• Gore. Premiere “Wrath” Video

    Gore. have premiered a new video for their song “Wrath.” That track is from the band’s latest EP “If You Do Not Fear Me…” Vocalist Hayley Roughton commented:

    “The ‘Wrath’ video is fully leaning into the ‘Disney Princess Metal’ vibe that the song brings. I get to be a damsel in distress that gives her soul to a man that was supposed to save her, but ends up stealing her soul away for corruption. I haunt his every waking move afterwards, and eventually cause him to go mad and kill his comrades. This is by far one of the coolest music videos I’ve ever seen and I’m so grateful that it happens to be ours!”

  • IOTUNN Announce “Waves Over Copenhell” Live Album

    IOTUNN have announced a new live album titled “Waves Over Copenhell.” The effort will be released on January 9 and it will feature tracks from the band’s June 14, 2023 set at the Copenhell festival in Copenhagen, Denmark.

    *Waves Over Copenhell” Track Listing:

    01. “Waves Below”
    02. “The Tower of Cosmic Nihility”
    03. “Access All Worlds”
    04. “Mistland”
    05. “Voyage of the Garganey”

    The band shared more information:

    “IOTUNN announce new live album “Waves Over Copenhell” with first video/single “Waves Below” out now + preorder available. Release on January 9th 2026.

    Under the starry skies of COPENHELL 2023, Danish/Faroese progressive metal outfit IOTUNN took the stage by storm with a performance already etched into the festival’s history.

    A sea of specially designed laser beams cut through the night, as the band delivered some of their most majestic and emotional
    compositions – a concert experience that elevated both the audience and the music to cosmic heights.

    Now, IOTUNN releases this unforgettable moment as a live album. The album captures the intensity, the magic, and the unique atmosphere that can only arise when music meets the night sky and thousands of devoted souls gather before the stage.

    With this release, IOTUNN invites fans and new listeners alike into the heart of a concert where time and space dissolved, and where the energy of metal was transformed into a radiant ritual under the open sky.

    This is more than a live album – it is a monument to a band in their true element: raw, majestic, and unforgettable.

    Waves Over Copenhell was mixed by drummer Bjørn Wind Andersen, vinyl mastered by Jacob Hansen (Volbeat, Amaranthe, Epica, U.D.O.) at Hansen Studios in Ribe, Denmark and will be available digitally and on exclusive vinyl in the following color variants:

    180g Black (Ltd. 333)
    Red Black Merged (Ltd. 333)

    Find pre-orders at www.metalblade.com/iotunn
    EU pre-orders: https://kingsroadmerch.eu/de/collections/iotunn

  • Defeated Sanity Announce U.S. Tour With Vulvodynia, Organectomy, Etc.

    Defeated Sanity have announced a U.S. tour with Vulvodynia and Organectomy. Excrescence, Scasm, and Horrific Vision will also perform on select dates.

    Tour Dates:

    With Excrescence:

    04/16 Anaheim, CA – Parish (HOB)
    04/17 Fresno, CA – Fulton 55
    04/18 Santa Rosa, CA – The California
    04/19 Sacramento, CA – Starlet
    04/21 Seattle, WA – El Corazon
    04/22 Portland, OR – Dante’s
    04/23 Boise, ID – Shredder
    04/24 Salt Lake City, UT – Ace’s High Saloon
    04/25 Denver, CO – HQ
    04/27 Milwaukee, WI – X-Ray Arcade

    With Scasm:

    04/28 West Chicago, IL – Social Club
    04/29 Indianapolis, IN – Black Circle
    04/30 Cleveland, OH – Grog Shop
    05/01 Rochester, NY – Montage Music Hall
    05/02 Clifton, NJ – Dingbatz
    05/03 Baltimore, MD – Metro
    05/04 Raleigh, NC – Chapel of Bones
    05/05 Jacksonville, FL – The Albatross
    05/06 Tampa, FL – Orpheum
    05/07 Orlando, FL – Conduit

    With Horrific Visions:

    05/08 Pensacola, FL – Handlebar
    05/09 Houston, TX – Pub 529
    05/11 Dallas, TX – Three Links
    05/12 Austin, TX – Come and Take It Live
    05/13 Lubbock, TX – Jakes
    05/15 Phoenix, AZ – Nile Underground
    05/16 Las Vegas, NV – Backstage Bar

  • Vitriol’s Kyle Rasmussen Satirically Takes On The Villainous Persona Of “Preta”

    As previously reported, guitarist Keith Merrow, bassist Brett Leier, and drummer Andy Vincenzetti recently exited Vitriol and abandoned vocalist Kyle Rasmussen at a gas station. Now, the frontman, who has since returned home following a crowdfunding campaign, is poking fun at the situation by satirically taking on the villainous persona of “Preta.”

