PREYRS, a visceral new force in alternative rock and metal, announce their birth onto the world stage, with debut single ‘Wave of Wisdom’ – out now via Pelagic Records.
PREYRS is the brainchild of Belfast rock artist Amy Montgomery and drummer/producer Michael Mormecha. Fusing raw alternative rock energy with the weight of metal, the quartet’s music is an electrifying clash of aggression and euphoria, darkness and uplift, chaos and control. Elements of artists as disparate as Nine Inch Nails, Chelsea Wolfe, Sonic Youth, and Julie Christmas combine to delirious and heady effect.
Debut single ‘Wave of Wisdom’ is a perfect introduction to the band, encapsulating their fierce yet gothic anthemic sound – where healing and rage collide in perfect harmony. A defiantly discordant clash of alt-folk slide guitar, and Mormecha’s pummelling industrial percussion, ‘Wave of Wisdom’ provides a great bedrock for Amy‘s incandescent delivery of uncertainty.
Of the new single, Amy comments: “‘Wave of Wisdom’ is about turning pain into power – tracing the roots of trauma through our own history and the wider collective to find truth, strength, and healing. It’s a raw reclamation of voice, born from the fire. It was written during a stark Canadian winter on Wolfe Island, looking out over the frozen expanse of Lake Ontario, a setting that mirrored the stillness, intensity, and clarity of the song’s creation. Self-produced by PREYRS drummer Michael Mormecha at Tree Song Studios, Ireland and mixed by Alex Loring.”
Busking on the streets of Belfast from the age of 15, Amy Montgomery met multi-instrumentalist Michael Mormecha a few years later and they’ve been working together ever since. Both songwriters in their own right, Michael fronted renowned Irish post-hardcore outfit Mojo Fury and worked as a producer for artists including The Bonnevilles, Mojo Fury and Joshua Burnside. They’re joined as PREYRS by longtime guitarist Nolan Donelly and new bass player Ciarán McGreevy.
Known for electrifying live performances, PREYRS will have their UK festival debut at Bloodstock Open Air this August, as well as appearing at Stendhal Festival in Ireland. Nominated as ‘Best Live Act’ and ‘Best Artist’ at the Northern Ireland Music Prize, Amy’s undeniably fierce and captivating frontperson energy has been her secret weapon often described as ‘otherworldly’ or ‘a force of nature’. For those seeking the epic, the healing, the aggressive and the unrelenting pulse of alternative rock and metal, PREYRS is it.
PREYRS will be supporting punk legends New Model Army across Europe this winter.
All PREYRS live dates:
August 7-10 Bloodstock Open Air UK (New Blood Stage)
September 27 Dogfest (Ferocious Dog) UK
November 11 Legend Club, Milan IT (Supporting New Model Army) 12 Fri-Son, Fribourg CH (Supporting New Model Army) 13 Halle 02, Heidelberg DE (Supporting New Model Army) 14 Sudhaus, Tübingen DE (Supporting New Model Army) 15 Meet Factory, Prague CZ (Supporting New Model Army) 17 Werk2, Leipzig DE (Supporting New Model Army) 18 Capitol, Hannover DE (Supporting New Model Army) 19 Aladdin Music Hall, Bremen DE (Supporting New Model Army) 20 Jovel, Munster DE (Supporting New Model Army) 21 Venlo, Grenswerk NL (Supporting New Model Army) 28 Kyttaro, Athens GR (Supporting New Model Army) 29 Mylos Club, Thessaloniki GR(Supporting New Model Army)
December 20 Palladium, Cologne DE (Supporting New Model Army) 21 Melkweg, Amsterdam NL (Supporting New Model Army)
THOR, the strongman of rock and the only Asgardian deity with a 50 year career in hard rock and metal, follows the release last month of his Rock The Universe album with a new single, “Mama Let Him Play,” and a dynamite new video, shot at the bookstore launch of comedian/author Robert Dayton’s just-published (and hitherto untold) history of Canadian Glam, Cold Glitter.
