On November 6th, Surma will release their full-length debut, The Light Within, via Metal Blade Records. For a first preview of the album, a lyric video for the new single, “Reveal The Light Within”, can be viewed at: metalblade.com/Surma – where The Light Within can be pre-ordered in the following formats: – jewelcase-CD – 180g black vinylContinue Reading

photo by Matt Wood Stream RESERVING DIRTNAPS’ Another Disaster HERE. On the eve of its release, CVLT Nation is now streaming the brutal new Another Disaster EP from Memphis, Tennessee-based metallic hardcore outfit, RESERVING DIRTNAPS. The record will see release tomorrow through WAR Records, the label founded by Andrew Kline (Strife, World Be Free, BertholdContinue Reading

Today (August 20th), Vio-Lence has released a new digital single: “California Uber Alles” – a cover version of the Dead Kennedys classic! The band also recently filmed a video (directed by Scott Kirkeeng) for the track, which can be viewed here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvE322MYWlA Vio-Lence comments: “Being musicians in the Bay Area Thrash Metal scene, Vio-Lence believes it is important toContinue Reading

Counting Down Out Sept 18th Available for Pre-Save Here   August 20, 2020 – Brooklyn, NY – Alternative band American Authors has teamed up with Hollywood Life to premiere their new single “Brick By Brick.” Fans can check out the song now, here: https://bit.ly/32cnfge. “Brick By Brick” comes from the band’s forthcoming EP Counting Down, which is set toContinue Reading

photo by Cristina Rivas New Jersey progressive metal label Sensory Records announces the signing of Chicago, Illinois-based instrumental trio AZIOLA CRY. The band has recently wrapped production on their third full-length release, The Ironic Divide. AZIOLA CRY is Jason Blake on Warr Guitar, Mike Milaniak on guitar, and Tommy Murray on drums. TheContinue Reading

PERSISTENCE OF TIME 30TH ANNIVERSARY DELUXE EDITION IN-STORES TOMORROW ANTHRAX WRAPS UP ITS SIX-EPISODE VIDEO SERIES  FOR PERSISTENCE OF TIME WITH THE STORY BEHIND “GOT THE TIME” EPISODE SIX: “Got The Time” “I think it totally made that record, as a whole, what it is today.   ‘Got The Time’…’Persistence of Time’…it wasContinue Reading

HINAYANA Releases Second Single, “In Sacred Delusion”, Featuring Toni Toivonen of Hanging Garden [Photo Credit: Jackie Schutza] HINAYANA Releases Second Single, “In Sacred Delusion”, Featuring Toni Toivonen of Hanging Garden Watch the New Lyric Video HERE Death Of The Cosmic EP out Next Friday, August 28 via Napalm Records Pre-Order HERE Austin, Texas-based melodicContinue Reading

Philadelphia- duo Rise Twain released their debut album last September. The union of Brett William Kull (producer, audio engineer, and member of Echolyn, Grey Eye Glances, and Francis Dunnery’s New Progressives) and J.D. Beck (The Scenic Route, Beck-Fields, author & playwright) brought their collective years of direct and varied experience in writing, performing and recordingContinue Reading

[Photo by JehN.W.A.] “The video’s sullen sepia tone and time-lapse videography fittingly match the crawling clean guitars and evocative cello. Like the flowers that will inevitably wilt outside the video’s titular mausoleum, Anselmo’s vocals feel like they’re withering with the seasons… ” —  Decibel View / Share EN MINOR’s “Mausoleums”Continue Reading

[photo by Kandiss Bradley]   “…a gauzy, atmospheric brand of sludgy doomgaze…” — Revolver View / Share THE WHITE SWAN’s “In Love And Ritual” Video HERE.   London, Ontario-based atmospheric sludge rock unit THE WHITE SWAN, spearheaded by Kittie’s Mercedes Lander, will release their entrancing Nocturnal Transmission EP September 18th.   The EP’s four tracksContinue Reading