SHARP N’ LOUD Return with Explosive New Single ‘The Band Is At Work’

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July 2, 2026, Sharp N’ Loud made their return with the explosive new single “The Band Is At Work,” released through Wanikiya Record/Promotion.

While their previous single, “I Live For Your Love,” showcased the band’s more mature, reflective, and melodic side, “The Band Is At Work” reveals the other side of the coin: a powerful explosion of energy, determination, and pure Hard Rock.

Driven by razor-sharp riffs, an uncompromising attitude, and an explosive sound, Sharp N’ Loud tell the story of a band that continues to challenge itself every single day, working tirelessly for both themselves and their audience. This is more than just a song—it’s a bold statement of intent.“The Band Is At Work” is a promise, a manifesto, and a battle cry:

The band is at work—and they’re determined to keep bringing Rock exactly where it belongs.

Stream the single: https://open.spotify.com/track/3QaX9qB3v2dHCpHYPTBBfQ

Formed in 2024 in the Marche region of Italy, in the province of Macerata, Sharp N’ Loud embody the true spirit of Rock: raw energy, a rebellious attitude, and a sound deeply rooted in the golden era of the 1980s and 1990s. Five old-school rockers ready to set every stage on fire with an authentic and powerful live performance.

Their debut album, “Room2080,” currently in production with Wanikiya Record/Promotion, promises to be far more than just a record. It will be an emotional and sonic journey, blending the timeless appeal of classic Hard Rock with a modern, impactful production.

Adding even more depth to the project is an engaging sci-fi storyline woven throughout the album’s concept, transforming the listening experience into an immersive and cinematic adventure.

Since the very beginning, Sharp N’ Loud have demonstrated both ambition and determination by taking part in important events on the Italian rock scene, including Fatti Scoprire by RockerTV, and by sharing the stage with renowned artists and bands such as Chris Catena’s Rock City Tribe and Lost Reflection, quickly establishing themselves as a powerful live act.

Now, with their official signing to Wanikiya Record/Promotion and the addition of a new member to the lineup, the band is ready to push the accelerator even harder and write the next exciting chapter of their story.

Sharp N’ Loud aren’t simply playing Rock. They’re taking it exactly where it belongs.

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DALI VAN GOGH Release New Single ‘Bury The Lead (Live at The Scotiabank Centre, Halifax)’

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Canadian hard rock outfit Dali Van Gogh continue their Roadkill live EP rollout with the release of “Bury The Lead (Live at The Scotiabank Centre, Halifax)”, available now on all digital platforms.

Stream “Bury The Lead (Live at The Scotiabank Centre, Halifax)” here: https://orcd.co/btlltsch

The track follows two earlier Roadkill singles, “Wicked Way (Live at Overtime Sportsbar, Kingston)” and “Boneyard (Live at Tide & Boar, Moncton),” both currently available alongside the new release.

Roadkill is a six-track live album capturing the band across venues in Eastern and Central Canada. The album documents three years of touring and is being released in a waterfall format, with one track dropping every three weeks from May 22 through September 4.

Tracklist & Release Dates:

  • Wicked Way (Live at Overtime Sports Bar, Kingston) — May 22
  • Boneyard (Live at Tide & Boar, Moncton) — June 12
  • Bury The Lead (Live at The Scotiabank Centre, Halifax) — July 3
  • Savanna (Live at Bovine Sex Club, Toronto) — July 24
  • Out For Blood (Live at The House of Targ, Ottawa) — August 14
  • Little Hell (Live at The Eastlink Centre, Charlottetown) — September 4

Roadkill serves as a deliberate bookend to the band’s breakout chapter, which includes their critically recognized EP “New Blood, Old Wounds” and the single “Wicked Way.” That release cycle saw the band earn two nominations at the East Coast Music Awards in 2023, taking home Loud Recording of the Year. The studio version of “Wicked Way” continues that momentum with a 2026 nomination for Loud Release of the Year.

