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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
VIOLENCE SYSTEM UNLEASHES DARK MELODIC DEATH METAL ASSAULT WITH THE HOLLOWING ARRIVING AUGUST 7TH

Atlanta Metal Force Builds Momentum With Four Crushing Singles Including “Endmother,” “Reflection,” “Pain Made Me God,” and “Kingdom”

Atlanta, Georgia melodic death metal force Violence System are preparing to unleash their newest full-length release, The Hollowing , arriving August 7th on all major streaming platforms. Leading into the album’s arrival, the band has delivered a relentless series of singles showcasing the depth, aggression, and evolving darkness of their latest material.
The album campaign began with the release of “Endmother” on May 7th, 2026, introducing listeners to the devastating atmosphere and crushing intensity that would define The Hollowing . The band continued building anticipation with “Reflection” on May 28th, followed by the emotionally charged and punishing “Pain Made Me God” on June 26th, and most recently, the explosive “Kingdom” released on July 17th.
Each single reveals another layer of Violence System’s signature sound, blending razor-sharp melodic death metal precision with crushing heaviness, dark cinematic textures, and an uncompromising emotional intensity.
Drawing influence from the brutality of Thy Art Is Murder, the technical ferocity of Decapitated, and the grand, atmospheric darkness of Dimmu Borgir, Violence System have crafted a sound that is both devastating and immersive. Their music balances complex musicianship with memorable melodies, delivering a powerful experience that feels massive, chaotic, and deeply personal.
Formed in 2015, the Atlanta-based five-piece has spent years carving out their place within the underground metal community. Known for their explosive songwriting and intense live presence, Violence System continue pushing the boundaries of modern melodic death metal while staying rooted in the aggression and authenticity that drives the genre.
With The Hollowing , the band explores themes of decay, suffering, existential collapse, and the darker aspects of human nature. The album promises to deliver some of Violence System’s most ambitious and punishing material to date, combining devastating riffs, haunting atmospheres, and relentless intensity from beginning to end.
Fans can stream “Endmother,” “Reflection,” “Pain Made Me God,” and “Kingdom” now ahead of the full release of The Hollowing on August 7th.
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One of progressive rock’s most daring and influential albums, In a Glass House by Gentle Giant returns in a powerful new form, newly remixed and remastered by Grammy Award-winning producer Eber Pinheiro alongside the band’s own Derek Shulman. Originally released in 1973, In a Glass House stands as a bold artistic statement that pushed the boundaries of composition, musicianship,… Continue Reading →

An ideal is usually sold as an aspiration: polished, desirable, harmless. Repeat it often enough, and it becomes a measurement of success; attach it to a nation, and it begins to sound like political doctrine. Who is seen, who is erased, and who gets classified as beautiful, useful, obedient, or disposable? PIG takes that glossy marketing phrase and feeds it through distortion, machine vision, and command.

Out July 31st via Metropolis Records, “An American Ideal of Beauty” is the latest single from UK industrial glam maverick Raymond Watts, aka PIG. Co-written with old friend Marc Heal of Cubanate and C-Tec, who contributes co-vocals and synthesizers, the track also features Günter Schulz (ex-KMFDM) sharing guitar duties with Watts and his regular songwriting partner Jim Davies (ex-The Prodigy and Pitchshifter).

“An American Ideal of Beauty” delivers classic industrial rock at full weight. Thick guitars grind against a regimented beat as synths jab through the arrangement and metal vocal growls force the lower register into something almost animal. Watts rises above the mass with his familiar theatrical vocal swagger, stretching syllables into decadent declarations before snapping back into clipped commands. Heal’s co-vocal adds another rough-edged authority, while Schulz and Davies keep the guitars dense, physical, and sharply defined.

Watts explains:

“I wanted to distill and hone the sound of the current PIG album, ‘Hurt People Hurt’, so inviting my old partners in swine Marc and Günter to join Jim and myself in the studio seemed the perfect blend of brutality and beauty to feed, fertilise and transmogrify the hog into Hogzilla. This new single was the first result of our work as a quartet, hammered in the heat of the anvil of hurt.”

Directed by E Gabriel Edvy for Blackswitch Labs, the accompanying video makes looking itself feel coercive. Eyes and faces are boxed, duplicated, enlarged, and tagged with computer-vision graphics, as though every human feature were being measured by an automated judge. Watts performs within a narrow brick passage and against near-total blackness, his figure ruptured by washes of red, white, and electric blue.

