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WHERE OCEANS BURN Release New Single + Visualizer ‘Static’ Feat. Aaron Matts

Posted by tarjavirmakari on January 7, 2024

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WHERE OCEANS BURN are a 4 piece Metalcore act from Manchester, UK, drawing inspiration from artists such as Northlane, Architects and Thornhill. Following the release of their single ‘Euphoria’ in 2023, the quartet now present the brand new track ‘Static’ which features a guest performance by Aaron Matts of ten56. The new single is taken from the upcoming EP ‘The Faces We Portray’ set to be released on February 9th, 2024. Watch the accompanying visualizer above.

“‘Static’ is about going through a dark period in life, abusing substances and the inner dialogue in ones head that follows. Chasing a false feeling of happiness to escape issues you aren’t ready to face”, the band muses.

Their debut single ‘Hollow Heart’ gained huge success, surpassing 800,000 streams across platforms. Their following releases `Shadow // Self’, ‘The Only Home We Know’ and ‘Phoenix’ all followed suit with features on official spotify editorial playlists such as ‘New Metal Tracks’, ‘Metal UK’ and ‘New Blood’, as well as videos surpassing 250,000 views. The quartet embarked on their first UK tour in September 2021 and have played alongside a variety of heavily respected bands including sold out shows supporting Decapitated and After The Burial, as well as playing UK Tech-Fest and Radar Festival in 2023 with bands such as Sleep Token and Periphery.

After signing with management Prime Collective (Ten56., CABAL, Distant), the quartet is getting ready to present their brand new EP ‘The Faces We Portray’, set to release on February 9th .

The new single ‘Static’ is already available on all streaming services.

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Greek GROOVE THERAPIST Unveil Cover + Teaser for Upcoming Album “Monologue”

Posted by tarjavirmakari on January 7, 2024

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Greek Progressive Rockers GROOVE THERAPIST have unveiled the cover and teaser off their upcoming album!

Their sophomore album MONOLOGUE will be available for digital pre-order on January the 15th in all platforms. Official digital release on February 15th 2024.

The band wanted to give a taste to their audience launching a trailer, staring great Greek actor Konstantinos Kazakos, known to the metal world from the narration in Manowar album “The Revenge Of Odysseus”.

Video was directed by Marousa Strogioglou at Henry Dunant Hospital.

The full video will be released the day of the album release, so stay tuned, because Groove Therapist have a lot of surprises up their sleeves.

Groove Therapist is a progressive rock/metal band, formed in Athens, Greece, in 2012. Their music combines rock, metal, funk and classical music, featuring a high quality level of performance. Debut album “Mr. Funker, The Myth”, was released in November 2015 and received outstanding reviews in Europe and USA, whilst it has been characterized as one of the most important progressive rock concept albums of the last two decades!

In April 2017 the band decided to offer a unique experience for a limited number of fans. They recorded, while performing live, their album “Mr. Funker, The Myth” at Sierra Studios, Athens, before of a live audience. The event was a first for the progressive music society in Greece, and the album was released in January 2019.

Groove Therapist appeared twice in Soundart Festival, in Romania in May 2017 and May 2018, alongside Stoned Jesus, Nightstalker, Exivious, Puta Volcano and many other distinguished bands. They also appeared in several venues in Athens, sharing the stage with POEM, September Code, and other band. Their song “Mirror of Reality” was also hosted on 2017’s CD collection of ProgPower USA.

ARADIA to Release Brand New Single ‘Sad Time’ on February 6th

Posted by tarjavirmakari on January 7, 2024

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“Sad Time,” a brand new single from ARADIA, will be released on Feb. 6! The single starts a new adventure for the band, which is working on a new album to be released soon.

The single “Sad Time,” will be distributed and promoted by Wanikiya Record/Promotion, and will be available on all the world’s best music stores, on the Japanese Label and Press Office showcase and also on Crash Sound Distribution! Ready to catapult you into the world of Aradia?

In November 2019, Como guitarist Francesco Rasero decided to start a new musical project inspired by melodic metal and hard rock. Needless to say, the difficulties due to the 2020 pandemic also slowed down the birth of Aradia. The official lineup consists of : Stefano Cheville Perini ( vocals ) Francesco Rasero ( lead and rhythm guitar ) Marco Hellion Gilardoni ( lead and rhythm guitar ) Andrea Fumagalli ( bass guitar ) Cristian Sampietro ( drums ) Special mention : Paolo Gilardoni ( bass) who was a founder but had to leave the project due to family commitments During the first 2 years of activity despite the periods of stop already mentioned, the band cut its teeth jammando on classics by Iron Maiden, Saxon and Judas Priest ( but also Motley Crue ) and soon the need to write their own music was born.

