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DISFIGURING THE GODDESS Release New Single ‘Kiss The Dice’ with Official Music Video

Posted by tarjavirmakari on July 4, 2026
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Disfiguring the Goddess unveil their powerful new single ‘Kiss The Dice’, the third track to be released from the forthcoming album Bloom, due out 31st July via Seek & Strike. Written as the final piece of the album, the track brings together the many sonic threads that define Bloom, fusing gut-punching, pit-ready riffs with bouncy, hard-hitting rhythms, an infectious, expansive chorus and subtle dance-infused textures. Lyrically, ‘Kiss The Dice’ captures the intoxicating highs and quiet despair of an all-night gamble through Reno, Nevada, balancing swagger and self-assurance with an undercurrent of loss and longing. It’s a song where sin, chance and self-awareness collide, offering one of the album’s most dynamic and emotionally layered moments while remaining unmistakably Disfiguring the Goddess.

Pre-save Bloom here: https://orcd.co/dtgbloom

Commenting on the single, vocalist Argon states: “’Kiss the Dice’ was actually the last song I wrote for the album, and it became a way to pull together a lot of the different directions and influences that shaped this record. Lyrically, it is about an all-nighter in Reno, Nevada, with a bit of Lady Luck woven into it. On the surface, the song can feel confident and fun, but underneath that there is something sadder and more lost. It carries the feeling of knowing your truth while still being intoxicated by the sin-driven atmosphere of a city like Reno. Musically, it moves back and forth between gut-punching, pit-driven guitar sections and a simpler, more open chorus. The drums stay bouncy and punchy throughout, and there is a subtle dance-oriented thread running through the song until the very end, where some of the buried melodic emotion finally comes to life through the synth arrangements.”

Disfiguring the Goddess has never chased trends or waited for permission. For nearly two decades, Cameron Argon (aka Big Chocolate) has built the project entirely on his own terms, writing, producing, programming and shaping every aspect of its evolution. What began as an uncompromising creative outlet has grown into one of extreme music’s most distinctive independent success stories, cultivating a fiercely loyal global following through innovation, consistency and a refusal to conform.

Partnering with Seek & Strike doesn’t redefine Disfiguring the Goddess, it amplifies it. For the first time, the project has the infrastructure to match the scale of Argon‘s vision, extending its reach while preserving the complete creative freedom that has always defined it.

That philosophy is woven through every second of Bloom. The album captures years of artistic growth distilled into its most focused and fully realised form yet: crushingly heavy, emotionally expansive and fearless in its willingness to blur the boundaries between slam, deathcore, industrial textures and unexpected melody.

As Argon explains: “Bloom is an album about accumulation, cultivation, and execution. There are a lot of themes running through it, both personal and sonic, but when I step back and look at the bigger picture, it symbolizes nurturing the seed of DTG until it finally blossoms. It is the beginning of a new chapter and the closing of an old one.”

With Bloom, Disfiguring the Goddess isn’t reinventing itself, it is becoming exactly what it was always meant to be. Bigger in scope, sharper in execution and more uncompromising than ever, it marks the arrival of a project that has spent years evolving in the shadows and is now impossible to ignore.

Check out previous singles ‘Low Slam Low’ here and ‘AWOL’ here. 

Track-list:

  1. Samba of the Faceless
  2. Echoes Fade, I Remain
  3. Deathcore Song
  4. AWOL
  5. Mask Off (feat J Figure)
  6. Sweet Dreams (feat Four Stroke Baron)
  7. Low Slam Low
  8. Goddess Box (feat  Bodybox)
  9. Deep Sway
  10. Permission to be Claimed
  11. Kiss the Dice
  12. Black Widow Spider
  13. Dapper (feat Four Stroke Baron)
  14. Pleasure Island
  15. Old Man’s Bones
  16. Lose the Head
  17. Penance

For more:
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PLAYGROUNDED Announce New Album “A Flower to Water” + Share New Video Single ‘Snow’

Posted by tarjavirmakari on July 4, 2026
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Photo Credit: Ash Winter-Sim

Multinational progressive metal / electronic band Playgrounded will release their new record A Flower to Water on 18th September via celebrated label Pelagic Records.

