HELL WINTER is a new Italian black metal project, created in early 2024 by Federico Romano (June 1974 band). “Painting in Black” album is his first album and contains 4 songs of pure norwegian black metal.
The album is avalaible in 3 formats:
Stream and buy the album at https://hellwinter.bandcamp.com/album/painting-in-black
Nearly twenty years have passed since CRUCIFIED BARBARA released their debut album, and to celebrate the anniversary of the hard rock jewel In Distortion We Trust, Crucified Barbara will reunite on stage for the first time in ten years. The band’s reunion will debut at Sweden Rock Festival, taking place June 4-7, 2025.
From the release of their debut album In Distortion We Trust (2005) up until their split in 2016, Crucified Barbara became known as one of Sweden’s hardest-working hard rock bands, with countless touring miles across the globe. Whether playing in gritty rock clubs on four continents, under the spotlight of Melodifestivalen, or on numerous festival stages, they consistently showed how hard rock should be done.
Crucified Barbara is a band that has always walked its own path. A group unafraid of exploring both dark metal and heartfelt ballads, blending the soft and the heavy to create their own unique hard rock brew. Now, they’re back to once again deliver that brew live, in a celebration showcasing the best from their four albums: In Distortion We Trust (2005), ‘Til Death Do Us Party (2009), The Midnight Chase (2012), and In The Red (2014).
The band’s statement:
It’s been a while, to say the least! Our last gig was almost ten years ago. The break has been much needed for all of us, but… our love for our music, for each other, and for our audience has never faded during these years, and we’re incredibly excited to play together again. We’ve already had some magical moments in the rehearsal room and are amazed at how our music still lives within us, longing to be played. We can’t wait to perform it live for you all again!
Love!
/Ida, Klara, Mia, Nicki
The dynamic rock band Swim the Current is thrilled to announce the release of their latest single, “Stay”, via TLG|ZOID, distributed by Virgin Music Group. The powerful new track, co-produced by George Pond and David Caplinger, is now available for fans worldwide.
Bringing together an all-star lineup of rock talents, including vocalist Marcos Leal (formerly of Ill Niño), bassist George Pond (Disciples of Verity), guitarist Greg Antine, drummer Chris Moore (George Lynch, Ultraphonix, Rock of Ages), and lead guitarist Joe Gareri, “Stay” takes the band’s sound to new heights.
Vocalist Marcos Leal, shares his excitement:
“I’m freakin excited to bring you Swim The Current’s latest track off our upcoming album, ‘STAY.’ It will be our first step into the Country Rock Music Scene, and I couldn’t be happier taking this next step in my career with TLG ZOID/Virgin Music Group in our corner!”
“When I wrote ‘Stay’ with George and Sahaj Ticotin, we were talking about the crazy punch-drunk love we have all experienced throughout our lives. Sometimes the love you have for that person of your dreams will make you do some crazy things. Sometimes no choice is your choice, and the weight of moving on is too much to carry. In the end, letting go was the choice you should have made, but instead, you stayed.”
“Stay”perfectly merges the band’s rock and country influences creating a sound that resonates deeply with their fans.
STREAM “Stay” at https://ffm.to/stc-stay
Having played in numerous bands throughout the years, Guitarist Greg Antine came to a point in his career where he wanted to branch out and write songs that had more depth and were inspired by his personal life experiences. Having worked with Bassist George Pond for several years in previous projects including, Disciples Of Verity, Greg expressed his concept for Swim The Current to George in hopes of collaborating with him on this new music venture. The two began to flesh out ideas in George’s home studio and realized quickly that they were on to something special, but still needed something more to see their ideas through to complete their concepts. Greg was introduced to Joe Gareri, Guitar/Keyboards, by George during the Disciples Of Verity debut album recording sessions which Joe is also featured on as a guest artist. The three of them immediately hit it off and worked extremely well together. Greg and George realized that Joe’s cinematic writing style would be a perfect match for their concepts and Joe was then brought in as a full time member. After two songs were completed and demo’d in George’s studio utilizing programmed drums, it was suggested by their friend Allyson Song River Jaynes, that they reach out to her friend, drummer Chris Moore of Ultraphonix, Rock Of Ages, to see if he would be interested in working with the project. Upon hearing the strength of songwriting and musicianship of the band, Chris was all in and signed on as the fourth full time member of STC and now the band, from an instrument’s perspective, was complete.
