Prodigal multi-instrumentalist JAYCE LEWIS returns with new record, Million (Part 1), the first half of his new double album set for release on 27 October via Caroline International.

LEWIS has also debuted the video to first single 'Shields', featuring the final screen performance from Star Wars legend and Darth Vader actor David Prowse. Premiered on Metal Hammer / Team Rock, check it out here: https://youtu.be/FnptWZDtdHw

'Shields' is available as an instant-grat with all pre-orders of Million (Part 1) and is also available via streaming services.

Pre-order here: https://JayceLewis.lnk.to/Million

His first release since second album Nemesis (2014), Million (Part 1) features seven tracks of dark industrial abrasion and sci-fi soundscapes. An undoubtable highlight of the album is a guest performance from Queen’s Brian May on anthemic album closer ‘We Are One’. Having previously collaborated with Roger Taylor, Jayce is among the few elite musicians who can claim to have collaborated with every current member of Queen.
 
Million is a concept album in two parts. LEWIS explains:
 
"Right from the beginning, I wanted this to be a concept album...... to take the listener on a committed journey; a series. The subject matter mostly touches on personal experiences, discovery, loss and general life. I think many things within society today has influenced its direction, especially the rapid evolution of technology."

JAYCE LEWIS is touring throughout the UK supporting the legendary Gary Numan in October, catch him on one of the following dates:

Sep-30    Tramshed    Cardiff, United Kingdom
Oct-02    O2 Academy Bournemouth    Bournemouth, United Kingdom
Oct-03    O2 Academy Leeds    Leeds, United Kingdom
Oct-05    Colston Hall    Bristol, United Kingdom
Oct-06    O2 Academy    Oxford, United Kingdom
Oct-07    Rock City Nottingham    Nottingham, United Kingdom
Oct-09    O2 Academy Newcastle    Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom
Oct-10    O2 ABC    Glasgow, United Kingdom
Oct-11    O2 Institute Birmingham    Birmingham, United Kingdom
Oct-13    Manchester Academy 1    Manchester, United Kingdom
Oct-14    O2 Academy Brixton    London, United Kingdom
Oct-16    Brighton Dome    Brighton, United Kingdom
Oct-17    Norwich UEA    Norwich, United Kingdom
Oct-18    Southend Cliffs Pavilion    Westcliff On Sea, United Kingdom

Revered as one of the groups that pioneered modern aggressive technical death metal, Americans THROUGH THE EYES OF THE DEAD triumphantly return with Disomus (13th October, SPV/Long Branch Records).

To celebrate the news, the band are streaming a new track from the album. Listen to 'Obitual' here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCjzjxDVmwM

Disomus is the long anticipated follow up to their last LP, Skepsis, released in 2010. Disomus marks the second consecutive album with vocalist Danny Rodriguez and drummer Michael Ranne (a first in the group's impressive history) together with longtime bassist Jake Ososkie and founding guitarist and songwriting engine Justin Longshore. Disomus also doubles as the studio introduction of new guitarist Steven Funderburk (also of Wretched) and the return of original vocalist Anthony Gunnells and his successor, Nate Johnson, via strong guest appearances, bringing Through The Eyes Of The Dead full circle.

"Disomus" is the medical term describing an abnormal fetus with two bodies but one head. The album's subject matter includes the tale of a man buried alive by a cult ("Obitual"), a dark magician's creation of a malignant entity via sacrificial killing ("Haruspex"), underworld spirits doomed to roam the earth ("Dismal"), the Styx River of Greek myth ("Vortices in the Stygian Maelstrom"), the themes of the Alien/Prometheus film franchise ("Teras," alternately named for an abnormal fetus with two heads and one body), and the real life tragedy and horror discovered by Rodriguez, a Chicago police officer, when called upon to check on the well being of an elderly person who lived alone ("Till Solace, She'll Haunt").

'Hate the Living' is not only the name of the first track on Through The Eyes Of The Dead's first album in seven years, but part of a battle cry of sorts that has adorned the band's t-shirts for years. The second half of the phrase is 'Love the Dead.' Like the best of death metal's past, present, and future, Through The Eyes Of The Dead is the kind of band that makes living with death worth loving.

Metal outfit SKIES IN MOTION have released a live footage video, a taste of their hard-hitting performance as they prepare to hit the road in October. The forthcoming live run includes headline dates as well as one-off shows supporting Kingdom Of Giants and In Hearts Wake.

