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Manicured, glossy, easily digestible music takes up so much space in pop culture that when an artist like Tirzah finds some success, you have to wonder: How? The London-based singer-songwriter’s 2018 debut, Devotion, was filled with offbeat R&B melodies and soft vocals that offered a quiet escape. It was pop music stripped of all its bells and whistles—introspective, DIY, off-kilter—instantly rising to cult status. On Colourgrade, Tirzah’s follow-up, the formula changes, but the effect doesn’t. Colourgrade trades those pop-adjacent structures for darker, more guttural elements and alien embellishments, creating a stunning collection of porous, avant-garde love songs and her most enigmatic project yet. Lying directly beneath Colourgrade’s glassy production and wavering vocals is a docum...

All-female rock band PLUSH will release its self-titled debut album on October 29 via Pavement Entertainment. The LP was produced by Johnny K (STAIND, 3 DOORS DOWN, DISTURBED) and features thirteen tracks of melodic in-your-face heavy rock. “Plush” track listing: 01. Athena 02. Champion 03. Hate 04. Found A Way 05. I Don’t Care 06. Sober 07. Better Off Alone 08. Sorry 09. Why Do I Even Try 10. Bring Me Down 11. Don’t Say That 12. Will Not Win 13. Walk Away The girls have just released their second single, “Athena”, a jaw-dropping song that has electrified audiences during recent live performances across the United States. “Athena” follows PLUSH‘s debut hit single “Hate”, which climbed to No. 24 on Billboard‘s Mainstrea...

In a recent interview with RadioactiveMike Z, host of the 96.7 KCAL-FM radio program “Wired In The Empire”, P.O.D. vocalist Sonny Sandoval once again confirmed that the three-time Grammy Award-nominated rock quartet has spent some of the coronavirus downtime compiling ideas for its next album. “We put together some stuff during the shutdown and all that stuff, but we’re a band that likes to jam,” he said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). “We need to be in the same room together, looking at each other in the face and just vibing out, not just ‘Hey, send me a guitar track. Send me drums and bass.’ That’s cool, and you can do it, and 99 percent of the bands do it these days, but we need to be in the same room together and write some tu...

NAPALM DEATH bassist Shane Embury has been a major figure in grindcore for more than four decades, and his story is closely tied to the history of that scene. Tentatively due in 2022 via Rocket 88, a new book called “Life? … & Napalm Death” will take the reader on a front seat, white-knuckle ride through the sights, sounds, places and people who have been central to the music and the life. Told in his own, inimitable style, this is not just the life story of Shane, but also a history of NAPALM DEATH and the development of death metal and grindcore from their beginnings to the present. For more information, visit ShaneNapalmDeathBook.com. Embury has been one of the underground rock and metal scenes’ most prolific and inventive figures over the last 30-plus years, with countl...

Atlanta progressive metallers MASTODON have released the official Lorenzo Diego Carrera-directed music video for their new song “Teardrinker”. The track is taken from MASTODON‘s upcoming album, “Hushed And Grim”, which is due on October 29. The follow-up to 2017’s “Emperor Of Sand” was recorded at West End Sound, which is located inside of Ember City, the rehearsal facility that members of MASTODON manage in Atlanta. Helming the effort was Grammy-winning producer/mixer/engineer David Bottrill, who has previously worked with MUSE, DREAM THEATER and TOOL, among many others. The “Hushed And Grim” artwork was created by longtime MASTODON collaborator Paul Romano, who also designed the sleeves for “Crack The Skye”, “B...