The time is finally upon us. Nuclear Power Trio‘s sophomore release, Wet Ass Plutonium, is now out for the world to rock out to. To honor this momentous occasion, the nuclear three have dropped a video for the track Critical Bass Theory directed by K Hunter Lamar.
Donny had this to say about the new music video: “So Critical Bass Theory is one of the greatest songs, probably ever recorded. Everyone says so! We decided to film a performance video inside our compound, which is easily the greatest band rehearsal space/superhero lair ever. We needed someone amazingly famous who could tickle the ivories for us, so we invited a very, very special guest… our great friend Lizzy, the Queen of England! And you know what, she really did such a tremendous job… just an incredibly fantastic job. She really brings the video to life! Hope you all enjoy the playing, because it’s the best!“
Fans can order the new album, Wet Ass Plutonium, which is available on CD, vinyl, digitally, and part of a bundle including a shirt, at: metalblade.com/nuclearpowertrio
Tracklisting: 01. W.A.P. (Wet Ass Plutonium) 02. Apocalypse Mao 03. Nyetflix and Chill 04. Air Force Fun 05. Snark Side of the Un 06. ¡Vamos, Brandito! 07. Anti-Saxxers (Mandatory Saxination) 08. Critical Bass Theory 09. Red Scare Bear Stare
About the band: It’s been three years since Planet Earth’s most unanimously cherished year, Two Thousand and Twenty. Beloved amongst the Tellurian inhabitants for a multitude of reasons, the year’s standout contribution was unequivocally the release of Nuclear Power Trio‘s, “A Clear and Present Rager“. The EP’s unrelenting fervor for igniting peace via nylon-guitar-fueled fus-djent resonated bigly with audiences across the globe and triggered a shift in the collective consciousness of humanity.
Every action has an equal and opposite reaction; we saw the trillionaire tech overlords from the year 2179 unleash a torrent of schemes to prevent the trio from creating world peace. Thankfully, not a single mission enacted prevailed, including multiple attempts utilizing the Ol’ Dirty Wizard T-800.
Unsuccessful and defeated, the overlords in the Wealthy Entitled Fartsniffers faded out of the picture faster than Marty McFly’s hoverboard kickflip, leaving NPIII to continue their quest with 2023’s triumphant return, “Wet Ass Plutonium“.
We’ve yet to see what adversarial components the group may go up against this time, although the album artwork and some of the song titles provide some interesting foreshadowing: reptilians, sardonic cartoon bears, and angry mobs of anti-saxxers loom as potential obstacles for the triumphant supergroup. As uncertain as the future remains in this turbulent zeitgeist, one thing is for sure…Peace sells, so start buying!
Nuclear Power Trio is: Supreme Drums: Kimmy Tremendous Guitar: Donny KGBass: Vladi P
Multi award-winning Blues/Rock/Americana/Roots artist Dom Martin is pleased to announce the release of “Daylight I Will Find” – the second single taken from his highly anticipated third studio album “Buried In The Hail” released by Forty Below Records on 22nd September 2023. The album is available to pre-order from https://www.dommart.in/pre-order.
“Daylight I Will Find” is released today on Friday 4 August 2023, and available to stream HERE.
“Buried In the Hail,” Dom Martin’s third studio album, was recorded at Golden Egg Studios in Ireland and produced in Dublin by Grammy-Nominated producers Chris O’Brien and Graham Murphy and co-produced by Dom Martin. Very much steeped in the Roots, Americana, and the Blues genres, many of the tracks on the new album possess an almost cinematic theme.Dom admits the new album is the first complete work that he’s recorded which he is 100% happy with and proud to release. Says Dom, “Buried In the Hail is the kind of album where the more you listen to it, the more you will get out of it.”
“It’s all about the music,” says Dom about the new single ‘Daylight I Will Find’. “Sweet and simple really.” There’s no soft option for a good life. Life is full of challenges, and it’ll drive you insane if you let it. It doesn’t matter what it is. You must find your own way through it and in one piece! Find your own daylight. We all have it! It’s you! Love yourself.”
Why the cover of Willie Nelson’s“Crazy”? “When I was a kid, I always loved the song, my Aunt Breda was a Patsy fan, I think I liked it most probably for the key change, I was shocked when I later found out it was written by Willie Nelson, what a guy! This version is how I felt at the time, I had the music and these lyrics just fit in more ways than one.
Dom will tour the new album throughout the UK and Ireland in October and November 2023 and Europe in June 2024. See tour dates listed below.
