Tag: Heavy Metal
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Pâenil Era don’t hold you hand with A Wilting Fountain. They don’t offer you an easy road in, with helpful signposts to point you in your way. Instead, Pâenil Era just drop you in the middle of a very big and very dark forest, wish you the best of luck, and sod off to the…
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Yeah, alright. I know I said I wouldn’t be doing news going forward, but come on, this is Hanoi Rocks and I love Hanoi Rocks. BMG are dropping a massive box set on November 13th called The Complete Collection 1981-1984, pulling together their entire legendary initial run across either 6LPs or 6CDs. You get all…
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There are a lot of people currently online gnashing their teeth and wailing about how the new Slipknot single, Arsenal, isn’t as good as their older material. How it doesn’t sound like Slipknot. How Corey Taylor’s simplistic chant of “Let’s go, let’s go, let’s go” is a terrible chorus. I am not one of these…
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I was nine. My cousin, who had up to that point been a biblical asshole, decided to bequeath me his entire AC/DC album collection, including the recently released For Those About To Rock… I have no idea why. Not then. Not now. But, by doing so he helped cement my love for loud guitar music.…
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I am old. Like, really fucking old. In fact, I turn 54 in around two months and, as is my want this time of year, I’ve been looking back over the past twelve months to see what is what. It hasn’t made for great reading. Not the writing, of course. That is excellence of the…
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Swedish heavy psychedelic rock band Domkraft have shared Void Runner, the first single from their forthcoming fifth album, Night Songs, due out on November 20 through Magnetic Eye Records. Vocalist and bassist Martin Wegeland describes the track as a response to the feeling of reaching rock bottom, only to discover that the world still has…
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Texas metalcore band The Light Superior will release their debut full-length, Dayspring, on October 2 through Rottweiler Records. Formed in Amarillo in 2018, The Light Superior quickly established themselves as a live act, sharing stages with We Came As Romans, Of Mice & Men and The Browning during their early years. The band’s first EP,…
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Canadian doom/sludge quartet Destroy My Brains have released WILT, the final chapter in their planned five-album W.I.L.T. series. The title refers to Worthless, InsignifiCan’t, Lifeless and Tormented, with the series exploring self-destruction, trauma and the experiences that have shaped the band’s music. WILT brings the long-running concept to its conclusion. Destroy My Brains formed in…
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Narcotic Wasteland, fronted by guitarist and vocalist Dallas Toler-Wade of Nile, have shared their new single Fentanyl Zombie Apocalypse as they begin their August tour. The track tackles the fentanyl epidemic and its wider impact on society. Toler-Wade describes the song as “fast and tricky yet twisted and catchy”, with Kenji Tsunami contributing bass and…
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Canadian metal band Selias will head to the United States in September for the Destroy All Datacenters tour, joining Mantra Of Morta for 10 dates across eight states. The run begins on September 2 at The Rail in Fort Worth, Texas, before travelling through Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming, South Dakota, Iowa and Wisconsin.…