Inspiring new post-hardcore troupe New Habits have revealed their single 'Breakaway'.
Watch 'Breakaway' here: https://youtu.be/_RvVcWacn-Q
Stream: https://linktr.ee/newhabitsband
'Breakaway' is a heartfelt ballad of introspection, letting go of the old to make room for the new. Blending elements of rock and electronic, with emotionally-charged lyrics and vocals, 'Breakaway' takes the listener on an audible, emotional journey of self-evolution.
The new single follows from New Habits' previous, 'Poor Old Me', featuring Charlie Rolfe of As Everything Unfolds.
Watch: https://youtu.be/NbQXGPweebY
Combining elements of Bring Me The Horizon, Currents, Spiritbox and Underoath, New Habits are already being marked as a new band to watch through the quality of their songwriting and the immediacy of their approach.
Starting in 2020, everything New Habits have created focuses on this attitude - taking negative viewpoints and turning them positive; moving from problem-oriented lyrics to solution-oriented lyrics.
New Habits are fully DIY, managed and self-produced at will, featuring members of Chelsea Grin and I Am Haunted. Their collective life experiences make New Habits an important, real, new voice - experiences that echo throughout the band's music.
Members of New Habits have variously dealt with depressive episodes, existential crisis, drug dependence, anxiety, family bereavement and relapse - all events that could easily lead to nihilism and cynicism. Instead, the band focuses on overturning and overcoming these moments - an attitude that will surely resonate with those looking for hope in their hurt.
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Uncompromising sludge juggernaut Armed For Apocalypse have released a bruising new single, 'Hourglass', ahead of their third album release, Ritual Violence, which debuts on 7th October via Candlelight Records.
Check out second single, ‘Hourglass’ here: https://youtu.be/J4puQpN5Z9E
Pre-order the album here: https://armedforapocalypse.lnk.to/RitualViolence
Vocalist Nate Burman comments on the new single: “This is a song for the entire band. It’s about touring through the worst. Feeling exhausted from it all, like nobody cares what we’re doing, and still keeping your head high. Most bands would have hung it up going through what we have. We’ve stuck around simply because we love to create and play music together. It gives us a sense of fulfilment in life that nothing else does.”
Forthcoming new album Ritual Violence is an unrelenting aural onslaught and sees the band at their most aggressive. Both a product and expression of their never-die attitude, it’s the album Armed for Apocalypse always wanted to make, with the engineer they wanted to make it Kurt Ballou, God City (Converge, High On Fire, Every Time I Die ) and the label they wanted to partner with, Candlelight Records. Featuring guest appearances from Andreas Kisser (Sepultura) on track 'Foredoomed' and Trevor Phipps (Unearth) on 'Suffer For A Living', it is Armed for Apocalypse refined to its purest form: 0 percent frills,100 percent heavy riffs.
Forming in California in the aughts, Armed for Apocalypse quickly released 2009’s Defeat (Ironclad Recordings). That’s where they laid out their mission statement: we are going to tune low, play riffs, and make heavy metal that makes you bang your fucking head. Real amps turned up, real drums hit hard, no bullshit. 2013’s The Road Will End (Ironclad) complicated their thesis, the band experimenting with new structures and incorporating a broader sonic palette. But member changes and new life directions led to a challenging five years before their next release, 2018’s Palm Reader EP. Now, in 2022, they return more focused than ever with their most potent and unwavering album to date. Ritual Violence is eleven tracks of bludgeoning skullf*ckery; a record from a band who are confident in who they are, and what they want to do. And who won’t let anything get in the way of that. Not the years. Not the heartache. Not an industry that devalues its creators. Nothing.
Armed for Apocalypse has never done it the easy way. But on this latest record is a statement and a promise: they will do it their way.
