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Perth icons Karnivool are thrilled to announce they are taking their number one album, In Verses, on the road for the first time, delivering the biggest headline shows of their career. To celebrate, Karnivool will be joined by special guests TesseracT (UK) and Car Bomb (USA) for an unmissable night of heavy excellence.

Kicking off with a hometown show at the Ice Cream Factory in Perth on July 18, Karnivool will deliver a career spanning set across five capital cities, winding up at Riverstage in Brisbane on July 25.

Landing 13 years after its predecessor, In Verses is a heavy prog masterpiece that stunned critics and fans who were both quick to forgive the band for the agonisingly long wait. A meticulously crafted, richly layered yet welcoming journey, the album is a rare chart-topper that wasn’t built for algorithms or respectable release cycles, yet it soared straight to #1 on the ARIA Chart, becoming the first local album to do so in 2026.

Behind the album’s success is a deeper story about resilience and perseverance. When the bagpipes swell on the album closer Salva, it’s a real triumphant celebration (and quite the tear jerker online) for the band and fans who have waited 13 years for this moment. Karnivool’s next challenge: learning how to deliver live the songs they’ve spent the better part of a decade wrangling into existence.

Joining Karnivool are fellow masters of their craft TesseracT. The UK metal titans are widely regarded as pioneers, expanding metal’s vocabulary beyond all measure with off-kilter riffs, soaring melodies, bending grooves and disorientating atmospherics. Over the course of their career, the band have built a formidable reputation for powerful, mind-altering live shows and Australian legions came out in force to experience their landmark record, War of Being, in 2024.

Rounding out this outstanding line-up is New York innovators Car Bomb, bringing their elite chops and maniacal arrangements to Australia for the very first time! 25 years in with a discography almost as lean as Karnivool’s, Car Bomb mines the depths of extreme metal to create a signature sound that is as confounding as it is cathartic with evolving polyrhythms, shifting tempos and deconstructive guitars designed to pulverise all senses live.

It’s been over a decade since Karnivool have toured a new album and they’ve assembled an elite suite of boundary shattering virtuosos to mark the occasion. Don’t miss this very rare and extraordinary event.

Presale begins Tuesday 14 April 9am local time. Sign up for access here
Tickets on sale: Thursday 16 April 9am local time
More info from destroyalllines.com

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UK Alt/Soul band Skinny Living will make their long-awaited Australian live debut through October and November 2026, bringing their raw, harmony-drenched sound and reputation for unforgettable shows to their antipodean fans for the first time.

The tour will take in much of the east coast, culminating with two incredible performances at the Airlie Beach Festival of Music in the stunning Whitsundays.

With over 90 million global streams, a UK No.1 Independent Album (Day by Day, 2024), sold-out UK tours and support slots with Noah Kahan, Calum Scott, James Arthur and Gabrielle already
under their belt, Skinny Living arrive off the back of their boldest release yet, EP 9, the final chapter of a visionary trilogy inspired by Nikola Tesla’s 3-6-9 theory.

Known for blending soul, alt-indie and modern grit, Skinny Living echo the timeless warmth of
Bill Withers, Van Morrison and Paolo Nutini while remaining unmistakably their own. Frontman
Ryan Johnston’s haunted-yet-hopeful Irish voice intertwines with the intricate guitar work and soaring harmonies of Danny Hepworth, creating songs that feel unpolished, deeply human and built to linger.

The band’s name says it all: “Skinny Living is a term that describes the financial reality and lifestyle of the working class. Hard graft on a low income, with a lust for life, passion for family and an optimistic attitude about the future.”

After a decade of relentless hard graft, a chance meeting at an open-mic night and word-of-mouth growth, Skinny Living are ready to share their story of struggle, resilience and glorious soul music with Australian audiences.

With Sydney and Melbourne sitting inside the band’s Top 5 most-streamed cities worldwide, demand is massive and venues are intimate.

These debut shows are long overdue and tickets are limited. Be quick!

