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“The America that I’ve written about for 50 years is currently in the hands of a corrupt, incompetent, racist, reckless, and treasonous administration.” Bruce Springsteen launches his fiercest attacks yet against “criminal clown” Donald Trump
The Boss was not holding back at the opening night of his new Land of Hope and Dreams tour -
“The America that I’ve written about for 50 years is currently in the hands of a corrupt, incompetent, racist, reckless, and treasonous administration.” Bruce Springsteen launches his fiercest attacks yet against “criminal clown” Donald Trump
The Boss was not holding back at the opening night of his new Land of Hope and Dreams tour -
Billy Corgan & Courtney Love Reunite On Corgan’s Podcast To Air Their Grievances About Kim Gordon
Billy Corgan and Courtney Love go way back. Hole’s head honcho briefly dated the Smashing Pumpkins founder in 1991; she claims most of Siamese Dream is about her. Corgan co-wrote several songs on Hole’s 1998 classic Celebrity Skin, and Hole’s Melissa Auf der Maur did a stint as the Pumpkins’ bassist during the tour supporting 2000’s Machina/The Machines Of God. Today, Love has taken a break from teasing a non-existent Hole reunion and chronicling her journey toward Geese fandom to guest on Corgan’s podcast The Magnificent Others.
The post Billy Corgan & Courtney Love Reunite On Corgan’s Podcast To Air Their Grievances About Kim Gordon appeared first on Stereogum.
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AVERSIO HUMANITATIS present ‘Blackened Mold Marrow’
Madrid’s AVERSIO HUMANITATIS follow-up 2020’s white-hot “Behold the Silent Dwellers” with another stunning slice of unrelenting, modernist and oft-dissonant Black Metal. As a second gateway into forthcoming “To Become the Endless Static“, the Spanish ensemble now presents a video for their song ‘Blackened Mold Marrow‘: ‘Blackened Mold Marrow‘ shows AVERSIO HUMANITATIS at their most corrosive and unrestrained. With razor-sharp […] -
Melodic dark metal band SOULFALLEN from Finland releases the second single from their upcoming fourth album!
Finland’s melodic dark metal masters SOULFALLEN return with a second single from their long-awaited upcoming fourth album, set to be released later this year. ’Flesh Unearthed’ is the shortest track of the album, representing its faster and more aggressive side. Listen to the single on music services (Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer, Tidal, YouTube Music etc.): https://push.fm/fl/soulfallen-fleshunearthed ”Flesh Unearthed, or FU […] -
Spencer Krug Announces New Solo LP
Photo Credit: Simon Liem
New Album Same Fangs Releases May 15, 2026Canadian songwriter Spencer Krug has announced that his new solo album Same Fangs will be out May 15 on Pronounced Kroog, alongside its first single, “Timebomb,”, which landed last week. Available on digital and vinyl, after Wolf Parade’s “I’ll Believe In Anything” Resurfacing through Netflix’s *Heated Rivalry*, a new wave of listeners began discovering Krug’s catalogue, reliving over twenty years of hard work. For an artist whose projects have amassed hundreds of millions of streams with Wolf Parade, Sunset Rubdown, Moonface, and his solo recordings, the timing feels more rewarding. Same Fangs is built almost entirely around piano and voice, the record blends bombast with tension and clarity over chaos. There are influences of Tobias Jesso Jr.’, late-era Leonard Cohen, and Lou Reed’. But this is not imitation. It’s distillation. An indie lifer narrowing the lens.
One of the first songs off the album, “Timebomb” was originally rewrite an earlier song about tour nostalgia, which turned into something more uncomfortable. “Timebomb is a song about a song about a band on tour, or rather, about the failed revision of that song, upon sadly realizing that its original message no longer rings true,” Krug explains. “This is me lyrically folding myself into the murky layers of self-made lore.”
“Same Fangs” was recorded at The Noise Floor with Jordan Koop, the track leans into distorted piano and effected vocals, with guest harmonies from Elbow Kiss. Lyrically, Krug doesn’t dodge the tension. “I was a gambling man in a rock and roll band,” he sings, before admitting, “Turns out the song’s just what it is.” Later, in a flash of self-aware venom, “Mirror me and I will mirror you / what a pair of motherfuckers in a feedback loop.”.
