Singer/Songwriter/ Multi-Instrumentalist SIERRA LEVESQUE Releases Debut Single ‘Get Off My Stage’

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Sierra Levesque, the formidable singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist, has taken the music scene by storm with the release of her highly anticipated debut single, “GET OFF MY STAGE.” The track, a masterful blend of Levesque’s distinct artistry and the renowned production expertise of Ron “Bumblefoot” Thal, became available on all major music platforms on September 1, 2023.

Ron “Bumblefoot” Thal, a celebrated musician known for his work with iconic bands like Sons Of Apollo, Asia, and as a former member of Guns ‘N Roses, has lent his prodigious talents to produce, mix, and master this groundbreaking single. Thal’s touch adds a layer of sonic brilliance that elevates “GET OFF MY STAGE” to a level of sonic excellence that’s bound to resonate with music enthusiasts across the globe.

“I am very excited for everyone to hear my debut single, ‘GET OFF MY STAGE’! This song is a combination of classic rock and modern pop influences, and it’s sure to have any listener humming along!” says Sierra Levesque.

Stream/Purchase “GET OFF MY STAGE”:

Sierra Levesque is an 18-year-old Rock singer/songwriter, guitarist, pianist, bassist, and drummer from Pembroke, Ontario, Canada. Her goal is to help lead the NEW GENERATION of Rock ‘N Roll.

Recognized by Guitar.com as being “Gen Z’s Most Ambitious New Guitarist” and one of “10 Young Shredders Shaping Rock and Metal Today”, Sierra’s love for Rock music came from listening at a very young age to many Classic Rock and Heavy Metal bands from the 70s and 80s.

Sierra has been described as a combination of the powerful voice of Ann Wilson and the skilled, catchy guitar playing of Nancy Wilson.

Her musical influences throughout the years have been Pop, Rock and Metal acts such as Avril Lavigne, Ghost, Heart and Scorpions.

Having won the 2019, 2022, and 2023 MyFM Spirit Award for “Best Local Musician” in Pembroke, Sierra has already gained notoriety from large media outlets, as well as from some powerful figures in the Rock music industry including Nancy Wilson (Heart), Ron ‘Bumblefoot’ Thal (Sons Of Apollo, Asia, ex Guns ‘N Roses), DJ Ashba (SIXX A.M, ex Guns ‘N Roses), Desmond Child (Songwriter for Bon Jovi, Joan Jett, KISS), and Mark Slaughter (Slaughter) to name a few.

Sierra’s powerful vocals, hard rocking guitar riffs, and relatable original songs always take every stage by storm!

Upcoming Tour Dates:
September 23, 2023 – Arnprior, ON at The Cupboard Restaurant
September 30, 2023 – Arnprior, ON at Urban Angus Steak and Wine
November 10, 2023 – Oshawa, ON at Biltmore Theatre opening for The Killer Dwarfs

For More Information Please Visit: Official Website – Facebook – Instagram – TikTok – YouTube – Twitter

GHØSTKID Release New Single ‘Heavy Rain’

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GHØSTKID are excited to unveil a brand new track, “HEAVY RAIN”. The accompanying video deals with the sensitive topic of domestic violence which may be triggering for some viewers.

GHØSTKID comments: ”’Heavy Rain’ was written during a time when I felt utterly miserable…
Even if the story of the song is written from the perspective of two lovers who are in a relationship it represents so much more. It is based on experiences that I have made over the past years and sadly I believe a lot of people can relate to them.
 
It is hard to find good people who really respect and love you the way you are. You should always be aware of people that abuse you just to make them feel superior. At some point you learn to deal with the pain, slowly it becomes a part of you – until the person you used to be no longer exists.
 
‘Heavy Rain’ describes the feeling of losing yourself under abuse and manipulation by a loved one. It is for everybody out there who had to to go through similar feelings. Try to stay strong and break the cycle. Search for help and do not let yourself down.
 
You are a good and valuable person and no one can take this away from you.
 
You are not alone! This song is for you.“

GHØSTKID kicked off 2023 supporting Bad Omens on their sold out European tour and played high profile European festivals such as Jera On Air (NL), Resurrection Fest (ES) and Wacken Open Air (DE) in the summer.