Armed for Apocalypse are:
Nate Burman - Vocals / Guitar
Cayle Hunter - Guitar
Charlie Fischer - Bass
Nick Harris - Drums
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Tracklisting:
01: Under My Shame
02: Frail
03: Full Of Phlegm
04: Hourglass
05: Lifeless
06: Live Through The Storm
07: Foredoomed
08: Thieves Of Existence
09: Suffer For A Living
10: Flesh And Blood
11: Eternally Broken
Photo by: Chris Klumpp
Progressive deathcore behemoths Enterprise Earth today unveil their brand new video for 'You Couldn’t Save Me.' The punishing track comes off the band’s The Chosen full-length, released early this year via MNRK Heavy.
Encapsulating the band’s unrelenting onstage dominance, watch the video to 'You Couldn’t Save Me.' here: https://youtu.be/XnR6Fe9F_Q4
“If we could capture the live energy from one song off of The Chosen it would easily be ‘You Couldn’t Save Me,’" comments guitarist Gabe Mangold. “This song is a blast to perform and always gets the crowd energy way up, especially at the end. Filmed on our winter 2022 US tour, Nick Chance captured some of the best 'YCSM' moments and compiled them into one live video. Enjoy!”
Watch the band’s previously released video for 'Psalm Of Agony,' featuring recently recruited singer Travis Worland (Aethere, Bite//Down, The Willow), here: https://youtu.be/KKcNhBxfExM
Enterprise Earth’s 'You Couldn’t Save Me' video fittingly drops during their US headline tour which commenced last week with support from Within Destruction, Sentinels, and labelmates Great American Ghost.
The Chosen is available on CD, LP, cassette, and digitally here: https://enterpriseearth-thechosen.com
View the band’s previously released videos for 'Where Dreams Are Broken,' 'Reanimate // Disintegrate,' 'Legends Never Die,' and a variety of visualisers and playthroughs from The Chosen at the Enterprise Earth YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCb7Qq0icEuZnjpoX_sbE11w
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1. Where Dreams Are Broken
2. Reanimate // Disintegrate
3. Unleash Hell
4. I Have To Escape
5. The Tower
6. They Have No Honor
7. Overpass
8. You Couldn't Save Me
9. Unhallowed Path
10. Legends Never Die
11. My Blood, Their Satiation
12. Skeleton Key
13. The Chosen
14. Atlas
Photo Credit: Mitchel Lucas (editing by Jack Watkins)
Anti-pop trio gürl have released their brand new single 'Crying In Nightclub Bathrooms', the first taste of their upcoming EP Ouija, due for release this autumn. The track follows the band's smasher 'ANTIPOP' and subsequent rebel anthem 'Gucci, Honey, Dirty Money'.
Check out the video for 'Crying In Nightclub Bathooms' here: https://youtu.be/kzyo9RsK19w
Stream/purchase 'Crying In Nightclub Bathrooms' here: https://found.ee/gurl-cinb
Mixed by Rhys May and mastered by Tony Lindgren at Fascination Street Studios, 'Crying In Nightclub Bathrooms' is the next step in gürl's conquest of the bleeding edge of alternative music.
Vocalist Joshua Dalton comments:
"'Crying In Nightclub Bathrooms' is the soundtrack to the reckless, strobe light-pounding bass melodrama we put ourselves through when getting over a relationship – and an ode to self-destruction."
gürl are anti-pop: Froot Loops and butcher knives, bubblegum and razor blades, and fashion posing as music, all wrapped in diva choruses with heavy guitars, rock drums and trap production. Think Ashnikko meets Loathe and Billie Eilish meets Bring Me The Horizon, but drenched in a magnificent shade of pink. The result is dangerous: it’s glam, it’s heavy, it’s camp, it’s sarcastic, it’s narcissistic, it’s ironic, and most importantly, it goes hard.
The Bristol-based outfit were founded by vocalist/lyricist Joshua Dalton and guitarist Jonny Turner, on the condition that they would be called gürl, offering a cynical reflection on music marketing by choosing a name that ‘cool people’ would wear on a t-shirt. They started out with neo-soul but soon found that they could (and should) go much harder, combining outrageous lyrics, stadium-sized riffs, heavy-hitting drums, and irresistible basslines, all glued together by tasteful (but never meek) trap elements.
