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PAST FIVE Start Revolution With New “Dop(e)amine” Music Video And Single

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Swedish post-punk/alt-metal band PAST FIVE have revealed a music video for their new single Dop(e)amine. The video was directed by Alexander Pettersson & Rasmus Klasson of Recvidd. Watch the music video right now via YouTube, below.

The track is a soaring rock anthem about the will to change the world, and the consequences thereof. For some, a change can be positive but for others, that same change can tip the balance of the universe and affect others with devastating consequences. Will the changes you make in life improve or destroy the lives of others? The track was produced by Jonathan Wallin.

“Filming this video was a truly unique experience where we learned quite a lot about ourselves as a band, the people around us, and how it feels to record a serious video with so many people in motion” says bassist Alexander Orlov. “We also got a perspective of how many people actually care about what we do, and that we are surrounded by a great crowd of people that support us in what we are trying to achieve.” Guitarist Jonathan Yderhag adds, “We really enjoyed shooting this video, it almost felt like playing live again which is a feeling we have missed badly.”

Australian THE UGLY KINGS Sign Worldwide Record Deal With Napalm Records

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[photo credit: Stephen Boxshall (Rag and Bone Photography)]

Napalm Records is pleased to announce that Australian blues-rocking powerhouse THE UGLY KINGS have inked a worldwide record deal with the premium Austrian rock and metal label!

The uprising foursome offers a strong injection of energy and emotion while interweaving catchy riffs and stomping rhythms with deep reaching, soulful vocals. After releasing a first glimpse with the mini-album Of Sins in 2015, THE UGLY KINGS unveiled their top-notch debut, Darkness Is My Home, three years later. The band’s latest offering, the two-track EP Gypsy Queen, is another high energy hard rock outburst, fanning the fires of a bright future!

Achieved in only a short time, THE UGLY KINGSalready boast an impressive number of shows and have shared the stage with high-class bands like Airbourne, Papa Roach, 1000mods and Rival Sons. During this adventurous journey, the Melbourne based unit gathered a huge amount of fans along the way and convinced their well-known colleagues as well: “The Ugly Kings have really got their own thing going on and it rocks! I love all the dynamics, pushing and pulling and then always smashing it out. Great intensity and power,” said Joel O’Keeffe (Airbourne frontman and lead guitarist).

THE UGLY KINGS is currently working on their second full-length album – more to be announced soon!

THE UGLY KINGS on the signing:
“It is with great honour and excitement that we join the mighty Napalm Records family! On the brink of recording our brand new album, we feel this partnership comes at the perfect time in our career. We look forward to a long and fruitful relationship with Napalm Records and we can’t wait to release new music in 2021!”

Napalm Records A&R Sebastian Muench states:
“We are super excited to announce the signing of one of the most talented Blues Rock bands ever! THE UGLY KINGS, hailing from Melbourne, released an amazing album in 2018, Darkness Is My Home, and we anticipate a new hard blues rock masterpiece is just on the horizon! Welcome to the Napalm family!”

Enjoy this energizing blues rock attitude and listen to the soulful tunes of “Promised Land”, taken from the debut album, Darkness Is My Home, here:

DAKAR Release Cover For TOM PETTY’s “You Wreck Me”, Now Streaming

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American alt-rock outfit DAKAR are back in March with ‘Over the Line‘, their first release of 2021. To preview the new song, the Florida-based foursome now has a cover of Tom Petty’s “You Wreck Me” available on Spotify and other streaming services.

Stream “You Wreck Me” here: https://www.dakar.band/youwreckme or via Youtube:

David Benfield and Darrell Edmunds co-front the band and say it’s the first time they’ve ever produced something in the recording studio that wasn’t written by them.

“It’s always been a fun one to play live,” said Edmunds. “We thought it would be worth tracking in the studio, if for no other reason than to give tribute to such a massive influence on our work”.

The upcoming single release is one of several new songs to drop through the spring in advance of live dates this summer.

Stream and buy the band’s ‘Come and Get it’ EP here: https://open.spotify.com/artist/7uZPyjVxvxtrGty44uszNV?si=H-XHSddJQ16DbBZzqcQkkQ

available through CD Baby and on every other major streaming platforms

‘Come and Get it’ track listing:

Escape From New York
Come and Get It
Empire Dreams

Also watch
‘Empire Dreams’ lyric video: https://youtu.be/NhBCBvROZKw
‘Escape From New York’ – demo video: https://youtu.be/CHO8kSNNSLs

“You either bleed out or you learn to grow from the scars!”

