Dan Swanö oversaw the new mastering jobs for these band approved reissues.
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Mexican Post-Punk Outfit The Shelter Dissolve into Desire With Video for “Flesh”
There is a photo I can’t stop looking at
A photo of the recent past
A photograph is supposed to preserve a moment, but it can just as easily poison one. People look at an image and begin stuffing it with private meaning, projecting hunger, fantasy, grievance, or need until the person inside the frame is no longer seen as a person at all, but rather a portal. Anyone can become prey that way. It happens in bedrooms, on phones, across city blocks, inside social feeds, and in the mind’s own locked theatre, where admiration curdles into fixation and distance breeds delusion. A picture may be worth a thousand words, but plenty of those words are dangerous, and The Shelter’s Flesh shows exactly how fast they can turn feral.
Flesh comes at you like a lipstick smear on a broken mirror: glamorous, sick at heart, and fully aware that desire can slip from devotion into delirium before anybody in the room has time to call a doctor. This Mexican band has already built a name on dark romance and high-stakes emotional drama, but here they hit a sweetly poisoned peak, turning obsession into theater and giving it enough muscle to stomp around the stage in high boots.
Written by Elías Gameros and produced by Gus Oberg and Johnny T, “Flesh” has the kind of reach that makes you think of Peter Murphy, Bauhaus, Interpol, Koudlam, Trisomie 21, Iron Maiden, and David Bowie; the song lives where glam excess, gothic pageantry, and post-punk severity collide in one beautiful traffic accident. The guitars slash and gleam with a cold edge that keeps the song moving with real menace, while the rhythm section drives everything forward like a bad impulse dressed for a coronation.
And then there’s the voice. Gameros leans into a croon that swells into something feverish and nearly feral, a performance big enough to fill a theatre and strange enough to make the back row uneasy. So when the lyrics move into that dangerous territory, where wanting somebody curdles into wanting to vanish inside them, he sells it with enough conviction that you might overlook its sinister undertones.
The lyrics revolve around the instant when attraction stops asking for closeness and starts fantasizing about total merger, body to body, nerve to nerve, self to self, until love becomes invasion. A photograph sparks the fixation, then the fixation grows teeth. The song circles voyeurism, fragility, devotion, and bodily ruin without sounding coy about any of it. It stares straight at that psychic split where tenderness and danger start sharing the same bed.
Watch the lyric video for “Flesh” below:
Listen to Flesh via Spotify below:
The Shelter have already played with heavy hitters, toured hard, and worked festival crowds from Tecate Pa’l Norte to New York’s New Colossus Festival, but Flesh feels like a statement of deeper intent for the band. It is an intriguing single, leaving us wanting more.
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PIERCE THE VEIL, JACK KAYS, MOVEMENTS: Riverstage, Brisbane, 08/04/2026
Photos by: Maxine Thomas Words by: Cory Stevenson The air was thick with excitement this Wednesday as fresh faced fans, elder-emos and their children unite in line for the highly anticipated first show of Pierce The Veil’s I Cant Hear You Australian tour. If the traffic jams and mobs of people walking in hordes of […] -
Enter Shikari Surprise Release New Album “Lose Your Self”
The band opted for secrecy to present the album as a “cohesive whole.”
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Kansas City Thrash Crew HELLEVATE to Return With Killicon Valley
Kansas City thrash masters HELLEVATE will unleash their sixth assault this spring!
Killicon Valley is relentless in execution. Eleven tracks of the bullshit-free, ‘thrash-or-be-thrashed’ attitude the band has cultivated over their nearly 20 years of existence. Today, that fury has escalated beyond the breaking point. The result is an album that true fans of old-school thrash can blast with pride.
Guitarist Dan Whitmer comments on Killicon Valley, “We couldn’t be more excited about this release! It’s the result of the last few years of a concentrated effort to expand our songwriting capabilities and deliver something for every kind of metal fan there is. Sonically, we’re going to places we haven’t been to before, and we’re trying out a lot of different approaches, sounds, and songwriting angles in our mission to make heads bang worldwide! Everyone involved has pushed themselves physically and mentally in their performances, and it’s all come together in a unique blend of melody and aggression, tackling every subject from our anger at the injustices in the world, to velociraptor attacks and Japanese spider demons. Grab a brace, because this album will make you wreck your neck!”
Get your first taste of Killicon Valley with the album’s lead single, “In the Long Grass.” Check out the official video at: youtu.be/4pvJtJcOrvo.
Killicon Valley is set for release on May 22. Pre-order the album at: hellevate.bandcamp.com/album/killicon-valley
HELLEVATE will mark the release of Killicon Valley with an album release show at Warehouse on Broadway in Kansas City, MO. Support will come from Jackson Country 5, Meat Shank, and Bloodscent. Check the event page for details.
Stream more from HELLEVATE on Spotify, Apple Music, and Amazon Music.
Track-list:
1) D.T.C.