Vocalist/lyricist Joshua Dalton cares about words and means what he says. Following his father’s death, he found his road to Damascus by realising that each time he found himself in a dark place, he turned to music: "Every fight, every sleepless night, every break-up: music is this unrelenting, limitless, untameable source of joy."
Guitarist Jonny Turner thinks about little other than, well, playing the guitar. The co-founder, co-writer and co-producer alongside Joshua has honed his skills in countless bands and shows, learning to translate the electric shocks received he experienced playing rural Romanian bars directly into the energy he now projects on stage.
Joining the gürl group in the summer of 2022, Jay Parker turns up both temperature and volume with four strings and attitude. Creative from the get-go, she received her first guitar as a backcombed, eyelinered, skinny-jean-wearing teenage scene kid – a gift from her parents, alongside early inspiration ranging from Missy Elliot to Green Day and Pink Floyd. Though Jay has since graduated in fashion communication and also shines as a model, stylist, photographer, baker, and connaisseur of salty snacks, her calling is and has always been music, with all the sweat, tears, and blistered fingers that come with it.
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New progressive guitarist Jan Rivera has revealed his second single/video, 'Things That Don't Fit'.
Watch the video here: https://youtu.be/llf_5N52NYE
Stream / purchase here: https://janrivera.bandcamp.com/track/things-that-dont-fit-feat-mohini-dey-and-marco-minnemann
Featuring bass guitar virtuoso Mohini Dey (Jordan Rudess, Jordan Richardson, AR Rahman), 'Things That Don't Fit' is another heady glimpse into the impressive sonic world Jan Rivera is building. Accompanied too by prog drumming legend Marco Minnemann (Steven Wilson, The Aristocrats) , 'Things That Don't Fit' is a musical performance tour de force.
Jan Rivera comments: “This music requires a certain level of facility and musicianship in order for the interactions to flow organically. Even though the single has polyrhythms and a myriad of meters, it is easy to tell that these were all just a vehicle to get the musical vision across. It’s more than just playing complicated stuff, it’s all about telling a story within the complexity of the material.
Mohini and Marco achieved this and made it fun. Their musicianship is beyond words and I think that the single and its video showcase that…”
Mohini Dey comments: "When I first heard Jan's music, my reaction was surprised, shocked… Because I heard how challenging the material was, but also at the same time, how beautiful the writing was. The orchestration and how beautiful the parts were written. It felt like a story, it had meaning to it, every song had something to say…When I hear something that has never been done before, it automatically pushes me to do something better…"
Elements of Allan Holdsworth, Dream Theater, The Aristocrats, and Scott Henderson abound throughout 'Things That Don't Fit', displaying a musical sensitivity and rhythmic guile which marks out this new voice as one to watch. Much like his esteemed predecessor John McLaughlin, Jan displays a strong Indian Classical musical influence, including tabla master Zakir Hussain. For example, compositionally, Jan's musical counting is based upon Konnakol, an Indian rhythmic method of counting metre.
'Things That Don't Fit' is Jan's second single, following the debut release 'The Encounter', featuring Nili Brosh and Marco Minnemann.
Watch: https://youtu.be/RbBD8RvP3_g
Stream / purchase: https://janrivera.bandcamp.com/releases
Well-regarded in as a music educator, Jan is a graduate of the revered Musicians Institute's Guitar Institute of Technology in Los Angeles, where he studied under Alex Machacek, Greg Howe, and Scott Henderson, among others. His 2014 textbook 'Advanced Rhythmic Concepts for Guitar' was a bestseller, and received rave reviews globally. Jan is an on-set consultant and curriculum designer for Fender Guitars and has taught and performed with Guitar Workshop Plus, which commonly features guitarists such as Tosin Abasi, Paul Gilbert, and Andy McKee, among others.
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Taken from upcoming Thunder and Water: Act One EP
Chicago-based technical rock and metal outfit The Untold have released a brand new music video for their latest single 'Drown Your Bones'. Tackling the stigma behind mental health, the track is taken from their upcoming EP Thunder and Water: Act One.