Words such as CHAOS, LIES, SHOOT, DUTY, BEAUTY, JESUS, INSURRECTION, and SHUT UP strike the screen as orders, accusations, and advertising copy. Human faces in harsh negative share space with horses, insects, forest growth, fire, floodwater, television static, isolated roads, and a sterile server corridor. The rapid editing expands the title beyond cosmetic standards, placing glamour, violence, faith, technology, and civic obedience inside the same system of classification. Beauty becomes another category assigned by the machine, with the viewer positioned as both observer and object of observation.

Watch the video for An American Ideal of Beauty below:

The recording sessions produced three additional songs, all of which join “An American Ideal of Beauty” on the forthcoming eight-track EP, Dirt Box. Its four originals are paired with remixes by Cyanotic, Stabbing Westward’s Chris Hall, Combichrist, and Rabbit Junk.

Dirt Box arrives September 4th, 2026, through Metropolis Records and is available to pre-order through Bandcamp. “An American Ideal of Beauty” can be streamed here.

The EP follows PIG’s current album, Hurt People Hurt, released May 22nd through Metropolis. Largely written by Watts and Davies, the record further develops PIG’s union of industrial force, dance-floor discipline, theatrical excess, and Watts’ barbed gallows humour.

Watts has spent more than four decades working throughout industrial and alternative music. Alongside his extensive catalogue as PIG, he was a founding member of KMFDM and played a central writing and vocal role in the band’s work during the ’80s and ’90s. His collaborations have included Einstürzende Neubauten, Foetus, Psychic TV, Schwein, and Schaft, while his music for fashion has accompanied Alexander McQueen’s Plato’s Atlantis and the exhibitions Punk: Chaos to Couture and Savage Beauty.

PIG will take Hurt People Hurt across North America beginning August 26th, with Cyanotic joining the tour. The itinerary includes appearances at Cold Waves XIV in Los Angeles, Austin, and Chicago, followed by four UK shows in December.

Watch the Hurt People Tour trailer below:

PIG — Hurt People Tour: North America 2026

• August 26 — Minneapolis, MN
• August 27 — Lawrence, KS
• August 28 — Denver, CO
• August 29 — Salt Lake City, UT
• August 31 — Garden City, ID
• September 2 — Spokane, WA
• September 3 — Bellingham, WA
• September 4 — Seattle, WA
• September 5 — Portland, OR
• September 7 — Eugene, OR
• September 8 — Eureka, CA
• September 9 — Sacramento, CA
• September 10 — San Francisco, CA
• September 11 — Los Angeles, CA — Cold Waves XIV
• September 12 — Santa Ana, CA
• September 13 — Phoenix, AZ
• September 14 — El Paso, TX
• September 16 — Dallas, TX
• September 17 — San Antonio, TX
• September 18 — Austin, TX — Cold Waves XIV
• September 19 — Little Rock, AR
• September 20 — St. Louis, MO
• September 22 — Madison, WI
• September 23 — Davenport, IA
• September 25 — Chicago, IL — Cold Waves XIV
• September 26 — Cleveland, OH
• September 27 — Baltimore, MD
• September 29 — Syracuse, NY
• October 1 — Philadelphia, PA
• October 2 — Brooklyn, NY
• October 3 — Millersville, PA
• October 4 — Richmond, VA
• October 5 — Greenville, SC
• October 7 — Atlanta, GA
• October 8 — Orlando, FL
• October 9 — Tampa, FL
• October 13 — Columbus, OH
• October 14 — Pittsburgh, PA
• October 15 — Hamilton, ON
• October 16 — Montreal, QC
• October 17 — Toronto, ON
• October 18 — Detroit, MI

Tickets and further information are available through the official PIG tour page.

PIG — UK Dates: December 2026

• December 10 — Manchester, UK — Rebellion
• December 11 — Bradford, UK — Nightrain
• December 12 — Glasgow, UK — Ivory Blacks
• December 13 — London, UK — The Lexington

UK tickets are available through Stigmata.