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The album is drawn from demos posted to Krug’s Patreon throughout 2024 and 2025, then re-recorded in a single week on Gabriola Island. Piano and vocals form the spine, but subtle additions, percussion, strings arranged by Maria Grigoryeva, electric guitar and textures from Koop, and collaborative vocal from Elbow Kiss. Contributors were encouraged to write their own parts. Lyrically, Same Fangs moves through life in bands, marriage and fatherhood, ending friendships, small-town living, political fatigue, gratitude, and songwriting itself. It’s reflective for someone who has navigated the Sub Pop years, the Jagjaguwar arc, NPR sessions, BBC spins, KEXP rotations, and years of international touring.
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14 MAY SALT SPRING ISLAND BC — ALL SAINTS BY THE SEA
15 MAY VICTORIA BC — WOOD HALL
16 MAY COURTENAY BC — CVGBS
20 MAY PENTICTON BC — THE HUB
22 MAY LETHBRIDGE AB — THE OWL ACOUSTIC LOUNGE
23 MAY CALGARY AB — EAST TOWN GET DOWN FESTIVAL
24 MAY EDMONTON AB — THE AVIARY
26 MAY SASKATOON SK — BLACK CAT TAVERN
27 MAY REGINA SK — THE EXCHANGE
28 MAY DRUMHELLER AB — TO BE DETERMINED
30 / 31 MAY YMIR BC — TINY LIGHTS FESTIVAL
5 JUN VANCOUVER BC — ST JAMES HALL
6 JUN NANAIMO BC — TO BE DETERMINED -
UADA Announce 10th Anniversary Edition Of “Devoid Of Light”
Physical copies of “Interwoven” have been met with a delay however.
The post UADA Announce 10th Anniversary Edition Of “Devoid Of Light” appeared first on Theprp.com.
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Reviews: Hellripper, Monsternaut, Axel Rudi Pell, Rosa Faenskap (Mark Young, Rich Piva, Matt Bladen & Spike)
Hellripper – Coronach (Century Media Records) [Mark Young]
Well, I didn’t expect to hear to AOTY candidates drop in the same week in the same month. Just as Winterfylleth drop their absolute smasher, Hellripper enter the arena with what should go down as a stone cold classic in Coronach, their 4th full length release.One that squarely tops Warlocks Grim & Withered Hags, an album that has stayed on my personal playlist since its 2023 release and furthered bolstered by catching them live supporting Warbringer in Manchester, cemented them for me as one of the must watch UK bands.
So, I think I can sell this album to you on the strength of one song, and for this I’ve been boring and chosen the opener, Hunderprest. It’s an easy one for me, because it encapsulates everything about them in one place.A thunderous storm announces its start that leads into a frenzied pull off/hammer on sequence. Its in the this initial minute or so where you hear the little melodic touches that drop in during the chaos that make this what it is.It would be easy I’m sure for them to play it straight like a lot of other bands but they don’t do anything easy. What they don’t do is slow down, its played at speed because they know it has to hit hard and fast.The lead break is mental, a face melter of the highest order because of the rhythm work that sit behinds it. Both work together to make your head move, absolutely top stuff. And it doesn’t finish there, with an outro that ensures that you stay engaged with this to the end.I don’t just get black metal from them, the last lead smacks of Iron Maiden, of early Metallica, in the way that both bands used to write their songs as stories with a fully realised start, middle and end. It’s the use of the right chords to make you feel it, and you do, so much so there is another 7 bangers lined up to follow, all super charged and cut from that same cloth where the riff is king.
There is a lot more to this album than just the opener, you can take any track from here and it will become your instant new favourite. This is its strength; there aren’t any weak tracks here. You get the feeling that if an idea didn’t catch fire, it was immediately cast aside.Take the start of The Art Of Resurrection, a melodic and restrained start and you think hang on lads, don’t hit us with a ballad but it’s a fake out. It picks up its speed and then settles in for the long haul.You remember I mentioned it’s the little melodic touches deployed here and there that pick this material up? It pervades through this, ensuring that it is anything other than a simple experience. Its about the choice of chords used in each arrangement, they are perfectly curated and then executed in a devastating fashion.Because of how much I loved Warlocks, I was worried about this but it was for naught. Everything that is asked of it, it does. It brings speed, heaviness the lot. And in the title track, we have a classic. Its an 8 minute epic and is everything we love about metal.It’s the sort of song that inspires guitarists to play, just for the rhythm parts alone. If there’s opportunity to catch them live at any point, please do so. They are phenomenal live, and this new stuff is magic. I trust that this review has done what it needed to in getting you down to your local shop/streamer/online purveyor and buy it immediately. 10/10
Monsternaut – Approaching Doom (Heavy Psych Sounds) [Rich Piva]
Yes, Kerava, Finland’s Monsternaut is on Heavy Psych Sounds. Yes, their first coupe releases had an El Camino and some very 70s style font on their covers (I think it is an El Camino, the car guys are gonna kill me). But make no mistake, the band’s third record, Approaching Doom, is straight up 90s metal.Yes, we have some fuzz and some riffs and even some stoner grooves once in a while, but this band is closer to Machine Head then they are Fu Manchu. Ok, maybe not, but this record is more 90s metal sounding than anything else, and that is fine by me.
