The legendary Boris celebrate a 30 year career as one of experimental music's most forward-thinking, heavy, and innovative bands with the new album Heavy Rocks (2022). Continuing their series of Heavy Rocks records, Boris once again channels the classic proto-metal sounds of the ‘70s into something all new.
Boris comments on the new album:
"The world has changed over the last two years. Everyone's thinking is simpler and pragmatic. Now, it is easier for everyone to grasp what is important to each of us.
“We leave it to the future and pass it on. The soul of rock music is constantly evolving. A soul that transcends words and meaning to reach you - instinct, intuition, and fangs.
“This is the heavy rock of Boris now.
“As we land on our 30th anniversary, Boris continues to evolve, accelerating the latest and universal.
“Boris does not lead anyone anywhere.
We just keep showing this attitude.”
Additionally, Boris has announced summer US tour dates with Philadelphia’s Nothing. The tour kicks off after Boris and Nothing’s performances at Psycho Las Vegas, and runs through late August and September. Includes a festival performance at Post Festival in Indianapolis. Tickets are on sale this Friday, May 20.
Heavy Rocks (2022) is out August 12 on LP/CD/CS/Digital. Preorders are available on relapse.com.
Tracklisting:
“She Is Burning”
“Cramper”
“My Name Is Blank”
“Blah Blah Blah”
“Question 1”
“Nosferatou”
“Ruins”
“Ghostly Imagination”
“Chained”
“(not) Last Song”
Melodic death metal band, Blackwater Drowning, have released a video for "Aberrant Leaves", the first single from the North Carolina-based outfit's first full-length effort, titled Sonder//Satori, out on July 8 via Blood Blast Distribution.
"This song is about corruption in places of power, and the dichotomy that lies there," said the band. "An entity that’s supposed to protect and serve you, using you for their own ends to further their own narrative. We worked with the fabulously creative Garrett Barefoot for this video, as he was also a major part of the recording process of this entire album and really understood what our mindset for this track is. We wrote the chorus in the studio with Jon Berrier, our amazing producer, hopped up on energy drinks at about 2am one night, and it’s one of our favorites on the album! We are incredibly proud of this finished product and hope it resonates with this current world climate as much as it does with us when we wrote it."
Watch the video below.
Commenting on Sonder//Satori, vocalist Morgan Riley shares: “We are so excited to finally release our debut full-length album! This is a culmination of all our collective years writing music separately and as a group, and we couldn’t be more proud. Sonder//Satori is a collection of songs about a wide range of subjects, ranging from addiction, betrayal, abuse of power, astrophysics, the corporate rat race, and personal growth. Sonder means realizing every stranger you meet has a life as vivid and fully realized as your own, and Satori is the inner experience of enlightenment, indescribable and unintelligible to reason and logic. Together, we felt it really spoke to the overall theme of wonder, growth, and great personal revelations, both good and bad. We are so thrilled to be partnering with Blood Blast for this release and can’t wait to see where we go together!”
Sonder//Satori tracklisting:
"The Fifth Element"
"Abyssal" (Feat. Brian Kingsland)
"Mortal Coil"
"Snake Juice"
"Saint"
"The Caged"
"Aberrant Leaves"
"Voyager"
"Aberrant Leaves" video:
Lineup:
Morgan Riley - Vocals
Aria Novi - Bass & Vocals
Jeremy Bennett - Guitar
Ron Dalton - Guitar
Vancouver’s Rebel Priest has been bringing its eclectic brand of rock ‘n' roll to fans for years in a true unadulterated, unapologetic fashion. A little bit greasy, a little bit sassy, but 100% committed, they have released four records, with a fifth on its way this year. “Lesson In Love” is the name of the upcoming EP as well as the first single, an untraditional ballad, like a love song sung by a Tommy gun. According to the band, it’s about going through the trials and tribulations of loving something - the ups, the downs, the spirals, but without the direct subject being a person. The band explains further:
“It’s open-ended in that it is what you love or love doing and how it’s a journey that can always find a way home. There's always that one thing in your life that keeps you going, a person, a hobby, a theology. No matter what your vice is, it always comes at a price. You have to go through the blood, sweat, and tears to get what you need outta it and it doesn’t always come easy. This is your education, your lesson in love.”
When people put on the new record, Rebel Priest intends for them to forget about everything else, take a break from the grind, and get pumped! Whether you're working out, going out, or down and out, put it on and play it loud! Get into it and go wild! Their music is fluid, they find a riff and then follow it where it wants to go. They say it’s just about finding the groove and cruising the wave.
Rebel Priest is headed out on tour with Toronto's Deadwolff this summer, and spectators are in for a rock ‘n’ roll treat - guitarist/vocalist Benny Kemp is the embodiment of a denim tornado; that guy will (and has) break his legs to party on stage! Drummer/vocalist Nate Pole is a groovin’ attitudn’ mean machine behind the drums that will sometimes make a wood chipper look like a pencil sharpener on those skins. As for vocalist/bassist Jayme Black, he’s a bit of a mouthpiece and likes his bass real gritty.
