Heavy trio HEXICON have unleashed the fierce new single “Emerald Queen”. The song rattles the Earth with devastating riffs and psychedelic imagery. The music video is a homage to 80’s monster anime taped on VHS, animated by the band’s own Young Heller.
Austin Cox, HEXICON’s guitarist shares:
“‘Emerald Queen’ came about when I got my first eight string guitar in 2022. I never played one previously. The intro riff was basically the first riff I ever played on an eight string. Simultaneously, I had a goal to write a shorter, heavier track compared to our material from Leave It All Behind (HEXICON’s debut album). I brought the demo to Andrew and Young and once they added their elements ‘Emerald Queen’ quickly came to life. We’re very excited about the evolution of our sound with this track.”
About HEXICON: HEXICON formed in 2018 in Pasadena / Los Angeles, California, seeing vocalist Young Heller joined the instrumental duo of brothers Andrew and Austin Cox of the band ANDRAUS. Their songs veer dynamically from heavy doom to intense thrash with understated interludes and shifting rhythms. “Emerald Queen” is the outfit’s first offering since 2022 saw the release of their debut full-length Leave It All Behind.
HEXICON is: Andrew Cox (drums) Young Heller (vocals) Austin Cox (guitar)
Don’t miss a chance to see the invasion of Polish extreme metal legion!
Polish death metal legends VADER– currently on their “Revelation Of The Wicked – North American 2023” tour (see the tour trek below) – have confirmed their “An Act Of Darkness In Asia – tour 2023” shows + announced a special 40th Anniversary Tour in Poland!
Piotr “Peter” Wiwczarek shared: VADERMANIAX !!! We proudly announce NEW dates confirmed on the upcoming “An Act Of Darkness In Asia – tour 2023” \m/ Besides shows in New Zealand, Australia and Japan, which we announced already a while ago – here we added dates in Philippines, Thailand, Singapore and Indonesia! More coming soon…. ARE YOU READY?
VADER w/ Hate + Thy Disease + guests: 30.05.23 🇵🇭 Manila / ”Ynares Sports Arena Pasig” 02.06.23 🇹🇭 Bangkok / ”MrFOX Live House” 03.06.23 🇸🇬 Singapore / ”GR.iD” 04.06.23 🇮🇩 Bekasi / ”Gladiator Arena” 09.06.23 🇯🇵 Tokyo / ”Shibuya WWW” 10.06.23 🇯🇵 Nagoya / ”Holiday Next” 11.06.23 🇯🇵 Osaka / ”Zeela” More shows to be announced soon!
Piotr “Peter” Wiwczarek on Polish “Carnal” 40th Anniversary Tour: “VADERMANIAX!!! “Brothers & Sisters” !!! Together with Massive Music we are preparing a nice birthday feast in the form of a series of concerts in Poland. We begin August 25 in the Olsztyn Amphitheater, where Vader was born and made his first stage cuts. Then we will visit eight more cities, ending in Poznań. There will be surprises… We will share the scenes with our colleagues from Frontside and Dopelord. See you there \m/ \m/”
Special 40th Anniversary shows are: Aug 25.2023 – Olsztyn / Open Air Amphitheater Aug 26.2023 – Rzeszów / Rock Night OA Aug 27.2023 – Warsaw / Summer Stage OA Aug 29.2023 – Gdansk / B90 Aug 08.2023 – Szczecin / OA Castle Aug 31.2023 – Wrocław / A2 Sep 01.2023 – Katowice / P23 Sep 02.2023 – Cracow / Kamienna Sep 03.2023 – Poznań / Tama
VADER are currently on their “Revelation Of The Wicked – North American 2023” tour. The 29-date trek kicks off in Arizona on March 18th. Joining the tour are Brazil’s death metal heroes KRISIUN and brutal-tech death merchants and labelmates DECREPIT BIRTH.
Confirmed dates for VADER’s “Revelation Of The Wicked – North American 2023” tour with KRISIUN and DECREPIT BIRTH are: 3/18/2023 Nile Theater – Mesa, AZ 3/19/2023 Sunshine Theater – Albuquerque, NM 3/20/2023 Amplified Live – Dallas, TX 3/21/2023 Come and Take it Live – Austin, TX 3/22/2023 White Oak Music Hall – Houston, TX 3/24/2023 Gramps – Miami, FL 3/25/2023 The Conduit – Orlando, FL 3/26/2023 The Masquerade (Hell) – Atlanta, GA 3/27/2023 Canal Club – Richmond, VA 3/27/2023 Warehouse on Watts – Philadelphia, PA 3/29/2023 Le Poisson Rouge – New York, NY 3/30/2923 Middle-East Downstairs – Boston, MA 3/31/2023 Studio TD – Montreal, QC 4/01/2023 La Source de la Martinière – Quebec City, QC 4/02/2023 Brass Monkey – Ottawa, ON 4/03/2023 Lee’s Palace – Toronto, ON 4/04/2023 The Sanctuary – Detroit, MI 4/05/2023 Reggies – Chicago, IL 4/06/2023 Skyway Theater – Minneapolis, MN 4/07/2023 BLVD Nights – Kansas City, MO 4/08/2023 Denver, CO – Marquis Theater 4/09/2023 Metro Music Hall – Salt Lake City, UT 4/11/2023 El Corazon – Seattle, WA 4/12/2023 Rickshaw Theater – Vancouver, BC 4/13/2023 Bossanova Ballroom – Portland, OR 4/14/2023 DNA Lounge – San Francisco, CA 4/15/2023 Backstage Bar – Las Vegas, NV 4/16/2023 1720 – Los Angeles, CA 4/17/2023 Brick by Brick – San Diego, CA
The tour in Australia, New Zealand, adding even more diversity and dark, sinister atmosphere to these very special events.
