 Photo Credit - Andrew McEnaney The trailblazing quartet Kublai Khan TX have unleashed their latest sonic assault on the world with their new track "Low Tech" and the accompanying music video (via Rise Records). Stream "Low Tech" here, or watch the official music video in the thumbnail below.  Speaking about the new single the band said, “As a thank you for selling out so many shows and supporting our upcoming headliner, we want to give y’all a new bone to chew on. Low Tech - A meat and potatoes mosh metal landmine for all our Neanderthals out there. Brought to y’all smoking hot straight from the fire pit. Share it. Learn it. And see it live. Thanks for a great start to year y’all.”
North American fans will also have their chance to see the band on Wave 1 of their headlining run beginning next week (with special guests Sunami, Judiciary and Momentum) and Wave 2 beginning in May (with support from Harms Way , Pain of Truth and Justice For The Damned), as well as a couple of dates with Slaughter to Prevail in April (ticket info here).
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 PVRIS releases the official music video for their first song of the year – a powerhouse all-female collab with Canadian rapper Tommy Genesis and experimental DJ/producer/vocalist Alice Longyu-Gao (featured artists) as well as the track’s co-writer, Kanner. The culture curators are a lethal combo with the sinister new track, which sees Gunnulfsen’s signature production flair elevated to new extremes. Historically, men have feared and persecuted women’s power and magic, but, propelled by unstoppable punk, political, and raucous energy, the song is a testament to each artist’s unique creative vision and the power of female collaboration. “Burn The Witch” marks PVRIS’ first release of 2024, and will serve as the lead single to PVRIS’ forthcoming project, due this spring via Hopeless Records. The project is the follow-up to her critically acclaimed fourth studio album, “EVERGREEN,” which debuted at #1 on the UK Official Top Rock & Metal Albums chart. This April, Gunnulfsen embarks on a 47-date international headlining tour, with stops at the infamous Troxy in London, and The Wiltern in Los Angeles.  The culture curators are a lethal combo with the sinister new track, which sees Gunnulfsen’s signature production flair elevated to new extremes. Historically, men have feared and persecuted women’s power and magic, but, propelled by unstoppable punk, political, and raucous energy, the song is a testament to each artist’s unique creative vision and the power of female collaboration. “Burn The Witch” marks PVRIS’ first release of 2024, and will serve as the lead single to PVRIS’ forthcoming project, due this spring via Hopeless Records. The project is the follow-up to her critically-acclaimed fourth studio album, “EVERGREEN,” which debuted at #1 on the UK Official Top Rock & Metal Albums chart. This April, Gunnulfsen embarks on a 47-date international headlining tour, with stops at the infamous Troxy in London, and The Wiltern in Los Angeles.
 February 27th 2024 – Sad Summer Festival is excited to announce their 2024 lineup today as the event looks to celebrate its 5-Year anniversary. Originally launched in 2019 by some of the artists and industry folks lamenting the loss of the long-running Vans Warped Tour, Sad Summer was the first major event to emerge in the wake of Vans Warped Tour’s end. Initially serving as a way for the community to continue to come together, Sad Summer has grown significantly each year becoming a scene staple and contributing to its reemergence over the past four years. The nationwide run features festival founders Mayday Parade and The Maine along with The Wonder Years, We The Kings, Real Friends, Knuckle Puck, & Daisy Grenade on all dates with support coming from The Summer Set, Hot Milk, Diva Bleach, and Like Roses on select shows.
