• Squid Pisser Premiere “Tumors” Music Video

    Squid Pisser have premiered a new video for their new song “Tumors.” You can check that out below. The track is from the band’s new EP, “Throat Slave,” which will be released on August 28.

    Vocalist Baxter Yogurt commented:

    “A tumor is just a chaotic mass of cells growing out of control without a purpose. A destructive asshole feeding off another life form because it can’t survive on its own. The song is about people who spread chaos wherever they go while hiding behind manipulation, posturing, fear, and false confidence. People like that can seem larger than life until you realize they’re just total parasites with no real personality of their own.

    They’re faking everything they pretend to be, scrambling desperately and loudly for attention, conflict, and other people’s pain because there’s nothing of substance underneath. Even their identity is borrowed… Stitched together from the people they’ve used, envied, and tried to become. It’s about seeing through that illusion and recognizing these people for what they really are: cowardly, pathetic, and ultimately insignificant.”

    [via Decibel]

  • Portrayal Of Guilt Announce West Coast Tour

    Portrayal Of Guilt have announced a fall West Coast tour. World Peace, Smirk, and NØ MAN will join the band on select dates.

    Tour Dates:

    09/12 Oklahoma City, OK – Tower Theater (feat. Chat Pile)
    09/14 Albuquerque, NM – Sister (feat. Iron Lung)

    With World Peace and NØ MAN:

    09/15 Mesa, AZ – The Underground
    09/16 San Diego, CA – Whistle Stop
    09/17 Landers, CA – Giant Rock
    09/18 Los Angeles, CA – Proyecto
    09/20 Oakland, CA – Thee Stork Club (feat. Loma Prieta)

    With NØ MAN:

    09/21 Sacramento, CA – The Starlet Room
    09/23 Eugene, OR – John Henry’s

    NØ MAN and Smirk:

    09/24 Portland, OR – Mississippi Studios
    09/25 Seattle, WA – The Vera Project
    09/26 Boise, ID – Neurolux

    With Smirk:

    09/28 Salt Lake City, UT – Kilby Court

    Portrayal Of Guilt:

    09/29 Denver, CO – HQ
    10/01 Kansas City, MO – Farewell
    10/02 Tulsa, OK – Mass Movement

  • Cro-Mags’ Harley Flanagan: “I’m Done Grinding It Out On Tour”

    Cro-Mags’ Harley Flanagan has revealed that he is planning to scale back his live shows. The frontman, who is currently dealing with pinched nerves in his neck and back, still plans to perform live in the future, but is “done grinding it out on tour.”

    Flanagan said the following:

    “I don’t know how many more I got in me… But it’s winding down….i’ve been on the road since the 70s. Even Stigma can’t say that lol

    This used to be an escape from living in squats. I don’t live in a squat anymore. I still enjoy playing music. I just don’t enjoy traveling. I have nine more shows booked after this tour. I’m gonna take a break for a little while and think this through, my new album is almost done I have a few more songs to finish and it may be the best one I’ve ever written that’s all I want is to write one good album that really makes me happy

    Then we will see what happens….

    i’m not saying I’m gonna stop playing altogether. But I’m done grinding it out on tour. I’ll play when I feel like it, but this shit is done, touring is a young man’s/woman’s sport. I like to eat right, I like to sleep right and I like to wake up next to my wife. I actually love my life. I’m not trying to escape it anymore.

    When you find happiness hold onto it
    I don’t wanna spend my whole life on the road and die without holding onto the life I have created for myself.”

  • Merauder’s Jorge Rosado Fires Back In New Video Rant Following Recent Controversy

    As previously reported, promoter Real Life Presents recently pulled out of Merauder‘s August 5 show at the New Cross Inn in London, England after vocalist Jorge Rosado generated controversy by reposting divisive content on his official Instagram account. Those posts included commentary on religion, sexual identity, etc. Now, Rosado has responded to the backlash in a new rant video.

    Rosado said the following:

    “…I want to say something real quick. Just to, I don’t have to even say nothing, but I feel like I should for the new jacks, for the newcomers, for the people who are f*cked up in the head by frequencies from the internet because they don’t know sh*t about the world. They never leave their house. They’re all [typing on keyboards,] they little pussies that can’t bring nothing to the world, but trying to disrupt some sh*t. You know, like what Malcolm X said. You know, and I hate to say it. I don’t want people to get offended, but you can get offended by it. If you’re that, then you’re gonna get offended by it.

    But you f*cking white liberals are as out of control. You’re worse than the motherf*cking Nazis. Malcolm X said this years ago. Tons of people have said this years ago, and you’re living up to the f*cking name. God bless you f*cking people. We need you here to let the other rest of the world know how stupid, and full of sh*t, and how contradicting, and f*ck it, you all shot yourselves in the f*cking foot. You know that, right? And my history and my reputation speaks for itself, man.

