Rock band Pageant is excited to announce the release of their new single, “Leave You Behind”. Hailing from High Point, NC, Pageant is a dynamic four-piece group featuring Roxxi Dirt on bass and vocals, Dylan Dynasty on drums, Cam Duke on rhythm guitar, and Dezzy Foxx on lead guitar. The band’s mission is to breathe fresh energy into the timeless spirit of rock n’ roll, inspired by icons such as Motley Crue, Guns N’ Roses, Aerosmith, and Cinderella.
While honoring the giants of classic rock, Pageant also embraces a wide array of musical influences. Their distinct sound seeks to bridge the gap between the past and future of rock, providing listeners with a unique experience that feels both raw and refined. With a passion for every genre, their music offers a fusion of styles that feels new yet nostalgic, a perfect balance between the familiar and the unexpected.
Their latest single, “Leave You Behind,” produced by Brian Craddock (of Daughtry) and featuring renowned keyboardist Derek Sherinian (of Dream Theatre), is an energetic anthem that serves as proof that rock n’ roll can sound modern while still maintaining classic influences. Written right before packing up their camper van and moving cross-country to Los Angeles, this song speaks about a deep need for freedom and to follow big dreams.
Mastered by three-time Grammy winner Brad Blackwood, the track is a powerhouse track that feels larger than life. Pageant’s sound continues to push the boundaries of rock while staying grounded in its traditions, providing fans with a modern rock experience that’s as thrilling as it is timeless.
Band Members Roxxi Dirt: Vocals/Bass Dylan Dynasty: Drums Dezzy Foxx: Lead Guitar Cam Duke: Rhythm Guitar
Swedish thrash metal newcomers SARCATOR are pleased to reveal that their new full-length, ‘Swarming Angels & Flies,’ is due on January 17, 2025 via Century Media Records, making it their debut to the label! To celebrate, the band is now sharing the title track from the offering along with a raucous performance video, which was directed by Christoffer Tönnäng. The clip can be found at THIS LOCATION.
Sarcator’s “Swarming Angels & Flies” sets the bar high for the upcoming album in terms of speed, heaviness and pure desire to see the song unfold live. Starting off like an explosion, the song delivers a sonic blast hurling the audience straight into a fire pit with raw, untamed energy.
Vocalist Mateo Tervonen shares about the single: “’Swarming Angels & Flies’ is the title track for our upcoming record for a reason. It represents the elements of the album perfectly and is one of those songs that you want to break the silence with. It erupts out of nowhere and hits you like a concrete fist. A perfect violent introduction of what’s to come and what this album really is about.”
“Swarming Angels & Flies” is now available for pre-order in various formats HERE.
Sarcator will be joining Eradikated, Eternal Evil, and Bloodstain for the “The Rising Four” tour in autumn/winter 2024 with a total of 10 stops throughout Sweden. More information and tickets can be found HERE.
The album artwork for ‘Swarming Angels & Flies’ can be found below along with the tracklist.
Tracklist:
Burning Choir
Comet of End Times
Swarming Angels & Flies [WATCH]
The Deep Ends
Where the Void Begins
The Undercurrent
Closure
Unto Sepulchres
Dogfight (cover – originally by Anti Cimex)*
The Black Vomit (cover – originally by Sarcófago*
Torture (cover – originally by Sadus)* *Bonus track on Ltd. CD Jewelcase in O-Card only
At a juvenile age of 14-20, Sarcator released their first demo tape, “Visions of Purgatory”, via the American label Redefining Darkness Records in 2019. Just two years later the quadrumvirate got nominated for best rock/metal album for the Swedish music award P3 Guld with their 2020’s self-titled debut release for the same label. After releasing their 2nd album, “Alkahest”, via Black Lion Records in 2022, Sarcator finally got a proper chance to play live, captivating crowds with their intense, blackened live shows.
With their current line-up fully committed to the band despite their young age (all members are between 19 and 25) it was time for them to record their third album, which still features previous guitarist Emil Eriksson. Shortly after signing a new worldwide deal with Century Media Records and heading out on a debut European tour supporting Hellripper and Cloak, Sarcator will be releasing ‘Swarming Angels & Flies’ on January 17, 2025.
This album marks the most intense, brutal and rawest creation yet for the band. It is a remarkably mature and sophisticated piece of work, from mercurial musicians who are only in their early 20’s, and still at the beginning of their creative journey. Across eight, grotesque and utterly venomous tracks, Sarcator have deftly blended the wide-eyed extremity of their debut album with the inspirational musicality of their second record “Alkahest”, while playing everything with more intensity than ever before. Both deliriously melodic and mercilessly brutal: “Swarming Angels & Flies” is the most dangerously potent record the Swedens have made to date.