Finnish Helsinki-based metalheads Wishing Well have released today their fourth album “SIN AND SHAME” (Inverse Records). Together with the album the band also released a single and a video for the opening track “In The Line Of Fire”. It’s the third single and video off the new album. The song is about ordinary hard-working people trying to manage in a busy, more and more complicated and competitive world with ever-growing pressure and expectations from left and right. This goes with bands and musicians as well. The video was filmed by Toni Pasanen and edited by Sami Timonen.
Songs on “Sin And Shame” vary from the fast power metal style opening track to classic hard rock ballad “Dancing Across The Stars” and prog-influenced instrumental “Flying Finn”. The title track deals with ancient religious themes of sin and punishment whereas “Dogs Bark But The Caravan Rolls On” is a classic hard rock shuffle with a catchy riff and a punchline that makes it clear to everybody that they mean business.
Wishing Well can handle all these styles with flying colours, sounding original and familiar at the same time. The band have updated their sound with some more synthesizers and keyboards, though their distinctive trademark Hammond organ is still there on most of the songs, giving the music a majestic touch.
“We are relieved to get this album finally off our hands and hopefully into the hands and ears of as many people as possible. We enjoyed writing, rehearsing and recording it but now we just want people to hear the songs, live if possible. The new songs are great fun to play together and we want to take our babies out to the world”, says Anssi Korkiakoski, the guitar player and prime mover of the band. “We take pride in our work and though our music certainly isn’t groundbreaking or revolutionary, it still represents us and shows the world who we are and where we come from. We’ve found our corner of the world and we want to share that corner with hard rock and metal fans all over the world. With our heads in the clouds and feet on the ground, seriously tongue-in-cheek”, he finishes.
Wishing Well – Sin and Shame
01. In The Line Of Fire 02. Soul Rider 03. Space Invaders 04. Mistress Of The Night 05. Lonely Road 06. Dogs Bark But The Caravan Rolls On 07. Sin And Shame 08. Heavenly Body 09. Dancing Across The Stars 10. The Golden Rule 11. Flying Finn
The album was recorded and mixed in various studios during 2022 by Henrik Sirelä, exclucing the title track, recorded and mixed by Marko Kataja.
The album is out on all major digital music services as well as on CD.
Untopia, the second LP from Tokyo, Japan’s brutalizing metallic hardcore quintet KRUELTY, is now streaming in its entirety on the eve of its worldwide release through Profound Lore Records.
Formed in Tokyo in the summer of 2017, KRUELTY has emerged as the most notable artist to find that sweet spot where heavy beatdown hardcore and ‘90s American/Scandinavian death/doom metal meet. This devastating amalgamation becomes the blueprint of brutality and slam the band unleashes. With KRUELTY, you will hear the ultimate convergence of some of the most punishing death metal riffs and the most mind-blowing breakdowns influenced by Japanese and ‘90s East Coast hardcore bands.
photo by Seijiro Nishimi
2020 saw the release of KRUELTY’s debut album A Dying Truth and revealed itself as one of the heaviest albums that year. With their second LP, Untopia, the band will release an album even more massive in scope and ultimately heavier than their debut. The bulldozing seven-song record was produced by Taylor Young at The Pit Studios (Nails, Xibalba, Section H8) while the band was touring in the US earlier this year, mastered by Brad Boatright at Audiosiege (Obituary, Terminal Nation, Mindforce), and features artwork by Norwegian artist Sindre Foss Skancke.
Endure KRUELTY’s entire Untopia LP now at YouTube RIGHT HERE.
Untopia will see release through Profound Lore tomorrow, Friday, March 17th, on LP, CD, CS, and digital formats. Find preorders HERE and watch the “Harder Than Before” video HERE.
KRUELTY continues touring across the planet in support of Untopia. Having just completed tours of New Zealand and Australia, KRUELTY will now crush through their home country this week for ten dates on the Untopia Japan Tour, running from March 17th through April 2nd. Less than two weeks later, the band heads to Europe for the Untopia European Domination Tour 2023, running from April 12th to May 7th with special guests Gates To Hell, and Splitknuckle on select dates. See confirmed dates below and watch for additional tour announcements to post shortly.