Watch the video for 'Drown Your Bones' here: https://youtu.be/lkfNbVUY1uQ
On the new single, the band comment:
"In continuation of our mental health theme that occurs throughout the album, 'Drown Your Bones' speaks to the negative effects of bottling up and masking emotion and mental health issues. Too often people hide their suffering so as to not burden those around them. Whether it’s for pride, fear, anxiety or something else, showing weakness needs to be de-stigmatised and embraced. The longer we remain silent in a tormented state the more it becomes our normal. Whether it’s for better or for worse, there is comfort in normalcy, and comfort isn’t always the best thing for us.
“Run into the water. Drown your bones until they’re frozen.
Let your wounds go numb, but under oceans, your body’s still broken.”
It doesn’t matter how far down you suppress your emotional wounds. Numbing the pain doesn’t heal you, it just prolongs the healing, making it more painful when the numbness starts to fade. As the chorus states…”Cry out in pain”. It’s a plea to those close to us to ask for help when they need it."
It’s hard to pin the exact genre of Chicago four piece, The Untold. Falling under the gigantic umbrella of rock and metal, they aren’t afraid to blur lines and go wherever their music takes them. With heavy riffs, soaring choruses, symphonic layers, and thoughtful songwriting, their music takes you on a rollercoaster of emotion and power. There is a rawness and a realness to the lyrics of The Untold. They sing about the brutality and the beauty of life, through the unique yet incredibly similar experiences of individuals. The Untold aim to bring a feeling of connection by making people feel both seen and heard.
Formed between the autumn of 2017 and spring of 2018, The Untold released their first single and continued to record their first demo EP, Stories of Life and Death. From 2018 to 2022 the band continued to write and develop a sound that took influence from each band member’s unique musical taste. From classic metal to tech death, hard rock to metalcore and prog, The Untold created a new sound of epic proportions. Released in November of 2020, 'The Abandoned' was the band’s first single since the release of their demo EP. As the band finally started to gain some local traction in the city of Chicago, like so many other artists, Covid halted their progress. That halt would not diminish their spirits though. Throughout 2020 and 2021, The Untold took the time to develop, write together as a unit for the first time, and create their best work yet. The Untold's upcoming EP is ambitious, and will be released in two acts over the course of 2022 and 2023.
The Untold are:
Luke Dupuis - vocals / guitars
Cole Dillow - guitars
Rob Runnels - bass
Alex Kennedy - drums
The Untold online:
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New album Credo Certe Ne Cras out 28th October 2022 via MNRK Music Group
Iberian death/black metal practitioners, Noctem, have announced their maniacal new album Credo Certe Ne Cras, due for release on 28th October 2022 via their new label home MNRK Music Group. The band have also revealed a video for their new single 'We Are Omega'.
Check out the video for 'We Are Omega' here: https://youtu.be/laxm7ht7pXY
Preorder Credo Certe Ne Cras here: https://ffm.to/noctem-ccnc
On the new single, the band comment:
"It gives us pleasure, and great delight to finally be able to present the first single from our next full-length album to our faithful horde of devils. 'We Are Omega' represents a new dawn, and the oncoming album - a new era."
In spirit, presentation, and philosophy, Noctem share much in common with Watain, Rotting Christ, Belphegor, and Gorgoroth, while sprouting their own decaying branch from the rotten metal tree. Any extreme band with Spanish-style nylon string guitars in their arsenal owes a sizeable debt to them.
Noctem follow on from their previous career landmark in 2019, The Black Consecration, with a new definitive masterpiece, merging the crushing cacophony of angry, adrenaline-fuelled lust with newfound sorrows and mournful melodic might. Credo Certe Ne Cras, (I believe with certainty that there is no tomorrow), is a work of art. The album demands to be experienced as much as listened to, invoking ritualistic examination.