With new material looming in the near future, Roadkill captures a band in motion—looking back only long enough to slam the door behind them.

About Dali Van Gogh

Dali Van Gogh are a Canadian hard rock band known for their high-energy live performances, blending aggressive riffs with anthemic songwriting. With multiple award nominations and a growing national presence, the band continues to carve out their place in Canada’s heavy music landscape.

For more information, please visit: www.dalivangoghmusic.com

DIVISION:DARK Release New Single ‘Caught In The Loop’ from Upcoming Studio Album

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DIVISION:DARK are celebrating their label debut on Metalville with their new single “Caught In The Loop” – the new studio album “The Eternal Baptism” is due for release on 2 October 2026.

“Caught In The Loop” can be streamed here:

With “The Eternal Baptism”, DIVISION:DARK present their most ambitious work to date. The new studio album consistently builds on the dystopian mythology of this anonymous collective. Following their debut album “Prophecy”, the collective opens a new chapter, blending modern industrial metal, electronic soundscapes and a cinematic atmosphere into an intense concept album.

At the heart of “The Eternal Baptism” lies the idea of a spiritual rebirth of humanity. Embedded within DIVISION:DARK’s futuristic lore, the twelve tracks tell of a world in which emotions, creativity and individuality have been supplanted by technological perfection. The ‘baptism’ of the album’s title symbolises a return to the lost human frequency – a journey through hope, despair, resistance and redemption.

Musically, powerful guitars, modern industrial rhythms, orchestral elements and electronic sound designs merge to create a powerful overall sound. Amidst anthemic choruses, dark soundscapes and atmospheric soundtracks, the band creates a sound that is as emotional as it is monumental. In doing so, DIVISION:DARK remains true to its hallmark: viewing music not merely as entertainment, but as a message, a signal from a possible future.

The mysterious identities of the musicians involved remain hidden. Rather than individual personalities, the focus is on the vision: DIVISION:DARK sees itself as an artistic collective that uses music to tell stories, pose questions and invite its listeners to become part of a larger narrative.

With “The Eternal Baptism”, DIVISION:DARK deliver an epic, emotional and, at the same time, thought-provoking album that blurs the boundaries between metal, industrial, cinematic sound and science fiction lore. A work for all those who seek more in music than mere entertainment – and who are ready to tune into the new frequency.

TRACK LISTING

01. LET ME SHOW MY WORLD
02. FACE THE LIAR
03. BEAUTIFY ME
04. THE CURSE
05. BLACK DOMINION
06. BREAK DOWN
07. WITHIN THIS FAKE
08. AFTERLIFE
09. CAUGHT IN THE LOOP
10. FIELDS OF MIDNIGHT
11. EVE
12. BURN THE TIMELINE

LINKS
https://divisiondark.com/
https://www.facebook.com/divisiondark/
https://www.instagram.com/division.dark/
https://www.youtube.com/@divisiondark1722/videos
https://open.spotify.com/intl-de/artist/0D72gBsRkhJi0hBLNMVsRD

SOLACE Reveal Complete New Album “Fading Failing Ruin”, Out Now

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SOLACE released their highly anticipated fifth full-length “Fading Failing Ruin” as scheduled on July 3, 2026, via Magnetic Eye Records. Early reviews such as German Rock Hard (9/10) and Legacy Magazine (13/15) indicate that the Americans can expect a high level of critical acclaim.

