November 21st sees the release of “Rebirthless”, the new and 13th studio album from German thrash metal pioneers ACCUSER.
9 songs of top-class, merciless thrash await you. The band itself says that “Rebirthless” has become exactly what the band envisioned: A powerful and thoughtful album that perfectly realizes their musical vision while containing everything that has always defined the band: powerful melodies, aggressive rhythms and profound lyrics that captivate listeners and make them think. The complete tracklist you can find below. As a first taste, the title track is now available as a lyric video on Youtube and single on common plattforms. The album will be released on CD and LP. Check it out!
tracklist 01 Violent Vanity 02 Ghost Of Disease 03 Rebirthless 04 Painted Cruelty 05 Faded Remorse 06 When Desperation Scorns 07 Fear Denied 08 Spiritual Recipients 09 Damned By The Flood
Neumatic Parlo, the dynamic five-piece band hailing from Düsseldorf, has just released their debut album play it as it lays on Unique Records, marking a significant milestone in their sonic journey. The band presents an eclectic and emotionally charged album inspired by the themes of urban disillusionment and lost ambition found in Joan Didion’s novel of the same name.
Founded in 2017, Neumatic Parlo—consisting of Vincent Göttler (vocals, guitar), Luis Wedekind (keys), Justin Janßen (drums), Jasper van den Hövel (bass), and Simon Hartmann (guitar)—initially built their reputation through small shows and underground festivals, gradually breaking into the local Düsseldorf music scene. They honed their sound by drawing on influences like Tame Impala, Radiohead, and Neu!, crafting a modern interpretation of krautrock, garage, and psychedelic rock.
Their new album play it as it lays represents a culmination of the band’s evolution, incorporating punk and post-punk elements that echo the gritty, industrial roots of Düsseldorf’s musical history. The album promises a captivating mix of 90s-inspired guitar riffs, reflective lyrics, and atmospheric production, appealing to fans of contemporary UK bands, like Shame, Squid and Dry Cleaning. Yet, Neumatic Parlo’s sound remains uniquely their own, pushing the boundaries of genre and creating a fresh, urgent style.
Recorded in September 2023 with producer Antony Fitzharris, the album immerses listeners in a world of concrete jungles, urban loneliness, and disillusioned dreams. Songs like “(feed me) shallow kiss” deliver poignant reflections on city life, while the album’s ten tracks create a sonic landscape filled with energetic riffs, feedback loops, and intense emotional swells.
The band has already garnered significant attention through past EPs All Purpose Slicer and Random Toaster, with singles featured on playlists like Spotify’s “Fresh Finds: Rock” and radio shows such as Simon LeBon’s SiriusXM program.
As they prepare for a nationwide promotional tour in late 2024, Neumatic Parlo is also beginning work on their second album, solidifying their place as one of Germany’s most promising emerging bands.
Super Glue Anxiety is a new Finnish band that performs experimental alternative rock. The music combines different genres such as ska / funk / metal / punk.
Raiding England is loosely based on historical events and Viking attacks on the English coast long ago. The song has furious punk rock sections and verses are also influenced by folk punk. At the end, we move on to the cheerful tunes until the scary Viking horns ends the song.
The band started from Kraapo’s interest in such bands as Mr. Bungle and Madness. Guitarist Räikkönen, on the other hand, is a fan of ska punk bands, so he wanted to join. Both singer Juha Kraapo and guitarist Sami Räikkönen are also known from the band Black Dreams, which plays melancholic metal.
Veteran Midwest metallists Conquest returned with their latest album, ‘Paradox,’ on April 19th, and have just unleashed their latest single and video from it, “Devils Creed.” Additionally, the band has announced several upcoming performances: October 26th at This N That in Vandalia Illinois, December 7th at Pops Country Club in Sauget, Illinois, and December 21st at Diamond Music Hall in St Peters, Missouri.
The “Devils Creed video can be viewed below.