Stream and pre-order here: https://orcd.co/playgrounded

Playgrounded choose the heart of summer to release ‘Snow’, the prog metal quintet’s most intimate composition to date. Themes of loss and longing, a dreamy beat in 15/16, experimental modular synthesis and lush analogue basslines set the stage for a fragile vocal hanging delicately on chilling harmonies. ‘Snow’ unravels Playgrounded‘s electronic introspective core stripped of the heavy distorted tones that usually adorn it. A token of contemporary songwriting that transcends styles and aims for the heart.

The band comment: “We slightly lift the veil to uncover the themes of A Flower to Water in black and white. We speak of grief as a process, its marks on time, the anticipation of the new.

“So… we let it go, inside the snow, today.”

Playgrounded are a progressive post-metal band based in the Netherlands and Greece. Alternative metal and contemporary electronic elements form a genre-defying sound, comparable to artists as diverse as Deftones, Massive Attack, Karnivool, and The Ocean.

A band together for over a decade, Playgrounded have in their time supported Riverside, Anathema, and Nine Inch Nails. Their 2022 record The death of Death (Pelagic Records) was globally lauded, with praise from Prog, Eclipsed, Metal Injection, Metal Hammer Germany and more.

Following its release the band presented the album to packed venues in their home countries and embarked on a 36 date UK/EU tour with The Ocean and LLNN, and then festival performances at ArcTanGent, Euroblast, RADAR, and more. 

A Flower to Water is Playgrounded’s third full-length offering and sees the band thriving in their creative relationship with Pelagic Records. Recorded and produced by the band across multiple studios back home in Athens, Playgrounded enlisted the help of longtime collaborators C. Cederberg (Leprous, Anathema) who mixed the album at Cederberg Studios in Kristiansand, Norway and George Tanderø (Madrugada, Satyricon, Jaga Jazzist) who mastered it in Oslo.

An ever sharper refinement of the quintet’s inimitable process, which sees the band build splinters of noise into huge, sprawling soundscapes inspired in part by the work of experimental sound artists like German composer Orson Hentschel; A Flower to Water welcomes the emotional and physical toll of loss into the melee.

Tracklisting:

1. A Flower…
2. Counting Embers
3. Someone
4. Snow
5. Of Air and Metals
6. … to Water

Playgrounded online: 
https://www.instagram.com/playgroundedofficial
https://www.facebook.com/playgrounded
https://playgrounded.net

TRUTH & ITS BURDEN Return with Triumphant New Single ‘Live For Today’

Posted by tarjavirmakari on July 4, 2026
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After several years away from releasing new music, South African melodic hardcore veterans Truth & Its Burden make a powerful return with their brand-new single, Live For Today, out now via Mongrel Records. The track is a fast-paced, uplifting anthem that reaffirms everything the band has stood for since first emerging in 2007.
 
For nearly two decades, Truth & Its Burden have built a reputation for combining relentless energy with heartfelt melody, earning a devoted following through their passionate live performances and uncompromising approach to melodic hardcore. With influences that will resonate with fans of Stick To Your Guns, The Ghost Inside, Ignite, No Bragging Rights, Comeback Kid and To The Wind, the band’s latest release is both a reminder of their roots and a bold statement of intent for the future.
 
At its core, Live For Today is built around the philosophy that has driven the band from the very beginning: seize the day. Having started from humble beginnings while always chasing bigger dreams, Truth & Its Burden have consistently pushed themselves beyond their comfort zones, embracing every opportunity life has offered. That spirit is captured in every second of the new single, delivering high-velocity riffs, soaring melodies and an infectious sense of optimism.
 
