Alternative Music
10 YEARS Announces Spring 2022 Tour, Drops ‘Déjà Vu’ Visualizer
Knoxville, Tennessee rockers 10 YEARS have released a visualizer for the song “Déjà Vu” from the album “Violent Allies”. Guitarist Brian Vodinh states: “‘Déjà Vu’ is a song about trying to tune out the monotonous stuff we face in our everyday lives, and find inspiration in new ways. This relates to our songwriting process, but also to our personal lives as well. We can get stuck in the repetitive cycle of reading the same news, looking at social media, and hearing a rehashed version of the same stories over and over. Sometimes it feels good to check-out, turn off your brain, and connect to other aspects of life.” The lead single from “Violent Allies”, “The Shift”, has been streamed over 9.1 million times on Spotify, wi...
CANNIBAL CORPSE’s GEORGE ‘CORPSEGRINDER’ FISHER Shares New Video Teaser For Upcoming Solo Album
CANNIBAL CORPSE vocalist George “Corpsegrinder” Fisher has released a new video teaser for his upcoming solo album, titled “Corpsegrinder”. Due on February 25, the 10-song effort was co-produced by Nick Bellmore (DEE SNIDER, KINGDOM OF SORROW) and Jamey Jasta (HATEBREED) and will be made available through Jasta‘s new label, Perseverance Music Group. The song “Acid Vat”, which can be heard below, features a guest appearance by Fisher‘s CANNIBAL CORPSE bandmate Erik Rutan. Corpsegrinder comments: “When Jamey approached me to do this record, I was fired up to get into the studio with Erik Rutan and record the vocals. It’s a mix of death metal, thrash and hardcore, and it sounds heavy as hell!!! I’m really excited about it, and ...
Jimmy Eat World and Dashboard Confessional Announce Co-Headlining Tour
Alternative emo titans Jimmy Eat World and Dashboard Confessional are teaming up for what many will see as one of the most exciting co-headlining tours of the year. The “Surviving the Truth Tour” will find the bands playing 17 dates together from late February through March. The trek launches February 27th in Albuquerque, New Mexico before taking JEW and DC to Oklahoma City, Wichita, Little Rock, Louisville, Knoxville, Raleigh, New Orleans, and Charleston. In the middle of the tour, they’ll spend two nights at Pelham, Tennessee’s The Caverns, a unique underground venue with “prehistoric natural acoustics.” The tour will wrap on March 22nd at Houston, Texas’ 713 Music Hall. The “Surviving the Truth Tour” takes its name from both Jimmy Eat World’s and Dashboard’s latest albums. Jimmy’s Survi...
Wolf Like Me Review: Josh Gad and Isla Fisher’s Quirky Genre Romance Feels a Little Too Forgettable
The Pitch: The new Peacock series Wolf Like Me is a sweet and quirky dramedy that makes great use of the talents of Isla Fisher and Josh Gad. It also, however, happens to fall into too many of the traps which doom the original series being made today for streaming. Again, the show itself is fine. But it can’t escape the category of being just forgettable enough to potentially doom it to obscurity; lingering forever in the corners of streaming services, joining its spiritual sisters Gypsy, Homecoming, Maniac, and countless others. The Reason Why This Review Isn’t Very Long: The central twist of Wolf Like Me is one that Peacock would prefer not get spoiled prior to premiere — in fact, the screeners were sent out with this note from creator Abe Forsythe: “I’d love for audiences to go into wat...
R.I.P. Burke Shelley, Budgie Singer-Bassist Dies at 71
Burke Shelley, the singer and bassist of the influential Welsh metal band Budgie, has died at the age of 71. Shelley’s daughter, Ela, shared the following post Monday night (January 10th) on Facebook: “It is with great sadness that I announce the death of my father, John Burke Shelley. He passed away this evening in his sleep at Heath Hospital in Cardiff, his birth town. He was 71 years old. Please respect the family during this time. With love, His four children: Ela, Osian, Dimitri and Nathaniel.” Although no cause of death was given, Shelley had suffered from health problems over the last few years (a genetic disorder called Stickler syndrome, plus two aortic aneurysms), which kept Budgie off of the road and from issuing new music. Advertisement Related Video Born John Burke Shelley on ...
The Weeknd Hints at New Trilogy, Shares New “Gasoline” Video: Watch
Sonically, The Weeknd’s new album, Dawn FM, draws from a similar throwback era as his 2020 effort, After Hours, and it looks like fans should expect more of the same from his next studio set. In a recent tweet, the superstar explained the albums are part of a greater collection, writing “I wonder… did you know you’re experiencing a new trilogy?” Longtime fans of The Weeknd will recall the Toronto native got his start with a trio of 2011 mixtapes — House of Balloons, Thursday, and Echoes of Silence — establishing the mysterious artist as an emerging force in R&B. After signing to Republic Records, the projects were collected together as part of an official release titled Trilogy featuring a handful of bonus tracks. Along with the teaser, The Weeknd released a new music video f...
