1. Darko - Oni
Genre: Deathcore Music: https://open.spotify.com/artist/7C6FTHcdowgX4dzKUd678K?si=vLBPCGAQSvimDg5HXw8sow
Darko, a deathcore/metalcore duo from the minds of vocalist Tom Barber (Chelsea Grin, ex-Lorna Shore) and drummer Josh “Baby J” Miller (Emmure, ex-Glass Cloud). - Mike Reitemeier at The New Fury
2. Dropkick Murphys - This Machine Still Kills Fascists (Quincy, Massachusetts)
Genre: Celtic Punk Music: https://open.spotify.com/artist/7w9jdhcgHNdiPeNPUoFSlx?si=ub4siM1zRj2TCcfA2o1kFg
After 26 years, Boston’s Dropkick Murphys put down their pencils, picked up their acoustic guitars, and wrote an album of songs around some previously unseen Woody Guthrie lyrics. The power of Woody’s words meets the urgency of Dropkick Murphys' music on This Machine Still Kills Fascists.
3. Coldworld - Isolation (Leipzig, Germany)
Genre: Black Metal Music: https://open.spotify.com/artist/0y9T7O1q6PyYt8fOSJfRm5?si=-l03Ilb-Q6m0ZEvV1iZZkQ
Creating soundscapes of isolation since 2005.
4. Within Destruction - Lotus (Slovenia)
Genre: Deathcore Music: https://open.spotify.com/artist/1kAX4yFdmR0hJe2tPu1785?si=VvEcpPJuS-y7Qer2GmIVNQ
Within Destruction are the masters of keeping their listeners guessing. Following hot on the heels of their acclaimed 2020 album Yokai, it was hard to guess what the Slovenian outfit would do next, but latest singles ’Nightmare’ ‘Survival’ and ‘Dying World’ have shown a whole new dimension to the bands sound, gaining the band many new fans whilst cementing their already impressive fanbase.‘Toxic’ continues Within Destructions new release cycle and is out on the 23rd September 2022. The album ‘Lotus’ then drops on 30th September 2022. Over the campaign, the band have already had support from Lambgoat, Triple J, Idobi Howl, Invicta Magazine, Metal Trenches, Riot Vision and more. The band have already surpassed 24 million streams on Spotify alone across their previous releases, and have no intention of slowing down. Fresh from touring Asia, Australia, and USA, the band head out on an extensive UK/EU tour to promote the album with Space Of Variations, Bound In Fear and Earth Caller.
5. Mamalarky - Pocket Fantasy (Atlanta, Georgia)
Genre: Indie Music: https://open.spotify.com/artist/2AWfnWrfFVhRPVX4JN9a6g?si=-lovppzRR4W5XClW3YeeaA
“Mamalarky’s tenderly tangled indie rock has the internal logic of ridiculous jokes shared between band members after spending weeks on the road together. In 2020, the young Atlanta-based quartet had more than enough time in each other’s company to develop an idiosyncratic musical language. The sum of friendships and collaborations dating back to their teenage years, the band’s debut album (Fire Talk 2020) melds flashy instrumental moves with head-sticking hooks and lovesick lyrics welcoming anyone into their private world. While Mamalarky are ostensibly an indie-pop group, they stand out from the laid-back melancholy moods of contemporaries with complex instrumental interplay that inspires lean-forward listening.” - Jesse Locke for Pitchfork
6. Aviana - Corporation (Norrköping, Sweden)
Genre: Metalcore Music: https://open.spotify.com/artist/1AvLltBsz1HdAtZeucm9zy?si=PjxaitL4TgWRHy2EhubxWg
Swedish Alternative Metal act AVIANA are back in 2021 with frontman Joel Holmqvist introducing a new era of the band since the release of 'Epicenter' in 2019. Recent releases via German label Arising Empire in have all the elements you look for in a modern Metal band. The new album 'Corporation' which is described rather as a collection of singles will be out via Arising Empire on 30th of September 2022.
