Alex Haddad's progressive death metal project Dessiderium shared the title track off the upcoming album Aria, due out December 10th via The Artisan Era. You can stream it below.
Tracklist:
1. White Morning in a World She Knows
2. Pale
3. Aria
4. Moon Lust Delirium
5. The Persecution Complex
Post-hardcore gang Silverstein shared the brand new song 'It's Over'. The official music video can be seen below.
Guitarist Paul Marc Rousseau states: "This song is the spiral that leads to giving up. Those anxiety packed hours when you can't feel anything but the low, steady crescendo of panic that eventually gets so intense your fingertips lose sensation. It's hopeless to feel but pointless to endure. I didn't learn anything from feeling that way. I just wanted it to stop."
Swedish power metallers Sabaton shared the lyric video for the new song 'Christmas Truce', taken from the band's upcoming album The War To End All Wars, scheduled to come out March 4, 2022 via Nuclear Blast. You can watch it below.
The album is the sequel of their previous album The Great War and it focuses on the atrocities, miracles and happenings around WWI.
Tracklist:
1. Sarajevo
2. Stormtroopers
3. Dreadnought
4. The Unkillable Soldier
5. Soldier Of Heaven
6. Hellfighters
7. Race to the Sea
8. Lady Of The Dark
9. The Valley Of Death
10. Christmas Truce
11. Versailles
Aussie black/death metallers Vahrzaw have dropped a new song, 'Death Of An Unknown Architect', off their upcoming album The Trembling Voices of Conquered Men, out December 10th via Transcending Obscurity. You can stream it below.
Tracklist:
1. The Trembling Voices...
2. Death Of An Unknown Architect
3. Waiting With The Wolves
4. As Ships Upon Shores
5. Vultures
6. The Pessimist
7. ...Of Conquered Men
NWOBHM long-running rockers Praying Mantis have announced the release of their 12th studio album, Katharsis, on January 28, 2022 via Frontiers Music srl. Take a peek at the music video for the first single, 'Cry For The Nations', below.
Video Producer - Luke Archer
Tracklist:
1. Cry For The Nations
2. Closer To Heaven
3. Ain’t No Rock ‘N’ Roll In Heaven
4. Non Omnis Moriar
5. Long Time Coming
6. Sacrifice
7. Wheels In Motion
8. Masquerade
9. Find Our Way Back Home
10. Don’t Call Us Now
11. The Devil Never Changes
French avantgarde black metallers Celeste will release their new album, titled Assassine(s), on January 28th, 2022 via Nuclear Blast. The music video for the first single, 'Des Torrents De Coups', can be seen below.
Directed by Grégoire Orio
"We're glad to unleash our first single", Celeste states. "This track is the first one we've started writing for the new album, but it's also one of the last we've finished. It's pretty representative of the reflexion we had all along the creation process of 'ASSASSINE(S)', I hope you'll enjoy the new sonorities and our new approach of the songwriting. This epic song is coming with the videoclip it deserves, 'Des Torrents de coups' is the first part of a video triptych to be released in the coming months, produced in collaboration with video artist Gregoire Orio. Those videoclips totally emphasize our ...more
Instrumental progressive metal band from Washington, D.C. have released a new song, "The Problem of Other Minds". Along with the single, their new album Parrhesia will be released through Sumerian Records March 25th.
Sweden's Opeth have announced on their social media that their longtime drummer, Martin Axenrot, has left the band due to conflict of interest. The statement goes as follows:
"Due to a conflict of interests, Martin Axenrot is no longer part of the Opeth collective,” an official statement reads. "His replacement for the North American tour with Mastodon and Zeal & Ardor will be powerhouse drummer Sami Karppinen. His first show will take place today (November 16) at Harrah’s Cherokee center in Asheville, NC."
Mikael Akerfeldt adds, "However sad it is to not have Axe in the band anymore, we’re not in a position to linger on anything that is going to hold us back. We need to soldier on. Needless to say, we’re incredibly thankful that Sami is helping us out, making this tour possible and all. On top of that, he’s quite outstanding, really! All of us wish the best for Axe in all and any of his future endeavors. He has been [an] ...more
Finnish funeral doomers Shape of Despair will be dropping their new album, Return to the Void, on February 25th, 2022 via Season of Mist. The band's first new song, 'Reflection in Slow Time', can be streamed below.
"Return to the Void isn't the follow-up to Monotony Fields in the traditional sense," Salomaa says. "As stated, the songwriting goes way back to the first music we put together for Raven. I will say my approach has changed after all these years of making music. I found new and different ways to shape the arrangements and my compositions. What matters most, I think, is that it still has the Shape of Despair atmosphere."
