Finnish rock band JUDITH ALICE released a new EP Resolute via Finnish record label Secret Entertainment. Also a new music video ‘Person That I Hate’ is done which can be seen below.
Guitarist June Stacy comments: “Writing and recording the EP was a little bit troublesome and slow because of the covid. We recorded the demos and then the EP versions of the songs little by little when ever we could. Then over a year ago when it was already mixed and mastered Izzy (our guitar player) decided to pursue other things in life and quit the band. We didn’t wanna release anything or shoot music videos before we found someone to replace him. So it took another half a year to find Vasco. But finally here it is: ’Resolute’. The EP that updates the sound of Judith Alice for 2023! Enjoy”
Resolute (EP 2023) -Track list:
Tonite’s Alright (feat. Diison)
Person That I Hate
Watch Out!
Blind Leadin’ The Blind
Close To The Sun
EP Picture by Aaro Tuisku, EP cover by Jussi Aaltonen
BIOGRAPHY: Judith Alice was formed in Helsinki, Finland by old friends June Stacy and Stan Ford (Skeeter Hazy) in 2016. The nowadays five piece band has been creating a reputation as a wild live performer and a party maker since. The first single, “I Only Go Out When It’s Dark” was released in 2017. The second single “Drug Festival” was released in December 2018 and as a third single they recorded a cover for an old danish hit “I WIll Stay”, it was released January 2020. Yeah, the one Hurriganes made famous in Finland back in the day. Recordings of the first album began in 2017, and after all the setbacks and struggle it was finally released Thursday, August 13th 2020. When the world closed because of the pandemic, Judith Alice used the time to write and record new music! 2023 starts with a brand new single/video ”Tonite’s Alright (feat. Diison)” followed by an EP called ”Resolute”!
Line-up: Skeeter Hazy – Vocals June Stacy – Guitar Vasco – Guitar Eric Jacobi – Bass Aaron Snow – Drums
BLINDFOLDED AND LED TO THE WOODS are today premiering their new single and music video, Hallucinative Terror, via Knotfest. Hallucinative Terror is the second track to be taken from the Christchurch, New Zealand progressive death metal group’s upcoming fourth album, Rejecting Obliteration, due out on May 19 via Prosthetic Records. The song and video, directed by Matt Evlampieff, shines a spotlight on BLINDFOLDED AND LED TO THE WOODS’ native country’s mental health crisis.
Speaking candidly about the track’s importance on Rejecting Obliteration, Ben Atkinson (guitar) comments: “Not a year goes by without losing someone we love to suicide. This was evident again throughout the writing, recording, and prep cycles for Rejecting Obliteration where collectively as a group we lost more friends and sadly an old band member. The thought that we will never see their faces or hear their voices again still hurts us.
“Mental Health issues are predominant here in New Zealand, especially in our city that also deals with the trauma of a city leveling Earthquake, and one of the world’s worst single person terrorist attacks.
“We are repeatedly assured that we should be reaching out when we are feeling low in mood, feeling as though we may hurt ourselves or endanger our lives. Which when we can, yes we should. But, not everyone who is feeling suicidal has that person, opportunity or capability to do so.
“The ways in which some people reach out may not be understood by their loved ones or may go unnoticed due to the subtlety of the approach. It is also really important for us all to be more proactive, be upfront with our friends and family when we notice they may not seem their usual self and ask them how they are feeling and what we can do to support them.
“The video for Hallucinative Terror is based at a funeral and shows a person who has passed away by suicide with their family and friends approaching the coffin to share their grief and ask why, pointing out that everything seemed ok. These scenes are intercut with the person seemingly alive in their coffin. They are screaming and thrashing for help as the coffin fills with water but the funeral guests are blind to this and don’t see this person’s struggles, and calls for help. The person is haunted by an older man invisible to everyone else throughout the video who represents the darker thoughts of hopelessness we can have. The video ends with the person drowning.
“The video represents that feeling of drowning in sorrow and hopelessness, that between breaths you are struggling to call out for help, to look for someone who may pull you up and no one truly hears you, or hears what you are going through.
“Hallucinative Terror has taught us that we all need to be better listeners and observers and to proactively reach out.”
Navigating cycles of abuse and trauma, whilst actively reaching for resolution through resilience, BLINDFOLDED AND LED TO THE WOODS‘ aptly titled Rejecting Obliteration is a testament to and declaration of endurance through hardships and loss. Lyrically conceived by Stace Fifield and Stuart Henley-Minchington, Rejecting Obliteration’s ten tracks share a common narrative thread of finding identity and light outside of personal hurt and psychological harm. The pair’s primary focus on inner strength and resilience serves as an unwavering foundation of who the band are in essence.
