The organizers are opening up even more to new musical genres. The venue of the event is of course the unique and amazing space of Stara Kopalnia in Wałbrzych. The Stara Kopalnia Science and Art Center in Wałbrzych is the largest post-industrial tourist attraction in Poland, located on the site of a former mine. Between the mining machines on the festival grounds there will be a zone with food trucks and cold beer, stands with merchandise from the performers and a camping site.
Set to unleash their sophomore album “Book II: The Valley of Vâgené” on September 27th, 2024 from Rockshots Records, fantasy power metal𝐖𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐨𝐜𝐊 𝐀.𝐃. is sharing their latest lyric video for their next single “Rothgar Warsong”. Heavily inspired by the music of bands such as Turisas and Feuerschwanz, this track tells of the capture of the party by a tribe of ravenous Half-orcs led by the titular Rothgar Warsong (Played by Scot Evans). When a Trial by Combat demanded by Whiteacre goes wrong, the intensity of the track ramps up as The Human Resistance of Brittanni swoops in to save the day.
Over two years in the making, this entry into the WarlocK A.D. saga is bigger, thicker, and more powerful than anything they have brought you before! The album is 12 tracks of interwoven musical storytelling implementing the use of motifs, themes, and callbacks. From the sweeping orchestral movements of “The Golden Showers of Prestønia” to the frantic folk metal flavorings of “Rothgar Warsong”, the album combines the sound and styles of various iterations of orchestra-led melodic metal – culminating in what feels like a fully-fledged D&D style epic told through the medium of a Heavy Metal Musical. Recommended for fans of Nanowar of Steel, Angus McSix, and Beast in Black.
“Set directly after the events of “Book I: The Reserrection”, the album begins with Whiteacre The Mighty Warlock stranded in A Strange New World – powerless and alone. With the help of the Elven Prince Quinn Eilianther, Horatus the Mushroom Wizard and Ahriman Cullblade the Shadow assassin, Whiteacre the Nomad begins the long quest to The Valley of Vâgené – said to be the home of a gateway to the vast infinite multiverse. Danger awaits the brave heroes however, for Brittanni is ruled by the tyrannical Dwarf Emperor Thorumm III who seeks The Valley for his own nefarious purposes. The prophesized coming of a stranger to the land of Brittanni has awakened the gateway – and the race to the multiverse has begun… The land of Brittanni holds many secrets, and not everything is as it seems… The quest to The Valley of Vâgené begins NOW!” adds the band.
Track Listing: 1. A Strange New World (That is not My Own) 2. The Valley of Vâgené 3. Nanum Imperium 4. The Golden Showers of Prestønia 5. By the Path of the Exiled 6. Rothgar Warsong 7. As One, We Stand! 8. Ancient Dragon of Storms Flüffir Mighty Guardian of Valley (Techno Wyrmhole) 9. The Sacred Spears of Brittanni 10. Stormbreather 11. The Sword of Cühm 12. The Rising Flames of the Eternal Golden Empire Rise
Band Members: Cal Whittaker (As Whiteacre the Nomad) – Lead Vocals, Orchestral Composition/Programming Michael Farmer (As Quinn Eilianther the Elven Prince) – Vocals, Bass Guitars John Smith (As Horatus the Mushroom Wizard) – Backing Harsh Vocals, Guitars Dan Cole (As Ahriman Cullblade the Shadow Assassin) – Programming, Guitars Emperor Thorumm III – Phantom Drums Additional Artists/voice cast: Klara Wiliams – Æliána the Eternal (narrator) Scot Evans – Rothgar Warsong AND Björnulfr the Beast-Slayer (voice) Dani Bentham – Uriña the Siren (Voice and Singing) Jade Marris – The Heavy Metal Battle Wench (Voice and singing) Anna Rose – The Goddess Vâgené (Voice) Credits: Artwork by Ryvene James Dela Cruz Band Photography/Videography by Hannah Price Production by Cal Whittaker
Prepare to be shattered! Female-fronted rock force OUR NOISE explodes onto the scene with their ferocious new single “Break You,” one of the heaviest hitters from their self-titled debut album, out now via Epictronic.
“Break You” throws you into a heart-pounding soundscape, grappling with the electrifying pull of desire and the crippling grip of self-destruction. The song lays bare the raw emotions of wanting something you know is bad for you, leading you down a path of both exhilarating highs and soul-crushing lows.