The final missing piece for STC was a lead vocalist who could capture the sound they envisioned for their music. After working in the studio with a few different vocalists, George ultimately reached out to his friend Marcos Leal, of legendary international touring band Ill Nino. Marcos loved the music of STC as well as having the freedom and creativity of writing lyrics for the project. After recording their first song together with Marcos, “We Are Not The Same”, everyone new that this lineup was something special and Swim The Current was now complete! The release of “We Are Not The Same” took off instantly, and amassed thousands of streams, YouTube views and followers through a total organic DIY social media campaign.
Swim The Current’s sound is influenced and reminiscent of many of their favorite artists including, Deftones, Faith No More, Sevendust, POD, and Stabbing Westward. They continue to write new music and look forward to sharing their future releases with the world!
Hailing from Vukovar, Croatia and moved to the US as a child currently living in Philadelphia, PA. SANDY HALL has been singing professionally from a very young age and has had once in a lifetime opportunities supporting national artists like Joan Jett, Eddie Money, Kip Winger, Dan Reed of Network, Corey Glover of Living Colour and Eric Martin of Mr. Big. She has consistently been nominated in multiple categories at the independent music Josie Awards since winning Artist of the Year in 2021 with 7 nominations in 2024.
Her second album, Full Circle features 9 of 12 songs she cowrote. The songs are about what we all universally experience and reflect upon; love, loss, friendship, self-acceptance, disappointment, nostalgia, time and home. From the straight ahead rocking opening “My Feeble Words” to the mandolin driven “Love Still Remains” featuring backing vocal by Dan Reed of the Dan Reed Network, the album covers a wide range of styles showcasing Hall’s dynamic range.
Stream Full Circle here: https://push.fm/ps/fullcircle
In addition to Full Circle, Hall’s first album Sign Language is also getting a reboot and as Hall explains, “I am thrilled and honored to be on the Deko Entertainment roster and announce with great pleasure the Deko release of both of my albums, Full Circle and Sign Language! I hope the songs move you, make you feel good and connect you to my “humanness” as I express my reflections on love, loss, disappointment, relationships and life.”
Stream Sign Language here: https://push.fm/ps/signl
There are a limited number of CD’s available while supplies last:
https://www.dekoentertainment.com/inthesquare/sandy-hall
Tracklist – Full Circle:
My Feeble Words
Love Still Remains
The River Calls Me Home
Break The Cycle
Broken Cinderella
Changing Your Mind
Just As I Am
Fall From Grace
I Don’t Talk
Blindly Into Morning
We Never Get It Back
Full Circle
Tracklist – Sign Language:
Sign Language
See Through
Freedom Town
Bring Back The Love
Somebody Else
A Prize I Don’t Deserve
Crossing The Ocean
To Get Over You
Listen
Fire In My Heart
For more information, visit:
www.sandyhallmusic.com/
www.dekoentertainment.com
Los Angeles’ acclaimed avant-garde metal band MELTED BODIES has released their long-awaited, second studio album, The Inevitable Fork. Years of anticipation and lauded singles and EP releases have lead to this moment. With their follow up to 2020’s Enjoy Yourself, the trailblazing five-piece have created an inimitable sound that defies traditional conventions, exploring a sound beyond the safe boundaries of contemporary music.
Over the course of 20 songs, The Inevitable Fork weaves a viscous web of musical styles from metal and industrial to post-hardcore and indie-folk. Colossal walls of heavy metal riffs, frantic unhinged vocals and industrial madness segue seamlessly into melodic soundscapes, acoustic balladry and haunting interludes that keep listeners on edge with tense anticipation.
With tracks like “The Hot Dog Contract,” The Avalanche,” “State of Mind,” “Liars,” “Therapy,” “Bloodlines” and “Something Is Wrong,” The Inevitable Fork is comprised of three separate EPs (Vol. 1, Vol. 2 and newly unveiled Vol. 3) sewn together with interludes featuring Angela Seo of Xiu Xiu for a genre-bending dystopian fever dream light years ahead of its time.
Commenting on the record, vocalist Andy Hamm (ex-Local Natives) says:
“We all have arrived at, or are approaching our own version of what I call ‘The Inevitable Fork’, and this overarching theme informs most of these songs in some way, much of which is very personal. Our bloodlines, mental health, past traumas, accomplishments, and regrets eventually lead us all to choose one of this fork’s many prongs to follow. Maybe we accept that it’s all imperfect, and we embrace our flaws to make anew or try again. Or perhaps we avoid, stall, numb, or overindulge. We’ve all been told “it’s now or never,” but yet we have heard that so many times. This stigma feeds our avoidance, unaccountability, and utter laziness. But rest assured ‘The Inevitable Fork’ is coming for us all whether we appreciate it or appall it.”
