Alt-rock trio LOOSE TOOTH have released their new single 'Castles' through Undead Collective Records. The single follows the band's 2017 self-titled mini-album, which charted at #93 in the iTunes UK Rock Chart - an impressive feat for such a young band. 

"'Castles' reflects our views on the state of the world," the band comment. "We wanted to do a really clean and simple video to let the song speak for itself. We’re super excited to finally get this track out to everyone and really hope people resonate with it."

Originally premiered via Punktastic, check out the video here: https://youtu.be/6U3JyBHtyq4

With influences of Reuben, Arcane Roots, Refused, Deafheaven and more, 'Castles' weaves through light and dark; from the melancholic, emo rock opening to the heavier, emotion-fuelled post-hardcore screams, the single cements the trio as ones to watch.

LOOSE TOOTH have previously toured the UK with Drones and are set to perform at the following dates in September: 

12.08.18 The Fiddlers Elbow Camden
03.09.18 The Marquis Epsom
28.09.18 Fighting Cocks Kingston

For more information:
https://www.facebook.com/LooseToothUK/

Brand new band NEW GRAVES are launching in style with their debut single 'Empty Lungs'. The melodic hardcore quintet, which features ex-members of High Hopes and When We Were Wolves, have been working relentlessly behind the scenes and are ready to deliver their message to the world. 

"New Graves is a dynamic statement of intent, and 'Empty Lungs' is the first single from a collection of songs focused on recovery and self-help," explains drummer Daryl Pryor.

Premiered via Dreambound, check out the video for 'Empty Lungs' here: https://youtu.be/RXX09604ztU

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Save and stream 'Empty Lungs' on Spotify, Apple Music and Tidal here: https://ffm.to/newgraves

'Empty Lungs' is the first in a series of singles, which were produced by Fredrik Nordstrom (Bring Me The Horizon, Architects, We Killed The Prom Queen) and explores loss, isolation and recovery, reflecting on the ever-growing dark cloud of negative thoughts, self-doubt and criticism that overshadow the healing process. 

The theme that runs throughout the video narrative and single artwork continues through a series of handmade mini coffins, which were individually crafted by the band and are available to purchase in bundles here: https://www.newgraves.co/store

Pryor continues: "The coffins are a totem for laying your fears and anxieties to rest, the centre-piece in our own battles to recover from personal trauma; lost friends, divided families and negative self image, these songs are our public decision to be stronger than the struggle. We’re making everything New Graves, from the Facebook community to the live shows, into a common space for people to fight off those demons."

NEW GRAVES will make their live debut at B Love in Basingstoke on 8th July, as main support to Hacktivist. 

Keep your eyes peeled for further live dates. 

NEW GRAVES are: 
Mitchell Bock - Vocals
Nathan Pryor - Guitar
Krishan Pujara - Guitar
Taylor Baron - Bass
Daryl Pryor - Drums

California metal veterans IMPENDING DOOM have unveiled new video 'Paved With Bones', taken from their new album The Sin and Doom Vol. II, released June 22 via eOne.

Check it out here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BJ1UhMQLBM

The video was directed by J.D. Butler and shot at the band's recent sold-out album release show at Chain Reaction in Anaheim, CA. The band comment: 

“We wanted to have an event in our hometown where fans could come to the show early, hear our entire new record before the rest of the world does, and shoot a music video. Chain Reaction was the perfect place, it’s where we all grew up playing and makes for an intense show with being all crammed into a somewhat small space and getting rowdy with our fans!“

IMPENDING DOOM released their sixth studio LP, The Sin and Doom Vol. II on June 22, 2018, via Entertainment One (eOne). The new album is the widely anticipated follow up to Death Will Reign (2013), which sold 4,300 copies its first week of release and debuted at 116 on the US Billboard Top 200 Chart.

IMPENDING DOOM commissioned artist Colin Marks (Fleshgod Apocalypse / Whitechapel) to do the cover art for the latest release. Marks had also done the artwork for The Serpent Servant(2009).
IMPENDING DOOM arise once again from where they began, their own alpha and omega as a band, crafting the sixth album as punishing, focused, bottom-heavy, and musically blood-soaked as the earliest efforts that first won them notice before any notions of commerce beckoned them toward the more commonplace career path of the metal music industry. 

They’ve worked with top-tier genre producers in the past, including Zeuss (Rob Zombie, Hatebreed, Queensrÿche) and Will Putney (Every Time I Die, The Amity Affliction, Thy Art Is Murder), but for album number six, they’ve returned to the grassroots and hands-on way they engineered and produced their earliest recordings, cloaking it in grimy sonic mysteries anew. Christopher Eck, who produced their first album, oversaw the proceedings once again. 

This is musical blunt force trauma, from a personal place of desperate salvation and resolve. No competition, no compromise, no careerism. IMPENDING DOOM are renewed, purer than ever, united in their collective vision to create the heaviest metal missives imaginable.

No b*llshit Canadian rockers THE WILD! have announced a UK/Germany headline tour at the end of 2018.