The album is available for purchase HERE

SOLACE comment: “The fact that Solace are still here after 30 years makes ‘Fading Failing Ruin’ a real milestone for us, and I’m still in a band that I love with some of my oldest friends“, guitarist Tommy Southard writes. “Timmy our drummer and I started our first band when he was 12 and I was 14! Soon after that, our bass player Mike and I founded a band playing Priest and Kiss covers. It feels kind of wild that we’re still here making music we love all these years later. I couldn’t be more proud of this record and all the massive work that we put into it. Both Justins did an incredible job, and I consider both brothers. It was a labor of love and I hope that translates and people enjoy it as much as we do. Now, I just want this band to continue and make more music before our time runs out.“

Tracklist

  1. Spiral Will
  2. Fettered to a Stone
  3. A God Changes His Plans
  4. Wrath’s Object (The Big Fall)
  5. Culling the Herd
  6. Beyond Below
  7. Malengine (The Scaffold)
  8. Every Day Is a Loaded Gun
  9. Ridden

SOLACE deliver their fifth studio album “Fading Failing Ruin” just in time to celebrate the anniversary of their 30th year as a band. And all the heaviness, experience, and obvious maturity of their songwriting across three decades is perfectly reflected in the seeming ease with which these master craftsmen hammer out one captivating and crushing track after the other.

Revolving around apocalyptic, infernal, and end time themes that easily fit this day and age, “Fading Failing Ruin” nails the current global mood by taking a strong dose of inspiration from the earliest days of metal and blending it with contemporary heaviness.

A direct link goes back to 1996, when SOLACE rose from the ashes of GODSPEED, who made their name on Headbanger’s Ball and Beavis & Butthead, appeared on the “Nativity in Black” tribute backing Bruce Dickinson, and toured with CATHEDRAL and BLACK SABBATH. Emerging at the dawn of the internet and the burgeoning stoner rock scene, SOLACE were driven by hardcore-infused metal, captivating vocals, and a dark doom underbelly.

The New Jersey band hit the scene with their ferocious debut “Further” in 2000. Its tracks remain as contemporary and relevant as in those early days, and an extended and re-mastered 25th anniversary edition became an unplanned but much deserved tribute to brilliant yet tortured original SOLACE vocalist Jason L., who had sadly passed away in January 2025. 

SOLACE continued to build on a solid foundation of classic metal, early doom, and punk ethic into which the four-piece infused a healthy dose of hardcore fury and groovy, grinding sludge.

Three years after the worldwide success of “Further”, SOLACE returned with the sophomore album “13” (2003), which highlighted the epic side of their songwriting. In the wake of this album, the band was invited twice to perform at the prestigious Roadburn Festival in 2006 and 2009.

The shoremen returned with their highly praised third album “A.D.” in 2010. Despite the band’s growing acclaim, SOLACE took an informal hiatus to revamp their lineup, returning even stronger with full-length number four, “The Brink”, in 2019.

SOLACE have called their amalgamation of doom and heavy metal with hardcore elements dirt metal, while elsewhere it has been somewhat tongue-in-cheekily dubbed shorecore. Others file the New Jersey five-piece under stoner metal – and in truth, all these descriptions have and still fit the band to an extent.

With “Fading Failing Ruin”, SOLACE erect a new milestone of US heavy metal that respects traditions from both sides of the Atlantic while churning toward a chaotic future. Time to bang those heads!

SOLACE Live Dates 2026
19 SEP 2026 Austin, TX (US) Ripplefest Texas
10 OCT 2026 Youngstown, OH (US) Emissions from the Monolith

Line-up
Justin Skyler Daniels – guitar
Justin Goins – keyboard, vocals
Tim Schoenleber – drums
Mike Sica – bass
Tommy Southard – guitar

Guest musicians
Pelle Andersson (LOWRIDER) – various keyboards
Eric Rachel – additional keyboards
Duane Hutter – slide guitar

Recording by Eric Rachel at Bulletproof Music Studio, Hazlet, NJ (US) & The Pussycat Club, Milford, NJ (US)
Produced by Eric Rachel & Solace
Mix & mastering by Eric Rachel at Trax East, South River, NJ (US)
Cover art & layout by Paul Vismara

Links
http://www.facebook.com/solaceband
http://www.instagram.com/solace_nj

INFERNO Premiere New Video for ‘With Raving Mouths They Utter Things Mirthless, Unadorned and Unperfumed’

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“The Anthropic Sophisms“, the electrifying upcoming 9th full-length from Czech Black Metal pioneers INFERNO, is layered and compelling extreme music that breathes anew in nighttime hours. These are strange, viscous dimensions where deep space Black Metal, Industrial brutalism, malevolent motorik rhythms, crackling electronics and obscure vocals collide.