“Very cool track about always being haunted in the mine as someone running from the devil, with a strong aggressive rhythm section breakdown,” says the band about their latest single/video. “The opening track on the ‘Paradox’ record, it has super strong drums and great guitar leads, aggressive bass playing and strong aggressive vocals. Old school meets modern metal!”
‘Paradox’ is available as two vinyl records or a single CD (plus available on all streaming services), the album continues in the same direction as their previous studio offerings, as evidenced by such standout tracks as “Walking Dead” and “The Writings on the Wall” (both of which have already been issued as music videos), as well as a cover of the Rainbow classic, “Man on the Silver Mountain.”
To view Conquest’s earlier videos, click on these links:
Comprised of Brumley, Mike Crook: Vocals and Guitar, Rob Boyer: Vocals and Bass, and Lee Skyles: Vocals and Drums, ‘Paradox’ was also produced and engineered by Derrick (and mixed by Adam Long), the band’s latest album is getting rave reviews via metal media, including the Rock You Show site saying “I have to give this one 9.5 out of 10 “Flaming Fist”. You nearly get 2 albums worth of great quality music, including a stellar cover of Rainbow’s “Man on the Silver Mountain”. I thank them personally for keeping the Metal torch lit in these times of darkness”.
Having already shard concert stages with the likes of Slayer, Rob Halford, Testament, Iron Maiden, and Yngwie Malmsteen, the band can certainly deliver the goods on stage. And fans will get a chance to experience Conquest live on stage on the upcoming October 26th, December 7th, and December 21stperformances.
Paradox Tracklisting:
1. Of The Devil’s Creed 2. Walking Dead 3. Save Me 4. He Shall Return 5. Celtic Mist 6. Love Amplified 7. Valley Of The Damned 8. Dying To Live 9. World Of Hate 10. Writing On The Wall 11. King Of The World 12. In The Heavens 13. Babylon America 14. The Killing Time 15. Last Goodbye 16. Man On The Silver Mountain
West Coast based glam, punk ‘n’ rollers PROPHETS OF ADDICTION have released their new album “Face the Music” through BraveWords Records. Lead singer Lesli Sanders on the early response to the album and first single, “So far the reviews have been very positive and have really focused in on and taken notice of the lyric writing. Something I take great pride in as I feel it is a dying art.”
Since the band released their first single Superhero, the praise for the band has been incredible!
“Prophets Of Addiction is a modern day Hanoi Rocks meets The 69 Eyes with plenty of Pop hooks and Whisky drenched vocals.” – Metal Sludge
“These Lads have an American Smash hit in their laps… I’ve always enjoyed Lesli’s songwriting he’s truly a expressive spirit.” – J.B. Frank, Kingdom Come
“So if, like me, you are a huge fan of the Dogs D’Amour / Erotics / Quireboys style of sleazy story-telling, then you will find this fine selection of songs from the underbelly of life, absolutely essential.” – Sleaze Roxx
“Pound-for-pound, front-to-back, it contains more high quality riffage in one space.” – Sentinel Daily
“It’s 70s glam/punk music with a modern spin, both production-wise and talent-wise, raw guitars, bouncing rhythms and lyrics that often actually mean something.” – Rough Edge
“A record that will appeal to many guitar rock purists.” – Mayhem Rockstar Magazine
Face the Music track listing: 1 – Flavor of the Danger 2 – Let’s Get High 3 – Slippin’ Away 4 – Walk the World 5 – Maggie May 6 – Superhero 7 – I Want You to Know 8 – Hollywood 9 – Wasted Tears 10 – Last One in the Bar 11 – Take Me to Your Leader
THE PLAYERS Lesli Sanders: Lead Vocals, Guitars Phil Soussan: Bass, Piano, Mandolin,Percussion, Backing Vocals Wayne Stokely: Drums,Backing Vocals Tchad Drats: Guitar, Ebow, Backing Vocals G.G. Guitar, Backing Vocals Terry Bratsch, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Steel, Backing Vocals
WRISTMEETRAZOR has today shared a new music video for DogdayGod, taken from their new album, Degeneration. DogdayGod‘s video was directed by the band themselves and Joshua Boerum-Ruh, the video arrives following extensive fall US touring in support of Vended and ahead of WRISTMEETRAZOR‘s recently announced debut UK shows – full details below.
