Critically acclaimed American blues rock guitarist, singer and songwriter Jared James Nichols returns to the UK for a 10-date November/December 2025 Tour. Jared’s special guest is AFRODIZIAC.
Tickets go on sale at 10am on Friday July 18th via Bandsintown.
Watch Jared’s official UK tour announcement:
Jared came to prominence in 2015 with his debut album Old Glory & The Wild Revival, followed by Black Magic (2018), which yielded the fan favourite “Honey Forgive Me.” In 2023, he collaborated with Maggie Rose and Joe Bonamassa for revised versions of his song “Threw Me to the Wolves,” followed by the release of album #3, the eponymous Jared James Nichols.
Jared is an official ambassador for Gibson Guitars. Over the years he has released several high-profile signature guitars including 2023’s official Jared James Nichols Epiphone Blues Power signature guitar.
Nichols has racked up millions of streams, critical acclaim, and massive social media numbers. In between show-stopping solo shows, he has jammed onstage with legends Slash, Billy Gibbons, Peter Frampton, Joe Bonamassa, Buddy Guy, and Halestorm.
Expect new music from Jared in August.
Guitar World Magazine says, “If you’ve never witnessed Jared James Nichols onstage, you’re missing out, big time!”
Guitar sensation, AFRODIZIAC is Jared’s special guest on all UK shows. Originally from New York City, he moved to London to kickstart his career and now resides in Berlin.
Drawn to the explosive, high-energy rawness of rock and roll, to the churches of rhythm and blues, AFRODIZIAC has a penchant for provocative grooves and heavy guitars. He recently supported The Darkness and the supergroup Black Country Communion. His new EP, Vanity Affair was released last month.
TKO presents
JARED JAMES NICHOLS NOVEMBER / DECEMBER 2025 UK TOUR
SPECIAL GUEST:AFRODIZIAC
TICKETS ON SALE 10AM FRIDAY 18 JULY 2025FROM BANDSINTOWN
Torture Squad, one of the greatest Brazilian metal bands, releases this Friday, July 11th, the music video for the track “Thoth”. This is the seventh promotional video for the acclaimed album ‘Devilish,’ released in September 2023 by the Italian label Time to Kill.
With this release, the band explores the use of Artificial Intelligence for the first time, with the music video created entirely by AI. The images are original, edited by producer and editor Daniel Berrettini of DB Criação & Design, and constructed based on information from the composer of the lyrics, Rene Simionato. The idea is to use AI resources to recreate the Egyptian theme.
Guitarist Rene Simionato comments:
“his song talks about Thoth, who carries all the ancestral wisdom of Ancient Egypt, and who in ancient Greece was known as Hermes Trismegistus. It all became a true mystical journey, bringing the mystery of the Seven Hermetic Laws, which appear in the video in a symbolic and powerful way, and which align directly with the weight of death metal.”
Daniel Berrettini of DB Creative Studio also shared his thoughts on the work:
“Producing the Thoth music video was a fascinating journey to Ancient Egypt with all its cultural and visual richness. Using Artificial Intelligence, I created images of the exuberant pyramids, temples, desert landscapes, art and Egyptian writing. I also used visual effects to create the mystical atmosphere surrounding the god Thoth. An enriching job that I did with great pleasure!”
Torture Squad will soon announce more European tour dates, and recently confirmed their participation in Wacken Open Air, the largest heavy metal festival in the world, which takes place in Germany. The band will perform on July 30th, Wednesday, a fact that makes Torture Squad the only Brazilian band to play four times at the festival. The band performed in 2007, as winners of the Metal Battle, with the ‘Chaos Corporation Tour’, in 2008 with the ‘Hellbound Tour’, 2011 with the ‘Aequilibrium Tour’ and is now leading the ‘Devilish Tour’.
TORTURE SQUAD is seen by extreme music fans as one of the most visceral and powerful metal bands in action today.
With almost three decades of experience, with excellent live performances including at the most important metal festivals in the world, the Brazilian group gathered legions of fans playing throughout the country, Latin America and Europe.
In 2019, while preparing the new album, Torture Squad arrived at one of the biggest music festivals in the world, the Brazilian Rock in Rio, where they performed for an audience of 120,000 people. In a cast full of metal legends like Anthrax, Slayer, Sepultura, Scorpions and Iron Maiden, the show was epic alongside Chuck Billy (Testament) and the Brazilians of Claustrofobia on the Sunset stage, with the set covering songs from their entire career TS and Testament Classics.
