Category: Category 1


  • New York City’s Dr. Ex & The Break Ups are back with Mezcalita, their first single and video of 2025, that is now available through streaming platforms and as a name your price download via Bandcamp. “Thx to the great Meagan D for shooting this one and our own Justin Melkmann for art and direction!! Song recorded at the…

  • Knub – Crub LP (Expert Work Records) 

    Baltimore’s Knub is not here to comfort you. They are not a band that coaxes listeners in with sweetness or accessibility. Instead, their music demands to be heard at full volume, face-to-face, in all its bristling, downtuned glory. With Crub, their first full-length LP following a promising demo EP and a ferocious split with Brain…

  • Tekulvi – In Recognition Of Your Significant Accomplishments 12″ EP (Expert Work Records) 

    In the underground corners of early-2000s Chicago, Tekulvi was never the loudest name, but they may have been one of those bands that most accurately represented the local scene. Their 2002 EP, In Recognition of Your Significant Accomplishments, originally released through Divot Records, is a more than adequate showcase of controlled dissonance, a precise explosion…

  • Darkest Hour Announce 30th Anniversary EU / UK Tour With Bleeding Through And Shai Hulud 

    US metalcore veterans Darkest Hour have announced their 30th anniversary EU and UK tour, celebrating three decades of uncompromising, heavy-hitting music. With dates across Europe and the UK this September and October, the tour will see Darkest Hour joined by longtime allies and genre defining acts: Bleeding Through, Shai Hulud and Denial of Life. With a career-spanning setlist promised including fan favourites,…

  • High On Fire Announce UK / EU Tour 

    Iconic U.S. rock band, High on Fire, have announced a European headlining tour in support of their celebrated LP, Cometh the Storm. The GRAMMY Award-winning group will kick off the sixteen-city, nine country tour on 25th October in Maastricht, Netherlands. The tour concludes on 16th November in Istanbul, Turkey and will include high profile appearances as…

  • The Guillotines Announce New Single “Mission” 

    The Guillotines have announced they will release their new single, Mission, on the 16th May, the track is taken from the band’s upcoming album, Parcel of Rogues, that will be released on the 1st August. Parcel of Rogues is available for pre-order via streaming platforms, the band are also taking pre-orders for limited edition CD…

  • The Soda Poppers Are “Testing A Theory” On New EP 

    Johny Skullknuckles (The Kopek Millionaires) continues his musical adventures with The Soda Poppers and their brand new EP, Testing A Theory – The Shape Of Things To Come. The EP features half a dozen brand new tracks, including covers of David Bowie‘s Suffragette City and Tommy James & The Shondelles‘ I Think We’re Alone Now. “It’s…

  • Fort Collins, CO’s Elway have released their new single and video, Laugh Track, from their upcoming seventh full length, Nobody’s Going to Heaven, that will be released via Red Scare Industries. The track covers the events following the 19th March 2003 when the US, along with the UK, invaded Iraq. The single is backed by…

  • Interview: Paul Case, the author of “Spent” 

    Paul Case’s Spent is a searing mix of poetry and prose hurled straight at the heart of late capitalism. Navigating the chaos of punk, radical politics, addiction, and mental health, Case captures a world fraying at the edges, where personal demons mirror societal collapse and the line between resistance and self-destruction grows increasingly blurred. I…

  • Shadows Fall Released Video For “Souls Devoured” 

    Shadows Fall — singer Brian Fair; guitarists Jonathan Donais and Matt Bachand; bassist Paul Romanko; and drummer Jason Bittner — are back with a brand new song ahead of their upcoming tour dates with their Massachusetts metal brethren Killswitch Engage. “Souls Devoured” is a straight up metallic anthem — the kind that band has been crafting with vitality and vibrance for decades. You’re in…