7. Regulate - S/T (New York, NY)
Genre: Hardcore Music: https://open.spotify.com/artist/64O5oavSEHRyQBGxOU0ewd?si=syYPInVcTXGGkqvA7_dSmg
Breaking onto the hardcore scene in 2013, New York’s Regulate have shown a resillent and earnest approach in everything they do. This rings true on the band’s upcoming self-titled LP that will drop September 30th on their new label home, Flatspot Records. The ten tracks on the album developed organically throughout the brunt of the pandemic, inspiring vocalist Sebastian Paba’s most personal lyrics to the date. Regulate has always been an outlet for vulnerability - the band’s latest album In the Promise of Another Tomorrow (2018) shined with commentary on identity and power structure complimented by explosive musicianship. Regulate takes the band to another level, teetering between a traditional hardcore sound and something more striking, pulling additional inspiration from Latin music and R&B. Paba effortlessly handles both screams and what might be the catchiest clean vocal delivery in the entire genre while pushing forth thoughts on serious topics like genocide against indigenous peoples and more light-hearted notes of just loving making music.Having already shared the stage with a heavy list of bands like Terror, Backtrack, Glassjaw, Madball, and Burn, the band is prepped to get back to touring steadily in 2022. They’ll hit the road with Vein.fm and Candy this summer and are also slated for numerous festival appearances.Heading into a new album cycle, ambitions are high for Regulate, but they don’t mind leaving a few things up to interpretation.
8. Tactosa - DIY Autopsy (Single) (Tampa, Florida) WATCH THE LYRIC VIDEO HERE:
Genre: Deathcore Music: https://open.spotify.com/artist/1maC5DWQKBAQqmjfp3qCpI?si=FhtL3n3aTXOROkh0dIPzCA
Central Florida based Tactosa takes the raw, crushing sound of early Deathcore into the modern day. Piercing high vocals, groovy drums and brutally heavy riffs, combined with modern hardcore and death metal influences, makes Tactosa feel like a fresh return to form for the genre.
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1. TRPP - Here To Stay (Seoul, South Korea)
Genre: Shoegaze/Indie/Rock Music: https://open.spotify.com/artist/1aBpZ0N9BHa5pVM8oKhT0D?si=m7dcHSe0TwunTeO6rsqK3w
Furukawa Yukio: who had just left the line of succession to a lucrative Ramen bar business. Chi-Chi Cliché: who was starting to find the nomadic lifestyle no longer exciting but tedious and wearisome. Elephant 999: who has a virtuously uninterrupted belief that everything is made up of virtual reality.
2. Mr Jukes & Barney Artist - Eternal (London, United Kingdom)
Genre: Hip-Hop Music: https://open.spotify.com/artist/1y71H4hNtnHG7LeU1Y47FO?si=bEKrYDJ4T-qKD213uUVRkw
The music speaks for itself
3. Band-Maid - Unleash (Tokyo, Japan)
Genre: J-Metal Music: https://open.spotify.com/artist/5Wh3G01Xfxn2zzEZNpuYHH?si=EPAOKVdnRweSOcNzcnpS1Q
Band-Maid are an impossibly hard rocking, 5 piece, all-female rock band formed in 2013. Don't let their aesthetics fool you, these five “maids" are highly skilled musicians and songwriters, and their hard hitting sound, shredding guitars, pounding drums and catchy hooks have been praised by fans and media around the world. A burgeoning fan base both domestic and international has seen Band-Maid sell out multiple dates in the US, UK and Europe, and scores of YouTube reaction videos from fans around the world blown away by the group’s level of virtuosity and musical chops. The total number of views on Youtube is over 150 million, and the total number of views on reaction videos is over 40 million.
4. The Wonder Years - The Hum Goes On Forever (Lansdale, Pennsylvania)
Genre: Pop-punk Music: https://open.spotify.com/artist/0nq64XZMWV1s7XHXIkdH7K?si=YHXflcETS8uawW_YtEilzw
The Wonder Years are a band & they are a band from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania & they came to life in 2005 & they write songs & those songs are sometimes about people they love & those songs are sometimes about people you might have loved & those songs are sometimes about a city that could be the city you live in or a neighborhood that feels like it could be your neighborhood & they put those songs on albums & they put those songs on The Upsides in 2010 & they put those songs on Suburbia I've Given You All and Now I'm Nothing in 2011 & on The Greatest Generation in 2013 on No Closer to Heaven in 2015 & those albums were loved by critics & even more loved by fans & their shows are awash with a genuine emotional energy that only they can pull out of a room & The Wonder Years are a band made up of old friends & they play rock & roll music & they play it like they mean it & they have played it in a lot of places & in front of a lot of people & they have played it in dive bars & arenas & outside with the whole sky bowing & they have played it on five continents & they have played it in thirty countries & they are still counting & Sister Cities is their new album & it is an album about how all of our distance might not be so wide after all & it was written with the world on fire & all of the songs sound like they are trying to build you a bridge from somewhere bad to somewhere better & The Wonder Years are a band & they are also bridge builders. - Hanif Aburraqib
5. Lande Hekt - House Without A View (Bristol, United Kingdom)
Genre: Indie/Rock Music: https://open.spotify.com/artist/3RU6wsoh0bm0gZFHJiYRmq?si=TX3V-Lo1T_-b3L3gidweRQ
Lande Hekt’s natural state of being is in the writing of a song. Having crafted politically aware, heart-on-sleeve, punchy yet tender, punk-flecked songs with her band Muncie Girls, Lande turned her hand to an even more personal songwriting approach as she embarked on writing a solo record - 2021’s ‘Going to Hell’. The debut full-length documented her experience coming out as gay. It set out her stall as a solo artist with supreme storytelling abilities and a knack for understatedly luminous melodies. With her debut album barely a year old, 2022 sees Lande armed with a whole new collection of song-form vignettes and musings on her life and experiences. Her second solo album ‘House Without a View’ will be released 23 September via Get Better Records in North America and her new venture Prize Sunflower Records.