Watch the video here: https://youtu.be/lYtJ3m7tqXU

See Skies In Motion live at one of the following shows:

12/10 - Satans Hollow, Manchester (w/ Kingdom Of Giants)
13/10 - Rescue Rooms, Nottingham (w/ In Hearts Wake)
15/10 - O'Rileys, Hull
16/10 - The Unicorn (Camden), London
17/10 - The Shed, Leicester
18/10 - The Fulford Arms, York
19/10 - The Victoria, Birmingham
20/10 - B2 Venue, Norwich
21/10 - Vintage Rock Bar, Doncaster

The quintet will be touring in support of their recently released debut album Life Lessons, which features the singles 'Cascades', 'Happy Families' and 'When Home Feels Distant And Distance Feels Like Home'. Listen to the album in full here: https://soundcloud.com/skiesinmotion/sets/skies-in-motion-life-lessons/s-HdMdz

Purchase Life Lessons here: http://skiesinmotionuk.bigcartel.com/

It's not uncommon for bands to wear their heart on their sleeves when writing music, and Skies In Motion are no exception, as they wear theirs with pride throughout the course of their debut album Life Lessons. It's a release that's packed with personal and emotional lyrical content, and offers a hand to their fans to show that they're not alone in this journey called life.

With a brutal and raw tenacity, Skies In Motion combine chugging riffs with glorious breakdowns, taking example from some of the greats including the likes of While She Sleeps and Architects. Their choruses are absolutely staggering, underpinned with furious guitars and a killer groove whilst the energy they create is charged with positivity and hope, a recurring theme throughout the course of the album.

If you're looking for your next favourite metal and hardcore band, look no further than Skies In Motion – with their upcoming debut album and plans to relentlessly tour the UK and Europe, these guys are sure to become one of the hottest unsigned bands on the scene.

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Forming in July 2017, you don't get much newer than alternative hardcore band LIFETIGHT, who are delighted to announce their debut EP Self-Tightled and signing to Crooked Noise Records.

The impressive EP will be released on November 3rd, following the band's first single 'Energy' which is already causing quite a stir.
 
Watch ‘Energy’ here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbCUAargbP0
 
In the band's own words:

"LIFETIGHT is a band built on positive energy and our upcoming EP Self-Tightled is purely built upon riffs fuelled by that energy! We're stoked to be releasing this with Crooked Noise as they've shown interest from the beginning and seem to know the exact vibe we're going for. Basically, they understand us completely, and we like that."

Rising from the ashes of Lock & Key, LIFETIGHT’s Self-Tightled is a straight-up, no-holds-barred, two-stepping alternative hardcore EP in the finest traditions of the genre. For fans of Hatebreed and Beartooth, the band draw on personal experiences in writing the EP (mental health, the military) to create this positive energy.
 
Although having played no shows at this point, the band have a busy Autumn ahead, playing Deadbolt Festival (alongside Oceans Ate Alaska, WSTR, and more), Canvas’ album release show in London, and Our Hollow, Our Home’s inaugural one-day festival, Holloween.
 
Championed by Alex Baker of Kerrang! Radio (“They are LIFETIGHT and I’m stoked to be playing them”) the band have also already achieved success on Spotify, being added to official playlists by the likes of Impericon and Fronz from Attila's ‘The Sickest’. This is a fast-building band built purely on positivity in an impressively short space of time. More to come.
 
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London alt-rock quartet THUMPERMONKEY have unveiled new single 'Tzizimime' and announced the release of new EP Electricity via Rockosmos on 13 October.

Premiered on Prog mag, check out 'Tzizimime' here: http://vevo.ly/yjCduZ

Electricity offers delicate flavours of genre mastery in THUMPERMONKEY’s songwriting, be it King Crimson’s meticulousness, flamboyant cinematics circa Scott Walker or a dominant presence on the drum kit and guitars that parallels Queens of the Stone Age. Vocalist Michael Woodman channels a certain ambience akin to what you would imagine if David Bowie met Cardiacs. 

The EP is inspired by the story of Victorian MP and visionary Lord James Badger, who, under divine instruction almost two hundred years ago, set out to conquer nature and “restore” the civilisations of Mesopotamia with the new power of Electricity.

THUMPERMONKEY have also announced an EP release show at the Black Heart in Camden on 6 October, get tickets here: http://www.wegottickets.com/event/406245

Electricity is the band’s 7th release and a full-length is expected in 2018. 

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Electricity track listing:

1) Garmonbozia
2) Tzizimime
3) This Is Not A Fire
4) Woadscrivened

Irish progressive sludge powerhouse zhOra have announced a forthcoming Irish tour in support of their new album Ethos, Pathos, Logos, which is released on October 27th. Check them out on one of the following dates:
 

October 20 - On The Rox, Dublin
October 21 - The Poor Relation, Cork
October 27 - Central Arts, Waterford
October 28 - Fozzys, Clonmel
October 29 - Siege of Limerick
 

Vocalist Colin Bolger comments on the forthcoming release tour: "We live and breath gigging! The stage is our place of solace and our battlefield. In the chaos of playing such visceral music live we thrive and can truly be ourselves. These days we can't go running after people with swords and spears so we must instead fight with our hearts and minds. These upcoming launch shows for Ethos, Pathos, Logos will be our best live shows to date and we are honoured to share the stage with some of our closest friends in support. Éire...show me what you got!"

Check out recent single Riverchrist here: https://youtu.be/y_V9qMmvZtk

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Over the span of six years zhOra have quickly become one of the most recognisable names in the burgeoning Irish metal scene. In this time the band has released one EP Feet Nailed to the Ground (2011) and their debut LP Almaz (2013), both releases garnering huge praise within the scene. Now in 2017, the band is set to undertake the next stage in their journey, Ethos, Pathos, Logos.