Tickets available from
skinnyliving.co.uk

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Frontier Touring is excited to announce US jazz-pop newcomer aron! will make his Australian debut with headline shows for June 2026.

Aron! will perform two intimate headline shows at The Toff in Town, Melbourne on Friday 12 June and The Vanguard, Sydney on Tuesday 16 June following on from scheduled appearances at Seoul Jazz and Java Jazz Festivals in May.

Frontier Members can access their presale on Thursday 9 April from 1pm local time before tickets go on sale from 2pm local time on Friday 10 April. Tickets and tour information via frontiertouring.com/aron.

Recently named as Vevo’s first DSCVR Artists to Watch for 2026, 21-year-old aron! is making waves with a refreshing low-fi, jazz-pop sound that is capturing a global audience. Releasing music since 2023, shaping his ‘cozy pop’ sound, building an online following and signing with Verve Records, it was 2025 hit “Cozy You” that saw aron! rise to prominence.

Born in Charlotte, NC, aron! grew up on rock acts like Pearl Jam and Led Zeppelin before discovering jazz at age eight through a local teacher who taught him to read music. As a teen, he performed classics by Nat King Cole and Frank Sinatra for retirement home residents. He later studied classical composition at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, developing an appreciation for Frédéric Chopin, Maurice Ravel, and Johann Sebastian Bach. He went on to earn a full scholarship to the University of Miami, where he studied jazz voice and film scoring while performing with his indie pop band Sunny Side Up!.

His 2025 EP cozy you (and other nice songs) impressed fans and critics alike; praised for keeping the spirit of jazz alive. The EP’s success lead to international touring across Asia, Europe, and North America that same year, including a European tour with dodie. 2025 also saw the singer-songwriter release the holiday EP cozy you Christmas as well as performing at Royal Albert Hall with Jamie Cullum in a career highlight.

Releasing single “Wonderful Thing” last month, the track was praised by John Mayer on his curated SiriusXM channel “Life with John Mayer” saying: “[aron! is] really good at putting harmonic information in a tune that is both complex, which shines nicely on aron! and his talent, but also is right for the tune. It’s just nice to hear music performed by a guy who knows a lot of chords but also knows how to use them in a tune.” ​

Newest single “Foolsong” released just last week, follows this trajectory of notoriety, representing another milestone ahead of aron!’s highly anticipated debut album, coming soon.

Witnessing a star in the making, these intimate live shows are unmissable. Catch aron! in this special Australian debut this June.

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ARON! ​
​AUSTRALIAN TOUR ​
​JUNE 2026 ​
​Presented by Frontier Touring

FRONTIER MEMBER PRESALE ​
​via frontiertouring.com/aron ​
​Runs 24 hours from: Thursday 9 April (1pm local time) ​ ​
​or until presale allocation exhausted ​

TICKETS ON SALE ​
​Begins: Friday 10 April (2pm local time)

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West Palm Beach, FL-based deathcore quartet Nosebleedr premiere a new single and visualizer named "Dismantler", streaming via YouTube and Spotify for you now below. Read More/Discuss on Metal Underground.com

Some records are good, some are great, and then once in a while something rolls in out of nowhere, no warning, no label that sticks, and you feel it right away, something shifting, something opening, and you’re already somewhere else.

You try to name it at first, of course you do.
But it doesn’t really help.

What you hear instead is movement.
Guitars that hit like Shellac for a second, then drift somewhere closer to Polvo, then open up, stretch out, something psychedelic not far from King Gizzard, and then suddenly warmer, wider, like air at night, like you’ve been dropped somewhere in the Sahara, late, no one around, maybe Tinariwen somewhere in the distance.

And then even that disappears.
Angine de Poitrine does not settle anywhere despite such a strong rhythmic section.