6. Gaerea - Mirage (Porto, Portugal)
Genre: Black Metal/ Death Metal Music: https://open.spotify.com/artist/1wXoI3Ajpv4WwQ3LmcrSBw?si=aGliNoTDRCKfg5ejQcj1vg
Behind black shrouds of obscurity and desolation, GAEREA deliver their odes in cascading maelstroms of aggression and beauty. Emerging from the age of pandemic to whatever awaits humanity next, the Portuguese horde remains on the frontlines of the next generation of extreme metal. Time. Immortality. Endless Life. Endless death.
7. Novelists FR - Déjà Vu (Première Partie) (Paris, France)
Genre: Metalcore Music: https://open.spotify.com/artist/6o8sDniHcZPM1SixvjKiYS?si=znDZb6CdRkqAnrsWomiuPA
Novelists is a modern rock&metal quartet from Paris, Berlin and Herne formed in 2013. Souvenirs (2015, Arising Empire) Noir (2017, Sharptone records, Arising Empire) C'est la vie (2020, Sharptone records, Arising Empire). The band signed to new label Out of Line music in 2020 and is set to release their 4th album "DEJA-VU" with new singer Tobias Rische ( Ex- Alazka)
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1. As Hell Retreats - Dissent (Single) (Hendersonville, Tennessee)
Genre: Spirit-Filled Metalcore Music: https://open.spotify.com/artist/1OWaeCcjWbm6abVyu4Q7cp?si=h4NDGUMuQGaUSLopqFxszA
As Hell Retreats is an American Christian metal band from Hendersonville, Tennessee. The band started making music in 2005, and their membership was lead vocalist, Jackson Greene, lead guitarists, Clint Clayton, Blake Hardman, and Tyler Riley, bass guitarists, Nate Landreth, Seth Steele, and Taylor Jones, and drummer, Trent Davenport. The band commenced as a musical entity in 2005, with their first release, Demo, an extended play, that was released independently in 2007. They release another extended play, Acknowledgement, in 2008, also independently. Their first studio album, Revival, was released by Strike First Records on May 25, 2010. The subsequent studio album, Volition, was released by Ain't No Grave Records on July 26, 2011. This was their final release, as they disbanded in 2012. But now they are back with a new release!
