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Sentient Ruin Laboratories has announced a new partnership with Rahaty, the death metal alter ego of Belarusian raw black metal musician Pa Vesh En. The project’s debut album, “Bestial Lustmord,” will be released on August 28, 2026. Although Rahaty preserves some of the murky and oppressive atmosphere associated with Pa Vesh En, the new project […]

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Watch “Born Adrift” HERE: https://youtu.be/Kqd1QdFLebE

Denver-based instrumental post-metal band ONLY ECHOES present the title track of their forthcoming full-length Born Adrift. The album isscheduled to arrive on August 14, 2026, via Braeburn Records.

“As a whole, this song really feels like you are lost at sea and fighting for your life, but that you haven’t given up yet”. Share ONLY ECHOES. 

“That is kind of the idea behind the title and the theme of the album to an extent. It is a heavy emotion, but not a claustrophobic one. It’s the idea that this fight is difficult and it’s going to stay difficult for the rest of the journey, but that it is still worth taking”. 

ONLY ECHOES deliver “Born Adrift” with a striking impact. Wave after wave of intense heaviness brings the track’s concept to life. Rhythmic shifts, catchy lead hooks, and uplifting moments not only provide movement but also a sense of anticipation. Shadowy passages feel weighted and inescapable but they are not dwelled upon without hope for too long. 

Born Adrift Track-list:

• Born Adrift – 5:48
• Tempest – 8:41
• So Tightly Bound – 6:12
• Inter – 2:05
• Steps Ahead Of Drowning – 7:09
• Shimmering Death – 5:14

Alternating between light and shade, ONLY ECHOES deploy carefully curated changes in the track’s pace as well as through their instrumental layering. The structure of “Born Adrift”, while exploring periods of turmoil and relief, is emotionally complex as the music rises and falls before meeting an abrupt end. 

Watch “Born Adrift” HERE: https://youtu.be/Kqd1QdFLebE

“Born Adrift” encapsulates key aspects of the band’s sound that are also explored elsewhere across the album’s track list. With this single release, ONLY ECHOES demonstrate their darker side as this is the heaviest offering found on the forthcoming Born Adrift. 

Born Adrift was produced, engineered, and mixed by guitarist Austin Minney at All Aces Studio, with mastering handled by Brad Smalling at Evergroove.

The album artwork features an original 1876 engraving by Gustave Doré, reimagined with color and illustration work by Celeste Hayes (@chayesart). Born Adrift arrives August 14, 2026 via Braeburn Records.

ONLY ECHOES:

Austin Minney – Guitar
Dustin Yourishin – Guitar
Ben Rosenberg – Bass
Zach Sirotkin – Drums

Connect with ONLY ECHOES:

Official Website: https://www.onlyechoesmusic.com

Bandcamp: https://onlyechoes.bandcamp.com/album/sunsickness

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/onlyechoesdenver

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/only_echoes_denver/?hl=en

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French progressive death metal visionaries EPITAPHE are set to release their highly anticipated third full-length album, “III”, on September 11 through Aesthetic Death (CD + LP) and Gurgling Gore (MC). Stream the first ‘single’ “Windswept” at THIS LOCATION. Following the overwhelming acclaim received by “II”, EPITAPHE return with their most ambitious and fully realized work to date. Rather than departing from the artistic path that established the band’s identity, “III” refines, expands and […]

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Denver-based instrumental post-metal band ONLY ECHOES present the title track of their forthcoming full-length Born Adrift. The album is scheduled to arrive on August 14, 2026, via Braeburn Records. “As a whole, this song really feels like you are lost at sea and fighting for your life, but that you haven’t given up yet”. Share ONLY ECHOES.  “That is kind of the […]

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In March, Afroman won the defamation case over his viral music videos mocking the Ohio cops who raided his home under suspicion of drugs and kidnapping and found nothing. Now, he’s suing them.