“Break You” is available on all digital platforms here.
Emerging from the vibrant streets of Toronto and resonating through the bustling avenues of New York City, this indie-rock power trio presents as a force to be reckoned with. Their unique sound is an electrifying sonic, guitar-based blend of post-hardcore/punk, and heavy rock/grunge, with undertones of old-school funk bass grooves and 90s college rock.
The band has been compared to an array of artists and genres including Queens of the Stone Age, Quicksand, Nirvana, PJ Harvey, Cage the Elephant, the Clash, Tool, Weezer, and Refused. The undeniable chemistry of its core members is a true triad of collaboration. At the helm is the dynamic Lucy Di Santo, wielding her vocals and bass guitar with unmatched prowess; she’s flanked by the rhythmical brilliance of Dan Cornelius on drums and the melodic artistry of Steve Fall on guitars. ON’s pedigree includes the popular 90’s Sire/Warner recording act ACID TEST and Bad Taste Records’ DANKO JONES.
OUR NOISE (aka ‘ON’) self-titled debut album is now available through Epictronic Records.
Our Noise is preparing for an extensive mid-October tour of the UK (England, Scotland, and Ireland) and select regional Eastern US and Canada in November.
September 27, 2024 will see South Africa’s megalithic Ruff Majik release their brand new studio offering, entitled Moth Eater via SOL Records, the label imprint run by Sound Of Liberation (Desertfest Berlin, Keep It Low, Up In Smoke etc. and booking agency for numerous, high-class artists of the stoner, psych, rock and doom metal / sludge scene). Visit the SOL Records Shop at: https://shop.soundofliberation.com
Following previously-released singles such as “What A Time To Be A Knife”, today, Ruff Majik have unleashed a video clip for the song “Cult Eyes”, featuring a guest vocal performance of GREENLEAF frontman Arvid Hällagård! Get the song, out now on all digital streaming providers, at: https://orcd.co/culteyes
“The lyrics for Cult Eyes came about when we became aware of the fact that we had inadvertently started an actual cult based around our music (Yes, the cult is VERY real. No, we won’t tell you where it is or how it started).”The band comments.
“It’s mostly about nonchalantly accepting the role as a cult figure, and then realizing the weight and impact your actions have on your followers, and specifically having to be accountable for those actions. Of course the protagonist in the song doesn’t want to accept any of his own mistakes or take control of anything, just like cult leaders usually don’t, and this selfishness results in death and ruin. It can also be interpreted as an allegory for the modern state of politics and social media influence, where cult leaders spew out nonsense with no accountability.
ArvidHällagård of Greenleaf tracked vocal harmonies for the song back in 2021, but due to an unfortunate sabotage, the original track was lost to the ether. When Greenleaf and Ruff Majik played together in 2023, the bands got to talking, and Tommi Holappa brought up the fact that Greenleaf listens to a lot of Ruff Majik in the tour van. Arvid and Johni spoke about the sadly lost song, and the decision was made to redo it. It’s a bit of a “what the fuck?” moment for us, since we’ve idolized Greenleaf for years – and Johni even tried to hoodwink them into touring with us before anyone ever heard about us. So, a full circle moment indeed.”
Kicking the vibe back to a sepia-toned era where bell-bottoms and fuzzed-out bass were de rigueur, the ‘Majik lads take a well-known template and drench it with their unique attitude and stoner-esque sensibilities. The horned infant known as Ruff Majik emerged from the primordial ooze when the band moved from the historical town of Lydenburg in 2012 to the capital city of Pretoria, where they honed their craft for a few years before finally entering the studio to record for the first time. In 2024 and while they are currently gearing up for the September-release of their Moth Eater on Sound Of Liberation Records, Ruff Majik released a number of EP’s and three lauded albums to date, not to mention the megaton of local and international touring (watch out for new tour dates, to be announced for October 2024 soon)!
All the requisite ‘Majik trope boxes are ticked in thick, bold permanent marker – sludgy, distorted riffs, vast landscapes of sonic abandon, dark imagery that perfectly complements the delicious cacophony, and tasty sound bites that add infinite swathes of colour. This is what is expected from the band, their signature sound and one that never fails.
