NORTH AMERICAN TOUR DATES 08/01 – Brooklyn Steel – Brooklyn, NY – TICKETS 08/03 – Danforth Music Hall – Toronto, ON - TICKETS 08/04 - Osheaga Festival - Montreal, Canada 08/06 – Lollapalooza Festival – Chicago, IL
------------------------------------- LondonGrammar has announced TWO headlining shows to take place in Brooklyn, NY and Toronto this summer. Fans can get special advance access to tickets by pre-ordering “Truth Is A Beautiful Thing” viawww.londongrammarshop.com before tickets go on sale to the general public on Friday June 9th. Pre-sale offer ends June 8th @ 10pm ET.
The acclaimed British trio also unveiled THREE new videos in the lead up to their highly anticipated sophomore album “Truth Is A beautiful Thing” which drops this Friday via Columbia Records. A special live video of “Hell To The Liars,” which premiered Beats1 this week can be viewed HERE.
The two videos for Oh Woman Oh Man were directed by iconic British director Tony Kaye, best known for his film American History X and his Grammy Award winning music videos for artists including Red Hot Chili Peppers and Johnny Cash, and stars award winning actor Tye Sheridan. Watch the video "Oh Woman" HERE and "Oh Man" HERE.
“Hell To The Liars” -- produced by London Grammar and Paul Epworth -- is the fifth track to be released from the album, following “Oh Woman Oh Man” back in April. The song was recently given new life thanks to a remix EP featuring club reworks from dance music masters Tiga, DC Breaks and MK. Listen to the MK Remix.
In addition to Epworth, the band’s forthcoming LP Truth Is A Beautiful Thing features production from Mercury nominated Jon Hopkins (Coldplay, Brian Eno, King Creosote) and Greg Kurstin (Adele, Sia, Beck) as well as Tim Bran and Roy Kerr who also worked on the band’s debut,If You Wait. All album pre-orders include “Hell To The Liars,” as well as previous releases “Oh Woman Oh Man,” “Truth Is A Beautiful Thing,” “Rooting For You” and “Big Picture.” Standard and deluxe versions of the album will be available digitally. The album will also be available on vinyl. See full track lists below.
Following two sold out shows earlier this year in Los Angeles and New York, LondonGrammar return to North America this summer, appearing at both the Osheaga Festival in Montreal and at Lollapalooza Festival in Chicago as well as their new two headlining shows announced today..For a list of all forthcoming live dates, please visit www.londongrammar.com
Winning a prestigious Ivor Novello Award for “Strong,” two AIM Independent Music awards (Independent Breakthrough of The Year; PPL Award For Most Played New Independent Act) and receiving a Brit Award nomination (British Breakthrough Act), London Grammar’s debut album, If You Wait has sold almost two million copies internationally.
TRACK LIST Standard 1. "Rooting for You" 2. "Big Picture" 3. "Wild Eyed" 4. "Oh Woman Oh Man" 5. "Hell to the Liars” 6. "Everyone Else" 7. "Non Believer" 8. "Bones of Ribbon" 9. "Who Am I" 10. "Leave the War with Me" 11. "Truth Is a Beautiful Thing"
DELUXE 12. “What a Day” 13. “Different Breeds” 14. “Control” 15. “Trials” (Demo) 16. “May the Best” (Church Mix) 17. “Rooting For You” (Demo) 18. “Bitter Sweet Symphony” (Live at Maida Vale Studios)
With the release of the terrifying new Atraments full-length by ANIMA NOSTRA - the Sweden/UK-based industrial/doom duo founded by Henrik Nordvargr Björkk and Margaux Renaudin - just over a week from release through Malignant Records, Decibel Magazine has hosted a stream of "Composition For The Shadow Self."
