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The Press Release: With the AC/DC MetLife stadium show rescheduled for this Friday, the official and final AC/DC PWR/UP Pop Up is now happening in New Jersey for two more … Continue reading Final AC/DC PWR/UP Pop Up Announced In NJ To Coincide With Rescheduled Tour Date →

They’ve also announced the dates for a Southeastern U.S. tour.

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In February, Brooklyn-via-Vancouver group Smush made me understand Norah Jones and Owl City in a whole new way. Their covers EP Standards, which also featured takes on Big Rig, Hotline TNT, and Field Medic, breathed kinetic glitchy/shoegazey bliss into modern classics. Today, they’re back with new original music: a spiky single, “milkweed butterfly,” that announces their sophomore album i’ll always wish,, coming early next year.

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After years of silence and several line-up changes, Jess And The Ancient Ones now present a new single “Skeleton” featuring new vocalist Laura Vesprini and keyboard player Katya. The accompanying animated lyric video was directed by Costin Chioreanu.
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Phoebe Bridgers banned phones from her tour, forcing — or allowing — fans to be fully present in the moment.

Northern Ireland has never been short of grey skies to match its heaviest music, and few bands have soaked up that damp, heavy-hearted gloom quite like The Crawling. Since forming in Lisburn in the winter of 2014, they have quietly assembled one of the most respected catalogues in UK and Irish death/doom, music that stares … Continue reading EP Review: The Crawling – What We Leave Behind

Sunday, DIIV performed at Balaclava Fest in São Paulo, Brazil. They played some new songs, off their forthcoming A. G. Cook-produced album ZIRP! coming out next month, and they also covered an entirely different Cook-produced track: Charli XCX’s “Playboy Bunny.”

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Here are the new releases for September 27th to October 3rd. Releases reflect proposed North American scheduling, if available.

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Upcoming Metal Releases: 9/27/26 – 10/3/26

Razorvoid — Into the Void | Jawbreaker Records | Death Metal + Thrash Metal | Sweden (Gothenburg)

Razorvoid play fast, rough death metal with plenty of thrash and d-beat punk in it. Notice how “Into the Void” gets going right away, then rolls into a punk rock chorus, and eventually slows down into darkened bayous before a sick guitar solo comes in. Razorvoid cite Motörhead as an influence, and you can hear some of that love of speed and straightforward heavy music here. As someone who grew up listening to punk music, I love hearing it combined with other genres, and this record didn’t disappoint.

–Lily O’Delia

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Xasthur — Open to Misinterpretation | Prophecy Productions | Folk | United States (California)

Xasthur, the mercurial, shapeshifting project of Scott Conner, fka ‘Malefic, are leaving themselves wide Open to Misinterpretation on their latest offering for Prophecy Productions. On pieces like “Put You Out of Your Misery,” Conner offers up some truly bent, queasy American Primitive style guitar work. Some of it is actually scary and sort of beautiful. None of it is black metal. You’ve been warned.

–Dennis J. Seese

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Spirit Possession — Cathedral Speech | Profound Lore Records | Black Metal + Thrash Metal | United States (Portland, OR)

Spirit Possession have now eclipsed what was possible in their original solo project iteration in which S. Peacock was performing vocals, playing guitar, and drumming simultaneously. Cathedral Speech casts the duo’s blackened thrash metal, whose appeal was their barebones sound despite their fanciful riffs, into the vast expanse, with the back half of the record being an entire suite of songs. It’s a level of ambition that Spirit Possession have not strived for on previous releases.

–Colin Dempsey

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Stryga — Upon Stygian Wings | Independent | Black Metal + Crust Punk | United States (Boston, MA)

The disorder and violence inherent to crust punk rounds out the first-wave black metal on Stryga’s debut record. Upon Stygian Wings bears a devilish attitude and a willingness to see beyond black metal’s monochromatic worldview, becoming a lively, if predictable, experience.

–Colin Dempsey

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Immortal Dissolver — Rotting Ashes of Winter | The Centipede Abyss | Death-doom + Black Metal | Japan

Immortal Dissolver create death-doom with streaks of black metal. For instance, on “A Sea of Warm Oil,” tremolo picking cuts through the slower riffs, and Nythroth’s lead guitar gets stranger and more chaotic as the song goes on. The longer tracks often settle into a slow crawl before changing course. The production is raw, with heavy guitars and harsh, pained vocals. There’s a lot of doom here, but the black metal gives the album an edge and breaks up the slower, heavier parts.

–Lily O’Delia

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Hexer — A Black Flame in Cosmic Void | The Crawling Chaos Records | Death Metal + Sludge Metal + Doom Metal | Germany (Dortmund)

Hexer are genre skeptics on their latest EP, A Black Flame in Cosmic Void, asking how separate death and black metal are from doom metal, and if that ensuing miasma isn’t just sludge metal? The German duo skirts around all pigeonholes with fuzzy, hefty riffs and a grim outlook.

–Colin Dempsey

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The ‘Vomitour’ returns with Guttural Slug opening.

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Greek metal collective Sacral Rage have joined forces with No Remorse Records for the release of their third studio album. More details coming soon.
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