report at this hour, Yashira drummer Seth Howard was killed in a head-on collision car crash yesterday in December 29th Jacksonville, Florida. He was only 24. Howard as the drummer of Yashira, has been one of the best young talents in heavy music in the last few years. According to Jacksonville, FL’s WJXT News 4, Howard was driving north on SW State Road 231 at 11:20 pm last night when he crossed the center median and struck another vehicle head-on. Howard died of his injuries, while the driver of the other car and his passenger were both taken to UF Heath Gainesville with serious injuries. Yashira released their debut full-length album Shrine, earlier this year via Good Fight Music. We send our sympathies to Seth’s family, friends, his band and their fans at this time. Continue reading
If you have a band and have a goal of getting signed, you need an great Electronic Press Kit. Episode 73 of the Dumb and Dumbest Podcast is streaming right now, and it’s all about How To Make An EPK that will get you noticed and raise the bar. Dumb and Dumbest is a music industry podcast hosted by music executive Matt Bacon (Dropout Media, Ripple Music, Prophecy Productions) and Publicist Curtis Dewar (Dewar PR). Check it out!
Metallica continues to push out awesome pro-shot videos from their past and present on their YouTube channel MetOnTour. If you love the band, definitely subscribe to it. In another video from their 2018 WorldWiredTour, watch them perform Kill Em All classic cut ‘Motorbreath’! Their next concert after their holiday break is January 18, 2019 at the BOK Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma.Continue reading
Just yesterday we marked the one year anniversary of the end of The Dillinger Escape Plan, in the year since Greg Puciato has kept busy with his band The Black Queen. Their excellent new album Infinite Games is out now via Federal Prisoner, a label and art collective and extension of the band. The label will release Greg’s new book Separate The Dawn. In early 2019. Separate The Dawn is “220 pages of poetry, photography, and manipulated photography culled from a much larger collection of journal entries, free writing, and photos that mostly manifested from September 2016 to December 2017. 5.5″x 8.5″. Hardcover. Edition of 1000. First press. There will not be a softcover. Digital/e-book release will be at a later date. Ships around January 18th.” You can sign up for Federal Prisoner’s mailing list at the link below to get more information on the book and future news. Continue reading
The new chapter in The Transformers Movie series, Bumblebee is out now. Starring actress and pop singer Hailee Steinfeld, the music in the film has a decidedly 1980s sound with songs from Bon Jovi, Sammy Hagar, The Smiths, Tears For Fears, Duran Duran, Rick Astley, Howard Jones and more heard in the film. The main theme of the film is performed by Steinfeld herself. Check out the trailer and soundtrack now. Continue reading
Swedish Black Metal band Fornhem has shared the audio of a new song. The two-piece Norse inspired band is working on a new album for 2019, due out on Trollmusic. Their new album will be the follow-up to their last album Ett fjärran kall, also released on Trollmusic. Continue reading
It has been a year since the final notes of The Dillinger Escape Plan’s final live performance of their twenty-year career rang out at a sweaty, bloodstained, tears and beers soaked Terminal Five in New York City. While bands reunite all the time and no one should ever say “never”, this one retirement is pretty final. Ghost Cult staff was in attendance all three nights for the final dates of their illustrious career, it still felt so surreal at the time. As Ghost Cult scribe Hans Lopez penned so eloquently in his review of 2016’s Dissociation (Party Smasher Inc.) Dillinger was one of the most polarizing, but also most important bands of all time. Those final shows were performances for the ages. Thoughtfully planned, immaculately performed, with the highest levels of musicianship, a total disregard for the human condition, and most of all fun. Dillinger proved in the final throws of ecstasy and art that music can be dangerous, fun, and emotional all at once, without selling out or sacrificing anything. Our worlds are still rocked a year later., and no, it’s still not okay that they are gone. Thanks for the bruises on our bodies and scars in our minds, Dillinger Escape Plan.Continue reading
Episode 72 of the Dumb and Dumbest Podcast is streaming right now, and it’s all about Holiday Promo For Your DIY Band. Dumb and Dumbest is a music industry podcast hosted by music executive Matt Bacon (Dropout Media, Ripple Music, Prophecy Productions) and Publicist Curtis Dewar (Dewar PR). Matt and Curtis discuss how to promote your band over the holidays and what are some of the good strategies to cut through as an independent band and reach bloggers and influencers.