After Rock in Rio, came the long-awaited tour of Central America, passing through Mexico, Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala. The highlight was the show at Mexico Metal Fest which Torture Squad was one of the headliners.
In 2020 they released a new single and video called “O Doutrinador”, inspired by a Brazilian comic book character that also became a movie and TV series. The English version of the single and video called “The Awakener” is also available.
In 2021 the band celebrated twenty years since the release of their third album “The Unholy Spell” (2001) playing the entire album in Lives and live shows.
In 2022, the band performed at “La Iglesia” in São Paulo, giving rise to the live album “Torture at La Iglesia En Vivo”, and also the single “The Fallen Ones” with exclusive debut in the American magazine Decibel Magazine. Ending the year doing a show alongside one of the thrash metal legends in the world “Exodus” at the Carioca Club, in São Paulo.
The fantastic MARC AMACHER storms into the Swiss album charts at #1 with ‘Load’, giving us the very first pole position in the history of Hoboville. Thanks to Marc and his team! And of course thanks to all media partners who supported the release of the album from the very beginning and helped to make this dream come true!!!
One name. One legacy. One journey.
Imagine an abandoned railway station in the American Midwest. It’s late evening, the rails glisten damply in the pale light, and somewhere a guitar case rattles in the wind. It is the time of the hobos – those travelling men who roamed the country with nothing but a song on their lips and a dream in their luggage. My great-grandfather was one of them. About 140 years ago, he travelled by train, on foot, taken along by travelling traders, from the south to the north, in search of work – and perhaps also in search of himself.
‘Amacher Load’ is his legacy.
Not as a history record. Not as a reconstruction. But as an honest, raw reflection of a musical journey. This album is saturated with stories that were never written down – stories that seeped into the ground, were whispered around campfires, shouted into the wind from drawbridges. And now, many generations later, a descendant sings – not to imitate, but to carry on.
The sound? Really. Dirty. Full of groove.
The guitar scratches like gravel under your soles. The voice carries sand from a thousand paths. Bass and drums pulsate like a train on the tracks. The blues is not the decor here – it is the language. Soul pops up like an old friend, funk comes along to bring movement into play. But everything flows together – because this is not a museum. It’s alive.
And the ghosts? They are there.
Not in symbols or clichés. But as a reminder that music is always a carrier – for stories, for origins, for what shapes us, even if it is not spoken. The ancestors do not dance in the stage lights, they whisper in the pauses between the notes. In a bending. In a pause. In a breath before a chorus starts.
‘Amacher`s load’ is an album about connection.
About what we take with us – in our blood, in our voices, in our hearts. And about what we pass on when we have the courage to tell our stories.
Marc Amacher is the Swiss blues & rock musician who guarantees the finest entertainment. His impressive live performances and his love of melodious and unique blues have made him famous far beyond the country’s borders. Even at a young age, Marc’s life revolved around the instrument with the 6 strings, his ‘Peaches’ guitar. It was obvious that a musician with so much talent would lead his musical journey in the blues and rock genres. Musical genres that best suit his nature and abilities, but also his passion and authenticity. Marc Amacher’s music is deeply rooted in the traditions of the blues, but he also brings modern elements and his own creative touch to his songs. His style is raw, honest and penetrating, and he knows how to present the essence of the blues, but also of rock in its purest form.
Marc Amacher became known to a wider audience when he took part in ‘The Voice Of Germany’ in 2016. With his performance, he blew his competitors away right up to the final. His charismatic performances as well as the variability in his voice impressed not only the jury and the audience. Pop star and former Take That member Robbie Williams, who coached Marc of in the semi-final, was also impressed.
Since his appearances on ‘The Voice’, Marc Amacher has worked continuously on his music career. He has toured nationally and internationally through clubs, thrilled audiences at festivals and events, and can count on a growing fan base. Amacher is known for his energetic stage shows, in which he thrills his audience with his technically accomplished guitar work and intense expression. A first-class entertainer. It is therefore not surprising that Eric Clapton has also asked Marc to support his shows in Germany and Austria.
