Photo Credit: Oli Duncanson

Boston's Great American Ghost have released their new video, 'Torture World', taken from their new EP of the same name, out now via via MNRK Heavy.

Check out the 'Torture World' video here: https://youtu.be/Kld6tclRE-4

Purchase the Torture World EP here: https://tortureworld.com/

Produced by Will Putney (A Day To Remember, Knocked Loose, The Amity Affliction), who handled the band’s critically-adored 2019 Power Through Terror full-length, with Torture World, Great American Ghost directs old-school death metal wrath at hypocrisy, apathy, and self-loathing, delivered in a dark cloud of relentlessly bludgeoning riffs.

Vocalist Ethan Harrison comments on the 'Torture World' video: "This video is a vision that we have had for a while and we are so glad that we could bring it to life with our long-time friend, Chris Klump. The song isn't as literal as the video implies - the things that we go through as people can be harder than you could ever imagine and going through them alone can be truly torturous."

View the band’s previously released video for 'Kingmaker' here: https://youtu.be/edtNzXZtlM4

Great American Ghost’s first ever US headlining tour is currently underway with support from 156/Silence and Hazing Over, check social media for dates.

Since inception, Great American Ghost have unleashed a steady stream of furious music. The group Metal Injection calls, “always hateful, always pissed,” steadily built a devoted following with the bleak and punishing Everyone Leaves (2015), Hatred Stems From The Seed (2017), the Don’t Come Back EP (2016), and Power Through Terror (2019). Even as the worldwide shutdown and personal adversities big and small threatened to derail the band, perseverance ultimately prevailed, resulting in the four-song Torture World EP poised to take the band’s vicious bile in new directions.

“It comes at you pretty hard, and pretty fast… It’s the kind of song that your neighbors really ought to hear, and maybe even feel depending on your sound system…” - Metal Injection on “'Kingmaker'

“…a refining of melody, brutality, and intelligent throwdowns… This is just masterful stuff and hopefully the start of something special for the band.” - New Noise Magazine

“Death metal, hardcore, metalcore, black metal… it all merges into a cohesive work of impressive and sadistic force.” - Distorted Sound

Great American Ghost are:
Ethan Harrison – vocals
Niko Gasparrini – guitar
Davier Perez – drums

Great American Ghost online:
http://www.facebook.com/GreatAmericanGhost
http://www.instagram.com/greatamericanghost
http://www.twitter.com/GAGBOSTON

MNRK online:
www.mnrkheavy.com
www.facebook.com/mnrkheavy
www.twitter.com/mnrkheavy
www.instagram.com/mnrk_heavy

Torture World Tracklisting:

1. Kingmaker
2. Torture World
3. Womb
4. Death Forgives No One

RADAR Festival - the UK's most exciting new progressive music festival - will return in 2023 with Periphery announced as first headliners.

Joining them in the first wave of bands will be UK prog favourites Haken performing a special ten-year anniversary set of their album The Mountain, German tech-metal phenomenon Unprocessed, experimental metal heavyweights Loathe, and nine further acts.

Full lineup so far:

Periphery
Haken (The Mountain anniversary set)
Unprocessed
Loathe
Long Distance Calling
Heart Of A Coward
Tides From Nebula
Owane & Jack Gardiner
SUMR (first ever live show)
Ghost Iris
Allt
Playgrounded
Tiberius

RADAR Festival co-organiser Joe James comments: "How many superlatives can you throw into a quote when you've booked one of your favourite bands?! We probably need quite a few to prefix our excitement in announcing that Periphery are to headline RADAR Festival 2023!

"It is fair to say that they are one of the biggest and most interesting bands that are pushing our genre forward and they don't play many UK festivals!

"We hope that festival lovers see that our first line-up drop is a statement of intent for 2023, with returning favourites and some awesome up-and-coming acts to discover. RADAR 2023 is honestly going to blow you away.

RADAR is excited to announce nominations in two categories at the UK Festival Awards 2022. Joe continues:

"It's been quite a week. As well as our first line-up announcement, RADAR has been shortlisted at the UK Festival Awards 2022 for 'Best New Festival' and 'Grassroots Festival Award' which is lovely recognition for the festival, our customers and everyone who has performed or worked at the events. We are so proud of the vibrant, contemporary event we created and it's wonderful to be recognised for that.

RADAR Festival has moved to a new home for 2023:

"RADAR 2023 is a big step up for us. We're booking a huge lineup and have some big ideas for our new venue, The BEC Arena in Manchester. We are super excited to release more information about our crazy plans for the site, so keep an eye on our socials for that and further line-up drops!"

