Coming out of Calgary AB, team CITIZEN RAGE is giving us a sneak peak into their new album “Harsh Reality”.
Designed and animated by visual genius Dion Coursen, “For Worse or Better” is heavy, fast and a quick punch to the throat says singer Mark Russell. Being released on Toronto’s Cursed Blessing Records this first single has the undertones of 80’s hardcore punk mixed with CR’s typical anthemic gang vocals. Catch Citizen Rage as they hit the road with Canadian punk legends Dayglo Abortions this June through July. Check out their link tree for dates and ticket info.
“For Worse or Better” recently premiered via Bravewords and the feature can be found here.
The track can be found on all major streaming services as well as the band’s Bandcamp page.
LAMB OF GOD unleash “Nevermore,” the first single and music video from Omens. The forthcoming full-length from the GRAMMY-nominated metal titans is due October 7th on Epic Records.
“Nevermore” is available everywhere for download and streaming.
Watch the music video here:
Tickets and VIP packages are on sale at https://www.lamb-of-god.com/tour/ for The Omens Tour, featuring Lamb Of God and special guests Killswitch Engage, Baroness, Motionless In White, Spiritbox, Animals As Leaders, plus Suicide Silence and Fit For An Autopsy join on different legs. The tour kicks off on September 9 in Brooklyn, NY and wraps October 20 in Dallas, TX.
Lamb Of God follows 2020’s No. 1 Hard Rock Album with a vicious new testament. Riding high on a creative renaissance saluted by the likes of Rolling Stone and NME, the Grammy-nominated goliath returns with the gloriously unhinged Omens, produced by longtime collaborator Josh Wilbur (Korn, Megadeth).
Omens is a furious entry in the Lamb Of God catalog, perhaps their angriest album yet. “The world is crazy and keeps changing. Omens is a reaction to the state of the world,” explains vocalist D. Randall Blythe. “It’s a very pissed-off record.” He pauses for emphasis. “It is extremely pissed-off.”
The New Wave Of American Heavy Metal architects tracked Omens at Henson Recording Studios in Los Angeles, California, a location that birthed classics from The Doors, The Ramones, and Soundgarden, among others. “The inner workings of the band have never been better,” explains guitarist Mark Morton. “You can hear it in Omens. You can see it in our performances, and if you’re around us for five minutes, you can feel it.”
The Omens album pre-order is live now at https://www.lamb-of-god.com/, boasting several exclusive items, including a signed colored vinyl variant, shirt, hoodie, and signed CDs with an alternate color cover. All physical CD and Vinyl releases will include a free access code to watch the livestream viewing of “The Making of Omens” documentary, which will premiere the week of album release.
Omens tracklisting:
Nevermore Vanishing To The Grave Ditch Omens Gomorrah Ill Designs Grayscale Denial Mechanism September Song
The Omens Tour dates are as follows:
Lamb of God w/ Killswitch Engage, Baroness, Suicide Silence Sep 09 – Brooklyn, NY – Coney Island Sep 10 – Camden, NJ – Freedom Mortgage Pavilion Sep 11 – Alton, VA – Blue Ridge Music Festival Sep 13 – Youngstown, OH – Youngstown Foundation Amphitheater Sep 14 – Baltimore, MD – Chesapeake Employers Insurance Arena Sep 16 – Atlanta, GA – Coca Cola Roxy Sep 17 – Jacksonville, FL – Daily’s Place Sep 18 – Tampa, FL – MIDFLORIDA Credit Union Amphitheatre Sep 21 – Boston, MA – MGM Music Hall at Fenway Sep 23 – Louisville, KY – Louder Than Life Festival *No KSE, No Suicide Silence Sep 24 – Chicago, IL – Huntington Bank Pavilion at Northerly Island Sep 25 – Sterling Heights, MI – Michigan Lottery Amp at Freedom Hill Sep 26 – Indianapolis, IN – TCU Amphitheater at White River State Park Sep 30 – Denver, CO – Fillmore Auditorium
Lamb of God w/ Killswitch Engage, Motionless In White, Fit For An Autopsy Oct 01 – Salt Lake City, UT – The Great SaltAir Oct 02 – Grand Junction, CO – Amphitheater at Las Colonias Park Oct 04 – Fresno, CA – Selland Arena Oct 07 – Sacramento, CA – Aftershock Festival *No Fit For An Autopsy
Lamb of God w/ Killswitch Engage, Spiritbox, Fit For An Autopsy Oct 09 – Vancouver, BC – Doug Mitchell Thunderbird Sports Centre Oct 10 – Kent (Seattle), WA – Accesso ShoWare Center Oct 11 – Portland, OR – Theater of the Clouds
Lamb of God w/ Killswitch Engage, Animals As Leaders, Fit For An Autopsy Oct 13 – Inglewood, CA – YouTube Theater Oct 14 – Phoenix, AZ – Arizona Federal Theater Oct 15 – Albuquerque, NM – Isleta Amphitheater Oct 16 – El Paso, TX – UTEP Don Haskins Center Oct 18 – San Antonio, TX – Freeman Coliseum Oct 19 – Houston, TX – 713 Music Hall Oct 20 – Irving, TX – The Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory
Hard rock juggernaut SAINT ASONIA, featuring former Three Days Grace frontman Adam Gontier and Staind guitarist/founding member Mike Mushok, have shared the new song “Better Late Than Never” from their upcoming Introvert EP. The EP arrives on July 1. Pre-order it here.
