Track: Hadal Maw – Oblique Order
Melbourne-based death-metal band Hadal Maw have shared the title track of their new EP ‘Oblique Order’, which is due 31st December via Blighttown Records. The track features guest vocals from three of Australia’s most accomplished vocalists; Karina Utomo (High Tension), Luke Frizon (Growth) and Antony Oliver (Descent). The new effort follows-up the band’s 2018 EP ‘Charlatan’ and presents four tracks of uncompromising and confronting aural violence …
Track: SOM – Moment
With their album due 21st January via Pelagic Records and their European tour opening for Katatonia and Sólstafir, SOM have shared their Alex Pace directed video for epic new single ‘Moment’. The band comments: “We wanted The Shape of Everything to open with something heavy and dark, but also offer some tangible hopefulness as well. So pretty early …
Track: Sydney’s Hawker Announce Debut Double A-side Single Bot Noxious / Chaka
Hailing from Sydney’s northern beaches, the four-piece – Jefferson Grainger on guitar/vocals, Ish Karunanayake on lead guitar, Chris Grainger on bass and Jason Robertson on drums – conjure the spirit of grunge for the 2020s, its searing music invoking the likes of grunge-era royalty like Nirvana, Mudhoney, Helmet, Hole and Tool. To celebrate the release …
Track: Breacher – Hollowed Out
New alternative hardcore band Breacher have shared their first official music video for their track ‘Hollowed Out’. A torrential down pour of heavy drums, and raging guitars with the roughest of vocals that are just perfect. The guys manage to pack some raw emotion that sits within the noise. The energetic rock guitar adds a …
Track: GGGOLDDD – Notes On How To Trust
Dutch alternative pop innovators GGGOLDDD (previously known as GOLD) have announced details on their fifth studio album, ‘This Shame Should Not Be Mine’ which is set for release on 1st April via Artoffact Records.They have also shared the powerful new video for, ‘Notes on How to Trust’ In the silence of 2020’s lockdown, Milena Eva …
Meet: Shane Embury The Creative Mind Behind Dark Sky Burial
With the release of the fourth instalment of his Dark Sky Burial project, album ‘Omnis Cum In Tenebris Praesertim Vita Laboret’ (read our review here). We caught up with Shane Embury to find out who, what and why. First off. How are you doing now that we are hopefully seeing the end of the current …
Album Review: Dark Sky Burial – Omnis Cum In Tenebris Praesertim Vita Laboret
“Omnis Cum In Tenebris Praesertim Vita Laboret” is the 4th album from Dark Sky Burial, the new musical venture from Napalm Death’s Shane Embury. The album’s title translates as, “Life is one long struggle in the Dark.” The dark ambient soundscapes and unsettling industrial noise textures, with disorientating, electronic moments were composed by Shane Embury …
Track: Principe Valiente – Porcelain
Swedish dark pop act Principe Valiente announce their return with new track ‘Porcelain’, taken from the bands forthcoming album entitled ‘Barricades’, due mid-March which will be their first album for new label Metropolis Records. The single ‘Porcelain’ is also available as a remix package with treatments by Agent Side Grinder, Ash Code and TRAITRS. An …
Track: Venom Prison Release A Metal Masterpiece With New Single ‘Pain Of Oizys’
Venom Prison share their new track ‘Pain Of Oizys’ taken from upcoming album ‘Erebos’ due 4th February Ben Thomas elaborates, “The second offering by Venom Prison is a cold room with a dusty piano. It’s a softly sung war hymn with finger-picked guitar. It’s a ship in calm seas watching for the storm on the Horizon. ‘Pain Of …
Track: Rubber Oh – Little Demon
Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs guitarist Sam Grant’s new band Rubber Oh, have shared their debut single ‘Little Demon’. The track will be released as a limited edition coloured vinyl 7″, exclusively available via Bandcamp only. The 7″ goes on sale this Friday, the 3rd December on Rocket Recordings as part of the last Bandcamp Friday. “It’s a reference to when you’re lying …