KRUELTY Untopia Japan Tour: 3/17/2023 B.B. Street – Yokohama, JP 3/18/2023 Socrates – Kyoto, JP 3/19/2023 Keith Flack – Fukuoka, JP 3/21/2023 Hood – Nigata, JP 3/22/2023 東高円寺二万電圧– Tokyo, JP 3/23/2023 Bears – Osaka, JP 3/24/2023 Rizin – Kagawa, JP 3/25/2023 Agit – Hiroshima, JP 3/26/2023 Zion – Nagoya, JP 4/02/2023 Bushbash – Tokyo, JP
KRUELTY Untopia European Domination w/ Gates To Hell, Splitknuckle:
4/12/2023 Le Temps Machine – Joué-Les-Tours, FR 4/13/2023 Orbeko Etxea – Llodio, ES 4/14/2023 Sala Rouge – Vigo, ES 4/15/2023 Núcleo A70 – Lisbon, PT 4/16/2023 Let’s Go Rock Bar – Parla, ES 4/17/2023 La Deskomunal – Barcelona, ES 4/18/2023 Secret Place – Montpellier, FR 4/20/2023 Le Glazart – Paris, FR 4/21/2023 The Green Door Store – Brighton, UK 4/22/2023 The Cab – Newport, UK 4/23/2023 Deadwax – Birmingham, UK* 4/24/2023 The Lubber Fiend – Newcastle, UK* 4/25/2023 Flying Duck – Glasgow, UK* 4/26/2023 Percy Picklebackers – Nottingham, UK* 4/27/2023 Boom – Leeds, UK* 4/28/2023 New Cross Inn – London, UK* 4/29/2023 Treftpunt – Gent, BE 4/30/2023 Bloodshed Fest @ Metropool – Hengelo, NL 5/03/2023 Klub Pod Minogą – Poznan, PL 5/04/2023 Gerber 3 – Weimar, DE 5/05/2023 Kulturzentrum dasHaus – Ludwigshafen, DE 5/06/2023 Rocas – Luxembourg, LU 5/07/2023 Baroeg – Rotterdam, NL
Crossover thrash titans TOXIC HOLOCAUST will return to the road this Summer on a month-long US co-headlining tour with Havok! The journey begins July 7th in Denver, Colorado and runs through August 11th in Lincoln, Nebraska. Support will be provided by Hammerhedd and MNRK Heavy labelmates, I Am.
Comments TOXIC HOLOCAUST mastermind Joel Grind, “We are stoked to be hitting the road this Summer with Havok. We are all looking forward to playing all over the country…finally. It feels like it’s been forever since we hit these places, but now we are locked and loaded and ready to bring a night of thrash to the masses!”
Venue presales begin Thursday, March 16th at 10:00am local time. General on sale date is Friday, March 17th at 10:00am local time. See all confirmed dates below.
TOXIC HOLOCAUST w/ Havok, I Am, Hammerhedd: 7/07/2023 Summit – Denver, CO 7/08/2023 The Complex – Salt Lake City, UT 7/10/2023 El Corazon – Seattle, WA 7/11/2023 Dante’s – Portland, OR 7/13/2023 Cornerstone – Berkley, CA 7/14/2023 Goldfield – Roseville, CA 7/15/2023 The Regent – Los Angeles, CA 7/16/2023 Observatory – Santa Ana, CA 7/18/2023 Nile Theater – Mesa, AZ 7/19/2023 Rockhouse Bar & Grill – El Paso, TX 7/20/2023 Jake’s Backroom – Lubbock, TX 7/21/2023 The Echo Lounge & Music Hall – Dallas, TX 7/22/2023 Come And Take It Live – Austin, TX 7/23/2023 Warehouse Live – Houston, TX 7/24/2023 House Of Blues – New Orleans, LA 7/26/2023 Gramps – Miami, FL 7/28/2023 Masquerade (Hell) – Atlanta, GA 7/29/2023 The Basement East – Nashville, TN 7/30/2023 Hanger 1819 – Greensboro, NC 7/31/2023 Canal Club – Richmond, VA 8/01/2023 Warehouse On Watts – Philadelphia, PA 8/02/2023 Soundstage – Baltimore, MD 8/03/2023 Montage Music Hall – Rochester, NY 8/04/2023 Brighton Music Hall – Boston, MA 8/05/2023 The Monarch – Brooklyn, NY 8/07/2023 The King Of Clubs – Columbus, OH 8/08/2023 The Shelter – Detroit, MI 8/09/2023 Reggies Rock Club – Chicago, IL 8/10/2023 Fine Line Music Hall – St. Paul, MN 8/11/2023 The Royal – Lincoln, NE
TOXIC HOLOCAUST’s most recent studio album, Primal Future: 2019, is out now on MNRK Heavy. A dystopian technological takeover drives the album thematically, but the passionately delivered music is vintage TOXIC HOLOCAUST, taking things all the way back to the band’s early origins.
TOXIC HOLOCAUST began kicking out the corrosive jams in basements and bedrooms over twenty years ago, building a punishing legacy of mutant thrash and filthy street punk that’s outlasted the heydays of the genres that spawned them; founder Joel Grind, the headband-wearing headbanger whose dedication to the one-man-band ethos gives the late Quorthon a run for his money, melting down the greatest punk metal crossover riff collection imaginable into nuclear ooze. With each successive release, Grind repurposes the most visceral strengths of speed, thrash, and punk through his own unique vision, making for new metal anthems that consistently reignite a circle-pitting feeding frenzy in the scene.
TOXIC HOLOCAUST’s Primal Future: 2019 is available on CD, digital, and vinyl formats. Preview and purchase the record at THIS LOCATION.
Camping & Extreme Music In Alberta’s Badlands – August 4th – 6th, 2023
Alberta, Canada’s LOUD AS HELL is ready to unveil its most stacked lineup to date with its 2023 edition featuring JUNGLE ROT, NARCOTIC WASTELAND, INCITE, NECRONOMICON, THE CONVALESCENCE, ARRIVAL OF AUTUMN and lots more (full lineup listed below).
Being held from August 4th to 6th at the Dinosaur Downs Stampede Grounds in Drumheller, AB, this year’s festivities see the return of American and Mexican bands joining the lineup along with artists from across Canada performing for the three-day open-air event.
Highlights for this year’s lineup witness the return of groovy death metal AmericansJUNGLE ROT to Canadian soil to headline the closing night on August 6th in support of their latest album “A Call to Arms” released last year on Unique Leader Records.