The lead track to the new album is an immediate sign of the tortured output awaiting the listener on Atraments, inducing a traumatizing state of helplessness right from the start. Decibel Magazine offers with their exclusive song premiere, "When it comes to dark industrial doom (heavy on the industrial), ANIMA NOSTRA might be some of the darkest," continuing of the song itself, "On 'Composition For The Shadow Self' ANIMA NOSTRA create dark soundscapes that rumble and crash not unlike a storm building in the distance. Rumbling screams and growls add to the tumultuous but massive feeling of the song."
Bear the suffocating force of ANIMA NOSTRA's "Composition For The Shadow Self" only at Decibel RIGHT HERE.
Also hear the band's eponymous "Anima Nostra" at Cvlt Nation RIGHT HERE and the album's "Blameless" HERE.
Atraments will see CD and digital release through Malignant Records next Friday, June 16th; preorders can be found at the Malignant store HERE and Bandcamp HERE.
Initially the name of a collaborative CD between Henrik Nordvargr Björkk and Margaux Renaudin released on Cold Spring in 2016, the duo has now relabeled and solidified themselves under the ANIMA NOSTRA moniker, and in turn, broadly expanded their sonic palette, taking the more intimate ritual ambient aspects of the debut, and incorporating them as part of towering constructs that blur the line between death industrial, doom metal, and neo-classical, completing the album with artwork by Thomas Ekelund (Trepaneringsritualen) and Portuguese occult calligrapher Gordoletters,
With its upward swells of foreboding brass, fearsome tribal percussion, and hammering, bass-heavy dirge, ANIMA NOSTRA's second album Atraments is the unleashing of something truly monumental and cataclysmic, eclipsing nearly everything Nordvargr has ever been associated with in of scope and grandeur. Integral and prominent in the mix are heavily serrated and imperious vocals, employed to drag the listener inexorably into an inferno of apocalyptic proportions, while adding a more structured "song" element and trumpeting the arrival of an inevitable doom. Atraments stands firmly as a vision complete and the perfect soundtrack for times of great tumult.
New York-based death metal behemoths AFTERBIRTH -- featuring within its ranks members of Helmet, Artificial Brain, and Buckshot Facelift -- will release their brutalizing TheTime Traveler's Dilemma debut full-length via Unique Leader Records this summer.
Among the earliest purveyors of brutal death metal, AFTERBIRTH was forged on Long Island, New York during the Summer of 1993. The following year, the band released the Psychopathic Embryotomy studio demo which has since become something of a cult-like classic among the extreme metal underground. Due to various issues among its members however, AFTERBIRTHdisbanded shortly thereafter the recording.
After a near-twenty-year hiatus however, the band reunited in 2012 and began composing new material for an unknowable future and a then as-yet untitled debut. It became immediately apparent that the creative magic among the AFTERBIRTH members remained -- it had never left -- resulting in some of their heaviest and most dynamic material to date.
Not only was the music heavier and far more aggressive than it had been during the band's initial short-lived run, but new elements like progressive metal, space rock, jazz, and noise began to rise to the surface of their song writing. Following a 2014 demo and 2015's Maggots In Her Smile EP,AFTERBIRTH is set to release their debut withTheTime Traveler's Dilemma, an otherworldly combination of sounds that shift between the discordant and the melodious; the alluring and the disfigured; the eccentric and the methodical.
Heavy, complex guitar work; atypically inspired bass rumblings; skillful, fast, and tastefully groovy drums/percussion; otherworldly growls from beyond known dimensions of time and space... All of this and more combine to form the basis of AFTERBIRTH's current musical output. While the subject matter doesn't stray too far from what some might call "typical" of the death metal genre - murderous grotesqueries, pain, and horrors unimaginable still certainly abound - the band's vision has expanded far beyond the classic death metal template to include ideas and archetypes found in philosophical, religious, and scientific fiction/horror literature. "Just as our musical prowess had strengthened and amplified over the years," notes the band, "so had our desires to express ourselves lyrically and conceptually. Gore and mutilated fetuses are always great and rich subject matter but we've all branched out and discovered other avenues of knowledge and inspiration we wanted to explore within the framework of the band."