"Return to the Void is a title we thought would best describe the album," says Koivula. "It is a return for us in many ways. We were heading [musically] towards early Shape of Despair. ...more
Andorran melodic progressive metal band Persefone have officially announced their newest album, entitled metanoia, which is scheduled to be released on February 4th, 2022. The album also features a number of guest artists, including Einar Solberg of Leprous, Steffan Kummerer of Obscura, and Two Steps from Hell. It is the band's first full length record since 2017's Aathema.
The group also released the lead single for the album, "Merkabah" in promotion for the upcoming record, listen to is here:
Tracklist:
1. Metanoia ft. Einar Solberg
2. Katabasis
3. Architecture Of The I
4. Leap Of Faith
5. Aware Of Being Watched
6. Merkabah
7. Consciousness Part III
8. Anabasis Part I
9. Anabasis Part II ft. Steffen Kummerer, Angel Vivaldi and Merethe Soltvedt
10. Anabasis ...more
Eurovision finalists Blind Channel, who finished 6th in 2021's edition of the Europe-wide music contest representing Finland, have released another song from their upcoming as-yet-unannounced album.
Since signing to Century Media in the immediate aftermath of their Eurovision success (won by fellow rockers Måneskin), the self-described "violent pop" group have been hard at work on their 4th album, and released first single "Balboa" earlier this summer. There is currently no news on an imminent album release, although "Balboa" and new song "We Are No Saints" are both expected to appear on it when it is eventually announced.
Ukrainian metalcore act Between Two Oceans released their debut EP titled Manifest Destiny. Album was produced and arranged by Septa/The Nietzsche frontman Eugene Tymchyk.
Available at Bandcamp: betweentwooceans.bandcamp.com/album/manifest-destiny
From Russia with love the Community Of Some Very Good Mews released a debut album titled, ...At Least There Is VGM, on November 12th.
More dumb, crazy and fun than something else, it features game console sounds, hardcore breaks, noisy synth punk parts, deliberately stupid lyrics and samples that just pop out of nowhere, plus a few guest appearances from Patrick Kindlon of Drug Church & Self Defense Family and a Virginia noisecore act Suppression.
...At Least There Is VGM is available as a free download on Bandcamp.
"We lost a hard rock / heavy metal pioneer. With heavy heart, I regret to inform you that Greg Mayne lost his battle with stage four lung cancer. He was one of the most talented, easy going, humble, insightful, agreeable musicians I have ever worked with.
His part in the early Pentagram days was crucial. It brings me small solace knowing that his playing and music has finally been heard and enjoyed by millions of people across the world. I am so happy that he took the stage for the one and only ever Bedemon performance in 2015. Seeing him get to shake hands and hug some of his fans was a joy I will always hold. Let’s celebrate his music now and forever. His impact and influence is still flourishing. Rest In Power.
British guitarist John Goodsall, known primarily for his work with jazz fusion group Brand X and progressive rock band Atomic Rooster, has passed away at the age of 68. While a cause of death has yet to be revealed, Goodsall was admitted to a hospital for pneumonia back in September, causing Brand X to postpone tour dates; this has led to speculation that his death was due to complications related to the condition.
Jazz musician and journalist Colman Jones had the following to say about Goodsall after his passing:
“So sorry to hear this sad news about Brand X guitarist @JohnGoodsall from ex-bandmate Percy Jones.. Goodsall, the only remaining original member, had been ill with Pneumonia, leading to the postponement of the current @OfficialBrandX tour.. no idea whether the band will continue.”
Check out the video below to listen to one of Brand X's most acclaimed tunes, "Nuclear Burn".
US symphonic folk metallers Wilderun shared another new song, 'Distraction I', from their upcoming fourth full-length release Epigone, out January 7th, 2022 via Century Media Records. You can stream it below.
Tracklist:
1. Exhaler
2. Woolgatherer
3. Passenger
4. Identifier
5. Ambition
6. Distraction I
7. Distraction II
8. Distraction III
9. Distraction Nulla
Swedish doom metallers Sorcerer have dropped their cover version of 'Crusader' to all major digital platforms via Metal Blade Records. The original song was the title track to Saxon's sixth album Crusader, released in 1984. Take a peek at the music video below.
Sorcerer vocalist Anders Engberg says: "For me Saxon, they have always been there, ever since I started listening to heavy metal, and I had the luck to tour with these guys with my old band (Lion's Share)".
Drummer Richard Evensand, who is a huge Saxon fan, is super excited. "It was the first band I started to really follow as a teenager and it still is one of my favorite bands today. For me Saxon equals energy and long tom rolls… in fact more than long tom rolls; mega tom rolls perhaps. Nigel Glockner has really influenced my play as a drummer. You can imagine that I was ...more
Belgian black metallers Wiegedood shared another single, 'Now Will Always Be', from their upcoming album There's Always Blood At The End Of The Road, out January 14th, 2022 via Century Media Records. You can stream it below.