Follow PIG:

• Official website
• Instagram — Raymond Watts
• Instagram — PIG
• Facebook
• YouTube
• Spotify
• Bandcamp

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
LORD GRYPHUS Unleash Sepultura Cover “Troops of Doom” Featuring Members of Creeping Death and Soulfly

Austin Death Metal Trio Releases Bonus Track Video From Debut Album “Summoning the King of Death”
Stream “Summoning the King of Death”:
https://lordgryphus.bandcamp.com/album/summoning-the-king-of-death-2
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Austin, Texas death metal outfit Lord Gryphus have unleashed a new music video for “Troops of Doom,” a devastating bonus track from their debut full-length album Summoning the King of Death , released July 17, 2026.
The track delivers Lord Gryphus’ ferocious take on one of extreme metal’s most influential early anthems, originally written and performed by Sepultura for their legendary 1986 debut album Morbid Visions . Staying true to the raw aggression and primitive energy of the original, Lord Gryphus transform the classic track through their own ritualistic and uncompromising death metal vision.
The cover features guest appearances from Reese Alavi of Creeping Death on vocals and Mike De León (Flesh Hoarder / Soulfly) with a blistering guest guitar solo, adding further intensity to this tribute to one of metal’s foundational moments.
The accompanying video brings the concept of Summoning the King of Death to life, following the album’s ritualistic themes as Reese Alavi and Mike De León are summoned through flames before the video transitions into a live performance from Lord Gryphus, capturing the band’s raw energy and ceremonial atmosphere.
“Troops of Doom” represents a salute to the pioneers who helped define extreme metal while honoring the underground spirit that continues to drive the genre forward.
Formed as an anonymous masked three-piece, Lord Gryphus channel the darkness and aggression of classic death metal while building their own mythology around execution, sacrifice, and devotion to the carrion deity Lord Gryphus, inspired by Vultur gryphus , the Andean condor and a symbol connected to death, transcendence, and spiritual power.
Their debut album Summoning the King of Death delivers a crushing blend of old-school death metal brutality, oppressive atmosphere, and ritualistic intensity. Drawing influence from legendary acts including Morbid Angel, Gorefest, Sepultura, Grave, Autopsy, Incantation, and Sinister , the band creates a sound rooted in the savage spirit of the early extreme metal underground.
Lyrically, the album explores themes of colonial violence, cultural erasure, imposed religion, ancestral traditions, and forgotten histories, creating a release that is as conceptual as it is confrontational.
Summoning the King of Death was recorded at Red Nova Ranch in Bastrop, Texas , with Jeff Henson handling tracking, reamping, guitars, and bass. Vocals were recorded and produced by Kike Valderrama at Buziraco’s Lair Studio . The album was mixed and mastered by Andrés Mauricio Gallón at Sound Blast Studios in Armenia, Colombia .
Lord Gryphus also recently brought their ceremonial brand of destruction to the stage alongside legendary death metal veterans Internal Suffering during select dates of their 30th Anniversary North American Tour .
Album Details

Artist: Lord Gryphus
Album: Summoning the King of Death
Release Date: July 17, 2026
Genre: Death Metal
For Fans Of:
Morbid Angel, Gorefest, Sepultura, Grave, Necrot, Morgoth, Autopsy, Baphomet, Incantation, Sinister, and classic underground death metal.
“Troops of Doom” Credits

Originally written and performed by Sepultura
From Morbid Visions (1986)
Guest Vocals: Reese Alavi (Creeping Death)
Guest Guitar Solo: Mike De León (Flesh Hoarder / Soulfly)
Album Credits

Produced by Lord Gryphus
Drums tracked and instruments reamped by Jeff Henson at Red Nova Ranch, Bastrop, Texas
Vocals recorded and produced by Kike Valderrama at Buziraco’s Lair Studio
Mixed and Mastered by Andrés Mauricio Gallón at Sound Blast Studios, Armenia, Colombia
Artwork by Luisa (Subhuman Being)
CD Layout and Art Direction by Chalo
Photography by TYLORD
Lord Gryphus Statement:
“This album is our declaration of allegiance to death metal in its purest form. Influenced by the savage spirit of the early 90s, Summoning the King of Death delivers raw aggression, ritualistic atmosphere, and a reverence for death that transcends time and culture.”
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https://open.spotify.com/artist/5sW7Q2eHbT0hZgAjZJIm3U
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Contact:
Carlos Ramirez
lordgryphusband@gmail.com

Sheri Moon Zombie, best known for her work as an actress, designer, and longtime creative collaborator of Rob Zombie, has officially stepped into the music world with the release of her debut single, “I Love My Robot.”

Although this marks her first official solo release, Sheri Moon Zombie’s connection to music is not entirely new. Over the years, fans have already heard her voice on several musical projects alongside other artists. Among them, she performed with Jeff Daniel Phillips on “I Got You Babe,” a cover of the classic Sonny & Cher song featured on the soundtrack of The Munsters, as well as contributing to tracks such as “It’s Zombo (The Zombo Theme)” alongside Rob Zombie and Jeff Daniel Phillips. These appearances offered a glimpse of her distinctive vocal style and her natural connection to the dark, theatrical aesthetic that has defined much of her creative career.

