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  • Video Premiere: Castle – “Carry Chains”

    Castle are dropping a new track along an official video for “Carry Chains” Check it out here. The song is from their album Carrie Chains, dropping September 4 via Hammerheart Records.

    “We spent so many years on the road in the early days of Castle, we’d riff on song ideas through night drives and backstage hangs… a lot of the song ideas like ‘Truckgrinder,’ ‘Carry Chains,’ and ‘Goat Vision’ all originated back then and have the classic theme of the underdog rising up against all odds, including the albums main character, Carrie Chains—It’s a great inspiration in these times,” says vocalist and bassist Liz Blackwell.

    U.S. TOUR DATES:
    9/3 Detroit, MI – Smalls
    9/4 Cleveland, OH – Maple Grove Tavern
    9/5 Montague, MA – RPM Fest
    9/6 Brooklyn, NY – Woodshop
    9/7 York, PA – Collusion Tap Works
    9/9 Washington D.C. – Pie Shop
    9/10 Pittsburgh, PA – Poetry Lounge
    9/11 Indianapolis IN – Black Circle
    9/12 Nashville, TN – Cobra Lounge
    9/14 Dallas, TX – Dusty’s
    9/15 Austin, TX – Valhalla
    9/16 Tulsa, OK – Whittier Bar
    9/17 Des Moines, IA – Locals Bar
    9/18 Chicago, IL – Reggies
    8/19 Madison, WI – Blades Of Steel Fest
    10/23 Seattle, WA – El Corazon
    10/24 Portland, OR – High Water Mark
    10/25 San Francisco, CA – Bottom Of The Hill
    10/26 Palmdale, CA – Transplants Brewery
    10/27 Las Vegas, NV – The Griffin
    10/28 Phoenix, AZ – Last Exit
    10/29 Los Angeles, CA – Knucklehead
    10/30 San Diego, CA – Tower Bar
    10/31 TBA

    Preorder the album here. 

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  • SEEN AND HEARD: PSYCROPTIC, FEN, CONDUIT, SUFFERING QUOTA, SKELETAL SERPENT, THEURGIA

    (written by Islander) We had an 11th-hour cancellation of a premiere I had committed to write for today. With the unexpected free time dropping in my lap like that, I thought I ought to get a head-start on the coming weekend roundups. A head-start is sorely needed because the backlog of new music I haven’t […]

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  • Riot Fest Announces Absolutely Baffling 2026 Lineup

    What is even happening with this year’s Riot Fest lineup? Who is it for? What was the booking philosophy? Riot Fest started off as a punk-centric event and then grew into one of the country’s biggest straight-up rock festivals, so this year’s newly unveiled festival lineup might make sense from a distance. But It’s truly jarring to see so many of these names on the same poster.

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  • RØRY Announces New Album ‘BLOODLETTING’

    RØRY has shared all the details of their upcoming album, as well as an unstoppable new single.

    Photo credit: Derek Bremner

    Titled ‘BLOODLETTING’, the full-length is set to arrive on September 4 via RØRY’s own SADCØRE Records.

    The follow-up to 2025’s ‘RESTORATION’, the album will include previously released singles DEGRADATION, DEAD GIRL WALKING and KIDS THESE DAYS, as well as the freshly dropped ‘STRANGE’.

    Speaking on their latest project, RØRY has said:

    “I realised I was sick from being nice… I’d spent so much of my life being the bigger person, forgiving people, understanding people, making excuses for people. I’d become disconnected from huge parts of myself. BLOODLETTING was about reclaiming them.”

    Take a listen to ‘STRANGE’ below.

    Take a look at the artwork and full tracklisting for ‘BLOODLETTING’ below.

    1. [welcome to bloodletting]
    2. DEGRADATION
    3. SWALLOW
    4. a cure for cancer
    5. MORTAL
    6. [the death of a people pleaser]
    7. KIDS THESE DAYS
    8. DEAD GIRL WALKING
    9. GREY
    10. [oh when the saints]
    11. hometown
    12. STRANGE
    13. [do you want to live?]

    RØRY is set to play Download Festival next month.

    The post RØRY Announces New Album ‘BLOODLETTING’ appeared first on Rock Sound.