More information at https://www.facebook.com/Aradiametalband

THE DREDGE Release Post-Apocalyptic Rock Single ‘Whales’ Without Autotune

Posted by tarjavirmakari on January 7, 2024

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THE DREDGE from Bergen, Norway, debuts with the single Whales from their forthcoming album Torches, (spring 2024), a post-apocalyptic rock album with a backbone of bass, drums and distorted guitars and a head full of anguished vocal.

With a soundscape that is big and dramatic, and with a beat that never lets up, Whales evolves through a hefty, hypnotizing riff and manic metaphors – and creates a musical world distorted on the brink of collapse.

The single, as well as the forthcoming album, is thoughtfully produced by the band and Iver Sandøy (Enslaved, Kvelertak), spiked with elegant details and with no trace of autotune or click-tracks. All you hear is the hard, physical work of the band’s fundamental groove.

Pre-order the single at https://thedredge1.bandcamp.com/album/whales-single

The Dredge has been feeding on rock since they were teens, which they are not anymore; One can hear the mix of lived lives and a thousand evenings of rehearsal in what is a band of incredible coordinated interplay. In addition, one can hear the inspiration of so many bands that it impossible to name them. Nonetheless; names like Jane’s Addiction, The Police, XTC, Mogwai, The Mars Volta and The Smile are perhaps among them.

The Dredge are: Kjetil Vikene (vocals, guitars, keys), Mats Andersen (bass) and Frode Røsjø from Helheim (drums). The band was founded in the 90’s and they have finally managed to let an album escape from their vast vault of original material. And about time! It is a shame that this is only the first single; rumours has it that this ridiculously slow moving monster of a band has enough material to fill another five albums.

SNAILMATE Offer ‘Stress Sandwich’ Antidote to a Pressurized Year

Posted by tarjavirmakari on January 6, 2024

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Phoenix-based Snailmate crowned 2023 by releasing their album ‘Stress Sandwich’ and relentlessly touring. Rleased via Toronto’s Indiestructable Records, they offer a twisted humorous take on existential anxiety, delivering funky, poppy, screamy fun through alternative raps. The duo’s also presents the video for ‘Trash, Baby’, created by Chase A Warren.

Alternatively described as synthpunk grindcore pop nerd rap, this has practically become a way of life for the duo, reinforced by their earlier albums ‘Live In Japan’ (2019) and ‘Love in the Microwave’ (2017), plus a myriad of EPs and singles.

Snailmate is lyricist-vocalist and synth wizard Kalen Lander and drummer-backup vocalist Bentley Monet, whose music fuses synthpunk, grindcore, pop and nerd rap for an unpredictable and explosive sound. Together they craft music that is cathartic and relatable yet unique and genre-defying, using humor and wit to tackle topics from isolation and queer identity to bangers about hot sauce and nostalgia.

Produced by Ari Leopold at Lava Lake Studio in Phoenix, ‘Stress Sandwich’ is about growth, exploring themes such as vulnerability, disappointment, and art-making as a beautiful yet imperfect process. They go head to head with depression, anxiety, imposter syndrome, anger, hunger, laziness… but also fun things! These 10 tracks – laced with sarcasm, breathless lyricism and unpredictable genre-bending energy – will leave you satisfied and wanting more.

“This album has been in the works for so long. It took years to process all these feelings and experiences and distill them into just ten short songs, but I’m really glad we didn’t try and finish this thing any sooner. It would have tasted so much different. The flavors needed time to develop. I couldn’t have written ‘Toll Road’ until that bastard stole our money. ‘The Snailmate Show’ wasn’t a thing before we were forced to quarantine and couldn’t play live. And until we had to go through some intense physical changes, ‘My Weird Gross Body’ just wouldn’t have been the same,” says Kalen Lander.

“I beat myself up a lot during this whole process. I felt like I was taking too long to write the lyrics, and that meant that I was bad at writing. I had lost my touch. But then I really started to understand how, when I FINALLY finished the words for a song, it was perfect. It couldn’t have been perfect if I’d forced it out any sooner. And I think ‘The Laziest Man in the World’ encapsulates that sentiment better than anything.”

As part of the LGBTQ community and with Bentley being a transgender artist, Snailmate inspires their listeners to be unapologetic and unashamed of who they are, cultivating a fervent fanbase based on inclusivity and shows as a safe space for all genders and people of all sexualities.

‘Stress Sandwich’ is out now, available digitally from fine music platforms, including Apple Music, Spotify and Bandcamp. It can also be ordered on vinyl and CD vinyl from the band’s own store, where ample merch is also available, including their very own award-winning hot sauce!