Following the sell-out success of RADAR 2022, the festival's second ever edition (featuring Leprous, Haken, Dirty Loops' debut UK performance and many more), RADAR 2023 is moving from Guildford's Corner House to Manchester's BEC Arena and will boast an internationally acclaimed 42-band bill.

RADAR Festival 2023 will be held 28-30th July.

Early bird tickets are now sold out. Weekend tickets are £133.75, and you can purchase here: https://bit.ly/RDR2023

RADAR Festival has shared a glimpse of the new site which you can view below.

With their mixture of international talent and confirmed homegrown success, RADAR Festival has already positioned themselves as champions of forward-thinking guitar-led progressive music. No genre boundaries, welcome to all, RADAR Festival was launched in 2019 to acclaim, with performances from Animals As Leaders, Agent Fresco, Rolo Tomassi, among others. Following the COVID hiatus, RADAR Festival 2022 expanded to three days with triumphant appearances from Leprous, Haken, Dirty Loops, Plini, Conjurer, Soen and more.

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

Photo Credit: Andreas Bryske

Swedish modern metal four-piece Eyes Wide Open have released a deluxe edition of their latest album Through Life And Death, out now via Arising Empire. The extended album features 18 tracks, including recent singles 'Cross My Heart' and 'We're The Walking Dead' featuring Misstiq.

Eyes Wide Open have also shared their new single 'Ghosts & Parasites', check it out here: https://youtu.be/tTUQ25anCpM

Stream/purchase Through Life And Death (Deluxe Edition) here: https://arisingempire.com/throughlifeanddeathdeluxe

Based in Karlstad, Sweden, Eyes Wide Open carry the torch on behalf of the Swedish melodic metal scene. Their sound, which is mixed with modern influences inspired by metalcore, combines catchy melodies, heavy drumming, pumping rhythms and versatile vocals.

Following on from their fourth album, 2019's The Upside Down, Eyes Wide Open's latest full-length Through Life And Death (2021) hits like a juggernaut and paves the road that leads to the top tier of the scene. Lyrically, the album explores depression, greed, betrayal, and every inner demon of the human mind.

Eyes Wide Open are:
Erik Engstrand | vocals
Kristofer Strandberg | guitar
Jesper Lindgren | bass
Lucas Freise | drums

Eyes Wide Open online:
https://www.instagram.com/ewo_swe
https://www.facebook.com/Eyes.Wide.Open.Swe
https://www.e-w-o.net

Through Life And Death (Deluxe Edition) tracklisting:

1. World on Fire
2. Devastation
3. Fallout
4. Burn 'Em
5. End of Days
6. Through Life and Death
7. Eraser
8. Brother
9. Wildfire
10. Echoes (feat. Richard Sjunnesson, Jonathan Thorpenberg)
11. Where Death Meets Paradise
12. Bridge to the Future
13. Cross My Heart
14. Duality (Slipknot Cover)
15. Ghosts & Parasites
16. We're the Walking Dead (feat. Misstiq)
17. Deathloop
18. Devastation (Piano Version)

Photo Credit: Juha Mustonen

Finnish Love Metal pioneer, Ville Valo (VV) of HIM, has released his new single 'The Foreverlost'. The track is the third glimpse into his upcoming debut solo album Neon Noir, due for release on 13th January 2023 via Heartagram Records, distributed by UMG/Spinefarm.

Stream/purchase 'The Foreverlost' here: https://lnk.to/theforeverlost

Ville Valo comments: "'The Foreverlost' is yet another loud love song depicting the burlesque butoh between two world-weary souls. All my Carmina Buranas and could've should've would'ves rolled into a neat little Gordian knot of the gothic variety.”

Head to Kerrang.com to read their cover feature, in which Ville discusses the album making process in-depth.

VV’s headline tour, taking place next year across Europe, the UK and North America, has already sold-out across a number of cities.

UK dates:

Mar 10: Bristol O2 Academy
Mar 11: Nottingham Rock City (sold out)
Mar 13: Glasgow Garage (sold out)
Mar 14: Manchester O2 Ritz (sold out)
Mar 15: London O2 Forum Kentish Town

Tickets are on sale here: https://bnds.us/1gvnb7

ABOUT VV / Ville Valo:

In the annals of 21st century alternative rock history there are few artists who cast a longer, or more peculiar shadow than Finnish Love Metal pioneer Ville Valo. After all, his band HIM were easily among the most iconic and idiosyncratic groups of the millennium. Zealously revered, gleefully reviled but impossible to ignore, their music left an indelible mark on a worldwide legion of fans. The scarlet letters stood for His Infernal Majesty. Their founder stood for something delightedly out of step with the status quo.

