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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
ESCAPE THE CONSTRUCT UNLEASHES DEBUT SINGLE “FALLOUT” WITH CYBERPUNK VISUALIZER
Single and Visualizer Out 27 February 2026 via All Streaming Platforms
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Nottingham, UK — Emerging from the crucible of global tension, Escape The Construct drops their debut single “Fallout” on 27 February 2026 , accompanied by a dystopian cyberpunk-themed visualizer. The track fuses modern metal precision with industrial grit and electronic textures, crafting a sonic assault that reflects the pressures of our present-day reality.
“Fallout is our warning and our mirror — a sonic and visual look at what happens when the construct goes online and we stop asking why,” says vocalist SVART:H4CKR .
About the Single
“Fallout” blends chunky, mechanical riffs with cybernetic synth layers and aggressive vocals, anchored by precise rhythmic percussion and hints of melody. The song sits comfortably for fans of Fear Factory , Sybreed , and Architects , merging mechanized aggression with modern melodic sensibilities. Lyrically, it examines the fallout of technology gone unchecked — humanity now faces the consequences of the construct going online.
Visualizer and Production
Crafted by SVART:H4CKR, the accompanying visualizer plunges viewers into a cyberpunk nightmare, merging original performance footage with distorted, manipulated FX. Wires, flesh, and the embodiment of the “demon in the machine” drive the narrative, making suffering the centerpiece of a story about humanity’s uneasy fusion with technology.
The track was written and produced by TK672 and SVART:H4CKR , with lyrics by SVART:H4CKR, music by TK672, and production/sound engineering handled jointly by the duo.
Label: Self-Released
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
BANISHED TRUTH Unleashes Debut Album Exilium Veritatis

Out Now | Self-Produced Death Metal Manifesto
Rising from the underground with fire in his veins and distortion in his soul, Banished Truth has officially released his debut full-length album Exilium Veritatis . Self-produced and independently unleashed, this death metal statement is a fierce blend of aggression, melody, and unapologetic lyrical depth.
Conceived, written, and produced entirely by Indian guitarist and lifelong metalhead Vikas D, Exilium Veritatis stands as a one-man war machine fueled by the spirit of classic death metal and the blistering shred heroes of the 80s and 90s. This is not a watered-down nostalgia trip. It is a battle cry.
Drawing inspiration from the intensity of Children of Bodom , the blasphemous ferocity of Deicide , and the relentless precision of Vader , Banished Truth forges a sound that balances raw fury with technical finesse. Razor-sharp riffing collides with soaring melodic leads, while socio-political and existential themes cut just as deep as the guitars.
“This album aims to balance aggression and fury with melody and instrumental craft with socio-political and existential lyrics,” says Vikas D.
Every track on Exilium Veritatis reflects a commitment to authenticity. No shortcuts. No compromise. Just pure, old-school-driven death metal energy delivered with modern precision. Produced and engineered by Vikas D himself, the album captures the grit and intensity that made the genre legendary in the first place.
While Banished Truth currently operates as a solo studio project, the vision is expanding. The search is on for dedicated musicians to complete the live lineup, including a lead guitarist, bassist, and drummer. This is a call to arms for those who live and breathe metal and are ready to carry the banner forward.
If you have been waiting for death metal that respects the roots while carving its own path, this record deserves your attention.
Exilium Veritatis is now available for streaming and download at:
https://banishedtruth.bandcamp.com/album/exilium-veritatis
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Out 19 February, 2026 Via Unique Leader Records Words by: Liam Hedges From the outset of this EP with the first track The Omen, Worm Shepard are out for blood, demonstrating both their ability to craft vast soundscapes and the sheer immense brutality of their breakdowns. An atmosphere is quickly created with the clean guitars […]

After years of anticipation,Born of Osiris are finally set to return to Australia this month and for drummer Cameron Losch, the excitement is doubled. While the band last toured the country six years ago, Cameron himself hasn’t performed on Australian soil for roughly a decade due to an injury during their previous run. “I am […]

In the cold of the night

In the dark of your life

You can dance or you can die 

History hums in straight lines. A bassline. A drum pattern. A voice placed slightly forward in the mix, as if stepping out of a still-developing photograph. Undertheskin, the long-running project of Warsaw’s Mariusz [Void] Łuniewski, has spent a decade refining that hum into something disciplined and deliberate, music that feels engineered for late hours and lucid thoughts.

Now comes the third full-length: N E V E R | R E T U R N, released via Young & Cold Records. The album unfolds like a sequence of emotional coordinates: isolation, fracture, endurance, aftermath,  each song separated by that vertical bar in the titles, a graphic scar. Across N E V E R | R E T U R N, Undertheskin maintains a strict economy. Massive basslines anchor the songs; vintage synths provide glacial sheen; drum machines mark the minutes with mechanical calm; guitars constrict rather than expand. Łuniewski’s voice remains the focal point: expressive, controlled, deeply invested in the emotional terrain it surveys.