The band return to the UK / Europe for the first time since their tour with Airbourne and Phil Campbell and the Bastard Sons, and come in support of debut LP Wild At Heart, released February 2017 via SPV/eOne Music. 

Dates:

31.10 Berlin Nuke Club DE
01.11 Hamburg Goldener Salon DE
02.11 Braunschweig EulenGlueck DE
03.11 Duesseldorf Tube DE
04.11 Essen Don't Panic DE
07.11 London The Black Heart UK
08.11 Cannock The Station UK
09.11 Swansea Hangar 18 UK
10.11 Pwllheli Hard Rock Hell UK

Of the tour, frontman and guitarist Dylan Villain says:

There’s something happening for us in Europe… We can all feel it. Last year we had an unbelievable tour of the UK with our good mates in Airbourne and Phil Campbell & The Bastard Sons. Now this year we have just finished the most amazing tour of Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Netherlands & France with the legendary Rose Tattoo. The love and support we have been shown from the fans overseas has been overwhelming to say the least. We love you guys and can’t thank you all enough. Which is why we are so incredibly excited to announce that WE ARE COMING BACK this October/November for our first ever European headline tour!!! We’re looking forward to seeing all of you again on this tour for a longer set with new songs and the same old straight from the street, no bullshit, high energy rock’n’roll. If you missed us on the last run, do not miss us on this one. Come find out why we are the best new rock’n’roll band happening right now. Period. See you at the show!

Previously supported by Loudwire, AltPress, Classic Rock Mag and more, this tour is just another step in a long line of success for the Canadian rock outlaws. High energy rock n' roll with reckless abandon, the rocking Wild! boys are on a charge following the release of their critically acclaimed debut full-length. Having previously supported Airbourne, Sebastian Bach/Buckcherry and CKY, The Wild! are fast starting to catch attention. The debut LP  Wild At Heart was released in February of 2017 via eOne Music to high praise and knocked Metallica out of the No.2 spot on the iTunes Rock Charts.

British heavy prog psych band BOSS KELOID have released an exhilarating live in-studio performance video of their critically acclaimed new album Melted On The Inch.

The live performance, which clocks in at an impressive 41 minutes can be watched in full here:

The band recently stunned critics worldwide with an evolution in sound and style from their previously relentlessly heavy psych-sludge to a dominant multi-dimensional progressive force which has seen the band crashing into Metal Hammer's 'Best 50 Metal Albums of 2018', Metal Injection's Top Metal Albums of 2018 (So Far) and Metal Sucks Best of 2018 So Far lists and with no doubt more to come. Now, the band have released this stunning full album performance video ahead of live appearances at festivals including ArcTanGent, Reckoner Fest, Into The Void Fest, Gizzard Fest, Sophie Fest and Hammer Fest with a forthcoming run of tour dates expected to be announced shortly. 

Melted On The Inch is six anthemic tracks showcasing a matured, evolved BOSS KELOID, as the Wigan based quintet continue to flirt with new genres. Littered with unmistakably Boss Keloidy riffs, Melted On The Inch disrupts notions of genre and song structure. This is rousing, heavy-tinged progressive rock as BOSS KELOID daringly hold, dip and release the reins of the mighty riff whilst Alex Hurst's bellowing, primal vocals, which are more dynamic than ever, enthrallingly envelop each track. These are undoubtedly the biggest, most intense songs BOSS KELOID have ever written. 

Melted On The Inch is now available from Holy Roar Records in the UK/EU here and Deathwish Inc in the USA here. 

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Acclaimed Chilean prog rockers AISLES have released their final in-studio video, for their track 'Club Hawaii'. 

Premiered on Prog, you can now watch the band perform here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Bx6OQDPXHo

Taken from their 2016 album Hawaii, 'Club Hawaii' is the last in their series of studio videos.

Celebrating the sessions, Aisles have announced the release of a surprise new EP - Live From Estudio Del Sur, which will be released July 06.

To pre-order the EP: https://www.aislesproject.com/product/live-from-estudio-del-sur-ep-cd/

The band's guitarist Germán Vergara comments: "We knew that 'Club Hawaii' could not be left out of this live series. It's a very collective effort in which we incorporated elements from electronic and Latin music, pop, jazz, and even metal, so as to transport the listener to the future in which the concept of the album takes place. We use more distortion, sound heavier than usual, and Sebastián recites a heart wrenching poem in the darkest section of the song. Personally it's my favorite on the Hawaii album and I'm very proud of my lyrics. When playing it live I get goosebumps every time we reach the part: 'Turn my soul into flesh and soil and blood and waves...'" 

Purchase Hawaii here.

A shining example of prog rock's universal reach, the Chilean band, formed more than 15 years ago, have a long and illustrious history; current album Hawaii is just the next step in this band's highly impressive journey, garnering significant acclaim. Previously nominated in the Italian Prog Awards, the band are the only South American group to be invited to France's Crescendo Festival de Rock Progressif. Hawaii is Aisles' fourth studio album, a monumental, immersive, beautiful double-disc journey, reminiscent of Camel, Yes, Rush, Genesis, Marillion and more.
 

