Desertfest Belgium has been busy adding top tier bands for its next edition! Pelican, Big Business, Sixes have all been announced in the last few days with more bands to come! They join a bill that features Sleep, Ty Segall & Freedom Band, EyeHateGod, Truck Fighters, Pelican, Bonripper, Nebula, Steak, High Reeper, ASG and more!Continue reading
Check out all of today’s new releases in the music world!
Ace Frehley – Spaceman (Picture Disc) (eOne Music) (Buy)
A Day To Remember – Attack Of The Killer B-Sides – Newbury Comics Exclusive (Color) (Buy)
Alice Cooper – Dirty Diamonds (Vinyl) (New West Records)(Buy)
Alien Weaponry – Tu (Vinyl) (Napalm Records)(Buy)
American War Machine – Unholy War (Bridge Nine)(Buy)
Andy Black – The Ghost Of Ohio (Lava/Republic Records)(Buy)
Bad Religion – My Sanity (7″ & 3″) (Epitaph)(Buy)
Basement – Be Here Now (7″) (Fueled By Ramen)(Buy)
Beartooth – B-Sides (7″) (Red Bull Records)(Buy)
Big Business – The Beast You Are (Joyful Noise)(Buy)
Blackguard – Storm (Self-Released)(Buy)
Blind Guardian – The Forgotten Tales Re-Release (Nuclear Blast) (Buy)
Blind Guardian – Live Re-Release (Nuclear Blast) (Buy)
Blind Guardian – Tokyo Tales Re-Release (Nuclear Blast) (Buy)
Brant Bjork – Keep Your Cool Re-Release (Heavy Psych Sounds) (Buy)
BTS – Map Of The Soul: Persona (Buy)
The Chemical Brothers – No Geography(Buy)
Chad Smith & Josh Klinghoffer – Jeepster/Monolith (7″) (ORG Music)(Buy)
Chuck Mosley – Joe Haze Session #2 (7″) (blocGLOBAL)(Buy)
D’angelo – Voodoo – Newbury Comics Exclusive (Color) (Buy)
Death Therapy – Voices (Solid State Records)(Buy)
Def Leppard – The Story So Far Vol. 2/B-Sides (Vinyl) (UMC/Virgin)(Buy)
Diesear – Bloodred Inferno (eOne Music)(Buy)
Dio – Last In Line (Live) (Picture Disc) (BMG)(Buy)
Melissa Etheridge – The Medicine Show(Buy)
Bruce Hornsby – Absolute Zero (Buy)
Felix Martin – Caracas (N/A)(Buy)
Foo Fighters – Big Me (3″) (Roswell Records)(Buy)
Gabriel And The Apocalypse – Alpha Bionic (Pavement Entertainment)(Buy)
Graveyard – Live At Pustervik (Reaktor/Nuclear Blast)(Buy)
Green Jellÿ – Cereal Killer Sounds (Vinyl) (Say-10 Records)(Buy)
Greta Van Fleet – From The Fires (Vinyl) (Lava/Republic)(Buy)
Halestorm – Buzz/Chemical (7″) (Atlantic)()
Hatebreed – Satisfaction Is The Death Of Desire – Newbury Comics Exclusive (Color) (Buy)
Hath – Of Rot And Ruin (Willowtip)(Buy)
Hawkwind – The 1999 Party – Live At The Chicago Auditorium (Vinyl) (Rhino/Parlophone)(Buy)
High On Fire – Bat Salad (12″) (eOne Music)(Buy)
Iced Earth – Enter The Realm Re-Release (Red)(Buy)
Inferi – The End Of An Era | Rebirth (The Artisan Era)(Buy)
Inter Arma – Sulphur English (Relapse)(Buy)
Ketzer – Cloud Collider (Metal Blade)(Buy)
Etta James – Etta James Rocks The House – Newbury Comics Exclusive (Color) (Buy)
Norah Jones – Begin Again(Buy)
L7 – Burn Baby (7″) (Blackheart Records)(Buy)
Lake Street Dive – Bad Self Portraits – Newbury Comics Exclusive (Color) (Buy)
Aaron Lewis – State I’m In (Buy)
Mastodon – Stairway To Nick John (10″) (Reprise)(Buy)
Molases – Molases – (Van Records) (Buy)
Motörhead – Overkill/Bomber (7″) (BMG)(Buy)
Motörhead – Rockaway Beach (7″) (Motörhead Music)(Buy)
My Chemical Romance – The Black Parade Is Dead (Vinyl) (Reprise Records) (Buy)
Nekrasov – Lust Of Consciousness (Prosthetic Records)(Buy)
Nirvana – Live At The Paramount (Buy)
Nita Strauss – Controlled Chaos (Vinyl) (Sumerian Records)(Buy)
Numenorean – Adore (Season Of Mist)(Buy)
Pearl Jam – Live At East Street (Vinyl) (Monkeywrench)(Buy)
Pelican – Midnight & Mescaline (7″) (Southern Lord)(Buy)
Pete Rock – Don’t Smoke Rock Instrumentals (Buy)
Pink Floyd – A Saucerful Of Secrets (Mono) (Vinyl) (Legacy)(Buy)
Posthum – Like Wildfire (Indie Recordings)(Buy)
Rush – Hemispheres (Picture Disc) (UMe)(Buy)
Scream Blue Murder – Rock Bottom (Stay Sick Recordings)(Buy)
Serj Tankian – Harakiri (Vinyl) (Music On Vinyl)(Buy)
Silverstein – Redux: The First 10 Years (N/A)(Buy)
Suldusk – Lunar Falls (Northern Silence Productions)(Buy)
Sunn O))) – Life Metal (Vinyl/CD) (Southern Lord)(Buy)
Sworn Amongst – Reclamation EP (Famined Records)(Buy)
The Machinist – Confidimus In Morte (Prosthetic Records)(Buy)
The Used – The Used Live From Maida Vale (10″) (Hopeless Records)(Buy)
Theories – Vessel (Corpse Flower Records)(Buy)
Thrice – Deeper Wells (12″) (Epitaph)(Buy)
Various Artists – Dualism (Eclipse Records)(Buy)
Troll – Legend Master (Shadow Kingdom)(Buy)
Tronos – Celestial Mechanics (Century Media) (Buy)
