Hard rock guitar legend Pat Travers continues his deep dive into the concert archive with one of the earliest concerts yet, Heat In The Street Tour – 1978, recorded at the Cleveland Agora, and hitting the streets in just a few weeks time, on May 30.
First, however, a new single peels away the album, a seething rendition of the title track readying the world for one of the most explosive shows he ever played.
Newly relocated to the US after spending a couple of years in London, Travers and bassist Peter “Mars” Cowling stepped away from the trio format they had relied on in the past, by adding ace guitarist Pat Thrall (Stomu Yamashta, Automatic Man, Glenn Hughes, Meat Loaf etc).
With drummer Tommy Aldridge (Black Oak Arkansas, Whitesnake, Ozzy Osbourne etc) also now on board, the mighty Heat On The Street was released on the eve of their next tour, itself a marathon trek that kicked off in September and just kept on getting better.
“This band was vicious,” Travers reflects. “And by the time we hit the Agora Theatre [on November 27], we were jaw dropping live!”
Their set that night truly represents Travers and co at their best. Surprisingly, just two numbers from the new album made it into the show, “Heat on the Street” and their phenomenal cover of Australian songwriters Harry Vanda and George Young’s “Evie,” a 1975 hit for former Easybeats frontman Stevie Wright and, coincidentally, a highlight of the latest Suzi Quatro album too.
The majority of the show, then, drew from Travers’ three previous albums, his eponymous debut (1976), and Makin’ Magic and Putting It Straight (both 1977). In the hands of this new outfit, however, the music blazed with unprecedented ferocity, the blues at their most magnificent… and Little Walter’s “Boom Boom (Out Goes The Lights)” had never sounded so vivacious – unless you’d already seen the band perform.
There again, you could say the same thing about every song on Heat In The Street Tour – 1978; in fact, no matter how well you think you know Pat Travers (and with 20+ albums behind him, that’s a lot of knowledge), this show’s gonna make you a heap of fresh introductions.
DEVIL IN THE NAME was formed in August 2013 in the capital of Silesia – Katowice on the initiative of Adam Bugajski and Tomasz “Polewa” Plewako.
Devil in the Name is a dark journey through occult rock, stoner/doom metal and hard rock. Through fear and hell of the will of the human mind. The music combined with dark and psychedelic lyrics is a mixture of genres and climates. The band draws inspiration from artists such as: Black Sabbath, Danzig, Pentagram, Motorhead, Mustasch, Kyuss, Dust, Kadavar, Graveyard, Clutch, Obssessed, Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats, Brimston Coven, Reverend Bizzarre.
So far the band has played and shared the stage with: Crowbar, KAT & Roman Kostrzewski, Greenleaf, Belzebong, Closterkeller, Dopelord, Taraban, Sunnata, Somali Yacht Club and Major Kong.
Music for second album was recorded by Mateusz Chruściel at Underworld Studio. All was mixed and mastered by Marcel Kraszkiewicz at Acoustic Studio (Hydra, Nuclear Jeezus). Cover artwork was done by Piotr “Qras” Kurek from Mentalporn (Acid Drinkers, Darzamat, Frontside, Terrestrial Hospice). Guest female vocal by Anja Orthodox from legendary gothic rock band Closterkeller.
“Black Stone” was released March 8, 2025 on CD by Polish label Case Studio (buy here). Album will be released digitally on April 30,2024.
Stream “Black Stone” on Stoned Meadow Of Doom channel:
TRACKLIST:
Morgen Rot & Black Well Witch
Anima Mundis
Hellhounds
Sigillarius
Nameless
The Four Horsemen
Pillow of the God
LINE-UP: Piotr Palonek – vocal Rafał “RastaV” Buniakowski – bass Tomasz “Polew” Plewako – guitar Błażej Parusel – drums
Season of Mist is proud to announce that brutal death metal pioneers DEFEATED SANITY will embark on their 2025 European Tour this summer, bringing their critically acclaimed album Chronicles of Lunacy to stages across the continent!
From their devastatingly technical precision to their stomach-turning slams, DEFEATED SANITY have built a global reputation for their unmatched live ferocity. After reclaiming their throne with Chronicles of Lunacy — a record hailed by Loudwire, Angry Metal Guy, and MetalSucks alike — the Berlin-based band is ready to unleash sheer chaos with a 20-date trek that will carve a path of destruction across Europe.