Toledo, OH’s THE CONVALESCENCE is one of the USA’s unstoppable tour de force, touring Europe in 2022 with Chelsea Grin, and Carnifex plus an upcoming tour in Japan in 2023 with Exhumed and Defiled along with their latest single “No Survivors” ft. Scott Ian Lewis of Carnifex that has fans demanding more and more.
North Carolina’s Narcotic Wasteland’s (founded by ex-Nile guitarist Dallas Toler-Wade) festival appearance comes as part of the band’s first cross-Canada tour as they will be supporting their forthcoming third studio album in 2023 on Mega Force Records.
Phoenix, AZ’s INCITE, now close to 20 years into a career where everything was earned and nothing was taken for granted, the band bridges the gap between multiple crowds across various metal sub-genres. As renegade disciples of trailblazing architects like Pantera, Slayer, Sepultura, and Machine Head, INCITE raise the torch for trend-killing and hipster-smashing metal. The band’s fifth album, Built to Destroy released in 2019 (Minus Head Records), is a visceral, urgent, voracious distillation of modern metal, with reverence for the past, produced by Steve Evetts (The Dillinger Escape Plan, Suicide Silence) and mastered by Zeuss (Rob Zombie, Hatebreed).
One of Canada’s longest-running blackened death metal bands hailing from Montreal, Quebec, NECRONOMICON‘s career spans over 30 years since it was first formed in 1988 by founding guitarist and singer Rob “The Witch” in the deep, northern part of Quebec’s Fjord of Saguenay. Since then, the band has carefully released each full-length without haste, allowing them to perfect every nuance before unleashing their sonic assaults upon the masses.
Canadian metalcore titans, ARRIVAL OF AUTUMN, hailing from Grande Prairie, AB, are LOUD AS HELL alumni and return to co-headline opening night on August 4th in support of their new album “Kingdom Undone” being released on Nuclear Blast this coming May.
LOUD AS HELL 2023 LINEUP: Thursday, August 3rd – Kick Off Party EYE OF HORUS SKEPSIS BALROGATH KILL WITCH Friday, August 4th INCITE ARRIVAL OF AUTUMN OSYRON LOST NEBULA WHORRIFY SILENT LINE ASHES OF YGGDRASIL Saturday, August 5th NARCOTIC WASTELAND NECRONOMICON KYLE PULLAN UNTIMELY DEMISE HAZZARDOUS MATERIAL (Burlesque) GORGATRON JULIET RUIN VAPOR KING DYLAN ENVEILED SOL RUNNER SIONIS NECHT DIE ANOTHER DAY HOOKER SPIT Sunday, August 6th JUNGLE ROT THE CONVALESCENCE KYLE PULLAN POUND HAZZARDOUS MATERIAL (Burlesque) WORMWITCH W.O.R. LEGACY ROXXIE COTTON WITCHMAYNE EYES OF PERDITION NOMAD FALL OF EARTH VOLT BRAIN STEM
Blake Ibanez of Power Trip returns with a new band, FUGITIVE, and their Maniac debut EP – his first output since the untimely passing of legendary Power Trip vocalist Riley Gale – delivering the aggressive pit detonation thrash he’s known for in Power Trip with an even rawer and looser ferocity.
Joined by Seth Gilmore (Skourge), Lincoln Mullins (Creeping Death), Victor Gutierrez, and Andy Messer, Ibanez and crew cohere in intensely violent crossover fashion with FUGITIVE; a product of long earned experience in the studio and on the stage. A savage death metal vocal style, like Power Trip passed through an Obituary meatgrinder, solidifies Maniac with the heaviness of a head hitting concrete. A short, sharp, shock of an EP, Maniac is a fierce introduction across its seventeen-minute runtime to a future that FUGITIVE is just beginning to write and a reminder that Texas heat remains a steadily potent force in underground metal and hardcore. The record features four original tracks, with a cover of the legendary Bathory’s “Raise The Dead” rounding out the succinctly serrated five-track debut.
Maniac was produced by Blake Ibanez, was engineered and mixed by Rubio N. with the drums engineered by Drew LeClair and additional drum production by Slade Williams, and mastered by Will Killingsworth at Dead Air. The cover art was handled by Jack Bruce with additional art assistance by Erick Cruz, the logo by Daniel Porta, and photography by Will Mecca and Sydney Lane. This is a must-hear release for fans of Power Trip, Enforced, Obituary, Iron Age, and Creeping Death.
Following its surprise digital release and subsequent cassette release last year, 20 Buck Spin now presents Maniac on 12” vinyl and MCD, set for worldwide release on April 28th. Find preorders HERE.
Maniac – Track Listing:
The Javelin
Maniac
Hell’s Half Acre
Neutralized
Raise The Dead (Bathory cover)
FUGITIVE has been taking their ripping anthems to audiences live over the past year, and is booking new tour dates for this year. March 17th sees them taking part in the mighty LDB fest in Louisville alongside Terror, No Pressure, Knocked Loose, Drug Church, and many more over the multi-day fest. March 23rd, they play the Hell’s Heroes V Preparty in Houston with Triumph Of Death, Vio-lence, Spectral Wound, Necrofier, and more. Watch for additional dates and tour announcements to post throughout the months ahead.
Hello friends! Jimmy here! As you all know, I’ve had some health issues in the last few months. I’ve been working hard to get back into playing shape, but unfortunately I’ve had a couple setbacks in the last few weeks. With the support of my wife Cathy, my KIX bandmates and crew, and all of our friends and fans, I will continue working to return to Rock Your Face Off to the best of my ability. But I’m not there yet.