Freezing | Lights opens with a bass motif that feels locked into repetition by design, moving with the austere elegance associated with Clan of Xymox and the early electronic drama of Ultravox. The lyrics probe permanence and certainty, circling the idea that what glows may also confine. Guitars close in, clipped and contained, while the vocal rides above with measured intensity. There is clarity in the coldness. End This | Summer shifts toward rupture. A friendship dissolves as seasons change; proximity gives way to absence. Echoed vocals widen the space between two once-aligned figures. The guitar lines stretch and recede, underscoring regret. Chords arc upward, echo gathering at their edges. Repetition here functions as memory replayed until meaning thins.

On the standout Dance | Die, motion is the argument and the answer. The beat draws in tight, urgent yet exact, every kick and synth line aligned with purpose. The lyric frames a clear ultimatum: surrender to the weight, or move through it. Here, the dancefloor becomes a survival zone, a place where the body bargains with despair and wins by staying in motion. Feeling runs high, but it is ordered, shaped, given form. You can hear the disciplined propulsion associated with Covenant in the rhythm’s forward drive — electronic devotion rendered in clean lines.

The black-and-white video, directed by Rytis Titas, extends that thesis into image. Gorgeously shot, it follows a woman alone at home as she prepares food with ritual precision. Her gestures are careful, almost ceremonial. She sits at the table as if in prayer, eyes fixed somewhere beyond the room. In her mind, another space opens: the darkened club, the press of bodies, the release of dancing without restraint. Domestic stillness gives way to imagined movement. What she longs for is simple and profound — companionship, connection, the shared pulse of presence.

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Beyond the video, N E V E R | R E T U R N continues its careful sequencing. Dance | Die may crystallize the album’s thesis in motion, but it sits within a larger design — one where intimacy, rupture, and endurance are arranged with deliberate restraint.

Always | Never offers a gentler contour. Longing sits at the centre, shaped by a wish for someone else’s safety and return. Synth tones lift with restraint, almost luminous. Hope appears as a quiet constant, sustained by recollection rather than spectacle. With Exit | Wounds, the album confronts betrayal and mutual damage. The past is acknowledged, almost ritualistically. Harm is shared, not simplified. The arrangement remains disciplined, allowing the vocal to articulate loss without ornament.

The title track, Never | Return, pares everything back further. Wasted youth, emotional numbness, irreversible distance — these themes repeat like a mantra etched into the track’s backbone. The absence of flourish becomes its own statement. Time feels spent; the path once taken is now closed. There is a starkness here that again gestures toward Joy Division, though filtered through Undertheskin’s own contemporary minimalism.

Closing piece End This | Winter extends the seasonal metaphor into something harder, harsher. Words unsaid weigh heavily. Accusations linger. Yet within the insistence on ending lies a glimmer of forward motion; the possibility that a cycle can be named and then broken. There is an echo here of Pornography-era Cure in the emotional temperature, of Ultravox in the structural sweep.

Overall N E V E R | R E T U R N is a record that stands upright, pared back and purposeful, in the long conversation of post-punk’s modern mutations.

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Founded in 2015, Undertheskin began as a solitary operation: Łuniewski writing, producing, performing, calibrating each element himself. Two albums, U N D E R T H E S K I N and N E G A T I V E, and the internationally embraced End This Summer EP positioned him as a figure within the modern coldwave continuum. Stages followed, shared with The Soft Moon, She Past Away, Clan of Xymox, Drab Majesty, and Lebanon Hanover.

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Bon Scott (1946-1980), the legendary singer and lyricist for AC/DC, Fraternity and The Valentines, remains one of the great front men in rock and roll history. His indelible shriek and poetic turns of phrase, along with his playful grin and attitude are synonymous with the lifestyle he led until his untimely death in 1980. Today, […]

The Blues Foundation has announced its nominees for the 2026 Blues Music Awards. The awards are voted on by the members of the Blues Foundation. The 47th annual Blues Music Awards will take place on May 7, 2026, in Memphis, Tennessee.

View the full list of nominees below.