Various Artists – House Of Wax Music From The Motion Picture (Vinyl) (Maverick)(Buy)
Various Artists – Howard Stern’s Private Parts (Vinyl) (Warner Bros. Records)(Buy)
Various Artists – The Crow (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (Vinyl) (Atlantic Records)(Buy)
Various Artists – Transformers – Revenge Of The Fallen Soundtrack (Vinyl) (Reprise Records)(Buy)
Waldgefluster – Mondscheinsonaten (Nordvis)(Buy)
ZVI – Deer Pink (Nefarious Industries)(Buy)
Post-metal legends ISIS reunited last night under the guise of “Celestial” at the Caleb Scofield tribute Concert at The Wiltern in Los Angeles. last night. It was the first time since 2010 when the band broke up after touring behind their album Wavering Radiant. They played an incredible set featuring songs from Celestial, and Oceanic. Also appearing last night were Caleb’s bands Cave In, Old Man Gloom, as well as Pelican and 27. The event was streamed live. Watch below. Isis’ set starts at 2:55:28. All proceed from the show will go to funds benefitting Scofield’s family. Scofield passed away earlier this year after a tragic auto accident. Continue reading
Tonight in Boston a sold-out benefit show for late Cave-In, Old Man Gloom, Zoroaster basisist Caleb Scofield takes place featuring Cave In, Converge, Old Man Gloom and others. Now a second event is planned at The wiltern in Los Angeles, this October 13th. The LA benefit show again features performances by Scofield’s bands: Cave In and Old Man Gloom as well as longtime friends and collaborators, Pelican and 27 (featuring Cave In’s Adam McGrath). The tribute also includes a one-time performance by the members of ISIS, who will play under the Celestial moniker, a nod to the influential outfit’s debut album of the same name. This is the band’s first performance since they played their final show in June of 2010. These shows support Caleb’s family, and numerous benefits, fund raisers and tributes have been organized since his sudden, tragic passing the march.
I, Awake (self-released) is the 5th album from UK-based outfit Updownc. Their first as a three-piece, this self-released monster is easily one of the most satisfying instrumental records of 2017.Continue reading
Before you sink your teeth into this, let me make a quick disclaimer for those of you looking for a standard review. This ain’t it. If you want to read, ad nauseam, about each band that played, who was good, who wasn’t, what songs they played or how many bands are “female fronted,” have female members or where any of these bands are from I can guarantee you a quick internet search will get you your fix somewhere. If you are looking for someone to tell you what any of the bands sound like, look like or act like then here is a novel idea, buy their music, go to a show and form an opinion for yourself. No offense intended to anyone writing something like that or looking for that kind of thing but you won’t find it here because I don’t feel like writing something everyone else has or will. (Offense intended to anyone still finding some ridiculous need to write or read about bands being “female fronted.” Fuck off.)
Oh, also there will be naughty words.Continue reading
The last twenty years have been quite an eventful ride for guitarist Sammy Duet. When his first (proper) band, legendary Louisiana swamp monsters Acid Bath, split up due to the untimely death of bassist Audie Pitre, he began work on a new project – Goatwhore.Continue reading
Psycho Las Vegas 2017 will be taking place from August 18th-20th at the Hard Rock Hotel And Casino Las Vegas in Las Vegas, Nevada. The initial lineup seemed to feature every band ever, but now they’ve added Mastodon as the final headliner, and it’s officially one of the sickest bills ever created. Continue reading
Since its vibrant days and creative apex in the early 2000’s, post-Metal has proven to be an arena of very few limits and of towering imagination and inventiveness, with the likes of Isis and Pelican offering multi-faceted works encapsulating atmosphere, serenity and at times, sheer heaviness. Colchester’s own Telepathy showcased on 2014’s 12 Areas (Devouter) that they were a very promising component capable of dizzying technicality whilst remaining compelling. On latest album Tempest (Golden Antenna), they prove such potential has been more than realised.Continue reading
Pelican released their Live In Wroclaw album last week, and now they’ve released another one for our listening pleasure. Continue reading