It’s a unique, but wholly understandable tie-in. Thor naturally plays a large part in the story, while the venue for the book launch, Neptoon Records in Vancouver BC, has been a staunch Thor supporter for years.
In fact, Thor recorded the vocals for Rock The Universe in the rooms above the store, where Neptoon owner Rob Frith’s son Ben operates Waffle House Sound studios.
Author Dayton, too, is a part of the story, and the video – that’s him singing along with Thor and guitarist Frank Soda, and clowning around as well, a potent reminder of one of Thor’s most heartfelt maxims, that “Heavy Rock does not always have to be so serious. There should always be an element of fun to rock’n’roll.”
Dayton even gets to manhandle Thor’s hammer, Mjolnir, for a while. Pretty impressive for a mere mortal. And there’s also a guest appearance from Canadian journalist and musician Nardwuar, the self-styled Human Serviette!
The second single to thunder out of Rock The Universe (following that devastating cover of The Sweet’s “Action”) back in May, “Mama Let Him Play” was a massive, platinum award winning Canadian hit for the band Doucette in 1977 – in fact, Thor was so impressed by it that he was performing it on his 1978-79 Keep The Dogs Away tour.
Thor continues, “Jerry Doucette was a stellar Canadian artist and I always loved this song. It never became a big hit outside of Canada, but I wanted to tribute Jerry and his band Doucette by giving it a re-charge with this single release and video.
“It’s a catchy and fun song, as you can see all the people’s smiling faces and those singing along in the video.”
As for Rock The Universe itself, the action does not end with “Action” and “Mama.” Eleven tracks, all covers, range across the the classic rock spectrum, from an impassioned take on Eric Burdon’s epic “Sky Pilot” and The Doors’ “Love Me Two Times,” to a spellbinding medley of Deep Purple’s “Highway Star” and “Black Night,” and a raucously riffing take on The Yardbirds’ “Heart Full Of Soul,” described by ‘birds drummer and founder member Jim McCarty as “a pretty forceful version… he does seem to have the essence of the song (in a heavy metal way).”
Thor explains, “In the 1970s I toured extensively, over 300 days a year across North America, and Rock The Universe is chock-full of songs from that era. These are favorite songs of mine that we played each night, and thus enabled myself and the band to become seasoned performers.
“It also gave me the opportunity, almost 50 years later, to join forces again with Frank Soda to lay down those magical tracks we played live from yesteryear, that would fuel our tours. Songs by our heroes.” Al Harlow (Prism) and Ray Roper (Stonebolt) complete the album line-up, and it was produced by Kevin Stuart Swain, who also played multiple instruments on it. When Thor describes their performances as “stellar,” it’s not hyperbole.
A thunderous take on The Beatles’s “Back In The USSR” is as fab as the foursome that performed the original; and, in case anyone should need a break from the mayhem,Thor also takes on one of the most underrated ballads in Ray Davies’s entire Kinky kanon, the 1966 b-side “I’m Not Like Everybody Else.”
In fact, even as we rock out to “Mama Let Him Play,” Thor is hard at work on his next video, for that very song, with the promise “There’s a lot of special effects and prosthetics involved.”
Alcázares, the long-awaited third album by Franco-Spanish conquistadors IMPUREZA is out now and streaming now on the Season of Mist YouTube channel. The album marks the band’s return to the frontline of extreme metal with a work as steeped in mysticism as it is in violence.
Conceptually rooted in the Spanish Reconquista (722–1492), Alcázares unfolds as a fantastical and historical epic: eleven tracks channeling the collapse of Islamic Iberia and the merciless rise of Christian dominion.
