Today, London-based alternative metallers HAWXX have announced the release of their debut full-length album, Earth, Spit, Blood and Bones. In conjunction with the news, the feminist punk-infused quartet encourage rejection of oppressive beauty standards with the new single and video for ‘Embrace the Ugly’, featuring a cameo from Copper Topp …
Read More »Death Cult return for UK tour (Ian Astbury and Billy Duffy)
Death Cult returns. The storied post-punk progenitor to The Cult will headline a one-off 12-date tour across the UK and Ireland throughout November 2023, including many venues where they made their live debut as a band. The evening, while centered around Death Cult and their eponymous EPs, will boast a …
Read More »UK doomsters Gévaudan announce new album
Gévaudan have announced that their second full length album, titled “Umbra”, is due to be released in collaboration with Meuse Music Records on 13 October 2023. The record is described by the band as a single track that explores depression through the eyes of eldritch horror, culminating in an unrelenting …
Read More »Review: Steelhouse Festival 2023 – Friday
Whilst this review covers the first “official” day of Steelhouse Festival 2023, for a large proportion of the crowd, the festival starts a day earlier on the Thursday, if you are lucky enough to own a campervan. I arrive well before the 6pm opening time to find myself one of …
Read More »UK queens of riot VENUS GRRRLS return with hard hitting and uplifting new single “Lidocaine”
“This is what I’m talking about, by being bold in your music” Jack Saunders (BBC Radio 1) “2023 belongs to VENUS GRRRLS” Nels Hylton (BBC Radio 1) “A band who really sound like they want to make things happen; to affect some kind of change” Steve Lamacq (BBC 6 Music) …
Read More »Twin Temple announce new album ‘God Is Dead’, reveal ‘Burn Your Bible’ single
TWIN TEMPLE fans, rejoice! Today, the band makes their triumphant return by announcing their highly-anticipated sophomore album ‘God Is Dead’, set for release on the wickedest of days, Friday 13th October. In celebration of this unholy announcement, the high priest and priestess of Satanic Doo-Wop have released a new track …
Read More »GRAVEYARD: Announce new album ‘6’/release video for first single ‘Twice’
Swedish hard rock band GRAVEYARD have revealed details of their new album 6, that’s set to be released on September 29th via Nuclear Blast Records. Alongside the announcement, the band have also released the video for first single ‘Twice’, their first new music in five years. 6 is easily identifiable …
Read More »DOBERMANN release ‘Summer Devil’ music video
DOBERMANN has just released their latest lyric video for the track ‘Summer Devil’. Dobermann are one of the most active independent groups in the European rock circuit. With 900 concerts and 5 albums in twelve years under their belt, the band has covered more than 1 million kilometers across Italy, …
Read More »Review: Robert Jon & The Wreck – ‘Ride Into The Light’
According to that great bastion of truth – the internet – the definition of prolific is: “Fruitful or highly productive. A prolific songwriter can churn out five hit tunes before breakfast. A prolific writer cranks out two novels a year, and a prolific rabbit has baby bunnies every few months.” …
Read More »Review: Mammoth WVH – Mammoth II
It’s a solid fact at this point: if you have the surname Van Halen, you are automatically musically gifted. Jan Van Halen was a jazz saxophonist and clarinetist in swing bands throughout Europe in the 1930s/1940s. His eldest son, Alex Van Halen, is a drummer who formed the legendary metal …
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