The blood and fire spewed forth by Noctem are visceral, fitting companions to their unrivalled sound, a vicious black metal assault enhanced with a signature Iberian flourish. Arguably the best-known extreme metal export from Valencia, Spain, Noctem's ungodly path put them in front of cult audiences around the world.
The first metal band from Spain to perform in China, Noctem's unrelenting touring saw them team up with the likes of Murduk, Batushka, Napalm Death, Immolation, and many more over the years. Dozens of prestigious extreme festivals added them to their line-ups including Bloodstock, Metal Embrace, Metaldays, and Festimetal Santa Catarina.
In 2022, Noctem made their putrid presence felt with their Unholy Blood demo. The God Among Slaves demo followed in 2007, building blood-thirsty anticipation for the band's proper full-length debut, Divinity (2009).
Oblivion came in 2011, followed by a deal with Prosthetic Records which birthed Exilium (2014) and Haeresis (2016), a concept album entered on the Spanish Inquisition. The Black Consecration (2019) expanded Noctem's themes of ancient civilisations and dark rites to encompass more of Beleth's philosophy, previously outlined in the his first book, 2017's Codex Ante-Morten.
In 2022 and beyond, Noctem take a massive leap forward on their thorn-ridden path, armed with blackened faith and righteous fury, thirsty with unquenchable bloodlust, and prepared to conquer. They arise again without redemption, embracing the chaos of modern times and unafraid of fate.
Noctem are:
Beleth - vocals
Varu - bass
Voor - drums
Tobal - guitars
Moss - guitars
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Credo Certe Ne Cras Track Listing:
1. I Am Alpha
2. Sovereign Providence
3. Sanctum Of Anguish
4. Credo Certe Ne Cras
5. Homilia Of Punishment
6. The Pale Moon Rite
7. The Tolling Of The Nine Bells
8. Chalice Of Turpitude
9. Ceremonial Miasma
10. We Are Omega
Photo Credit: Marcus Marino
'Tears of Ecstasy' streaming now
New album Fatal Horizons out 14th October 2022 via MNRK Music Group
Floridian thrash crossover outfit, Rhythm of Fear, have announced their new album Fatal Horizons, due for release on 14th October 2022 via their new label home MNRK Music Group. The band have also revealed a video for their new single 'Tears of Ecstasy'.
Check out the video for 'Tears of Ecstasy', premiered by Decibel, here: https://youtu.be/XhINqo5KW2w
Preorder Fatal Horizons here: http://www.fatalhorizons.com
With the record's first single, the aptly titled 'Tears of Ecstasy', Rhythm of Fear inject a new stream of life into Clive Barker's loosely based Hellrasier, and holds nothing back while racing forward in a full-frontal assault.
On the new single, the band comment:
"When writing the music for 'Tears of Ecstasy', we felt we had a song that took us in a new direction. We were careful not to force anything but allowed ourselves to naturally flow into the overall vibe. When we felt the structure was ready for lyrics we took inspiration from Hellrasier. We summoned the spirit of the Hell Priest himself whilst channeling out inner Cenobites to put together some words of violence, aggression, and seduction. It's a little homage to a favourite film of ours while asking the age-old question: 'are you willing to die for pleasure?' Are you?"
Alien abduction, magic rituals, and the occult pepper their songs with personality and spirit. Fatal Horizons delves deeper into the human psyche with relatable themes of depression, addiction, and anger. The justice system and politics are targets within the framework of broader fictional metaphors.
Rhythm of Fear worship at the alter of thrash metal and crossover. Summoned from the sadistic swamps of Jacksonville, in Florida's heavy-metal rich soil, the masters of gargantuan groove conjured a reverence unrivalled by their peers. Committed to the unrelenting riffage, Rhythm of Fear gleefully reinvigorates the timeless collision of speed, musicianship, and attitude.
Unapologetic bangers like 'Dark Energy' and 'Ten Theories' quickly became underground classics to a growing legion of like-minded supporters who snapped up the band's 2011 demo, The Mass Illusion EP (2015), and full-length debut Maze of Confusion (2016). The appetite for devastation only intensified with the Ritual Dementia EP (2019), featuring 'Vortex of Torment' and the impassioned 'Over And Out'; a deep cut from the early power metal years of Pantera.