TheTime Traveler's Dilemma -- set for release on July 28th on CD, digital, and vinyl formats -- was recorded, mixed, and mastered by Joseph Cincotta at Full Force Studios (Suffocation, Dehumanized, Mortal Decay) and comes sheathed in the cover art of Kishor Haulenbeek (Black Harvest). The vinyl edition was mastered by James Plotkin (OLD, Scorn, Khanate, Khlyst et al). As an extra bonus, Frank Rini (ex-Internal Bleeding) performs backing vocals on the track, "Timeless Formless."
Preorders for TheTime Traveler's Dilemma are currently available at THIS LOCATION.
Additionally, you can sample "Maggots In Her Smile" streaming at Unique Leader's official Bandcamp page at THIS LOCATION.
Directly following their North American trek with Shining and Revenge, WOLVHAMMER entered New Constellation Studio in Orlando, Florida (1349, Brutality, Hate Eternal) this weekend, and is currently immersed in the recording of their fourth LP, which will be completed for release later this year.
Issues WOLVHAMMER's Adam Clemans from the studio, "We just finished a three-week tour across the country with Revenge and Shining. Sharing the stage with those bands was a very visceral and enjoyable experience for us. We have all been supportive of both bands for some time, so we were very pleased to be able to join forces with them for a tour.
Currently we are in Orlando, Florida recording our fourth LP with Jarrett Pritchard at New Constellation Studio and we couldn't be more stoked. Jarrett is a talented guy who understands our sound and our vision and I truly and firmly believe that this record will be our strongest and most venomous yet. Without giving away too much, the new record has a bit of a throwback vibe to the more punk based sound and roots that originally birthed the band. But we are still expanding our sound and influences simultaneously as we are all very much into goth and deathrock bands."
Expect further updates including label destination and additional details on WOLVHAMMER's new album to be issued upon its completion in the Summer months.
Occult black metal practitioners ONE MASTER will unsheathe their traumatic Lycanthropic Burrowingfull-length next month via Eternal Death Records.
For the past fifteen years, ONE MASTER has been conjuring raw and aggressive black metal in the dark corners of the US underground. Following up their acclaimed Reclusive Blasphemy offering, which ranked among the best metal records of 2015 by Loudwire, Metal Sucks, and Metal Insider, their newest full-length Lycanthropic Burrowing delivers thirty-five minutes of cursed and dismal fury. From the militaristic oppression of "Will Of The Shadow" to the haunting ritualism of the closing title track, Lycanthropic Burrowing is an audio document of a band ascending towards the elite tier of US black metal occupied by bands such as Nightbringer and Leviathan.
Recorded, mixed, and mastered by Will Killingsworth at Dead Air Studios, and accompanied by artwork from Dave Fogg of Fog Palace, Lycanthropic Burrowing is an expertly produced record that is sure to be one of the most highly rated underground black metal releases of 2017.
Lycanthropic Burrowing will see release on July 14th on CD, digital, and limited vinyl formats via Eternal Death. Preorders are currently available at the official Eternal Death Bandcamp page where you can also sample "Will Of The Shadow" at THIS LOCATION.
Lycanthropic Burrowing Track Listing:
1. The Claws Of Dionysus
2. Will Of The Shadow
3. The Black Bat
4. Death Resurrection
5. Erosion
6. Lycanthropic Burrowing
In conjunction with the release, ONE MASTER will take on a West Coast mini-tour from July 15th through July 22nd. The band will also appear at the Red River Family Fest in Austin this September alongside Panzergod, Yellow Eyes, and more with future live abrasions in the conspiring stages. See confirmed dates below.
7/15/2017 5 Star Bar - Los Angeles, CA 7/16/2017 The Bancroft - Spring Valley, CA [info] 7/17/2017 The Tavern - Ventura, CA 7/18/2017 Elbo Room - San Francisco, CA [info] 7/19/2017 The Bamboo Room At King Wah's - Medford, OR [info] 7/20/2017 Old Nick's Pub - Eugene, OR 7/21/2017 Twilight Café And Bar -Portland, OR [info] 7/22/2017 Highline Bar - Seattle, WA [info]
9/22-23/2017 Red River Family Fest @ Barracuda - Austin, TX [info]
GRIDFAILURE's new Scathed albumis out now, available for free download as well as CD through Minneapolis-based Darker Days Ahead.