Acoustic Blues Album

Catfish Keith, “Sugar for Sugar – Vol. 1 2025 Summer Sessions”
Doug MacLeod, “Between Somewhere and Goodbye”
Erin Harpe, “Let The Mermaids Flirt With Me: A Tribute to Mississippi John Hurt”
Hudspeth & Taylor, “Kimuziki Live in Des Moines”
Johnny Iguana, “At Delmark”

Acoustic Blues Artist

Catfish Keith
Doug MacLeod
Eric Bibb
Kevin Burt
Rhiannon Giddens

Album of the Year

Blood Brothers Mike Zito & Albert Castiglia, “Help Yourself”
Bobby Rush & Kenny Wayne Shepherd, “Young Fashioned Ways”
D.K. Harrell, “Talkin’ Heavy”
Larry McCray, “Heartbreak City”
Tommy Castro & The Painkillers, “Closer To The Bone”

B.B. King Entertainer of the Year

Castro Coleman (Mr. Sipp)
Rick Estrin
Ronnie Baker Brooks
Ruthie Foster
Vanessa Collier

Band of the Year

Anthony Paule Soul Orchestra
John Nemeth and the Blue Dreamers
Southern Avenue
Tedeschi Trucks Band
Vanessa Collier Band

Best Emerging Artist Album

Brody Buster, “Redemption”
Allison August, “August Moon”
Sean McDonald, “Have Mercy!”
Robbin Kapsalis, “THE BLUES IS IN THE HOUSE”
Kyle Rowland, “NOT HOLDING BACK!”

Blues Rock Album

Blood Brothers Mike Zito & Albert Castiglia, “Help Yourself”
Devon Allman, “BLUES SUMMIT”
Kent Burnside, “Hill Country Blood”
Tom Hambridge, “Down The Hatch”
Walter Trout, “Sign Of The Times”

Blues Rock Artist

Ana Popovic
Kenny Wayne Shepherd
Kirk Fletcher
Tommy Castro
Walter Trout

Contemporary Blues Album

Brandon Santini, “Which Way Do We Go?”
Carolyn Wonderland, “Truth Is”
D.K. Harrell, “Talkin’ Heavy”
Monster Mike Welch, “Keep Living Til I Die”
Southern Avenue, “Family”

Contemporary Blues Female Artist

Carolyn Wonderland
Danielle Nicole
Ruthie Foster
Samantha Fish
Vanessa Collier

Contemporary Blues Male Artist

Brandon Santini
Castro Coleman (Mr. Sipp)
Chris Cain
Christone ”Kingfish” Ingram
D.K. Harrell

Instrumentalist – Bass

Benny Turner
Larry Fulcher
Michael ”Mudcat” Ward
Rodrigo Mantovani
Scot Sutherland

Instrumentalist – Drums

Chris Layton
Chris Peet
Derrick D’Mar Martin
Tom Hambridge
Tony Braunagel

Instrumentalist – Guitar

Chris Cain
Christoffer ”Kid” Andersen
Derek Trucks
Joanna Connor
Ronnie Baker Brooks

Instrumentalist – Harmonica

Billy Branch
Bob Corritore
Brandon Santini
John Nemeth
Kim Wilson

Instrumentalist – Horn

Greg Piccolo
Jimmy Carpenter
Mark Kaz Kazanoff
Regi Oliver
Trombone Shorty

Instrumentalist – Piano (Pinetop Perkins Piano Player)

Anthony Geraci
Bruce Katz
Dave Keyes
Jon Cleary
Marcia Ball

Instrumentalist – Vocals

Candice Ivory
Danielle Nicole
John Nemeth
Shemekia Copeland
Susan Tedeschi

Song of the Year

“Mile After Mile”
written by Brandon Santini & Jeff Jensen

“Bye Bye Blues”
written by Larry McCray & Charlie Walmsley

“Can’t Catch a Break”
written by Tommy Castro & Christoffer Andersen

“Upside”
written by Tierinii Jackson, Tikyra Jackson, Ori Naftaly, Dylan Altman & Marshall Altman

“Who Was That?”
written by Emmett Ellis Jr. & Kenny Wayne Shepherd

Soul Blues Album

Dave Keller, “La Brea”
Jimmy Burns & Soul Message Band, “Full Circle”
Johnny Rawls, “Make Them Dance”
Tad Robinson Band, “Soul In Blue”
The Soul of John Black, “Soul Salvation”

Soul Blues Female Artist

Annika Chambers
Candice Ivory
Kat Riggins
Thornetta Davis
Vaneese Thomas

Soul Blues Male Artist

Alabama Mike
Curtis Salgado
John Nemeth
Johnny Rawls
Tad Robinson

Traditional Blues Album

Bobby Rush & Kenny Wayne Shepherd, “Young Fashioned Ways”
Buddy Guy, “Ain’t Done With The Blues”
Charlie Musselwhite, “Look Out Highway”
Maria Muldaur, “One Hour Mama: The Blues of Victoria Spivey”
Roomful Of Blues, “Steppin’ Out”

Traditional Blues Female Artist (Koko Taylor Award)

Diunna Greenleaf
Eden Brent
Maria Muldaur
Rhiannon Giddens
Teeny Tucker

Traditional Blues Male Artist

Billy Branch
Jimmie Vaughan
John Primer
Jontavious Willis
Rick Estrin

International Blues Album

Brandon Isaak, “Walkin With The Blues”
Honeybear, the Band, “I Was Wrong”
Hubert Dorigatti & Blues harp masters, “Poor Boy”
J.T.Lauritsen & The Buckshot Hunters, “Still be friends”
The Angelique Francis Band, “Not Defeated”

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Blazing a trail back to Australian shores in 2026, L.A. industrial trio HEALTH will headline show around the country this September, joined by special guests PERTURBATOR and KING YOSEF.