    Rasmussen said the following:

    “After two days of violent transmutation and a collective meditation on our triumphant conquest over nature and the atavistic man, a most detestable metamorphosis has taken place. Kyle reflected and agreed that he was the problem without remedy. Kyle Rasmussen is dead. He died by his successor’s own hand. From this less evolved mortal shell, Preta has been unchained.

    God mourns as this 160lb, flesh laden furnace of spite and misanthropy is loosed upon his contested arena. A vessel of rage that transcends any physical inferiorities. Preta is the fumigator of fair-weather dreamers. He is the grand serial killer of troubadours. He is the High Hurter of Feelings. He is the apex Meanie.

    Preta is the problem and the solution.

    He is the alpha and the omega.

    He is the Beavis and the Butthead.

    Preta is utterly insane, and there is no help to be offered. A tsunami need not be saved by the violence of its own wake. His reprehensibility is divine and he was born to murder the world.

    It is time to make a bride of the isolation that is the wellspring of Preta‘s work. The folly of seeking community while probing into the wisdom of solitude is an error that Preta will not make. Vitriol will continue as a collaborative, as Preta seeks to arm his anti-cosmic fist of elitism and omnipotence with the infinity stones of darkness.

    Soon, Preta will depart from this secular wasteland of consumerism and venture forth into a Czechian nexus of alchemical riches.

    With the soul of Danzig, the mind of Brian Wilson, and the emotional awareness of Dewey Cox, Preta has been purified by the will of his own vitriol. He will hate all that you love, and in doing so, drive you further into the arms of your its light. In the lowest Earthen basement of Hell, he will wander among the formless thrones that furnish the palace of nothingness. He waits for you there, possessing the mirror to your most loathsome self, with all of the patience of the inevitable.

    Being publicly evil is gonna be so much fun!!!”

    He continued when asked if Preta partakes in “nose beers”:

    “Preta doesn’t waste time with such cowardly intoxicants. He grinds up Pervitin tablets and sprinkles them into his eyes.”

    He also added the following after another fan told him he should “seek therapy”:

    “I will pause what is my strongest work of satire yet to address this real concern some well-meaning people have for me. I see a psychiatrist, a PhD psychologist for weekly therapy, I am medicated, and I have over 200 hours of meditation under my belt. It is easiest to assume that I’m making light of this situation for less than noble reasons. Some things can be approached lightly because the reality of the situation is quite light. The truth will find its way out, eventually.”

    Rasmussen also responded after someone asked him straight up if it was a “shitpost”:

    “There’s a Garbage song and a Beavis and Butthead reference.”

    [via The PRP]

  • Pelican Announce New EP “Ascending”

    Pelican have announced a new EP titled “Ascending.” The effort will be released on January 23 and it will feature tracks from the “Flickering Resonance” era.

    “Ascending” Track Listing:

    01. “Ascending”
    02. “Cascading Crescent” (feat. Thursday’s Geoff Rickly)
    03. “Adrift”
    04. “Tending The Embers”

    The band commented:

    “Excited to share that our new EP ‘Ascending’ is coming January 23 from Run For Cover – [head below] to hear the previously un-streamable vocal version of ‘Cascading Crescent’ feat. Geoff Rickly from Thursday. Originally recorded for the ‘Cascading Crescent’ vinyl-only 7” (limited to 500 copies and very sold out), we had the chance to perform this version live in Cleveland when our tours intersected this past July, as documented in the music video out today. The experience made us eager for more folks to hear how Geoff’s melodies re-contextualize the song.

    The EP is rounded out by ‘Ascending,’ a hypnotic epic recorded at the Flickering Resonance sessions, and the vinyl debut of ‘Adrift’ and ‘Tending The Embers,’ recorded and self-released in 2024 just as we’d begun piecing the album together.

    In honor of the EP, Laurent teamed with Will Killingsworth of Dead Air Studios to create Resonance, a custom reverb pedal that interacts with users’ playing and resonates in unique ways, varying from light echo to lush soundscapes to self-oscillating frenzy. The pedal and a new shirt design are available from the RFC site.