"We only hoped to temporarily redirect hard rock's blood flow from the nether regions towards the heart", reminisces Ville Valo, the singer, songwriter and primus motor of HIM. Judging by the monolithic presence of the Heartagram in any account of music this side of the millennium, it’s apparent that he succeeded.

Inspired by everyone from Poe to Bukowski and tinged by a penchant for perfumed Sabbathian gloom, Valo’s creative lovechild would produce eight era-defining studio releases and over ten million record sales, not forgetting a Grammy nomination, countless magazine covers, critical acclaim, and the veneration of a generation. Thus, it came as no surprise that the news of a farewell tour in 2017 was greeted with shock and disbelief among devotees and endless speculation as to what or who was to take up the velvet mantle.

“As fun as the funeral rites for HIM were, it took me more than a few moons to lick my wounds in the shadow of the Heartagram and come up with an excuse to strum and hum again. Eventually I decided to put a leash on my beloved black dog and we started howling together instead of barking at each other. That's how the album Neon Noir was born".

The answer came earlier this year with the melodious exsanguination of first single ‘Loveletting’, followed by the elegiac goth-optimism of ‘Echolocate Your Love’, which Valo described as, "a teary mascara marathon between Robert Smith and Ozzy, with a dash of hope." Now, with the glow of Neon Noir fast approaching comes the driving, nocturnal radiance of ‘The Foreverlost’, an up-tempo paean to doomed romance and a confident affirmation of Valo’s peerless ability to imbue timeless songwriting and balladry, with a whiff of roses and brimstone.

Hard-line extreme metal squad To The Grave have announced their new album, Director’s Cuts, to be released via Unique Leader Records on 24th February, 2023.

Ahead of the album, the band are sharing their first single ‘Red Dot Sight’, a hard-hitting track about anti-vegan public figures and the media perception against vegan activists. You can check out the video here: https://youtu.be/_eVHPX18kPc

Pre-order Director’s Cuts here: https://orcd.co/directorscuts

The band comment on the new album: "This is the refinement of our combined musical tastes, fuelled by our sadness and anger at the state of the world. We made the music we wanted to make without really considering how it would fit into any little genre boxes, because we knew if we loved it completely then everyone else would too. These songs are hard and heavy without being technical just for the sake of it.”

Commenting on the new single the band add: "'Red Dot Sight' is about anti-vegan public figures and influencers dragging the names of activists for headlines and views. The way our media paints them as criminals and terrorists sways public perception against those wanting to do good to the point that it’s socially acceptable to treat them like sh*t."

One of Australia’s most uncompromising bands, To The Grave return with their heaviest album to date, both sonically and thematically. Since the release of their 2019 debut album Global Warning, the caustic five piece have garnered international success, with 2021’s follow-up Epilogue, a re-issue of Global Warning with bonus tracks, solidifying their position as “one of the country's heaviest exports.” (Revolver).

To The Grave have steadily built an audience in the underground, accumulating more than 11 million Spotify streams, racking up over 5.4 million YouTube views, all whilst decimating live audiences alongside Parkway Drive, Polaris, Cattle Decapitation, Thy Art Is Murder, Vulvodynia and Alpha Wolf.

Now, following a sold-out national headline tour in 2022 and revitalised by a new lineup, the band are more focused than ever, looking ahead to the release of their second album Director’s Cuts in February 2023.

The eleven tracks lyrically expose a societal and environmental hell on earth whilst pushing the boundaries of accessible extremity, full of barbed hooks, thick with atmosphere and drenched in groove. Razor-sharp guitars played with an exploratory approach - blending everything from whammy pedal squeaks and chiming cleans to death metal chainsaw tones - are entwined with live drums to give a level of dynamism that musically sets this band apart from the extreme metal pack, yet they maintain the weight of the heaviest bands today. Vocalist Dane Evans commands a multifaceted performance, bursting with vocal energy from throat-ripping dissonant screeches to low end gutturals.

At just over 44 minutes in length, Director’s Cuts is an album packed with ambition and conscience. To The Grave have never shied away from channeling the real horrors of animal cruelty and its impact into the violent, emotional intensity of their music. Songs such as ‘Red Dot Sight’, ‘Found Footage’ and ‘Cut Off The Head’ perfectly conjure images of a world gone astray.