Album Tracklist:
What A Time To Be A Knife
Dirt And Deer Blood
By The Hammer
We’re Not Out Of The Swamp Yet
Battering Lamb
Cult Eyes
Baby’s First Guillotine
Ingozi
Wasted Youth
Moth Eater
Ruff Majik are: Johni Holiday (vocals & guitar) Cowboy Bez (guitar & vocals) Jimmy Glass (bass) Steven Bosman (drums)
August 23, 2024 sees delving, the instrumental psych-kraut-prog-rock project headed by Nicholas DiSalvo (best known as frontman of Elder), release its forthcoming, hotly-anticipated studio album“All Paths Diverge”. delving‘s sophomore full-length offering will be comingas two Vinyl editionsvia Stickman Records (EU) and Blues Funeral Recordings (US); find EU pre-orders HERE, and US pre-orders HERE!
Following the previously-released, first album appetizer “Zodiak”, today, delving is presenting a new track taken from “All Paths Diverge”! About “Omnipresence”, DiSalvo reveals:
“Omnipresence is a song I worked on sporadically over a few years, as opposed to others on the album which took shape spontaneously. It encapsulates as with any good delving track a myriad of seemingly incompatible elements and tries to meld them together: dreamy Mellotron sounds, driving synths, fuzz guitars, dubbed-out drums, a harpsichord? – elements that only over time can be subtly fused together to make a cohesive and coherent rock track. It’s a hazy and peaceful song to bliss out to and forget the world around you.”
delving‘s much-acclaimed debut album “Hirschbrunnen” (released in 2021 via Stickman Records), was recorded in the pandemic years where touring was brought to a grinding halt, allowing time to finally pick up song fragments and ideas collected over years and coalesce them into an album. Positive reception led to the foundation of a live band, which has crystalized in the lineup of Nicholas DiSalvo, guitarist Michael Risberg (Elder, Weite), bassist Ingwer Boysen (Weite, High Fighter) and Uno Bruniusson (Maggot Heart, ex-Death Alley).
After a decade and a half as frontman of the seminal progressive psychedelic quartet Elder, DiSalvo founded delving as a secondary outlet to express musical ideas that didn’t fit in the paradigm of his main band. Exploring instrumental music with a heavy focus on psychedelic rock, krautrock, early electronic music as well as ambient sounds, delving still showcases the evocative melodies and unique songwriting which are his trademarks.
“All Paths Diverge” was composed – unlike its pandemic predecessor – in between time on tour and in studio with Elder. Culled once more from an ever-expanding songbook of ideas, the album’s seven lengthy tracks are a snapshot of DiSalvo’s current musical interests and love of sound exploration and remain evasive of genre confines. Intended as a subtle rebuff of the old adage “all roads lead to Rome”, the album title “All Paths Diverge” asserts that change is inevitable and nothing set in stone.
As DiSalvo recently said: “While looking back on the songs I wrote for this record over the past years, I was struck by how much has changed in my life and in the world since the first delving album came about in the height of the pandemic. This music is for me nostalgic and every part in each song brings back a memory of where I was at when writing it. I think it’s a very diverse album and that in itself a reflection of the fact that we’re all in flux, and that that’s a beautiful thing.”
[Artwork by Benjamin Butter]
Tracklist:
Sentinel
Omnipresence
Chain Of Mind
New Meridian
Zodiak
The Ascetic
Vanish With Grace
While delving is in essence a solo studio project from multi-instrumentalist DiSalvo, his music takes flight in rare live performances thanks to the stellar live band. In support of the upcoming record release, delving have announced a series of live dates for the fall and winter of 2024, including a much-awaited appearance at Desertfest Antwerp. Joining delving on tour are the equally genre-bending psychedelic beast of Iron Jinn from Amsterdam; find all dates listed below!