Fusing guttural death metal with flamenco guitar, orchestral flourishes, and Spanish-language vocals, IMPUREZA construct a sonic Alcázar; where the sacred and savage co-exist. Tracks such as “Reconquistar Al-Ándalus” and “Castigos Eclesiásticos” invoke the spiritual violence of holy war, portraying crusading zeal and inquisitorial cruelty with an unflinching eye. Elsewhere, instrumentals like “Verdiales” and “Murallas” serve as meditative interludes between blood-soaked battle hymns. The album’s palette is one of dust, fire, and faith, evoking both historical myth and fantastical dread.
Recorded and mixed by Sébastien Camhi at Studio Artmusic (France) and mastered by Jacob Hansen (Denmark), Alcázares is elevated by guest contributions from Xavier Hamon (percussion) and Louis Viallet (orchestration).
With Alcázares, IMPUREZA have carved their boldest statement to date: an ode to a violent past, where the sword and cross met in a storm of steel and ash.
Tracklist: 1. Verdiales (1:15) 2. Bajo las Tizonas de Toledo (6:25) 3. Covadonga (4:01) 4. Pestilencia (4:44) 5. Reconquistar Al-Ándalus (5:25) 6. Murallas (2:24) 7. La Orden del Yelmo Negro (4:57) 8. Castigos Eclesiásticos (6:06) 9. El Ejército de los Fallecidos de Alarcos (5:18) 10. Ruina del Alcázar (1:37) 11. Santa Inquisición (6:26) Full runtime: 49:02
IMPUREZA is a Franco-Spanish metal band formed in 2004 by guitarist Lionel Cano Muñoz from Orléans. Their music is distinguished by a unique fusion of extreme metal and Spanish sounds inspired by Andalusian culture and flamenco, creating an atypical style known as Hispanic Metal. IMPUREZA remains an innovative project in the international metal scene, making it a pioneer of the genre.
Concept:
The entire concept of the band revolves around the voluptuousness of Latin atmospheres, the ferocity of metal, and Spanish culture and history, explored through a fictional and esoteric aspect. Their compositions feature both clean and guttural vocals sung in the language of Cervantes, flamenco guitar, acoustic fretless bass, extreme metal, and orchestral arrangements that evoke the colors of Spain. The very essence of their music lies in the duality between two seemingly opposed musical genres, which, through clever composition, give birth to a new and avant-garde style. Their fiery music is literally the union of traditional Hispanic folklore and extreme metal. These metal warriors brandish their Iberian sounds as weapons with pride. This ingenious alliance is matched only by the singular and unprecedented creative originality of its founder Lionel Cano Muñoz and his compañero Esteban Martín, both of Spanish nationality. IMPUREZA’s conquistadors draw inspiration from their strong identity, which defines the band’s very essence. Often nicknamed the “French Nile” due to their primary influences, combining the complex and brutal lines of death metal with the most ardent and undulating Latin flames. IMPUREZA‘s members are also influenced by many Spanish artists such as flamenco guitarist Paco de Lucía and gypsy singer Camarón de la Isla, as well as bands like Behemoth, Morbid Angel, Krisiun, and Fleshgod Apocalypse, among others.
Let the conquistadors of IMPUREZA lead you into their realm and immerse you in Spanish culture with a groundbreaking musical concept — the one and only fierce guardians of Hispanic Metal!
Production Credits: Recorded & mixed by Sébastien Camhi at Studio Artmusic, Les Arc-sur-Argens, France. Mastered by Jacob Hansen at Hansen Studios, Ribe, Denmark.
Guest Musicians: Xavier Hamon – Percussion Louis Viallet – Orchestration
Yesterday, on Friday 11th July, Canadian roots, rock, and soul band Bywater Call released “Love The One You’re With,” their second single of 2025 and second official live release. The single is available to streamHERE.
The live track is taken from their forthcoming live album Sunshine released on Friday 22nd August. The album is available to pre-order on CD and vinyl HERE.
“Love The One You’re With” is a dynamic, extended cover of the beloved Stephen Stills tune and a favourite of Bywater Call concert goers. The live take comes from one of the band’s two sold-out shows at the historic Rivoli in Toronto, Canada in December 2024.