16.09.23 (UK) Manchester – Rebellion
17.09.23 (UK) Nottingham – Rescue Rooms
18.09.23 (UK) Birmingham – Asylum
19.09.23 (UK) Southampton – The Loft
20.09.23 (UK) Bristol – The Fleece
21.09.23 (UK) London – Boston Music Room

You can catch GHØSTKID on the following festivals:
23.06.23 (NL) Ysselsteyn – Jera On Air
30.06.23 (ES) Viveiro – Resurrection Fest
15.07.23 (DE) Weener, Stapelmoor – Free For All Festival
22.07.23 (DE) Dieburg – Traffic Jam Open Air
28.07.23 (FI) Oulo – Q-Stock Festival
29.07.23 (DE) Herzogenrath – Rodarock
04.08.23 (DE) Wacken – Wacken Open Air
26.08.23 (DE) Bad Dürkheim – Fallen Fortress Open Air

GHØSTKID online:
https://www.ghost-kid.de/
https://www.instagram.com/ghostkiddo/
https://twitter.com/iamghostkid
https://www.facebook.com/ghostkidofficial
https://vk.com/iamghostkid

SUFFOCATION Announce New Album “Hymns From The Apocrypha”

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New York death metal legends SUFFOCATION unleash their ninth full-length album Hymns From The Apocrypha on November 3rd via Nuclear Blast. The follow-up to …of the Dark Light (2017) and the first release featuring the new vocalist Ricky Meyers, pushes the band to the very edges of extremity and is arguably the group’s strongest-sounding, most sonically punishing album yet. SUFFOCATION have achieved death metal perfection. 

Today, the band offers fans the first taste of the album with the ferocious track ‘Seraphim Enslavement’. The menacing music video was directed and edited by Tom Flynn with character design by Kyle Monroe and is the perfect visual pairing to Ricky Myers’s monstrous vocals.

Derek Boyer comments, “This is my fifth full-length studio album with SUFFOCATION and this album came out SICK! It features all of the brutal, technical, chaotic twists and turns everyone would expect from SUFFOCATION, plus new elements that are out of the normal realm one might expect. This is the sophomore effort of working with Christian Donaldson (who mixed and mastered Live In North America) and he absolutely KILLED IT on this one!!!  We can’t wait to bring these songs to the stage and crush everything in our path!”

Ricky Myers states, “We are thrilled to unveil our 11th full-length album, Hymns From The Apocrypha, a creatively composed piece that blends our style of music with lyrical depth and intricate artwork. This album is a testament to our devotion to brutal music, which we display in the video of our single, ‘Seraphim Enslavement’, a visual journey that complements the album’s concept.”

Stream the new single ‘Seraphim Enslavement’, here: https://suffocation.bfan.link/sesg

Pre-order/pre-save Hymns From The Apocrypha, here: https://suffocation.bfan.link/hftaa

Hymns From The Apocrypha Tracklist
1. Hymns From The Apocrypha
2. Perpetual Deception
3. Dim Veil Of Obscurity
4. Immortal Execration
5. Seraphim Enslavement
6. Descendants
7. Embrace The Suffering
8. Delusions Of Mortality
9. Ignorant Deprivation.

SUFFOCATION has exclusive Hymns from the Apocrypha merch available at: www.nightshiftmerch.com/collections/suffocation

SUFFOCATION took about a month and a half to record Hymns from the Apocrypha. They holed up at Hobbs and Boyer’s InLine Studio in Long Island. The duo engineered and co-produced with Christian Donaldson (BENEATH THE MASSACRE, INGESTED), who was also re-enlisted to mix and master, with Dominic Grimard (CRYPTOPSY, SHADOW OF INTENT) assisting. With stunning cover art by Greek illustrator Giannis Nakos of Remedy Art Design (VOMITORY, THE CROWN), Hymns from the Apocrypha is characteristically SUFFOCATION. It’s uncompromisingly brutal, artistically gutsy, and aurally heavy. Clearly, SUFFOCATION, as they head into their 35th Anniversary, are at the peak of their potential. Death metal or die!

In addition, SUFFOCATION announced their extensive ‘Hymns From The Apocrypha European Tour 2024’ with SANGUISUGABOGG, ENTERPRISE EARTH, and ORGANECTOMY. The 31-date trek kicks off on January 24th in Dortmund and will make stops in Barcelona, Vienna, and Copenhagen before concluding in Antwerp on February 25th.

Terrance Hobbs states, “We’re beyond excited to see you all again for the ‘Hymns From The Apocrypha European Tour 2024’. We have a STACKED lineup for this one featuring the awesome SANGUISUSIBOGG, our friends ENTERPRISE EARTH, and the crushing ORGANECTOMY!! We’re coming to mash you into the dirt and drop some serious American Death Metal for your ears – hope to see all you death metal slam-infested freaks in the pit!”

