UK metallers BORDERS have released a video for 'War', the second taste of their debut album Purify which is due for release on 10th May via Long Branch Records.

Check out the single here: https://youtu.be/lUksqQe_BZA

Purify will be available in vinyl, CD and digital formats, as well as BandCamp and Long Branch Records bundles. Pre-orders are available here: https://Borders.lnk.to/Purify

BORDERS have also announced a run of UK shows in support of the album.

Dates:

03.05.2019 - Manchester, Rebellion
04.05.2019 - Cardiff, Fuel
06.05.2019 - Brighton, Green Door Store
07.05.2019 - Southampton, Joiners
08.05.2019 - London, 229
09.05.2019 - Birmingham, Subside
10.05.2019 - Nottingham, Alberts
11.05.2019 - Lincoln, Liquor
12.05.2019 - Glasgow, 13th Note

Hailing from Lincoln, UK, BORDERS are pushing to lead in a new era of heavy music, seamlessly blending genres and styles to forge a crushing yet melodic and unique experience. Since joining forces with new vocalist Jordan 'JJ' Olifent in 2016, BORDERS have been working hard impressing crowds across the UK and Europe with their energetic, powerful live performance. From playing sold-out hometown shows, to supporting Skindred and Whitechapel and appearing at UK Tech-Fest, BORDERS consistently electrify crowds as unchained force Olifent leads the indomitable machine. Lunging from the crowd to the mic and leaving no spot unclaimed, he bends the crowd to his will with gang chants, mosh pits and room splits. While performing alongside Martyr Defiled on their UK/EU farewell tour, Metal Hammer said of their live show: "[Borders are] boasting an energised stage presence and an armada of head-bang-inducing grooves."

Speaking out on modern issues of healthcare, austerity and corruption, the band's Diagnosed EP was released in 2017. It received glowing reviews from Metal Hammer and more, as well as gaining regular radio play on Kerrang’s Fresh Blood, where Alex Baker hailed BORDERS as "behemoths of tomorrow." The songwriting, catchiness, technical prowess and sheer brutality of the record were standout points for critics. The EP theme hit home for Olifent as his lyrical content reflected his own mother’s experiences with cancer and the healthcare system. After she beat the disease with only natural remedies and lifestyle changes, Olifent seeks to pose questions on trust in the healthcare system and the corporate greed that drives pharmaceutical companies to put profits before people.

Purify is an ambitious full-length record which documents a timeline of human corruption; from the wartime atrocities of the Japanese experimental death camps in '731', to modern day political corruption in war, all the way to a bleak vision of future potential healthcare systems in 'Wake Up'. Purify is a statement on the condition of the world today, yesterday and tomorrow that not only sounds incredible but might change the way you look at the world around you. Olifent muses on the development of human corruption; the barbaric human beginnings of mass slaughter against targeted groups may seem a world away to the average citizen, but not only do those atrocities still exist, but corruption and evil has further retreated and disguised itself behind closed doors. A disguise that is easily lifted with information and a willingness to challenge one's own beliefs. Purify is a call for a purge of corruption and a call for the average person to think more about the world they inhabit.

BORDERS are:

Jordan Olifent - Vocals
Gavin Burton - Guitars
Tom Britton - Bass
Daniel Hodson - Drums

For more information:
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Puerto Rican prog-metal band AVANDRA have announced the release of new album Descender via Blood Music and unveiled new single, 'Derelict Minds'.

Premiered by Prog Magazine, Derelict Minds features ex Dream Theater keyboardist Kevin Moore. Check it out here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7b0m_iJ_kw

Pre-order Descender here: http://www.blood-music.com/store/

Having started as a one-man project by Christian Ayala, AVANDRA were born from hurricane-fuelled strife, and now becoming one of the scene’s breakout acts. Given their humble origins, AVANDRA were never meant to play live. However, after releasing the band’s first record, Tymora, demand was so high that Ayala felt obligated to bring his work to life on stage in May of 2017. By the time their second show rolled around a few months, later Puerto Rico had been ravaged by Hurricane Maria. Alone in the dark, Christian wrote what became the second Avandra record, Descender.

