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Mastodon Premiere New Single “Your Ghost Again”
GRAMMY-winning sludge metal band Mastodon have released a brand new single titled “Your Ghost Again,” marking the first new music from the group following the departure of longtime guitarist/vocalist Brent Hinds. The split between Hinds and the band occurred in early 2025, making the arrival of the new track a significant turning point in the b… Read More/Discuss on Metal Underground.com -
Interview: MADiSON ViOLETT
Rising artist MADiSON ViOLETT is quickly carving out a distinct space in the alternative scene with her raw, -
Interview: Peter Yanowitz of Princess Goes
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5 Can’t-Miss Summer 2026 Classic Rock and Metal Tours
A rundown of the summer’s essential rock and metal tours—big reunions, louder-than-life legends, and the shows you’ll regret missing when fall hits.
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Review BOYS FROM HEAVEN “The Wanderer”
The Boys from Heaven were founded in 2017 and hail from Copenhagen, Denmark. They premiered in 2020 with an album called “The Great Discovery”, followed by a second studio album entitled “The Descendant”. A few weeks ago, the band released their latest album, “The Wanderer”, featuring ten new songs. Boys From Heaven are fully committed… Continue Reading → -
“It’s the silliest, most oddball song in our entire catalogue, but it truly hit a nerve.” How Toto used a synthesised flute riff and a drum loop to concoct a classic and a cultural phenomenon
Written to get their label off their back, Toto’s Africa – written by a man who’d never been there – has become inescapable -
Midnight Steel drop new unplugged single “Forever Wild”
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Ready To Strike announce new bassist Ethan Greene
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Portland Duo Puerta Negra Share Video for Scathing EBM Track “Complejo de Victima” (Victim Mentality)
Puerta Negra’s latest single Complejo de Victima (Victim Mentality), comes on as a scathing indictment delivered with immaculate control. It’s strict, stylish, and wired for confrontation. Here, the Portland duo of María Aguirre and Mark Arciaga treat body music as a blunt instrument with a brain attached to it, and this lead single from their Metafísica EP sharpens the blade without polishing away any vitriol. Sung entirely in Spanish, the track places Aguirre’s voice at the center of the damage, cool and cutting, while the beat lurches forward with the mechanical confidence of a machine trained on human spite.
Musically, Complejo de Victima works from a lean EBM chassis and lets the parts rattle. Industrial funk pressure runs through the track, but it never loosens into party decoration. The electronics have a mutant bite, closer to a feverish factory floor than a club fantasy, while the broken rhythms keep shoving the body forward at odd angles. Oráculo references Cabaret Voltaire, new-beat mutations, and the contemporary EBM revival, showcasing themselves as a band pushing their musical heritage through clenched teeth.
Directed by Zach Flanary, the official video keeps its world deliberately stripped down: black-and-white, high contrast, bodies under pressure, faces treated less as glamour objects than as evidence. Aguirre and Arciaga perform as if trapped inside the song’s own nervous system, caught between command and collapse. The mirror shots give the video its mean little genius. They bend the performance into something fractured without dragging it into cheap psychodrama. A face splits, a figure doubles, the eye gets tricked into watching the watcher, and the victim complex named in the title starts to feel less like a diagnosis than a room full of bad faith. There is no need for plot when the premise is already poisoned: accusation, self-pity, control, and the private theater people build around their own wounds.
Watch the video for Complejo de Victima below:
Metafísica is billed as the third chapter in Puerta Negra’s vision, following 2022’s Costo Humano and 2023’s Playa Sola, and Complejo de Victima feels like a hard pivot toward austerity, attack, and psychic compression. Severity can be seductive when handled with nerve.
Listen to Complejo de Victima below and pre-order the vinyl (out June 12th from Oráculo Records) here.
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