Handmade and unadulterated, but by no means outdated: Marc Amacher fascinates with his very own musical diversity, up close and personal. He lives entertainment.
TRACK LISTING “LOAD”
01 – Memphis 02 – Still 03 – Big Black 04 – Bullet 05 – Long Time No See 06 – Home Again 07 – Give It to Me 08 – Grandpa 09 – Shuffle N‘ Boogie 10 – Good Morning Mrs. Molly 11 – On My Way 12 – Mailbox Blues
SWEET once again present fans with two re-releases of rare and sought-after albums on Metalville.
With ‘Sweetlife’ in 2002, SWEET returned to its old form with the line-up of Andy Scott, Steve Grant, Jeff Brown and Bruce Bisland. The album offers eleven outstanding AOR songs. Highlights include ‘Do It All Over Again’, ‘You’re Crazy’ and ‘Leap Of Faith’.
Long out of print and sought after by many fans, the album is finally back in stores on CD and vinyl.
TRACK LISTING (CD) – SWEETLIFE (out on 12 September)
01 Sweetlife 02 Do It All Over Again 03 Everything 04 Leap Of Faith 05 You’re Crazy 06 Never Say Forever 07 Airheads 08 So Far So Good 09 Everybody Wants To 10 Neon Psychedelia 11 Sweetlife Overunderture 12 Do It All Over Again [Again And Again Mix]
LINE UP Andy Scott – all guitars, backing vocals, lead vocals on 4 and 8 Steve Grant – all keyboards, programming and backing vocals Jeff Brown – bass guitar and lead vocals Bruce Bisland – drums und percussion
‘Live At The Marquee’ was recorded at London’s Marquee Club in February 1986, shortly before the legendary venue closed its doors for good. The SWEET line-up at the time consisted of original members Andy Scott (lead guitar) and Mick Tucker (drums) as well as Paul Mario Day (ex-Iron Maiden) as lead singer, bassist Mal McNulty (Slade) and Phil Lanzon (Uriah Heep) on keyboards. At this concert, the band presented a heavier sound without losing the energy and appeal of the classic hits and anthems.
‘Live At The Marquee’ is a rare gem in SWEET’s catalogue and is now being re-released on CD and Vinyl.
TRACK LISTING – LIVE AT THE MARQUEE (out on 10 October) 01 Action 02 Sweet F.A. 03 Love Is Like Oxygen 04 Restless 05 No You Don’t 06 Guitar Segue 07 Someone Else Will 08 Drum Solo 09 Set Me Free 10 Ballroom Blitz 11 Fox On The Run 12 AC/DC (bonus track) 13 Burn On The Flame (bonus track)
Not every underground icon lives long enough to lord above death metal’s crypt three decades into their career. But Cryptopsy are proving once again why they’re the most vile band of them all. A year after winning their first JUNO Award, the brutal Canadians have graced the cover of Decibel, snatched Metal Injection‘s Artist of the Month honor and cracked the Billboard charts with their critically-acclaimed new album An Insatiable Violence.
Of course, Cryptopsy have been making blasphemy fresh ever since they came writhing and screaming into the world of extreme metal with their instant classic debut. This Friday, the band are reissuing Blasphemy Made Flesh for the first time since signing with Season of Mist. And they’ve added another bloody milestone to commemorate this special occasion.
“For a while now, we have performed a medley of Blasphemy Made Flesh on tour”, Cryptopsy vocalist Matt McGachy says. “But for the album’s 30th anniversary, we wanted to do something really special”.
“Blasphemy Made Fresh” is a new 8-minute medley that sharpens and steels the album’s many surgical hooks and pathological rhythms with a murderer’s row of today’s top death metal vocalists: Ben Deurr (Shadow of Intent), Bridget Lynch (Stabbing), Alexander Sason (Undeath), Johnny Ciardullo (Carcosa) and Mallika Sundaramurthy (Emasculator). This hellacious parade of death growls paves the way for a righteous guitar solo from none other than two-time Grammy winner and mega Cryptopsy fan Billy Strings.
“We are super stoked at how excited each guest was to be part of this unique homage to Cryptopsy’s first classic”, McGachy says. “We are beyond proud of this medley and are so happy that we can now share it with our new and old fans”.
Season of Mist is reissuing Blasphemy Made Flesh this Friday, July 18.