Director’s Cuts was recorded by bassist Matt Clarke, with drums recorded live at The Brain Studios in Sydney and mixed and mastered by Lance Prenc at Prenc Audio (Void of Vision, Alpha Wolf, Polaris) in Melbourne with album photography by Animals Uncovered.

Catch To The Grave on tour in Europe throughout January 2023 with Shadow Of Intent, Enterprise Earth and Angelmaker.

06.01.23 Germany Wiesbaden @ Schlachthof
07.01.23 Germany Cologne @ Essigfabrik
08.01.23 The Netherlands Tilburg @ Poppodium 013
09.01.23 Belgium Antwerp @ Kavka
10.01.23 UK Bristol @ The Fleece
11.01.23 UK Birmingham @ Asylum
12.01.23 UK Manchester @ Rebellion
13.01.23 UK Glasgow @ Cathouse
14.01.23 UK London @ O2 Academy Islington
15.01.23 UK Southampton @ The Joiners
17.01.23 France Paris @ Glazart
18.01.23 France Lyon @ Rock N Eat
19.01.23 Italy Milan @ Legend Club
20.01.23 Switzerland Aarau @ KiFF
21.01.23 Germany Munich @ Backstage
22.01.23 Austria Vienna @ Flex Hall
24.01.23 Czech Republic Prague @ Futurum
25.01.23 Poland Wroclaw @ Akademia Club
26.01.23 Germany Leipzig @ Naumanns
27.01.23 Germany Hamburg @ Bahnhof Pauli
28.01.23 Sweden Gothenburg @ High 5ive Winter Fest
29.01.23 Denmark Copenhagen @ Hotel Cecil
30.01.23 Germany Berlin @ Hole44
31.01.23 Germany Nuremberg @ Z-Bau
01.02.23 Germany Karlsruhe @ Die Stadtmitte


To The Grave are:
Dane Evans - Vocals
Jack Simoni - Guitars, Programming
Luke Ringin - Guitars, Vocals
Matt Clarke - Bass, Vocals
Simon O’Malley - Drums, Vocals

To The Grave online:
Facebook || Twitter || Instagram || Spotify || YouTube || Linktree

Tracklist:
01. Warning Shot
02. Red Dot Sight
03. Full Sequence
04. B.D.T.S.
05. Protest & Sever (feat. Sam Crocker - Antagonist AD)
06. Manhunt
07. Found Footage
08. Axe of Kindness
09. Reversing The Bear Trap (feat. Jess Christiansen - Bled Out)
10. Cut Off The Head
11. Die, Rise

Irish noise-pop sextet THUMPER have released their single 'Summer Assault'. The track sees the band venture into new territory and marks their first new music since their debut album Delusions Of Grandeur, released earlier this year.

Check out 'Summer Assault' here: https://youtu.be/kHWpa-Sw93w

Stream/purchase 'Summer Assault' here: https://linktr.ee/hellothumper

‘Summer Assault’ is a vignette of self-sabotage, an anthem of small failure. It’s about a doomed relationship that carries on regardless - a narrator banging on the glass trying to warn the song’s inhabitants. Each melody and hook competes for space over an ever expanding wall of guitars, bass and THUMPER's signature double drums. In just over three minutes, ‘Summer Assault’ sees THUMPER boil their trademark noise wall into an earworm of a pop song.

'Summer Assault' comes off the back of THUMPER's extensive European, UK and Irish tour, including sell-out shows in Amsterdam, London, Paris and Dublin. The band have a handful of live dates remaining at Iceland Airwaves, Sŵn Festival and RTE 2FM’s Rising on the Road.

THUMPER's previous single '25' came thundering into the ESNS Radio Charts, with support BBC Radio 1's Future Artists with Jack Saunders and Future Alternative with Nels Hylton, as well as Kink, KEXP and more. They featured as the face of Spotify's ‘All New Punk’ playlist and gained editorial support from Amazon Music. Championed heavily by BBC Radio 1 DJ Gemma Bradley and many more, ‘Summer Assault’ is sure to be THUMPER's biggest single yet.

Stream/purchase the band's debut album Delusions of Grandeur here: https://orcd.co/j4a8pjo

THUMPER are:

Oisín Leahy Furlong - Vocals, Guitar
Alan Dooley - Guitar, Backing Vocals
Alex Harvey - Guitar, Backing Vocals
Dav Campbell - Bass, Backing Vocals
Stevie D’Arcy - Drums
Benedict Warner-Clayton - Drums

For more information:
Facebook || Website || Twitter || Instagram || Bandcamp || Youtube

Groundbreaking Indonesian trio Voice Of Baceprot return with their triumphant new single 'PMS'.