2. Lorna Shore - Pain Remains I: Dancing Like Flames (Single) (Warren County, New Jersey.)
Genre: Deathcore Music: https://open.spotify.com/artist/6vXYoy8ouRVib302zxaxFF?si=ECkxiccmS5yEMQl64MbEtQ
"Deathcore mainstays Lorna Shore premiere their new single and music video named “Pain Remains I: Dancing Like Flames“. The clip was directed by David Brodsky (Revocation, Killswitch Engage).The song and clip is part of a trilogy that will be featured on the group’s upcoming new studio full-length titled “Pain Remains“. That trilogy itself furthermore consists of the tracks, “Pain Remains II: After All I’ve Done, I’ll Disappear” and “Pain Remains III: Sea Of Fire“. Explain Lorna Shore: “The Pain Trilogy is a three-part tale focusing on the stages of grief and vulnerability and exemplifying it through a love story. The first song, ‘Pain Remains I: Dancing Like Flames‘ begins with the main character becoming enamored by the person within his dreams. He decides to turn to this reality as a sense of purpose despite knowing that the closer he gets to his goal, the further it seems to drift away.” - LugalKiEn from metalunderground.com
3. Death Cab For Cutie - Asphalt Meadows (Bellingham, Washington)
Genre: Indie/Rock Music: https://open.spotify.com/artist/0YrtvWJMgSdVrk3SfNjTbx?si=jErta2WHSx-TfjgYiVT5Jg
Death Cab for Cutie is an American rock band formed in Bellingham, Washington, in 1997.The band is currently composed of Ben Gibbard (vocals, guitar, piano), Nick Harmer (bass), Dave Depper (guitar, keyboards, backing vocals), Zac Rae (keyboards, guitar), and Jason McGerr (drums). The band returned to in-person live performances after 18 months in September 2021, playing shows with Perfume Genius and Deep Sea Diver. On October 29, 2021, the band shared a commemorative 20-year anniversary reissue of The Photo Album which featured studio outtakes, demos and rare recordings. On May 5, 2022, the band confirmed that they had finished work on their tenth studio album, which was announced the following week on May 11 as being titled Asphalt Meadows, which was released on September 16. The album's lead single, "Roman Candles", was released on the same day, alongside the announcement of a North American tour with Low and Yo La Tengo.
4. The Beths - Expert In A Dying Field (Auckland, New Zealand)
Genre: Indie/Rock/Pop Music: https://open.spotify.com/artist/7DjwIxbe8kpw4pqnzAMoin?si=I1m7S_kkS8WDljib7bwTAQ
On The Beths’ new album Expert In A Dying Field, Elizabeth Stokes’ songwriting positions her somewhere between being a novelist and a documentarian. The songs collected here are autobiographical, but they’re also character sketches of relationships and more importantly, their aftermaths. The question that hangs in the air: what do you do with how intimately versed you’ve become in a person, once they’re gone from your life?The third LP from the New Zealand quartet houses 12 jewels of tight, guitar-heavy songs that worm their way into your head, an incandescent collision of power-pop and skuzz. The album’s title track “Expert In A Dying Field” introduces the thesis for the record: “How does it feel to be an expert in a dying field? How do you know it’s over when you can’t let go?” Stokes asks. “Love is learned over time ‘til you’re an expert in a dying field.” 'Expert In A Dying Field' is out September 16 via Carpark Records and Ivy League Records.
5. The Devil Wears Prada - Color Decay (Dayton, Ohio)
Genre: Metalcore Music: https://open.spotify.com/artist/0NbQe5CNgh4YApOCDuHSjb?si=0MIpVgHDTJuc7bQmgGLyBg
The Devil Wears Prada rely on contrast as they nimbly balance metallic turbulence, hardcore spirit, provocatively eloquent lyricism, and melodic exorcism. In between these opposing extremes, the band—Mike Hranica [vocals], Jeremy DePoyster [guitar, vocals], Kyle Sipress [guitar], Jonathan Gering [keys, synths, programming, production], Giuseppe Capolupo [drums], and Mason Nagy [bass]—have fashioned an ever-evolving signature style buttressed by layers of sonic hues. They’ve harbored this space since forming in 2005. Speaking to the band’s growing influence, fans voted 2009’s With Roots Above and Branches Below one of the “5 Greatest Metalcore Albums” in a Revolver poll as the outlet christened it “a true metalcore landmark.” The group have notched six consecutive Top 5 debuts on the Billboard Top Hard Rock Albums Chart, including Dead Throne [2011], 8:18 [2013], Space EP [2015], Transit Blues [2016], The Act [2019], and ZII EP [2021]. The latter served as a sequel to one of their most beloved projects 2010’s Zombie EP. Upon arrival, mxdwn applauded ZII as “phenomenal,” and Metal Injection went as far as to claim, “This mini-concept has outlived the zombie revival.” In the wake of the EP, the group exceeded a-quarter-of-a-billion cumulative streams and views. Now, The Devil Wears Prada’s signature dynamic divergence defines the group’s eighth full-length offering, Color Decay [Solid State].