Vocalist Ashley De Beer says the song marks an important new chapter for the band.
 
“It’s been a truly rewarding process working on new music again, considering our last new release was back in 2019. Live For Today confidently conveys what our band stands for, and also carries a new sense of purpose and hope for the future. Clearly, we’re not done yet.”

Buy and stream the single: https://orcd.co/live_for_today

The single not only celebrates the band’s enduring message of living life to its fullest but also signals that Truth & Its Burden are entering an exciting new era. While many bands fade with time, Live For Today proves that the fire still burns brightly, delivering the same passion and melodic intensity that fans have come to love, while looking confidently toward what’s next.
 
With Live For Today, Truth & Its Burden remind listeners that every day is an opportunity to move forward, chase dreams and embrace the present, because tomorrow is never guaranteed.

More info: https://www.facebook.com/truthanditsburden

BLOOD WHITE Release New Single And Video ‘Memories’

Posted by tarjavirmakari on July 3, 2026
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BLOOD WHITE release the new single “Memories”, taken from the upcoming studio album “From Hell” out on August 28 at Metalville. 

“Memories” unleashes a wave of melodic death metal that combines raw power with emotional depth: massive walls of guitar, pulsating drums and sweeping melodies create a sound that is both powerful and sublime. Blending Nordic heaviness with modern clarity, the track impressively combines heaviness, atmosphere and intensity.

There are countless young bands that are still searching for their own individual musical identity and a breakthrough image based on their own visionary concept. And then there’s BLOOD WHITE, a band that has already found all these factors. Although the five-piece band has only been together since 2022, their sound is incredibly mature, creative and unique. BLOOD WHITE have developed a refined, distinctive mix of modern metal, rock and hardcore which leaves a lasting impression. Added to that, the band’s incredible stage outfits, highlighted through their glaring red and white ‘corporate identity’, sets the quintet apart from the genre’s standard dull, black style which so many of their contemporaries seem to favour. But most importantly, their debut album, “From Hell”, presents music of a standard rarely found in newcomer acts.

The songs mix raw metal riffs and brutal grooves with catchy choruses which enables listeners who are less into the metal-genre immediate access to their exciting, hellraising music. Listen to tracks such as “All I Said Was A Lie”‚ “Bloodified”, “I Smell Blood” or “From Hell” and watch the videos of “Run Or Die” and “Guns & Fear” which all show BLOOD WHITE’s extensive range of stylistic potential and musical influences. At the same time, the album also provides a number of surprises.

Practically out of nowhere (or rather, out of darkest hell), singer Dr. Zero projects a deep sense of melancholy, grief and anger on “Before I Die”, deliberately leaving a number of questions unanswered. Dr. Zero: “The song says something about me, and its metaphors express precisely what I want to share with our audience. It’s about love, about its dependence on your own emotions and on what constitutes the bleakness of grief. Thoughts of having nothing left but a refuge, albeit one that makes you slide even deeper into the abyss than you already have.”

“From Hell” and “Fear” strike a similar lyrical note and present demonic verbal exchanges on God and the world, preachers, monsters and demons, as well as the eternal horror of war and devastation leading, ultimately, to the destruction of one’s own soul. Dr. Zero added: “Most of our songs are about the chasms of the human mind, its capacity for absolute evil, a contradiction to love and compassion. This contraction also resonates in the name “Blood White”, red being a symbol of blood, but also of love, and white stands for innocence and eternity evoking that glistening, bright light that people who have experienced ‘being clinically dead’ talk about.”

The appraisal above says it all! BLOOD WHITE hold everything in their own hands, it’s all there to be seen and heard: the music, the videos, the album sleeve, the photos – the entire band and its image!

BLOOD WHITE are fulfilling the promise of an even more spectacular (metal) future! 

