Metalcore representatives The Devil Wears Prada have announce a headlining European tour, scheduled to be executed in October. Joining them on the road are going to be Novelists 156/Silence and Oversize.
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Los Angeles Duo Black Hall Cast a Dark Spell Across the Desert in Video for “Hypocrite”
Love makes puppets out of proud people every day. Hypocrite, from Los Angeles darkwave duo Black Hall, rolls in like trouble with its collar up, all cool chrome nerves and bad intentions, and the new video for the song gives that trouble a highway, a heat haze, and a face you can’t quite trust. It’s a pop song that carries poison in its pocket. Tanner Dean and Errol Kern have built a machine for romantic ruin here, and in the new clip, they drive it straight into the open desert.
The song has a taut, Motorik shove, with Dean’s drums landing in clean, regular blows, as if some stern little factory in his chest has taken over the job of feeling. The synth line slices across the arrangement with a lean, mean glamour, while the bass keeps tugging everything forward like a hand at the small of your back. Dean sings with a bruised, bitter calm that makes the accusation sting harder. He sounds less like a man pleading his case than somebody standing in the ashes, kicking through what’s left and naming each burned thing one by one. Romance can rot with style.
The video keeps the frame split between stark black-and-white desert travel and color-soaked Lynchian visions of a mystery woman who seems to hover over the action like a curse, a fantasy, or maybe the boss of both. The van moves through the barren expanse like a hearse for old illusions, while those flashes of her world arrive lush, charged, and dangerous.
You start wondering whether she is a memory, a mirage, or a magician, whether the route was ever theirs to choose. The suggestion of black magick works because the song already deals in betrayal, projection, and the ugly little lies people tell while staring straight into somebody else’s face.
Watch the video for Hypocrite below:
Black Hall pulls off a stylish, sly piece of pop melodrama with gasoline in its blood. Hypocrite struts, smolders, and side-eyes its own damage, then leaves you out on that endless road, wondering who cast the spell first.
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Shadowborne Reveal New Single “High And Low” Ahead of Debut Album
Swedish power metal band Shadowborne has released their first single, “High And Low.” The female-fronted group is known for a sound that is both heavy and cinematic, built on a foundation of massive riffs and strong melodic hooks. Their music shifts between high-energy battle hymns and darker, more atmospheric tracks, creating a balance of intensity and melody.
The song is the first look at the band’s debut album, “Heaven’s Falling,” which will be released on June 19 through Scarlet Records. Lyrically, the band uses fantasy as a way to explore themes of power, identity, and survival, focusing on the human emotions behind epic stories. The project features production by Kristoffer Göbel and Christoffer Borg, with official music videos directed by Patric Ullaeus.
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System Of A Down, Disturbed, Foo Fighters, Soundgarden & More Score New Entrants In Spotify’s Billions Club
Singles from Red Hot Chili Peppers and Three Days Grace have also newly hit a billion plays each on Spotify.
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Acid Reign – Premiere ‘Fantastic Passion’ Track
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Gåte – Ink Deal With Season Of Mist
Norwegian alternative/folk rockers Gåte have joined forces with Season Of Mist. In celebration of their new chapter, the four-piece present a video for the new single “Sannsiger” feat. Maria Franz. Recorded at Kulturläven and Øra Studio in Trondheim, Norway. Mixed and mastered by Jacob Hansen.
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Midnight Poetry Crack Open the Coffin and Offer a Dose of Darkness With Video for “Dracula’s Poison”
An ancient creature, black hair like the abyss
He came from a distant world, rising from the shadows
A beauty of mystery, an angel of death
Midnight Poetry flutter out of Athens, Greece, with their latest dose of darkness, Dracula’s Poison, a song that lands as if they have cracked open the lid of an old lacquered coffin and, to their delight, found that the corpse inside still knows how to treat a lady. Cleopatra Kaido and John Spanos are working in a lane lined with dark electro, post-punk perfume, industrial-pop chrome, and a little graveyard glamour, but this track gets its fangs by throwing itself headlong into lust as doom, and devotion as the sort of decision that would make any priest faint dead away.
This is music for people who think longing should come with candlewax, velvet, and maybe a polite nibble at the neck before breakfast.
The lyrics keep the bloody stakes high and the pulse higher. They lean into the old vampire spellbook with a grin, giving us the immortal seducer, the mortal fool, and that eternal bad idea where danger starts looking like destiny after midnight. She is not playing coy with her feelings, and thank heaven for that. This lady is ready for a hot night of fun. Too many singers approach desire like they are filing tax forms in candlelight. Kaido goes straight for the throat. The theme of obsession has always had a little camp in its collar, a little grand theatre in its posture, and this song uses that knowingly rather than apologizing for it.
Then comes the gloriously blunt chorus, all command and craving: “Bite me! / Kiss me! / Love me! / Hate me!” It lands like a lipstick-smeared midnight melodrama, and it knows exactly how deliciously ridiculous that is. Any song willing to put “Feed me” at the end of this chain deserves at least a silk cape and a tax break.
Musically, the track has a sleek, nocturnal drive. Spanos gives it a firm electronic frame, sturdy enough to hold the gothic romance without letting it collapse into costume drama. There is movement here, a nightclub current under all the grave dirt and swooning. The beat pushes forward with real purpose while the melodic lines keep the mood lush, fevered, and faintly fatalistic. It feels built for black-clad dancing, for spinning beneath a red bulb while reconsidering every person you ever drunk-texted after 2 a.m.
The video seals the pact. Directed by John Kokoris, Dimitris Parzigkas, John Spanos, and Panagiotis Tsakiris, it gives the song a proper chamber of fog, darkened rooms, entwined lovers, bodice-ripper intensity, enough eternal-night atmosphere to make a bat feel vain about its wings.
Watch the video for Dracula’s Poison below:
Midnight Poetry have made a song that understands vampire romance for what it has always been: sex, death, devotion, and bad boundaries in good lighting. Dracula’s Poison bites deep, laughs softly, and leaves two neat marks where your cynicism used to be. In the end, it is great fun.
Dracula’s Poison is now available across all digital streaming platforms. Listen to Dracula’s Poison below and order the single here.
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