Of the music video, WRISTMEETRAZOR‘s Justin Fornof (vocals) comments: “This song and music video are the ultimate representation of Degeneration as a record. Conceptually and musically it feels like the climax of the record, so we felt the music video needed to fit that. Our friends at 8498 did a great job filming and helping direct.”
Following the release of their 2021 sophomore effort, Replica of a Strange Love, the WRISTMEETRAZOR line-up went through of metamorphosis with Justin Fornof abdicating his role on bass in favour of lead vocals – bringing Userelaine (bass) and Nate Billmyer (guitar) to the fold in the process. Extensive North American touring soon followed with stints on the road among the likes of Seeyouspacecowboy, Traitors, Eighteen Visions and festival appearances at Furnace Fest and Code Orange’s Code World, respectively.
Having solidified and fine-tuned the strengths of their latest incarnation onstage, the newly upgraded quintet found themselves with a renewed focus leading into Degeneration’s gestation period. During this moment of rare quiet WRISTMEETRAZOR sought the production, engineering, mixing and mastering skills of Randy Lebeouf (The Acacia Strain, Dying Wish, Kublai Khan). Ushering themselves into near total isolation in the woods of New Jersey, the writing and recording process for Degeneration was one of acute solitude, only leaving the studio’s cabin three times during the 30 day lock-in between almost non-stop 12 hour recording sessions.
Degeneration’s backdrop of self-imposed seclusion bore fruit as the album’s lyrical focus began to develop. Whilst there are still traces of WRISTMEETRAZOR’s established world of Nietzchian philosophy and twisted romanticism, Fornof found himself gravitating towards themes of misanthropy, apoplexy, and moral, political and religious hypocrisy within society. With WRISTMEETRAZOR’s ire pointed outwards rather than inwards, societal degeneration is explored through allegorical tales of mechanical decline and system failure that pull together to reveal a larger picture of the band’s disdain for humankind’s more repulsive traits.
Songs such as Turn On, Tune In, Drop Dead, DogdayGod and The Greatest Love Offering in the History of the World reference intentional exits from society and sordid real life stories of assassination, against deftly woven industrial and EBM influences with groove based nu-metal flourishes at the fore. Degeneration’s post-apocalyptic production values lend a cold and methodically calculated quality to WRISTMEETRAZOR’s new skin, without losing the visceral core of their identity.
Seeking to ensure a fully realised aesthetic to represent the absurdity of seeking justice in an unjust world, the cover was put together by Philadelphia, PA visual artist Alex Eckman-Lawn (END, Dim Mak, Woe). Merging what was once flesh with machine and technology, Degeneration’s visual presentation is a towering counterpart to WRISTMEETRAZOR’s bleakest album to date.
Upcoming WRISTMEETRAZOR tour dates: UK Degeneration tour ^ w/ Long Goodbye *w/ Divine Hatred
Degeneration tracklist: 1. Turn On, Tune In, Drop Dead 2. Static Reckoning 3. Trepanation 4. Xeroxed Reflection 5. DogdayGod 6. Love Thy Enmity 7. Culled and Forgotten 8. Synthetic-51n 9. No Ceremony 10. The Vanity Procession 11. Negative Fix 12. Greatest Love Offering in the History of the World
Kimmo Kuusniemi’s ASA unveil the long-overdue release of "Collective Failure" + first music video for title-track! Check it out and stay tuned for more news! Click image to watch the video
Kimmo Kuusniemi’s SARCOFAGUS return with a Historic 2010 Concert Video Premiere on YouTube! Click image to watch the video
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