Whilst despairing in it’s subject matter Rejecting Obliteration refuses to concede to a predestination of further anguish, opting instead to shun all notions of defeat, which in and of itself is vital to BLINDFOLDED AND LED TO THE WOODS’ long fought for and claimed identity.
Rejecting Obliteration tracklist: 1. Monolith 2. Methlehem 3. Hallucinative Terror 4. Rejecting Obliteration 5. Wraith 6. Cicada 7. Funeral Smiles 8. The Waves 9. Hands of Contrition 10. Caustic Burns
Upcoming BLINDFOLDED AND LED TO THE WOODS tour dates:
Headline Australian tour 18 May – King Lear’s Throne – Brisbane, Australia 19 May – Burdekin Hotel – Sydney, Australia 20 May – Evelyn Hotel – Melbourne, Australia 21 May – Crown and Anchor – Adelaide, Australia
BLINDFOLDED AND LED TO THE WOODS is: Stace Fifield – Vocals Stuart Henley-Minchington – Guitars, Vocals Ben Atkinson – Guitars Nick Smith – Bass Tim Stewart – Drums, Percussion (recording only)
After 3 long years VAK are finally back with new music. The brutally melodic, progressive sludge band is set to release a wonderfully dynamic double single ‘Panorama / The Map’.
«Panorama» is the first track from the double single, an upbeat little devil, and a force to be reckoned with. Through hypnotizing rhythms and vibrating and mesmerizing vocals you are chanted into an unknown soundscape.
The second single «The Map» is a seven-minute sludge beast journey bringing you both the powerful and sludgy dimensions and the progressive aspects of the band with head tilting grooves, heavy dark rhythms, and intelligent clean build ups.
VAK states: “The first singles of our upcoming album address, firstly, the theme of Stockholm’s beautiful and treacherous “Panorama”, its lying and sinister post-card character. Secondly, they suggest how city-surveillance needs more resistant and downloadable “cop-maps”, enabling a policing of police. Despite the gravity of these issues, we had fun recording for example the backing vocals on “The Map” calling on the listeners to “download” the not yet existent maps.”
Artwork: Jonathan Hultén
Well-produced, doom-groovy, stoner/sludge Swedish metal band VAK were highly praised for their previous album “Loud Wind” (2019). UK Magazine Zero Tolerance wrote that it was “one of 2019’s contenders for best stoner metal album! […] It’s one thing to pack an album full of crushing riffs, memorable hooks and passionate performances, but VAK truly evoke a unified togetherness that beams throughout”, while Metal Temple (UK) gave it a 9/10, stating that “VAK is its own unique breed, one that has hints of the past but is focused solely on the future.” Praised for their ability to incorporate more than just one style and genre in their music, drawing inspiration from a great variety of bands and artists, VAK’s upcoming album is something to look forward to!
Band Members: Tobias Alpadie – Guitars Anders Bartonek – Drums Patrik Engström – Guitars Jesper Skarin – Bass, Vocals Robin Skarin – Keyboards
Mexican metal band fronted by the DJ and producer duo of Mika and Eric Monsonis, TANUS,makes their debut at FiXT with new metal single “Abyss”. The single is the next track to materialize on the upcoming FiXT: Radium compilation.
Produced by Eric Monsonis and Mika “Abyss” dives in immediately with powerful melodies and heavy guitars riffs fused over synthesizers setting a conflicting mood that encapsulates the rest of the track. The song’s thought provoking lyrics coupled with a powerful vocal delivery by Diz, one of the top leading singers in Mexico and South America, create a turbulent anthem questioning the human experience.
“The lyrics of this song talk about freedom,” explains TANUS. “How free are we really today? In reality there are not many options, if you open your eyes to different circumstances, everything is so marginalized and manipulated. The information that reaches us is basically the same anywhere in the world; trends, as well as viral issues contaminates the minds of the new generations, this causes us to fall into an abyss that lacks options. It seems to me a duty, as a band, the option to comment on this, and thus be able to give back to people what they need to have; control. Human beings and their creativity have been compromised by a so called “controlled freedom.” Being in an ‘abyss’ is an option, agreeing to get out of it is a responsibility.“
Originally created in 2014 under the name Mikankh as a solo project of the Band’s DJ Mika, the project was so well received it was revamped into a six member ensemble today known as TANUS. The band is a hybrid of metal and electronic music incorporating Trap, Industrial, Dubstep, and Drum & Bass for a diverse and unique but powerful sound of their own.