CREDITS
Performed by Kalen Lander & Bentley Monet
Written by Kalen Lander & Bentley Monet
Produced by Kalen Lander & Ari Leopold
Recorded, Mixed & Mastered by Ari Leopold @ Lava Lake Studio in Phoenix, AZ
Music video by Chase A Warren

TRACK LIST
1. Trash, Baby 01:58
2. The Snailmate Show 02:39
3. It’s Coming Back! 02:41
4. Shoulda Brought Snacks 02:09
5. The Laziest Man in the World 02:21
6. Overwaiter 02:52
7. I Know What You Want 01:54
8. My Weird Gross Body 02:04
9. Toll Road 01:30
10. Donuts in the Rain 02:48

LIVE DATES
Jan. 12 Tempe, AZ @ The Beast
Jan. 14 Phoenix, AZ @ Last Exit Live
Mar. 23 Phoenix, AZ @ Gracie’s Tax Bar
Apr 19 Los Angeles, CA @ The Offbeat

Art-Punk Kraut-Rockers CIRCOLO VIZIOSO Present ‘Choppy’ Single

Posted by tarjavirmakari on January 6, 2024

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Kraut-inspired punk rock duo Circolo Vizioso presents ‘Choppy’, a high-octane song spawned from of a bout of depression brought on by a failed love story. This is the first taste of their debut album ‘Verrueckt’ (out March 1), following their 5-track ‘Isolation’ EP (2020). Here they offer a potent taste of their unique brand of high-intensity, lyric-driven punk, created mainly with electric violin, guitar and drums.

Hailing from Berlin, Circolo Vizioso is made up of Tony Scafidi (guitar, bass, drum, hi-hat, vocals) and Paul Geigerzaehler (violin, snare drum, vocals). The band plays abrasive, groovy punk music that is influenced, on the one hand, by the sound of 1990s New York, Chicago and Washington embodied in such bands as Fugazi, Blonde Redhead and Sonic Youth, and by the sound of early 80’s and 90’s Eastern German and Eastern European punk bands like Dezerter, Sandow and Schleimkeim on the other.

“I’d had a severe break up and the song went out as a sort of persistent beat, prolonging an apex point that hardly makes it out of the main riff, opening up only at the very yet repeating it self only faster,” says Tony Scafidi.

“Metaphorically, it’s kind of like when a couple try to sort things out and get back together, but then fail due to continued use of old commuication tools for a completely new situation they can no longer manage. At the time, I was also listening to The Black Angels a lot and having sleeping problems. There’s a weird cocktail here.”

Formed in March 2020 on a balcony in Friedrichshain, Berlin during the first Covid-19 lock-down, Circolo Vizioso was born as an attempt to keep art and music alive and to provide support to their neighbours during a time when no concerts were happening and no cinemas, museums or galleries were open.

In spirit, Circolo Vizioso is a last ditch effort to resist the isolation and the lack of social and human contact, as well as the hunger for music and art during this unusual time.
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About the upcoming ‘Verrueckt” album, Paul Geigerzaehler explains, “We wanted an album that could express anger, frustration and disaffection against an unfair world and all the discomfort entwined with that and we wanted to do it with direct and bare lyrics, abrasive violin lines, fat distorted guitar solos, and big fuzzy riffs. Yet we wanted people to dance to all this batshit crazy world in a sort of self-exorcising dance, where one can head to bed with the feeling that they have at least sweat their daily demons out for the night.”

As of January 5, ‘Choppy’ is available everywhere digitally, including Apple Music, Spotify and Bandcamp. The full ‘Verrueckt’ album, which will be released on March 1, is already available for pre-order directly from the artist via Bandcamp.

CREDITS
Music and Lyrics by Paul Geigerzaehler and Tony Scafidi
Tony Scafidi – guitar, bass, drum, hi-hat, vocals
Paul Geigerzaehler – violin, snare drum, vocals
Audrey Quillons – backing vocals on ‘Walls’ and ‘Verruecht’
Produced by Paul Geigerzaehler and Tony Scafidi
Sound Engineer – Smail Shock Production at B Studio in Berlin
Mixed and Mastered by Sacha Tilotta in Catania, Italy

LIVE SHOWS ( more info )
December 12 – Leipzig Ost – Kopfsalat (20:00)
December 23 – Dresden – Luther 33 (19:00)
December 27 – Nucknica/Nucknitz – Barakka (21:00)
December 29 – Görlitz – Basta (20:00)
January 6, 2024 – Berlin Prenzlauer Berg – KvU (20:00)