Having gained international attention with their debut release, the band found themselves on multiple year end lists. One fan, Nelson Varas, the director of such award winning metal music culture documentaries in the Caribbean as Distorted Island, Metal Island, and Songs of Injustice, ended up writing to Blood Music about the band. Suddenly, an act with the most humble of beginnings found themselves signed to a top notch tastemaker label with the power to push them over the top. Avandra’s hard work was starting to pay off.

2018 was a whirlwind for the fledgling prog act as they travelled to New Hampshire to record their new album with Daniel Schwartz of Astronoid, then enlisting the mastering talent of the legendary Magnus Lindberg. Featuring guest spots from current and former members of Haken, Dream Theater, and Astronoid, the band seems poised to unleash something truly different and special. In the midst of it all, they even performed a hometown show in San Juan as opener for metal legends Orphaned Land. From out of the storm’s wreckage, Avandra have spent over a year preparing this stunning sophomore release, and shall soon come forth and unleash prog metal mayhem.

Tour dates to be announced soon.

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Australian death-thrashers TRUTH CORRODED have unleashed their second song ‘Victims Left Lepers’ from the band's upcoming new album Bloodlands, which will be released worldwide on 22nd March.

Premiered via Exclaim!, check out ‘Victims Left Lepers’ here: https://youtu.be/RQrCpzUnT_4
 
The track is accompanied by a confronting video clip that depicts the desperate plight of asylum seekers in offshore detention facilities and targets Australian political figures who engage in racism and fear baiting for political gain.
 
Bassist and lyricist Greg Shaw offers the following regarding the songs subject matter and video clip: “Victims Left Lepers' is a protest against the treatment of asylum seekers in offshore detention and the fear baiting and racist policy pursued by certain politicians for political gain. The clip challenges and ridicules these politicians and provides a historical context and contrast for their deplorable actions to be considered”

The video was produced by David Hall at Uneasy Sleeper who has worked with acts such as Misery Index, Today Is The Day, The Melvins and KEN Mode.
 
'Victims Left Lepers' is the second single from TRUTH CORRODED's soon to be released album Bloodlands which was mixed by Chris ‘Zeuss’ Harris (Hatebreed, Soulfly, Overkill) and features guest appearances by artists such as Stephen Carpenter ofDeftones, Terrance Hobbs of Suffocation, Mark Kloeppel of Misery Index and Ryan Knight (ex-The Black Dahlia Murder).

Pre-order the album here: https://www.indiemerch.com/uniqueleader/band/truth-corroded. 
Digital pre-order bundles here: https://uniqueleaderrecords.bandcamp.com/album/bloodlands-2 

Warning - The 'Victims Left Lepers' music video may induce epilepsy. 

Catch TRUTH CORRODED on tour in Europe this March and April supporting Misery Index alongside Wormrot and The Lions Daughter.

Dates below - 

23 Mar Heidelberg (DE) Heidelberg Deathfest
24 Mar Nürnberg (DE) Z-Bau
25 Mar Wien (AT) Escape Metalcorner
26 Mar Brno (CZ) Melodka
27 Mar Dresden (DE) Chemiefabrik
28 Mar Kassel (DE) Goldgrube
29 Mar Berlin (DE) Cassiopeia
30 Mar Eindhoven (NL) Grindhoven
31 Mar München (DE) Backstage
01 Apr Zürich (CH) Werk21
02 Apr Segrate MI (IT) Circolo Magnolia
03 Apr Genf (CH) Usine
04 Apr Paris (FR) Glazart
05 Apr Sint Niklaas (BE) De Casino
06 AprEssen (DE) Turock

More info:

https://www.facebook.com/truthcorroded/
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https://uniqueleader.com/

Colorado USA progressive rock three-piece SOURCE have released a lyric video for new single and album title-track 'Totality' on album release day. 