ALBUM TRACK LISTING
1 – Hello In There 2 – Daylight I Will Find 3 – Government 4 – Belfast Blues 5 – Crazy 6 – Unhinged 7 – The Fall 8 – Howlin‘ 9 – Buried In The Hail 10 – Lefty 2 Guns 11 – Laid To Rest
PRODUCTION CREDITS
All Songs composed by Dom Martin except Crazy (Willie Nelson) Dom Martin – Vocals, Guitar Ben Graham – Bass Guitar & Double Bass Jonny McIlroy – Drums
Recorded in Golden Egg Studios, Ireland Mixed and produced by Chris O’Brien and Graham Murphy at The Production Suite, Dublin, Ireland Co-Produced by Dom Martin Mastered by Richard Dowling at WAV Mastering, Limerick, Ireland Artwork Concept – Dom Martin Album Artwork – Magic Cabin Studios
ALBUM TRACK BY TRACK
1 – Hello In There So many songs could have been made with this one. In many ways this album is about the mind and losing it. It ’s also about accepting its function. That you ’re a little crazy and that ’s okay! I used this for the intro as it ’s such a nice calm before the storm compared to the 10-ton catastrophe on a 50-pound chain feeling from a few of the others on here. The children laughing in the background really made it. Children ’s laughter is one of the most beautiful sounds in the world and I’ m glad I could include it in here.
2 – Daylight I Will Find It’s all about the music. Sweet and simple really. It ’s no soft option for a good life. Life is full of challenges, and it ’ll drive you insane if you let it. It doesn ’t matter what it is, you must find your own way through it and in one piece! Find your own daylight. We all have it! It ’s you! Love yourself.
3 – Government I’m not too sure what to say about this one lyrically. I ’m not political. I ’m not on any side. I believe in right, and something is not right with the current world order running of things but as for the song, it has a very Celtic feel to it. My Irish ghosts, influences and banshees are howling the wind at my back as if to tell me to stay away from explaining this song faithfully.
4 – Belfast Blues I’m a Belfast native. I love the place and the people. Just about every family has lost blood on the streets here yet it ’s still a great place to witness. As we’d say there’s some characters about so there is! The song is about the days I spent playing the pubs and clubs in Northern Ireland. Getting in fights, fires, getting robbed, getting drunk and beaten and just generally misbehaving. Being an animal. I was a different person back then. I’ve become a lot younger now than I was back then and am finally living a life.
5 – Crazy I usually have at least one cover on my albums, and I wanted something I could relate to. I wanted something I could identify with, and the lyrics are just it! I played this completely broken down, out of my mind and titanically heartbroken. It was written by Willie Nelson and made big by the beautiful Patsy Cline. As a cover song I think I’ve done a pretty good alternative version that does hold a feeling of that crazy, deeper burning love and the loss of it that makes us all a little… unhinged.
6 – Unhinged This is a song about feeling unhinged by society, finding falseness in people who greet you with smiles and leave you with nothing.
7 – The Fall It’s hard to write any one thing about this song. The fall of society comes to mind. It’s about people and what we do to each other. The timelines of history. It ’s not too late for us though to keep it positive and I still have tons of hope for the future. I’m not just talking about my own future. We all need to be a little nicer to each other, that ’s all. It ’s that easy. Or we are going to fall…
8 – Howlin’ I love the music of Howlin ’ Wolf and I wanted to pay my respects to the man. This one ’s for you Wolf!
9 – Buried In The Hail Going deep into your own mind can be dangerous. It can be difficult even to get to the dangerous part, you can get stuck in there. Your own locked room. I was stuck there for a while but I got out, though I do go back from time to time. It’s about revisiting the horrors that I have encountered and the experiences I have lived through so far. I always leave these situations feeling a bit raw, a little edgy. You need to be broken into pieces with unknown substances and possess a bag of pure emotion to write a song like this. It ’s an acceptance that a part of life has had to be cut off to make it out alive. For example, your leg is stuck and the water is rising… cut it off!
10 – Lefty 2 Guns A short story of a hitman. He ends this show by killing the parts I can ’t have anymore and he buries it all in the album cover and there’s nothing that can be done about it.
11 – Laid To Rest The last gasp of music, the outro. Again, like the intro, I could have gone any direction with this one. It has a certain end game feel to it, a finality. Everything may seem personal on this album and a lot of it is, but it wasn ’t by design, as these songs are how I felt, and they are all played from the heart to heal and move on. A “refresh” of some sorts, to let go of the past as there is no future in history. Laid to rest says that symbolically with its silence.
