Now even more even more outta control.
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L.M.I. Set to Release V on June 19th, via Horror Pain Gore Death ~ Single & Pre-Orders Live Now
Horror Pain Gore Death Productions are set to release the new EP from Lansdale Pennsylvania’s L.M.I. – V is up now for pre-order and will be released June 19th on CD and Digital formats along with merch.
L.M.I. return to Horror Pain Gore Death Productions with the new EP V! Following up on 2024’s album Failed To Feel It, Lansdale, Pennsylvania’s L.M.I. unleash five new tracks showcasing the band’s uniquely intense blend of Sludge Metal, Hardcore Punk and Math Rock.
V will leave you in a daze of riffage and pummel you with it’s ripping guttural vocals, along with experimental dynamics and song structure, which makes the listener rethink what Hardcore Punk can contort and morph itself into.
For fans of Portrayal Of Guilt, early Mastodon, Neurosis, Imperial Triumphant, Drive Like Jehu, Napalm Death and Kylesa.
Listen to the single “Feelin’ Tired” at: youtu.be/j_hpB5PNoJE
Pre-order the CD for only $10 at: shop.horrorpaingoredeath.com/products/l-m-i-v-cd
Pre-order the Digital Download for only $6.66 at: hpgd.bandcamp.com/album/v
Pre-save this release on Spotify at: ffm.to/lmi
TRACK-LISTING:
- Feelin’ Tired
- Wings Of Misery
- Strangling A Broken Dream
- Living Fear
- Fever Dream In A Golden Cage
Source: ClawHammer PR
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Thomas Csorba on Truck-Camping and Memorializing Moments in Time
Texas singer-songwriter Thomas Csorba talks about what he does to keep busy in the sometimes-boring greenrooms far from home, a fan-favorite EP that can no longer be found, and experience gained working as a talent buyer for a Texas venue owner / promoter. -
“A week later I got a call from Led Zeppelin’s tour manager. He threatened to break my legs.” What happened when Led Zeppelin reformed for Jason Bonham’s wedding
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Sebastian Bach, Death Angel, Exhumed, Gruesome, Etc. Members Involved In New Version Of ‘The Transformers: The Movie’ Soundtrack
The soundtrack to the 80s animated film has been given a new life.
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Album Review: Armored Saint – Emotion Factory Reset
Album Review: Armored Saint – Emotion Factory Reset
Reviewed by Rich Oliver
Armored Saint are one of the mainstays of US heavy metal. A band that has been active on and off since 1982 and released some classic albums of balls to the wall, fist pumping heavy metal in the 80’s and early 90’s. They are a rare band who have retained mostly the same line up throughout their career with guitarist Jeff Duncan being the newest member (and by newest he joined the band in 1989!). The rest of the band – singer John Bush, bassist Joey Vera and brothers Gonzo Sandoval on the drums and Phil Sandoval on the guitars – have all been in the band since the very early days. Having played together for nearly 45 years, they all know what works with Armored Saint but also never sit comfortably and do the same album twice. As Joey Vera states ““Each Armored Saint record, to me, is like a new skin for the band, a different chapter. I don’t think we’ve ever repeated ourselves. Every album has been pretty different from the previous one, a snapshot in time”.
“Emotion Factory Reset” is Armored Saint in 2026 – the ninth album from the band and a right shitkicker of an album that acknowledges the bands past and heritage but sounds vibrant and punchy for modern audiences. As John Bush puts it – “We can all take inspiration from our previous records, but that was a different time. Armored Saint don’t want to make another March of the Saint. I want to keep moving forward, but we know who we are, it’s not like we’re going to dish out the new trip hop, black metal, bluegrass album.”
The band continue to straddle the line between straight up heavy metal and hard rock but bring in influences from each members own listening tastes and the songs themselves vary from fist banging heavy metal tunes such as ‘Close To The Bone’, ‘Hit A Moonshoot’ and ‘Throwing Caution To The Wind’ to groovy rockers such as ‘It’s A Buzzkill’, ‘Ladders And Slides’ and ‘Bottom Feeder’. The band also go into softer territory with ‘Buckeye’ which sees deeply personal lyrics from John Bush and also the use of slide guitar by Jeff Duncan.