Vol. II doesn’t feel “original.” It feels new.
Not new as in different. New as in: we don’t really have the coordinates yet.
There’s psych in it, math rock in it, hard rock in it, yes, but it moves through all of that, it doesn’t stay still long enough to belong anywhere. It grooves, constantly, everything is in motion, and before you realize it you’re already inside it.

And around it, there’s a whole world.
Costumes, masks, some kind of internal logic that makes sense only once you’re in.
They speak the language of whales, or something close, or something that feels like it could be.
At some point you stop asking and just take it.

Then you start listening differently.

Quarter tones first.
Notes that don’t land where they should, slightly off, slightly wrong, but not wrong, not really, just somewhere else.
It brings to mind Prokofiev’s War Sonatas, that same way of making something complex feel immediate, almost obvious.
Dissonance that draws you in instead of pushing you away.

Then the ghost notes.
Notes that aren’t played.
You hear them anyway.
You hear the space where they should be and your brain completes it, fills the gap, and suddenly you’re listening to absence as much as presence.
It’s controlled. It’s extremely precise. It’s addictive.
You start waiting for what won’t come.

And then the pedals.
Khn de Poitrine is there, working them with his feet, slowly, almost invisibly.
Not switching sounds, not jumping from one to another, but sliding, easing into them.
He turns the volume of the effects little by little, and the texture stretches, they evolves on a spectrum.
Nothing breaks. Nothing cuts.
It just keeps becoming something else.
Until, suddenly, it doesn’t, and everything collapses at once.

And finally, the loops.

Some of them you don’t even hear when they’re recorded.
They’re played, but hidden, kept somewhere under the surface.
He records them without giving them to you, holds onto them, brings them back later when you’re no longer expecting them.
Which means he has to carry them the whole time, hear them before you do.
The music exists ahead of itself.
That’s not normal.

Yet none of this feels like a demonstration.
No showing off, no “look what we can do.”
It just moves. Again.

That’s why Vol. II feels rare.
Not just good, not just strong, but one of those records that quietly rearranges things a little, shifts the way you listen without announcing it. And make you smile. Again.

After nearly 4,000 articles on Still in Rock, you start to recognize these moments.
They don’t happen often.
This is one of them.

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They split up in 2017, feeling they’d been overshadowed by the djent bands they’d inspired. Much to their own surprise, they’ve returned with Genotype – a rewritten ending to the story they began with 2016’s Phenotype

Veteran death metal band Six Feet Under have released “Mutilated Corpse In The Woods” as the latest single from their upcoming 15th studio album, “Next To Die.” Longtime core members—and Cannibal Corpse alumni—Chris Barnes and Jack Owen continue to lead the group, with Owen offering some insight into the origins of this second advanc… Read More/Discuss on Metal Underground.com

At The Gates have continued the emotional rollout of their final studio album featuring late frontman Tomas “Tompa” Lindberg. The legendary Swedish melodic death metal band unveiled a new music video for their track “The Dissonant Void,” directed by Costin Chioreanu, streaming via YouTube and Spotify for you now below. Reflecting on … Read More/Discuss on Metal Underground.com

Одиночество Взахлеб by Lizzy Morisson feels like a gothic descent into inner collapse, where atmosphere and emotion blur into something deeply personal and unsettling. Driven by shadowy guitars and a cold, spacious production, the track carries a ritualistic weight, as if mourning not a person but a version of the self left behind. Her vocal delivery moves between fragility and intensity, embodying that suffocating sense of being lost in time and self-reflection.

It’s dark, poetic, and emotionally raw—a piece that doesn’t just express loneliness, but fully inhabits it.

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Foreshadow by GEV unfolds as a tightly wound psych instrumental, built on swirling textures and a slow-burning sense of anticipation. The track moves with purpose, layering hazy guitar tones and subtle rhythmic shifts that keep it in constant motion without ever breaking its trance. There’s a cinematic edge to it—like something is always about to happen, but never fully arrives—making it both hypnotic and slightly unsettling.

A focused, atmospheric piece that leans into mood and tension rather than release.

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