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SUMMER FESTIVALS
REMAINING 2023 SHOWS
AUGUST August 12 – Howth Blues Festival, Ireland August 17/22 – Joe Bonamassa’s Keeping Blues Alive at Sea III, Athens, Greece August 26/27 Great British Rhythm & Blues Festival, Colne August 28 – Barnoldswick Music & Arts Centre, Barnoldswick
SEPTEMBER September 6/24 – European Tour
OCTOBER October 8/29 – Buried In The Hail UK Band Tour
NOVEMBER November 4, 9/10/11/12, 17/18, 24/25 – Irish Tour
Nashville, Tennessee cosmic stoner metal trio HOWLING GIANT has revealed the title track from their sophomore full-length “Glass Future”, which is scheduled for a release on October 27, 2023 via Magnetic Eye Records. The pre-sale is available at THIS LOCATION!
The second single‘Glass Future’ comes in the shape of a high energy performance video, that is now streaming here:
HOWLING GIANT comment on the single: “The frenetic energy of ‘Glass Future’ is part of the overarching theme of our new record”, guitarist and singer Tom Polzine elaborates. “We’ve dabbled in apocalyptic songs through a scifi or fantasy lens in the past, but wanted to explore those themes in a more immediate way this time. Like the angel falling in the song: the world is fragile, don’t drop it.”
Tracklist
Hourglass
Siren Song
Aluminium Crown
In a Hurricane
First Blood of Melchor
Glass Future
Tempest, and the Liar’s Gateway
Sunken City
Juggernaut
There’s Time Now
Every song on HOWLING GIANT‘s sophomore album “Glass Future” tells its own story. Yet even without an overarching concept, all could exist within the same universe. Such crafty lyrical world-building is hardly surprising coming from a trio of enthusiastic fantasy and science fiction aficionados. “Glass Future” downright asks to inspire a book or graphic novel, even as it explodes with furious energy and thunderous acrobatics.
Musically, “Glass Future” offers a continuation and evolution of all the elements that made the debut album “The Space Between Worlds” (2019) such a success. HOWLING GIANT entice classic metal and hard rock to interact dynamically with spacy, prog-infused passages, desert and psychedelic metal moments, rock organs, catchy hooks, and top everything off with soaring harmonized vocals.
HOWLING GIANT hail from one of the most legendary places for music on earth: Nashville, Tennessee, USA. Despite the city’s reputation for assembly-line pop country, the town called Music City is a place of deep history, where brilliant songwriters and virtuoso session players keep dozens of musical legacies burning bright. Fertile ground, then, for a preeminent fuzz-psych power trio who consciously live in the pocket of that lineage.
Following a trilogy of EPs, “Howling Giant” (2015), “Black Hole Space Wizard: Part 1” (2016), and “Black Hole Space Wizard: Part 2” (2017), HOWLING GIANT delivered their debut full-length “The Space between Worlds” in 2019, which to the delight of their rapidly growing following and critics alike more than fulfilled the promise of the early releases.
To bridge the time until their new album, the trio released the “Masamune & Muramasa” split with Sergeant Thunderhoof in 2020 and the “Alteration” EP in 2021, the first releases with bassist Sebastian Baltes, the son of German metal legends ACCEPT’s former bass player Peter Baltes, fully integrated into the band as a co-writer.
HOWLING GIANT take a gargantuan leap forward with “Glass Future” that brings their outstanding musicianship and golden-throated triple vocal attack fully into stride. Nothing to do but try to keep up and enjoy the stunning sonic scenery along the way!
HOWLING GIANT live with HEAVY TEMPLE:
29 SEP 2023 Pratteln (CH) Z7, Up in Smoke Festival 30 SEP 2023 Leeuwarden (NL) Neushoorn, Into the Void Festival 02 OCT 2023 Siegen (DE) Vortex 03 OCT 2023 Hamburg (DE) Hafenklang 04 OCT 2023 Jena (DE) Rosenkeller 05 OCT 2023 Kassel (DE) Goldgrube 07 OCT 2023 München (DE) Backstage, Keep It Low Festival 2023 09 OCT 2023 Budapest (HU) Robot 10 OCT 2023 Wien (AT) Arena 11 OCT 2023 Bologna (IT) Freak Out 12 OCT 2023 Milano (IT) Barrios 13 OCT 2023 Roma (IT) RCCB 14 OCT 2023 Viareggio (IT) Circolo ARCI GoB 15 OCT 2023 Carmagnola (IT) Circolo ARCI Margot 18 OCT 2023 San Sebastian (ES) Dabadaba 19 OCT 2023 Barcelona (ES) Razz3 22 OCT 2023 Antwerp (BE) Trix, Desertfest Belgium
ANCESTRAL BLOOD have released a lyric video for ‘Sky Fortress of Wizardry’, taken from the band’s album “Forgotten Myths And Legends, Ch.1“, out via Wormholedeath.
Ancestral Blood music is described as Epic and Majestic Old World Black Metal which focuses on Ancient Myths and Legends.