Cryptopsy have been stringing together bits and pieces of their first album into the setlist since they first cracked open The Book of Suffering. “When we cut together this medley, we went straight for the parts that make our blood boil and heads bang”, the band’s guitarist Christian Donaldson says. “If it does that for other people, too, then mission accomplished”.
But the seeds for “Blasphemy Made Fresh” were sown just a few years ago, while McGachy was listening to The Jasta Show. “Jamey had suggested to Terrence Hobbs that Suffocation should invite a bunch of guests to re-record vocals for one of their classic albums”, he remembers. “That inspired me to hit up some killer young extreme metal vocalists to perform on this medley”.
As the first guest to sink his teeth into “Blasphemy Made Fresh”, Alexander Jones is quick to stake his claim. “‘Defenestration’ is a Top 5 all-time metal opening track – argue with a wall”, says the Undeath vocalist, who rips through the merciless “Abigor”. “Cryptopsy is by far one of my all-time favorite death metal bands and hold a special place in my heart due to them being one of the very first that I got into. When Matt asked me if I’d like to contribute to this medley alongside so many other contemporary vocalists I admire, I was floored. It was truly an honor to contribute even a little bit to a celebration of such an incredible, landmark record. I can’t begin to thank the guys enough for this incredible opportunity”.
To help fill the brutal grooves of “Born Headless”, Cryptopsy didn’t have to look any further than their fellow Canadians in Carcosa. “Cryptopsy is sewn into the fabric of my Canadian death metal soul and has been since I was young”, the band’s vocalist Johnny Ciardullo says. “It would be an understatement to say that it’s an honour to have performed on a Cryptopsy song, but I mean it in every sense. I truly cherish the opportunity to celebrate such an important record in Canadian metal history”.
Bridget Lynch nails the riff-lashing of “Swine of the Cross” with demonic gutturals. “I’ve been into brutal death metal since I was a young teenager and Blasphemy Made Flesh was my introduction to Cryptopsy early on”, Stabbing’s vocalist says. “I think Lord Worm is one of the most iconic vocalists in the genre, so I tried my best to do this part justice. I feel really honored to be a part of this”.
While the original is known for its deranged delivery, Mallika Sundaramurthy puts on a vocal clinic during the knuckle-dragging midsection of “Open Face Surgery”. “Blasphemy Made Flesh was such an important album for me as a youth getting into brutal death metal”, the Emasculator vocalist says. “I wouldn’t be the vocalist I am today without Lord Worm and Cryptopsy. So of course I was honored when Matt invited me to participate in a medley honoring the album’s legacy. I’m really stoked to have collaborated with the living legends!”
Bringing together a rabid pack of extreme metal vocalists is memorable feat on its own, but to do the legendary solo on Blasphemy Made Flesh justice required a real twist of fate. Last year, Cryptopsy were getting ready for a show when who should happen to be playing up the road from them that night but one of their most famous fans.
“Cryptopsy is my all-time favorite death metal band”, says William Apostol, who’s better known as Billy Strings. “I was so bummed that I had my own show, because I’ve always dreamed of seeing them live. So I figured that the best thing to do was send the guys a cake that said ‘Open Cake Surgery'”.
After sending someone from his camp down to visit the band’s merch booth, Strings got a video of the guys devouring his gift. “It blew my mind!” he continues. “I was just so happy I could at least pay my respects in the form of frosting and that they didn’t think I was a total weirdo”.
Despite returning to their respected corners of the music world, when Cryptopsy needed a guest guitarist to perform “Open Face Surgery”, they knew just who to ask. “Of course, the answer was a resounding HELL YES!” Strings says. “Blasphemy Made Flesh is one of the best albums ever. That and None So Vile changed my life!”. While he’s used to picking bluegrass, his fretwork on “Blasphemy Made Fresh” is downright filthy. “I was a bit nervous because I hadn’t played heavy music in quite some time, but I got comfy on the track and I’m really pleased with the end result. Contributing to a Cryptopsy track is one of the coolest things I’ve ever done in my life. I’ll always be grateful to the guys for trusting me with this great honor”.
Billy Strings appears on “Blasphemy Made Fresh” courtesy of Reprise Records.
