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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 …
MIXTAPE REVIEW: Blue Hawaii – ‘Under 1 House’: your deep house cassette pet
BLUE HAWAII: now there’s a name that conjures up a blissful vision of lazy heat and crystal-clear waters, especially for me sat in subfusc September Britain. And the same appeal of vision would apply, you’d think, to a duo one of whom is working out of Montreal, Quebec. Blue skies, bluer waters. A lightness of …
News: Enslaved Announce Date For Their Final Cinematic Summer Tour.
Enslaved are preparing for the final act of their Cinematic Summer Tour – now due to take place on Thursday 1st of October at 7pm BST / 8pm CEST. This virtual release event ‘Utgard – The Journey Within’ is named after their upcoming studio album Utgard (out on the 2nd of October), from which they’ll be performing several tracks for the first time …
News: U.K. Extreme Metal Drummer Nick Barker Teams Up With Knuckleduster’s Pierre Mendivil In A Brand New UKHC Band Borstal.
Originally conceived in late 2019 by Barker and his long time friends/wrong ‘uns of London’s infamous Dripbgack, The Toxic Twins Wez4 and Lee Kitchener (son of “Oi” legend Arthur Kitchener of The Last Resort) and later Pierre Mendivil (Knuckledust/Bun Dem Out) added to the fold. Bringing together an uncompromising blend of punishing NYHC-meets-U.K. HC/Punk/Oi, adding a little …
News: Sick Of It All Release The First Track Of A Series Of Live Clips – Alone
New York City hardcore legends Sick Of It All dearly miss playing live, so the band decided to film a series of live clips – straight in their living rooms! First is a real classic – ‘Alone’ Make sure to subscribe to the band’s channel to get notified about coming clips. The band comments: “Quarantine …
TRACK: Steph Richards – ‘Underbelly’: marvellous free jazz trails LP – with accompanying scents …
STEPH RICHARDS – the composer, free jazz trumpeter and bandleader who’s worked with artists as diverse as St Vincent, Yoko Ono and Anthony Braxton, knows a thing or two about how to envelop the senses. But for her new album, Supersense, she’s taking a step further into the multi-sensory, even the synaesthesic – working alongside …
SEE: the video for Kinbote’s ‘Hiemalis’: pretty, sampledelic glitch-pop teases December debut
A PRETTY, chopping, sampled sound source lays the foundation stone; a soft shuffle of percussion dovetails, and we see Matt Gibb, aka Kinbote, walking wistfully through the dunes; he’s very well turned out in trad tweed and tie “I’ll go walking in the winter, I’ll go walking in the winter / If you want I’ll …
SEE: the video for Adam Beattie’s ‘Somewhere Round The Bend’: dark songwriting for witching-hour whisky
ADAM BEATTIE is an Aberdeenshire balladeer with a dark, twangy musical beauty and an unflinching way with a starkly observed lyric. You may not know him as a solo artist, but he’s been busy in a collaborative sense if you follow the folk world; he’s one quarter of the band Pica Pica, alongside Josienne Clarke, …