Sarcator explains about the record and its creation process, “We wanted to highlight the most aggressive and extreme parts of us, but we still wanted to work with dynamics, so you still have elements of classic rock and post-punk, which we started experimenting with on the last record. There is no question that it’s our most intense, brutal, and rawest creation yet – It’s not really a genre album and we like to keep it that way.”
With plenty of live activity in support of the upcoming album, Sarcator are already at the forefront of an emergent, highly determined new generation of Scandinavian extreme metal bands and ready to take the rest of the world by storm soon too.
Lineup: Mateo Tervonen – Vocals, Guitar Felix Lindkvist – Bass Leo Buchalle – Guitar Jesper Rosén – Drums
Australia’s SARCOPHAGUM will release their debut full-length, “The Grand Arc of Madness”, on December 6th 2024 through Nuclear Winter Records.
The album track “Feudal Futures” is now streaming at THIS LOCATION.
SARCOPHAGUM spawned to life in the early half of 2021, during the time of the plague as a new project featuring Golgothan Remains members past and present. The purpose being to provide a channel to explore new ideas and sounds in a studio-only setting. The dark death metal realm remains the primary influence and a debut EP, “Conduits to the Underworld”, was released in 2022 through Nuclear Winter Records, followed swiftly by a stand alone single, “This Wrought Creation”. Now their full length debut is here, “The Grand Arc of Madness”. Poised to unleash a soundscape of disharmony and terror over the listener, the angular horror awaits…
Both a culmination of their already characteristic aesthetic and a whole new twist upon it, “The Grand Arc of Madness” sees SARCOPHAGUM fusing clanging angularity with haunting atmospherics, chaos with eerie melodicism, epic narrative with primal crush.
Mixed and mastered by Greg Chandler at Priory Recording Studios.
Cover art was created by Khaos Diktator.
Tracklist:
01. Ritual Pillars Burn 02. Feudal Futures 03. Vermiform 04. The Grand Arc of Madness
For fans of: Ulcerate, Immolation, Adversarial, Golgothan Remains
U.S. rockers Fight The Fade have released their highly anticipated albumIsolationist, out now across all DSPs from FiXT.
Isolationist picks up where their 2022 release APOPHYSITIS left off, exploring the turbulent human psyche. This hard-hitting collection of 12 tracks delves into themes of solitude and self-reflection, delivering a sonic storm that is both fierce and energetic, as well as raw and captivating. From thunderous riffs, heavy rhythms, to brutal vocals, Isolationist captures the unbridled fury of hard rock and alternative metal, fused with the relentless energy of metalcore. Fight The Fade masterfully combines heavy riffs, infectious melodies, and emotionally charged lyrics, creating an album that is both fierce and introspective.
“’Isolationist’ is an album that was the result of a lot of trial and error to find what direction we wanted to go in,” explains Fight The Fade. “The title is also somewhat of a reflection of how we wrote it as well. We basically locked ourselves in a room, and threw a lot of ideas around to see what would stick. But the intentionality, and the attention to detail in this record are all a result of that time “isolating” ourselves to focus on these songs. I think we’ve created something really exciting, special, and meaningful.”
From the opening track “The Storm,” which thrusts listeners into the whirlwind that is “The Eye Of The Hurricane,” an appearance from label mate Daedric on the combative track “Scratching,” to “Next Sunrise” which delivers an explosive soundscape driven by intense rhythms, thrashing guitars, and daring vocals, Fight The Fade have more than maintained their signature heavy-hitting edge. The album includes “Quarantine,” a visceral plea for space amidst inner struggle, “Revolution,” a fight song that encapsulates the heart of the album’s message showcasing Fight The Fade’s ability to masterfully incorporate synthesizers, heavy guitar work, brutal vocals, and themed narratives into a collection of 12 masterworks that range from beautifully anthemic to absolute fatality.
Releasing today with the album is the new single “Revolution” which premiered yesterday at Revolver Mag. “Revolution is a fight song,” explains Fight The Fade. “The heart of any revolution is to fight for what you believe in, and that is who I want to be. Someone who fights for the things I love, and the things I believe.”
Fight The Fade’s previous album APOPHYSITIS, released in 2022 via FiXT, has surpassed 16 million streams on Spotify and garnered prominent editorial support from Spotify, Amazon, Apple, VEVO and Yandex. The album also received features from Outburn, Inked Magazine, Metal Insider, and a sync placement in the Oculus VR game Smash Drums. Isolationist is well on its way to hitting similar marks.
Already establishing themselves as a powerful modern/hard rock force, Fight The Fade currently reaches over 375,000 monthly listeners across multiple streaming platforms, with fan favorite “Monster” accumulating over 10 million streams between Spotify and YouTube.
