Living Weapon came crashing into the Boston metalcore scene with their 2021 Paradise EP. Now the band — which is fronted by Vein.fm bassist/backing vocalist Jonathan Lhaubouet — is announcing their full-length debut, Death In The Family.
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Sixteen more artists have been announced for next year’s fest.
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Japanese metal pioneers Sigh are back today with news of their new album Goh-ka; a new highlight of atmosphere, technical mastery, and meticulously arranged epics of metallic grandeur. Main-man Mirai Kawashima notes this as being as equally personal an album as Shiki, both musically and lyrically.
From a musical perspective, if you were to place the main ingredients of Celtic Frost, Voivod, Black Sabbath, horror movies and Japan into a cauldron and stir it, you will get Goh-ka. Numerous additional spices such as psychedelic rock, prog rock and classical music are also evident over the album’s close to one-hour duration.
The album title Goh-ka has a triple meaning, being: 業火 infernal fire scorching sinners, 劫火 a huge fire that burns down the world at the end of time, and 業果 karma. The primary theme permeating the album is Kuso-zu; a series of Buddhist paintings or illustrations depicting the nine stages of a human body’s decomposition after death, created to encourage meditation on the impermanence of life, the inevitability of death, and the detachment from physical beauty and worldly attachment. It openly shows the harsh reality that no matter how beautiful you are, you’ll be dead and rot sooner or later. And Kuso-shi is a poem based on these paintings. The artworks on the cover and in the booklet of Goh-ka are therefore Kuso-zu themselves.
Joining Mirai Kawashima and Dr Mikannibal, along with guitarist Nozomu Wakai, are Frédéric Leclercq (Kreator) on bass, plus renowned US drummer Mike Heller.
Among the additional contributors to the album, Mikael Åkerfeldt of Opeth notably delivers a special guest guitar solo on the track “Unputenpu”.
Goh-ka was recorded across multiple studios, and once again mixed and mastered by Lasse Lammert at LSD Studios in Germany. Pre-orders of the album from the Peaceville store and band store will come with the free Legacy of Horrors 10-track Sigh sampler.
Japanese metal pioneers Sigh formed in 1989/1990. Their genre-classic Black Metal debut Scorn Defeat arrived in 1993, with a subsequent journey through the strange and the psychedelic, incorporating a whole eclectic mix of genre styles & ideas throughout their career. Sigh has remained a vital creative force in the avantgarde field whilst maintaining their old school roots, as witnessed on the 2022 album (and first for Peaceville Records), Shiki. This was followed by the remaking of their ‘Hangman’s Hymn’ album as part of the band’s 35th anniversary celebrations, in the shape of ‘I Saw the World’s End: Hangman’s Hymn MMXXV’ (2025).
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The long-running UK alt-rockers Wolf Alice swerved in a pop direction on last year’s The Clearing, and that’s not the last pivot they have in them.
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The collaboration came about through Enslaved’s association with the annual ‘Fire In The Mountains’ festival.
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In May, Jorja Smith reunited with Nigerian-British producer P2J for “What’s Done Is Done,” and now she’s announcing a new album. What Are The Odds arrives this summer, and we get another preview today with “Alive” featuring Wizkid.
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