Scathed permeates its surrounding atmosphere with overtones of inescapable hostility and an inexorable sense of dread, the record delivering fifty-three minutes of tortured layers of immersive antagonism fully performed, recorded, and visually designed solely by GRIDFAILURE architect David Brenner. Surging with off-kilter percussion, unhinged keyboard and synth attacks, carcinogenic bass/guitar tones, and vocals that bellow from beneath heaps of smoldering corpses, while elements of theremin, didgeridoo, xylophone, harmonica, field recordings, and more also add to the unpredictable powerdementia of Scathed. The album is issued on a pro black CDR with a 4-panel booklet in a spray-painted sleeve.
Download Scathed for free and purchase the CD via GRIDFAILURE's Bandcamp HERE and via Darker Days Ahead HERE.
Since its early 2016 conception, GRIDFAILURE has now released three albums, a collaborative album with Megalophobe, a split with Never Presence Forever, an EP, a compilation track, and other singles.
The remainder of 2017 and early 2018 will yield several other new albums and much more from the outfit, as GRIDFAILURE prepares to begin enduring live tests this Summer.
"Referring to Valley Cottage, New York experimental noise outfit GRIDFAILURE as 'prolific' is somewhat of an understatement," Aversionline's interrogation with GRIDFAILURE included, continuing, "So far this year alone, the project has issued a split cassette with Never Presence Forever, the Hostile Alchemy full-length, an appearance on the impressive Death Season Six compilation, and Dendritic-a collaborative album with Megalophobe. In just over four months, that's as much as comparable artists might release in two to three years!" Factory Worker Media published, "this is not your weirdo dad's dark ambient music, but something darker and vaguely prescient in its rendering of manufactured electronic and amplified sounds as a dense field of spirits trapped between the material world and whatever realms may exist beyond our limited senses in the aftermath of Anthropocene extinction." Wonderbox Metal reports, "these hymns to devastation also manage to willfully impose their twisted and disturbing visions of humanity's impending demise on reality's fragile veneer with reckless force, compelling the listener to pay strict attention. As this occurs, their perception is reshaped along harrowing and upsetting lines, so that they emerge at the end of the album changed and mentally undone."
Breakthrough rock act Stone Sour has debuted a third new track off their highly anticipated LP,HYDROGRAD. “Taipei Person/Allah Tea,” is streaming now on Stone Sour’s official YouTube channel and available at all DSPs. HYDROGRAD arrives worldwide June 30th
Recorded at Sphere Studios in North Hollywood, CA with producer Jay Ruston, HYDROGRAD features the lead tracks “Song #3” and “Fabuless” which are available now at all DSPs and streaming services. “Song #3” has quickly staked its claim in the Top 5 at Active Rock Radio and has been the greatest gainer on the chart for four consecutive weeks. Additionally, the Ryan Valdez directed music video for “Song #3” has received over 1 million views in just a weeks’ time, while the track has been streamed nearly 2 million times on Spotify alone. “Fabuless” is joined by an official music video, directed by Paul Brown, which has amassed over 3 Million views on Stone Sour’s official YouTube channel.
HYDROGRAD is available for pre-order at all DSPs and via www.stonesour.com, with all pre-orders accompanied by instant grat downloads of “Fabuless,” “Song #3” and “Taipei Person/Allah Tea” (see tracklisting / album art attached). Exclusive pre-order merch bundles are also available at www.stonesour.com.