In the only predictable aspect of the band's sonic trajectory, Ethos, Pathos, Logos finds the band once again putting themselves under their own microscope and refining their approach. With a lush cover designed by acclaimed Visionary Artist Jake Kobrin, the record is zhOra's first back-to-back concept album, an hour long journey through past lives and cannibalism. 

Having played shows the length and breadth of the country and toured extensively through the UK, Germany, France, Belgium and Holland, the band is fiercely committed to their craft and putting their name on everyone's radar.

No strangers to high profile slots, zhOra have supported and toured with bands such as The Ocean, Coilguns and Dictated among others. Earning a slot on the Headbanger Stage at Wacken Open Air 2016 was the culmination of this time together and the commitment to creating an unrelenting sonic fingerprint and fearsome stage show. Recently the band appeared at Bloodstock Open Air as winners of the Irish leg of the associated Metal to the Masses competition. 

With plans to tour into 2018 in support of Ethos, Pathos, Logo, the band plans to kick those who would listen squarely in the throat, onto the path less travelled.

Vancouver, Canada-based NECK OF THE WOODS have unleashed another slab of progressive death metal from their impending album The Passenger with new single 'Face Of The Villain'.
 
NECK OF THE WOODS said of the track, "False promises and selfishness lead to unavoidable failure. Some people are not meant to lead."
 
Check out 'Face Of The Villain' here: https://youtu.be/w5MMAdkJxCI
 
NECK OF THE WOODS have also released a video for the song 'You'll Always Look The Same To Me' and the audio for that track as well as 'Bottom Feeder'.
 
NECK OF THE WOODS release The Passenger, a crushing blend of progressive, death-inspired, technical, and groove-laden metal through nine engaging tracks via Basick Records on September 15th. Find preorders HERE.

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UK extreme noise-makers HELPLESS are streaming their critically acclaimed debut album Debt, ahead of it's release this Friday, September 8 via Holy Roar Records. 

Exclusively premiered by The Independent who are calling the band 'merchants of savagery', the full album can be listened to here: http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/helpless-debt-exclusive-album-stream-a7928396.html

Debt, a 10 song excursion in dissonance, does everything it needs to in the time it takes most bands to open up. This is no drawn out prog opus; instead, a supremely dark, engagingly short, sharp, shock to the system. If further musical pointers are needed then perhaps the menace of early Gaza and the turn-on-a-dime musical dexterity of Breather Resist often combined with grindcore would be a good place to start.

Having previously delivered on their promising self titled EP, HELPLESS have returned with a savagely blunt album that not only increases their sonic intensity tenfold, but expands their palate from a chaotic hardcore base into grindcore, noise rock and even figurative elements of death and black metal. This is not for the faint of heart.
 

Debt will be released on September 8 via Holy Roar Records and is available to pre-order here: http://bit.ly/HelplessUK and distributed via Deathwish in the USA . 

Catch the band on tour this weekend with label mates Wren and Watchcries. 

Fri 8 Sept - Soan, Nottingham
Sat 9 Sept - Bad Apples, Leeds
Sun 10 Sept - The Peer Hat, Manchester 

Find out more about the band
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Melodic tech-rock quintet FIRST SIGNS OF FROST have released the video for their latest single 'Meat Week', taken from their latest EP The Shape Of Things To Come - out now via Basick Records.

"The song itself is about the Syria crisis and the divide of people in the U.K. I went out to Calais a couple of years ago and witnessed protesters waiting at the shoreline at Dover," explains guitarist/vocalist Owen Hughes-Holland."'Meat Week' was then written from the perspective of one of the protesters, with their blind sighted, one dimensional view and sheer anger towards the people fleeing their country for survival."

Watch the video for 'Meat Week': https://youtu.be/OG_TxgevbPY

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Listen to the EP in full here: 
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLVeC2nHZ9w0_ecSOsqHcL1NNA09eOYwd

Purchase The Shape Of Things To Come: https://basick.supplies/collections/first-signs-of-frost

Drawing influence from the likes of Deftones, Tool and Glassjaw, London's First Signs Of Frost push the boundaries with their unique blend of technical instrumentation, epic soundscapes and anthemic vocal melodies. 

2015 saw the band resurface after a six year hiatus, having initially disbanded after the departure of vocalist Daniel Tompkins. With a fresh line-up the band have bounced back with a new lease of life, expanding and moulding their sound to showcase more groove and ambience than ever before. 

Throughout their career First Signs Of Frost have toured with and supported names including Deaf Havana, Enter Shikari, Architects, You Me At Six, We Are The Ocean, Senses Fail and Devil Sold His Soul. Keep your eyes peeled for live dates in 2017.  

First Signs Of Frost are:

Vocals - Daniel Lawrence
Guitar/Backing vocals - Owen Hughes-Holland
Guitar - Adam Mason
Bass - Andy C Saxton
Drums - Alex Harford

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