The cover art for “Blasphemy Made Fresh” was created by Remedy Art Design(@remedyartdesign)
Tracklist CD 1 – Blasphemy Made Flesh 1. Defenstration (4:33) 2. Abigor (3:51) 3. Open Face Surgery (4:25) 4. Serial Messiah (4:01) 5. Born Headless (04:29) 6. Swine of the Cross (03:06) 7. Gravaged (A Cryptosy) (02:47) 8. Memories of Blood (03:34) 9. Mutant Christ (04:21) 10. Pathological Frolic (04:35) 11. Blasphemy Made Fresh (08:27) [LISTEN]
CD 2 – Live in Regina ’95 1. Defenestration (06:16) 2. Open Face Surgery (04:17) 3. Memories of Blood (04:17) 4. Graves of the Fathers (04:50) 5. Born Headless (04:49) 6. Serial Messiah (03:48) 7. Mutant Christ (04:43) 8. Benedictine Convulsions (04:43) 9. Gravaged (A Cryptopsy) (02:54) 10. Back to the Worms (04:18)
“An Insatiable Violence” Tracklist 1. The Nimis Adoration (4:10) 2. Until There’s Nothing Left (3:59) [WATCH] 3. Dead Eyes Replete (3:57) [WATCH] 4. Fools Last Acclaim (3:26) 5. The Art of Emptiness (4:16) 6. Our Great Deception (4:21) 7. Embrace the Nihility (3:50) 8. Malicious Needs (5:52) [WATCH]
In the wake of spreading bloodshed all over Europe with Decapitated, Cryptopsy are now fiending to feast on the new cuts from An Insatiable Violence with their ravenous fans across the U.S.
This fall, the band are joining brutal technical death metal pharaohs Nile on a 25-date tour of the East Coast, Midwest and Pacific Northwest. Joining them on this run are The Last Ten Seconds of Life and Cognitive.
“We are so excited to bring An Insatiable Violence to the United States. It’s a pleasure to tour amongst friends and this lineup is incredibly stacked!”, Cryptopsy says. “Our new album was written for a live setting. The songs are more brutal and grooving so that people can really latch on and bang their heads”.
Cryptopsy’s setlist for this tour will pull from the band’s latest albums while mixing in revered classics.
The Underworld Awaits Tour USA 2025 September 12 – Raleigh, NC @ Chapel of Bones [TICKETS] September 13 – Philadelphia, PA @ Underground Arts [TICKETS] September 14 – Leesburg, VA @ Tally Ho [TICKETS] September 16 – Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Monarch [TICKETS] September 17 – Hampton, NH @ Wally’s [TICKETS] September 18 – Hartford, CT @ Webster Hall [TICKETS] September 19 – Lititz, PA @ Mickey’s Black Box [TICKETS] September 20 – Clifton, NJ @ Dingbatz [TICKETS] September 21 – Rochester, NY @ Montage Music Hall [TICKETS] September 22 – Cleveland, OH @ Mercury [TICKETS] September 24 – Detroit, MI @ Sanctuary [TICKETS] September 25 – Hobart, IN @ Hobart Art Theatre [TICKETS] September 26 – Madison, WI @ The Annex [TICKETS] September 27 – Minneapolis, MN @ Studio B Skyway [TICKETS] September 28 – Belvidere, IL @ Apollo Theater [TICKETS] September 29 – Sioux Falls, SD @ Bigs Bar [TICKETS] October 1 – Billings, MT @ Pub Station [TICKETS] October 3 – Seattle, WA @ El Corazon [TICKETS] October 4 – Spokane, WA @ Knitting Factory [TICKETS] October 5 – Boise, ID @ Knitting Factory [TICKETS] October 6 – Salt Lake City, UT @ Urban Lounge [TICKETS] October 7 – Denver, CO @ Oriental Theater [TICKETS] October 9 – Des Moines, IA @ Wooly’s* [TICKETS] October 10 – Chicago, IL @ Reggie’s* [TICKETS] October 11 – Indianapolis, IN @ Hi-Fi Annex* [TICKETS] *Nile, Cryptopsy and Cognitive only
Metalheads who are chomping at the bit for An Insatiable Violence can further their appetite by revisiting Cryptopsy’s hallowed catalogue. Since signing with Season of Mist in 2024, the band have reissued their 1993 demo Ungentle Exhumation, revered debut Blasphemy Made Flesh, the widely-worshiped None So Vile, their triumphant self-titled and The Book of Suffering Tome I + II, which is now available for the first time on one combined LP.