Faithful to the album aesthetics, the band now unveils an interdimensional epic as a visual counterpart to its third track: ‘With Raving Mouths They Utter Things Mirthless, Unadorned and Unperfumed‘.

As with first single ‘Circulus Vitiosus Deus‘, the accompanying video was created by artist Fabio Rincones (SELBST), who perfectly translates the conceptual essence of INFERNO‘s vision.

INFERNO vocalist Adramelech comments on the song and clip:

“What if reality is not singular, but just one of an infinite number of possible perspectives? In the multiverse, the world is not a fixed structure, but a shifting network of possibilities, where each universe represents a different configuration of the same deeper reality.“

Immerse yourself further in “The Anthropic Sophisms” via the video for first single ‘Circulus Vitiosus Deus‘: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inui0wUBcfw&list=RDinui0wUBcfw&start_radio=1

Follow the band on Facebook and Instagram for updates!

“The Anthropic Sophisms” will be released on CD, vinyl and digital on July 17th. A specially designed t-shirt and zip-hoodie accompanies the release. Pre-orders are possible via DMP’s EU, US and Bandcamp shops.

INFERNO came into existence 1995 in the Czech Republic, with first demo offerings “Peklo Na Zemi” (1996) and “Temná Poselství Dávných Předků” (1997) gaining significant acclaim in the Czech scene and beyond, opening many possibilities within the Black Metal underground.

Following a number of successful split releases, in the first decade of the new millennium INFERNO recorded two full-length albums of defiant and warlike Black Metal – “Duch slovanské síly” (2001) and “V návratu pohanství…” (2003) – the raw and ominous “Nikdy nepokřtěni” (2006) and concluded this period of rabid Black Metal traditionalism with “Uctívání temné zuřivosti” (2008) which merged old currents into a more refined offering, aggressive yet triumphantly melodic.

The release of pivotal album “Black Devotion” (2009) reshaped and regenerated the creative forces within the band. INFERNO subsequently entered Necromorbus Studio to create the cacophonic and malevolent “Omniabsence Filled By His Greatness” (2013) another step-up which imbued band-members with the will to transcend their previous self-imposed limitations.

In the following years, INFERNO performed on prominent stages around the world, securing a reputation for being a savage and mystical live act. Dedicated to self-transformation and unconscious dialogue with the great other, the monumental and idiosyncratic “Gnosis Kardias (Of Transcension and Involution)” (2017) helped redefine contemporary Black Metal Art.

In 2021, INFERNO unveiled their most transcendent and dynamic work to-date, “PARADEIGMA (Phosphenes Of Aphotic Eternity)“, through Debemur Morti Productions. In the ensuing years, the band carried this singular vision onto stages across the globe, refining its intensity in the live realm while restlessly shaping new material in parallel. “The Anthropic Sophisms (On the Heights of Despair)” – an electrifying, hypnotic & profound 9th album from these Czech avant-Black Metal voyagers – will be released on 17th June 2026.

INFERNO is: Adramelech, Ska-Gul, Morion, Sheafraidh, Matron Thorn & Spící hrdlo Antikrista

TUOMAS ROUNAKARI Announces New Official Video for ‘Bear Awakening’ Celebrating Day of the Bear & Natural Point of Midsummer

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Renowned Finnish violinist, composer, and ethnomusicologist TUOMAS ROUNAKARI has announced his new official video for ‘Bear Awakening’ celebrating the Day of the Bear & Natural Point of Midsummer!