Kicking off on Friday 18 September in Brisbane, HEALTH will take their brand of beautiful brutality to Sydney, Melbourne, Hobart and Adelaide, before concluding on Saturday 26 September in Fremantle.

A band equally capable of delighting and devastating with their versatile take on bewitching and aggressive industrial flavours set against brooding soundscapes, HEALTH are the ultimate amalgamation of dexterity and modern ennui. The perfect band to lure you onto the dancefloor while an apocalypse plays out, HEALTH‘s cult-like ascension has spanned two decades, six critically-acclaimed full-length albums, collaborations with the likes of Nine Inch Nails, Poppy and Lamb of God, tours with Nine Inch Nails and Sleep Token, ongoing exclusive remixes, an online presence that bridges satire with genuine connection, high profile video game collabs, and an insatiable desire to weld infectious pop sensibilities into abrasive and primitive sonic landscapes.

Releasing their self-titled album in 2007, HEALTH most recently expanded on their 2023 full-length RAT WARS with their 2025 record CONFLICT DLC. Signalling a neon-soaked gateway into the band’s most thrilling era to date, CONFLICT DLC dexterously added to HEALTH‘s pre-existing array of fan favourites, from TEARS through to Major Crimes and THE DRAIN. Most recently performing an almost entirely sold out headline Australian run back in 2024, returning in 2025 as part of Knotfest Australia, HEALTH have absolutely become a beloved fixture on Australian stages, with Good Call Live praising of their 2024 Brisbane headliner: “adding thoroughly heavy infrastructure to their industrial EDM sound gives HEALTH such an incredible edge and damn, does it go hard in a live setting…a world-class set from start to finish.”

French darksynth pioneer PERTURBATOR will make his welcome Australian return in 2026, set to arrive armed with his trademark cyberpunk-meets-metal stylings, lined with sprawling atmospherics, palpitating rhythms and dystopian thematics. Recently releasing his new album Age of Aquarius in 2025, PERTURBATOR leans into industrial, post-punk and electronica territory on his latest outing, expanding on his ever-growing back catalogue that spans six studio albums, several EPs, and a horde of collabs and compilations. Renowned for his immersive live performance that seamlessly forges distortion with visceral dark sonic magic, PERTURBATOR has relentlessly toured the globe, including his most recent adventures down under headlining in 2023.

Effortlessly oscillating between industrial, noise, metal, electronica and beyond, American producer and visionary artist KING YOSEF coats industrial hardcore and metal with razor-sharp edges. Whether producing for the likes of Ski Mask the Slump God, co-producing and developing artists such as Zheani, Ghrins and Punishment Suite, crafting his own solo creations, or working on his bustling side projects, KING YOSEF animates, as Revolver praised in a profile piece, “the lo-fi blown-out brood-scuzz of Soundcloud rap with the vein-popping screams of hardcore and the mechanical noise of industrial.” 

Whether you’re a memelord, a heavy music diehard, obsessed with pop culture or just want to experience the chaos of modern life channelled through gleeful artistry, prepare to witness the ANTIDOTE to mediocrity this September when HEALTH return down under.

Early bird pre-sale tickets on sale: Thursday 19 February @ 10am local time
To Gain Early Ticket Access Register Here -> https://daltours.cc/health2026

General tickets on sale: Friday 20 February @ 10am local time
Tickets from destroyalllines.com

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This Friday, Greek symphonic extreme metallers W.E.B. will unveil "Darkness Alive," their first ever live album on Metal Blade Records! Captured at Gagarin205 in the band‘s hometown of Athens on September 22nd, 2024, "Darkness Alive" truly captures the band at their most commanding. "We shared the stage that night with Dark Funeral, and since we… Read More/Discuss on Metal Underground.com

London metal force Red Method has shared their brand new single, "Becoming The Sickness," alongside a brand new music video. Thematically connected to 2024 single "All For One, None For All," the new track is the band's first taste of new material in over a year, kicking off their 2026 in the most violent way possible and laying the foundations for… Read More/Discuss on Metal Underground.com