    And I don’t give a f*ck about the left. I don’t give a f*ck about the right. I’m gonna say it once again. I’m not a f*cking liberal. I’m not a f*cking… I’m a revolutionist. All that sh*t and all these bullsh*t government agendas… I don’t give a f*ck about people who are already taken care of. You know… And you know what? I’m gonna out it because I put it on my f*cking personal page.

    So, you think I’m hiding anything, motherf*cker? Does it look like I’m f*cking hiding anything, you stupid cabrones? Huh? Estúpido, m*ricon, estupido huelebicho, bunch of dick sucking f*cking huelebichos, huh? Society dick sucking a**holes. You people talk so much f*cking sh*t. You became everything you hate. But you know nothing. You don’t do your homework. You don’t go down the rabbit hole. You’re living a little white… Now, I don’t want nobody to get a f*ck offended by this. But there’s people out here in this country right now who work for this.

    But there’s motherf*ckers who live it off of mommy and daddy’s f*cking wealth. And let me tell you something. I’m brown, Cabron. Yo soy cabron. Yo soy cabron. Latino motherf*cker. I’m pro-Palestine, I’m pro-Indigenous people. I’m pro-black. If you look at my f*cking history for the last 30 f*cking something years, you see that. But every time I speak about f*cking black issues and brown issues, everybody shuts the f*ck up because y’all don’t want to hear that.

    You want, ‘oh! oh!’ I left a f*cking joke post, right? But I stand on sh*t. I don’t give a f*ck what you do with your life. Your sexual preferences is your own f*cking business. But when y’all started going into schools, and let me tell you, that’s not the same people.

    Ever since you got the flag, let me tell you, I’m not dissing. I’m just saying a lot of people that shouldn’t be exposing themselves, exposing themselves and hid under that targeted children. That’s why I put my f*cking fist down. People make their own choices in life, but people need to grow up and learn about life and live life and make their own choices.

    And whatever your choice is in life, it’s fine with me as long as you’re happy. I’ll back you on that. As long as you’re living a happy life, you’re not miserable. I got family that’s like that. I got friends that is like that. I just did business with people like that. We just had a great conversation backstage.

    Stop your bullshi*. Stop your bullsh*t. Yeah, not for nothing. There’s good and bad people. Everything. Just because you claim something doesn’t make you a good person or a victim. All right. Shut the f*ck up. Cause you look at the statistics. Look at the criminal records. Look at the f*cking people commit crimes.

    Everybody does them. White, black, straight, gay. It doesn’t matter who. Fat, skinny, midgets. Midgets commit crime. Midgets commit crime, motherf*cker. Women commit crime. It’s this sh*t is not a… Stop generalizing sh*t… You’re calling yourself liberal with a f*cking fascist mentality. Generalize, you’re like you know something. How old are you, motherf*cker? And that f*cking fat piece of sh*t in Germany who talks sh*t about my mother. F*ck you, because I will sue you, f*cking fat f*ggot. F*ck you, you motherf*cker. You want to talk sh*t? F*ck you. Curse my mother out. Oh, my mother has Lou Gehrig’s disease. You piece of sh*t. She’s already dying, and it’s none of your f*cking business, right? You piece of sh*t.

    So right when you talk about my mother, I call you whatever the f*ck I want to call you. And when people targeted children, I call them whatever the f*ck I want to call them. You already forfeited your life and forfeited your rights when you target f*cking defenseless people that have nothing to do with nothing because you don’t know sh*t. F*ck you, you’re gonna be surprised.

    One day you’re gonna be tattooing, and I might sit in that tattoo chair right next to you, homie. Yeah, it’s a small world. Don’t think it’s that big, motherf*cker. I got money and I got time. So yeah, so f*ck you. You talk about my mother. F*ck yours. How about that? F*ck your mother, huh? You probably still sucking her tit, you f*cking piece of sh*t. So f*ck you, yeah.

    And that stupid bitch talking sh*t. F*ck you too. I made a point, and you said nothing. All you do is, ‘you’re a loser.’ And once again, I made a point. Right. So f*ck you. Yeah, we did a Skrewdriver cover. Yeah, we played it in public. You stupid motherf*cker. 20-something years ago, a f*cking Latino, Asian dude on on dude on stage. That was a joke. You don’t get the f*cking joke, idiot? You know, and we’re the ones who chased all the Nazis. We’re the ones who put in all the work. It’s on paper. There’s a f*cking… there’s a book. There’s a book on it. There’s a book. They wrote a book about us. Yeah, we the ones who did all that. We got people crying, going ‘fascist people’, ain’t no f*cking fascist people. The only fascist people is you.