Check out new single 'Totality' here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPH51Rq30Hw

The album Totality was released via Pavement Entertainment on 1st March and can be purchased here: Spotify Amazon iTunes

Produced by Ulrich Wild (Deftones, Pantera, Dethklok, White Zombie) Totality is the band’s second full length and presents a refined evolution of their unique sound. Entwining intelligent composition with melody at the core, you can hear a wide range of influences on Totality including Tool, Opeth and Chevelle.

Formed in 2013 in Boulder Colorado, Benjamin Gleason, Justin Mirarck and Riley Selleck create consciousness-based music through the exploration of flotation tanks, philosophy, meditation, yoga, and other embodiment and mindfulness practices. Their music is an expression of the sensations experienced on this planet, the profoundness of the human experience and the beauty of all that is.

Their debut album Return To Nothing was released in September 2016 on Pavement Entertainment and received a hugely positive response from music fans and press. Accolades included being named Metal Nexus' #1 best album of 2016 and Heavy Music HQ's #9 best progressive metal album of 2016, and their video for single 'memories of yesterday' was supported by Axs TV, Promo Only , Club Com Network and many more.

The success of the record earned them tours with Hellyeah, In Flames, From Ashes to New and TrapT, firmly establishing them in the US rock scene. 2019 will see them tour the US in Jan / Feb in support of the first single ‘Benjamin’, and they will be announcing a full spring tour soon.

More information:
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CHAPTER AND VERSE have announced their debut UK headline tour, joined by special guests Delaire, the Liar. The dates follow the release of the band's Glow EP and tour supporting Emarosa in January. 

See CHAPTER AND VERSE live: 

14.05.2019 - Tunbridge Wells, Forum Basement
16.05.2019 - London, Thousand Island 
17.05.2019 - Huddersfield, Parish
19.05.2019 - Manchester, Night People
20.05.2019 - Nottingham, Red Room
22.05.2019 - Birmingham, Sunflower Lounge 
23.05.2019 - Bristol, Hy-Brasil
24.05.2019 - Plymouth, Underground 

Check out the band's latest single 'Ink' here: https://youtu.be/LpGlpjcx0Ys

Purchase Glow EP here: https://song.link/album/gb/i/1449047079

Becoming the best version of yourself can be a long and complicated road, but CHAPTER AND VERSE have been patiently taking their time. The quartet are back with their new EP Glow, an intricate and powerful illustration of the potential within.

Their reputation has seen them quickly reach the dizzying heights of the 2000trees Main Stage, garner much coveted tour supports for Dream State, Courage My Love and Hellions, turn heads at the Radio 1 Rock Show and Kerrang! Radio, and even gain Metallica’s Lars Ulrich as a member of what CHAPTER AND VERSE call 'The New Breed'. 

For fans of Circa Survive, Thrice and Coheed & Cambria, CHAPTER AND VERSE present music that is at once powerful and anthemic, tender and soulful, led by Josh Carter's unique vocals.

For more information:
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https://chapterandverseuk.com/
https://www.instagram.com/chapterandverseuk/

The UK's most ferocious new metal band CLIMATE OF FEAR have today released their debut LP, The Onset Of Eternal Darkness (1st March, Demons Run Amok). 

To celebrate the news, CLIMATE OF FEAR have also released their new music video for 'Storming The Heavens'.

Premiering on Everything Is Noise's Facebook, you can watch the video here: https://www.facebook.com/EverythingIsNoise/videos/vb.466164026734834/259335354785837/?type=2&theater 

Buy the record here: https://shop.demonsrunamok.de/de/musik/8266-14869.html

Stream: https://open.spotify.com/album/4YnFEOAtebLiToXsRhAWdB

CLIMATE OF FEAR are a new UK melodic death metal fivepiece who are already causing quite a stir. For fans of At The Gates, Carcass, early Arch Enemy, and Stampin' Ground, the band's debut full-length The Onset Of Eternal Darkness combines the best of death metal, classic metalcore and hardcore.