The trio just wants to bring rock n roll back to street level, when it was outlaw music for the underdog, so expect a greasy, sweaty, down and dirty rock show. They are recommended for fans of Motörhead, ZZ Top, and Rose Tattoo.
BraveWords is premiering the music video for “Lesson In Love” – watch below!
The EP comes out on June 24, 2022 via Batcave Records. Preorder on Bandcamp.
Tracklisting:
“Lesson In Love”
“Dïvebomber”
“Coatcheck Girl”
“Bonfire”
Dates:
June
24 – Vancouver, BC – Have A Good Laugh Festival (Deadwolff only, afternoon show)
24 – Vancouver, BC – Lana Lous
27 – Maple Ridge, BC – The Wolf Bar
28 – Kamloops, BC – Pogue Mahones
29 – Kelowna, BC – Missions Tap House
30 – Lethbridge, AB – TBA
July
1 – Calgary, AB – The Palamino
2 – Edmonton, AB – Starlite Temple
Throughout his professional music career, there have been many times when the establishment fought against the Swedish producer/guitarist/songwriter Tim Skold. From the premature end of his first band, Shotgun Messiah, to his stolen second solo album, which was finally commercially released for the first time last month as Dead God, Skold got the best revenge by simply staying the course and out-fighting the haters, continuously making and releasing new music. This perseverant and determined side of Skold comes into focus in the brand-new video for the leadoff track from Dead God, the sneering and audacious “Don’t Pray For Me.”
Working in collaboration once again with Industrialism Films, the same team who brought you the videos for Skold’s “Dirty Horizon” and “Small World” videos, Skold and Industrialism have crafted a music video of filmic vignettes showing the artist staring down a multitude of deaths: drug overdose, bathtub electrocution, drunken game of Russian Roulette (featuring a cameo from 3TEETH frontman Alexis Mincolla), military ordinance, and even self-mutilation via seppuku. Through it all Skold keeps coming back for more, and coming back stronger, all the while proclaiming his fierce independence and self-reliance.
And if this wasn’t enough, Skold is continuously resurrecting himself for even more “comebacks.” He’s currently on tour with industrial godfathers Front Line Assembly for their Mechanical Soul Tour 2022 and is once again teaming with Marilyn Manson on new music, and even contributed to the new Ye album Donda 2. Preorder Dead God cleorecs.com.
Nightwish vocalist Floor Jansen has shared another cover song from her growing catalogue of solo performances. Check out her cover of the Kelvin Jones hit "Call You Home", which she recently performed for Germany's Sing Meinen song program.
Jansen released her first ever original solo track, "Fire", on March 25th. The live performance of "Fire" below took place at HLF8 on Dutch television. Backing Jansen up are Ivo Maarhuis (drums), Joost van den Broek (keyboards), Levy Simon (guitar) and Jelle Stokhof (bass)
German industrial metallers RAMMSTEIN kicked off their European tour last night (Sunday, May 15) at Prague, Czech Republic's Letiště Letňany Airport. Fan-filmed video is available below.
The band's setlist was as follows:
01. Armee Der Tristen
02. Zick Zack
03. Links 2-3-4
04. Sehnsucht
05. Zeig Dich
06. Mein Herz Brennt
07. Puppe
08. Heirate Mich
09. Zeit
10. Deutschland
11. Radio
12. Mein Teil
13. Du Hast
14. Sonne
Encore:
15. Engel (Piano Version)
16. Ausländer
17. Du Riechst So Gut
18. Pussy
Encore 2:
19. Rammstein
20. Ich Will
21. Adieu
RAMMSTEIN's latest album, "Zeit", arrived on April 29.
Till Lindemann (vocals),Paul Landers (guitar),Richard Z. Kruspe (guitar),Flake (keyboards),Oliver Riedel (bass) and Christoph Schneider (drums) spent two years working on the eleven songs on the new album. They were once again assisted by Berlin producer Olsen Involtini. "Zeit" was recorded at La Fabrique Studios in St. Rémy de Provence, France.
Bryan Adams managed to get a special scoop for the cover of the new album. The Canadian musician and photographer took the shot of RAMMSTEIN on the steps of the Trudelturm in Berlin Adlershof, an imposing monument to aerial research in the city's Aerodynamic Park.
Over the course of a career spanning almost 30 years, RAMMSTEIN has sold more than 20 million albums around the world and played countless spectacular, groundbreaking tours. When the band's sold-out stadium tour had to be postponed due to the pandemic, RAMMSTEIN used the time to work on their new album.
RAMMSTEIN fans can enjoy multiple "Zeit" formats. The new album was released as a standard CD in a digipack with a 20-page booklet, a special edition CD in a 6-panel digipack with a 56-page booklet including slipcase, and as a double 180g vinyl LP with a 20-page large-format booklet, as well as in the usual digital formats.