For fans of 90s Underground Black Metal / Old releases by – Ishtar – Isvind – Arthemesia – Vordven – Trollheims Grott – Ringnevond – Summoning – Windir
DEATHROLL has released a music video for ‘False images of isolation and depravity’, taken from the band’s album “Japanese Extreme Metal Art”, out via Wormholedeath.
DEATHROLL is a Japanese solo black metal project, singer, songwriter, musician, and black metal band. Once you listen, he would catch you like a black raptor.
Indigenous black metal project BLACKBRAID and cathartic black metal outfit GAEREA have joined forces for a full North American tour in support of WOLVES IN THE THRONE ROOM. The trek will kick off on September 29 in St. Louis, MO and will then conclude on October 24 in Denver, CO. Tickets will go on sale this Friday, August 4 @ 10:00 A.M. local time. The full itinerary can be found below!
Meanwhile, Gaerea returns to support its incendiary 2022 release, ‘Mirage,’ debuting a brand new, never-before-seen live aesthetic! ‘Mirage’ was ranked among the best records of last year by Decibel Magazine, A&P Reacts, Ghost Cult Magazine, Sick Drummer, and more! The album is available HERE.
BLACKBRAID + GAEREA (Supporting Wolves in the Throne Room) Crypt of Ancestral Knowledge North American Tour
09/29: St Louis, MO @ Red Flag [TICKETS] 09/30: Chicago, IL @ Metro [TICKETS] 10/01: St. Paul, MN @ Amsterdam Bar & Hall [TICKETS] 10/03: Detroit, MI @ El Club [TICKETS] 10/04: Toronto, ON @ Lee’s Palace [TICKETS] 10/05: Montreal, QC @ Theatre Fairmount [TICKETS] 10/06: Boston, MA @ Big Night Live [TICKETS] 10/07: Hamden, CT @ Space Ballroom [TICKETS] 10/08: Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Monarch [TICKETS] 10/10: Philadelphia, PA @ Underground Arts [TICKETS] 10/11: Baltimore, MD @ Baltimore Soundstage [TICKETS] 10/12: Richmond, VA @ The Canal Club [TICKETS] 10/13: Greensboro, NC @ Hangar 1819 [TICKETS] 10/14: Atlanta, GA @ The Loft [TICKETS] 10/15: Tampa, FL @ Orpheum [TICKETS] 10/17: Dallas, TX @ Echo Lounge & Music Hall [TICKETS] 10/18: Austin, TX @ Come And Take It Live [TICKETS] 10/20: Albuquerque, NM @ Sister [TICKETS] 10/21: Tucson, AZ @ Encore [TICKETS] 10/23: Salt Lake City, UT @ Metro Music Hall [TICKETS] 10/24: Denver, CO @ The Oriental Theater [TICKETS]
Blackbraid Live Dates (US): 08/12: Los Angeles, CA @ 1720 [TICKETS]
Blackbraid Live Dates (EU): 08/16-18: Midgard (NO) @ Midgardsblot [TICKETS]
Gaerea Live Dates (EU): 08/04: Rituals of Descent (DE) 08/05: Rockstadt Extreme (RO) 08/06: IF Performance Besiktas (TR) 08/11: Bloodstock Open Air (UK) 08/12: Alcatraz (BE) 0818: Summerbreeze (DE) 08/20: Motocultor (FR) 08/24: Wolfszeit (DE) 08/25: Metal Mine Festival (PL) 10/28: Black Box Mikkeli (FI) 01/05-06/24: Meh Suff! (CH) 05/03/24: Karmoygeddon (NO)
Photo by Wolf Mountain Productions
Blackbraidis a solo indigenous black metal project from from the depths of the Adirondack wilderness creating music as raw and powerful as the mountains from whence it came…
Blackbraid is an independent artist and is not contracted to or owned by any music label.
The beauty of Gaerea lies in the directness and simplicity found within their florid tapestry of extremity and aggression. Whether it is in the less-polished aural dynamite of their self-titled EP, or in the lustrous textures of ‘Mirage,’ Gaerea is building a mighty edifice of underground metal. With talons dipped in the inky blood of black metal and scraped across the flesh of human suffering, Gaerea is leading a charge into the future of darkness, and all those who find beauty and power in the dark side of existence would do well to take heed.
THE ROCK ALCHEMIST – Italian Rock Band from Turin with a strong sonic identity that blends modern rock with progressive, hard, alternative, and pop elements!
Kimmo Kuusniemi’s SARCOFAGUS return with a Historic 2010 Concert Video Premiere on YouTube! Click image to watch the video
Metal Shock Finland (World Assault ) 