TANUS has released eight singles with over 500,000 hits between them across all platforms with strong reception from live concerts with “Defying Gravity,” “Shadows,” and “Superhumanity” scoring plays on metal playlists throughout Mexico and South America. They currently have a collaboration coming up with AJ Channer, vocalist of the band Fire From The Gods. The group has made appearances in several large festivals over the years throughout Mexico and South America, including but not limited to Hell and Heaven Open Air, Corona Weekend, and Punk Rock Fest. They’ve shared the stage with top rated bands such as KORN, Slipknot, P.O.D. Megadeth and more. In other words TANUS is ready to take the world by storm and isn’t slowing down anytime soon.
‘Tired’ is the debut single from English rock quartet GEORGE SANDERS AND THE PARALLELS and is officially out now via Bread & Butter Records/Golden Robot Records.
‘Tired’ features raw, raspy vocals, heavy hitting guitars and drums which build to a climactic ending, all of which is born from a single piano key at the start of the song. The lyrics share the story of a relationship in its last stages, the lyrics are from the heart and will tell a familiar tale to many listeners.
The band have released a music video to support the new track. “We recorded the video for ‘Tired’ in Shoeburyness, a town just next to Southend, at an old gun emplacement from WW1 and 2. It was used as a line of defence against enemy planes before they followed the Thames and eventually reached London. It’s a circular, old, concrete, run down structure, with history seeping from every crack. Despite surviving two wars and years of environmental thrashing, it is still standing, much like the protagonist in our song ‘Tired’, riding the waves of a turbulent relationship, but still standing come the end. The video was recorded by a friend of ours, Roberto, who helped direct us to accurately capture what we set out to achieve. A real, raw video, with no bells and whistles, that mimics what we are about as a band. No nonsense, loud, guitar music.” says frontman George.
George Sanders And The Parallels are a four piece rock band born out of the south east of England in 2020. The band is fronted by George Sanders who also plays guitar, Dylan Stubbings on drums, Matt Latter on bass and Tom Carey on guitar. With anthemic, raspy vocals backed by heavy guitars, they leave a unique mark on the modern rock scene. Taking inspiration from every decade and creating a new, yet wonderfully familiar sound.
George Sanders And The Parallels started 2022 on the radio after being chosen as one of BBC Introducing’s ‘Top Picks of 2022’, being described as “arena ready”. They have also appeared on “Shakey’s Sessions on CCR”, “Phoenix FM” and “Radio Essex”.
The band signed with Bread & Butter Records/ Golden Robot Records in 2022 and are gearing up for their debut EP release in 2023.
Swedish heavy metal band LION’S SHARE has made a new song, ‘United’, available on streaming services and digital service providers.
LION’S SHARE singer Nils Patrik Johansson commented: “We wanted to write about the fact that the metal community always stands united no matter what crazy politicians and war makers do. In these crazy times we felt that this would be a good message to the world.”
In late 2018, LION’S SHARE released a new five-track EP, plus its complete catalog – remastered with new artwork – on streaming services and digital service providers for the first time. The band have since released a few more digital singles, some of which will and some of which won’t end up on the forthcoming full-length album.
Both Johansson and Chriss remark that they have always worked very well together, and at this point it feels the most natural to keep LION’S SHARE as a duo, with friends helping out wherever needed.
The LION’S SHARE catalog features appearances by members and ex-members of KISS, MEGADETH, KING DIAMOND, HAMMERFALL, SYMPHONY X, CHIMAIRA, THERION, YNGWIE MALMSTEEN, CANDLEMASS, etc.
Mixers include top engineers such as Jens Bogren (ARCH ENEMY, OPETH, SYMPHONY X, AMON AMARTH) – Niklas Flyckt (one-time Grammy Award winner and four-time nominee) and Ronny Lahti (ROXETTE, EUROPE, Glenn Hughes).
LION’S SHARE has toured with bands like MOTÖRHEAD, MANOWAR, DIO, SAXON, ICED EARTH, NEVERMORE, U.D.O. (ex-ACCEPT), Dee Snider (TWISTED SISTER) and has played many of the major rock and metal festivals.
Line-up: Nils Patrik Johansson – vocals Lars Chriss – guitar, keyboards Andy Loos – bass Nils Fredrik Johansson – drums
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