rock/metal tracks
Track: Dark The Suns – Suru Raivosi Sydämeni Pimeydessä
Finnish melodic metal band ‘Dark The Suns’ are back after almost ten years. The band released a new single ‘Suru Raivosi Sydämeni Pimeydessä’ which is taken from their upcoming fourth studio album which is set to be released later this year by Inverse Records. Mikko Ojala commets: “After years of silence, Inka and I decided in early 2020 to continue making …
Track: Embr – Eyes Like Knives
Doom quartet Embr have shared the second single from their forthcoming debut album ‘1823’, their first release on UK label New Heavy Sounds. Musically, ‘1823′ could be categorised as doom, however, on this debut it’s obvious that EMBR have range, drive and a desire to add to the genre, to broaden it whilst staying true to its core fundamentals. ‘Eyes Like Knives’ definitely ticks a …
TRACK: Féleth – ‘Ravenous’
Norwegian Death Metal Féleth Premiere ‘Ravenous’. Nestled in the small northern Norwegian town of Alta, far above the Arctic circle, there’s a rumbling of brutality shaking the earth from a young, dynamic metal quintet known as Féleth. Creating heavy, melodic assaults, that transcends the traditional limits of the genre, these great northern Norwegians, are taking their influences of death metal, thrash, deathcore, rock and …
Track: DECREPID – Phobos Descent, plus cover art and tracklist revealed.
British Death metallers DECREPID, have just revealed details of what will be their 3rd album entitled “Endless Sea of Graves”, which will be released on July 7th, 2020 through Xtreem Music on CD format. DECREPID return 5 years after their 2nd album “Osseous Empire” (Xtreem Music, 2015) with a new opus titled “Endless Sea of …
Track: Emery Heights – Wildflower
Brand new alternative post hardcore 4 piece band from Houston Texas. have released their debut single ‘Wildflower’ taken from their EP ‘Clarity’ out now. Fans of ‘Captives’ and ‘The Word Alive’ will straight away love the combining catchy, pop-inspired verses with upbeat riffs and heavy breakdowns. The verses may be pop-inspired but these guys aren’t …
Track: Paul Weller – The Village
Paul Weller’s discography of the past decade has glided across new territories, from the synth-laden, Amorphous Androgenous-enlisting experimentation of “Saturn’s Patterns”(2015), to the primal heartbeat of acoustic record “True Meanings” (2018). 2020’s “On Sunset” looks to be a continuation of this, but with Weller sourcing as much from the past as the future, with new release “The Village” presenting a hazy wall of joy. Even more recently, Weller has invited fans …
Track: Bob Dylan – False Prophet
A release as surprising and enigmatic as the prior “I Contain Multitudes” and “Murder Most Foul”, “False Prophet” foreshadows Dylan’s “Rough and Rowdy Ways”. Although much is different across his three tracks of 2020, Dylan is reflective across the trio. Here though, he ponders with much gusto and “…last of the best” seems self-congratulatory in …
Track: Suicide Silence – Overlord
Californian extreme metallers Suicide Silence released their sixth studio album, ‘Become The Hunter’ earlier this year. And for some reason on Friday, the band released a b-side single, ‘Overlord’, despite already being out and having no accompanying video. It’s typically aggressive, spewing out vocals and these choppy, hammered riffs which give the whole thing a jerky, uncomfortable feel. “The …
Track: Lute – Dead and Buried
Manchester Prog metallers Lute have released a new, third, single ‘Dead And Buried’ following on from previous releases Fears and Victims of the Fall. It’s full of extended riffs, gear and direction changes and understated vocals in the verse at least, until the shackles come off in the chorus. The band sail close to Tool …
TRACK: BOWLING FOR SOUP – WHEN THE ANGELS SING (SOCIAL DISTORTION COVER)
As part fo their 25 year celebration Bowling For Soup have released their latest cover track, ‘When The Angels Sing’ from revered So-Cal legends Social Distortion. Explaining their take on the song, frontman Jaret Reddick states, “July 2019, we began trying to release a cover song each month. That became a more difficult task than …