Comprised of drummer Lille Gruber, bassist Jacob Schmidt, vocalist Josh Welshman, and guitarist Vaughn Stoffey, Defeated Sanity continue to shred expectations. Their shows are a masterclass in extremity, balancing jazz-infused chaos with old-school brutality.
5 July: Molins de Rei, ES @ Move Your Fucking Brain 6 July: Montpellier, FR @ Secret Place 7 July: Turin, IT @ Ziggy Club 9 July: Trutnov, CZ @ Obscene Extreme 10 July: Kassel, DE @ Goldgrube 11 July: Torgau, DE @ In Flammen Open Air 12 July: Berlin, DE @ Badehaus 13 July: Warsaw, PL @ Voodoo 16 July: Helsinki, FI @ Helsinki On The Rocks 17 July: Jēkabpils, LV @ Munky Pride 19 July: Zawiercie, PL @ Injure Grind Attack 20 July: Erfurt, DE @ From Hell 24 July: Vitoria-Gasteiz, ES @ Urban Rock Concept 25 July: Lisboa, PT @ RCA Summer Party 27 July: Manchester, UK @ Offal Fest 30 July: Rezé, FR @ Cold Crash 2 August: Dortmund, DE @ Dortmund Death Fest 3 August: Bratislava, SK @ Bordel Na Dunaji 5 August: Maribor, SI @ AGD Gustaf 6 August: Jaromer, CZ @ Brutal Assault
Prepare yourself for an onslaught of guttural vocals, dizzying riffs, and neck-snapping breakdowns — Defeated Sanity is coming to dismantle Europe, one stage at a time!
Tracklist: 1. Amputationsdrang (2:30) [WATCH] 2. The Odour Of Sanctity (3:36) [WATCH] 3. Accelerating The Rot (3:22) [WATCH] 4. Temporal Disintegration (5:52) [WATCH] 5. Extrinsically Enraged (4:09) [WATCH] 6. A Patriarchy Perverse (4:16) 7. Condemned to Vascular Famine (6:00) 8. Heredity Violated (3:48) Total runtime: 33:35
DEFEATED SANITY is unequivocally one of the most unique, boundary-pushing and crucial bands in the history of extreme death metal. Their music is as technically coherent as it is mind-bending and memorable. Endlessly replay-able and full of discovery, their maze of riffs and musical passages is inspired by infamous classic bands in the extreme metal genre, while also heavily steeped in jazz and progressive classical elements.
The band consists of four members. They’re led by drummer Lille Gruber, who’s the son of deceased co-founding member Wolfgang Teske. Gruber is joined by bandmates Jacob Schmidt (bass), Josh Welshman (vocals) and Vaughn Stoffey (guitar).
As well as being the drummer of Defeated Sanity, Gruber is the multi- instrumental, songwriting mastermind behind the band’s deep and compelling catalogue of songs and compositions. He possesses a bag of tricks seen nowhere else in the genre, and a musical prowess which is on full display throughout their new album Chronicles of Lunacy.
“We love experimenting”, explains drummer and founding member Lille Gruber. “But we realized that some of our oldest fans might have gotten lost after our last couple of albums. With the new one, we wanted to focus more on neck-snapping brutality”.
Chronicles of Lunacy punches you right in the face. Press play and “Amputationsdrang” already has you pinned to the mat beneath its non-stop blasts. Get comfortable, too, because Defeated Sanity don’t let the album up for air until the very end of Track 4. But turns out, acting like knuckle-dragging cavemen isn’t so easy for a band that has a Mensa-level maestro like Gruber at the controls.
At the tender age of six, Lille Gruber picked up heavy guitar and drums. Inspired by killer American BDM bands like Disgorge, Monstrosity and Brodequin, the German wunderkind recorded the band’s first demo alongside his father, Wolfgang Teske. Since Wolfgang’s passing in 2010, Gruber has taken on the bulk of the composing for Defeated Sanity. Whether he’s hammering his snare, pinging between cymbals or riding a colossal groove, The Chronicles of Lunacy flows like a never-ending stream of filth.
“Lille’s drumming is just ridiculous”, Jacob Schmidt says. Schmidt – who toured with Obscura behind Cosmogenesis – joined as the other half of Defeated Sanity’s chaotic rhythm section for the band’s beloved second album. His nimble, belching bass give the new album’s lead single “The Odour of Sanctity” a dizzying bounce. “He’s the face of the franchise, so we’re never going to abandon those head-scratching moments that set Defeated Sanity apart”.