“This song a great representation of our live show and the chemistry between all the band members,” says lead singer Meghan Parnell. “You really get to hear the power of the vocal and then the craftsmanship of the instrumentalists as I step away from the mic and really let them do their thing. No live version of this song is the same. Every time we perform it, it’s a journey.”
“Nothing approaches the absolute joy of watching this band from the crowded comfort of a noisy club. Meghan is without question up there with the all-time great vocalists! One hell of a performance.” – R’N’R Magazine
“A musical experience that will stay with you forever. With expert craftsmanship, stylistic versatility, and an emotionality that gets under your skin. One of the strongest live bands around.” – JazzandRock.com
“You may not know what you’ll hear on any given night, but you are guaranteed to have more than a memorable experience and to be dazzled by some stellar musicianship.” – Great Dark Wonder
Sunshine is Bywater Call’s first live album. It features a mix of newly released music, including the cover of Stephen Stills’ “Love The One You’re With” and the funky new original title-track “Sunshine” (previously released as a single in May 2025), plus fan favourites “As If,” “Sign of Peace,” and “Everybody Knows” from 2024’s Shepherd album, and “Bring Me Down” taken from their 2019 self-titled debut album. The highly anticipated live album is an epic, energetic revelation for the uninitiated, and perfect snapshot as to why Bywater Call are winning new fans across the globe.
Songs feature extended jams, fiery solos, and haunting introductions from shows in Toronto, Canada, Woodstock, New York, USA and Newbury, UK.
The live album features the extraordinary talents of Dave Barnes (guitar, slide), Mike Meusel (bass), Bruce McCarthy (drums), John Kervin (keyboards), Julian Nalli (sax), and Stephen Dyte (trumpet). Together, the band command the innate ability to improvise, innovate and play off each other, while highlighting the gritty, dynamic, and emotive vocals of lead singer Meghan Parnell. It is a true reflection of the heart and sweat poured out on stage every night.
The live album was recorded and mixed by drummer Bruce McCarthy and mastered by Kristian Montano (Montano Mastering).
“SUNSHINE” ALBUM TRACK LISTING:
Sunshine (4:39) – Recorded at Arlington Arts, Newbury, UK
Bring Me Down (9:52) – Recorded at Colony, Woodstock, NY, USA
As If (6:49) – Recorded at Colony, Woodstock, NY, USA
Love the One You’re With (10:03) – Recorded at The Rivoli, Toronto, Canada
Sign of Peace (6:31) – Recorded at The Rivoli, Toronto, Canada
Everybody Knows (8:04) – Recorded at The Rivoli, Toronto, Canada
Often transcending genres, Bywater Call is known for their dynamic, emotional live shows, featuring powerful vocals and exciting interplay between all band members.
In their August 2024 issue, Classic Rock Magazine made Bywater Call’s 2024 album Shepherd their “Blues Album of the Month”, and said it was “an inventive and uncommonly catchy record,” and added, “the sense of a band on the brink is unmistakable.” The album was also selected as the “Top Blues Album of the Year” in the magazine’s year-end round-up.
In November 2025, they will headline their third UK tour and play Planet Rock’s Planet Rockstock Festival in Wales on 27th November.