Now, the band threatens to conquer the hearts and minds of all in metal, with the vitriolic, thrashtastic, cirle-pit-inciting Fatal Horizons, their sophomore slab of cleverly crafted crossover. Produced, engineered, and mixed by Joey Jones (Royal Thunder, Cloak), with sci-fi/horror artwork from Mario Lopez (Toxik, Skeletal Remains, Evil Invaders), Fatal Horizons' thirteen-tracks are richly thematic and devilishly accessible in equal measure.
Rather than simply rehash the past, Rhythm of Fear absorb and examine metal history's greatest strengths, reassembling the parts into a fresh Frankenstein forged by the band's unique identity and experience. This is straight forward and in your face.
Rhythm of Fear are:
Jay Santiago - vocals
Cody James - guitars
Justin Styron - Bass
Logan Miano - drums
For more information:
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Fatal Horizons Tracklisting:
1. Obsolescence
2. Alien Synthesis
3. Disintegration Of Reality
4. Fatal Horizon
5. Atrocities Beyond The Structures Of The Mind
6. Parasomniac
7. Insidious System
8. Self Destructive Brain
9. Dissolution Of Time In Space
10. Simulated Times
11. Tears of Ecstasy
12. Oath Made In Hell
13. Ceremony Of Sacrifice
Anthropocene album due September
London-based progressive post-hardcore band First Signs of Frost have released a music video for their brand new single 'Relics'. The track, with lyrical content tackling the topic of narcissism, is taken from the band's upcoming album Anthropocene, due for release in September 2022.
Watch the video to 'Relics' here: https://youtu.be/IA2rkuv1p7I
On the new single, guitarist Owen Hughes-Holland comments:
"The theme for ‘Relics’ is one that approaches the subject of those who live in their own narcissistic bubble, generally looking down on others, and taking life, and even the earth itself for granted. The song outlines how we should be grateful to exist on this planet, and to bare in mind the vastness of the universe to put our own lives in perspective. I feel as though most people will have no doubt encountered someone like this in their life at some point, and can therefore take some sort of comfort and solace in the lyrics."
Drawing influence from the likes of Deftones, Tool and Glassjaw, London-based four-piece First Signs Of Frost push boundaries with their unique blend of technical instrumentation, epic soundscapes and anthemic vocal melodies. Forming in 2004 with a line-up consisting of longtime friends Owen Hughes-Holland (vocals/guitar), Adam Mason (guitar), Will Gates (drums) and Dan Oehlman (bass), the band released their consequential debut EP In Our Final Chapter the following year.
In 2007 First Signs of Frost signed their first record deal with Japanese label Zestone Records, and after a successful UK tour supporting metal-core legends Exit Ten, they recruited Daniel Tompkins as their main vocalist. The band then began writing their debut album Atlantic, all whilst securing subsequent tours and major support slots with acts such as Deaf Havana, Enter Shikari, Architects, You Me At Six, and more.
Following a hiatus since the departure of Tompkins in 2009, founding members Owen Hughes-Holland and Adam Mason set out to resurrect the band. With a new lease of life and a fresh line-up, First Signs of Frost moulded their sound into a more groove and ambient direction, manifesting itself in the aptly titled 2017 EP The Shape of Things to Come, via Basick Records. With their well received EP in tow, the band took to the studio in late 2019 to work on their second full-length album, Anthropocene, this time with help of exciting new frontman Ronan Villiers. Now, with the forthcoming single ‘Loss’ in tow, the highly anticipated album following in September will be released through Alaskan Records. 2022 will be yet another landmark year for the progressive post-hardcore pioneers.
First Signs of Frost are:
Ronan Villiers - Vocals
Owen Hughes-Holland - Guitar / Vocals
Adam Mason - Guitar
Alex Harford - Drums
First Signs of Frost online:
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