Germany’s two-piece blackened crust band Mantar has announced that they are releasing a mini-covers album focusing on the 1990s, Grungetown Hooligans II, June 26th on LP/Digital via Brutal Panda Records and can be pre-ordered at the link below. Also, to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Mazzy Star’s release of their seminal debut album, Mantar have shared a music video for their cover of ‘Ghost Highway’, which you can see below.
Blackwater Holylight (RidingEasy Records), the début album from the Portland, Oregon-based doomstresses of the same name, delivered not merely an enlivening quality but also realised founder member Alison ‘Sunny’ Faris‘ intent of giving heavier rock a new lease of life by incorporating more tuneful, lighter music into that sound. With second album Veils Of Winter (RidingEasy Records) the band, now a quintet with the addition of guitarist Mikayla Mayhew, aim to expand on that formula and the buzz created by that first release.
Check out all of today’s new releases in the music world!
Ace Frehley – Spaceman (Picture Disc) (eOne Music) (Buy)
A Day To Remember – Attack Of The Killer B-Sides – Newbury Comics Exclusive (Color) (Buy)
Alice Cooper – Dirty Diamonds (Vinyl) (New West Records)(Buy)
Alien Weaponry – Tu (Vinyl) (Napalm Records)(Buy)
American War Machine – Unholy War (Bridge Nine)(Buy)
Andy Black – The Ghost Of Ohio (Lava/Republic Records)(Buy)
Bad Religion – My Sanity (7″ & 3″) (Epitaph)(Buy)
Basement – Be Here Now (7″) (Fueled By Ramen)(Buy)
Beartooth – B-Sides (7″) (Red Bull Records)(Buy)
Big Business – The Beast You Are (Joyful Noise)(Buy)
Blackguard – Storm (Self-Released)(Buy)
Blind Guardian – The Forgotten Tales Re-Release (Nuclear Blast) (Buy)
Blind Guardian – Live Re-Release (Nuclear Blast) (Buy)
Blind Guardian – Tokyo Tales Re-Release (Nuclear Blast) (Buy)
Brant Bjork – Keep Your Cool Re-Release (Heavy Psych Sounds) (Buy)
BTS – Map Of The Soul: Persona (Buy)
The Chemical Brothers – No Geography(Buy)
Chad Smith & Josh Klinghoffer – Jeepster/Monolith (7″) (ORG Music)(Buy)
Chuck Mosley – Joe Haze Session #2 (7″) (blocGLOBAL)(Buy)
D’angelo – Voodoo – Newbury Comics Exclusive (Color) (Buy)
Death Therapy – Voices (Solid State Records)(Buy)
Def Leppard – The Story So Far Vol. 2/B-Sides (Vinyl) (UMC/Virgin)(Buy)
Diesear – Bloodred Inferno (eOne Music)(Buy)
Dio – Last In Line (Live) (Picture Disc) (BMG)(Buy)
Melissa Etheridge – The Medicine Show(Buy)
Bruce Hornsby – Absolute Zero (Buy)
Felix Martin – Caracas (N/A)(Buy)
Foo Fighters – Big Me (3″) (Roswell Records)(Buy)
Gabriel And The Apocalypse – Alpha Bionic (Pavement Entertainment)(Buy)
Graveyard – Live At Pustervik (Reaktor/Nuclear Blast)(Buy)
Green Jellÿ – Cereal Killer Sounds (Vinyl) (Say-10 Records)(Buy)
Greta Van Fleet – From The Fires (Vinyl) (Lava/Republic)(Buy)
Halestorm – Buzz/Chemical (7″) (Atlantic)()
Hatebreed – Satisfaction Is The Death Of Desire – Newbury Comics Exclusive (Color) (Buy)
Hath – Of Rot And Ruin (Willowtip)(Buy)
Hawkwind – The 1999 Party – Live At The Chicago Auditorium (Vinyl) (Rhino/Parlophone)(Buy)
High On Fire – Bat Salad (12″) (eOne Music)(Buy)
Iced Earth – Enter The Realm Re-Release (Red)(Buy)
Inferi – The End Of An Era | Rebirth (The Artisan Era)(Buy)
Inter Arma – Sulphur English (Relapse)(Buy)
Ketzer – Cloud Collider (Metal Blade)(Buy)
Etta James – Etta James Rocks The House – Newbury Comics Exclusive (Color) (Buy)
Norah Jones – Begin Again(Buy)
L7 – Burn Baby (7″) (Blackheart Records)(Buy)
Lake Street Dive – Bad Self Portraits – Newbury Comics Exclusive (Color) (Buy)
Aaron Lewis – State I’m In (Buy)
Mastodon – Stairway To Nick John (10″) (Reprise)(Buy)
Molases – Molases – (Van Records) (Buy)
Motörhead – Overkill/Bomber (7″) (BMG)(Buy)
Motörhead – Rockaway Beach (7″) (Motörhead Music)(Buy)
My Chemical Romance – The Black Parade Is Dead (Vinyl) (Reprise Records) (Buy)
Nekrasov – Lust Of Consciousness (Prosthetic Records)(Buy)
Nirvana – Live At The Paramount (Buy)
Nita Strauss – Controlled Chaos (Vinyl) (Sumerian Records)(Buy)
Numenorean – Adore (Season Of Mist)(Buy)
Pearl Jam – Live At East Street (Vinyl) (Monkeywrench)(Buy)
Pelican – Midnight & Mescaline (7″) (Southern Lord)(Buy)
Pete Rock – Don’t Smoke Rock Instrumentals (Buy)
Pink Floyd – A Saucerful Of Secrets (Mono) (Vinyl) (Legacy)(Buy)
Posthum – Like Wildfire (Indie Recordings)(Buy)
Rush – Hemispheres (Picture Disc) (UMe)(Buy)
Scream Blue Murder – Rock Bottom (Stay Sick Recordings)(Buy)
Serj Tankian – Harakiri (Vinyl) (Music On Vinyl)(Buy)
Silverstein – Redux: The First 10 Years (N/A)(Buy)
Suldusk – Lunar Falls (Northern Silence Productions)(Buy)
