Despite their name, Chicago’s newly formed Ready for Death offer more of a hardcore and thrash style in their debut offering. With 10 tracks and a run time of a little over 20 minutes, their self-titled debut on Translation Loss offers plenty of furious tales about chaos and destruction in a compact package.
Indianapolis post-rock festival Post. Festival has announced its 2022 dates and lineup. As always, Post. Festival seeks to bring together both musicians and fans of post-adjacent genres “without the aid of commercial status.” This year’s line-up includes: Boris, Pelican, Nothing, Pianos Become the Teeth, Junius, Arms and Sleepers, Coastlands, I Hear Sirens, Facs, Glassing, Pillars, Fayle, Colin Phils, Glacier, Brave Arrows, Black Flak and The Nightmare Fighters, & Onus.
Crushing news for the summer festival season in Europe, as France’s legendary Hellfest, has been canceled due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. The festival announced today it was unable to host the festival, which takes place in Clisson, France, outside of Paris. Hellfest 2021 is already announced for next summer. The 2020 edition was to have had Faith No More, and Down will be joined by Deftones, System Of A Down, Incubus, Korn, Mastodon, Opeth, Deep Purple, Judas Priest, The Offspring, Infectious Grooves, The Darkness, Obituary, Death DTA (the Death tribute featuring members of Death), At The Gates, Entombed AD, Sacred Reich, Devin Townsend, Meshuggah, The Black Dahlia Murder, Dying Fetus, Misery Index, Mayhem, Abbath, Rotting Christ, Primordial, The Great Old Ones, Wardruna, The Hu, Taake, Watain, Alcest, Borknagar, Gaahl’s Wyrd, Electric Wizard, Baroness, Om, Witchcraft, Black Mountain, Elder, ASG, Envy, Mono, John Garcia & the Band of Gold, High On Fire, Pelican, Killing Joke, Perturbator, Life of Agony, 3TEETH, Inter Arma, Body Count, Suicidal Tendencies, Youth of Today, Slapshot, Jesus Piece, Higher Power, Social Distortion, Anti-Flag, Agnostic Front, Reverend Horton Heat, Grade 2, Code Orange, and more. Dumb and Dumbest Podcast had an episode dedicated to the fest last summer. Continue reading
Hellfest has announced its 15th-anniversary lineup for summer 2020, and it looks like a dream! Already announced Faith No More, and Down will be joined by Deftones, System Of A Down, Incubus, Korn, Mastodon, Opeth, Deep Purple, Judas Priest, The Offspring, Infectious Grooves, The Darkness, Obituary, Death DTA (the Death tribute featuring members of Death), At The Gates, Entombed AD, Sacred Reich, Devin Townsend, Meshuggah, The Black Dahlia Murder, Dying Fetus, Misery Index, Mayhem, Abbath, Rotting Christ, Primordial, The Great Old Ones, Wardruna, The Hu, Taake, Watain, Alcest, Borknagar, Gaahl’s Wyrd, Electric Wizard, Baroness, Om, Witchcraft, Black Mountain, Elder, ASG, Envy, Mono, John Garcia & the Band of Gold, High On Fire, Pelican, Killing Joke, Perturbator, Life of Agony, 3TEETH, Inter Arma, Body Count, Suicidal Tendencies, Youth of Today, Slapshot, Jesus Piece, Higher Power, Social Distortion, Anti-Flag, Agnostic Front, Reverend Horton Heat, Grade 2, Code Orange, and many more. Hellfest takes place June 19-21 in Clisson, France near Paris and ticket info is coming soon! Continue reading
One of Europe’s most respected instrumental/experimental post-rock and metal music festivals returns in 2019, with AMFest in Barcelona this October. Returning for its eighth edition returns AMFest takes place 10-13 October 2019, Fabra I Coats, Barcelona. Headlining the festivals are Daughters and includes Foscor, Zeal & Ardor, Alcest, Pelican, Deafheaven, Tides From Nebula, Brutus, Portrayal of Guilt, The Album Leaf, Cocaine Piss and many more! Ticket links and other info can be found below. Continue reading
It must be a sign of my own rapidly advancing age but I can scarcely believe that it has been three whole years since we last had music from Chicago’s Russian Circles. The speed at which times move, it is sometimes difficult to take stock. For one though, it is lovely news to have them back.Continue reading
Some things in life carry a level of excitement and anticipation that seems life-changing, almost transcendental: marriage; the birth of a child; a pilgrimage. It seems over-trivialising to compare the release of a Pelican album to any of the above, but after six long years, a new offering from the iconic post-Metal instrumentalists is akin to the herald of a new dawn. Nighttime Stories (Southern Lord Recordings) is an emotional, dramatic and involving as one would expect it to be.Continue reading
Desertfest Belgium has been busy adding top tier bands for its next edition! Pelican, Big Business, Sixes have all been announced in the last few days with more bands to come! They join a bill that features Sleep, Ty Segall & Freedom Band, EyeHateGod, Truck Fighters, Pelican, Bonripper, Nebula, Steak, High Reeper, ASG and more!Continue reading
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)