Fans can stream the newly released The Inevitable Fork Vol. 3 EP on all streaming services or listen to the album as a whole at Bandcamp: https://meltedbodies.bandcamp.com/album/the-inevitable-fork-lp
The Inevitable Fork Tracklisting:
1. Destined To Suffer
2. Bloodlines
3. The Hot Dog Contract
4. Wrath Of The Flies
5. Overinflated All The Time
6. Liars (Album Edit)
7. State Of Mind
8. Splitting
9. Vague And Easy
10. Relax You Are Lazy
11. Dreamer
12. The Avalanche (Album Edit)
13. Vital Aftermath
14. The Inevitable Fork (Album Edit)
15. Talk Some More About It
16. Think Safe
17. I Often Feel Alone While Surrounded By Other People
18. Therapy
19. There Is Something Else Here Now Too
20. Something Is Wrong
“A headfuck of furious industrial metal, grinding groove riffs, pure pop hooks and dubby post-post rhythms all being played at the same time” – LouderSound.com
“completely bonkers” – MetalSucks.net
“their most captivating, haphazard trainwreck manifesto yet” – EverythingIsNoise.net
“when I say that is not the same metal you are used to listening to,
you have to take my word for it.” – ChaosZine.net
About MELTED BODIES:
It’s 2015, Andy Hamm is staring at two of his favorite albums sitting above his record player – Cannibal Corpse’s The Bleeding, and Talking Heads’ More Songs about Buildings and Food. For the past decade, Andy toured the world as a founding member of indie band Local Natives, but was unexpectedly pushed out of the group by his former bandmates. Sitting alone, with unsatisfied ideas, he stared at those two albums and saw a template for a new project grounded in the music that inspired him in the first place. So he started writing.
A few months later, Andy met Scott McDonald at a screening of the Japanese cult film Why Don’t You Play in Hell? The two realized their shared love of horror and anime extends to music too. With Scott’s drumming background for Portland’s early 2000s Upon Beauty Rests, the two decided to meet up and explore Andy’s new ideas.
It quickly became clear that they needed to fill out the band, starting with bassist Houda Zakeri, a part of the LA punk scene for years with Holy Hydraulics, then ending with Ben Majoy, aka Diamondstein, electronic music producer and host of NTS Radio’s popular dark music show Night Shift. And with this, MELTED BODIES was formed.
Over the next few years, MELTED BODIES developed a reputation around SoCal for chaotic and unpredictable shows. Their difficult-to-pindown intensity led to as many mismatched billings as sold-out shows, supporting bands like Red Fang, Kikagaku Moyo, Horse the Band, Machine Girl, and Sleepy Time Gorilla Museum. Then as the world closed, 2020 became an ironically perfect year for Melted Bodies to release their breakthrough debut album, Enjoy Yourself.
Self-recorded in their depraved Inglewood rehearsal space, this album introduced their fresh contradiction to a global audience of like-minded multi-hyphenate metalheads, and quickly became one of Bandcamp’s top metal albums for the year, and a mainstay on many year-end lists, including a #1 from MetalSucks. Acclaimed for its new ideas in heavy music, Enjoy Yourself was labeled “the Most 2020 album we could have hoped for” by journalists, due to its cheeky themes of consumerism, isolation, and police cannibalism.
A step removed from the sardonic nature of Enjoy Yourself, and now firmly established as a referential part of the metal music landscape, MELTED BODIES is releasing the final piece of their existentially and sonically heavy 3 EP series, The Inevitable Fork. Finally heard in its totality, these three volumes tell a different story from their breakthrough Enjoy Yourself.
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The Intemperate Sons have unveiled their re-imagined version of The Rolling Stone’s “Dead Flowers” via FRAME|WORK. “Dead Flowers” holds a special place for The Intemperate Sons as one of their all-time favorite Rolling Stones tracks, and they’ve brought it to life in a fresh, electrified style. Staying true to their roots, The Intemperate Sons inject their signature vocal harmonies with a mixture of a vintage acoustic foundation and current amplified guitar sounds, giving this classic a modern alternative edge while still respecting the original’s timeless grit. It’s a reimagined blast from the past, crafted with today’s sound in mind.
STREAM “Dead Flowers”:
The Intemperate Sons release all their music through the Frame|Work record label at the direction of Amir Derakh and Ryan Shuck. All Intemperate Sons’ tracks are mixed by Amir Derakh at Synthicide in Long Beach, CA. All mastering is done by Mike Marsh Mastering in the U.K.
