2x GRAMMY-nominated singer, songwriter, and subversive performance artist, Poppy, has shared the music video for her song Dying To Forget. It was directed by Orie McGuiness, who also collaborated with Poppy on her videos for Guardian, Bruised Sky, and Time Will Tell from her latest album, Empty Hands, which debuted No.7 on the ARIA Albums […]

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“Everything you love will probably be lost, but in the end, love will return in another way.”

The line is attributed to Franz Kafka through the oft-retold story of “Kafka and the Doll,” an anecdote passed down from the writer’s final months in Berlin. As the story goes, Kafka encountered a child grieving the loss of her doll and, rather than tell her the beloved object was gone forever, began writing letters in the doll’s voice. The doll had not disappeared, he imagined; she had gone traveling. When a replacement doll eventually appeared, the explanation was simple and devastating: the journey had changed her.

Whether taken as a literary legend, a tender invention, or an apocryphal gospel, the story survives because it understands grief as transformation rather than repair. The lost thing does not come back as it was. Love returns altered, carrying the damage of distance, absence, betrayal, and time. That idea sits at the center of Undertheskin’s “Exit | Wounds,” a song that treats love not as rescue, but as something dragged through fire, burial, and broken glass before it can take another form.

On “Exit | Wounds,” the Warsaw coldwave project led by Mariusz Łuniewski turns Kafka’s cruel mercy into a darkwave reckoning. The song brings to mind something between Clan of Xymox and Depeche Mode, but Łuniewski bends that lineage into his own private wreckage. The bass moves with a stern undertow, the beat keeps its boots clean while stepping over emotional debris, and the synths stretch around the vocal like black satin pulled across broken furniture. His voice carries the calm of someone already past the worst part, which makes the damage land harder.

Lyrically, “Exit | Wounds” begins like a death notice submerged inside deception, then turns emotional aftermath into physical terrain with the image of “walking through broken glass.” The song moves from rupture to ritual: the past is set alight, memory is reduced to ash, and betrayal becomes a shared grave rather than a clean accusation. By the time the narrator has buried and been buried in return, the song has become a portrait of mutual damage, two people trapped inside the wreckage they made together.

The song’s central refrain returns to Kafka’s idea through the phrase “Love will return,” but it does not arrive as comfort in the usual sense. It sounds more like a law of nature, cruel because it is true. Later, the repeated nights of loneliness, wrongness, crying, and collapse turn grief into recurrence, the kind that hollows out time until the distinction between one night and the next disappears. The song understands that loss is not only an event. It is a room you keep waking up inside, waiting for love to reappear in a form you may not recognize.

The video, directed and filmed by Rytis Titas and starring Mariusz Łuniewski and Jovita Łuniewska, turns the song into a black-and-white fever photograph. It is gorgeously shot, all performance and fracture, with bodies superimposed across shards of glass as though the image itself has been dropped, stepped on, and asked to sing anyway. The cosmic, liminal quality keeps everything slightly beyond reach: faces suspended in a strange in-between zone, gestures slowed into emotional evidence, grief refracted until it becomes architecture.

The clip refuses to over-explain the pain. The glass does the talking, the monochrome gives everything a funereal charge, and the performers hold the frame with a bruised elegance. Song and video meet at the same torn seam: ruin as proof of contact, and love as the thing that returns in another form after the original body has vanished.

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Founded in 2015, Undertheskin began as a solitary operation, with Mariusz Łuniewski handling every aspect himself: writing, producing, performing, and calibrating each element. After releasing two albums, U N D E R T H E S K I N and N E G A T I V E, along with the internationally acclaimed End This Summer EP, he established himself within the modern coldwave scene.

The project has since expanded into a duo, with longtime collaborator Tom Tylor joining Łuniewski and contributing guitar, synths, and programming, including additional synths and programming on “Exit | Wounds.” Undertheskin has also performed across various stages, sharing bills with acts such as The Soft Moon, She Past Away, Clan of Xymox, Drab Majesty, and Lebanon Hanover. That history matters because this track feels earned, not assembled from borrowed gloom and drum-machine eyeliner.

“Exit | Wounds” is a track from Undertheskin’s latest album, N E V E R | R E T U R N. Read our review of the album here, and order it on CD and Vinyl here.

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Longstanding Florida death metal inventors Massacre intend to release a compilation of their demos entitled Tyrants of Death this year which features some of the music that contributed to the makeup of classic death metal.