Wiegedood will be hitting the road in the first quarter of 2022. The dates are as follows:
Scottish deathcore crew Bleed From Within released the new single 'I Am Damnation'. The track was produced by the band and mixed by Adam 'Nolly' Getgood. The official video can be seen below.
It's been four years since Hot Water Music's last album, Light It Up, and the Floridian emo-punkers are finally set to return with Feel the Void, set to release March 17, 2022. This announcement also includes a brand new single, a U.S. tour early 2022, and a European tour with BoySetsFire and Samian in October.
For recording the album, HWM reunited with producer Brian McTernan (Bane, Converge, Circa Survive) who helped them create the critically-acclaimed release Caution, as well as A Flight and a Crash and The New What Next. Vocalist Chuck Ragan has stated that the band has "used Hot Water Music as a vehicle for [their] own therapy" and that "this is a way for [them] to release all this angst and inspiration and positivity, and share music that drives [them] to become better people, better friends and better communities."
You can preorder/presave Feel the Void and watch the video for their new single "Killing Time" below: more
Jupiter-based rock band Failure have released the first single from their upcoming album, Wild Type Droid, which will release December 3rd, 2021.
In an interview with Bass Magazine, frontman Ken Andrews stated, “To me, it captures a lot of the new musical approaches and techniques we were going for on this album, but somehow is still quintessential Failure. We’ve been together long enough to know that some of our best ideas come directly from these experimental sessions. For this album, we simply cultivated that methodology for a much longer time than we have in the past.”
The album cover was created by Beeple, best known for having an NFT of his art sell at auction for $69 Million. The track list for the new album is below:
1. Water with Hands
2. Headstand
3. A Lifetime of Joy
4. Submarines
5. Bring Back the Sound
6. Mercury Mouth
7. Undecided
8. Long Division
9. Bad Translation ...more
Australian Aussies Gang of Youths have announced their new full length Angel in Realtime, due out February 25 2022. The album will include previously released songs 'the angel of 8th ave.', 'unison', 'the man himself', and the brand new single 'tend the garden'. Opting for a much lighter & brighter™ approach than most of the Gang's discography, the track was inspired by frontman David Le'aupepe's father's gardener (which happens to be the man (the band's singer's father) himself). No, I won't draw you a diagram.
French psychedelic death metallers Cadaveric Fumes are set to release their debut and, unfortunately, final full length record, entitled Echoing Chambers of Soul on December 10th via Blood Harvest Records. It will consist of the band's first new material released since 2018.
The fifth track, entitled The Engulfed Sepulcher, can be heard on Blood Harvest's Bandcamp page:
Semi-British outfit As It Is have released a new single titled 'I Miss 2003'. The song, boasting a somewhat unique.. (*checks notes*) trap pop punk sound, focuses on the topic of missing 2003. Following a slew of singles, the track will be featured on the band's upcoming record I Went to Hell and Back, slated for release February 4 2022.
American alternative metal band Bad Omens have officially revealed their latest album, entitled The Death of Peace of Mind. The album is the groups first record since 2019's Finding God Before God Finds Me, and is scheduled to be released on February 25th, 2022 via Sumerian Records.
Along with the announcement, the band also released the title track from the upcoming album. Listen here:
Tracklist
1. Concrete Jungle
2. Nowhere To Go
3. Take Me First
4. The Death of Peace of Mind
5. What It Cost
6. Like A Villain
7. Bad Decisions
8. Just Pretend
9. The Grey
10. Who are you?
11. Somebody else.
12. IDWT$
13. What Do You Want From Me?
14. Artificial Suicide
15. Miracle
British duo Let's Eat Grandma will be dropping their new album, titled Two Ribbons, on April 8th, 2022 via Transgressive Records. The music video for the title track can be seen below.
Directed by El Hardwick
Tracklist:
1. Happy New Year
2. Levitation
3. Watching You Go
4. Hall Of Mirrors
5. Insect Loop
6. Half Light
7. Sunday
8. In The Cemetery
9. Strange Conversations
10. Two Ribbons
To celebrate the upcoming album, the duo will be playing two intimate shows in London and Norwich in January 2022. Tickets are on general sale Friday 10am.
90s alt-punk heroes Drug Church have shared some details on their upcoming fourth LP. Titled Hygiene, the album comes out March 11 via Pure Noise. Check out the first two singles, "Million Miles of Fun" and "Detective Lieutenant", as well as the album tracklist, below:
1. Fun's Over
2. Super Saturated
3. Plucked
4. Million Miles of Fun
5. Detective Lieutenant
6. Tiresome
7. World Impact
8. Premium Offer
9. Piss & Quiet
10. Athlete on Bench
