The inimitable British band Sleep Token have brought forth their latest offering christened, Even in Arcadia (RCA Records). Pre-orders are live at the links below. To give a proper introduction to the new material laid down on Even in Arcadia, a new video paired with their first single titled, “Emergence” has been released. Watch the video here: Continue reading
With their original singer, Adam Gontier, now back in the fold, Three Days Grace have released the first new single, “Mayday.” With both Gontier and Matt Walst on vocals, it is available across digital streaming platforms, via RCA Records. The song was produced by Zakk Cervini and Dan Lancaster with vocal production by Howard Benson. In addition, the band released a video to accompany the track, directed by CiRCUS HEaD. Check it out below.
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Sleep Token strikes again! RCA Records has announced they have signed a new record deal with the band. In signing with a major label, the band for their part have teased a “new era” of the band, presumably about their 2024 planned year of tour dates and festivals and their expected next album, their fourth. RCA Records is home to some of the biggest bands in the world such as Foo Fighters, Three Days Grace, The Strokes, and more. As we previously reported they have booked even more tour dates aka “rituals” in the UK later this year on top of their upcoming Australia tour, and US dates surrounding Sick New World Festival, Red Rocks Amphitheatre, and more. Tickets will go on sale to the general public on Friday, February 9 at 10 a.m. Check out the dates below and check out Take Me Back To Eden one of the Ghost Cult Top 20 albums of 2023.Continue reading
Tool will release their first video in 15 years, “Opiate2,” arriving today via RCA Records. You can watch a three-minute preview of the Blu-Ray short film is available below. “Opiate2” is a re-imagined and extended version of Tool’s 1992 single “Opiate,” with both the song and video marking the 30th anniversary of the EP of the same name’s release. The band wraps up their US tour this weekend with European dates to follow. Read our review of the tour here.
Happy New Tool album Day! Fear Inoculum (RCA REcords/Volcano)is out now! This may very well have surpassed the Slipknot and Rammstein albums in terms of hype! You can read our 9 / 10 review or flip back to all our recent coverage here! Apparently there is a big tour announcement coming tomorrow from the band as well. Stay tuned to Ghost Cult for details! Go ahead and purchase and stream the album now!Continue reading
You are not really ready for the new Tool album.
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Tool’s new album Fear Inoculum finally arrives on August 30 via RCA. The band has confirmed the tracklisting for both the physical and digital release. The physical edition of the album will include seven songs, while the digial edition will contain 10 cuts, including the closer “7empest”, which is almost 20 minutes long. As previously reported, the “Fear Inoculum” title track recently became the longest song to ever land in the Billboard Hot 100. The TOOL cut, which entered the chart at No. 93, has a running time of 10 minutes 21 seconds, 24 seconds longer than the previous record-holder, David Bowie’s “Blackstar”. Check out our review of the title track. Hopefully, more details will be revealed soon! Continue reading
Foo Fighters will be releasing Concrete And Gold on September 15th via Roswell Records/RCA Records, and they’ve just shared the third single online. Continue reading
It’s have to believe Bullet For My Valentine are five albums into their career so far. Striking hard with The Poison (visible Noise/Trustkill) ten years ago, the band broke big at the time when neo-thrash wasn’t a dirty word and mixing metalcore with heavier music was just becoming a super-popular thing. BFMV rode that wave and now have legion of dedicated fans that have stayed the course with the band. Always a little more sure and sharp than most of their peers, the band has mainly stayed true to their thrash roots and never let a good melody stand in the way a heavy song. However, on their new album Venom (RCA), they seemed to have lost that bite that made them stand out so much before.
Following the intro track ‘V’, the album kicks off in earnest with ‘No Way Out’, a fast riffer. Right off the bat you hear front man Matt Tuck’s strong lead vocals carrying the tune. Tuck has always been a solid screamer and singer, but there seemed to be little grit left to his delivery. Next track ‘Army Of Noise’ is a step up. More in the classic BFMV vein, it has the right mix of heavy and catchy. ‘Worthless’ is another good track with more fun gang vocals. And that is also the problem. The tracks all seem to follow the problematic formula of being almost syrupy in the verses. There is little variation from the album overall, beyond the tropes of modern metal the band has already used in their better known work. To my ears this gets old after a few tracks. I’m all for bands experimenting and changing this smacks of a set-back. A few songs are flat-out bad, such as the title track. Some of the remaining cuts like ‘Pariah’ are pretty solid, especially the lead guitar work, but not what I had hoped for. This comes after I felt that 2013’s Temper Temper album was also disappointing.
One good thing about this band is they will give themselves a chance at redemption down the road. With their past writing chops to lean on and their electric live shows sure to keep them a headline name, that means they can overcome this blip in a few years with a much better album.
6.5/10
KEITH CHACHKES
In a post to their Instagram account, Welsh neo-thrashers Bullet For My Valentine shared a photo from a high-production shoot for a new music video, possibly ‘No Way Out’. The bands’ new album Venom (RCA Records) is due on August 14th .