The album will have the following tracks:

1. Aggressive Tyrant
2. Death in Hell
3. Mutilated
4. Chamber of Ages
5. Clangor of War
6. From Beyond
7. Symbolic Immortality
8. Cryptic Realms
9. Infestation of Death (live)
10. Clangor of War (live)
11. Aggressive Tyrant (live)
12. Cryptic Realm (live)
13. Perpetual Domination (live)
14. The Traitor (live)
15. Corpsegrinder (live)
16. (Hidden bonus track)*

Remastered at Satanic Audio in Poland in 2026, the compilation will be available in CD, MC, and LP. The band offered the following statement from Kam Lee:

I feel that by embracing the past, we can unlock the full potential of the future. These early demos serve as a testament to the band’s innovative spirit. They play a significant role in shaping the distinctive sound and style that would go on to define death metal, as well as Massacre’s blueprint. They’re essential & they’re part of what I think is history.

“t was not a political event, or in my eyes, it was not. It was a f*cking fight at the White House. Who gives a sh*t?”

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Five years ago today, (June 17), the iconic power metal pioneers HELLOWEEN released their self-titled studio album! I can never get enough of this band. Pumpkins United!

Today, Tuolumne, California’s NorthFork have released their new single: “Tell Me.” This song flat-out rocks! It’s a breakup song that’s relevant and is sure to please arena rock enthusiasts. NorthFork are worth checking out if you’re into rock country and/or rock music that’s blue-collar and not pretentious.

 “Tell Me” is now available to stream and download worldwide on all major music platforms.

On June 17, 1977, the super legendary KISS released their sixth studio album, Love Gun, via Casablanca Records. This multi-platinum album includes the classics: I Stole Your Love, Love Gun, Plaster Caster and Shock Me (the first KISS song sung by Ace Frehley on album).

Last Friday night on June 12th, my friends and I went to see the amazingly talented alternative rock band The Soap Girls! They performed at Cosmo Joe’s Atomic Lounge in downtown Dayton, Ohio. This was my third time seeing this electric rockin’ duo!

Sisters Noemie (bass) and Camille Debray (guitar) are from South Africa and were born to rock the stage, create chaos and take names! They’re both kind souls and I look forward to seeing them again!

Thank you for stopping by and taking the time to look, I appreciate all! Metal be thy name – Stone

Australian symphonic metal band ANA recently dropped their debut full-length album, Motivated by Death.

Read our thoughts on Motivated by Death here.

To dig a little deeper into the record’s personality, lead vocalist Anna Khristenko took a round of out-of-the-box questions, exploring how she envisions the tracks of Motivated by Death taking on a life of their own. Blast the album loud, and join us as we dive deeper into Motivated by Death!

If all the songs from your album came to life as humans, which song would be your best friend?

I think “Following The Wind” would be my best friend cause she’s wild, a little bit unpredictable, and most of all fun.

Which one is most likely to get arrested?

“Hate Me” would get arrested for causing a public disturbance, but would look impossibly cool in the mugshot.

Which one is most likely to start a revolution, and for what cause?

“Shadow of Life” would start a revolution that made people re examine what really matters in life.

If all the songs from your album worked in an office, which one would be the boss, and which one would be the office prankster?

“Papa” is the boss, and “Following The Wind” is the prankster.

In the year 4025, an archaeologist finds your album on a drive inside the remains of an ancient car and manages to salvage the data. Which song is most likely to be played in a museum after this discovery?

I think it would be “Papa” because it tells a timeless story

Aliens are invading Earth, and their weakness is songs with emotional lyrics. Which song from your album would be the best weapon to repel the invasion?

“Papa”

Aliens are invading Earth, and their weakness is guitar solos. Which song from your album would be the best weapon to fight back against them?

“You Loved Me More…”’s guitar solo would make them weep.

Aliens are invading Earth, and their weakness is powerful growling vocals. Which song from your album would be the best weapon to repel the invasion?

Probably “Eyes Of A Child”

Which song from your album would you use to introduce someone to your music for the first time?

I think you could pick any song cause we are so diverse and all of them are a part of who we are.

Which song from your album would you choose to encourage a friend going through a tough time?

I’d choose “Shadow of Life”

If one song from your album could survive an apocalypse and be passed on to the survivors, which one would you choose?

“Shadow of Life”

If your album were a fancy dinner, which song would be the main course and which would be the dessert?

“Eyes Of A Child” as the main course and “Papa” dessert

Which song from your album would you pick for someone who isn’t a fan of Metal or Rock?

Probably “Sick Love”

If one song from your album could be played on every radio, TV, and podcast worldwide so everyone could hear it, which one would you choose?

“Eyes Of A Child”

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Their second new track since welcoming in vocalist Mathieu Dhani.

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