First of all, the El Camino is replaced by a four wheeler made with a giant’s skull. Second, the dude riding said four wheeler. The true example is the thrash-y Bay Area riff that opens up Cold sounds more like Death Angel than anything else, and I am here for it. Evicted is more metal chugginess and continues the darker vibe and themes of the record, with the vocals all about that metal stuff.The title track gives me those same old(er) school metal vibes. The recording of the record sounds so great because it was recorded right to analog, and it is so much better for it. Drain is one of my favorites on the record, and at the right time in history this could have stood up to any heavy rock radio hit of the 1990s. Killer stuff.Some other standouts are New Order Of Bliss, which is a fun ripper with a cool riff, and the most stoner rock track on the record, Human Stew. The highlight for me is Demon Strikes, which somehow sounds like a more metal Nebula, and boy oh boy does it rip.
Approaching Doom is a great third record for Monsternaut. The recording sounds amazing, the darker, more metal vibe works great, and the songs are strong. Fans of straight up 90s metal and thrash who also love the stoner stuff will eat these ten tracks up and go back for seconds. 8/10
Axel Rudi Pell – Ghost Town (Steamhammer/SPV) [Matt Bladen]With 23 solo albums and over 35 years in the business, behind him you could be forgiven for thinking Axel Rudi Pell would be happy to rest on his laurels after all this time, carrying on with what he has done before rather than wanting to innovate and adapt.
However this is definitely not a case of quantity over quality as he’s always there to deliver quality melodic metal. His riffs and solos drive these tracks that range from Rainbow-like rockers, Sabbath stompers (The Enemy Within), metallic ragers, and of course a massive ballads such as Towards The Shore.His axe slinging joined by former Rainbow drummer Bobby Rondinelli, bassist Volker Krawczak and keyboardist Ferdy Doernberg while long time vocalist Johnny Gioeli brings those pipes you’ll recognise from Hardline, speaking of recognisable Udo Dirkschneider adds his rasp to Breaking Seals.
Elsewhere there’s some power to Holy Water, galloping on Hurricane and your head will bang on Sanity, making for more of that same high quality rocking that Mr Pell has made his living with. There’s something to be said about consistency and with Ghost Town you hear why Axel Rudi Pell has such longevity. 7/10
Rosa Faenskap– Ingenting Forblir (Fysisk Format) [Spike]
There is a specific, modern kind of exhaustion that comes from watching the world you grew up in slowly curdle into something unrecognizable.Oslo’s Rosa Faenskap have spent their career documenting this shift, but on Ingenting Forblir (“Nothing Remains”), the tone has moved from poetic observation to a high-velocity, black-metal-fuelled confrontation.It is a record that manages to be analytically sharp and brutally personal at the same time, proving that if you’re going to scream about dehumanization, you might as well use the most abrasive frequencies available.
The experience hits the ground running with Den Svake Mannen, and the first thing you notice is the sheer clarity of their black metal core. While their previous work toyed with post-rock and prog, this opener is a snot-and-tears jolt of blackened hardcore that sets the mood for the entire album.It’s a sophisticated bit of aggression that transitions seamlessly into Faenskap for alltid, where the “shove” of their rhythm section really starts to rattle the monitors.
What sets Rosa Faenskap apart from the standard “angry” pack is their fearless genre-blending. Tracks like La Barna Leve and Klarhet I Kaos weave in these sprawling, post-rock atmospheric stretches that feel like a brief, desperate gasp for air before the next assault.It’s that specific “shimmer” I’ve mentioned in other reviews reimagined through a furnace of Norwegian vitriol. It gives the record a narrative weight that feels properly, painfully epic.
The middle of the album, featuring Bygg Til Himmelen and Famler I Hatet, is where the “analytical” side of the band shows its teeth. The songwriting is knotty and unpredictable, moving through movements that feel like they’re constantly expanding until the room feels too small to hold the friction. The production is spot on. It avoids the high-gloss traps of modern metalcore in favour of an approach that feels true to the bone.