NEWCASTLE, ANARCHY BREW SATURDAY 22 NOVEMBER 2025- Tickets: The Gig Cartel Benfield Business Park, Unit A1, Benfield Rd, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, NE6 4NQ www.anarchybrewco.com/events
CANADA/USA: JULY/AUGUST/ SEPTEMBER 2025 JULY 19 | BÉCANCOUR, QC | Au Son De Moulin Blues et Gin JULY 25 | FORT LANGLEY, BC | Fort Langley Jazz & Arts Festival JULY 26 & 27 | SALMON ARM, BC | Salmon Arm Roots & Blues Festival JULY 31 & AUG 1 | MAMMOTH LAKES, CA | Festival of Beers & Bluesapalooza AUG 2 | LOS ANGELES, CA | The Mint AUG7 | SANFRANCISCO | Biscuits and Blues AUG 9 | SAN JOSE, CA | San Jose Jazz Festival AUG 15 | MADISON, IN | Madison Ribberfest AUG 16 | OMAHA, NE | Playing with Fire Festival AUG 24 | VICTORIA, BC | Harbour Blues n’ Roots Festival SEPT 20 | THURMOND, NC | The Stage @ Jones Von Drehle SEPT 24 | ELKTON, MD | Elkton Music Hall OCT 3 | TORONTO, ON | TD Music Hall
EU/UK: OCTOBER/ NOVEMBER 2025 25.10 | Erfurt, DE | Winter Blues Festival 26.10 | Weert, NL | De Bosuil 27.10 | Utrecht, NL | Tivoli 28.10 | Verviers, BE | Spirit of 66 29.10 | Zwickau, DE | St. Barbara 30.10 Isernhagen, DE | Blues Garage 31.10 Joldelund, DE | Gerd’s Juke Joint 1.11 | Joldelund, DE | Gerd’s Juke Joint 2.11 | Bonn, DE | Harmonie 3.11 | Solothurn, CH | Kofmehl 5.11 | Barcelona, ES | Sala Wolf 6.11 | Zaragoza, ES | Rock and Blues Cafe 7.11 | Valencia, ES | Loco Club 8.11 | Granada, ES | Sala Tren 9.11 | Jerez, ES | La Guarida del Angel 11.11 | A Coruña, ES | Sala Mardi Gras 12.11 | Madrid, ES | Sala Copernico 14.11 | Landerneau, FR | Centre Culturel Le Family 15.11 | Penmarch, FR | Cap Caval 19.11 | London, UK | The Garage 20.11 | Southend, UK | Chinnerys 21.11 | Gloucester, UK | Guild Hall 22.11 | Newcastle, UK | Anarchy Brew Co 23.11 | Glasgow, UK | Oran Mor 25.11 | Leeds, UK | Nath Brudenell 26.11 | Manchester, UK | Band on the Wall 27.11 | Porthcawl, UK | Planet Rockstock 28.11 | Southampton, UK | The Brook 29.11 | Faversham, UK | The Old Brewery Store
ABOUT BYWATER CALL Often transcending genres, Bywater Call is known for their dynamic, emotional live shows, featuring powerful vocals and exciting interplay between all band members. A powerhouse seven-piece Southern soul, roots rock outfit from Toronto, Canada; the band is comprised of Meghan Parnell (vocals), Dave Barnes (guitar), Bruce McCarthy (drums), Mike Meusel (bass), newest member, John Kervin (keys), Stephen Dyte (trumpet) and Julian Nalli (tenor sax).
Bywater Call was nominated for the “2025 UK Blues Award” for “International Blues Artist of the Year” for the second consecutive year, alongside artists including Beth Hart and Walter Trout. The band has also received multiple Independent “Blues and Canadian Maple Blues Award” nominations including “Entertainer,” “Electric Act,” and “Best Female Vocalist” at the 2024 Awards Season.
In March, Bywater Call played their second Joe Bonamassa “Keeping the Blues Alive” (KTBA) cruise, featuring headliners Big Head Todd and the Monsters and Larkin Poe. In 2025, they play the Netherland’s BOSPOP festival alongside the likes of the Black Keys, Snow Patrol, Beth Hart, and Melissa Ethridge.
The band has opened for Canadian award-winning musicians Whitehorse and Tom Cochrane, and singer Meghan has joined renowned pedal-steel guitarist Robert Randolph on stage at his request.
Their newest album Shepherd has garnered rave reviews from fans and media alike and was selected as the Blues Album of the Year by UK’s Classic Rock Magazine. Band leaders Meghan Parnell and Dave Barnes were featured on the cover of Blues in Britain in January of 2025.