6. Mindforce - New Lords (Poughkeepsie, New York)
Genre: Thrash/Crossover Music: https://open.spotify.com/artist/2Tl7uZui4u9a3nXUM9VMei?si=uoONlsOdRUqTybwTnatezA
"Mindforce is back, baby! The great Hudson Valley hardcore band never went anywhere. Since the beginning of the pandemic, Mindforce has released the EP Swingin Swords, Choppin Lords and the one-off banger “Reign Of Terror.” They’ve played amazing live shows. They’ve spawned a whole universe of kickass side projects. But they haven’t made another album. Mindforce released their one full-length, the full-on shit-ripper Excalibur, back in 2018. They’ve since made statements about how they never want to make another one, but I guess they changed their minds. In a few months, Mindforce will return with their second LP New Lords, and it is almost certainly going to rip.Mindforce are going into this album as conquering heroes, as one of the most universally beloved bands on the present-day hardcore landscape. But you can’t necessarily hear that swagger on “Survival Is Vengeance,” our first taste of New Lords. Instead, the song is all breathless urgency. “Survival Is Vengeance” goes for full-on thrash speed, and it’s over in less than two minutes. In that time, it does a whole lot of damage. Below, check out “Survival Is Vengeance” and the New Lords tracklist."- TOM BREIHAN from stereogum.com
7. Confessions of a Traitor - Punishing Myself Before God Does (London, United Kingdom)
Genre: Spirit-Filled Metalcore Music: https://open.spotify.com/artist/3XxTiLhFGMsWvVfpZ7KlF9?si=5OUimRdQRUOFbNW7PacV2g
Confessions Of A Traitor offer raw emotion through the medium of an energized and confronting sound. Honest and passionate, the band wear their hearts on their sleeves. COAT share this through emotive lyrics that venture to some of the darkest places the band have endured. “We want to provide an escape for people, to embrace their belief when all else is lost. Aggressive music, to build positive people." Heavy melodic music from London, England.
8. Weeping Wound - idontbelonghere. (EP) (Tampa, FL)
Genre: Metalcore Music: https://open.spotify.com/artist/6YXj8wWQGAopBQLxF1zjRn?si=wrmhT_gfSdGKxFf-zKcnXQ
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1. Ozzy Osbourne - Patient Number 9 (Birmingham, United Kingdom)
Genre: Rock Music: https://open.spotify.com/artist/6ZLTlhejhndI4Rh53vYhrY?si=4bA9nLAcRB2K1JvWuYihcQ
If you need to read a bio to learn about who Ozzy Osbourne is, what rock have you been living under?
2. Parkway Drive - Darker Still (New South Wales, Australia)
Genre: Metalcore Music: https://open.spotify.com/artist/159qqlGwzE04xyqpfAwRLo?si=8zO6ge84R62p5QlBWIqqhw
Darker Still, McCall says, is the vision he and his bandmates – guitarists Jeff Ling and Luke Kilpatrick, bassist Jia O’Connor and drummer Ben Gordon – have held in their mind’s eye since a misfit group of friends first convened in their parents’ basements and backyards in 2003. The journey to reach this moment has seen Parkway evolve from metal underdogs to festival-headlining behemoth, off the back of close to 20 gruelling years, six critically and commercially acclaimed studio albums (all of which achieving Gold status in their home nation), three documentaries, one live album, and many, many thousands of shows.To understand that growth is to understand Darker Still, both musically and thematically. Those who thought they had Parkway Drive figured out – the unrivalled energy, the high-octane breakdowns, McCall’s trademark bark – need reconsider everything they know about Australia’s masters of heavy. Darker Still stands as the culmination of a transformative time that has seen Parkway reach new heights of creativity and success by eschewing the restrictive, safe conventions of genre and abandoning their own self-imposed rules in favour of a wide-eyed appreciation of bold new horizons. This is the Parkway Drive the band have been striving to be for two decades. Emerging from the darkness of the past few years, this is the true face of Parkway: redefined and resolute, focused in mind and defiant in spirit.
3. Holy Fawn - Dimensional Bleed (Phoenix, Arizona)
Genre: Post-Rock / Doomgaze Music: https://open.spotify.com/artist/13rS3lCWshTVt6HsCNjvBI?si=0pbYwP4OQ7-Q9smZbhyszA
Four creatures making loud, heavy, pretty noises.
4. The Midnight - Heroes (Los Angeles, California)
Genre: Electronic / Synthwave Music: https://open.spotify.com/artist/2NFrAuh8RQdQoS7iYFbckw?si=lVfZE3mpQlGH32Te_Hz2Rg
The Midnight consists of Tyler Lyle (a songwriter from the Deep South) and Tim McEwan (a producer from Denmark).