The real heart of the record, however, is the nine-minute finale: Jeg Våkner Snart. It’s a sprawling, ambitious bit of survivalism that finally allows the band to stretch their legs into the more “prog” corners of their vocabulary.It’s a descent that moves from a contemplative, almost fragile opening into a wall of feedback that eventually just… collapses. It doesn’t offer a “fix” for the systemic violence it describes; it simply stands in the wreckage and refuses to look away.
When the final vibration of Jeg Våkner snart eventually cuts out, you aren’t left with a tidy summary or a sense of closure. Instead, you’re left with that heavy, post-riot silence where the air in the room feels thicker than when you started.Rosa Faenskap have spent this record measuring the exact distance between the world we were promised and the one we actually ended up with, and the result is a beautifully distorted ache. 8/10 -
Reviews: Hellripper, Monsternaut, Axel Rudi Pell, Rosa Faenskap (Mark Young, Rich Piva, Matt Bladen & Spike)
Hellripper – Coronach (Century Media Records) [Mark Young]
Well, I didn’t expect to hear to AOTY candidates drop in the same week in the same month. Just as Winterfylleth drop their absolute smasher, Hellripper enter the arena with what should go down as a stone cold classic in Coronach, their 4th full length release.One that squarely tops Warlocks Grim & Withered Hags, an album that has stayed on my personal playlist since its 2023 release and furthered bolstered by catching them live supporting Warbringer in Manchester, cemented them for me as one of the must watch UK bands.
So, I think I can sell this album to you on the strength of one song, and for this I’ve been boring and chosen the opener, Hunderprest. It’s an easy one for me, because it encapsulates everything about them in one place.A thunderous storm announces its start that leads into a frenzied pull off/hammer on sequence. Its in the this initial minute or so where you hear the little melodic touches that drop in during the chaos that make this what it is.It would be easy I’m sure for them to play it straight like a lot of other bands but they don’t do anything easy. What they don’t do is slow down, its played at speed because they know it has to hit hard and fast.The lead break is mental, a face melter of the highest order because of the rhythm work that sit behinds it. Both work together to make your head move, absolutely top stuff. And it doesn’t finish there, with an outro that ensures that you stay engaged with this to the end.I don’t just get black metal from them, the last lead smacks of Iron Maiden, of early Metallica, in the way that both bands used to write their songs as stories with a fully realised start, middle and end. It’s the use of the right chords to make you feel it, and you do, so much so there is another 7 bangers lined up to follow, all super charged and cut from that same cloth where the riff is king.
There is a lot more to this album than just the opener, you can take any track from here and it will become your instant new favourite. This is its strength; there aren’t any weak tracks here. You get the feeling that if an idea didn’t catch fire, it was immediately cast aside.Take the start of The Art Of Resurrection, a melodic and restrained start and you think hang on lads, don’t hit us with a ballad but it’s a fake out. It picks up its speed and then settles in for the long haul.You remember I mentioned it’s the little melodic touches deployed here and there that pick this material up? It pervades through this, ensuring that it is anything other than a simple experience. Its about the choice of chords used in each arrangement, they are perfectly curated and then executed in a devastating fashion.Because of how much I loved Warlocks, I was worried about this but it was for naught. Everything that is asked of it, it does. It brings speed, heaviness the lot. And in the title track, we have a classic. Its an 8 minute epic and is everything we love about metal.It’s the sort of song that inspires guitarists to play, just for the rhythm parts alone. If there’s opportunity to catch them live at any point, please do so. They are phenomenal live, and this new stuff is magic. I trust that this review has done what it needed to in getting you down to your local shop/streamer/online purveyor and buy it immediately. 10/10
Monsternaut – Approaching Doom (Heavy Psych Sounds) [Rich Piva]
Yes, Kerava, Finland’s Monsternaut is on Heavy Psych Sounds. Yes, their first coupe releases had an El Camino and some very 70s style font on their covers (I think it is an El Camino, the car guys are gonna kill me). But make no mistake, the band’s third record, Approaching Doom, is straight up 90s metal.Yes, we have some fuzz and some riffs and even some stoner grooves once in a while, but this band is closer to Machine Head then they are Fu Manchu. Ok, maybe not, but this record is more 90s metal sounding than anything else, and that is fine by me.