Indeed, Chronicles of Lunacy isn’t Defeated Sanity for dummies. Heck, the lyrics are wrapped up in the twisted ways that delusions can rot the human psyche. This heady concept was made flesh by none other than Jon Zig. Drawn in painstaking detail by his wicked right hand, the album’s cover shows that the birth of some ideas look an awful lot like a gory and sex-crazed nativity scene.
“Each song on Chronicles deals with a different form of mental corruption”, Josh Welshman says”. “Odor” stinks of religious fanaticism. “A Patriarchy Perverse” cracks open the mind of co-ed killer Ed Kemper, while “Extrinsically Enraged” practically foams at the mouth with squealing hammer-ons. “That one’s more literal”, says Welshman with a hearty laugh. “It’s about contracting rabies”. If it weren’t for Disposal of the Dead / Dharmata, then Defeated Sanity would’ve chewed through as many vocalists as they have albums, but after a brutal showing on their last one, Welshman is back with more guttural vengeance. His growls ooze from the pit of his gut on “Temporal Disintegration”, stomped out like the innards of a cockroach by the gravity-defying slams.
While it still hits from every odd angle, Chronicles of Lunacy does draw a jagged red line back to Defeated Sanity’s brutal origins. After all, the band now share a label with their namesake. In true, DS fashion, the first song written for this album was “Heredity Violated”, a headbanging grand finale that never stops chugging. “This album isn’t as tough on the brain as the last two”, says new guitarist Vaughn Stoffey, whose chunky riffs whip “Accelerating the Rot” into the fastest song in the band’s canon. “It’s rawer and more straightforward, which gets back to what fans love about Psalms of the Moribund“.
To dig up the sheer brutality that long-time fans have come to crave, Defeated Sanity returned to Thousand Cave Studios. New York City’s most vile underground hotspot also served as the excavation site for the Billboard-charting The Sanguinary Impetus, which shoveled a fresh layer of dirt over the “polished” production of Passages into Deformity. But the band encouraged producer Colin Marston to get down and dirty with Chronicles of Lunacy. “We still wanted some of the high fidelity that you hear on modern death metal records”, Schmidt says, “but this album has the same crushing low-end as Psalms or Chapters of Repugnance“.
The band execute this two-headed approach to monstrous effect on “Condemned to Vascular Famine”. At just under six minutes, the song delivers the longest ass beating on Chronicles of Lunacy. At times, all four members sound like they’re climbing up the walls in separate asylums, but after slipping in a brief nod to Bram Stoker’s Dracula, the band come slamming down into the album’s ugliest breakdown.
“That’s one of our favorites”, the band says. “It lands at a crossroad of the DS sound that we ended up with on Chronicles of Lunacy. Even though it gets pretty fucking weird at times, there’s still an emphasis on heavy, straight-up slamming”
None of their albums are ever going to follow a straight line, but on Chronicles of Lunacy, Defeated Sanity return to sheer brutality.
Lineup: Josh Welshman – Vocals Vaughn Stoffey – Guitars Jacob Schmidt – Bass Lille Gruber – Drums
Guest Musicians: Danny Nelson and Paolo Paguntalan provide backup vocals on “Amputationsdrang” and “Accelerating the Rot”
Recording Studio: Thousand Caves Studio in January 2024.
Production: Recorded, mixed and mastered by Colin Marston. Produced by Colin Marston and Defeated Sanity.
Cover Art: Artwork by Jon Zig Title lettering by Liz Schmidt Layout by Alex Eckman-Lawn
Adamantra, who released their third album in the fall, has found some previously unreleased material from the band’s early days in their vaults. The lively power metal song Shining Time was recorded during the band’s debut album Revival sessions in 2007–2008. However, the bonus track intended for the Japanese market or as a B-side to a single never made it to any release. The band decided to finally release the song with a lyric video based on gig and other footage from the band’s early years.
Bass player Jukka Hoffrén recalls the song’s history and journey: “Shining Time is the first song I wrote for Adamantra sometime in the late 90’s and with this song I started to form the idea of a new band of my own. The song was performed at a few gigs and was intended to be used as a Japanese bonus track or as a B-side of a single, but neither of those things came to fruition, so it remained dormant for years somewhere in the depths of my hard drives. It’s great that the song is finally being released. This is where it all started.”