European Tour with Iron Jinn 20.11.2024 Hamburg (DE), Hafenklang 21.11.2024 Leuven (BE), SoJo 23.11.2024 London (UK), Oslo 24.11.2024 Brighton (UK), Green Door Store 25.11.2024 Paris (FR), La Boule Noire 26.11.2024 Nijmegen (NL), Doornroosje 27.11.2024 Bochum (DE), Die Trompete 28.11.2024 Siegen (DE), Vortex Surfer 29.11.2024 Leipzig (DE), Noel’s Ballroom 30.11.2024 Berlin (DE), Neue Zukunft 01.12.2024 Warsaw (PL), Voodoo 03.12.2024 Brno (CZ), Kabinet MUZ 04.12.2024 Vienna (AT), Arena 05.12.2024 Innsbruck (AT), PMK 06.12.2024 Munich (DE), Feierwerk
As of August 2024,FINGER ELEVENhave officially crossed 1 billionoverall career streams, averaging 5 million streams per week and therefore securing their status as one of the best-selling Canadian bands of all time.
To celebrate, FINGER ELEVEN have released a brand-new single “Adrenaline,” available today (August 2) digitally. Stream/download it now HERE. Both hard-hitting and musically adventurous, the anthemic track about the thrill of being alive is the first sample of material from the band’s upcoming 2025 album and debut release following their signing to Better Noise Music. The music video for “Adrenaline” will be released later this month on August 23.
“Sonically, I think ‘Adrenaline’ showcases a different side of the band,” says lead vocalist Scott Anderson. “There’s an exciting pulse in the music and I wanted the lyrics to keep up with that same energetic level. The song makes me want to go out and try something wild, or at the very least: turn it up real loud.”
FINGER ELEVEN are currently on tour across North America as direct support to rock icons Creed on their “Summer of ‘99” tour which features additional interchanging support from Three Doors Down, Daughtry, Switchfoot, Tonic,and Big Wreck. The band—Scott Anderson (vocals), James Black (lead guitar, backing vocals), Rick Jackett (rhythm guitar), Sean Anderson (bass), and Steve Molella (drums)—will make a stop at Louder Than Life festival during the jaunt and will also appear as direct support to Creed back in Canada for two arena shows in November. See dates below. Tickets are on sale now at http://fingereleven.com/.
FINGER ELEVEN Tour Dates 8/3 Burgettstown, PA – The Pavilion at Star Lake % 8/6 Bridgeport, CT – Hartford HealthCare Amphitheater * 8/7 Holmdel, NJ – PNC Bank Arts Center % 8/9 St. Louis, MO – Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre % 8/10 Indianapolis, IN – Ruoff Music Center % 8/13 Nashville, TN – Ascend Amphitheater * 8/14 Pelham, AL – Oak Mountain Amphitheatre % 8/16 Tinley Park, IL – Credit Union 1 Amphitheatre % 8/17 Welch, MN – Treasure Island Amphitheater % 8/20 Gilford, NH – BankNH Pavilion * 8/21 Boston, MA – Xfinity Center % 8/23 Hershey, PA – Hersheypark Stadium % 8/24 Saratoga Springs, NY – Broadview Stage at SPAC % 8/31 San Bernardino, CA – Summer of ’99 And Beyond Festival % 9/1 Wheatland, CA – Toyota Amphitheatre % 9/4 Phoenix, AZ – Talking Stick Resort Amphitheatre % 9/6 Salt Lake City, UT – USANA Amphitheatre % 9/7 Denver, CO – Fiddler’s Green Amphitheatre % 9/10 Rogers, AR – Walmart AMP ^^ 9/11 Dallas, TX – Dos Equis Pavilion % 9/13 San Antonio, TX – Frost Bank Center % 9/14 Houston, TX – The Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion presented by Huntsman % 9/16 Brandon, MS – Brandon Amphitheater ^^ 9/18 Raleigh, NC – Coastal Credit Union Music Park at Walnut Creek % 9/20 Tampa, FL – MIDFLORIDA Credit Union Amphitheatre at FL State Fairgrounds % 9/21 West Palm Beach, FL – iTHINK Financial Amphitheatre % 9/24 Jacksonville, FL – Daily’s Place * 9/25 Alpharetta, GA – Ameris Bank Amphitheatre % 9/26 Louisville, KY – Louder Than Life Festival 9/27 Darien Lake, NY – Darien Lake Amphitheater % 9/28 Atlantic City, NJ – Hard Rock Live at Etess Arena % 11/25 Montreal, QC – Bell Centre ~ 11/27 Toronto, ON – Scotiabank Arena ~
^with Creed and Switchfoot ~with Creed %with Creed and Three Doors Down #with Creed and Big Wreck *with Creed and Tonic ^^with Daughtry
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
