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  • Video Premiere: Conan – ‘Anger Mask’

    UK doom trio Conan are primed to issue the second edition of their DIY 10″ vinyl series and Decibel has an exclusive premiere of “Anger Mask,” the single from said 10″. Stylistically, it isn’t going too far off the beaten path—big, sludgy riffs backed by a wall of amps and Johnny King’s forceful drumming are a force of nature, pushing the volume as high as it can go.

    Explaining the idea behind both “Anger Mask” and the DIY series in general, Conan tell Decibel:

    “With our 10-inch series, we wanted to create something without label influence or expectation. We love to improvise during these sessions and this track came together quickly. Bolt Thrower made no apologies for their love of Warhammer and neither do we. ‘Anger Mask’ tells the violent tale of a painted Age of Sigmar figure, from birth to death…”

    Nerd out with Conan via the video below. Head over to the band’s shop to grab a copy on wax.

    The post Video Premiere: Conan – ‘Anger Mask’ appeared first on Decibel Magazine.

  • DEFTONES Guitarist STEPHEN CARPENTER Opens Up About Type 2 Diabetes Struggles During Latest Album

    Stephen Carpenter playing guitar on stage during a live Deftones concert, with dramatic stage lighting and audience in the background.

    Stephen Carpenter reveals years of undiagnosed Type 2 Diabetes affected him physically and mentally while recording Deftones’ private music.

    The post DEFTONES Guitarist STEPHEN CARPENTER Opens Up About Type 2 Diabetes Struggles During Latest Album appeared first on Metal Injection.

  • Corima Brings Doom to Zeuhl on “Hunab Ku” (Album Review)

    Historians theorize that the Mesoamerican cultures (plus their cousins in the Great Basin) developed such a bloody, fatalistic philosophy due to the unpredictability of weather cycles in the region and the notoriously fickle, and labor-intensive, maize crop. Corima, the Californian progressive rock group, attempts to integrate this worldview into music on their latest release, Hunab Ku. The ensemble has been operating at the cultural fringes for more than a decade, though their marginalization is not intentional as they operate in one of the most peripheral post-1960s genres: zeuhl.

    Zeuhl (if one is not aware) is a conceptualization of sound that exists in the shadowlands between jazz, metal, progressive rock, and symphonic composition. Opposition and obliqueness to the listener is in the sacred text of zeuhl. French zeuhl, where the genre technically originates, incarnates as a post-Protestant amalgam of jazz and orchestral metal, then Japanese zeuhl, where the genre reached its conceptual consummation, manifests as a postmodern repetitive chaos which, to some, hedges on unconditional torture. So is Corima pressing these borders towards a new post-territory accessible to virginal newcomers?

    Yes and no. The current Corima line-up has been together for about a decade, so there is little loose change between the players. Their sound on Hunab Ku is strong here and easier there, but it never exactly crosses into the avant-garde post-space that the groups which inspired the band, such as the Japanese Kōenjihyakkei, do. Which is to say, Corima is not the California equivalent of another group; they have a robust identity, and the one they project on Hunab Ku is doom.

    Doom, in the Mesoamerican sense of the Mayans and Aztecs, where the world is a self-consuming spiral rather than a vanishing point to be achieved. A sense of doom liberated from the mammalian brain, returned to the reptile, is zeuhl’s strongest asset in how it liberates the vocalist from any sense of decorum. Zeuhl is a future-past tool where vocalists adopt a prophetic tongue without the logic or grammar of any language; the technique has often been compared to speaking in tongues. Andrea Calderón, Paco Casanova, Patrick Shiroshi, and Gopala Bhakta all take on the spiritualist activity in one mode or another across the album, bassist Ryan Kamiyamazaki is the only one without a vocals credit, but Calderón, here, is the closest the group has to a lead vocalist.