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Following the release of the triumphant debut single “Ashen World”—chosen as one of Metal Hammer’s best tracks of the week—KAMELOT reveals the second single from their forthcoming masterpiece, Dark Asylum, out August 28 via Napalm Records. The grandiose “Godlike Alchemy” emerges larger than life with its soaring string arrangements accompanying frontman Tommy Karevik’s goosebump inducing wails. Dynamically expansive and rhythmically […]

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Synthwave pioneers Gunship have released a striking new official music video for their acclaimed cover of Cyndi Lauper’s “Time After Time”. The track is featured on the soundtrack to Corin Hardy’s (The Nun, Gangs of London) supernatural horror film Whistle, which has quickly hit the #1 spot on Amazon Horror following its release. Directed by … Continue reading Classic Cover: Gunship – “Time After Time” (original by Cyndi Lauper)

Bono and Glen Hansard are two of Ireland’s greatest rock frontmen, and their paths crossed many times. Today, in light of Hansard’s shocking death in a motorcycle accident early this morning, the U2 singer has shared an effusive heartfelt tribute to the Frames/Swell Season singer.

The post Bono Shares Tribute To The Late Glen Hansard: “He Was Such An Angelic Presence” appeared first on Stereogum.

BMG Records has announced the worldwide release of the brand-new album from legendary guitarist Tony Iommi, entitled From The Dark, heralded by the first single “World Alone,” which received its premiere today at a special global streaming event hosted in Iommi‘s hometown of Birmingham, England, a stone’s throw from the famous Black Sabbath Bridge across the canal, which was opened as a civic tribute to the iconic band in 2019.

“World Alone” is a thunderous rock song that speeds along on a barrage of flying guitar riffs and solos, backed by a driving rhythm section and topped off with the powerful rock operatics of acclaimed Norwegian vocalist Jorn Lande. The video is based around a retrofuture, dystopian universe where the lead protagonist, The Believer, is pitched into a twisted video game to save his life and ultimately find salvation. Watch the video below.

From The Dark sees Tony Iommi joined throughout by Jorn Lande, who shares writing credits on all songs, as well as bassist Becky Baldwin and drummer Karl Brazil. Co-produced by Tony and Mike Exeter, his long-time creative partner, co-writer, producer and audio engineer, the sound is crystalline, vibrant and enormous, engulfing the listener in a state-of-the-art sonic experience that is as contemporary as it is timeless.

Iommi says, “It’s an album we’ve really enjoyed making. We’re not trying to prove anything – it’s a great album, it rocks!”

From the opening notes of “Over The Violent Sun,” featuring a classic, driving down-tuned guitar riff from Tony Iommi and the dramatic vocal prowess of Jorn Lande, it is clear that From The Dark is an outstanding album that can hold its place amongst the impressive Iommi catalogue.

“Black Times” continues the journey, a sucker-punch strike that takes no prisoners, leading into the barn-storming first single “World Alone,” before fourth track “Beyond The Dead” changes the pace, with a stately and sinister riff interwoven with epic orchestration.

The existential questioning of Lande‘s lyrics, full of dystopian imagery and ruminations on the fleeting nature of the human experience, is writ large throughout the album, especially on “Stormwatcher” with its nautical metaphors and dreams of new horizons. A brilliant centrepoint of this remarkable album, “Stormwatcher” is matched in scope and drama by the subsequent “Death Wake,” both music and lyrics combining to create a vivid picture of the cruelties of a life without love and humanity.

From The Dark‘s closing two songs, the furious passion of “Return Of The Arbalist” and the truly epic kaleidoscope of “Legacy” showcase the power and drama, the light and the shade that courses through the album. Coming a year after Black Sabbath‘s final-ever show, at 2025’s Back To The Beginning concert in Birmingham, it demonstrates the creative fires that burn ever-brightly in Tony Iommi and is undoubtedly one of the greatest rock albums to be released this year.

From The Dark will be available in several deluxe vinyl and CD formats. Pre-order it here.

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