2024 formed Finnish Underwater Father released their debut EP “Without Waves” yesterday on April 29th 2025 along with their third music video “My Name is Your Name”. The title reflects the idea that everything in life moves in waves — without them, only emptiness remains.
“Without Waves” blends modern and raw expression, combining melody with black and death metal influences. Heavy riffs and melodic parts are intertwined, creating a dark and captivating soundscape. The lyrics explore themes of birth, death, karma, and the reasons why we live our lives the way we do — and the paths those reasons lead us down. Although the subjects are deep and philosophical, there’s also a touch of dark humor that gives the songs a distinct edge.
The drums were recorded by Saku Moilanen at Deep Noise Studios, while the band recorded the other instruments and vocals themselves. Saku also handled the mixing and mastering of the EP, ensuring its relentlessly deep sound.
The EP’s cover art is based on an original artwork by Jouko Alapartanen, visually capturing the theme of the record.
Tracklist/ISRC-codes:
Spiral Through – FI3FC2591001
Drowned – FI3FC2591002
My Name is Your Name – FI3FC2591003
Avichi – FI3FC2591004
Formed in the summer of 2024, Underwater Father was born from the vision of Samu Haatainen (guitars, vocals), who sought to create something darker and more stripped-down compared to their other band, Of Spite. Sharing most of its members with Of Spite, the lineup consists of Antti Lampinen (bass), Jan Lindberg (guitars, backing vocals), and Joonas Nieminen (drums) — a tight-knit unit with a shared passion for pushing metal’s boundaries.
Musically, Underwater Father weaves together the ferocity of black and death metal with the emotional depth of melodic metal. Drawing influences from bands like Mgła, Horna, Uada, Cradle of Filth on the extreme side and Sentenced, Bloodpit, and Somehow Jo! etc. On the melodic spectrum, the band creates music that is both crushing and atmospheric. Lyrically, their songs explore themes of birth, death, karma, and the search for meaning in life’s journey—both the light and the darkness that shape our fate.
VLAD IN TEARS will release their new studio album “Hide Inside” on 1st August on Metalville Records.
VLAD IN TEARS, the band that is taking the global dark metal scene by storm with their unique and powerful sound, is ready to release their highly anticipated new album, “Hide Inside”. With a perfect blend of dark atmospheres, devastating riffs, and profound lyrics, “Hide Inside” is set to mark a new era for the band, solidifying their position as one of the most influential and innovative forces in contemporary metal.
Hailing from Italy, VLAD IN TEARS have already built a growing international fanbase, thanks to their ability to blend dark metal with gothic, industrial, and alternative rock influences. With a sound that knows no compromises and a visceral image, the band has proven their ability to captivate even the most discerning listeners, remaining true to their artistic vision without ever compromising with current trends.
The new album “Hide Inside” explores themes of inner darkness, mythology, and the confrontation between the material and spiritual worlds.
Each track is a powerful narrative that takes the listener on a psychological journey, suspended between reality and dreams. “Hide Inside” is an auditory experience that is rooted deep in dark metal, yet simultaneously challenges the conventions of the genre, with fresh sounds and musical experimentation. The album was recorded with the utmost care and passion, with the aim of conveying the emotional intensity of each track. The result is a bold and introspective work that showcases the band’s growth and artistic evolution.
“With “Hide Inside”we wanted to explore the concept of spirits and invisible forces that influence our daily lives,” says the band’s frontman. “It’s an album that seeks to go beyond the surface, digging into the darkest corners of the human mind and its deepest desires.”
VLAD IN TEARS have yet to break into the mainstream, but their explosive power and authenticity make them one of the most promising bands in the international metal scene.
“Hide Inside” is set to be the album that will propel them into the global stage, taking dark metal to a new dimension.
“HIDE INSIDE” TRACK LISTING
The Monster Inside Your Trace (feat. John Connor / Dog Eat Dog) Living Nightmare No One Cares Touch Me Let Me Love You Empty I Want This Pain My Wake No More Fear Real The Death Of Me Tomorrow Hide
LINE UP:
CHRISTIAN MICONI – vocals ALESSIO MICONI – lead guitars PUNEETE VOHRA – guitars DARIO MICONI – bass FRANCESCO COSMA – drums
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