Episode 63 of the Dumb and Dumbest Podcast is streaming right now, hosted by music executive Matt Bacon (Dropout Media, Ripple Music, Prophecy Productions) and Publicist Curtis Dewar (Dewar PR). Today Matt and Curtis talk about the importance of Bandcamp, and how to create and optimize your page to get people to pay attention to your music and buy your merch. Continue reading
Converge has shared their cover of Negative Approach’s ‘Whatever I Do’, originally released as part of the Tomorrow Seems So Hopeless: A Tribute to Negative Approach compilation from 200. That album has been out of print and original label is out of business, according to Converge’s Bandcamp page. It was recorded at Kurt Ballou’s God City Studios in Salem, Massachusetts. Buy or stream the track right now!Continue reading
Blackened Folk Metal band Thrawsunblat has offered an update on their new album, Thrawsunblat IV: Great Brunswick Forest, due out this fall. Featuring members of Woods Of Ypres and Immortal Bird, the new album will be the follow-up to the acclaimed 2016 album Metachthonia and their 2018 Fires In The Mist EP. The band has started pre-orders via their Bandcamp page below. Continue reading
Polish blackened death metallers Lilla Veneda will release their new self-titled full-length album this Friday, June 29th from the Via Nocturna label. These guys are ready to join the best in the genre with this release. Pre-orders are live from their Bandcamp page. Turn it out and blast this grim kvltness right now. Continue reading
Never giving interviews and never playing live shows is certainly a good way to give your band a certain mystique. It may seem pretentious and it does mean the art you create loses another dimension by never gracing the ears of a live audience, but there is something to be admired in letting the music quite literally speak for itself, especially when the scene is over saturated. Continue reading
The music world is still reeling from the sudden death of The Cranberries singer Dolores O’Riordan at age 46 on January 15th. Tributes have poured in from bands and fans near and far to the iconic 1990’s vocalist and her band. Now cabaret punk Amanda Palmer and her occasional co-conspirator Jhereck Bischoff have released Quartet for Dolores, a charity single. The release dropped via Bandcamp and includes the classics ‘No Need To Argue’ and ‘Zombie’. All proceeds from the purchases go to Chernobyl Children International, a charity Dolores ardently supported. Continue reading
Melodic death metal is a very tricky style to get spot on, with a balance that needs to be struck between heaviness and an ear for a tune; a balance that all too often is lop-sided. It’s an understanding that Nottingham based death metallers Beyond Grace have, in a short life-span, have already recognised and mastered and thus, as evidenced on latest album Seekers (Self-released), have proven themselves as one of British metal’s best kept secrets and exciting prospects.Continue reading
Denver-based funeral doom masters Primitive Man dropped two long original tracks and two stellar covers via their Bandcamp page, and you all need to hear them right now. The new tracks are ‘Fear’ and ‘A Life Of Turmoil’, and the covers are of Black Sababth’s ‘Sweet Leaf’ and Crowbar’s ‘Suffering Brings Wisdom’. You can jam them all below:Continue reading
Philadelphia bred heavy rockers Ecstatic Vision are releasing a new album Raw Rock Fury via Relapse Records on April 7th. You can hear the first single ‘You Got It (Or You Don’t)’ below:Continue reading
Ethereal American Doom band Worm Ouroboros are streaming two new songs from their upcoming album What Graceless Dawn, due out from Profound Lore on December 3rd. Hear ‘(Was It) The Cruelest Thing’ and ‘Broken Movements’ over at the Profound Lore Bandcamp Page. Continue reading