I’ve come to the realization that I will not be able to return to the stage as soon as I was hoping. I’ve been discussing with my wife and bandmates all the different scenarios for KIX to get back to playing for our fans again. We’ve all thought long and hard about it and have decided it is best to go forward with someone to fill in for me until I can return. We are very fortunate to have found someone who I think is the best possible choice for us.
Please show your love and support to Matt Starr as we welcome him into the KIX camp. He is an amazing drummer/vocalist who has played with many top artists, notably Ace Frehley and Mr. Big. I am humbled and honored that he has agreed to help us out and I welcome him with open arms. As of now, Matt will be playing all the KIX shows until further notice. Please show your support of the band, and Matt, until I can make my return. See you soon! -Jimmy
Louisiana-based metallic hardcore outfit CAPRA will support Killswitch Engage on five special shows this Spring. The short April run will make its way through Baltimore, Charlotte, Norfolk, Lancaster, and Cleveland. Additional support will be provided by Currents.
Comments vocalist Crow Lotus: “Killswitch Engage puts on one hell of a show and we were lucky enough to catch them headline Furnace Fest 2021! It’s going to be an honor to share a stage with them. We’re all stoked!”
The dates with Killswitch Engage follow the band’s Southeast headlining tour, currently underway. This June, CAPRA will appear on Benefit Bash to help support the Sloss Furnace Foundation. Presented by Furnace Fest, the event will be held on Saturday, June 17th and features Darkest Hour, The Acacia Strain, Integrity, Maylene And The Sons Of Disaster, Left To Suffer, and others. Profits from the event will go toward improving areas related to the Sloss Furnaces National Historic Landmark including stage repair, enhanced lighting, planting new grass etc.
See all confirmed dates below.
CAPRA [remaining dates]: 3/14/2023 The Sentient Bean – Savannah, GA 3/15/2023 Boggs Social – Atlanta, GA 3/16/2023 Conduit – Orlando, FL w/ Thirst 3/17/2023 SFL Bar – Port Saint Lucie, FL w/ Thirst 3/18/2023 The Legion – Tampa, FL w/ Thirst 3/19/2023 Mosey’s Downtown – Panama City, FL
w/ Killswitch Engage, Currents: 4/10/2023 Rams Head – Baltimore, MD 4/11/2023 The Fillmore – Charlotte, NC 4/13/2023 The Norva – Norfolk, VA 4/14/2023 LAUNCH Music Conference & Festival @ Freedom Hall/Lancaster Convention Center – Lancaster, PA 4/15/2023 Agora Ballroom – Cleveland, OH End Tour 6/17/2023 Benefit Bash @ Sloss Furnaces National Historic Landmark – Birmingham, AL [info]
Formed in 2016 by guitarist Tyler Harper and drummer Jeremy Randazzo, the initial idea for CAPRA was to create something that would be fresh while still giving listeners a sense of nostalgia for the sounds of the late ’90s and early 2000s hardcore and punk scenes. Following various lineup changes, and adding Crow Lotus (vocals) and Trevor Alleman (bass) to their ranks, everything came together.
The band’s most recent full-length, InTransmission (2021) — recorded with Jai Benoit (Golgothan, Father Rust), then mixed by Taylor Young (Nails, Twitching Tongues), and mastered by Brad Boatwright (Pig Destroyer, Integrity, Torche, Idle Hands) — represents the culmination of years of hard work, reflecting everything they’ve been writing and pouring into the band since solidifying the lineup.
The band is currently putting the finishing touches on new material with details to be unveiled in the weeks to come. In the meantime, preview and purchase In Transmission at THIS LOCATION.
Legendary German heavy metal icons HELLOWEEN will return to the US and Canada this Spring as part of their ongoing United Forces world tour alongside supporting special guests, HammerFall. The trek will commence on May 13th in Dallas, Texas and wind its way through a total of thirteen cities, the journey drawing to a close on June 3rd in San Francisco, California. Fans can expect an epic night of HELLOWEEN hits spanning the band’s legacy as well as tunes from their latest album, Helloween, marking the first time tracks from the album will be performed live for US and Canadian audiences.
Tickets are on sale now. Secure yours today atTHIS LOCATION. See all confirmed dates below.
HELLOWEEN w/ HammerFall: 5/13/2023 The Bomb Factory – Dallas, TX 5/16/2023 Jannus Live – St. Petersburg, FL 5/18/2023 The Fillmore – Silver Spring, MD 5/20/2023 Terminal 5 – New York, NY 5/21/2023 The Palladium – Worcester, MA 5/23/2023 History – Toronto, ON 5/24/2023 Royal Oak Music Hall – Royal Oak MI 5/26/2023 The Riviera – Chicago, IL 5/27/2023 The Fillmore – Minneapolis, MN 5/30/2023 Ogden Theatre – Denver, CO 6/01/2023 Brooklyn Bowl – Las Vegas, NV 6/02/2023 YouTube Theater – Los Angeles, CA 6/03/2023 The Warfield – San Francisco, CA
Doom metal band MNRVA have released a video for their song “Not the One”. The track is taken from their album Hollow which came out last year via Black Doomba Records. A vinyl version is set to be released on April 7th, 2023 with pre-orders starting on March 17th, 2023.