Tickets for the tour go on sale Friday, 15th September 2023 at 11:00 CEST | 10:00 UK time.
Purchase your tickets here: https://lnk.to/SUFFOCATION-EU2024

Confirmed dates for SUFFOCATION’s ‘Hymns From The Apocrypha European Tour 2024’ are:

26.01.24 DE Dortmund – Junkyard
27.01.24 FR Paris – Petit Bain
28.01.24 FR Toulouse – Le Rex
29.01.24 ES Bilbao – Stage Live
30.01.24 ES Madrid – Mon Live
31.01.24 ES Barcelona – Salamandra
01.02.24 FR Lyon – MJC Ô Totem
02.02.24 CH Aarau – KiFF
03.02.24 IT Milan – Legend Club
04.02.24 AT Salzburg – Rockhouse
05.02.24 HU Budapest – Dürer Kert
06.02.24 AT Vienna – Viper Room
07.02.24 DE Munich – Backstage
08.02.24 DE Karlsruhe – Die Stadtmitte
09.02.24 DE Frankfurt – Das Bett
10.02.24 NL Drachten – Drachten Deathfest
11.02.24 DE Hannover – Faust
12.02.24 DK Copenhagen – Pumpehuset
13.02.24 DE Hamburg – Logo
14.02.24 PL Poznań – 2Progi
15.02.24 CZ Prague – Futurum
16.02.24 DE Chemnitz – AJZ
17.02.24 DE Berlin – Hole44
18.02.24 NL Tilburg – Poppodium 013
19.02.24 UK Bristol – The Fleece
20.02.24 UK Birmingham – Asylum
21.02.24 UK Glasgow – Slay
22.02.24 UK Manchester – Club Academy
23.02.24 UK London – O2 Academy Islington
24.02.24 UK Southampton – The Loft
25.02.24 BE Antwerp – Zappa 

VEXED Unleash Visualizer Video for ‘Lay down your flowers’, Feat. Lochie Keogh/Alpha Wolf

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After releasing their second beast of an album, Negative Energy, earlier this year, UK alt-metal outfit VEXED grace their fans with a new highlight, taken from their critically acclaimed offering. Today the band presents a visualizer video for the furious song “Lay down your flowers”. The track features special guest and Alpha Wolf vocalist Lochie Keogh and impresses with extreme vocals and bombarding drums.

As one of the hottest newcomers in alternative metal, VEXED have received great attention with recent Negative Energy and singles like “Anti-Fetish”. Amongst others, the track was aired on BBC’s Radio 1 Rock Show. On top of that, VEXED will bring Negative Energy to six intimate headline shows in the United Kingdom, starting October 10 in Glasgow this fall.

VEXED add:       
“This tour is so special to us because it is proof that no matter how dark things may get, there are always better days ahead. We invite you to join us in our healing process, a cathartic and brutal celebration of how hitting rock bottom has saved us.”

Megan Targett on “Lay down your flowers”:    
“‘The boy who cried wolf’ is a story that we are all familiar with. ‘Lay down your flowers’ is based on the vindication of the people who have had to endure living their lives in constant fear and threat of tragedy. 
Finding the courage to stand up to those who use your emotions and good nature to take advantage, and claiming back your sanity which was so manipulatively taken from you.”

Order the devastatingly heavy Negative Energy NOW

Negative Energy achieves pinnacle musicianship and gripping, profound and brave lyricism. Instead of opting for forced positivity like many of their contemporaries, the Hertfordshire three-piece channel every ounce of their current album into these 13 tracks – recharging themselves for an uphill battle.  Negative Energy proves itself as a stunning, devastating musical conduit – ventilating the band’s pain-stricken burdens and breathing life into their fresh approach, delivered with a vengeance.

Negative Energy Tracklisting:   
1. PTSD
2. Anti-Fetish
3. We don’t talk about it
4. X my ❤ (Hope to die)
5. Panic attack
6. Lay down your flowers
7. There’s no place like home
8. Extremist
9. Default
10. Trauma Euphoria
11. It’s not the end
12. DMT
13. Nepotism

VEXED UK Headline Tour 2023:
10.10.2023 – Glasgow / Audio (𝗟𝗢𝗪 𝗧𝗜𝗖𝗞𝗘𝗧𝗦)
11.10.2023 – Leeds / The Key Club (𝗟𝗢𝗪 𝗧𝗜𝗖𝗞𝗘𝗧𝗦)
12.10.2023 – Cardiff / Fuel Rock Club (𝗟𝗢𝗪 𝗧𝗜𝗖𝗞𝗘𝗧𝗦)
13.10.2023 – Birmingham / Devils Dog (𝗦𝗢𝗟𝗗 𝗢𝗨𝗧)
14.10.2023 – Southampton / Suburbia (𝗟𝗢𝗪 𝗧𝗜𝗖𝗞𝗘𝗧𝗦)
15.10.2023– Cambridge / The Six Six (𝗦𝗢𝗟𝗗 𝗢𝗨𝗧)

