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Communion In Anguish

Portland power trio TITHE has been marching to the beat of their own drum since their inception nearly a decade ago. Primarily known nowadays as a dissonant death metal band touching upon grind and doom, their initial EP encompassed blackened death informed by crust and powerviolence. Not surprising...

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Watch: WATCHTOWER Rejoined By Singer ALAN TECCHIO During Houston Concert

Amy's Concert Cam has uploaded video of WATCHTOWER's September 6 concert at BFE Rock Club in Houston, Texas. Check it out below. Joining the legendary Texas progressive metal band on stage for several songs during the show was Alan Tecchio, who sang WATCHTOWER's second and most recent studio album,...

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Blood Is The Price

Righteous anger has been fueling hardcore since the start, but not every band has the songs or the style to make the rage count. PEACE OF MIND are absolutely fucking livid throughout their second full-length, and despite seldom taking any real musical risks, there is a freshness and intensity to "Bl...

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To Rid Myself Of Truth

This is increasingly looking like deathcore's year. With stellar releases from WHITECHAPEL and SHADOW OF INTENT, and forthcoming crushers from LORNA SHORE and DESPISED ICON (amongst others),the subgenre that was once widely mocked for its initial descent into cliché has become more powerful than ev...

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FIRSTBORNE Feat. Ex-LAMB OF GOD Drummer CHRIS ADLER: 'Rescue Me' Video Released

Hard rock and heavy metal powerhouse FIRSTBORNE has released "Rescue Me", the third emphasis track from the group's debut full-length album, "Lucky", due which arrives today (Friday, August 8) via M-Theory Audio. It is available from all digital outlets, as well as on CD and limited-edition (300) am...

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Fyr

Mystic riff-worshippers from Falun, Sweden, GAUPA have matured into one of the most fascinating bands in the fuzzy-brained world of stoner rock and psychedelic doom. As their last full-length album "Myriad" confirmed, they have an open-minded creative policy that allows all manner of strange and exo...

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FIRSTBORNE Feat. Ex-LAMB OF GOD Drummer CHRIS ADLER: New Single 'Again' Released

Hard rock and heavy metal powerhouse FIRSTBORNE has released "Again", the second single from the group's debut full-length album, "Lucky", due on August 8 via M-Theory Audio. It will be available from all digital outlets, as well as on CD and limited-edition (300) amber wave-colored vinyl. "Again" w...

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Reunited WATCHTOWER Is Working On New Music

During an appearance on the latest "Lead Singers Discussion" SLAM summit panel for Support Life And Music, hosted by Jack Mangan (Metal Hall Of Fame),WATCHTOWER singer Jason McMaster spoke about the current status of the reunited legendary Texas progressive metal band. McMaster is joined in WATCHTO...

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Extraction

Even at its transformative best, deathcore can seem like a competitive sport. Every band wants to be the heaviest, the fastest, the most brutal, or the most willfully fucked-up. And every deathcore vocalist wants to push their chosen discipline even further into the realms of insanity. On his band's...

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Watch: DEVIN TOWNSEND Performs In Atlanta During May 2025 North American Tour

Canadian singer, songwriter and producer Devin Townsend launched his North American tour on May 2 in Nashville, Tennessee. Front-row fan-filmed video of the entire second concert of the trek, which took place on May 3 at the Tabernacle in Atlanta, Georgia can be seen below. Featured songs: 00:00 - M...

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DEVIN TOWNSEND: 'I've Made The Decision To Take A Break From Touring, An Indefinite One'

Canadian singer, songwriter and producer Devin Townsend has announced that his upcoming North American tour, which will launch May 2 in Nashville, Tennessee, will mark the "last time" fans will get a chance to see him perform "for quite some time". In a message released earlier today (Monday, April...

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The Darkest Place I've Ever Been

French metalcore gents LANDMVRKS first got together in the mid-2010s, and as the metalcore genre has evolved over the years, LANDMVRKS have been on the cutting edge of what's next. Since the release of their 2016 debut, "Hollow", LANDMVRKS have merged a variety of gernes, including nu-metal, metalco...

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CANNIBAL CORPSE's PAUL MAZURKIEWICZ Sets Record Straight: I Am Not Doing Standup Comedy

In a new interview with the "Iron City Rocks" podcast, CANNIBAL CORPSE drummer Paul Mazurkiewicz spoke about his recent appearances at The Commodore, an improv and sketch comedy theater in the Tampa, Florida area. He said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): "Well, man, it's funny because I know it...

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Thunderball

One inescapable fact about the wonderful and frightening musical world of the MELVINS, is that you can absolutely, definitely shove your expectations up your pipe. Instinctively disinclined to do the obvious, to repeat themselves, or to kowtow to others' notion of what this amorphous and legendary b...

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Heat Lightning

While certain media outlets are clearly addicted to the illusion that old-school metal is something that happened in the past, the reality is that there has never been a more fruitful time for propagators of the old way of doing things. One of the most powerful and convincing retro bands around, SAN...