First of all, the El Camino is replaced by a four wheeler made with a giant’s skull. Second, the dude riding said four wheeler. The true example is the thrash-y Bay Area riff that opens up Cold sounds more like Death Angel than anything else, and I am here for it. Evicted is more metal chugginess and continues the darker vibe and themes of the record, with the vocals all about that metal stuff.The title track gives me those same old(er) school metal vibes. The recording of the record sounds so great because it was recorded right to analog, and it is so much better for it. Drain is one of my favorites on the record, and at the right time in history this could have stood up to any heavy rock radio hit of the 1990s. Killer stuff.Some other standouts are New Order Of Bliss, which is a fun ripper with a cool riff, and the most stoner rock track on the record, Human Stew. The highlight for me is Demon Strikes, which somehow sounds like a more metal Nebula, and boy oh boy does it rip.
Approaching Doom is a great third record for Monsternaut. The recording sounds amazing, the darker, more metal vibe works great, and the songs are strong. Fans of straight up 90s metal and thrash who also love the stoner stuff will eat these ten tracks up and go back for seconds. 8/10
Axel Rudi Pell – Ghost Town (Steamhammer/SPV) [Matt Bladen]With 23 solo albums and over 35 years in the business, behind him you could be forgiven for thinking Axel Rudi Pell would be happy to rest on his laurels after all this time, carrying on with what he has done before rather than wanting to innovate and adapt.
However this is definitely not a case of quantity over quality as he’s always there to deliver quality melodic metal. His riffs and solos drive these tracks that range from Rainbow-like rockers, Sabbath stompers (The Enemy Within), metallic ragers, and of course a massive ballads such as Towards The Shore.His axe slinging joined by former Rainbow drummer Bobby Rondinelli, bassist Volker Krawczak and keyboardist Ferdy Doernberg while long time vocalist Johnny Gioeli brings those pipes you’ll recognise from Hardline, speaking of recognisable Udo Dirkschneider adds his rasp to Breaking Seals.
Elsewhere there’s some power to Holy Water, galloping on Hurricane and your head will bang on Sanity, making for more of that same high quality rocking that Mr Pell has made his living with. There’s something to be said about consistency and with Ghost Town you hear why Axel Rudi Pell has such longevity. 7/10
Rosa Faenskap– Ingenting Forblir (Fysisk Format) [Spike]
There is a specific, modern kind of exhaustion that comes from watching the world you grew up in slowly curdle into something unrecognizable.Oslo’s Rosa Faenskap have spent their career documenting this shift, but on Ingenting Forblir (“Nothing Remains”), the tone has moved from poetic observation to a high-velocity, black-metal-fuelled confrontation.It is a record that manages to be analytically sharp and brutally personal at the same time, proving that if you’re going to scream about dehumanization, you might as well use the most abrasive frequencies available.
The experience hits the ground running with Den Svake Mannen, and the first thing you notice is the sheer clarity of their black metal core. While their previous work toyed with post-rock and prog, this opener is a snot-and-tears jolt of blackened hardcore that sets the mood for the entire album.It’s a sophisticated bit of aggression that transitions seamlessly into Faenskap for alltid, where the “shove” of their rhythm section really starts to rattle the monitors.
What sets Rosa Faenskap apart from the standard “angry” pack is their fearless genre-blending. Tracks like La Barna Leve and Klarhet I Kaos weave in these sprawling, post-rock atmospheric stretches that feel like a brief, desperate gasp for air before the next assault.It’s that specific “shimmer” I’ve mentioned in other reviews reimagined through a furnace of Norwegian vitriol. It gives the record a narrative weight that feels properly, painfully epic.
The middle of the album, featuring Bygg Til Himmelen and Famler I Hatet, is where the “analytical” side of the band shows its teeth. The songwriting is knotty and unpredictable, moving through movements that feel like they’re constantly expanding until the room feels too small to hold the friction. The production is spot on. It avoids the high-gloss traps of modern metalcore in favour of an approach that feels true to the bone.
The real heart of the record, however, is the nine-minute finale: Jeg Våkner Snart. It’s a sprawling, ambitious bit of survivalism that finally allows the band to stretch their legs into the more “prog” corners of their vocabulary.It’s a descent that moves from a contemplative, almost fragile opening into a wall of feedback that eventually just… collapses. It doesn’t offer a “fix” for the systemic violence it describes; it simply stands in the wreckage and refuses to look away.
When the final vibration of Jeg Våkner snart eventually cuts out, you aren’t left with a tidy summary or a sense of closure. Instead, you’re left with that heavy, post-riot silence where the air in the room feels thicker than when you started.Rosa Faenskap have spent this record measuring the exact distance between the world we were promised and the one we actually ended up with, and the result is a beautifully distorted ache. 8/10