Stream: https://li.sten.to/vob-pms

'PMS', short for perempuan merdeka seutuhnya ("completely independent women") is an anthem for the ages. The single celebrates women who are breaking stereotypes and boundaries in all forms.

The origin of 'PMS' came from conditions close to Voice Of Baceprot's background, when the band members still lived in their village in rural Indonesia.

A conservative community, there are few career options for women after school - by choosing a career in music, Voice Of Baceprot have been marked by some as an anomaly or rebel in their community. 'PMS' is then a solidarity call for all women who face the same problems but march on regardless, to keep doing what they love.

The new single cements the group's position as one of the most exciting musical voices from Southeast Asia, and follows their huge performance at Wacken Open Air 2022, among other European festivals this summer.

The all-female trio Voice Of Baceprot have made headlines globally with their music, a fresh take on metal, rap-rock, and funk metal. Formed in 2014 in school in rural Indonesia, the three schoolgirls - Marsya (vocals and guitar), Widi (bass), andSitti (drums) - aged 14, began a musical revolution.

Initially drawn to covers of System Of A Down, Rage Against The Machine, Metallica, and Slipknot among others, Voice Of Baceprot soon found their unique authentic voice. True to their name, given 'Baceprot' in Sundanese translates as 'loud'.

Voice Of Baceprot's debut video, 2018's 'School Revolution', their thrash-funk metal amalgam, has gathered nearly two million views. It is a searing track, raising awareness about the inequality of education, and helped fully stamp VOB's name on the global map. Since then, the group have gone from strength to strength, releasing follow up singles 'God, Allow Me (Please) to Play Music', and 2022's '[NOT] PUBLIC PROPERTY'.

Since their formation, Voice Of Baceprot's Marsya, Sitti, and Widi have been using their music to build their voices as activists and to raise awareness of the violations of women's rights globally. Their activism is only increasing and becoming more powerful as the trio age. This is reflected in the single '[NOT] PUBLIC PROPERTY', released in conjunction with the WoW Foundation and Indonesian crowdfunding platform Kitabisa to collect donations for victims of sexual violence and abuse. 

Voice Of Baceprot are:

Marsya (vocals, guitars)
Widi (bass)
Sitti (drums)

Official website www.voiceofbaceprot.com
Instagram www.instagram.com/voiceofbaceprot
Twitter www.twitter.com/baceprotvoices
Facebook www.facebook.com/voiceofbaceprot
YouTube www.youtube.com/voiceofbaceprot

Crippled Black Phoenix are proud to unveil the video for 'Bonefire', taken from new full-length Banefyre, out now via Season of Mist.

Directed by Guilherme Henriques, watch the video to 'Bonefire' here: https://youtu.be/gKzoQMFFCNI

The band comment: "We gift to you a musical curse on the miserable ruling class politicians! Again, working with Guilherme was a total pleasure and a complete win. He got the vibe and the intensity spot on. Plus, he raised the bar a whole lot with production value, so what we have is basically a little cult horror film, telling the story of 'Bonefire'. The ruling class getting some just karma in the flames."

Pre-orders are live here: https://shop.season-of-mist.com/list/crippled-black-phoenix-banefyre
The album can be pre-saved here: https://orcd.co/cbp-banefyre

Watch the video to previous singles here:

'Blackout 77' here: https://youtu.be/_yl7QIvD6n4
'Everything Is Beautiful But Us': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07XHKXhfah0

Crippled Black Phoenix are:
Justin Greaves : Guitars, Drums, Bass, Samples, Saw
Belinda Kordic : Vocals, Percussions
Helen Stanley : Grand Piano, Synthesisers, Monochord, Trumpet
Andy Taylor : Guitar, Baritone Guitar, 12 String Guitar
Joel Segerstedt: Vocals, Guitar

Crippled Black Phoenix online:
https://crippledblackphoenix.net
https://www.facebook.com/CBP444
https://www.instagram.com/cbp_444

Track listing:

1. Intro/Incantation For The Different
2. Wyches And Basterdz
3. Ghostland
4. The Reckoning
5. Bonefire
6. Rose Of Jericho

1. Blackout77
2. Down The Rabbit Hole
3. Everything Is Beautiful But Us
4. The Pilgrim
5. I'm OK, Just Not Alright
6. The Scene Is A False Prophet
7. No Regrets

Photo Credit: Declan Blackall

Australian progressive solo artist, Plini, has announced an extensive UK / EU headline tour in 2023, with support from fellow guitar mavericks Jakub Zytecki, Owane and Jack Gardiner. Along with the tour announcement, Plini has unveiled a stunning live video for the track 'Papelillo'.