TRACK-LISTING
01 – All I Said Was A Lie
02 – Run Or Die
03 – Bloodified
04- I Smell Blood
05 – Guns & Fear
06 – Unholy Water
07 – Fear
08 – Before I Die
09 – Memories
10 – Kill Everyone
11 – Don´t Blame Me
12 – From Hell

LINE-UP
Dr. Zero – vocals
Mr. Bonesaw – guitar
D.C. Spark – guitar
Luke Y-Cut – drums
Gas Gee – bass

LINKS
https://bloodwhite-official.com/
https://www.facebook.com/people/Bloodwhiteofficial/61553104769288/
https://www.instagram.com/blood_white_official/
https://www.youtube.com/@Bloodwhiteofficial

CALLIDER Release New Single And Video ‘By The Dawn’

Posted by tarjavirmakari on July 3, 2026
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Stefan Lange returns with CALLIDER and his new single, “By The Dawn”, the first new track since the release of their debut album, “Southern Stars”, in 2023.

“It’s a heavy and rather fast melodic death metal track that puts the rhythm guitar work centre stage. A distinctive feature is the use of the Turkish-Ottoman ‘ney’ flute by Munich-based makam flutist Ebed Gümüsel,” explains Stefan Lange, continuing: ‘The song is inspired by the 89th surah of the Qur’an, the holy scripture of Islam. It deals with the contrast between rich and poor, and how this has manifested as corruption and domination throughout human history. In some places, the vocals are in Arabic.”

Stream/Download here: https://callider.bfan.link/by-the-dawn

CALLIDER is:
Vocals: Stefan Lange, Florian Stierstorfer, Marc Zeberer, Vanessa Marx
Guitars: Ettore Rigotti, Kristopher Karla, Stefan Lange
Bass: Ettore Rigotti, Stefan Lange
Drums: Dominik Back
Keyboards: Ettore Rigotti, Claus Bächer

CALLIDER online:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Callider
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/callider_metal
YouTube: http://youtube.com/@callider

TODOMAL Premiere Grand & Gloomy New Album “Graveyards of Joy”, Out Today

Posted by tarjavirmakari on July 3, 2026
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Photo by © Christopher B. Wildman

On their grand and gloomy new album, TodoMal channels grief, anger and hard-won hope through the slow-burning atmosphere of classic doom and dramatic rock.

“Graveyards of Joy finds the band emphasizing or enhancing certain aspects of their sound”, No Clean Singing writes in advanced praise of TodoMal’s new album, “without abandoning any of what made them so good before”.

“If you are a doom metal fan, and like epic melodies that are both bleak and uplifting at the same time, do not miss out on this release”, urges Infernal Masquerade.

Graveyards of Joy is released today, Friday, July 3 on Season of Mist and you can hear all nine doomy and atmospheric songs by listening to the full album stream on the Season of Mist YouTube channel.

Order here: https://orcd.co/todomalgraveyardsofjoy

Graveyards of Joy is the closing chapter of a trilogy that TodoMal began with Ultracrepidarian (2021) and continued with A Greater Good (2023). Written in solitude following personal tragedy, the album draws on the landscapes and ghost towns of rural eastern Spain, a terrain the band describe as raw, honest and untamed. Vast Hammond organ-driven passages give way to desolate folk; strings with Morriconian openness sit alongside heavy, anchoring riffs. The duo draw on a wide range of reference points, from the orchestral sweep of Vangelis and the warmth of Deep Purple to the dramatic sensibility of Tindersticks and Nick Cave, without losing the solemnity that defines them.