The band comments: ” ‘Not the One’ is a mid-tempo, sludgy track with a psychedelic intro, catchy vocal hooks, and in-the-pocket grooves. We filmed the video at Filmmaker Chris Bickel’s compound on a sweltering Saturday in June. Columbia, SC’s city motto is “famously hot” and we were all pretty much at our limit, even with constant hydration and industrial fans, which set the perfect scene for a song about burning it all down. The hottest part of the day was actually well after sunset, when the director had us improvise some around-the-bonfire scenes. The fire burned so intensely hot and fast that we had to act quickly. Kevin is a natural at spontaneous invention, and dark mystery.”
MNRVA venture further into the descending darkness with their debut full-length, Hollow. Conjuring gloomy atmospheres with funereal doom and fuzz tones, the heavy trio are unafraid to unveil what’s lurking in the shadows.
Forming in 2018, MNRVA made their debut with the EP Black Sky giving fans a tantalising taste of their unconventional sludge fuelled doom sound. Hollow builds further on their exploration of heavy music with groove-laden riffs, mid-slow tempo tracks and vocals which range between soaring melodies and those of guttural demons . “Not the One” introduces the new album with ludicrously overdriven instruments, impactful percussion and vocals that appear to be reaching out of the abyss. The title track falls further into the gloom evoking an intense dark mood. Melodic motifs and riffs punctuate the black with an experimental twist, adding something extra to the sound without breaking the nightmarish illusion. “The Way” concludes the album with the wrath of the void, fusing the sinister and sombre.
Hollow is a melting pot of sludge drawing upon the guitar grind of MELVINS, the vocal interplay of MASTODON, and the post-doom heaviness of Wisconsin’s BEREFT. Embracing their influences while cultivating their own distinctive edge, MNRVA manipulate these dynamic musical elements to manifest an enticing atmosphere.
New Wave Of British Heavy Metal icons, SATAN, will return to the stage on a three-week US headlining tour! The Hell’s Decibels Tour 2023 will commence on March 17th in West Hollywood, California and run through April 13th in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania where the band will headline this year’s Decibel Metal & Beer Fest pre-party. Support will be provided by NightDemon and Haunt.
Comments the band, “This is the most extensive US tour SATAN has ever undertaken. Come join us!”
See all confirmed dates below.
SATAN w/ Night Demon, Haunt: 3/17/2023 Whisky A Go Go – West Hollywood, CA 3/18/2023 Eli’s Mile High Club – Oakland, CA 3/19/2023 Dive Bar – Las Vegas, NV 3/21/2023 Aces High Saloon – Salt Lake City, UT 3/22/2023 HQ – Denver, CO 3/24/2023 Come And Take It Live – Austin, TX 3/25/2023 White Oak (Hell’s Heroes) – Houston, TX 3/26/2023 Amplified Live – Dallas, TX 3/27/2023 Barleycorns – Wichita, KS 3/29/2023 Turf Club – St. Paul, MN 3/30/2023 Reggies – Chicago, IL 3/31/2023 Lefty’s Live Music – Des Moines, IA 4/01/2023 Cain’s Ballroom (2 Minutes To Tulsa) – Tulsa, OK 4/04/2023 Pyramid Scheme – Grand Rapids, MI 4/05/2023 Beachland Ballroom – Cleveland, OH 4/06/2023 Ace Of Cups – Columbus, OH 4/07/2023 Lovedraft’s – Mechanicsburg, PA 4/08/2023 Sonia – Cambridge, MA 4/09/2023 Saint Vitus Bar – Brooklyn, NY 4/11/2023 Dingbatz – Clifton, NJ 4/13/2023 Decibel Metal & Beer Fest Pre-Party @ The Foundry – Philadelphia, PA
SATAN released their sixth full length album, Earth Infernal, via Metal Blade last April. Earth Infernal is a product of the times that birthed it and could only be the work of SATAN. Having churned out cutting edge heavy metal throughout the ‘80s – and reunited in 2011 – the record maintains the high standard of musicianship the band set long ago and it is perhaps their timeliest release. “For two years, the world has been preoccupied with politics and pandemics and while we were all looking the other way our planet has continued to get hotter,” said guitarist Russ Tippins upon the record’s release. “Our Earth is now infernally hot. Almost irreversibly so. We are on a one-way trip to Hell and dragging our children along with us. Yes, SATAN has something to say about global warming.” The album entered the German Charts at position #12, the highest chart entry ever for the band.
L-R – Tim Brown – Guitar, Pete Klassen – Bass, – Dan Cleary – Vocals, Jono Webster – Drums, – John Simon Fallon – Guitar Photo Credit: Dana Zuk
Canadian shredders STRIKER are excited to share the news that they have entered the studio to work on their seventh album with producer Josh Schroeder (Lorna Shore, Tallah, King 810). The yet-to-be-titled album follows the band’s singles “Strange Love” (2022) and “Death Wish”(2021), which will be featured on the record that follows their Juno Award-winning self-released full-length “Play to Win” (2018) (Record Breaking). The forthcoming album will also feature the band’s latest lineup addition of long-time friend and guitarist John Simon Fallon (The Order of Chaos).
The band comments:
“We have arrived at shred central in Midland, MI. We’ll be spending the next 5 weeks WITH Josh Schroeder who will essentially be our 6th band member for the creative process. We are stoked to get into the studio with HIM. We are looking to do something different sonically with this album, more extreme, more over the top, and more punishing and we think he’s the right man for the job. It’s going to be a bit of an experiment for us but we are ready to push out of our comfort zone and lay down some caveman riffs and bigger hooks. Stay tuned for more updates and don’t forget to check out our Patreon for exclusive content!”