In 2024 alone, the band played 140 shows across 10 countries. Bywater Call’s music is an exploration of life’s highs and lows. From intimate ballads that lay bare the complexities of human emotion to electrifying anthems that demand to be played at full volume, their catalogue is a journey through human experience, featuring influences from the likes of The Band, The Wood Brothers, Tedeschi Trucks Band, Otis Redding, Little Feat, Sly and the Family Stone, and many more.
The virtuosic talisman Vernon Reid has announced details of his new solo album Hoodoo Telemetry, which will be released on October 3, 2025 on Artone / The Players Club Records. To celebrate he has revealed the video for the first single, The Haunting, which you can watch HERE.
If you’ve followed the beats of his half-century career, you’ll know Vernon Reid as an artist who paints in every colour. Depending on the era you dive into and the album on your turntable, you’ll find the New York polymath pinballing between jazz, metal, punk, funk, electronica and hip-hop, cutting heads with collaborators as eclectic as Mick Jagger and Public Enemy, endlessly shedding his skin yet always speaking his truth.
Globally celebrated as a giant of electric guitar (he was recently hailed by Rolling Stone amongst the top 50 players of all-time), Reid’s Grammy Award-winning records with alt-rock trailblazers, Living Colour, still sound as fresh and fierce as when Cult Of Personality hijacked the Billboard chart in the late-’80s. But to take the pulse of the zeitgeist as he sees it – and hear his fearless musicality in microcosm – you need only drop the needle on his new solo album.
Hoodoo Telemetry,” considers the 66-year-old of this kaleidoscopic 14-track opus, “is like a piece of my all-over-the-place mind. It took me a while to start this record because I was thinking about what I wanted to do next, managing my time with all my other projects. I was also in different spaces with these songs: some are new, others are reclamations of material from a long time ago. But suddenly, I found the focus and it was very clear to me: I gotta do this now.”
The overdriven funk bassline and glistening soul of first single, The Haunting finds Reid tipping his hat to a fellow chameleon (“I’m a huge Prince fan and there’s some of who he was in that song’s DNA”), before the scratch ‘n’ glitch of the brass-driven Bronx Paradox salutes the New York neighbourhood’s greatest musical export. “I wrote that in tribute to DJ Logic,” he explains. “Everybody considered the Bronx a wasteland, a warzone. But with hip-hop, those kids created the final original music of the 20th century.”
Hoodoo Telemetry isn’t a linear piece, but a thrillingly tangled tapestry of genres, collaborators and material from different time periods. Its energy and chaos seems to reflect and challenge what Reid considers the “tumultuous” Living Colour, Reid’s best-known band burst into bloom on a New York live circuit that was more fluid than ever before or since. “We had an ecology of clubs to play at, from CBGBs to the Cat Club and the Ritz,” he recalls of the first steps of a solidified lineup featuring Corey Glover (vocals), Muzz Skillings (bass) and Will Calhoun (drums).
Carried by word of mouth, the tinderbox was already set to explode when the patronage of Mick Jagger sent the band over the top, the Rolling Stones singer manning the desk for their demos. “He worked on Glamour Boys and Which Way To America?” explains Reid, “and he was a great producer. He really coached Corey along. But it was so fundamentally weird that he entered our lives. I didn’t know where to put my hands.”
Seizing his opportunity, Reid threw everything on his mental jukebox at Living Colour’s deathless debut, 1988’s Vivid. “You had Broken Hearts on the same album as Cult Of Personality,” he points out of a tracklisting where anything could happen. “We might be playing metal one moment then writing a country song with hip-hop the next. Or Funny Vibe, which is like prog-folk informed by King Crimson.”
Sailing to #6 on the US Billboard chart – and ultimately double-platinum status – Vivid proved adventurous music could still sell by the ton. The following year, a support on the Stones’ Steel Wheels/Urban Jungle tour bumped their profile – and gave Reid a close-up glimpse at the rock ‘n’ roll super-league. “Backstage on that Stones tour they had all the parlour games – I remember Bill Wyman kicking my ass at ping-pong!”
