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Avalanche – Armed To The Teeth Reviewed: March 2026 Released: 13 February 2025, Metropolitan Groove Merchants Rating: 3/5 Reviewer: JT Storming foot-soldiers from a land […]

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Reviewed: February, 2026 Released: 2025, Cherry Red/Dissonance Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: JP Cherry Red who traditionally focus on the NWOBHM has a sub-label called Dissonance who […]

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Reviewed: February, 2026 Published: 2026, Motor Books/ Quatro Rating: 4.5/5 Reviewer: JP 1976 was a pretty big year for Hard Rock and accordingly we have […]

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North Carolina’s BLACKWATER DROWNING is pleased to present their video for “Devour.” The track comes off the band’s latest full-length, Obscure Sorrows, out today on Bleeding Art Collective and Blood Blast Distribution (Nuclear Blast Records/Believe).

Comments vocalist Morgan Riley, “I wrote the lyrics for ‘Devour’ in the midst of a breakdown of a long-term friendship. I realized this person had been taking advantage of my kindness and generosity for a long time, and when I started calling them out on certain behaviors as a friend, they got increasingly more adversarial. I realized they’d never take accountability for anything they did, instead preferring to immerse themselves in yes-men and substances. ‘Devour’ is about that feeling of realizing this person was never the friend I thought they were.”

Watch BLACKWATER DROWNING’s “Devour” video HERE.

Watch BLACKWATER DROWNING’s previously released video for “Eye Of The Storm” HERE and “The Sixth Omen” HERE.

Order Obscure Sorrows HERE. Find new merch items HERE.

BLACKWATER DROWNING recently wrapped up a short run of dates with Butcher Babies. The band will play alongside Filth in March and Infected Rain in May with more performances to be announced in the weeks to come. See all confirmed shows below.

BLACKWATER DROWNING Live w/ Filth:

3/06/2026 The Shop Live – Dunbar, WV

3/07/2026 Lurking Class Skate Shop – Salisbury, MD 

3/08/2026 The Canal Club – Richmond VA

3/09/2026 Zen West – Baltimore, MD

3/10/2026 Reggie’s 42nd Street – Wilmington, NC

3/11/2026 Hangar 1819 – Greensboro, NC

w/ Infected Rain:

5/13/2026 Hangar 1819 – Greensboro, NC

5/14/2026 Scandals Live – Virginia Beach, VA

5/15/2026 Zen West – Baltimore, MD

BLACKWATER DROWNING is a five-piece US melodic death metal/metalcore band from North Carolina. Forged by singer Morgan Riley and guitarist Jeremy Bennett, the band is completed by guitarist Ron Dalton Jr, bassist Aria Novi, and drummer Aamon Dalton. Since the band’s inception, BLACKWATER DROWNING has recorded two EPs and a debut album (Sonder//Satori) and has supported iconic acts such as Soulfly, Jinjer, Crypta, and many others.

The band now unleashes Obscure Sorrows. Mixed and mastered by Cryptopsy guitarist Christian Donaldson (Shadow Of Intent, Suffocation, Ingested), the album features guest solos by Greg Burgess of Allegaeon and Japanese guitar virtuoso Yo Onityan as well as stunning album art by Giannis Nakos (Emperor, The Agonist, Aborted).

BLACKWATER DROWNING:
Jeremy Bennett – guitar
Morgan Riley – vocals
Aamon Dalton – drums
Aria Novi – bass
Ron Dalton Jr. – guitar

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Ex-Skid .

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After nearly five years since their multi-award-winning ‘Torch Of Rock And Roll’ redefined their explosive modern classic rock sound – with the timeless power ballad “Kickin’ Stones” earning acclaim in Billboard Magazine Argentina – The Mighty One storms back with a crushing new single, ‘SHATTERED’.

Fresh off the triumphant 2025 Colombian tour capped by a sold-out, electrifying finale in Bogotá, the band delivers a high-octane declaration of apocalyptic freedom.

SHATTERED is no ordinary track – it’s a sonic sledgehammer to the crumbling façade of reality. Frontman Tim Steinruck confronts the global AI takeover, societal collapse, political decay, and the relentless lies fed by governments, institutions, and corporate media. Yet amid the chaos, the song celebrates the revelation of our true human divinity, power, freedom, and immortality.

“Live like we never will die,
Live like we’re kings of the sky,
Always eternal,
Power internal,
We fly”

The song’s visuals capture the defiant spirit of the band’s new awakening – shattering old chains and rising eternal. With the iconic line “Old rules are shattered / Now all that matters is right here, and now” SHATTERED becomes the ultimate anthem of rebellious surrender – embracing the fracture as the gateway to godlike power.

The illusion has ended.
The real has begun.
#shatterthesystem

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Out NOW Via Run For Cover Records / Civilians Words by: Angela Croudace Some bands you admire from a distance. Others quietly soundtrack chapters of your life. For me, Nothing have always been the latter. Their dense, dreamy, quietly devastating strain of shoegaze fills the spaces in my head I didn’t realise were empty. There’s comfort in […]

Even in Britain.

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The collective performed “No More Tears”, while Ozzy was also posthumously honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award.

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Words by: Belinda Quick “… His thumb began to trace the inside of her palm. Her breathing shallowed, trying to focus on the light show. ‘You deserve to feel adored…” – Imani Erriu, Heavenly Bodies The emotionally loquacious nature of Melbourne’s THORNHILL is long storied and unrivalled in Australian musical history. Their aesthetic, central in […]