Record Store Day continues to help lend support to small businesses and local music stores that keep the experience of artist discovery alive every April and November.Today’s Record Store Day Black Friday event will see releases from across rock, metal, punk, indie and pop music this year. More details and a full shopping list for the discerning fan can be found below:Continue reading
Trivium will be releasing a reissue of their debut album, Ember To Inferno, on December 2nd, and I know I’m not the only one saying this, but it’s about time.Continue reading
Pantera will be releasing The Great Southern Trendkill: 20th Anniversary Edition on October 21st via Rhino, and the official listening party will be happening Friday night at Duff’s Brooklyn. Continue reading
Pantera will be releasing The Great Southern Trendkill: 20th Anniversary Edition on October 21st via Rhino, and we have another early mix of a classic track for your ears today. Continue reading
Pantera will be releasing The Great Southern Trendkill: 20th Anniversary Edition on October 21st via Rhino, and it’s a must have for any fan of the heavy metal legends. Continue reading
San Diego rockers Desert Suns are re-releasing their debut self titled album on January 15, 2015 via Ripple Music (North America) and HeviSike Records (UK). The album was mastered by renowned multi-instrumentalist Tony Reed (Mos Generator/Stone Axe) at HeavyHead Recording Co in Washington. Stream the album below.
Goo Goo Dolls has released the 20th anniversary edition of A Boy Named Goo with seven previously unreleased tracks, recorded live at The Academy in New York in November 1995 and including both acoustic recordings and covers. The record is out now via Warner Bros Records.
A Boy Named Goo 20th Anniversary Tracklisting:
01: Long Way Down
02: Burnin’ Up
03: Naked
04: Flat Top
05: Impersonality
06: Name
07: Only One
08: Somethin’ Bad
09: Ain’t That Unusual
10: So Long
11: Eyes Wide Open
12: Disconnected
13: Slave Girl
14: Long Way Down*
15: Name*
16: Naked*
17: Impersonality*
18: Million Miles Away* (Plimsouls cover)
19: Don’t Change* (INXS cover)
20: Flat Top*
*Previously unreleased, live, all from The Academy, New York, NY 11/21/95
Swiss rockers The Erkonauts is re-releasing their full length debut I Did Something Bad via Kaotoxin Records on February 12, 2016. The album was mixed and mastered by Samael’s Drop at the Downtone Studios. Stream “The Great Ass Poopery” below.
Track listing for I Did Something Bad:
The Great Ass Poopery
Tony 5
All the Girls Should Die
Nola
Dominium Mundi
Hamster’s Ghosthouse
Gog
Your Wife
9 Is better than 8
Machine*
Culbutos*
*Exclusive to Kaotoxin reissue
Doom metal pioneers Cathedral will release a deluxe reissue of their debut demo album In Memoriam from Rise Above Records on June 29th. Lasting from 1989 until their disbandment after 2013’s The Last Spire Album (Rise Above/Metal Blade), their impact has hardly diminished in recent years. Rise Above Records is the label venture from Cathedral mainstay guitarist Gary “Gaz” Jennings (Death Penalty, Lucifer, Acid Reign).
Key members of the band are on to new ventures. Jennings released the debut from his new band Death Penalty last year and Lucifer just released Lucifer I. Lee Dorrian’s new band With The Dead features original Electric Wizard members Mark Greening and Tim Bagshaw.
Details of the In Memoruim release:
*CD edition comes with bonus DVD, featuring a rare live performance from 1991. Also includes booklet with extensive notes and rare photos.
*Vinyl edition comes as a double 180gm LP set in gatefold sleeve and full sized 8-page booklet.
Demo 1990
Mourning of a New Day
All Your Sins
Ebony Tears
March
Live Holland/Belgium 1991
Intro/Comiserating the Celebration
Ebony Tears
Neophytes For Serpent Eve
All Your Sins
Mourning of a New Day
DVD Live in Groningen (NL) May 1st 1991
Intro/Comiserating the Celebration
Ebony Tears
Neophytes For Serpent Eve
All Your Sins
Mourning of a New Day
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Boca Raton post punkers Northbound, the solo project of Jonothan Fraser, will be re-release a reworked version of the 2014 album Death Of A Slug, out June 30, 2015 via Animal Style Records. Stream “Kiss” and “Slug” below.