Armored Saint have been on a winning streak with recent albums such as “Win Hands Down” and “Punching The Sky” and that streak continues with “Emotion Factory Reset”. The band have never been in the upper echelons of the heavy metal hierarchy being more of a cult act with a dedicated fanbase but the quality has always been there. As John Bush himself states “Armored Saint don’t release an album every year, it’s about quality, not quantity. At the end of the day,as long as we feel it’s great, that’s the most important thing”. Hard to argue with that and “Emotion Factory Reset” is another great album chock full of hard rocking metal anthems with fantastic songwriting and amazing performances. Any self respecting old school rocker and metalhead should be all over this album.
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ADRIAN VANDENBERG Announces “My Whitesnake Years” August 2026 U.S. Tour With Co-Headliners VINNIE MOORE & MARCO MENDOZA
Adrian Vandenberg has announced the “My Whitesnake Years” U.S. tour, an August 2026 run co-headlined by guitarist Vinnie Moore and bassist and vocalist Marco Mendoza. The three veterans collectively represent decades of work across Whitesnake, Thin Lizzy, UFO, Ted Nugent and beyond. The tour features two complete 75-minute-plus performances per night, or a single extended 90-minute show with intermission. Moore and Mendoza will also perform a collaborative set together, drawing on material from across their shared careers. VIP meet-and-greet packages — limited to 25 per show — are also available.
Vandenberg first built his name in the early 1980s fronting his self-titled band Vandenberg, scoring international hits with “Burning Heart” and “Friday Night.” That visibility led to a long association with David Coverdale and Whitesnake, where Vandenberg contributed the guitar solo to the multi-platinum “Here I Go Again” and co-wrote material for Slip of the Tongue and Restless Heart. He also appeared on Starkers in Tokyo, Live at Donington and the band’s Greatest Hits reunion tour. More recently, he co-headlined with Geoff Tate on the latter’s Operation: Mindcrime tour in 2024, and played the 2025 Monsters of Rock cruise before a successful East Coast headline run. His current recording outlet is Vandenberg’s Moonkings.
Moore is best known for a 21-year run with UFO and a well-regarded solo catalog, with additional studio and live work alongside Alice Cooper and Vicious Rumors. Mendoza brings 26 years with Thin Lizzy, seven years each with Whitesnake and Ted Nugent, and stints with The Dead Daisies and the current Satchvai band.
Vandenberg said: “Really (REALLY!) excited to cross the ocean again with my top-notch band to honor my 12 years in the golden era of Whitesnake! Be prepared to scream along with all the big ones like ‘Still of the Night’, ‘Here I Go Again’, ‘Judgement Day’, ‘Fool for Your Lovin”, etc etc. No doubt about it, this is an absolute BIG ROCK tour with Marco and Vinnie celebrating their years in Journey, Thin Lizzy and UFO. You don’t wanna miss this! We are ready, are you?!?”
Mendoza added: “I have to say that I’m very excited and looking forward to the U.S. run of dates in August, and sharing the stage with Adrian Vandenberg and Vinnie Moore. And having the opportunity to introduce my own music and also to pay tribute to some of my past participations and collaborations, like Thin Lizzy and Ted Nugent, along with Vinnie on some UFO tracks and some of his original stuff. It’s just going to be a great run… Don’t miss it. See you there!”
Moore said: “Thrilled to be doing this tour with Marco and Adrian. Going to be a blast to play a couple UFO songs, as well as some of my tunes and some Thin Lizzy. This is going to be a lot of fun and I’m looking forward to it. See you all soon.”
