“Kruunu” is the third and last single of the upcoming album of UNBORN GENERATION. The gloomy composition carries the story all the way from the beginning to the end of the song without giving any hope along the way. The song tells the story of how the crown is too big and heavy for a despot to carry. The false image of a better tomorrow created with the help of power and violence begins to crack, and the people rise to the barricades. Power must change, even if by violence.
Unborn Generation – ”…and All We Forget” tracklisting
Kivun kuilu
Rattus
Kruunu
Puppets
Burst
Heritage
Swamp
Consunation
Juuret
Cycle
Unborn Generation’s 7th album titled “…and All We Forget” will be released April 12th
Unborn Generation has been blasting their dirty grindcrust since 2002. Their intense sound can be described as fight-or-flight response inducing, yet at the same time tingling the backsides of melancholics with northern melodies.
The Finnish trio consists of Herkko Huttunen (vocals/guitar), Eetu Huttunen (drums) and Arto Kettunen (bass). They have released six albums, five of them including the output of previous vocalist Juho-Pekka Airaksinen.
UK/ FR crossover aggressors Cage Fight have released a video for ‘My Dreams’, a single version of the emotive track taken from the band’s self-titled debut album, out now via Candlelight Records.
On the track, guitarist James Monteith commented: “The original version of ‘My Dreams’ is a slow building, almost proggy track that closes our debut album and it was never intended as a single. However, it’s been a big hit live so we reworked it into a snappy more immediate song, and we felt it worked so well it was worth releasing to the world. It also serves as a nice transition to our new music which has taken a darker turn.”
Vocalist Rachel Aspe commented on the video: “Filmed at BTS Audiovisuel – Lycée Suge in Paris, director Alex Stark (who is also the guitarist in our good friends Gravity) captured the misery and struggle of the song perfectly. It visually represents feelings of isolation and when fighting forward, internal battles, and understanding meaning and purpose. Persevering in the face of life’s challenges and defeating internal demons.”
Directed by Alexandre Stark, check out the video here:
The single is released ahead of a number of festival appearances in 2024, as well as the band’s first club show in Belgium.
Currently announced dates:
27 Mar: NO Inferno Fest 06 Jun: PL Mystic Festival 20 Jun: BE Fontaine-l’Évêque, MCP Apache (headline) 21-23 Jun: – DE Full Force 28 Jun: UK Funeral Fest (headline)
On new material, James concludes: “Our second album is about 70% written and we’re very excited to get in the studio to record it later this year. We wrote the first album in 6 months of knowing each other and it was born from pure chemstry, but now we’ve had a few years to really discover our sound, which is deeper, darker and more agressive. We can’t wait to unleash it on the world!”
Cage Fight, whose line-up includes TesseracT guitarist James Monteith and former Eths vocalist Rachel Aspe, will hit the studio this summer to record their second album.
Since forming in 2021 Cage Fight‘s visceral brutality made a huge impact on the metal world with the release of their highly acclaimed self-titled debut album, tours with Sepultura, Raging Speedhorn,Cro-Mags & Nekrogoblikon and appearing at many festivals including Bloodstock, 2000 Trees, Radar and Summer Breeze.
More news to be announced very soon.
Cage Fight are: Rachel Aspe – vocals James Monteith – guitar Will Horsman – bass Nick Plews – drums
Official music video for A Glimpse Into The Void Below by Cryptic Confinement and is the second track from the album Tempestuous Demise released on February 27th, 2024 via Sliptrick Records. Along with Zak, A Glimpse Into The Void Below features the extraordinary talents of Rich Gray and Fabio Alessandrini from Annihilator!
The track was written and Performed by Zakk Weathersby, Rich Gray and Fabio Alessandrini.
Cryptic Confinement – Tempestuous Demise Tempestuous Demise is the third installment from instrumental metal project, Cryptic Confinement. Following a similar writing formula as the previous two releases, the album will be characterised by intricate layers of guitars, relentless blast beats, carefully timed tempo changes and an adept focus on song arrangement …read more
Photographer: Juha Aho-Pynttäri (photo taken in 1981)
COBRA 1981 have released their debut album “VOL. 1”! Today is also the release date for thousands of other albums by other artists and bands. So what makes this one special? Maybe the fact that the Cobra 1981 band members have been waiting for this event since 1981 – more than forty years!
The band was formed at the dawn of the eighties when the members were still young men. The world was very different then, but heavy rock had already taken a firm place in the cassette players and record shelves of young people. The compositions and stories that the guys wrote then, following their British role models, are so timeless that they still work in 2024. Their musical style in is influenced by NWOBHM, with guitar harmonies, fast tempos and story-like lyrics. Of course sung strongly across the full range of the singer’s vocal range. However, the album also features ballads and heavy riffing to spice up the decades-old brew.