Known for pulling together influences from rock, metal, and electronic music, Fight the Fade has forged an unmistakable sonic identity that wraps heartfelt lyrical themes within a robust production style and delivers them with nuanced and diverse writing approaches. The band’s work ethic and innovative blend of genres led them to an album deal with independent electronic rock label FiXT in late 2020, with Fight the Fade releasing singles throughout 2021, leading to a full-length album APOPHYSITIS released in July 2022.
Industrial Metal heretics KING SATAN have unleashed another sonic assault from their highly-anticipated upcoming album “The Devil’s Evangelion”, set for release on November 8 via Noble Demon. Following the fiery singles “Chaos Forever Now” (featuring Nachtmahr) and “New Aeon Gospel” with its award-winning music video, the band offers a glimpse into the abyss with their latest video and single release, “Abyss Of The Souls”.
“We picked ‘Abyss of the Souls’ for the third single because it’s a proper example of this amalgam of melancholy and rage that we do with our music, presented through the raw energy of rock’n’roll and extreme metal. For the music video, I wanted to make something different this time, because it might be clear by now that I play with lots of different styles when I make music videos.. This time, I wanted to embrace a more minimalistic approach, to capture a certain feeling of alienation and outsiderness the song’s theme flirts with too.” KING SATAN comment and further explains the album’s concept: ”’The Devil’s Evangelion’ will be a concept album concentrating on the duality and the paradoxical nature of reality. This concept stems from a trickster-like narrative that becomes convinced about being possessed by the Devil, leading to an experience of reality through the Devil’s eyes.“
Since their inception in late 2015, KING SATAN has been captivating audiences with their genre-fluid mix of electro-industrial, symphonic black metal, and death metal, all laced with the raw power of rock’n’roll – creating a unique blend of shameless shock rock and chaotic avant-garde theatre.
This genre-fluid group is the brainchild of enigmatic artist Mr. King Aleister Satan (Henget, Saturnian Mist), which has evolved from its electro-aggrotech origins into a full-throttle industrial metal band over the years. The act’s vision of extreme metal brings forth an anarchistic blend of carnivalesque artistry, absurdist dark comedy, occult intrigue, and in-depth philosophical ponderings, served in an intoxicating blend of rocking dance beats, thought-provoking lyrics, mesmerizing melodies, and addictive hooks the band themselves have titled as ‘death metal disco’. A fusion fit for both dance floors and mosh pits. With all these elements, the band defies conventions and embraces controversy the way which should not really make much sense on paper – and yet, it has consistently helped to create more and more buzz for the band wherever they go.
“The Devil’s Evangelion” by KING SATAN will be out on November 8 via Noble Demon and is available for pre-order atTHIS LOCATION
The Devil’s Evangelion album release tour dates: 30/11 Tampere (Bar Kotelo) ** 07/12 Helsinki (Kuudes Linja) ** 10/01 Pori (Monttu New Level) ^ 11/01 Turku (Utopia) ** 17/01 Kuopio (Ottopoika) *** 18/01 Oulu (45 Special) *
**The Abbey & Miseria Ultima as supports ***Without The Abbey ^without Miseria Ultima *with The Abbey & Praecidisti as supports
KING SATAN are: King Aleister Satan – Vocals & Programming Hekate Boss – Keyboards & vocals EF-13 – Guitars Jerry Rock’n’roll – Bass guitar Pete Hellraiser – Drums & Programming
DAWN OF DESTINY present another song from their new album “IX”. “Alive” is the name of the new single and combines all the strengths that make the band so popular with fans: High-class songwriting with the strong voice of Jeanette Scherff wrapped in catchy melody and powerful instrumental faction.
The lyric video was created by Jan Hanicz (JFH Film & Videoproduktion).
Dawn Of Destiny is a constant in the German metal scene! For almost 20 years, the power metallers have been delivering one great album after another, with the last two albums reaching the millions on Spotify. Now, “IX” is the ninth album from the master forge of Jens Faber, who once again manages to create that very special “Dawn Of Destiny” magic with the twelve new songs. To put it in a song title: is “IX” now the “Crown Of Creation”? In any case, “Dawn Of Destiny” once again release very high-class compositions on this album that you can’t ignore.
Tracklist: 01 – Mortem Vidi 02 – A Child’s Hand 03 – Alive 04 – Crown Of Creation 05 – Abandoned * 06 – Keep Fighting 07 – Wings 08 – Better Hold Me Tight 09 – For All The Pain 10 – Through This Nightmare 11 – I Live For Your Pain 12 – You Won’t Be There
*Guest singer: Jonas Heidgert (Dragonland)
Line-Up: Jeanette Scherff: Lead & backing vocals Jens Faber: Bass, Piano, lead & backing vocals Veith Offenbächer: Lead, Rhythm and clean Guitars Dirk Raczkiewicz: Keyboards & Synths Philipp Bock: Drums
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