Tuomas shared:
“I am so pleased to inform about this premier of a new music video! It will be released on July 13th, which was traditionally considered the day of the Bear, the natural point of a Midsummer. Solstices were celebrated separately. Here in the Nordic countries solstice is early, summer has only began, birds still nesting, many flowers not yet in bloom. But instead, July 13th is the midpoint of summer on the land based calendar. For us, that calendar used to follow the bear in pre-christian times.
The video production began when Antti Pentikäinen filmed my live performance of the Bear Awakening song First Morning at an ancient ritual ground. The concert took place at the Heinäveden Muinaisviikot Festival in Finland last July.
This video is finally something that catches the essence of my art and animist spirituality. I am so grateful for the work Antti Pentikäinen put together, in the most effortless of productions ever. This video wanted to manifest itself. The video includes also footage with a bear, filmed in Sweden in 2014 by a Björn Ola Lind and Torkel Lundgren, the same bear that appeard on the images of Bear Awakener album.
Looking forward to join you in this uniqe moment!
Love,
Tuomas Rounakari”

Save the link to join the premier:

This premier kicks of at midnight on Finnish time (GMT+3), July 13th 2026.

Video production, filming and editing by Antti Pentikäinen
Bear images: Björn Ola Lind and Torkel Lundberg (2014)
Sound recording: Patrick Tubin McGinley at Heinäveden Muinaisviikot, July 29th 2025
Field recording of birds: Jyrki Portin (2022)

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More information on Tuomas:

Tuomas Rounakari is a Finnish violinist, composer, and ethnomusicologist known for his trance-inducing solo performances that blend violin, vocals, stomping, and ankle bells into a visceral one-man ritual. A former member of Korpiklaani (2012–2022) and collaborator in Yasuharu Takanashi’s Far East Groove, Tuomas also plays the traditional Khanty bowed instrument Ning-juh.

His doctoral research (2024) focuses on altered states of consciousness through music—a phenomenon tied to sacred song traditions worldwide. This inquiry informs his performance style, which often crosses into trance and ceremony.

Tuomas draws inspiration from dialogues between humanity and nature, the visible and invisible, the ancient and the future. His debut solo album Shamanviolin was born from studying early 20th-century wax-cylinder recordings from Siberia. Performing these songs with the Indigenous communities from which they originated led to long-term collaborations with Khanty, Mansi, Sámi, and Greenlandic artists.

With over 30 albums to his name—including two solo records and four with Korpiklaani (over 34 million Spotify streams annually)—his work spans folk, metal, blues, free jazz, and avant-garde electroacoustic soundscapes.

His latest solo album, Bear Awakener (2022), is a sonic invocation, an awakening of the wild spirit within. Each track stirs ancient memory, calling forth the slumbering forces of nature, myth, and spirit.
The album centers on bear-related ceremonial songs from Khanty, Mansi, Carelian, and Finnish traditions. These songs carry the resonance of ancestors who lived in deep, reciprocal relationships with the land—cultures rooted in sustainability, self-sufficiency, and sacred balance. For Tuomas, they are living teachings, not just songs.
Rooted in ancestral songlines and shaped by trance, Bear Awakener invites listeners into deeper dialogue with the unseen, the more-than-human, and the mythic. It is a reawakening of spirit and a reconnection to something older than memory, yet urgently needed in our time.

Artwork by Karolina Pärnänen

Also watch
–Tuomas’ performance video, a throwback to Tokyo 2017, from the materials of ‘Live in Japan’ documentary by Kimmo Kuusniemi: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g718diJlW1s
–‘Farewell of Kamas People’ – https://youtu.be/oV16Qipd0MQ
–‘Langetus’ – https://youtu.be/HVsU7PTqqHY

More information at
TUOMAS ROUNAKARI: http://www.rounakari.com | http://www.facebook.com/shamanviolin | https://rounakari.bandcamp.com
MANAGEMENT: https://www.facebook.com/SplitScreenManagement | http://www.splitscreenproduction.com