 Photo By Brock Fetch On You Won’t Go Before You’re Supposed To, Knocked Loose have honed in on a diverse, cohesive and savagely aggressive album that sums up the massive strides they’ve taken during their decade as a band, and asserts their boundless potential going forward. Internally, there was the need to challenge themselves as songwriters while retaining the merciless intensity and unflinching honesty that have always been their calling cards. Externally, there was a whole new set of eyes on the hard-touring Louisville quintet, following a banner year on the road, during which they’d brought their underground-seasoned sound to some of the world’s biggest stages. From the start, You Won’t Go Before You’re Supposed To plunges listeners into a cauldron of mental and spiritual anguish. But the album’s title contains a note of reassurance amid the turmoil. The phrase originates from an experience that frontman Bryan Garris, who suffers from what he calls a “borderline phobia of flying,” had during a particularly trying flight. As he battled his nerves during takeoff, the vocalist found himself talking to a woman seated next to him. When he confided in her about his anxiety, she assured, “You won’t go before you’re supposed to.” But glossing over negative emotions isn’t what Knocked Loose are about. The new songs find them plumbing through new depths of loathing — directed both inward and outward. Their raging lead single “Blinding Faith” skillfully wields whiplash tempo changes in service of a scathing indictment of religious groupthink, and the hypocrisy that can sometimes accompany an outwardly pious life. “It was just hilarious how many people showed up to church that I knew were rude, horrible, selfish people,” guitarist Isaac Hale reflects of attending church with his mother in his younger years. “They knew that it made them seem like a better person — or if they said the words, it would redeem them of any negative quality just because they showed face.” “Blinding Faith” is available today alongside video directed by Kevin Lombardo  Across 10 tracks and 27 gripping minutes, You Won’t Go Before You’re Supposed To leans into Knocked Loose’s most extreme impulses, from blastbeat-driven fury, chaotic turbulence and seismic breakdowns, while seasoning the mix with ear-catching auxiliary percussion, evocative samples and shout-along hooks, all interwoven to perfection by Grammy-nominated, pop-savy producer Drew “WZRD BLD” Fulk.
You Won’t Go Before You’re Supposed To is filled with boundary-pushing textures and samples the band has collected over the years. On “Suffocate,” Garris teams up with pop-meets-metal trailblazer Poppy, for an effort that contrasts an oppressive heaviness befitting the title with a dance-y, syncopated groove and the most concussive reggaeton rhythm you’ve ever heard. Samples of what sounds like meditative singing bowls open the album to “Take Me Home,” with its spoken-word intro, ear-catching auxiliary percussion and brief yet evocative concluding country-song snippet. Elements like these only make the breakneck blur of a track like “Moss Covers All,” a song that Garris says deals with his ever-present longing for the comfort of home, feel that much more urgent. “On this album, we go the fastest we've ever gone; we go the scariest we've ever gone. We also go the catchiest and the most melodic that we've ever gone, and that's the point,” Hale says. “Instead of branching off into a specific direction, we want to encompass ALL directions.” There’s no ceiling for hardcore in 2024 — even an outfit as uncompromising as Knocked Loose can turn up in mainstream-adjacent spaces and win over new fans (see 2023’s viral Coachella and Bonnaroo sets). But there’s a center to what they do that will never change: uncompromising heaviness, both sonically and thematically. What is evolving is their drive to find new ways to convey that heaviness, and add tasteful variety that only highlights their undiminished ferocity. Everywhere Knocked Loose have been is here on this record — but so is everywhere they may yet go. Knocked Loose are currently wrapping a sold out EU/UK run and hit the road again late April on headlining North American tour. The run hits both coasts and includes two sold out nights in New York City at Brooklyn Steel and Terminal 5 plus sold out shows at Austin’s Stubbs Amphitheatre, The Shrine in Los Angeles and more. Show Me The Body, Loathe and Speed will support.  Microwave have announced their long-awaited fourth full-length record Let's Start Degeneracy, the record is out 26th April 2024 via Pure Noise Records. Its title, taken from a conservative politician's take on drugs in 1970, captures the band's newfound liberated spirit, and its tracks play by no one's rules but their own. At various points the Atlanta trio pull together a multitude of influences ranging from ambient pop and R&B to psychedelia and yes, even Sublime. To celebrate the announcement the band have released brand new single 'Bored Of Being Sad'. Watch video for 'Bored Of Being Sad' HERE or by clicking the image below.  Lyrically, Let's Start Degeneracy is loaded with revelations, some of which came to vocalist/guitarist Nathan Hardy after experiences with ayahuasca in Peru with drummer Timothy "Tito" Pittard. As the pandemic wound down, the two reconvened with bassist/vocalist Tyler Hill and together, found their way back to being Microwave again.