More than 30 years into their storied career, Montreal death metal innovators Cryptopsy return with their ninth studio album, An Insatiable Violence, set for release on June 20, 2025 on Season of Mist.
Revered in extreme metal circles for such groundbreaking classics as 1994’s Blasphemy Made Flesh and the 1996 magnum opus None So Vile, Cryptopsy find yet another gear on An Insatiable Violence, which further solidifies the band’s place in the upper echelon of death metal. Coming out of the pandemic, the band dedicated themselves to staying on top of their game more than ever before, with the intention of consistently putting out a new record every two years. That started with 2023’s acclaimed As Gomorrah Burns, and continues 21 months later with An Insatiable Violence.
“We had to write the majority of An Insatiable Violence while on the Death to All tour, which was something we’d never done before”, vocalist Matt McGachy says. “Flo [Mounier, drums] and Chris [Donaldson, guitar] really put their hats on. It was a feat”.
“Ever since COVID our focus is clearer, a lot of work gets done faster, and we push each other to get it done.”, Mounier says.
In addition to featuring some of the fastest passages Cryptopsy has ever recorded – keen listeners will even hear the odd gravity blast from Mounier, a rarity from the virtuoso drummer – the controlled chaos of their signature sound is offset by well-timed passages that ease off the gas pedal enough to allow listeners to come up for some air. That dynamic rage on An Insatiable Violence in turn makes the more aggressive moments hit even harder, which is immediately noticeable on the harrowing “Until There’s Nothing Left” and the chugging closing track “Malicious Needs”. Olivier Pinard anchors “Fools Last Acclaim” with stunning authority (keeping pace with Mounier is an unenviable task) while Donaldson offsets gnarly, atonal riffs with melodic passages throughout the record. “It’s a continuation of As Gomorrah Burns,” McGachy says, “We really wanted to make a groovy record, and we think we’ve done it.”
It seems as though nothing is scarier than real life right now, and An Insatiable Violence is a commentary on today’s society as though filtered through the transgressive, countercultural perspectives of J.G. Ballard and David Cronenberg.
“It all came to me in a dream in August 2023,” elaborates McGachy. “I woke up, I took my phone, and I wrote down the title of the record. It’s about a person that wakes up every day and fixes a machine. Tinkers with it, tries to make it better all day long, sweating in the sun, and then at night, they strap themself into this machine and the machine tortures them, and they love it. Then they wake up the next day and fix it again to make it more efficient, to keep harnessing it, and then just keep doing it over and over again.
While fantastically twisted, An Insatiable Violence mirrors our toxic relationship with social media. “We’re continuously trying to feed this algorithm of the machine while it’s totally tearing us apart socially and psychologically”, McGachy continues. “’The Nimis Adoration’ is about mukbang, these Korean people that eat too much food on the Internet. Piles and piles of food. A poor girl died on a live cam”.
At the center of the album is the mind-boggling percussion skill of Mounier, arguably the most imposing Canadian drummer not named Peart, who dominates such standout tracks as “Dead Eyes Replete”, “Fools Last Acclaim”, and “Embrace the Nihility”. “I look at Flo as an Olympic athlete,” says McGachy. “I want to push this guy to go a lot faster than Cryptopsy’s previous releases. We have so much more to give, and I wanted just drain it all out of him while he’s still at the top of his game, because he is. He’s crushing.”
“I mix up a lot of a physical activity, like resistance training into the drumming,” Mounier says. “I recently developed new techniques that make it easier to go even faster, so I tried to push that on this album. My focus is now more on dynamics and the touch of the snare, a certain snap of the snare, a rim shot on the snare, the toms, a light touch or a hard touch. Live, I can really let go, you know, give the sound guy a hard time,” he adds with a laugh.
For McGachy, who has always boasted a powerful, guttural death growl, the rigors of touring have enabled him to evolve as a vocalist, and he turns in a revelatory performance on An Insatiable Violence. In addition to ear-scraping screams that rival George “Corpsegrinder” Fisher, McGachy unleashes the deepest, filthiest death growls of his career. “Gomorrah was the first album that I recorded with my full false chord scream, which is something that I’d only just touched on The Book of Suffering: Tome II in little sections,” he says. “We did at least 140 shows since Gomorrah. I exclusively did my false chords during all the songs that we performed on None So Vile and Blasphemy Made Flesh. And then, when we did go into the studio for An Insatiable Violence, Chris would be like, ‘Deeper, you must go deeper!’”