The new track finds frontman Gontier laying his cards face up on the table. Listen here.
“This is a song I wrote about growth,” says Gontier. “I’ve battled drug and alcohol addiction for years and years. I’ve been in and out of rehab, trying to change and trying to become a better person. I finally hit a point in my life back in 2017, where I was just done. All of that back and forth with addiction just took its toll. I was tired — and motivated. I got clean and have stayed that way since. It took a long time to become the person I wanted to. As they say, better late than never…”
The EP also features the band’s well-received cover of The Weeknd’s “Blinding Lights,” which arrived last year. Additionally, the single “Above It All” is currently ascending the rock radio charts.
The quartet — rounded out by Cale Gontier [bass] and Cody Watkins [drums]— have perfected a fusion of gut-punching grooves, intricate fretwork, airtight songwriting, and soaring choruses. For as much as Gontier and Mushok had achieved in multiplatinum rock acts Three Days Grace and Staind, respectively, the musicians also architected the framework for a singular legacy together in Saint Asonia. 2015’s self-titled Saint Asonia kicked open the door as Loudwire crowned them “Best New Artist” at the Loudwire Music Awards. The 2019 follow-up, Flawed Design, only ingratiated a growing fan base. Lead single “The Hunted,” featuring Sully Erna of Godsmack, racked up 13 million Spotify streams, bringing their cumulative streams near the 100 million-mark. New Noise awarded it 4.5-out-of-5 stars and urged, “Any fan of hard rock (whether they’ve listened in recently or not) should give Saint Asonia a spin.” Meanwhile, Loudwire named it among “The 50 Best Rock Albums of the Year.” Along the way, they hit the road with the likes of Disturbed, Breaking Benjamin, Seether, Alter Bridge, and Mötley Crüe.
INTROVERT EP TRACK LISTING: “Above It All“ “Better Late Than Never” “Chew Me Up” “So What” “Left Behind” “Bite the Bullet” “Blinding Lights“
So Cal rock warriors ATREYU have partnered with Sullivan King to remix their smash single “Baptize,” which is the title track of their latest album.
Check out the remix, on which Sullivan King truly put his own unique spin, here.
“When it comes to remixes, we’re always aiming for someone to truly recreate the song,” the band explains. “Sullivan King has such an energy to his music and his personal vibe. He was the perfect fit. This is a whole new ‘Baptize.'”
It was a fitting collaboration, since Sullivan King is a producer, guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter who fuses dubstep and rock, creating his own space in the electronic and alternative scenes. Sullivan King’s unique live show finds the artist shredding on guitar, singing, DJing, and jumping into the pit. He has previously worked with Excision, Aaron Gillespie (Underoath), Papa Roach, Jason Aalon (Fever 333), Ice Nine Kills, Kayzo, and more.
Atreyu are currently on tour with Nothing More. All remaining dates are below.
ATREYU ON TOUR: 6/12 — Denver, CO — The Fillmore 6/13 — Salt Lake City, UT — The Complex 6/15 — Anaheim, CA — House of Blues 6/16 — Phoenix, AZ — The Van Buren 6/18 — San Antonio, — Tech Port 6/19 — Houston, TX — House of Blues
Fargo, North Dakota’s PHOBOPHILIC have today announced their debut album, Enveloping Absurdity, due for release via Prosthetic Records on September 16. Accompanying the album announcement the death metal group are premiering the lead single, Those Which Stare Back, via Metal Injection. Across PHOBOPHILIC‘s first full-length the four-piece ruminate on philosophical absurdism, existentialism and human consciousness against a backdrop of suffocatingly minacious death metal.
Speaking on the album announcement, the band comments: “This album feels like a sizable leap forward for us. It’s much more refined than our previous releases in all aspects. We spent a lot of time making sure the songs stood out on their own but also complimented each other and told a full story. Enveloping Absurdity is about recognizing the separation of what we want the human experience to be and what it truly is. It’s the realization of the universe’s complete and utter indifference to humanity, facing that reality and choosing to find meaning from within.”