On April 16th, Swedish bashers Witchery checked in with the following update:
"Since this (Easter) weekend is a known party time for witches (in Sweden), what better time than now to let slip that, as of this week, everything concerning the new album has been delivered to the record company. Pretty soon there'll be a more detailed announcement (song titles, artwork, all that good stuff), but we thought it'd be nice to let you guys know the status of the album a little in advance. Soon, there will be video shoots, interviews and whatnot."
True to their word, Witchery have shot a video for the opening track on the new record. A teaser can be viewed below.
Hypocrisy kicked off their current 28-date trek through North America in Brooklyn, NY on April 29th and will make stops in Toronto, Los Angeles, and Austin before concluding in Baltimore at the Maryland Deathfest on May 29.
Frontman Peter Tägtgren comments, “We’re happy to come back on tour in North America with the new album. New songs and old songs never played live before will be added to the setlist. And we’re happy to share the stage with Carach Angren, The Agonist, and Hideous Divinity”.
Soundcheck footage from an undisclosed location on the tour, featuring tour manager Camden Cruz on guitar, can be viewed below.
General admission tickets for the tour are available here.
Remaining tour dates:
May
15 - 1720 - Los Angeles, CA
17 - Nile Theater - Mesa, AZ
18 - Rockhouse Bar & Grill - El Paso, TX
19 - Sunshine Theater - Albuquerque, NM
20 - Come and Take It Live - Austin, TX
21 - Amplified Live - Dallas, TX
22 - White Oak Music Hall - Houston, TX
24 - The Abbey - Orlando, FL
25 - Respectable Street - West Palm Beach, FL
26 - Furnace 41 - Jonesboro, GA
27 - The Blind Tiger - Greensboro. NC
28 - Enclave - Pittsburgh, PA
29 - Maryland Deathfest - Baltimore, MD
After parting ways with longtime drummer Reidar "Horgh" Horghagen, Hypocrisy announced their new session drummer. A message from the band follows...
"Please welcome Henrik Axelsson! This talented Swedish musician played in Implode and Soils Of Fate. Since 2014, he is the drummer for The Crown. Now Henrik is going to join Hypocrisy as a session member. Looking forward to performing together."
On May 11th, Rammstein held a dress rehearsal for their upcoming European tour Letňany Airport in Prague, Czech Republic. They performed in front of select fan club members who won tickets to attend in a lottery. Fan-filmed video is available below.
An overview of the rehearsal show courtesy of Metal Hammer is available here.
Los Angeles-based industrial metal band Dawn Of Ashes have unveiled the highly anticipated, intensely graphic official music video for their single "EMDR". Completely NSFW, with disturbing imagery as analogies for the all-encompassing and often contradictory experiences of severe trauma patients, "EMDR" is not for the faint of heart, but serves as a uniquely explicit glimpse into a mind struggling to achieve balance and acceptance beyond suffering. "EMDR" is the lead single from the band's recently released and critically acclaimed new LP, Scars of the Broken, available physically and digitally through Artoffact Records.
Frontman Kristof Bathory: "The story behind the music video 'EMDR' is about a trauma victim undergoing EMDR therapy. She slips into a nightmare and is tormented by a trauma spirit in a sexual and disturbing way. She ends up being possessed by the spirit and eventually becomes that what she fears most.”
Tracklist:
"(Descending) Torn Inside"
"Love is Asphyxiation"
"The Despondent Hole"
"EMDR"
"Bane of Your Existence"
"(Limbo) Numb"
"It Comes in Waves"
"Heart Beats Cold"
"Turn It Shallow"
"Scars of the Broken"
"The Antidote"
"(Ascending) Catharsis"
Finnish metal band Where's My Bible have unleashed the final track, "Chapter IV: Origin", from their new Circle EP, which was released on May 13th via Inverse Records. Check out the video below.
Singer Jussi Matilainen comments: "In a previous release, we didn’t want to reveal this one to be the final end where an old one has to die in order to replace a new one. The 'Origin' that concludes the story of EP's four songs tells how to be reborn and to accept things as they are. Like how you are perfect just the way you are. Maybe broken, but that doesn’t mean you’re weak. When you learn it, you are already on the right path and going far in your life. Because we all are here to learn until we die how to be human and get along with ourselves as well as others.
Everything goes around the circle as our EP title says. Even if you do your best and accept things as they are, the circle can take you back to square one. But don't be discouraged! You did it once so you can do it again, more experienced and stronger than ever.
The whole project was very tough in every way but also extremely awesome and instructive. Not only in the musical sense but also in terms of introspection. Be kind to eachother especially to yourself. Please, enjoy the journey of Circle...as we did."
Guitarist Toni Hinkkala continues: "As in the story of Circle, we have re-created ourselves and it feels absolutely awesome. The story ends with a song where we brought something old yet sounding like our new self. Thus, according to the name of EP, we made the circle complete."
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