Japanese metalcore titans CRYSTAL LAKE have announced their new single 'The Circle', due August 08.

Set to feature Coldrain's Masato, the single continues the East Asian band's impressive rise, following a EU headline tour.

Dates:

30.06 Jera On Air, Ysselsteyn (NL)
01.07 Dissonance Festival, Milan (IT)
02.07 Warmaudio, Lyon (FR)
03.07 Petit Bain, Paris (FR)
04.07 Boston Music Room, London (UK)
05.07 UK Tech-Fest, Newark (UK)
06.07 Japan Expo, Paris (FR)
07.07 Rock Den See, Sankt Andra (AT)
09.07 Connexion Live, Toulouse (FR)
10.07 Sala Silikona, Madrid (SP)
11.07 Hard Club, Porto (PT)
12.07 Resurrection Fest, Viveiro (SP)
14.07 Fajtfest, Velke Mezirici (CZ)
15.07 Pushkin, Dresden (DE)
16.07 Alter Stattbahnhof, Schweinfurt (DE)
17.07 Dynamo, Zurich (CH)
18.07 Schlachthof, Wiesbaden (DE)
19.07 Free & Easy Festival, Munich (DE)

More on CRYSTAL LAKE:

The Japanese metalcore quintet are having a stellar 2018. In February they toured their home country with Attila before attending Pulp Summer Slam festival in the Philippines. This is to be followed by Crystal Lake's EU headline run which includes UK Tech-Fest, Jera On Air, Dissonance Festival, Rock Den See, Resurrection Fest, and Fajtfest.

This news comes after a wave of success for the band. In October 2017 Crystal Lakelaunched their own festival - True North Festival - which included the likes of Fit For A King and Coldrain. In 2016 they released their most recent album True North through Cube Records, Artery Recordings (US), and JPU Records (UK/EU). True North debuted at #1 on the Oricon weekly Indie chart, #6 on the iTunes Metal Chart (USA), and #35 on the Billboard Top New Artist chart.

Death-grind monsters STILLBIRTH have announced  31 August as the release date for their crushing fifth album, and Unique Leader Records debut, Annihilation of Mankind.

The explosive, unrelentingly fast, and massively heavy 12 track album shows the group writing the best and most exciting material of their nearly 20 year career. 

The group collectively commented, "Annihilation of Mankind will be released on the mighty Unique Leader Records and marks a huge milestone in Stillbirth's history! The album that is waiting to be unleashed is faster, harder, with more brutality and more groove than anything we have done before."

Annihilation of Mankind track-listing - 

1. Fictional Entertainment
2. Enemy of the Enemy
3. Hypnotized by Lies
4. Psychological Manipulation
5. Firststrike
6. Highest of Malice
7. Torturized
8. Plague of Warfare
9. Torn Apart
10. Nuclear Stench
11. The Sky Turns Black
12. Annihilation of Mankind

Pre-order bundles will be announced in the coming weeks. Expect more news from STILLBIRTHvery soon. 

STILLBIRTH are:

Lukas Swiaczny - Vocals
Dominik "Pumpa" Koenig - Bass, Vocals
Dr. Jan Weidemann - Guitar
Martin Grupe - Drums

German melodic metallers TIME, THE VALUATOR have announced that they'll be releasing their debut album How Fleeting, How Fragile on 3rd August 2018 via Long Branch Records. 

The 12-track record includes the previously released singles 'Elusive Reasons', 'When I Meet Death' and 'The Violent Sound', which have collectively surpassed 3 million streams. 

How Fleeting, How Fragile is available to pre-order in various formats here: https://timethevaluator.lnk.to/HowFleetingHowFragile

The quartet have also announced a UK/EU headline tour, with support from UK alt-rockers Winchester. 

Dates are as follows:

07.08.2018 - Bournemouth UK, The Anvil
08.08.2018 - Brighton UK, The Green Door Store
09.08.2018 - London UK, The Black Heart
10.08.2018 - Manchester UK, Night People
12.08.2018 - Strasbourg FR, Elastic Bar
13.08.2018 - Dijon FR, Deep Inside
14.08.2018 - Lyon FR - Le Blogg
16.08.2018 - Hamburg DE, Astra Stube
17.08.2018 - Gothenburg SE, Gårda
18.08.2018 - Stockholm SE, High 5ive Summer Fest

Driven by strong and melodic vocals backed by an unmissable groove, TIME, THE VALUATOR have risen as one of the most promising new acts in the modern rock sphere. The German quartet are on a journey to impress not only with their music but also with their approach and their message.

TIME, THE VALUATOR created momentum with a series of singles over 2016 and 2017, leading up to their highly anticipated debut full-length How Fleeting, How Fragile. Taking elements from progressive metal, alternative rock, tech-metal, pop and many more, TIME, THE VALUATOR embrace their identity, forging a unique sound that breaks the genre boundaries. 

TIME, THE VALUATOR are:

Phil Bayer - Vocals
Cedric Dreyszas - Guitars
Rene Möllenbeck - Guitars
Yunus Proch - Drums