Tracklist:

  1. Mare Ignis (05:14)
  2. Lucid Nightmare (04:31)
  3. Point of Coalescence (05:04)
  4. Misericordiah (02:50)
  5. Unholy (04:22)
  6. Deliverance (07:25)
  7. Humanised Gods (03:54)
  8. For Mercy (03:02)
  9. Graveyards of Joy (06:51)
    Full runtime: 43:15

TodoMal Graveyards of Joy 2026 European Tour
*with Evoken

4 July – Viveiro, ES @ Resurrection Fest
24 July – Tolmin, SI @ Tolminator Fest
30 July – Paris, FR @ Le Klub*
31 July – Rouen, FR @ Fury Defendu*
1 August – Diest, BE @ Club Hell*
2 August – Rotterdam, NL @ Baroeg*
3 August – Hamburg, DE @ MS Stubnitz*
5 August – Berlin, DE @ Neue Zukunft*
6 August – Schlotheim, DE @ Party.San Open Air*
7 August – Karlsruhe, DE @ Die Stadtmitte*
9 August – Dresden, DE @ Chemiefabrik*
10 August – Prague, CZ @ Subzero*
11 August – Bratislava, SK @ Pink Whale
18 September: Barcelona, ES @ Sala Boveda
25 September: Madrid, ES @ Dark Echoes Fest (w/ Draconian, Dødheimsgard)
26 September: Auzas, FR @ L’Homme Sauvage Festival

TodoMal came to life in 2020, conceived by Anglo-Spanish musician and composer Christopher B. Wildman and musician, composer and producer Javier Fernández Milla: two veteran multi-instrumentalists of the Spanish underground scene whose careers span a wide range of projects and styles. A product of pure serendipity, TodoMal represents a deeply personal fusion of the solemnity of traditional doom metal and the expansiveness of space rock, interwoven with nuances of ecclesiastical music, classic hard rock and cinematic soundscapes.

Their debut album, Ultracrepidarian (2021), evokes the placid yet desolate moorlands of their base in northern Alcarria and the region of Matarraña (Teruel), two emblematic landscapes of Spain’s so-called “emptied lands.” With A Greater Good (2023), the duo crafted a collection of what they describe as “dark songs,” evolving into a complex, dense and unclassifiable album that appeared on several year-end lists and sold through its initial pressing. Fuelled by this momentum, they expanded into a five-piece live ensemble, joining forces with Javier Félez (guitar; Teitanblood, Graveyard, Balmog), Javier “Bud” Martínez (drums; Dejadeath, Jade, Ktulu) and Cecilia Tallo (keyboards/vocals; Maud the Moth).

Graveyards of Joy is the third album and the closing chapter of a trilogy. Written in solitude following personal tragedy, it channels grief, anger and hard-won hope into nine tracks of slow-burning, widescreen doom. The music breathes: vast Hammond-driven passages give way to desolate folk, Morricone-like strings open onto dusty cinematic plains, and heavy riffs anchor songs that never lose sight of melody. A DIY record of striking emotional depth and modern, alternative edge.

Recording Line-up:
Wildman – Guitars and Vocals
Mile – Bass and Vocals
Javi – Guitars
Bud – Drums
Cecilia – Synths and Vocals

Production Credits:
Recording Studio: Trinitat-Montseny / 7th Middle Street / Moontower Studios
Producer: Javier Fernández Milla / Christopher B. Wildman; assisted by Javier Félez Rodríguez (drums recording and guitar engineering)
Mixing: Javier Fernández Milla at Trinitat Montseny
Mastering: Jaime López Arellano at Arda Recorders (Portugal)

Guest Musicians:
Cecilia Tallo (background vocals, tracks 4 and 6)
Teodora Gosheva (vocals)
Darío Garrido (acoustic guitars)
Manu Clavijo (live strings)

Cover Art:
Lluís Rigalt, Ruïnes (1865), Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya.

Photography:
Christopher B. Wildman

Follow TodoMal:
Bandcamp: https://todomalband.bandcamp.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/todomalofficial
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/todo_mal_band/
SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/todomal
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/2grCvuOH8MibDqryxpW6jR
Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/artist/todomal/1587939438
Deezer: https://www.deezer.com/artist/146831572
Tidal: https://tidal.com/artist/5655213

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