5. END & Cult Leader - Gather & Mourn (Split EP) (Salt Lake City, Utah)
Genre: Hardcore/Punk Music: https://open.spotify.com/artist/4MnX5gyPiIWEjQzvX54I8p?si=Ytf3iWFEQp6DT68FYeAzCw
END is a collection of musicians from various corners of extreme music, including current and former members of Counterparts, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Fit For An Autopsy, Misery Signals, Shai Hulud, and Reign Supreme. Initially conceived as a passion project by producer/engineer Will Putney, END has quickly built a reputation for their violent and destructive brand of hardcore/grind.
Cult Leader specialize in sludgy but tech-forward metalcore that invokes names like Trap Them, Converge, and Pig Destroyer. Featuring three-quarters of the original Gaza lineup (Casey Hansen, Anthony Lucero, Michael Mason, and Sam Richards)
6. Flogging Molly - Anthem (Los Angeles, California)
Genre: Celtic Punk Music: https://open.spotify.com/artist/5kQGFREO5FzMBMsAO3cEtj?si=Quh07L7ZSQa_JSEWfRLddg
Flogging Molly are less of a band than they are a Transatlantic, Celtic-punk institution. Over the course of 25 years and thousands of shows around the world, Flogging Molly have transcended genres to become one of a very few bands that can literally share the stage with The Chieftains one day and Motörhead the next (this actually happened, by the way). For Flogging Molly’s seventh full-length 'Anthem', the band, which features married couple Dave King (vocals, guitar, bodhrán) and Bridget Regan (violin/fiddle, tin whistle, backing vocals), decided to get back to their roots and record 14 songs in 14 days with Steve Albini (Nirvana, Pixies) at Electrical Audio Studio in Chicago. Atom Greenspan (Idles, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds) mixed the tracks, and was also instrumental in both the sound and sequencing of Anthem.
Ultimately, there really aren’t any other bands like Flogging Molly who can transverse scenes from punk to folk so easily and the fact that there are now multiple generations of fans at the band’s shows is a testament to their continued relevance. All of which brings us full circle back to Anthem. The band—and the world—have been through a lot over the past few years and Anthem is much about the collective spirit we all possess that allows us to push forward toward the future.
7. Stray from the Path - Euthanasia (Long Island, New York)
Genre: Metalcore / Hardcore Music: https://open.spotify.com/artist/5tGG1slV9pkcydU5eQSIvm?si=TMwsXE5ESKypLS2Mo9rWeA
Stray From The Path have been unleashing their furious blend of hardcore aggression and outspoken socio-political lyricism for over a decade, striving to be the kind of band that can offer an entry point to both heavy music and radical ideas, and achieving an impressive level of longevity in the process. Now their latest album, Euthanasia, finds the NY/UK-based group in significantly darker territory.Rarely offering the listener a chance to catch their breath, Euthanasia rips through track after track of sinister riffs, gut - shaking bass, and powerhouse drumming that defies both reality and the seriousness of Reynold’s injury. Dijorio manages to sound unhinged throughout, while still providing genuine hooks amongst all of the aggression and no-punches-pulled lyrics. Many of the songs seek to shine a spotlight on elements of modern life that have become disturbingly normalized, like the insidiousness of copaganda, the predatory tactics of military recruiters in the United States (Chest Candy), or the unmitigated greed of major corporations. But Euthanasia doesn’t deal exclusively in vitriol. On mid-album standout Bread & Roses, the band teams with vocalist to stretch their creativity in a different direction. "This song was inspired by people, like Jesse, who do mutual aid work and make sacrifices in their own lives for the betterment of their communities," explains Williams.