Former THIN LIZZY Keyboardist DARREN WHARTON’s DARE To Release ‘Road To Eden’ Album In April
U.K. rock band DARE will release its 10th studio album, “Road To Eden”, on April 1 via Legend Records. The LP’s first single, “Born In The Storm”, will arrive on Friday, January 14. To support the release, DARE will embark on a 12-date U.K. headline tour in October 2022. “Road To Eden” follows DARE‘s critically acclaimed albums “Sacred Ground” (2016) and “Out Of The Silence 2” (2018). Both albums reached No. 1 in the Amazon Classic Rock charts in four countries, including the U.K., Germany, Italy and Spain. DARE entered the top No. 5 in the official U.K. Rock chart, No. 6 in the U.S. Amazon Classic Rock charts and No. 1 in Japanese rock imports. “Road To Eden” is destined to be another modern DARE classic. ...
There’s Always Blood At The End Of The Road – WIEGEDOOD
RATING: 9/10 Black metal trio WIEGEDOOD were birthed from the same Belgian collective of musicians that gave rise to other recent, notable acts such as AMENRA and OATHBREAKER, with its membership also having served stints with those acts at different points throughout their careers. Much as AMENRA twists the apocalyptic-sludge blueprint of bands such as NEUROSIS by adding multiple layers of suffocating emotional weight and OATHBREAKER generates an artsier take on the metallic hardcore of CONVERGE, WIEGEDOOD takes the more pummeling end of the black metal spectrum and adds a caustic coat of industrial-metal grime to put forth a corrosive cacophony that is relentlessly sinister from start to finish. The trio’s fourth full-length, “There’s Always Blood At The End Of The Road...
NONPOINT Frontman Says Running Band’s Own Record Label Means ‘Less Anxiety And More Anxiety’
NONPOINT launched its independent record label 361 Degrees Records LLC in January 2021. They filmed the process of starting the label and making new music in a docu-series titled “A Path To Independence” that can be seen on the band’s YouTube and official web site. In a new interview with “HRH Metal With Dan Chan”, NONPOINT singer Elias Soriano said that the group’s decision to go it alone has resulted in “less anxiety and more anxiety,” adding that he has “a team” of “people that are professionals in place” to run the business for him and his bandmates. “I’m not a neophyte when it comes to the overall scope and understanding of the music industry, but I know when to get the hell out of the way and let some...
SABATON Shares Lyric Video For New Single ‘Soldier Of Heaven’
Swedish metallers SABATON have released the official lyric video for their new single, “Soldier Of Heaven”. The track is taken from the band’s tenth studio album, “The War To End All Wars”, that will be released on March 4 via Nuclear Blast Records. Written and recorded during the COVID-19 global pandemic, the concept album of 11 brand-new songs once again dives deep into the atrocities, miracles, and events tied to the early 20th century’s World War I. The tenth album of the Falun-based five-piece will be available in an impressive variety of exclusive formats, including CD, vinyl, and cassette, with most available in limited editions. Between the several battlegrounds of WWI, there was no scene as hostile as the feared alpine front that involved a seri...
Tool’s 10 Best Songs
No one crafts equally perverse and philosophical slices of prog metal quite like Tool. Indeed, the quartet (drummer Danny Carey, vocalist Maynard James Keenan, bassist Justin Chancellor, and guitarist Adam Jones) have spent the last 30-odd years fusing the industrial salaciousness of Nine Inch Nails with the mesmeric sophistication of Pink Floyd and King Crimson, yielding a beloved sound all their own. The acclaimed band, set to launch a 2022 US tour (get tickets via Ticketmaster), has evolved significantly without losing sight of its most vital trademarks, ensuring that all of its work feels at home within the same catalog. In a nutshell, 1993’s Undertow and 1995’s Ænima perpetuated rougher and more risqué syntheses of progressive and alternative metal. Then, 2001’s landmark Lateralus off...
Vio-Lence Announce EP, Unleash First New Song in 29 Years “Flesh from Bone”: Stream
Vio-Lence have returned with their first new song in 29 years, “Flesh from Bone,” from the upcoming Let the World Burn EP due out March 4th. The Bay Area thrash band previously inked a record deal with Metal Blade after reuniting in 2019. Although Vio-Lence haven’t released new material since 1993, they’ve lost none of their ferociousness. True to its title, “Flesh from Bone” is a ripper. As founding guitarist Phil Demmel explains, the track faithfully carries old-school riffage while incorporating some of the more modern stylings the guitarist employed as a longtime member of Machine Head. Advertisement Related Video “I wanted to keep some of those early Eternal Nightmare qualities intact but infuse a lot of what I’ve culled into my songwriting arsenal over the decades,” Demmel said in a ...