Listen to the first two singles here:

'The Cult of Retribution'
'From Enslavement to Extinction'

Formed 2017, CLIMATE OF FEAR have already found themselves busy, touring relentlessly throughout the UK and across Europe (from Spain to the Czech Republic), supporting US veterans Merauder and playing with Leeched. In their short history, CLIMATE OF FEAR have also played with Vein, Sick Of It All, Malevolence, and Twitching Tongues, as well as festivals including Ieper Fest.

The band are staunch anti-capitalists, anti-religion, and anti-propagandists, whose lyrical themes found within The Onset Of Eternal Darkness include environmental nihilism and anti-exploitation.

Watch the band live:

March
14 Birmingham Subside
15 Manchester Aatma
16 Plymouth Underground
17 Bristol The Gryphon

RADAR Festival has added to its already-impressive line-up, cementing its position as the most exciting new progressive UK festival.

Announced are instrumental-prog titans INTERVALS, UK heavyweights HEART OF A COWARD, Icelandic art-rock darlings AGENT FRESCO, as well as UNEVEN STRUCTURE, KADINJA, UNPROCESSED, CRYPTODIRA, SHATTERED SKIES
THE DEADLIGHTS and GATVOL.

They join the likes of ANIMALS AS LEADERS, MONUMENTS, ROLO TOMASSI, and TOSKA.

Full list:

Animals as Leaders    
Monuments    
Intervals 
Heart of a Coward
Agent Fresco 
Rolo Tomassi   
Uneven Structure
Toska 
VOLA 
Car Bomb   
Sithu Aye   
No Consequence*   
Kadinja
Unprocessed
Harbinger   
Valis Ablaze   
Sumer  
Eschar   
Arcaeon  
Mask of Judas
Visionist
Kagoo
Cryptodira 
Shattered Skies 
The Deadlights 
Gatvol

*back for one night only.

RADAR Festival is to be held in Guildford, Surrey, on 2-3rd August at a soon-to-be-announced venue..

Tickets for the indoor event start at £34.99 for a day ticket, or £59.99 for both days. Purchase tickets here: https://radarfestival.seetickets.com/

With their mixture of international talent and confirmed homegrown success, RADAR Festival will position themselves as champions of forward-thinking guitar-led music. The brainchild of two promoters in the South of England, RADAR will be held over two stages at a new indoor location in Guildford, half an hour from London.

Focusing on bands who push boundaries across the musical spectrum, RADAR will become a high-point on the UK festival calendar, and a new community for all fans of sonic innovation.

For more information:
Instagram: RDRfestival // Facebook: RDRfestival
Twitter: @RDRfestival // Website: www.radarfestival.co.uk

"I found my place in space and time, a dream unseen to be alive." -- Mysterium Tremendum
 
Portland USA heavy metal unit LORD DYING will release their anticipated third studio album Mysterium Tremendum worldwide on 26th April via Entertainment One (eOne).

They are streaming new single 'Envy The End', check it out / share here: http://vevo.ly/5ZwtKv

Captured at Los Angeles' West Valley Recording Studios in August of 2018 with engineer Mike Plotnikoff (Fear Factory, In Flames) and mastered by Howie Weinberg (Slayer, Nirvana, Pantera, Red Hot Chili Peppers), Mysterium Tremendum is a monolithic, riff-heavy concept album boasting eleven heaving tracks examining the many facets of dying and what may or may not exist in the afterlife.
 
An emotionally satisfying record, lyrically and musically Mysterium Tremendum's exploration of death goes beyond the mere longing for it in order to see what lies beyond ('Lacerated Psyche' is about the death of Evans' sister). There are many layers to it - you might even find parallels between the record's concept and life itself. It's a journey. And in their quest to pursue death, LORD DYING have themselves found new life.

"We set out to write a record about life, and it ended up being about death," says LORD DYING guitarist/vocalist Erik Olson about the band's third studio album Mysterium Tremendum.

LORD DYING's Mysterium Tremendum will be released on CD, double LP, and digital formats. For pre-order options go to smarturl.it/LordDyingMT.
 