8. I Am - Eternal Steel (Dallas, Texas)
Genre: Metal Music: https://open.spotify.com/artist/7dQNPdkq99QGiUIMmRjqur?si=FM--xe_RRSGxP7OrMIbCsw
Texas death unit I AM will release their Eternal Steel full-length September 9th via MNRK Heavy, today unveiling the record’s artwork, track listing, and first single! Brandishing a unique blend of furious thrash and death metal like a weapon of mass destruction, I AM is purely no-nonsense in their patented “Texas Death” assault. Armed with riffs, speed, and overwhelming power, “I AM writes songs that make you want to move” (Decibel Magazine). Across three full-length slabs of bludgeoning intensity and snarling rage, I AM put a Southern stamp and revitalized swagger into deathcore, a subgenre rarely as raw, energized, and diverse as this band. In the spirit of fellow Southern icons Pantera and newer Texan heroes Power Trip, I AM channels discontent and anger into empowering anthems, as likely to inspire a grueling workout as to incite the pit. Reminiscent of the combination of death metal heaviness and thrash metal speed found in the early catalog of Sepultura, I AM mines the heaviness of Morbid Angel and the dexterity of the Big 4 to create something groundbreaking of their own. Vocalist Andrew Hileman — who started the band in 2011– guitarists Tom Reyes and Chris Burgess, bassist Erik Rodriguez, and drummer Brandon Busa deliver their Texas Death in clubs, theaters, and festivals, with bands like The Acacia Strain and Kublai Khan. Recorded, mixed, and mastered by Randy Leboeuf & EQ
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1. Prairie Pavement - Red Flags Last Forever (Buffalo, New York)
Genre: Indie Rock Music: https://open.spotify.com/artist/7KGjlZ72pkBXig9toJFqF6?si=y_jPlIE5T9aAdkNsv2vATQ
Prairie Pavement is an indie group from Buffalo New York formed by 4 high school friends in early 2021. Starting out as an act for their school’s art festival, Prairie Pavement quickly became the main artistic focus for guitarists, vocalists, and songwriters Sal Constantin (of ) and Jack Chadwick (of ), as well as bass player and writer Eli Gebera, and drummer Dylan (Sticky) Lumb. The band now presents their second full length LP titled “Red Flags Last Forever”. Recorded, mixed, and mastered by close friend Brandon Schmitt, and produced by everyone involved. Most notable for its intense switches in genre, brutal honesty, and topics consisting of unpopular opinions on the lifestyles of young people that surround all of the writers in the group.
2. Oceans Ate Alaska - Disparity (Birmingham, United Kingdom)
Genre: Metalcore Music: https://open.spotify.com/artist/48zUWAXpgEXfpttz23pCNQ?si=JFqvvqcNS9CpP2YPOj8dmQ
Oceans Ate Alaska are a British metalcore band hailing from Birmingham formed in 2010. The band are currently signed to Fearless Records and are known for "uniting boundaries between multiple genres in modern metal" and for "fusing unpredictable polyrhythms and sporadic partnering of melodic and dissonant passages". Original vocalist, James Harrison came up with the band name; naming it after the 1950 Lituya Bay tsunami that swallowed one of Alaska’s gulfs.
3. YUNGBLUD - S/T (Doncaster, United Kingdom)
Genre: Pop/Rock Music: https://open.spotify.com/artist/6Ad91Jof8Niiw0lGLLi3NW?si=6ttLtOvATgCwBpf7JPfAfQ
Emerging from the gritty north of England, YUNGBLUD brings an explosion of raw energy and thought-provoking lyrics. He has created his own blend of alternative rock: poetry, guitar-hooks and break-beats with a fierce determination to make a dent in pop-culture. Dangerously sexy, startlingly bold yet emotionally grounded YUNGBLUD drops a grenade on his audience members imprinting himself in their minds.
4. The Front Bottoms - Theresa (Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey)
Genre: Indie Rock Music: https://open.spotify.com/artist/5ictveRyhWRs8Gt8Dvt1hS?si=BrzXy0NaSoOm8iypDV8Vsg
The Front Bottoms are an indie rock duo from New Jersey whose music is a wildly eclectic blend of pop, rock, and punk influences accompanied by witty lyrics that offer a rapid-fire, slightly surreal perspective on the world around them.
5. The Callous Daoboys - Celebrity Therapist (Atlanta, Georgia)
Genre: Chaotic Hardcore Music: https://open.spotify.com/artist/4ZWRLOs7c4drt9mKGc0Ds0?si=cmE5hFhzTSS-koxvDPaSqQ
The recklessly free-spirited collective from Atlanta, Georgia, revels in high-strung extremity, music that’s somehow dense, impenetrable, and chaotic yet confusingly inviting. An undeniable life-affirming glee is palpable as each song deliriously swerves across stylistic lines. The Callous Daoboys come from the school of The Dillinger Escape Plan, Every Time I Die, and The Chariot, with a heightened degree of theatricality as one of the methods to their madness. Think Panic! At The Disco and Fall Out Boy getting slapped around good-naturedly by Glassjaw. Celebrity Therapist even indulges in a bit of drone and avant-garde post-rock a la Sigor Rós and Radiohead.