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First to the Barrier – Der Iron Maiden Rockcast-Talk
Heavy-Metal-Leidenschaft unterm Mikroskop: „First to the Barrier“ bringt den ultimativen Iron-Maiden-Talk auf die Ohren
Die Welt des Heavy Metal ist reich an Legenden, doch kaum eine Band mobilisiert eine so treue und detailverliebte Anhängerschaft wie die britischen Ikonen von Iron Maiden. Für genau diese Hardcore-Fans, Sammler und Konzertjunkies gibt es ab sofort eine neue akustische Anlaufstelle im Netz:
„First to the Barrier – Der Iron Maiden Rockcast-Talk!“
Das frische Format bricht bewusst mit den klassischen Mustern oberflächlicher Musikberichterstattung. Statt schneller News-Happen und austauschbarer Stammtischparolen liefert die Show tiefgründige Einblicke, persönliche Anekdoten und Geschichten aus der Fankurve, die in keinem Wikipedia-Artikel zu finden sind.
Hinter dem Mikrofon versammelt sich ein Trio, das die DNA der Band wie kaum ein anderes lebt und atmet: Alex, Klaus und Tippi. Gemeinsam bringen die drei Podcast-Host eine geballte Ladung Fachwissen, jahrzehntelange Konzerterfahrung und pure, ungefilterte Leidenschaft mit. Sie sprechen nicht als distanzierte Beobachter, sondern als Teil der weltweiten Maiden-Familie – direkt, ungeschminkt und auf Augenhöhe mit den Hörerinnen und Hörern.
Drei Experten, drei außergewöhnliche Perspektiven
Charly-Alex – Der Sammler und Performer: Seine Sucht begann im Jahr 1995 beim legendären Konzert im Hamburger Gaswerk. Seitdem sammelt er alles, was mit der Band zu tun hat. Über 700 Vinyl-Scheiben füllen mittlerweile seine Regale, flankiert von rund 130 T-Shirts. Auf Tourneen zieht es ihn konsequent ganz nach vorne – eben First to the Barrier. Und wenn er mal nicht an der Absperrung steht, findet man ihn am Mischpult, wo Sound und Sicht perfekt harmonieren. Seine Liebe geht sogar so weit, dass er regelmäßig als Bandmaskottchen „Eddie“ für die Hamburger Tribute-Band Powerslave auf der Bühne steht. (Foto Rockfotograf.de)
Klaus Vanscheidt – Der Profimusiker: Der Gitarrist aus Mülheim an der Ruhr bringt die Perspektive des Profis ein. Klaus stand schon auf den Brettern des Wacken Open Air und spielte sogar bereits live mit Blaze Bayley zusammen, dem Maiden-Frontmann der späten Neunziger. Sein persönliches Erweckungserlebnis feierte er als 16-Jähriger am 26. Oktober 1984 auf der legendären Powerslave-Tour in Essen. Mehr als 40 besuchte Konzerte folgten bis heute. (Foto: Cora Stern)
Tippi – Der Memorabilia-Spezialist: Tippi teilt nicht nur das exakt gleiche Einstiegsdatum wie Klaus – den geschichtsträchtigen Abend 1984 in Essen –, sondern auch die tiefe Hingabe zur Band. Er hat sich über die Jahrzehnte ein enormes Insider-Wissen im Bereich Autogramme und seltene Rock-Memorabilia aufgebaut. Die Wege von Klaus und Tippi kreuzten sich kurioserweise erst im Jahr 2001 über eine Ebay-Auktion für ein Ticket in London. Aus diesem digitalen Deal entstand eine tiefe Freundschaft und die Basis für unzählige Geschichten, die nun im Podcast ausgepackt werden. (Foto Gleis 11)
Ein Podcast abseits des Mainstreams
„First to the Barrier“ erscheint in unregelmäßigen Abständen als exklusives Sonderformat innerhalb des etablierten Rockcast-Podcasts. Die Macher nehmen sich bewusst die Zeit, die es braucht, um tief in die Historie, die Musik und das Phänomen Iron Maiden einzutauchen. Es ist eine Liebeserklärung im Audioformat – von Fans für Fans, die den Geist der eisernen Jungfrauen perfekt einfängt.
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Sun Guts (Car Bomb) Announce Sophomore Album “Supervoid”, Stream New Track “Terminator Cross”
Arriving digitally in August and in September on physical formats.