Of Those Which Stare Back, PHOBOPHILIC add: “Those Which Stare Back is about personal struggles with depression and the loss of loved ones to addiction, accidental overdose and suicide. It explores the guilt that comes with being alive when those around you who were so full of life have died and wishing you could trade your life for theirs. While lyrically it’s the darkest song on the album, musically it’s the highest energy and immediately throws you into the chaos with twisting and turning riffs and melodic flourishes, reinforcing the turmoil expressed in the lyrics.”
Formed in 2016, PHOBOPHLIC have steadily accumulated early releases in the shape of two demos, 2019’s Undimensioned Identities EP and a split release with Canada’s Sedimentum, all the while honing their craft out across the North American touring circuit – featuring live stints with Gatecreeper and Mutilatred respectively, as well as appearances at LDB Fest and Philadelphia Death Nexus – positioning themselves among US death metals most intriguing young acts.
Following their early productivity both in studio and on the road, PHOBOPHILIC pulled together to shape Enveloping Absurdity’s eight songs into existence. Shunning the fantastical in favour of lived human reality, the band opted to center their gaze on what it is to exist. Drawing from French writers Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre as well as Germany’s Fredrich Nietzche’s strains of philosophical thought, Enveloping Absurdity is a meticulous vivisection of the philosophical self and purpose, as it asks fundamental questions of life’s true meaning.
PHOBOPHILIC’s formative promise is fully captured with a stellar production job that retains their to-the-bone intensity, but allows room for the underlying grandiosity of their compositions, thanks to Adam Tucker at Signaturetone Recording in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The artwork was then licensed from Finnish illustrator Joonas Räsänen at EvM Art, as the band sought to marry Enveloping Absurdity’s overarching thematic ponderance with aesthetic totality.
On their debut long player PHOBOPHILIC rebel against notions of defeat and pessimism, in spite of the struggles that come with an overabundance of consciousness, to a profound embrace of that which ails as well as thrills. At the beating heart of Enveloping Absurdity’s sonic extremity is a victory of the self, not content with simply surviving, but choosing to live.
Enveloping Absurdity tracklist: 1. Enantiodromia 2. Those Which Stare Back 3. Nauseating Despair 4. Cathedrals of Blood (Twilight of the Idols) 5. Individuation 6. The Illusion of Self 7. Survive in Obscurity 8. Enveloping Absurdity
WEREWOLVES have premiered their utterly crushing new single, Harvest of the Skulls, and its accompanying music video via Knotfest. Harvest of the Skulls is the third single to be taken from the Australian extreme death metal trio’s upcoming third full length, From the Cave to the Grave, due out on June 24 via Prosthetic Records.
WEREWOLVES have also recently announced their first ever set of live performances in their home country, more details on the dates below.
Speaking on the premiere, bassist and vocalist Sam Bean comments: “We thought we’d bring you a happy little track about death and genocide called ‘Harvest of the Skulls’, which we think is our sauciest film clip so far. Most metal tracks out there that deal with genocide gratuitously recount the action itself. We thought it would be way more horrific if we described what it would be like to be in a country where everyone loses their mind and you’re coerced into mass murder… being made to go along with things, like you’re forced into a large public service work.
“As usual, we wrote this a year or two ago and hey presto, just as the song’s coming out the world is waking up to a few large ongoing genocides happening right now. We really need to write a track about everything turning out alright and everyone being okay.”
From the Cave to the Grave tracklist:
Self-Help Book-Burning
We Are Better Than You
All the Better To Eat You With
Crushing Heaven’s Mandate
Harvest of the Skulls
Oedipus Tyrannus
Nuclear Family Holocaust
Pride and Extreme Prejudice
Watch Your Mouth
WEREWOLVES’ debut The Dead Are Screaming was recorded in 2019 and followed by Australia going from medium to well-done in apocalyptic bushfires. The second release What A Time to Be Alive was recorded in 2020 and closely preceded a global pandemic then mass hysteria. WEREWOLVES attempted some caution and tact by only releasing a limited vinyl EP, DeathMetal, in February 2022 and happened to put it out for sale the same day war came to Europe.
From The Cave to The Grave keeps up the searing pace of the first two WEREWOLVES albums, with a mix of black and death metal and unprecedented aggression that is coalescing into a style of its own. Opener Self-Help Book Burning kicks the door in Hate Eternal-style before deforming into a blackened ending. It’s followed by stadium crowd-pleaser We Are Better Than You, blaster All the Better to Eat You With, and social credit score-destroyer Crushing Heaven’s Mandate. Harvest of the Skulls is an ode to the horror of genocide and the rest of the album blasts through to closing threat Watch Your Mouth, leaving you to enjoy your ringing ears and mild trauma.
The mixing is by Joe Haley (Psycroptic) and the artwork is by Mitchell Nolte. Slayer never changed their shit up, neither will WEREWOLVES. “Change” can be mistaken for “progression”, which WEREWOLVES shrinks in horror from.
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