Filmed at Enmore Theatre, Sydney (Australia) on 23rd June, watch 'Papelillo' live here: https://youtu.be/v3aiGufyo_0

Voted as one the greatest musicians of all time by Prog magazine readers, Plini has assembled some of the most innovative and exciting musicians today for this incredible tour package.

Check out Jakub Zytecki's lastest track 'Heart' here: https://youtu.be/uV5jpBH8TXU
Check out Owane / Jack Gardiner 'Action Boyz' here: https://youtu.be/WfiVfPKZRXg

Catch the tour on the following dates:

Fri 3 March - Doornroosje KZ Nijmegen Netherlands
Sat 4 March - 013 KZ Tilburg Netherlands
Sun 5 March - Melkweg OZ Amsterdam Netherlands
Mon 6 March - Rockhal Esch-sur-alzette Luxembourg
Tue 7 March - Gebäude 9 Cologne Germany
Wed 8 March - Logo Hamburg Germany
Thu 9 March - Lido Berlin Germany
Fri 10 March - Rock Café Prague Czech Republic
Sat 11 March - Proxima Warsaw Poland
Sun 12 March - Kamienna12 Krakow Poland
Mon 13 March - A38 Budapest Hungary
Tue 14 March - Flex Vienna Austria
Thu 16 March - Feierwerk Hansa 39 Munich Germany
Fri 17 March - New Age Treviso Italy
Sat 18 March - Legend Club Milan Italy
Sun 19 March - KiFF Aarau Switzerland
Wed 22 March - Stage Live Bilbao Spain
Thu 23 March - Hard Club Porto Portugal
Fri 24 March - LAV Lisbon Portugal
Sat 25 March - Nazca Madrid Spain
Sun 26 March - Garaje Beat Club Murcia Spain
Mon 27 March - La Nau Barcelona Spain
Tue 28 March - Connexion Live Toulouse France
Wed 29 March - CCO Lyon France
Thu 30 March - Le Ferrailleur Nantes France
Fri 31 March - Maroquinerie Paris France
Sat 1 April - Electric Ballroom London UK
Sun 2 April - Fleece Bristol UK
Tue 4 April - Saint Lukes Glasgow UK
Wed 5 April - Club Academy Manchester UK

New music from both Plini and Jakub Zytecki is planned for 2023, more news soon.

PLINI online:
https://www.facebook.com/Plini
https://www.instagram.com/plini/
https://www.youtube.com/plinimusic
https://twitter.com/plinirh

Jakub Zytecki online:
https://www.instagram.com/jakub_zytecki/
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100044442650010
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzBWsG3ETQWMHW1zV_C0Z1g

More information on PLINI:

PLINI composes, plays guitar, records, produces and manages his unique brand of instrumental progressive rock all from a bedroom studio.

His critically-acclaimed debut album Handmade Cities was voted #5 in Guitar World Magazine’s “20 best guitar albums of the decade,” and hailed by Steve Vai as “one of the finest, forward thinking, melodic, rhythmically and harmonically deep, evolution of rock/metal instrumental guitar records I have ever heard.” Routinely mentioned in “best guitarist” lists, PLINI was named #4 in the “Top 10 best prog guitarists in the world today” by Music Radar in early 2020. PLINI also made Prog mag (UK)'s top 100 musicians of all time list.

Over the last few years, PLINI has toured the world supporting bands like Animals As Leaders, Periphery, Tesseract and Intervals, as well as playing festivals and headlining his own tours all over North America, Europe, Australia, Asia and India. In 2018, PLINI was the first instrumental act ever to play the legendary Download Festival in the UK.

PLINI was a special guest instructor at “Vai Academy” in 2019, alongside Steve Vai, Joe Satriani and Devin Townsend, and despite being entirely self-taught, he has been invited to give masterclasses at some of the most prestigious contemporary music colleges in the world, including Berklee College of Music, Musician’s Institute (USA), BIMM (UK), and JMC Academy (Australia).

PLINI has a signature guitar with Strandberg Guitars, signature guitar amp software with Neural DSP, and endorsement deals with Yahama Music, Dunlop, D’Addario and Fractal Audio.