VEXED is:
Megan Targett – Vocals
Jay Bacon – Guitar
Willem Mason-Geraghty – Drums
 
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WATAIN to Release Live Album “Die In Fire – Live In Hell” on November 3rd

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To commemorate their 25th anniversary as a band, ruthless Swedish black metal collective WATAIN has announced the release of a live album titled Die In Fire – Live In Hell (Agony And Ecstasy Over Stockholm) which will be released on November 3rd, 2023 through Nuclear Blast Records.

After 25 years of madness and mayhem that manifested in seven studio albums, WATAIN‘s intense and much talked-about live rituals remain in a league of their own. Experience the raw power and fiery precision captured perfectly on this live recording from a sold out show that took place in October 2022 in Stockholm, and features fan favourites from albums such as Casus Luciferi, Lawless Darkness, The Wild Hunt, Trident Wolf Eclipse and of course the band’s latest offering, The Agony And Ecstasy of Watain, as well as the BATHORY cover ‘The Return Of Darkness And Evil’. The audio was recorded by Jamie Elton and mastered by Tore Stjerna at Necromorbus Studio.

With all artwork created by vocalist and front man Erik Danielsson, Die in Fire – Live in Hell is not only a sonic but also a visual reflection of WATAIN’s touring cycle for The Agony & Ecstasy of Watain, and beyond that a symbol of gratitude for their loyal followers worldwide! Die in Fire – Live in Hell is a very personal release dedicated to all those who have joined WATAIN on their path of lawless black metal darkness during the past 25 years.

WATAIN have shared a first single from Die In Fire – Live In Hell, the epic ‘Before The Cataclysm (Live In Stockholm 2022)’. Below you can watch a music video for this track, which was directed by Johan Bååth (Opus Diaboli, I’m in the Band). 

PRE-SAVE/PRE-ORDER DIE IN FIRE – LIVE IN HELL HERE: https://watain.bfan.link/die-in-fire-live-in-hell

Die In Fire – Live In Hell Tracklist
1. Ecstasies in Night Infinite (Live)
2. Black Salvation (Live)
3. The Howling (Live)
4. Black Flames March (Live)
5. Reaping Death (Live)
6. Devil’s Blood (Live)
7. Serimosa (Live)
8. Not Sun nor Man nor God (Live)
9. Before the Cataclysm (Live)
10. The Return of Darkness and Evil (Live)
11. Nuclear Alchemy (Live)
12. Malfeitor (Live)

Coinciding with the release, WATAIN will play two very special anniversary shows at UKK in their hometown Uppsala on Friday, November 3rd and Saturday, November 4th. The first night was sold out within minutes, so a second one was added and a few tickets are still available here: https://secure.tickster.com/sv/8ttcd34a5687cc9/selectproductgroup 

IBARAKI Share ‘Jigoku Dayū’ Video

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Trivium singer and guitarist Matthew Kiichi Heafy released RASHŌMON , the long-awaited and much-anticipated album from his IBARAKI project, last year via Nuclear Blast.

Today, Heafy has shared the video for “Jigoku Dayū,” which was directed by Black Card Films. Watch it below.

“When I first witnessed the original classic Japanese painting of Jigoku Dayū, I was mesmerized; then I read the story,” Heafy explains. “The story is one that still haunts me to this day: a woman captured, enslaved, and forced into a world of servitude. The kimono she forged for herself depicted all the scenes of hell — a metaphor of the prison she now lived in.”

ABOUT IBARAKI:
IBARAKI — the name for a terrifying Japanese demon taken from feudal legend and the new project of Trivium’s Matthew Kiichi Heafy — is more than a solo record. It’s the end-result of a journey of an artist finding his voice. Its inspirations include everything from an adoration for the extremes of black metal to the exuberant storytelling of Gerard Way to the adventuresome worldliness of tragic bon viveur Anthony Bourdain. It’s a reflection of Kiichi’s multifaceted interests as well as a profound affirmation of his Japanese-American identity, and one that led him to confront one of his family’s most tragic moments. Like the artist behind it, there is much to the story of Ibaraki and it began with a timid email to one of black metal’s most revered and influential figures.

Listen to the full album here: https://ibaraki.bfan.link/rashomon