    You’re the fascists trying to push some ideology that you learn on the internet onto people who’ve been around the block more than you. You haven’t even gotten a foot out of your house yet. I’ve been around this world a bunch of times. I spoke to people all around the world. You know, I don’t give a f*ck about none of that. I yeah. So f*ck you. You know what my you know what I’m all about. I’m I’m about f*cking freeing Palestine. Freeing Puerto Rico from this f*cking imperialism bullsh*t that’s going on. Now they want to chop down my island, kill the ecosystem, and push my f*cking people out. I don’t hear you, motherf*ckers, talking sh*t about that. I don’t hear you talking about the f*cking people in Africa who being victimized and sh*t by f*cking other f*cking people. I don’t hear you talking about that.

    I don’t hear you talking about the f*cking Amazon Indians who are being shot and killed and that… for the rainforest to be chopped down. Our air supply, you stupid motherf*cker. Without no world, there ain’t nothing, you stupid f*ck. Yeah, I got bigger issues, and bigger things to worry about. You got small dumb sh*t. You’re running around in circles. You ain’t getting nothing done.

    F*ck you, because I want to elevate and I want to push bigger and bigger, stronger problems. And yeah, you know what? We can laugh at things. I laugh at myself. I make jokes about everything. Every now and then you need to laugh at yourself, motherf*cker. You know, but this is life. Live it, motherf*cker. Don’t talk sh*t about motherf*ckers who are f*cking doing a service to you. Because the day you out in the street getting jumped, motherf*cker, because I got, I got history with that. A lot of motherf*ckers out there, ‘Jorge came to the help.’ ‘Jorge‘came to…’ I’m the only…. I’m pro.. Yo, bro.

    I’ve said so much anti-white sh*t to the point that I don’t want to offend any of my friends because I know any of my white friends had nothing to do with all this political sh*t. I’m talking about them, but you f*cking idiot. Call me a [Nazi]i. That’s great. Hey, you know what? I’m a Puerto Rican Nazi. Yo, the ‘pazi’. I’m a ‘pazi’. Call me ‘pazi’ from now on. Stupid ass motherf*cker. That’s some stupid ass sh*t. It’s ridiculous, man. Grow some f*cking balls. You people that got no nothing to… you know what it is, man. It’s a lot of rich kids talking a lot of bullsh*t. You got simple f*cking lives, and you have nothing. You have all this hate and resentment towards your parents or sh*t that went on your life. You don’t know who to challenge it.

    You don’t know where to challenge your f*cking… and you’re looking and nitpicking, and you take one little word out of a whole f*cking paragraph of sh*t, because you won’t even read it, because you don’t care about what people say. You just looking for what? Who cares? Your feelings is hurt. Don’t come to the show. Don’t come to the show. I don’t give a f*ck. I don’t care. Don’t come to the show. You’re the one that’s gonna miss out, not me. Don’t come to the show.

    I got 35 years’ experience. I’ve never once had to f*cking worry about sh*t like this. I’m pro-people. I’m not pro-agenda. Big difference. I’m pro-people, not pro-agenda. I’ve always been that. My wife is Jewish. I had black girlfriends… That don’t mean sh*t to me. I’m Latino. I’m a mixed motherf*cker. Grew up on black and indigenous culture, so being friendly to white stuff wasn’t really my my forte. But I was more of a racist towards white people as a kid.

    Yeah, not until I got into hardcore and saw that those other white brothers and sisters out there in the same boat as me. That’s when I realized, this sh*t… this victimizing sh*t with a government f*cking victim. It’s not about race. It’s about f*cking class. They victimizing the poor, and we’re poor. So you motherf*ckers out here making it harder for us. You ain’t. You ain’t. You made harder for yourself. Cause one day I will see you.”

    [via The PRP]

  • YOB Plan To Enter The Studio “Later This Year”

    During a recent appearance on the “Mostly Yelling” podcast, drummer Dave French offered updates on YOB and Brothers Of The Sonic Cloth. He said the following about those bands:

    “Well, yeah, we’re going into the studio pretty darn soon, YOB. We’re going in later this year. In no time, we’re going in the studio. We’re gonna be putting a new record out early next year. Brothers Of The Sonic Cloth — I’m still hopeful, man. I’m still hopeful. We talk about it every once in a while. If I had the time right now, I would just instigate it — just say, here’s the drum parts, all recorded and ready to go. Exactly.”