    We’ve also added some headline dates to our upcoming EU tour with Russian Circles. Hope to see you out there

    Feb 1 – Something In The Way – Boston, MA
    Feb 28 – Doom City Festival – Mexico City, MX
    May 5 – Kollektivet Livet – Stockholm, SE
    May 6 – Monument – Gothenburg, SE
    May 7 – Skråen – Aalborg, DK
    May 8 – Desertfest – Oslo, NO *
    May 9 – A Colossal Weekend – Copenhagen, DK *
    May 11 – Gruenspan – Hamburg, DE *
    May 12 – Live Music Hall – Köln, DE *
    May 13 – P8 – Karlsruhe, DE *
    May 14 – dunk!festival – Zottegem, BE *
    May 15 – Sonic Whip – Nijmegen, NL *
    May 16 – Desertfest – Berlin, DE *
    May 18 – Arena – Vienna, AT *
    May 19 – Durer Kert – Budapest, HUN
    May 20 – MeetFactory – Prague, CZ *
    May 21 – Technikum – Munich, DE *
    May 23 – Sonic Rites – Helsinki, FI *

    * w/ Russian Circles“

  • Watch Rival Schools’ In-Studio Performance For KEXP

    On October 15, Rival Schools played a four-track set at KEXP Studio in Seattle, WA. You can see official footage of that below. Here’s the setlist:

    01. “Wring It Out”
    02. “69 Guns“
    03.“Travel By Telephone”
    04. “Used For Glue“

  • Limp Bizkit’s Fred Durst Praises 311’s 1993 Debut Album “Music”

    311 are among the acts taking part in the Latin American leg of Limp Bizkit’s “Loserville” tour. Amid the run, the band performed “Feels So Good” for Limp Bizkit’s Fred Durst in Mexico City, Mexico on November 29 and invited him onstage for a performance of “Freak Out” in San Miguel, Peru on December 9. Both tracks appear on the group’s 1993 debut album “Music.” As such, Durst has taken to social media to express some love for the record:

    “An absolute honor to share the stage with @311 on this loserville tour. fact – @311 ‘s album MUSIC was one of the first of a small handful of bands that I was listening to back in the day when hip hop/rock/alternative was really starting to make sense. artists like beastie boys, urban dance squad, mike patton, rage against the machine, and @311 paved the way. always grateful for their gifts”

    [via The PRP]

  • Power Trip, Prong, Etc. Added To 2026 Milwaukee Metal Fest

    Power Trip, Prong, Weekend Nachos, Hirax, Jeffrey Nothing, Casket Robbery, and Polkadot Cadaver have been added to next year’s Milwaukee Metal Fest. That event will take place at The Rave/Eagles Ballroom in Milwaukee, WI on June 5-7. A pre-party is also being scheduled for June 4. Previously announced acts include: Killswitch Engage, Acid Bath, Iron Reagan, Integrity, Internal Bleeding, Master, Belushi Speed Ball, and Morta Skuld. Further artists are pending.

  • Slomosa Announce Spring 2026 North American Tour

    Slomosa have announced a headlining North American tour. The trek will take place in spring 2026.

    Tour Dates:

    03/26 New York, NY – The Bowery Ballroom
    03/27 Boston, MA – Brighton Music Hall
    03/28 Washington, DC – Pearl Street Warehouse
    03/29 Richmond, VA – Richmond Music Hall
    03/31 Greensboro, NC – Eulogy
    04/02 Atlanta, GA The Masquerade (Purgatory)
    04/03 Nashville, TN – The Blue Room
    04/06 Dallas, TX – Club Dada
    04/07 Austin, TX – Brushy Street Commons
    04/09 Phoenix, AZ – The Rebel Lounge
    04/10 Los Angeles, CA – The Roxy Theatre
    04/11 San Francisco, CA – Bottom of the Hill
    04/12 Sacramento, CA – Harlow’s
    04/14 Portland, OR – Mission Theater
    04/15 Seattle, WA – Tractor Tavern
    04/17 Boise, ID – Neurolux
    04/18 Salt Lake City, UT – Kilby Court
    04/20 Colorado Springs, CO – The Black Sheep
    04/21 Denver, CO – Marquis
    04/23 Kansas City, MO – The Record Bar
    04/24 Minneapolis, MN – 7th St Entry
    04/25 Chicago, IL – Cobra Lounge
    04/26 Detroit, MI – El Club
    04/28 Toronto, ON – The Garrison
    04/29 Pittsburgh, PA – Preserving Underground
    04/30 Columbus, OH – A&R Music Bar
    05/01 Cleveland, OH – The Grog Shop

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  • Full Of Hell Part Ways With Guitarist Spencer Hazard

    Full Of Hell have parted ways with guitarist Spencer Hazard. The band issued the following statement:

    “Hey everyone, today we announce that Spencer Hazard is no longer a member of Full of Hell. While this was a difficult decision to make, we are very thankful for the 16 years of dedication and a truly prolific amount of records together. Be sure to support @reapersgong, as well as @industrialhazard and his other solo and production projects. We appreciate the support and respect for our and his privacy regarding all of this. We are all excited and optimistic for the future, so thank you for the support after all this time.”