The band’s latest album Dark Day’s Night is available HERE
The Intemperate Sons Show Dates:
Fri Oct 25 @ Media Tech LIVE!!! in Dallas, TX
Sat Oct 26 @ Lonestar Bulldog Rescue Benefit in Denton, TX
Wed Nov 13 @ Whisky A Go Go in West Hollywood, CA w/ Tantric
Sat Nov 16 @ Come and Take It Live in Austin, TX w/ A Good Rogering
Sat Feb 1 @ Hanovers Draught Haus in Pflugerville, TX with Dogs and Diamonds
The Intemperate Sons emerged onto the rock scene in the summer of 2019 in Dallas, TX, to bring their distinct sound to the genre. A deep love for music brought family members Keith Watson (drums), Jake Watson (guitars) and Max Watson (vocals, guitars, keys) together along with close friend Mark Marks, who provides the groove on bass to unite everything together. The band’s sound has been described as a 90’s alternative style that is obsessed with the 70’s.
Keith is well acquainted with entertaining massive crowds of concert goers and has played with many successful bands in Dallas, such as Gun Hill, Natural Born Thrillers and Agents of Solace, on top of opening for Lynch Mob, Joe Lynn Turner and Sponge. He is the primary lyricist for the band and has written the music for some of their most successful songs, including “Dust to Dust,” “The Color Within,” and “Unrealized.”
Multi-talented and gifted with the ability to play various instruments, Max is also the lead vocalist of the group. Along with being musically dexterous, he has also collaborated with Keith to write lyrics on the released songs “Going Crazy” and “Way Back When.” In the studio, Max usually surmounts expectations and goes above and beyond to prepare prior to a session with his own vocal harmonies.
Jake is the song architect of the Sons and extremely instrumental in the crafting of the music. His inventive ways of bringing lyrics to life in clever ways are unprecedented and fascinating to see in the studio setting. He is a prolific writer of music as well and is credited with helping create the songs “What’s Done is Done,” “Remission,” “Way Back When” and “Wading in the Gray.” Both Max and he play lead guitar on many of the songs as well. The other members of the band fondly refer to him as the “art director” since he enjoys taking charge in those areas for the group.
Prolific and unifying, Mark is an accomplished bass player and well known in Dallas. He was in the regionally successful band, Haggard, and had opened for Sebastian Bach of Skid Row. His input in song writing has been invaluable to the process of creating captivating melodies.
Despite the pandemic putting a pause on many major events, The Intemperate Sons lived up to their name and let nothing hold them back from making music. Constantly hard at work in the studio, they have collaborated with Amir Derakh (Julien-K, Dead by Sunrise, Orgy, Rough Cutt) and Ryan Shuck (Julien-K, Adema, Dead by Sunrise, Orgy). Both have lent their musical talents to various songs and ultimately have brought the Sons on to their label, Frame|Work. This led the band to also recently join the management roster at The Label Group. Ryan worked with Amir to produce the band’s upcoming track, “Game of Keep Away,” and has had a huge impact on the group. He’s been especially influential on Max’s vocal melodies and delivery. Amir also plays guitar on this latest ballad and has been mixing all of the band’s music as well as performing on multiple songs.
Another notable collaboration has been with Tony Franklin (The Firm, Roy Harper, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Whitesnake), primarily on the first album, The Color Within. He has been a valuable friend of the band and has played bass on some of their best tracks from that album, including “Running Man,” “Dust to Dust” and “The Color Within.”
The Intemperate Sons’ take on alternative rock is a dark and powerful concoction of hard rock mixed with folk and grunge concepts. The band has earned a serious reputation for writing and performing tracks that scratch deep into the backbone of the human experience. There is no shortage of darkness in their writing style, which has a retro vibe with many guitar-driven tracks stacked on top of a groovy rhythm section. The heavier style fits perfectly with the two and three-part vocal harmonies that are a huge part of their overall sound. It has been said that musicians that are related form unique sounds and communicate at a frequency only they can understand. This frequency has become engrained in their songwriting, arrangements, guitar melodies and vocal harmonies. The band has been compared to Alice in Chains, Stone Temple Pilots and even R.E.M.
The Intemperate Sons are:
Max Watson (vocals, backing vocals, guitars, keys, bass)
Jake Watson (guitars, bass and backing vocals)
Keith Watson (drums, backing vocals)
Mark Marks (bass)
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