  • Godthrymm – Projections Review

    UK doom metal saviors Godthrymm are a damn good band. If you’ve had a chance to listen to either their full-length debut Reflections or their follow-up in 2023’s mighty Distortions, you already know just how talented and outright heavy their brand of doom and traditional metal can get. Then again, you’d also know that their pedigree (with stints in Vallenfyre, Solstice, and of course My Dying Bride, among others) pretty much guaranteed a rock-solid backdrop to their sound. With all that said, I’ve awaited Projections, their final piece to their Visions, for as long as it was announced. Now that it’s upon us, and I’ve had a chance to spend a good, solid week with it, I’ve got some major concerns.

    Before I get into the reasons why, let’s focus on the good. There are no poor performances on the album from anybody. Lead-off single “Truth in My Own” is classic Godthrymm through and through, with Hamish Glencross and newcomer Kris McLaughlin throwing down riff after heavy riff, and Hamish’s voice is once again in fine form, especially when he sings alongside his wife, keyboardist Catherine Glencross. Elsewhere, “Endure My Skin” features a fine performance by former My Dying Bride (and current High Parasite) vocalist, Aaron Stainthorpe, reuniting him with Hamish and fellow MDB alumni, drummer Shaun Taylor-Steels. Those two songs are Godthrymm personified.

    Sadly, there are four other songs on here,1 and that’s where the concerns lie. Opener “Trenches Deep,” which features Adie Bailey (English Dogs) and Jay Walsh (Xentrix) providing additional vocals, starts off promising enough, but for whatever reason, transitions into a thrash tune that sounds eerily like MDB’s “The Forever People,” and the way it was shoehorned in is anything but natural. At the other end, closer “Hope is Eternal” starts off with an impressive drum fill by Taylor-Steels, and a somber performance by Catherine, until we get to the chorus, which features Catherine wailing “MEEEEEEeeeEEEEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeee…” repeatedly. In fact, Catherine features more vocally on this album than Hamish, which isn’t a bad thing at all. I just wish the songs were better, with the other two songs, “Jewels” and “The Sun Never Fell,” not making an impact with me no matter how many times I listen, and no matter who is singing.


    It doesn’t help that there are production issues as well. For some inexplicable reason, about halfway through the thrash portion of “Trenches Deep,” there’s a noticeable volume dip, as well as some major compression. I don’t know if this was intentional, but it’s highly off-putting. That volume dip would later reverse itself as “The Sun Never Fell” jacks the volume back up for no reason at all. On my first listen, I thought I was imagining things when it came to the production side, but on repeated listens, they’re right there, and they’re distracting on an album that’s already having a tough time winning me over on a songwriting level. And that absolutely sucks to say, especially since Godthrymm, up until now, has been delivering nothing but slam dunks on each of their preceding albums.

    This is not how I envisioned reviewing Projections. In what should have been a hat trick, I’m left baffled and more than a little disappointed. I’m hoping this is just a hiccup, as Godthrymm stand toe-to-toe with the absolute best in British doom metal, rivaling the best that many of the heroes of that genre. With Reflections, they channeled the very best love letter to the classics of yore. On Distortions, they added their own flavor and punch to that sound, resulting in my favorite album of 2023. Sadly, on Projections, I’m listening to this solely for writing this review, and little else. This is not how I wanted things to transpire.


    Rating: 2.0/5.0
    DR: 6 | Format Reviewed: 320 kbps mp3
    Label: Profound Lore
    Websites: Bandcamp | Facebook
    Releases Worldwide: May 29th, 2026

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  • Many Rooms – “You’re Gonna Die” & “Reunion”

    Way back in 2018, Many Rooms, the one-woman project from Houston-based musician Brianna Hunt, released her debut album There Is A Presence Here. She was a Stereogum Artist To Watch, and we put her on our list of the year’s best new bands. Since then, though, Many Rooms has been awfully quiet. After the album,…

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  • IAN SWEET – “Jilian”

    Last month, IAN SWEET’s Shiverstruck announcement came with a sweeping, lovesick anthem called “Criminal Kissing.” Now, Jilian Medford is indulging in some unsubtle self-reflection on her new single “Jilian.” “‘Jilian’ is about the small mistakes that somehow make life feel both cruel and hilarious at the same time,” the LA indie artist explains. “Over the…

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