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Track: The Reticent cover Metallica’s ‘Fade to Black’

North Carolina’s progressive metal band The Reticent have released a dark and somber cover of Metallica’s classic track ‘Fade To Black’, taken from the band’s forthcoming album ‘The Oubliette’ . The band’s…

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News: Swedish rock band Night announce fourth album

Swedish rock band Night will release their fourth album ‘High Tides – Distant Skies’ on September 11. ‘High Tides – Distant Skies’ is the fourth album from Night. The album…

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Track: Asian Death Crustacean – Baykal Part II, plus album news

London experimental metal 4-piece Asian Death Crustacean will be releasing their debut album, Baikal, this June. The forthcoming album combines their breadth of influences in extreme progressive metal, electronic/ambient music…

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See: Distant release new video with guest vocalists

Down-tempo/deathcore band Distant have released new single ‘Argent Debt’, featuring five special guest vocalists. Not to be thwarted by the restrictions of Covid-19, Distant have created this crushing track in lockdown, with…

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Track: The Hirsch Effect release new single ‘Torka’

The Hirsch Effect have released their new single ‘Torka’, the third track from the band’s new album ‘Kollaps’. A dark alt rock track covering a lot of musical ground from prog to industrial…

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See: Dawnwalker release new video for Crestfallen

Progressive metal band Dawnwalker have released a new video for the single ‘Crestfallen’. Taken from their newly released EP of the same name. The video, complete with a variety of pets, is…

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SEE: Prefab Messiahs share new single and video for “21st Century Failure”

Pandemics rage! Economies totter! Political systems rot! — and the environment circles the drain… What better time for The Prefab Messiahs to release there latest single and video upon this…

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Album Review: Enter Shikari – Nothing is true & Everything is Possible

The St Albans bred quartet question everything with their outlandishly ambitious new record, Nothing is True & Everything is Possible. Coming off the back of their 2017 record The Spark,…

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See: Billy Talent Release New Single and Lyric Video for “I Beg To Differ”

Following the release of Reckless In Paradise in January, Billy Talent have unveiled another new track, I Beg To Differ (This Will Get Better). The song is the second to be taken from the Canadian…

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See: Newton Faulkner releases live acoustic video for ‘Dream Catch Me’ plus Hand Built By Robots acoustic album

Way back in 2007, Newton Faulkner released his debut album ‘Hand Built By Robots’ and was supporting the likes of James Morrison and Paolo Nutini.Fast forward 13 years to 2020…

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