While the new record centres around death, it focuses more on what awaits us on the other side while also exploring our culture's fear of dying, and the struggles with our own mortality. The ideas for the concept have been kicking around for some time, but it's fitting that they're only now coming to fruition.
 
At the core of these Portland, Oregon, heavy metal titans is Olson and guitarist Chris Evans, who've been making music together since fifth grade. They formed LORD DYING before they had a name or a record when another Portland powerhouse Red Fang beckoned them to open some shows for them in 2010. Two records and countless live performances - including tours with Voivod and Crowbar - followed.
 
Mysterium Tremendum is the record Olson and Evans have wanted to make since the band's inception. It's easily LORD DYING's most musically diverse album, but one that could only be made following the band's jackhammer 2013 debut Summon The Faithless, and 2015's brooding Poisoned Altars. "It's more along the lines of what we wanted to do early on," says Evans.
 
LORD DYING was already beginning to expand its musical palette - including moodier interludes and Olson's expanded vocal range - but Olson says once the decision was made to make a concept record, he and Evans pushed themselves to match the themes musically and vocally. You'll hear it in songs like 'The End Of Experience' and the floating 'Severed Forever,' which sees Olson melodically doubling his vocals before returning to his trademark growl. Shorter interludes like 'Tearing The Fabric Of Consciousness' and 'Even The Darkness Went Away' are stunning and fragile, like nothing the band has ever done.
 
Olson and Evans worked tirelessly on the songs together over the course of a year-and-a-half, using programmed drum parts, and sending ideas back and forth. As Olson puts it, "It was the first time we were really able to put things under a microscope." The songs were all but ready by the time they headed to Los Angeles' West Valley Recording Studios in August of 2018 with engineer Mike Plotnikoff. L.A.-based bassist Matt Price and drummer Chase Manhattan jumped right in to bring these songs of death to life, and the results are huge and seamless.  
 
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BLACK COAST have released a 90's nu-metal style video for their single 'Lost My Limits'. The track follows previous single 'Weird', which saw support from the Radio 1 Rock Show and Kerrang! Radio, and is taken from the band's forthcoming EP Ill Minds Vol 2 - due for release on 8th March 2019 via Primordial Records.

The video coincides with Kerrang! Fresh Blood Live, hosted by Alex Baker, which sees BLACK COAST perform alongside Pengshui and Selfworth tonight (28th February) at London's The Old Blue Last. Tickets for the show sold out in an impressive nine hours. 

Watch 'Lost My Limits' here: https://youtu.be/vXZF5uhHjxQ

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A ferocious and relentless assault, Ill Minds Vol 2 is BLACK COAST carving a sound that is both melodic and intense in equal measures. While citing influences from Stray From The Path and Counterparts, the five-piece form their own style and push the boundaries of metallic hardcore. Charlie Hewitt’s fiercely spat vocals convey a raw passion, and when combined with his bandmates’ striking skill-set, Ill Minds Vol 2 is an exhilarating and captivating listen. 

Formed in January of 2016, BLACK COAST wasted no time in making their voice heard within an over-saturated UK metal scene. With the release of their debut EP Crows Of The North and a plethora of tours that took them to every corner of the country, BLACK COAST have made a name for themselves as one of the most hardworking and exciting bands to emerge in the last few years.

2017 brought the band an unforgettable year: summer saw them support the likes of Stray From The Path before setting out on a full Japanese tour, hitting some of the biggest cities in the country including Tokyo and Nagoya. The band followed this up with performances alongside Gideon, In Hearts Wakeand Silent Screams. 2018 saw BLACK COAST keep up the tireless work ethic, touring alongside wars, Death Remains, The Family and MSRY, supporting KING 810 and releasing Ill Minds Vol 1, which saw support from Kerrang! Radio, Metal Hammer, BBC Introducing Stoke and more.

With the release of the pummelling Ill Minds Vol 2 and more touring in the works, BLACK COAST will continue their rise in 2019 and beyond. 

For more information:
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