Another fearsome vocalist from Cryptopsy’s lore pops back into the booth on An Insatiable Violence. “When we were recording the vocals for ‘Embrace the Nihility’, Chris had the idea of ending the song with the same vocal pattern as the end of ‘…and Then It Passes’”, McGachy remembers. “We figured if we were going to rip ourselves off, then we may as well get the real thing. We were honored that Mike DiSalvo accepted. We are all huge fans of Cryptopsy’s DiSalvo era. His vocals on this album are an ultra Easter egg for our fans”.
In addition to the effusive praise As Gomorrah Burns received from within the metal scene, the 2023 album achieved a first for Cryptopsy: earning them their first ever JUNO Award in 2024 for Metal/Hard Music Album of the Year. “We had little-to-no expectations of winning” says McGachy. ”We didn’t even go to the ceremonies because we were on tour in Europe with Atheist. On the day we found out that we won, we had a crazy 18-hour drive from Derby to Germany, plus a ferry ride. But we still partied for 48 hours. Flo bought an expensive bottle of champagne”.
Cryptopsy recognize that not every death metal band sticks around long enough to win a Canadian Grammy 30 years into their career. The cover art for An Insatiable Violence was created by the late, great vocalist Martin Lacroix. “The album artwork has got to be one of the most important things to us!”, the band says. “Martin Lacroix was one of our vocalists, one of our great friends and one of the nicest people that anyone could have the privilege to meet. We really wish he was here with us to share this moment. His perfect smile would say it all! Rest in peace brother”.
With Cryptopsy’s latest career renaissance showing no signs of slowing down, the recent accolades are only the beginning. An Insatiable Violence reaches a new peak in a career loaded with them.
Lineup Flo Mounier – Drums Matt McGachy – Vocals Christian Donaldson – Guitar Oli Pinard – Bass
Recording, Mixing & Mastering Studio Christian Donaldson’s Studio
Production, Sound & Mixing Engineer Christian Donaldson
Guest Musicians Mike DiSalvo performs vocals on “Embrace the Nihility”
In loving memory of the late Adam Ramey – the co‑founder, spirit, and powerful voice of DROPOUT KINGS – the band’s newest and most personal album, Yokai, is set to drop digitally on August 8, 2025 via Napalm Records. The album serves as a fitting tribute to a great talent lost too soon.
Hailing from Phoenix, Arizona, DROPOUT KINGS fuse the raw energy of nu‑metal and rap, a synergy Adam helped forge from the very beginning. Just weeks before his tragic passing on May 19, 2025 at age 32, Adam completed the finishing touches on what he considered the band’s most personal and powerful album to date.
Yokai is more than an album – it’s a legacy. Across its tracks, the influence of Adam’s dynamic stage presence and lyrical authenticity resonates profoundly. The album channels the same heart‑pounding aggression and rap‑rock fusion that brought hits like “Virus” to the Billboard Mainstream Rock Charts, but with an added emotional depth that can only come from one final shared chapter.
Napalm Records will release Yokai digitally on August 8, followed by physical versions later in the fall, each designed and curated to honor Adam’s creative vision and unwavering passion. Together with the band, this release isn’t just a farewell – it’s a celebration of everything Adam stood for: creativity, connection, and the raw power of music.
DROPOUT KINGS says about the album: “It’s with an incredible mix of emotion and devotion that we announce the release of our new album, Yokai, on August 8th! However, so much more than just new music, this album is our greatest dedication to the late legend, new father and cherished brother, Adam Ramey. Not just entertainment, but a testimony to the ambition, struggle, pain and indomitable will that has made the Dropout Kings who they are. Not only a journey into the hearts and souls of the band during a time of their greatest loss as well as the experience of Trap Metal’s evolution, but the soundtrack to the realization of dreams and the defeat of nightmares across the world. We ask that you to listen, enjoy and join us in the mission of not just uplifting and remembering the spirit of one of the best men we’ll ever know, but in creating a better world so that those like you, him and us can LIVE better and with brighter futures ahead.”
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