In additional news, STRIKER is confirmed to perform this summer in Europe at Bloodstock Festival in the UK and Headbangers Open Air in Germany. Canadian fans can also check out STRIKER at this year’s Hyperspace Metal Festival in Vancouver on April 14th at The Fox Cabaret.
Please, I BEG to ALL marketing and advertising firms world-wide: STOP it now with using Queen songs in television commercials. If I have to hear “Don’t Stop Me Now” one more time in a commercial, I’m gonna need therapy. Plus Queen easily has the most overplayed songs in the history of modern music. “Another One Bites The Dust” is musically raccoon shit on a moss covered tree stump. In other words… get over the Queen infatuation everybody and move on.
Dear Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame: Motörhead, Bad Brains and King Crimson. Look them up.
To ALL the people that spend hundreds or even thousands on concert tickets: you’re only making the resellers rich. Keep it up, though. Good job.
Industrial metal’s pioneering vocalist BURTON C.BELL will unveil his “Paradise Found” photography series at the Vincent Castiglia Gallery in Fort Lauderdale, Florida next month.
The series features twenty original, full-color photographs of abandoned industrial buildings taken in darkness and fog from 2002-2003. BELL’s images are printed on aluminum using the Dye Sublimation process – an approach BELL calls “celluloid impressionism.” The photographs are representational of BELL’s industrial and science fiction aesthetic.
The Vincent Castiglia Gallery, which opened in 2022 to showcase Castiglia’s tattoo designs and selection of limited-edition painting prints, will be premiering BURTON C. BELL’s work on March 11th. The exhibit will run through May 23rd.
BURTON C. BELL is renowned for his thirty-year career as the frontman and vocalist in the groundbreaking industrial metal band Fear Factory. His vocal style became the template for a genre of music that became a mainstay of the metal music scene. BELL’s fascination with science fiction and his love for industrial buildings and machinery inspired his dystopian lyrical concepts. These themes evolved into focal points for his photography, in particular the abandoned and derelict structures of a post-industrial society that have become obsolete.
In 2002, while recording new music in a studio surrounded by forest, it was in the borough of Milton, Pennsylvania that BELL found paradise within the small town that was once the heart of manufacturing in the Susquehanna Valley. Milton’s days of industry are long gone; however, the factories and buildings remain dormant and empty, inspiring BELL’s music and vision.
Comments BELL, “I am grateful to have this opportunity to show ‘Paradise Found’ at the Vincent Castiglia Gallery so that I can share the beauty I saw during those few seconds of exposure. These prints have not been photoshopped. This is exactly what I was seeing.”
The event is part of BELL’s grander vision as he pursues his next chapter as a multi-faceted artist. For further inquiry please visit: VincentCastigliaGallery.com.
German Heavy Metal institution MYSTICPROPHECY will release their hot awaited 12th studio album “Hellriot” on May 19th, 2023 via ROAR! Rock of Angels Records!
At least with their celebrated last masterpiece “Metal Division” and chart successes in several countries (including #20 in the official Top 100 German album charts), MYSTIC PROPHECY belong to the spearhead of international Heavy Metal. They are one of the most successful acts of the genre on digital platforms and with several hundred thousand followers on Spotify. At their live shows they prove again and again that they understand Heavy Metal as a passionate ultimate fight. And with their new album “Hellriot” they pick up where they left off with “Metal Divison”: Powerful concise hooks with shout-along factor, hard-hitting and monstrous sound paired with technically brilliant riffs, all refined by a powerful modern production that is second to none and makes the band so popular and unique. In short: With “Hellriot”, MYSTIC PROPHECY deliver brilliantly and make every Heavy Metal heart beating merciless faster!
“Hellriot” will be released on May 19, 2023 as jewel case CD, limited mediabook CD, various vinyl colors and picture discs and digital streaming / download format. Also released as a limited to 666 copies collector’s hardcover boxset that includes: the limited mediabook CD, velvet bag, all in one flatware/multitool, raincoat, and signed autograph!
Mystic Prophecy: R.D. Liapakis – Vocals Markus Pohl – Guitar Evan K – Guitar Joey Roxx – Bass Hanno Kerstan – Drums
Produced by by R.D. Liapakis Mixed & Mastered by Henrik Udd Cover Artwork & Layout by Dusan Markovic Additional layout by Michael Gladigau Photos by Frank Kollbi
COUNTDOWN: THE FINAL 50 SHOWS. After 50 years of Rock and Roll mayhem, the final 50 shows are here.
KISS ARMY Presale starts March 6th at 10am local time. Please check KISSOnline.com for your local presale time.
General Public Onsale for North America begins March 10th at 10am local time.*
Exclusive VIP experiences will be available. Details for each experience and territory vary so be sure to check your market.