6. Miss May I - Curse of Existence (Troy, Ohio)
Genre: Metalcore Music: https://open.spotify.com/artist/2OTuoIi28WybVbVcykc237?si=teezeLInRxC9fujGyd9reQ
The sound and fury of MISS MAY I is deeply embedded in the hearts and minds of a legion of fans. These are people from different backgrounds, of different ages, with diverse life experience, who all come together and connect with MISS MAY I’s combination of brutal proficiency and impassioned delivery. The five-piece powerhouse, from the fertile metalcore grounds of America’s heartland, have become an integral part of the worldwide heavy music community, transcending boundaries and limitations, galvanizing crowds, and energizing each person they encounter.
Miss May I celebrates a decade of savage metalcore and soaring melodic refrains, newly revitalized, and poised for an insurgent career renaissance; armed with unmistakable power, road hardened experience, a steadily building catalog, and unrelenting spirit, supported by a diehard community.
7. 156/Silence - Narrative (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
Genre: Hardcore/Metalcore Music: https://open.spotify.com/artist/2qXHYRTtZytxMMfO9pW1V9?si=_Y916dGNQNanhD80JNvgWQ
A soundtrack for those whose story and struggles are seldom reflected in the glossy pages of life’s shining field guide for success, 156/Silence’s impassioned soliloquy stands apart, skirting the shallow pool of false pleasantries and descending deeper into the ominous yet hauntingly beautiful ruminations of a frustrated conscience.
8. State of You - S/T (EP) (United Kingdom)
Genre: Rock N Roll Music: https://open.spotify.com/artist/18YRYVKCQ6myVzKnTZIjXE?si=SnSF2PffTk6ofTbHVKTNig
State of You began to come together at the tail end of 2019. The band is comprised of ex-members of Polar, Hildamay, Outcry Collective and Seasonal. Ollie Jeffs and Max O'Neil on guitars, Nick Jones on drums, Rick Keenan on bass and Steve Sitkowski on vocals. With a shared desire to write straight up rock 'n' roll songs to expel personal demons and take aim at world problems, they found an instant chemistry. After a handful of practices together, the pandemic hit. Instead of grinding to a halt, the band kept their momentum going by sending ideas to each other online and discussing them whilst simultaneously playing Call of Duty. Being crowned the winning team of a Warzone match was a highlight that shall never be forgotten. Picking through over 40 song ideas, the band settled on recording one (Run) with Oz Craggs (Feed the Rhino) at Hidden Track Studios in Folkestone. Proper Covid-19 rules were adhered to at all times. The recording attracted the attention of investor Andy Hillier which then allowed a full EP to be recorded and a video shot by Aaran McKensie from While She Sleeps in Birmingham. Aaran then recommended the band to the record label Silent Cult who signed them instantly. Currently honing their live game as often as they can, State of You are looking forward to smashing the shit out of every stage they get on. Welcoming people from all walks of life to join them on this adventure.
9. Illuminate Me - Dying on a Hill That Nobody Remembers (EP) (Tampa, Florida)
Genre: Chaotic Hardcore Music: https://open.spotify.com/artist/6RDYMULyM7hhso4NEjExJ5?si=sCDC63kkQsKPgjH5ZeE0sw
“If you lived in the Southeast (especially Florida) in the last 10 years or so, you may be familiar with a chaotic hardcore/metalcore band known as Illuminate Me. Signed to Tragic Hero Records after gaining a sizable fanbase in their home area, the band ultimately disbanded due to a complete lack of support from their label.
Considering the band arrived at a time where bands in their genre were getting signed to labels and experiencing success, they’re a band that, at least in our opinion, should have “made it”. Now, they’ve reformed and are getting a second chance. Fans of bands like The Chariot will want to give one a spin for sure, and the song also features Oshie Bichar of Beartooth.
About the new song, vocalist Christopher Murray had this to share:
“I believe this band has immense potential that was squandered by a label that did not care about us and destroyed the band’s motivation and passion. I toiled for years at the thought that I was just not good enough. This return is about me proving myself, and the ones that did put the band in that position, ultimately wrong. This is about revenge. Your anger is a gift, don’t waste it. Let it illuminate.”
The new song is also off Illuminate Me’s upcoming EP, Dying On A Hill That Nobody Remembers. The EP also features a guest spot from Aaron Heard of Jesus Piece, so you know it’s gonna be vicious. It’s out at the end of this month.”
- New Fury Media
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