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“This Strangeness I Feel” — Witchita Synthpop Duo Brave Boy Release “A Faint Voice at Loudest” LP
A faint voice, in Samuel Beckett’s Company, calls from the edge and urges the body toward the plunge. Brave Boy takes their name from that suspended instant, and on A Faint Voice at Loudest, the Wichita duo of Mary Harrison and Eric Harrison treat the pop song as a similar precipice: a place where desire, dread, memory, and self-recognition gather before the fall.
The record began, by their account, as a “10 songs in 10 days” exercise, a private discipline against hesitation, sounding like a suite of sleek, strange rooms, each one lit by DX7 glass, LinnDrum snap, saturated bass, and guitars. Brave Boy may move within the weather systems of post-punk, dream pop, synthpop, and the softer outskirts of sophisti-pop, but their best moments come from the pressure placed between those languages. The guitars carry Johnny Marr-like filigree, the rhythms recall the disciplined body music of 1980s R&B and electro-boogie, and the synths suggest a world where Cocteau Twins, The Blue Nile, New Order, Prince, Choir Boy, and Jam & Lewis productions all share a midnight-train platform.
At the centre is Mary Harrison’s voice, a dramatic instrument with glam edges and a theatrical reach that never collapses into camp. She sings as though the room is both stage and confession booth, pushing Brave Boy’s songs toward emotional theatre without losing their pop intelligence. Eric Harrison’s production surrounds her with movement rather than murk: chorused guitars, bright mallet tones, and basslines that keep the album’s feet on the floor even when its eyes are fixed somewhere above the ceiling.
There is a pleasing contradiction in the phrase Eric uses for the record, “hidden haze under the funk.” It explains much of A Faint Voice at Loudest. These songs seep upward through the grooves in a peculiar charge: intimacy trying to speak through distance, romance distorted by expectation, gender and identity viewed through a cracked mirror.
The brightest passages bubble and burst with almost garden-like light. One can picture fireflies, lanterns, and a twilight game of pursuit, yet beneath that delicate surface the music keeps pressing forward with urgent physicality. Mary’s voice holds firm inside the glow, tender and commanding, while Eric’s guitars and synths flare, vanish, and return in altered shapes. Vulnerability can have a backbeat, and that the faintest voice sometimes travels furthest when the body is already moving.
“We started this album almost accidentally,” the band reflects. “It began as a challenge to write quickly and stop overthinking everything, but somewhere in the process it became the most honest thing we’ve ever made. A lot of the record deals with emotional distance, identity, memory, and trying to connect through noise. Sonically, we wanted it to feel dreamy and atmospheric, but still move physically. There’s a lot more funk and R&B underneath it than people probably expect.”
On I Saw You There, the room is already dead before desire arrives: another party, another drink, another little social defeat, until one figure cuts through the fog and turns vacancy into fixation. Walk Away answers that rush with rupture, taking the language of obedience, rules, and romantic exhaustion and twisting it into escape; the command becomes a door, and heartbreak becomes the hand that opens it.
Oh Me, Oh Life moves through loneliness, failed speech, and the bruised search for meaning before finding a thin but stubborn thread of renewal in love and connection. Drifting sinks deeper into the body’s private undertow, where anxiety, memory, and emotional depletion pull the speaker from the present, leaving another person’s touch as the last rope back to shore.
On Take Back the Nite, devotion curdles into desperation as a lover tries to drag someone back from addiction, absence, and self-erasure through intimacy, need, and sheer force of feeling. With You turns romance into a locked room of recursive arguments and blurred selves, where both parties know the bond is bad for them and still cannot quite cut the cord.
Feels So Real treats transformation not as triumph but as tremor: the old self breaking open, the new one uncertain, and love left to answer whether it can survive the change. Be a Brave Boy closes on a more brutal inheritance, tracing how childhood shame, parental command, and forced courage can become an inner voice that follows a person into adulthood, still speaking, still wounding.
Listen to A Faint Voice at Loudest below.
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