“It’s about letting go of attachments and behaviours that aren’t serving you and trying to shake off your programming and not be motivated by fear and guilt and shame,” says Hardy. “It’s about learning to be happy and take care of yourself.” "Bored of Being Sad" finds Hardy musing on being a band in the biz––"I was dead, I was looking for companies to sling shirts at the funeral"––and how the idea of 'sadness' has been romanticized instead of being treated as something to resolve. Musically, it's right up there with one of their most popular tracks, "Lighterless," in its midtempo mastery; Hardy actually wrote this track in the Much Love days, but it didn't feel complete until he revisited it when working on Let's Start Degeneracy.  Florida five-piece CAPSTAN — Anthony DeMario [vocals], Joe Mabry [guitar], Harrison Bormann [guitar], Andrew "Boz" Bozymowski [bass, vocals], and Scott Fisher [drums] — are pleased to announce their new album The Mosaic, out May 24 via Fearless Records. Pre-order it here. Today, the band has shared the video for "Misery Scene." Watch it here or by clicking the image below.  Here, the band mixes dreamy choruses with buzzy, dramatic guitars, and cinematic sonic flourishes. The song will fill the room with its majestic melodies and singalongs. Misery never sounded quite so good. If Queen were a post-hardcore band, they would have made a song like "Misery Scene." "'Misery Scene' is the beginning of a change of lyrical direction for Capstan; ever introspective, the lyrics address the writer's previous inability to break their cycle of self-destructive choices, as well as the toxic and ubiquitous admiration of poor mental health in artists. It is a song about making a conscious shift from the glorification of being unhappy for the perceived sake of art, to the desire to make a more positive impact on others' lives," says Mabry. To make a mosaic, tiny pieces interlock as a larger picture. In similar fashion, distinct elements coalesce as one in Capstan. The band mixes metallic precision with pit-splitting hardcore grooves and the kind of hooks you can't shake. Since 2015, Capstan have progressed with each subsequent move. Following Seasonal Depression [2015] and In The Wake of Our Discord [2018], they made waves with their full-length debut, Restless Heart, Keep Running, in 2019. They toured with the likes of Trash Boat, Doll Skin, Silverstein, and many more. After amassing tens of millions of streams and earning acclaim from the likes of KERRANG! and New Noise, the group paint a definitive body of work on their aptly titled third full-length offering, The Mosaic.
 Knuckle Puck, have announced four special headline shows for March 2024. Support comes from the bands label mates, Shoreline. Knuckle Puck will also be supporting Neck Deep on their headline show at Alexandra Palace in London on the 28th March. You can see Knuckle Puck at the following dates: 23rd March - Project House, Leeds 24th March - Classic Grand, Glasgow 26th March - Rebellion, Manchester 27th March - The Fleece, Bristol 28th March - Alexandra Palace London* * Knuckle Puck only Supporting Neck Deep Tickets on sale 26th January at 10am - HERE Watch the video for "You & I", taken from their new album Losing What We Love by clicking the image below.   Wednesday, January 17th, 2024 - Los Angeles, CA – Grammy Nominated, progressive metal titans Between The Buried And Me have announced 'The Colors Experience Tour', a unique US concert series that promises a journey through two of their most revered albums. In a thrilling showcase of their musical evolution, the band will perform their critically acclaimed albums 'Colors' and 'Colors II' in their entirety, spanning two consecutive nights in each city. On the first night of each stop, fans will be treated to a full performance of 'Colors', the 2007 album that redefined the band's sound and set a new benchmark in their career. The second night shifts focus to the band’s more recent triumph, 'Colors II', a spiritual successor to the original that encapsulates the band's continued growth and creative exploration. Between The Buried And Me will be joined by special guests, The Acacia Strain for all shows. Tickets go on-sale this Friday, January 19th from BetweenTheBuriedAndMe.Com Speaking on the tour announcement the Between The Buried And Me share: "In 2007, we released what would become the most pivotal record in our career, Colors. What was originally intended to be a dice-rolling exploration of creative curiosity, ultimately became the foundation on which we would build upon for years to come. It seemed only fitting that in 2021, we would pay homage to those magical days