Alongside Living Colour’s six albums and counting, Reid has worn a thousand different hats since those breakout years, whether producing Grammy-nominated albums for the likes of Salif Keita, composing hit movie scores or lending his guitar skills to a who’s who including Janet Jackson, B.B. King, Tracy Chapman and Mariah Carey.
No doubt, it’s these competing demands that mean Reid’s solo career (which began with 1996’s Mistaken Identity) has lain dormant since 2004’s Known Unknown. “But with everything that’s been happening, suddenly I had a focus,” he says of the febrile context to Hoodoo Telemetry. “Y’know, the world is a ball on a pendulum. It swings. Right now, we’re living through unprecedented times, and not just in America.”
In hard times, Hoodoo Telemetry doesn’t have the answers. But to play Vernon Reid’s breathtakingly ambitious new album is to hear every shade of humanity and question where we are headed next. “These songs are looking at the past through a different lens, then looking forward,” he concludes. “Like, ‘Where is this going and how are we getting there? Are we driving the bus or are we passengers in this self-driving vehicle into the future?’ That’s the space that Hoodoo Telemetry is really exploring…”
Track Listing – CD/Digital 1. Door Of No Return 2. Freedom Jazz Dance 3. Good Afternoon Everyone 4. The Haunting 5. Bronx Paradox 6. Or Knot 7. Dying To Live 8. Politician 9. Black Fathom Five 10. Beautiful Bastard 11. Meditation On The Last Times I Saw Arthur Rhames 12. My Little Zulu Babe 13. In Effigy 14. Brave New World
Track Listing – LP
A1 Door of No Return A2 Freedom Jazz Dance A3 Good Afternoon Everyone A4 The Haunting A5 Dying To Live B1 Politician B2 Black Fathom Five B3 Beautiful Bastard B4 My Little Zulu Babe B5 In Effigy
Time To Kill Records is proud to announce the signing of MY OWN VOICE for the release of their upcoming album.
The record will mark a new chapter for the long-running hardcore outfit from Milan, Italy, active for over two decades in the European DIY scene and ready to return with new music.
Title, artwork, tracklist, and the first previews of the new record will be announced soon.
While more details about the album are yet to be revealed, the band will hit the road this summer for a European tour across Croatia, Hungary, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Poland, and Germany. Here are the confirmed dates:
18.07 Sawa Fest – Zupanja (HR) 19.07 PaVa Rock – Zirc (HU) 20.07 Vegallomas – Szombathely (HU) 21.07 Garage – Bratislava (SK) 22.07 Rockhill Club – Ostrava (CZ) 23.07 Syrena Squat – Warsaw (PL) 24.07 Club Alive – Wroclaw (PL) 25.07 Crossover Festival – Grimma (DE) 25.07 Koepi – Berlin (DE) 26.07 Festa de la Pohoda – Vodnany (CZ)
MY OWN VOICE was formed in Milan in 2001, emerging from the city’s hardcore DIY scene, where they are now among its longest-standing acts. The band delivers fast, modern hardcore rooted in the old school tradition, enriched with melodic elements, singalongs, and heavy breakdowns.
Over the years, they have toured extensively throughout Europe and Southeast Asia, sharing the stage with genre icons such as Sick Of It All, H2O, Youth of Today, and many more. Always on the frontline of Milan’s DIY movement, they’ve organized shows and festivals, joined collectives, and actively supported squats and autonomous spaces.
MY OWN VOICE have released several studio albums featuring guest appearances by friends they’ve met along the way, including Punkreas, Straight Opposition, Krav Boca, Face Your Enemy, and others. Their tracks have appeared on compilations across Europe, Southeast Asia, North and South America.
The band continues to uphold and promote antifascist, anti-racist values and a deeply rooted DIY ethic.
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