UK progressive, alternative metal band HAKEN recently released the ‘in a fever dream’ EP, out right now digitally, and physically as CD and vinyl on the 18th September. With the band set to tour Europe later this year, they are now pleased to finally reveal a headline UK tour for February 2027.
The band comments: “Don’t worry – we were never going to desert you. We can’t wait to bring ‘in a fever dream’ to the UK and Ireland in February 2027. 7 shows, culminating in our hometown of London. Will you join us in the fever dream?”
The list of dates are as follows:
1st February – The Limelight 2, Belfast
2nd February – Academy, Dublin
3rd February – Slay, Glasgow
4th February – Academy 2, Manchester
5th February – Trinity, Bristol
6th February – Institute 2, Birmingham
7th February – Islington Assembly Hall, London
Support comes from IHLO & Black Orchid Empire on all dates.
O2 Presale (Birmingham only) – Wednesday 12th August @ 10am BST
Action! Presale (Manchester, Bristol, Birmingham, London only) – 13th August @ 10am BST
General Sale – 14th August @ 10am BST
The band recently launched a making of documentary for the ‘in a fever dream’ EP. Filmed & edited by Oliver Kember, you can watch it in full here:
You know that scene from Trainspotting where Ewan MacGregor’s Renton finds himself at a dance club, getting his mind blown by a techno anthem and considering the idea that maybe the world can change in good ways? “One thousand years from now, there’ll be no guys and girls, just wankers. Sounds great to me.” That’s how I feel when I hit play on “Rolling Face,” the dizzily booming new single from the Leeds dance-punk crew Adult DVD.
Formed in the late 1990s, extreme dark metal outfit PHLEFONYAAR is back with a vengeance. Their new opus, Encyclopaedia Sociopathica, drops on September 18th—a relentless journey pushing the boundaries of doom, death, drone, and industrial sludge. PHLEFONYAAR has long been a reliable purveyor of dark, extreme metal: thundering anthems constructed from gnarled, grisly riffs, harnessed […]
DINAH explore the uneasy relationship between technology and human creativity on AM I AI, an introspective indie-pop track that questions what makes art truly human. Sleek modern production creates a fitting backdrop for its central theme, while the songwriting focuses on emotion, authenticity, and the imperfections that give creative work its meaning. Rather than simply rejecting technological progress, the song raises more interesting questions about imitation, originality, and the human experience behind music. Thoughtful and contemporary, AM I AI combines an engaging electronic edge with a genuinely reflective message, making it a timely addition to the indie-pop landscape.
Ice Nine Kills is bringing its brand of blood-slicked, hook-heavy horror metal to Universal Studios Hollywood this fall. The band is scoring new music for “Terror Tram Starring Art The Clown,” debuting as part of Halloween Horror Nights, which opens Thursday, Sept. 3, and runs select nights through Sunday, Nov. 1. Tickets are available now through the event’s website.
The long-running “Terror Tram” attraction gets a new host this year in Art the Clown, who arrives on the historic Universal backlot with a blood-soaked sack of presents, realizes he’s early for Christmas, and hijacks the tram to throw his own twisted holiday party instead. Ice Nine Kills built new music for the experience by putting its own dark spin on classic Christmas songs, and guests who think they’ve dodged Art on the backlot may still run into him lurking elsewhere in the park.
This isn’t the band’s first trip into Art’s world. Ice Nine Kills previously contributed “A Work of Art,” its official song for Terrifier 3, complete with a blood-drenched music video that dropped alongside the film’s theatrical release. That track has racked up nearly 60 million streams and peaked at No. 3 on Billboard‘s Hot Hard Rock Songs chart, where it spent 18 weeks.
Frontman Spencer Charnas commented on the new partnership: “We are forever honored that Terrifier writer/director Damien Leone and his team invited us to play in their sandbox of bloodshed. Art himself, David Howard Thornton, killed it in the “A Work Of Art” music video, and we’ve had Damien and several of his cast members at our Silver Scream Cons every year so far. Halloween Horror Nights is among our favorite destinations each season, and our fans love it, too. This is yet another natural step forward in our unnatural world of horror.”
The Universal tie-in adds to a growing list of horror franchise collaborations for the band. Ice Nine Kills landed “Twisting the Knife” featuring Mckenna Grace over the closing credits of Scream 7, contributed “Hell or High Slaughter (Grave Diggler Pt. 2)” to Ready or Not 2: Here I Come, and built “Play Dead” for Dead by Daylight‘s tenth anniversary, which came bundled with an in-game Ice Nine Kills collection.
Those franchise placements have landed alongside some real career milestones too. The band’s single “A Grave Mistake,” inspired by The Crow, earned an official gold certification from the RIAA. “Twisting the Knife” gave Ice Nine Kills its first No. 1 on Billboard‘s Mainstream Rock Airplay chart and also topped the Hot Hard Rock Songs and Hard Rock Digital Song Sales charts, pulling in 35 million cross-platform streams along the way.
Twenty years removed from their debut album, Ice Nine Kills is putting a new soundtrack under the screams on Universal’s historic backlot, with Art the Clown running the show and Christmas showing up far too early.
Fronted by Charnas, Ice Nine Kills has built an international following by fusing extreme metal with pop-sharp melody, a formula heard across its two breakthrough records, The Silver Scream (home to gold single “A Grave Mistake”) and The Silver Scream 2: Welcome to Horrorwood. The band has topped two billion global streams and more than 500 million YouTube views.
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One of the nice things about my job is that I get to post new Chat Pile songs all the damn time. The Oklahoma City noise-rockers are riding a serious hot streak. They put out lots of music, and that music is always good. Next month, they’ll drop the new LP Who Loves The Sun, and we’ve already posted the singles “Deep Blue” and “PEN I S MALL.” Today, they share an ominous, low-key mud-wallow called “Same Rules.”
Fujiya & Miyagi are back to make people dance. The British band’s most recent album was 2022’s Sight Variations, and now they’re announcing its followup. New Shiny Object arrives this fall, and the lead single “Lowest Common Denominator” is a post-punk heater in the vein of the Bush Tetras.
The Colorado-based musician, composer, and found sound artist Matthew J. Sage is always getting up to something, and a Bandcamp notification from his account is always welcome. The latest arrived today, heralding Brush Flier, a new EP featuring unused material from last year’s album Tender / Wading. He’s calling these six tracks “daydreams from a different world.”