DAKAR is a rock band from Duval County, Florida, named after the street in the Murray Hill neighborhood where it was founded by David Benfield and Darrell Edmunds in 2015. The songwriting pair based their work in the style of 90s alternative and evolved from there, incorporating elements of indie, punk, modern, and southern rock with an unabashed penchant for pro-democracy, anti-facist, pro-diversity, anti-racist themes. Their EP, Come and Get It is now available for purchase and streaming on various platforms.

More information at https://www.dakar.band – https://www.facebook.com/dakartheband

TOMBS Share New Music Video For “Secrets of the Black Sun”

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Brooklyn/New Jersey metal formation TOMBS are now sharing a brand new music video for the song “Secrets of the Black Sun,” which is taken from 2020’s full-length, ‘Under Sullen Skies.’ The video, which was created by Aimed and Framed, can be seen at THIS LOCATION.

ICYMI: TOMBS bassist Drew Murphy (HAMMER FIGHT, KALOPSIA) has given an up close and personal tour of his expansive bass collection in a new gear rundown video! You can check out his gear collection and learn about his history as a bassist at THIS LOCATION.

TOMBS‘ latest full-length, ‘Under Sullen Skies’ was released in November of 2020. The record has been named one of the best metal releases of 2020 by Metal Insider, Decibel Magazine, The Pit, Riff Magazine, Chicago Music Guide’s Global Music Podcast, and others while drummer Justin Spaeth has been dubbed one of the best drummers of 2020 by Sick Drummer Magazine.

In addition, TOMBS previously premiered the official music video for their new song, “The Hunger,” which pays homage to cinema’s most infamous vampires! The song and video, which was created by Jaclyn Sheer, can be found at THIS LOCATION.

‘Under Sullen Skies’ can be streamed, downloaded, and ordered HERE.

THE OWEN GUNS Release New Single And Video ‘Sick’

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THE OWEN GUNS dropped their latest EP Violating Community Standards in August last year and the controversial (albeit tongue in cheek) band caused quite a stir. ‘Sick’ is the first single from their new EP: EP 2 Electric Boogaloo which is out in late May on Riot Records/Golden Robot Records.

Sick is a punchy hardcore punk rock tune dedicated to the morons who thought it was a good idea to stockpile toilet paper during a pandemic. Short, sharp, and angry – it pulls no punches.  Co-written by Adam Check of Toe to Toe/One Dollar short.

Electric Boogaloo was Recorded and Mixed by Geoff Mullard at RTN studios and mastered by Jason Fuller at Goatsound, It’s 7 tracks which range from furious to funny, blending old-school hardcore with sing along punk rock and adding a metal edge. Full of blazing solos and group choruses – there’s never a lull from the onslaught of punk rock yet the band even have time to show their “sensitive” side with a faithful cover of the Hard-ons Aussie punk classic Just Being With You.  The guitar thrashes and wails, the bass and drums pound and the vocalist rants and raves at everything that annoys him. It’s an EP that shows the band in full flight.  No prisoners taken, no fu**s given. It’s raw and raucous – just how punk should be.  

Listen/Stream Sick HERE

The Owen Guns are a hardcore punk band based in NSW with members split b/w Sydney and the South coast. Although they’re a new band, The Owen Guns are made up of veterans of the live music scene – the members have paid their dues playing not only in Australian bands but also in the case of the vocalist and drummer in Canada and China respectively. 

Unlike most of the current crop of punk bands, there are no fake American accents or fear of offending people here. They don’t take themselves (or anyone else) too seriously and aren’t afraid to call it how they see it.  The Owen Guns have just recorded a 2^nd EP of hardcore punk tunes that will bring the riffs and the laughs. Keep an ear out.

SUFFOCATE FOR FUCK SAKE Premiere Second Single ’15 Missed Calls’ From Upcoming Album

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April 16th 2021 will see Swedish Post Metal act SUFFOCATE FOR FUCK SAKE release their highly anticipated full-length album, titled “Fyra”, via Moment Of Collapse Records. Following their critically acclaimed 2017 record, “In My Blood”, the septet is a true master of their craft and creates and incredible depressing and daunting atmosphere, that feels absolutely emotional and authentic. Today Suffocate For Fuck Sake unleashed “15 Missed Calls”, the second single taken from the band’s upcoming album, streaming here:

Next to their dark, nihilistic sound a trademark of the band was always the added swedish samples (taken from interviews and podcasts). On “Fyra” the samples deal with addiction shown in four different shapes that also mark the different chapters of the album.

“The second single from our upcoming album “Fyra” introduces the character Mikael, who suffers from a long drug addiction and lost the stable enviroment around him and also distances more and more from his family. This song features Arvid Ringborg from Vi Som Älskade Varandra Så Mycket as guest-vocalist.” the band comments