    Each song is a different cycle, a different doom, but a different twist in the formal for those who like when their jazzy rhythmic chanting slides into a frigid doom metal breakdown. “Yoh’hah” and “Xock’ab” open Hunab Ku, but a sense of technical intensity does not emerge until “Manla” and “K’iik,” which begin to unveil the cyclical structure at play. While “Manla” is highly listenable and “K’iik” is highly chaotic, both are a menagerie of technique where it sounds as if every instrument in existence, up to even the glockenspiel, is included. “K’iik” itself is haunting as it rumbles through crying whines and chugging rhythm. This then feeds into the ceremonial style of “Inlilnaluk” which admits itself an eastern influence alongside a synth organ and pipes. The mythological “Ho-Huitzilopochtli-Tlaloc,” named in honor of the masked deities who rained blood and whose blood was rain, reveals the group’s Kōenjihyakkei influence with triumphancy. The album then closes off on the thunderous climax of “Kultunlilni,” which allows Corima to put into practice the physicality of zeuhl, an advancing wall of sound. The only thing the Corima ensemble stops short of on Hunab Ku is breaking out the Aztec death whistle for the conclusion.

    Is one left with a sense of doom once Hunab Ku concludes? Undoubtedly, but it is a refreshing doom. This is the doom of the flesh: the ruin of murals, the forgotten faces of gods in masks of many nations, and technical music skill on parade. It is a pleasant change of pace to be reminded of an impending disaster that is personal rather than a de-personalized, structural force. Even if Corima takes another decade (erm, another cycle) to get around to another album, this formation of Corima has proven there is still a little bit of the knife-prick in the digital music environment, no matter how fringe. Hunab Ku is music to be felt in the rattling bones, not in the beating heart.

    –William Pauper

    Hunab Ku is available now via Soleil Zeuhl.

  • YOTH IRIA Announce Third Album Gone With The Devil, Stream “The Blind Eye Of Antichrist”

    Promotional photo of Yoth Iria in 2026 featuring HE (vocals), Jim Mutilator (bass), Nikolas Perlepe (guitar), Naberius (guitar), and Bill "Vongaar" Stavrianidis (drums).

    Greek black metal titans Yoth Iria return with Gone With The Devil, blending classic black metal, Mediterranean folk, and cinematic melodies.

    The post YOTH IRIA Announce Third Album Gone With The Devil, Stream "The Blind Eye Of Antichrist" appeared first on Metal Injection.

  • Jehnny Beth – “Look At Me” (Feat. Mike Patton)

    Former Savages leader Jehnny Beth and Faith No More/Mr. Bungle frontman Mike Patton are two tough, commanding, larger-than-life vocalists, and now they’ve joined forces on a blaring electro-rock single called “Look At Me.” Beth released her solo album You Heartbreaker, You last year, and she just celebrated the 10th anniversary of Savages’ Adore. Today, she…

    The post Jehnny Beth – “Look At Me” (Feat. Mike Patton) appeared first on Stereogum.

  • The Who Celebrates a Unique Concert With ‘Live at Eden Project’

    Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey were backed by the Heart of England Philharmonic Orchestra amid the Cornish countryside. Continue reading…
  • DARSOMBRA Releases Syzygy LP, Out Today, Following Transmission Festival In Memory Of Member Ann Everton

    photo by Stephen Kasner Baltimore-based DARSOMBRA presents a new LP titled Syzygy, released to the public today, following its surprise unveiling at last weekend’s DARSOMBRA Presents: Transmission – A Celebration For Ann Everton festival. The […]

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  • SEVENDUST Drop “Unbreakable” Video Ahead Of 15th Album One

    A photo of Sevendust.

    Sevendust return with powerful single “Unbreakable” from their upcoming album One, blending aggression, melody, and raw emotional depth.

    The post SEVENDUST Drop "Unbreakable" Video Ahead Of 15th Album One appeared first on Metal Injection.

  • Gig review: SAMANTHA FISH – The Ritz, Manchester, 4 March 2026

    SAMANTHA FISH - The Ritz, Manchester, 4 March 2026So on the way to Manchester I was listening to Planet Rock radio with Elles Bailey who I saw a couple of weeks ago in Bury, and she was playing a track by When Rivers Meet off the Matt Long … Continue reading

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