Next month Stone Sour will celebrate HYDROGRAD with an epic summer trek alongside fellow Roadrunner recording group Korn. “The Serenity of Summer Tour” gets underway June 16th at Salt Lake City, UT’sUSANA Amphitheatre and then travels through early August (see tour itinerary attached). Presented by Live Nation, support throughout the eclectic tour comes from Babymetal, Skillet, Yelawolf, Islander and Ded. Furthermore, Stone Sour has several festival appearances slated for this summer including Rock Fest (7/14), Rock USA (7/15), Chicago Open Air (7/16) and more. This fall Stone Sour will head overseas for an international leg of their ‘Hydrograd World Tour’ which will kick off November 10th with a performance at Moscow, Russia’s Stadium. For complete details and ticket availability, please visit www.stonesour.com.
Stone Sour unleashed their eponymous debut album in 2002 and was immediately confirmed as one of the most significant hard rock outfits of the 21st century. The self-titled release earned RIAA gold certification while singles “Get Inside” and “Inhale” each received GRAMMY® Award nominations for “Best Metal Performance.”
COME WHAT(EVER) MAY followed in 2006 and proved an even greater accomplishment with a top 5 debut on the SoundScan/Billboard 200 and a #1 entry onto Billboard’s “Rock Albums” chart. The acclaimed album spawned still another GRAMMY®-nominated single in “30/30-150” on its own way to RIAA gold certification. COME WHAT(EVER) MAY unleashed a series of rock radio classics, including “Sillyworld,” “Made of Scars,” the #1 hit, “Through Glass,” which spent seven weeks atop Billboard’s “Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks” while also reaching #2 on “Alternative Songs” and the top 40 on the overall “Hot 100.” The song’s companion video was also a favorite, now with over 48 million individual views at YouTube alone.
Stone Sour’s most recent all-original releases, the monumental HOUSE OF GOLD & BONES – PART 1 and HOUSE OF GOLD & BONES – PART 2, both made top 10 debuts on the SoundScan/Billboard 200 just six months apart from one another – the band’s third and fourth consecutive top 10 chart entries. The two-part concept album yielded a string of multi-format rock radio hits, including the top 5 favorites “Absolute Zero,” “Do Me A Favor,” and “Tired,” the latter of which ascended to #1 at Mainstream Rock outlets nationwide.
HOUSE OF GOLD & BONES drew widespread critical applause with ArtistDirect hailing “PART 1” as “a milestone for Stone Sour and for modern rock music. It's on par with Alice In Chains’ ‘DIRT,’ Metallica’s MASTER OF PUPPETS, Queens of the Stone Age’s SONGS FOR THE DEAF, Soundgarden’sSUPERUNKNOWN, and any other game-changing albums you can think of.” HOUSE OF GOLD & BONES – PART 2 earned equally great acclaim, including placement on Revolver’s “Top 20 Albums of 2013” andLoudwire’s “Top 10 Rock + Metal Albums of 2013” ranking. The Guardian, in its four-out-of-five starred rave, praised Stone Sour frontman Corey Taylor’s “remarkable transformation into heavy music's premier polymath and renaissance man” while further hailing the album’s “towering melodies and moments of radio-friendly majesty, the band's trademark straddling of the divide between metal and commercial rock sounding increasingly adroit.”
2015 saw the arrival of STRAIGHT OUTTA BURBANK, an unprecedented EP in which Stone Sour take on five immortal songs originally performed by such iconic artists as Bad Brains, Iron Maiden, The Rolling Stones, Mötley Crüe, and Slayer. The EP is highlighted by a stunning rendition of The Rolling Stones’ “Gimme Shelter” featuring distinctive guest vocals from Lzzy Hale of Atlantic recording group Halestorm,STRAIGHT OUTTA BURBANK is available now at all DSPs and streaming services.
Known far and wide as a truly incendiary live act, Stone Sour has built an international fan following through countless headline tours, multi-artist caravans, and performances at such famed festivals as Rock In Rio and the UK’s Download Festival.
Stone Sour is: Corey Taylor (vocals), Josh Rand (guitar), Roy Mayorga (drums), Johny Chow (bass), and Christian Martucci (guitar).