Sunn O))) – Life Metal (Vinyl/CD) (Southern Lord)(Buy)
Sworn Amongst – Reclamation EP (Famined Records)(Buy)
The Machinist – Confidimus In Morte (Prosthetic Records)(Buy)
The Used – The Used Live From Maida Vale (10″) (Hopeless Records)(Buy)
Theories – Vessel (Corpse Flower Records)(Buy)
Thrice – Deeper Wells (12″) (Epitaph)(Buy)
Various Artists – Dualism (Eclipse Records)(Buy)
Troll – Legend Master (Shadow Kingdom)(Buy)
Tronos – Celestial Mechanics (Century Media) (Buy)
Various Artists – House Of Wax Music From The Motion Picture (Vinyl) (Maverick)(Buy)
Various Artists – Howard Stern’s Private Parts (Vinyl) (Warner Bros. Records)(Buy)
Various Artists – The Crow (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (Vinyl) (Atlantic Records)(Buy)
Various Artists – Transformers – Revenge Of The Fallen Soundtrack (Vinyl) (Reprise Records)(Buy)
Waldgefluster – Mondscheinsonaten (Nordvis)(Buy)
ZVI – Deer Pink (Nefarious Industries)(Buy)
Punk, a new documentary series made its debut on the EPIX channel tonight. Produced by Iggy Pop and designer and music mogul John Varvatos, Punk is a four-part series that explores the birth of Punk Rock. A huge assemblage of stars has come together including Pop, Varvatos, John Lydon (Sex Pistols, Public Image Ltd), Henry Rollins (Black Flag), Marky Ramone (Ramones), Dave Grohl (Foo Fighters/Nirvana), Duff McKagan (Guns n’ Roses), Donita Sparks (L7),director Penelope Spheeris (The Decline of Western Civilization), Joan Jett, Danny Fields, Legs McNeil, Wayne County, Keith Morris (Black Flag/Circle Jerks/OFF), Debbie Harry and Chris Stein (Blondie), Wayne County, Flea and many more. It may become a recurring series since the listing on EPIX refers to it as “Season 1”. You can watch the trailer below and click the link to sign up for a free trial to watch episode 1 on your phone on the EPIX NOW app or mobile device if your cable provider doesn’t feature the channel. Continue reading
Legendary 1990s rockers L7 have come together and created a new album, due out this May 3rd, from Joan Jett’s Blackheart Records. Scatter The Rats promises to pick up where the icons last left off. The album was produced by Norm Block (JennyLee, Paper Cranes, Plexi) and Nick Launay (Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Yeah Yeah Yeahs) at Happy Ending Studios and Sunset Sound In Los Angeles. They just dropped a new single and video “Burn Baby”, created by Blue Hats Creative and directed by Courtney and Hillary Andujar. As we previously announced, the band is playing Download 2019 and is planning more tours. Watch it now!Continue reading
Legendary 1990s alternative rock band L7 reunited for several tours the last few year, performing at Download Festival UK, made the documentary Pretend We’re Dead, and the vibe went so well that the band decided to make a new album. They have already cut several tracks and will release more music soon, as well as hit the studio to record the full-length. Pre-order levels are available through today, New Year’s Eve at their Pledge Music campaign.Continue reading
One of the biggest heavy music festivals in the world takes place starting today at Download Festival UK 2018 lifts off! With headliners like Ozzy Osbourne, Guns N Roses, and Avenged Sevenfold, one might be hard-pressed to find a better top of the bill in 2018. Ghost Cult brings you the day by day can’t miss bands in our preview below! Continue reading
Download Festival 2018 has made another major announcement, adding 21 bands and WWE NXT Live! Wrestling to the line-up. Added to the bill are Avatar, Andrew W.K., Bad Religion, CKY, Nothing More, Black Foxxes, Hell Is For Heroes and many more. WWE will bring an immersive NXT show starring Aleister Black, Adam Cole, Velveteen Dream, Ricochet, Nikki Cross, Shayna Baszler, Kairi Sane, The Undisputed Era and more. Continue reading
Already looking stacked with a huge lineup, Download Festival 2018 added 65 more bands today, including Volbeat, Baroness, The Bronx, Hatebreed, Greta Van Fleet, Cradle of Filth, Black Stone Cherry and many more. Download takes place August 8-10 at Donington Park. Full band list and ticket links below. Continue reading
One of the longest-running, most successful American music festivals has been Punk Rock Bowling and Music Festival, celebrating their 20th anniversary in 2018. The festival, scheduled for May 25-28 in downtown Las Vegas, NV, has announced a preliminary lineup featuring Rise Against, NOFX, At The Drive-In, Mighty Might Bosstones, Turbonegro, Against Me!, L7, GBH and more.Continue reading