and release Colors’ spiritual successor, Colors II. The exercise of drawing a picture from the past onto a fresh new palette of inspiration proved to be immensely gratifying, and one that we are so very proud of. What a tremendous privilege it is to be able to present both of these records to you live, in their entirety. So join us, as we build a bridge from the past to present, one long ass fucked up song at a time," 'The Colors Experience Tour' is more than just a series of concerts – it's a celebration of Between The Buried And Me’s legacy, an immersive experience into their innovative world. Tickets for this unique tour are expected to be in high demand, as fans eagerly anticipate the opportunity to witness these two monumental albums performed live back-to-back. For tour dates, ticket information, and more details about 'The Colors Experience Tour', head to betweentheburiedandme.com   Being As An Ocean Photo Credit - Murry Deaves Friday, January 12th, 2024 - Los Angeles, CA – Melodic post-hardcore trailblazers Being As An Ocean have released new single, "The Fullness of My Being" today. Listen to the new track HERE. The new track is the fourth single to be released off the band's highly anticipated new album, 'Death Can Wait' (out February 2nd, 2024 via Out Of Line Records), pre-orders for which are available HERE. Providing further context for "The Fullness of My Being ", the band shares "The Fullness Of My Being is a personal reflection on what making music, being a performer, a writer, and an artist has meant to me and the place I, Joel, have allowed it to take in my life; what I have let it mean to me in the past. It was everything. I had let it become what defined me, what drove my decision making, my lifestyle, my whole personality. That sustained me for a time. But what I hadn’t realized I was doing was neglecting huge parts of myself and my personal development because I was so hyper focused on that one aspect of my life. Parts of me that I had failed to foster were withering. Placing too much significance on one part of you can be immensely painful, detrimental, and even dangerous, especially when it is taken away from you. That is exactly what the pandemic did to me. It took away the music industry, at least for a time. But in that time, there was little to no hope in sight for that person that I had built myself up to be. I felt lost, unmoored, and directionless. I sank into a deep depression. It was through pulling myself back into all of the parts of me that I had been neglecting that taught me and showed me the whole of my being and personality. It gave me space to rediscover, explore, and expand my identity to be more of the man that I had hoped myself to be. These hard times have helped me realize and being to actualize the fullness of my being." Following previously released singles "Death Can Wait", "Swallowed By The Earth" and "Flesh And Bone" as well as a successful headlining tour with Of Virtue and SENNA, "The Fullness of My Being" emerges as the fourth prelude to Being As An Ocean's highly anticipated album, 'Death Can Wait' set for release on February 2nd, 2024 through Out Of Line Music. Another extremely personal set of songs loaded with pure emotion continuing the band's legacy of crafting deep, introspective music that speaks to the soul.
Pre-orders for ‘Death Can Wait’ are available now in multiple formats and multiple bundle options including digipak CD, vinyl, and a deluxe wooden box set strictly limited to 666 copies worldwide. Head to baao.lnk.to/DeathCanWaitAlbum to check out all options and pre-order now.
 SUM 41 BY TRAVIS SHINN For the final time as a collective, Grammy-nominated band Sum 41 have announced their upcoming double album, Heaven :x: Hell, expected for release on 29th March, 2024 via Rise Records. Heaven :x: Hell is the most ambitious album from Sum 41 yet - Heaven is 10 tracks of snarling high energy pop punk, while Hell consists of ten heavy metal anthems spiked with fret-burning solos, thrashing riffs, and fist-pumping hooks. The band has been straddling the line of pop-punk and metal for their entire career, and Heaven :x: Hell is a testament to their innovative sound and unmatched skill, proving them as pioneers 27 years after the bands inception.
Heaven :x: Hell is available to pre-save and pre-order now at https://sum41.lnk.to/HeavenHell On the new album, vocalist Deryck Whibley says, “Once I heard the music, I was confident enough to say, ‘This is the record I’d like to go out on.’ We’ve made a double album of pop punk and metal, and it makes sense. It took a long time for us to pave this lane for ourselves, but we did, and it’s unique to us.” |