The band members have long careers behind them, and some are already grandfathers. All have celebrated their fifties or more. Playing while working is a way to relax and get away from it all. It’s also a way to maintain friendships and build social capital. Playing together and performing at local summer festivals was reason enough to keep the band alive, but after an insider music producer heard the high standard of the songs and their performances, it was decided to see if they would lend themselves to a record.
The album was recorded as a studio live in a former barn building, which was converted into a rehearsal and recording studio. In addition to experience and confidence, the playing and singing is still tinged with the enthusiasm of youth – a journey back to the room in singer Asko’s home where his playing once began. After finding suitable partners, the songs were ready to be published and they have found their way onto the playlists of major streaming services. To band members’ surprise, radio play has been received from all over the globe. In 1981, none of the band members would have guessed that their latest work, chopped up in the rehearsal room, would end up on the radio in Mexico or Australia in 2024.
Photographer: Roosa Sippola
Now the time is right for the release of a full length album, solemnly entitled “Vol.1”. The band still has unfulfilled ambitions, and with the enthusiastic and positive feedback from the singles, the next steps are already being planned. In forty years, more than one album has been added to the desk and Cobra1981’s touring form is stronger than ever!
Fulfilling their dreams and rocking – hard – doesn’t matter the age, time or place. When the fire is there, things are worth doing. The Vol.1 album and this five-piece are a rock hard example of that.
Born of the pandemic shutdown and mobilized by the world’s societal ills, Plutocracy Planet is an experimental sociopolitical super-collective led by former Alarm Magazine editor and musical vagrant Scott Morrow.
Fusing post-hardcore sensibilities with electronics, polyrhythms, atypical time signatures, and a far-reaching instrumental palette—including strings, saxophone, piano, harp, marimba, acoustic guitar, and more—the ambitious collaborative project utilizes the talents of more than two dozen venerable vocalists and instrumentalists across hardcore, hip hop, emo, avant-garde composition, pop, and more.
Greed, inequality, and the endless influence of money in politics serve as the project’s thematic focal points. But between a broad-minded approach and a coalition of lyrical voices, the collective’s forthcoming debut LP also touches on the cult of personality, fear-mongering media, police brutality, toxic masculinity, religious zealotry, factory farming, the billionaire space race, discourse in the internet era, and the singularity.
Following the project’s debut single, “This Very Severity,” featuring emo legend Bob Nanna (Braid, Hey Mercedes), BrooklynVegan has premiered the video for “But You Said,” a melodic, moody, and ultimately heavy aural diptych that builds to a cathartic crescendo with featured artist onelinedrawing, the solo moniker of singer-songwriter Jonah Matranga (Far, Gratitude, New End Original). The song is now streaming on digital platforms.
“Lyrically, ‘BUT YOU SAID’ is basically about the beyond-frustrating feeling of trying to talk sense these days, especially on the internet,” Matranga says. “It’s digging into why communication is such a mess in the age of communication. I’m sad about the lack of thoughtful thinking in our culture and the ways that’s engineered, manipulated, and perpetuated by so-called social networks.
“Nonsensical clickbait hot takes have become the law of the land. I’ve been addicted to my upset around all that in the past. Now I’m in recovery from that compulsive behavior, and this song helps me take a breath and pause when I want to all-caps tantrum about whatever algorithm-elevated stupidity I might see floating through the timeline.
“As for the sound of the track, it was just a blast to play with Scott’s wild, weird, dynamic piece of music and see what my voice could do to express these overwhelming feelings. It’s an actual epic slow-burn track. Like a building with a lot of stories, as it were. The way my weird high note twists in the air as Scott’s guitar stabs and everything else empties out at 2:35 is one of my favorite moments in anything I’ve been a part of making. When everything crashes back in around 2:53, then gets to an even more manic gear at 3:03, that’s serious fun too. The whole collaborative album worked out real well, and I’m grateful to be part of it.“
Releasing July 12 on vinyl and digital, Plutocracy Planet’s full-length debut, produced by singer-songwriter Mark Rose of Spitalfield, will feature:
Bob Nanna (Braid, Hey Mercedes, Lifted Bells) Jonah Matranga (Far, Gratitude, onelinedrawing) Matt Pryor (The Get-Up Kids, The New Amsterdams, Radar State) Mike Kinsella (American Football, Owen, Cap’n Jazz) Liam Wilson (The Dillinger Escape Plan, Azusa) Rody Walker (Protest the Hero) Carson Pace (The Callous Daoboys) Emily Jane White Mark Rose (Spitalfield) Swamburger (Solillaquists of Sound) Blueprint (Soul Position, Greenhouse) Jørgen Munkeby (Shining) Carla Kihlstedt (Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Tin Hat Trio, Rabbit Rabbit Radio) Nils Frykdahl (Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Faun Fables, Idiot Flesh) Aaron Spectre (Drumcorps) Bruce Lamont (Yakuza, Masonic Wave) Angela Mullenhour (Sybris, Touched by Ghoul, Pink Frost) Anton Patzner (Emily Jane White, Foxtails Brigade, Judgement Day) Jonathan Hischke (The Sound of Animals Fighting, Le Butcherettes, Hella, Anywhere) Jason Schimmel (Secret Chiefs 3, Estradasphere, Red Fiction) Adam Stacey (Igorrr, Secret Chiefs 3, Estradasphere) Jason Zdora (HeWhoCorrupts) Leyla I. Royale (Chicago Street Strings)
Plutocracy Planet Tracklisting:
Prologue
This Very Severity (f. Bob Nanna)
But You Said (f. onelinedrawing)
A Simple Refrain (f. Matt Pryor & Swamburger)
Commence Mutation (f. Carson Pace)
Slaughterhouse Soliloquy (f. Swamburger & Drumcorps)
War? (f. Rody Walker)
True Crime (f. Angela Mullenhour)
Hours and Hours (Work Harder, Not Smarter) (f. Mark Rose)
Dance of the Downtrodden (f. Carla Kihlstedt, Nils Frykdahl & Jørgen Munkeby)
Remain Silent (f. Emily Jane White, Blueprint & Bruce Lamont)
Epilogue
About Plutocracy Planet: Long an appreciator of stylistic diversity, Scott Morrow spent his years at Alarm Magazine championing fiercely creative and risk-taking independent artists of all stripes. When covid-19 shut down the planet, he found himself, like many others, wondering how to get the most out of “The Big Pause.” Rather than use his free time writing about other musicians, he opted to write music of his own—something he hadn’t done in over a decade. Between having many talented musician friends and connections from years of covering music, Morrow quickly amassed a small army of all-star contributors, patching together a network of like-minded experimentalists who resonated with the project’s theme.
But the shutdown wasn’t all productive for Morrow—far from it. In June of 2021, he was hit in the back by a stray bullet in his hometown of Chicago as he walked to meet a friend. Losing multiple organs during an emergency surgery, Morrow nearly died in the immediate aftermath as well as during the subsequent healing process due to an abscess of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. The grueling eight-month recovery was yet another “big pause” in his life, but once he resumed life “as usual,” he was even more resolved to finish his project’s debut full-length album.
“The hell that I went through I wouldn’t wish on anyone,” Morrow says. “But I’m unbelievably lucky and grateful to be here today. I could not have had a better and more wonderful support system, and enduring something like that makes you realize how very loved and fortunate you are. Plus, I couldn’t just go dying after all of these gracious, wonderfully talented folks contributed to this unknown pipe-dream project.”
Northern Irish hard rock legends The Answer have announced the release of a brand new stomping rocker track titled ‘Put Your Money On Me’, out on 22nd March, ahead of a set of European dates and a very special one-off London show at London Dingwalls.
A fuzzed-up rocker with a filthy groove, ‘Put Your Money On Me’ is a standalone track not included on the band’s last album ‘Sundowners’, and continues to uphold the band’s unqiue sound, picking up from where ‘Sundowners’ and last non-album single ‘Wild Heart’ left off – soulful, ballsy blues rock underpinned by an outstanding vocal performance from lead vocalist, Cormac Neeson.
Neeson says of the new track, produced by Dan Weller (Enter Shikari, Bury Tomorrow); “This song is a dirty, groovy, feel-good slice of rock n’ soul straight from heart of The Answer. Can’t wait to play this one on the road across Europe this spring. Let’s do this.”
The April European dates will see The Answer perform in Germany, Belgium, The Netherlands, Poland, Czech Republic and France. A following set of shows in May will take them through Spain, before they return to the UK to play a very special one-off at Dingwalls in Camden on 20th June, their only UK domestic show scheduled so far this year.
The latest album ‘Sundowners’ was released in 2023 and achieved Top 40 National Album Chart positions in UK, Germany and Switzerland, including # 1 in the UK National Rock Album Chart. Produced by rising British producer Dan Weller, the album received rave reviews across the board.
“A serious challenger for album of the year” (Get Ready To Rock) *****
“Don’t accept imitations, The Answer are truly showing everybody how this s**t is done. The kind of album truly great bands make” (Blabbermouth) ****
“This album is the sound of a band with nothing to prove to themselves or anyone else. They slot so neatly alongside the blues-rock giants that came before them.” (Classic Rock Magazine UK) ****
Tour Dates: 4th April, Kavka, Antwerp, BE 5th April, Turock, Essen, DE 6th April, De Pul, Uden, NL 7th April, Knust, Hamburg, DE 9th April, 2Progi, Poznan, PL 10th April, Storm, Prague, CZ 11th April, Hirsch, Nurnberg, DE 12th April, Roxy, Ulm, DE 13th April, Colos-Saal, Aschaffenburg, DE 14th April, Betit Bain, Paris, FR 9th May, Razzmatazz 2, Barcelona, ES 10th May, Mon, Madrid, ES 11th May, Stage Live, Bilbao, ES
20th June, Dingwalls, London, support from These Wicked Rivers Get tickets HERE
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