    [via The PRP]

  • Blind Channel To Release New Album “Painstream” In October

    Blind Channel will be releasing a new album, titled “Painstream,” on October 30. A music video for the first two singles, “Diana” and “No Encores In A Swan Song,” can be found below. The band commented:

    “In a world filled with uncertainty, conflict and division, pain is one thing all humans share. Rather than separating us, ‘Painstream‘ explores the idea that pain can unite us, reminding us of our common humanity. We examine pain from personal, societal and existential perspectives, while also uncovering something unexpected: hope.”

    “Painstream” Track Listing:

    01. “Messiah“
    02. “Youthanasia“
    03. “Stars We See“
    04. “Into The Void” (feat. Aaron Pauley of Of Mice & Men)
    05. “Types Of Killing“
    06. “Revolution: Now“
    07. “Me Versus Me“
    08. “Scapegoat“
    09. “Villain In Your Story“
    10. “Diana“
    11. “No Encores In A Swan Song“
    12. “Ache“

  • Anthrax Premiere “Everybody’s Got A Plan” Music Video

    Anthrax have premiered a new video for their new song “Everybody’s Got A Plan.” This track is from the band’s new album, “Cursum Perficio,” which will be released on September 18.

    Drummer Charlie Benante commented:

    “‘Everybody’s Got a Plan‘ has always been one of my favorite songs on ‘Cursum Perficio‘. The video basically shows the band on and off stage in a montage of video clips that kinda matches the velocity of the song. The line ‘Everybody’s Got A Plan until they get punched in the face’ is such a great line, and so true!”

    Guitarist Scott Ian added:

    “We wanted to capture us having fun on tour and what better way to do that? That was a plan that didn’t end up with a punch in the face! Have fun watching my friends!”

  • HALF ME To Release New Album “Dogma” In October

    HALF ME will be releasing a new album, titled “Dogma,” on October 23. Pre-orders for the record can be found at arisingempire.com.

    “Dogma” Track Listing:

    01. “l. Acedia“
    02. “No Oasis“
    03. “Splinter In A Rusted Crown“
    04. “II. Ira“
    05. “Weather Eye“
    06. “Fear Is The New Belief“
    07. “Psalm“
    08. “Hochgeboren“
    09. “Built On Your Blood“
    10. “Ill. Cholera“
    11. “King“
    12. “Through Prayer“
    13. “IV. Melancholia“
    14. “Coup d’État“

  • Blood Vulture Cover HIM’s “Your Sweet Six Six Six”

    Blood Vulture, the project featuring “Two Minutes To Late Night” host Jordan “Gwarsenio Hall” Olds, have released a cover of HIM’s “Your Sweet Six Six Six.” You can check that out below:

    Olds commented:

    “I was a child of Jackass. any stunt they did, my friends and I were gonna try it. Any musician that made a cameo I was gonna listen to. HIM was my favorite of those musical discoveries.

    They were a fearless band bringing maximalism, androgyny, and melodrama back to guitar music in a time where it was overrun with lowercase font, shame, and defensiveness. They also proudly wore their influences on their sleeves and introduced my generation to Type O and many other essential bands. This cover is a reminder to push myself to be as fearless as they were.

    Huge thank you to the BV swiss army knife @rosieslaterdrums for playing Melotron flute and singing this with me as well as holding the razor blade covered in Pepto for this canvas.

    My guy @pookkake is obviously overqualified for this and I appreciate him making time to rip out the wings of a butterfly with me.

    @callmegingersupreme I will never call you that but thank you for layin down these smooth bass tones and trusting my vision for yet another band.

    @sonicassaultstudios once again put my guitar through my favorite amps and made it sound razorblade sharp.

    Another thank you to my visual ??s @samuelleeturner @kellyharrisfx @robmenzer and @lestatspearman. the cover art and photos are getting their own posts but ya’ll nailed the vision.

    Thank you to @purenoiserecs for supporting me covering yet another song I heard for the first time in 2004.

    And a final thank you to @audiomq and @audiosiege for making this sound like one million dollars for an extremely reasonable rate that other bands and musicians should take advantage of. Email Mario and Bradley and start saving today.”

  • Sherane Sign With Roadrunner Records

    Sherane have signed a new deal with Roadrunner Records. With this news, the band have also launched pre-orders for the CD and vinyl copies of their self-titled debut EP. They also have dates booked with concealer.:

    08/17 Tucson, AZ – Solar Culture
    08/18 El Paso, TX – EP Underground
    08/19 Austin, TX – Mohawk
    08/20 San Antonio, TX – Paper Tiger
    08/21 Houston, TX – The Courtyard
    08/22 Denton, TX – Rubber Gloves
    08/23 Oklahoma City, OK – Farmers Market
    08/25 Albuquerque, NM – Ren’s Den
    08/27 Las Vegas, NV – Grey Witch (no concealer.)