I have recently learned that “Swancore” is a genre that apparently refers to Progressive Post-Hardcore music with high-register, clean vocals. Accepting that premise, it’s easy to understand this tag being applied to Salt Lake City’s Eidola and their sixth album Mend (Blue Swans Records/ Rise Records).Continue reading
In this episode, Ragin Rosie interviews the totally killer band Winona Fighter at Louder Than Live Festival! The Nashville-based Melodic Punk band will soon release their debut album “My Apologies To The Chef” via Rise Records! Rosie chatted with the band and discussed the origin of their name, how they formed, the Punk scene in Nashville, other festivals they played in 2024, such as Riot Fest and more!Continue reading
Progressive metallers, Spiritbox, have announced a North American Tour, in support of their upcoming album, Tsunami Sea, due out March 7th via Pale Chord / Rise Records. The 24-date run (produced by Live Nation) kicks off April 3rd in Dallas, TX, and heads across the U.S. and Canada, withsupport from Loathe, Dying Wish, and GEL. Find more information below.
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Texan metalcore crew, Memphis May Fire, have just released their new single and video, “Hell Is Empty,” via Rise Records. With more music on the way this year, they are currently touring in the US with Asking Alexandria. Head into the article below for the new video and live listings.
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Spiral In A Straight Line (Rise Records) is Touché Amoré’s sixth album. They are not only more confident in who they are as a band, but continuing the journey fussy they are not capable of explosive emotional outbursts as heard in the song. This is handled in a more Punk way, with less overt emoting. The more polished production compliments the progression of their creative path, with the guitars being where growth is most evident. On a song like “Hal Ashby” they embrace the late nineties all over again thanks to the jangle of the guitars. This feels the most like what we once called Emo with a punk drive that thankfully owes more to Hot Water Music than Blink-182.Continue reading
Arizona metalcore quartet, Blessthefall, have released their new single “Drag Me Under,” via Rise Records. The video for the new tack is due out Wednesday August 28th. Featuring Alpha Wolf‘s Lochie Keogh, the song was co- written by Tony Cappocchi from Dragged Under and produced and mixed by Hiram Hernandez. Check it out below.
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Texan titans Kublai Khan TX are back with a vengeance in announcing their much-anticipated forthcoming album Exhibition Of Prowess, out 20th September 2024 (via Rise Records). With an established reputation for delivering intense, earth-shattering bangers full of punishing breakdowns, vicious vocals and skull-splitting riffs, Exhibition Of Prowess is a testament to the band’s relentless drive and promises to be their most compelling work yet. Pre-orders are live at the link below. In celebration of the news, Kublai Khan TX has dropped their latest rager “Supreme Ruler” and the official music video. The track is self is a short blast of raw, and powerful metalcore and hardcore metal! Watch it now!
Mothica just released their new single and video, “Toxins.” It is taken from the upcoming album, Kissing Death, which is to be released 23rd August 2024, through her own imprint Heavy Heart Records partnering with Rise Records.”Toxins” is the latest in a series of videos and singles. Check it out below.
Pre-order the album here:
https://mothica.lnk.to/kissingdeath
Stream “Toxins” here: https://mothica.lnk.to/Toxins
““Toxins” is the first song that made the record, since I originally wrote it for a Halloween release in 2022. I loved the image of a spider singing to its freshly caught prey. It took on a new meaning with the grim reaper as this stalker or dark shadow that followed me around, even when I made strides to get better like going to therapy or getting sober. The analogue synths David Burris put in the chorus definitely inspired the sound of the record, taking influence from the darkwave genre.” says Mothica.
Death is an uncomfortable topic that most people avoid thinking about, but Mothica decides to dance with it on the forthcoming album. Vulnerably, she laments her personal battles with depression, addiction, and suicidal ideation, processing her pain with lush soundscapes underpinned by funereal keys, heart-thumping hard rock guitars, and disarmingly catchy moments of pop catharsis. After amassing hundreds of millions of streams and earning acclaim from the likes of Billboard, MTV, and more, she dives deeper into her powerful story with her third album, Kissing Death. It is a visual album that tells an immersive story across 12 tracks and their accompanying music videos which weave into each other.
“I decided to make Death a love interest in a dark rom-com-style tale,” she notes. “Throughout the visuals, I’m seen in a therapist’s office explaining this complicated relationship as if describing a scorned lover. The music videos will be like ‘flashbacks’ of what I’m telling my therapist. On the first single “Doomed,” we go back in time to an angsty teenage version of me. This is my first brush with the Grim Reaper and I doodle pictures of him in my diary surrounded by hearts. Flash forward, I’m shown performing at a dive bar, clubbing, engulfed in self-destruction. He stalks me, and eventually even proposes marriage, and I leave him at the altar and run away. It ends with me and Death in couples therapy. I wanted the music to feel cinematic, like the soundtrack of a movie.”
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In the end, Mothica might just give you the strength to deal with your demons too.
Mothica has announced a UK and European tour for September 2024:
16th September – Kavka, Antwerp, Belgium
18th September – Melkweg, Amsterdam, Netherlands
19th September – Reeperbahn Festival, Hamburg, Germany
20th September – Hole44, Berlin, Germany
21st September – Luxor, Cologne, Germany
24th September – Backstage, Paris, France
26th September – The Dome, London, UK
27th September – Gorilla, Manchester, UK
28th September – King Tuts, Glasgow, UK
Tickets on sale here:
https://www.mothica.com/tour
Mothica recently announced their new album, Kissing Death, released through her own imprint Heavy Heart Records partnering with Rise Records is to be released 23rd August 2024.The latest in a series of singles, “Red” comes with a new video! Throwing it back to her roots, check out the single and video for “Red” now! Continue reading
Alkaline Trio has booked a headline tour of The UK and Europe to support their upcoming new album Blood, Hair, and Eyeballs, out January 26 on Rise Records. This is in addition to previously announced dates for the USA. Ticket links and album pre-orders are live at the links below!Continue reading