Covering various subgenres, it’s New Music Friday: The Rock and Metal Releases for 11-1-24
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ALBUM REVIEW: Paganizer – Flesh Requiem
It may be a dying art form these days, or I might be living under a rock. Either way, Paganizer have put strong emphasis on their title track, which elicits a sigh of relief from this writer.Continue reading
FESTIVAL REVIEW: Metal Injection Festival 2024 Live at The Brooklyn Monarch and The Meadows
It’s been a couple of weeks since Metal Injection Fest 2024 melted faces in Brooklyn NY. It was a doozy of a weekend with the likes of Converge, Jinjer, the first live appearance on the East Coast by 3 Inches of Blood in 10 years, God Forbid, Cave In, Gost, Revocation, and a plethora of others. Continue reading
Neon Nightmare Share Their New Single and Video for “They Look Like Shadows” – New Album Streaming Now
Neon Nightmare have just shared a new music video for their track, “They Look Like Shadows,” directed by Emmanuella Zachariou which reveals the artist behind the name. It comes from their imminent album, Faded Dream, due out November 01st, via the 20 Buck Spin record label. The band is currently streaming the full-length in its entirety ahead of its release, on YouTube. Keep reading for more.
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Peter Hook and The Light Book North American Tour Playing the New Order Album “Get Ready”
Peter Hook and The Light have announced that they will tour North American in May and June 2025. The live run will see them performing the New Order album Get Ready in its entirety, alongside a selection of tracks from the back catalogs of both Joy Division and New Order. Keep reading below to find out more.
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Scour (Phil Anselmo, Agoraphobic Nosebleed, Pig Destroyer, Misery Index) Book Only Public Live Show of 2024
Scour, featuring heavy music veterans, including Philip H. Anselmo (Pantera, Down), Derek Engemann (Philip H. Anselmo & The Illegals), John Jarvis (Nest, Agoraphobic Nosebleed), Mark Kloeppel (Misery Index), and Adam Jarvis (Pig Destroyer, Lock Up), have announced their sole public live appearance for 2024. Find out more below.
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Ural Share a Cover of Municipal Waste Track “Unleash The Bastards” Ft. Andy Bull Panigada (Bulldozer)
Italian Thrashers, Ural have just launched a visualizer-video for “Unleash the Bastards,” their take on the track originally recorded by Municipal Waste. The song also features a guest appearance by Bulldozer guitarist, Andy Bull. Watch the video below.
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The Sheila Divine Drops Their New Album “I Am The Darkness, We Are The Light” for Halloween
Boston indie rock band, The Sheila Divine are releasing their new full-length album, I Am The Darkness, We Are The Light for Halloween 2024. This is the sixth album from the band, and their first since 2019’s pre-covid opus, Beginning of The End is Where We’ll Start Again. Head into the article below to find out more.
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CONCERT REVIEW: Lacuna Coil – Blind Channel Live at Manchester Academy
Finnish Nu-Metal outfit Blind Channel are our warm-up act for the night with their energetic and eclectic mix of music styles and song choices keeping the set fresh and intriguing throughout. I’m sure many attendees didn’t have a heavy metal interpretation of “Everybody” by the Backstreet Boys on their bingo card for tonight. However, when the classic bop is deployed towards the tail end of the set it’s met with a thunderous reception. Mix this with a mid-set encore that sees one-half of the vocal duo land a brief solo rap session directly followed up with a version of System of a Down’s “B.Y.O.B.”Continue reading
ALBUM REVIEW: Amerta – Nodus Tollens
As a result of years of persistence and hard work in exploring the immense depths of their own resonances, Jakarta-based post/sludge/power metal collective Amerta embarks on a new profound milestone through the release of their first full-length entitled Nodus Tollens (Self-Released). Through this release, this Indonesian multi-genre unit invites their listeners to venture on an enigmatic journey fueled by existential dread, contemplations, and the inner conflicts that mankind collectively faces against the banality of everyday chaos and mayhem in the form of an in-depth listening experience. Continue reading