4/12/23 Manaus, Brazil 4/15/23 Bogota, Colombia 4/18/23 Brasília, Brazil 4/20/23 Belo Horizonte 4/22/23 São Paulo, Brazil 4/25/23 Florianópolis, Brazil 4/28/23 Buenos Aires, Argentina 4/30/23 Santiago, Chile 5/4/23 San Salvador, El Salvador 5/27/23 Columbus, OH 6/3/23 Plymouth, UK 6/5/23 Birmingham, UK 6/6/23 Newcastle, UK 6/10/23 Prague, Czech Republic 6/12/23 Amsterdam, Netherlands 6/13/23 Belgium, Brussels 6/15/23 Clisson, France 6/17/23 Munich, Germany 6/19/23 Kraków, Poland 6/21/23 Dresden, Germany 6/22/23 Berlin, Germany 6/25/23 Cartagena, Spain 6/27/23 Lyon, France 6/29/22 Tuscany, Italy 7/1/23 Manheim, Germany 7/2/23 Cologne, Germany 7/5/23 London, UK 7/7/23 Manchester, UK 7/8/23 Glasgow, UK 7/12/23 Rättvik, Sweden 7/13/23 Rättvik, Sweden 7/15/23 Tonsberg, Norway 10/29/23 Austin, TX 11/1/23 Palm Desert, CA 11/3/23 Los Angeles, CA 11/6/23 Seattle, WA 11/8/23 Vancouver, BC 11/10/23 Edmonton, AB 11/12/23 Calgary, AB 11/13/23 Saskatoon, SK 11/15/23 Winnipeg, MB 11/18/23 Montreal, QC 11/19/23 Quebec, QC 11/21/23 Kanata, ON 11/22/23 Toronto, ON 11/24/23 Knoxville, TN 11/25/23 Indianapolis, IN 11/27/23 Rosemont, IL 11/29/23 Baltimore, MD 12/1/23 New York, NY 12/2/23 New York, NY
Atomic Fire Records is proud to announce the signing of Swedish cult metal band CEMETARY, one of the most exciting bands of the ’90s, capable of merging death metal with gothic and doom flavors. CEMETARY‘s founding member and mastermind Mathias Lodmalm is back to remind us that true legends never die.
Lodmalm comments: “After several decades in the wilderness, CEMETARY finally arrives home at Atomic Fire Records. For better or for worse, I have always gone my own way and rolled the bones as they may. Roughly a decade ago, I started crafting a sound that came to be the upcoming album Come To Ruin. Working with a label was never a thought, quite the opposite. But when I heard the rumblings from Donzdorf, it pulled me in, and what I saw was the finest team in metal today.
“To finally be able to work with people as passionate as myself is a true blessing. I am forever grateful. Old titles will come back to life with the highest production values possible. Not only one, but two new albums are being prepared to usher in the apocalypse with a ferocity never before heard from the band. This has been a long time coming – plans are best laid. Thanks to all who patiently waited and kept CEMETARY alive by tuning into the sound.”
Atomic Fire Records co-founder/A&R MarkusWosgien adds, “It was in 1993 when I discovered CEMETARY with their second album, Godless Beauty, which guided me into another world, similar as Tiamat (Clouds) and Paradise Lost (Shades Of God) did the year before. But CEMETARY was different, even more intense with more ‘corners and edges.’ Songs like ‘And Julie Is No More’ and ‘By My Own Hand’ stuck in my head and I can repeat every second even three decades later.
“Some months ago,” he continues, “Lake Of Tears mastermind Daniel Brennare introduced me to Mathias Lodmalm and we started to talk about the past and future. That’s why we kick off our cooperation with beautiful reissues of their ’90s albums, starting with An Evil Shade Of Grey and my all-time favorite, Godless Beauty, including individual interviews and new graphics. Mathias is also in the final steps of a brand new CEMETARY album and the demos we heard took us back to the band’s origin and breathe the mood of those first two cult records.”
Over twenty years have passed but now is the time to break the silence – a new incarnation of CEMETARY springs to life. In celebration of their return is a limited exclusive T-shirt, designed by Lodmalm himself. Featuring CEMETARY‘s logo, this collector’s item is limited to only thirty-four pieces worldwide to celebrate thirty-four years of the band’s existence!
About Cemetary: Based in Borås, Sweden, Mathias Lodmalm and his comrades immediately reaped recognition unleashing a stunning debut album titled An Evil Shade Of Grey (1992), shortly followed by their Godless Beauty (1993) masterpiece and Black Vanity (1994). CEMETARY incessantly dominated the extreme metal scene releasing two more records (1996’s Sundown and 1997’s Last Confessions) and touring all over Europe.
Following the band’s split in 1997, Lodmalm released his swansong, Phantasma, in 2005. Continually active within the metal underground, he reemerged as CEMETARY 1213 to create the science fiction inspired concept album The Beast Divine, showing a much colder and harder edge than its predecessors.
May 5, 2023 will see heavy speed metal giants SAVAGE GRACE return with a brand new studio album, entitled “Sign Of The Cross”, through Massacre Records!
On their forthcoming album, SAVAGE GRACE are not only introducing their new vocalist GabrielColon – who is described as a blend of the early Rob Halford and the young Ian Gillian – but creating and moving into a new dimension of metal while keeping true to their authentic roots. Guitarist Christian Logue assembled the most incredible musicians from across the world to create the most devastating version of SAVAGE GRACE yet.
Get a sneak peak of their upcoming offering, as the band has just unleashed a music video for first single ‘Automoton’! According to Logue, “Automoton is inspired by Aldous Huxley’s ‘Brave New World’ and is very relevant to the events of the day.”
Forty years of metal experience went into crafting each of the new album songs into classics they will soon become. In addition, provocative, thought-inspiring lyrics and powerful topics weave their way through this mesmerizing collection of songs.
Christian Logue comments: “This album is my masterpiece and a grand addition to my legacy of universally acclaimed classic metal recordings. Every song on this album is powerful, there is not one weak track on this record.”
“Sign Of The Cross” was produced by Logue and was mixed and mastered by Roland Grapow at Grapow Studios. Slated for a release as CD, ltd. Vinyl LP and Digital formats on May 5, 2023 via Massacre Records, the pre-sale has just started at THIS LOCATION!
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