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SEE: XIXA – ‘Genesis Of Gaea’: desert rock groove with superstition announces Tucsonians’ second
TOTING a very fine line in dusty, Latin American/goth/soundtrack-informed desert rock and coming atcha out of Tucson, Arizona, men in black XIXA are ready to roll out the follow-up to their fine 2016 LP, Bloodline. It’s called Genesis, it’s suited and booted and ready for release on February 19th next year; but shield your eyes …
NEWS: Cabbage announce 13-date UK tour for May
CABBAGE, Mossley’s marauding Mondaysesque gang of sprawling tunesters, have announced a tour, necessarily and unfortunately ‘rona-delayed, in support of their forthcoming album, Amanita Pantherina. The album’s out on Friday week, September 25th; but it’ll be almost a full year by the time the lads are unleashed from their Pennine fastness to run riot on stages …
SEE: Sophie Jamieson – ‘Release’: a stunning folktronic search for feeling
FIVE YEARS away from music – but Sophie Jamieson has lost not a jot of her musical acuity. A recording session all that time ago collapsed leaving Sophie uncertain after her lauded debut EP, Where; self-doubt built upon self-doubt and she retreated. But she’s dusted herself down, going on tour with Charlie Cunningham across Europe …
News: Aussie death metallers DEPRAVITY preview new album
One of the most eagerly awaited albums this year, Australia’s Depravity new full length, Grand Malevolence will be with us in December. Two songs from the massive album have been unleashed and you can check them out on Bandcamp AT THIS LINK. Depravity, similar on a level to Atræ Bilis, taking influences from several styles within death metal …
News: Los Angeles death metallers Transcendence release debut album!
Los Angeles death metallers Transcendence will release their highly anticipated debut album, Towards Obscurities Beyond this week. Set for international release on September 25th via Blood Harvest Records on CD and cassette tape formats – the vinyl LP version shall follow on October 16th. Formed in 2013, Transcendence have been a study in patience and perseverance. The band digitally released their first EP, Morbid Reality, …
News: France’s HEXECUTOR to release second album
French Black/speed/epic metal magickians Hexecutor will release their highly anticipated second album, “Beyond Any Human Conception of Knowledge” this week. Set for international release on September 25th via Dying Victims Productions, things are about to get crazy! It’s been four long years since Hexecutor released their shockingly masterful debut album, Poison, Lust and Damnation. The “shock” wasn’t so much that the French quartet came …
News: DROPDEAD to release new album!
Legendary hardcore-punk institution Dropdead return with the release their 3rd self-titled album. The album will be available digitally on September 25th via Armageddon Label;the CD, vinyl LP, and cassette tape versions should see release in November due to Covid-19-related delays. Dropdead officially formed in January 1991 in Providence, Rhode Island, but the original four-person lineup met in December …
Track: Black Stone Cherry – Ringin’ In My Head
Black Stone Cherry have unveiled the second track from their forthcoming seventh studio album – ‘The Human Condition’. ‘Ringin’ In My Head’ is out now via Mascot Label Group The band tell us: “Ringin’ In My Head was a song we originally started to write back in 2017. For whatever reason, it didn’t make the album at the time but …
News: The Smashing Pumpkins Announce New Double Album Plus Details And Trailer For Forthcoming Animated Series ‘In Ashes’ – Created By Billy Corgan
Following the release of their critically acclaimed singles ‘Cyr’ and ‘The Colour Of Love,’ alternative rock luminaries The Smashing Pumpkins have revealed details on their forthcoming eleventh studio album, titled CYR, which is set for release via Sumerian Records on Friday, November 27. The 20-track full-length double album was produced by frontman Billy Corgan and …
ALBUM REVIEW: Sing Leaf – ‘Not Earth’: wide-eyed psych-indie-electro bliss
NAIVETY. It’s one of those words whose power has been denuded by an overuse of a certain conjugation of it. Much like ‘awesome’, the non sequitur of teens across the English-speaking world, naivety has come to mean fey, unwise, easily led. Sing Leaf, the recording pen-name of Toronto’s David Como, is naive in all the …