2) In the Long Grass
3) Invoke Apocalypse
4) Demagogue
5) The Rampart
6) Holy Man
7) Jorogumo
8) Part of the Tribe
9) Killicon Valley (Silicon Dust)
10) The Lost Pages
11) Thou Shalt Kill
12) Curse God and Die
HELLEVATE is a thrash metal band from Kansas City, MO, known for their unique blend of melodic thrash, extreme metal, and power metal influences. Formed in the late 2000s by guitarist Dan Whitmer, HELLEVATE maintains a commitment to writing unforgettable music that hits hard and leaves a lasting impression.
Lyrically, the band continues to deliver powerful messages with directness and intensity. Together, they have crafted a sound that is both expansive and undeniably thrash, incorporating influences from speed metal, power metal, death metal, and hardcore to create something truly unique.
Photo credit: Kaitlyn Waggoner Line-Up:
Robert Browne – Vocals
Dan Whitmer – Guitar
Joshua Cole – Guitar
Zack Burke – Bass
Ruben Lopez – DrumsHELLEVATE‘s discography includes their debut self-titled album (2012), Kill Confirmed (2014), Weapons Against Their Will (2016), The Purpose Is Cruelty (2023) and their newest album Killicon Valley (2026).
Since their debut in 2012, HELLEVATE has built a reputation for delivering electrifying live performances, sharing the stage with some of the biggest names in metal, including EXODUS, KREATOR, ACCEPT, OVERKILL, DESTRUCTION, HAMMERFALL, UNLEASH THE ARCHERS, GHOUL, VENOM INC., and DANZIG, among others.
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Tasha – “Summer”
It’s not yet summer, but it’s always time for a wistful ballad about the hot, decadent season. Tasha is supplying us with that today with her new All This And So Much More single “Summer.” “‘Summer’ was written in June of 2024 in the middle of my Broadway run with Illinoise,” the singer-songwriter explains, referring…
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Jack White expands 2026 tour, with UK and Irish headline dates sandwiched between American tours
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Lowsunday Blast Into the Bleak Beyond With New Single “This Is Not Heaven”
I’ve waited for you
So lonely
Then you insist I stay behind
This is not HeavenHot on the heels of their unexpected, yet triumphant return to recording in 2025, Pittsburgh-based post-punk/shoegaze duo Lowsunday are back with a brand new track and video. Serving as the lead single from their upcoming Black EP (the natural shadowy follow up to last-year’s White EP), “This Is Not Heaven” is a scintillatingly dark and dreamy rave-up, featuring pummeling drum machine rhythms, buzzsaw synths, blistering guitar textures, and evocative vocals, with a chorus that lifts the track into oblivion, like an trans-dimensional jet engine. The track careens through those empty spaces where dreams and reality mix a little too closely for comfort, and the results are as alluring as they are haunting.
For the uninitiated, Lowsunday first began their tenure in the mid-1990s and were among the first bands to blend the current shoegaze movement with ’80s darkwave sounds. After self-releasing their eponymous debut LP in 1996, the band was quickly signed to Projekt Records, which released the band’s sophomore record, 2001’s wonderful Elesgiem. As trailblazers in their time, they left a huge mark on the scene, influencing countless modern bands to follow, all of which owe a great deal of debt to Lowsunday’s compositions. Remixes and remastered reissues of the band’s discography appeared in 2024 and 2025, respectively, bringing these records back into focus for a new generation. As such, the band, stripped down to core members Shane Sahene and Bobby Spell, came back in full force to reclaim their rightful throne. Last year’s interview with the duo captures the story so far and touches heavily on the band’s current output, which truly sounds as if they haven’t skipped a beat.
Meanwhile, both Sahene and Spell have shared a few words with us about the creation of “This Is Not Heaven.”
Sahene:
“This song captured a feeling that we’ve been trying to express but never as clearly as it became in this song. It’s a song that touches on loneliness and the view love from the outside – but also clearing your head enough to be expressive and cutting. It’s a song meant to be loud, at times dreamy and chaotic, but then finds its power in the heavy synth chorus- it almost reminds me of the racing engine of the Mammoth Car in old Speed Racer episodes, where it has scary power, but in this case, running from the hell of loneliness.”
Spell:
“For me. “This Is Not Heaven” is very melancholy musically and lyrically, but the choruses add enough light musically that the song leaves you with a feeling of hope. Writing and recording this song seemed to have a lot of mystery until a few key parts came along that completely changed the tone and clarified what the song would be. So far, it’s one of my favorite tracks we’ve written.”
The video for “This Is Not Heaven” is a perfect shadowy compliment to the single’s alluring cacophony. Directed by frequent collaborator Jer Herring, the video takes the duo through a monochromatic, gritty journey through city streets, dense forests, and dark basements; those places where otherworldly beauty and sheer terror can exist in harmony.
The Black EP will be released on vinyl and digital formats on May 15th via Projekt Records. Check out the video below.
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Header photo by Christina Sahene.
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Watch: MGK Debuted His Nü-Metal Collab With Limp Bizkit’s Fred Durst Live In Perth, Australia
It appears to be titled “All Around The World”.
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