Celebrated for her memorable performances in cult horror films such as Halloween (2007), Halloween II (2009), The Lords of Salem, The Devil’s Rejects, and 3 from Hell, Sheri Moon Zombie has become one of the most recognizable faces in modern horror cinema. With “I Love My Robot,” she now expands her artistic career into music while maintaining the distinctive style that has defined her work for decades.

The single blends electronic sounds with a dark, retro-futuristic atmosphere, creating a unique sonic identity that reflects the same cinematic aesthetic fans have come to associate with the Zombie universe. Accompanying the release is an official music video released by Nuclear Blast Records and directed by Rob Zombie, whose unmistakable visual style draws inspiration from vintage science fiction, classic horror, and B-movie culture.

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Larcenia Roe Return With Controversial New Single “Sandy Cheeks” Ahead Of North American Tour With AngelMaker And Ingested
Raleigh, North Carolina’s Larcenia Roe are back with another uncompromising statement. The rising horror deathcore outfit has unleashed their brand new standalone single and music video, “Sandy Cheeks,” through Unique Leader Records , delivering one of the band’s most politically charged releases to date.
Rather than focusing solely on the genre’s trademark brutality, “Sandy Cheeks” dives headfirst into a controversial subject, questioning United States military spending and foreign intervention.
According to the band:


“‘Sandy Cheeks’ questions the United States’ defense spending on foreign conflict. Since 2001, the U.S. has spent roughly $8 trillion on post-9/11 wars and related costs. Since 2022, Congress has also committed hundreds of billions of dollars to overseas military assistance, security support, and military operations tied to conflicts abroad. Meanwhile, the Pentagon has never passed a full financial audit, and the national debt has climbed to more than $39 trillion.”


The track pairs Larcenia Roe’s signature blend of chaotic riffs, punishing breakdowns, unsettling atmosphere, and unpredictable songwriting with a lyrical message that is sure to spark discussion among fans both inside and outside the metal community.
Fans can stream the new single and watch the official music video now:
Watch “Sandy Cheeks”:
The release arrives just days before the band embarks on an extensive North American run supporting AngelMaker and Ingested. The tour kicks off July 31 in Red Deer, Alberta, and will travel across Canada before concluding August 31 in Portland, Oregon.
Larcenia Roe North American Tour

With AngelMaker & Ingested
July


31 – Red Deer, AB – Bo’s

August


1 – Edmonton, AB – Starlite Room
2 – Grand Prairie, AB – Better Than Fred’s
4 – Saskatoon, SK – Coors Event Centre
5 – Winnipeg, MB – Park Theatre
7 – North Bay, ON – North Bay Granite Club
8 – Windsor, ON – Rose City Banquet Hall
9 – Toronto, ON – Lee’s Palace
11 – St. Catharines, ON – Warehouse Concert Hall
12 – Ottawa, ON – Overflow Brewing Company
13 – Montreal, QC – Fairmount Theatre
14 – Quebec City, QC – La Source de la Martinière
15 – Moncton, NB – Xeroz Arcade Bar
16 – Halifax, NS – The Seahorse
18 – Sherbrooke, QC – Le Murdoch
20 – Sault Ste. Marie, ON – Blaster Power House
21 – Thunder Bay, ON – Black Pirates Pub
23 – Regina, SK – The Exchange
25 – Calgary, AB – Dicken’s
26 – Nelson, BC – The Royal
27 – Kelowna, BC – Revelry
28 – Vancouver, BC – The Rickshaw
30 – Seattle, WA – El Corazon
31 – Portland, OR – Twilight

Since forming in 2023, Larcenia Roe have rapidly become one of deathcore’s most talked about new acts. Their debut EP, Dereliction (2024), generated significant attention across social media, Reddit communities, and metal influencers, helping the band secure a deal with Unique Leader Records less than a year after their formation.
Their 2025 full-length debut, Extraction , further elevated the band’s profile with guest appearances from members of Vulvodynia, Filth, and Alex Koehler. The album earned praise for its unpredictable songwriting and relentless intensity, with critics describing it as everything from a “sonic freak show” to one of the most exciting releases in modern deathcore.
With “Sandy Cheeks,” Larcenia Roe continue to prove they aren’t interested in playing it safe. Combining technical brutality, horror-inspired chaos, and provocative social commentary, the band is pushing the boundaries of what modern deathcore can be while preparing to bring that intensity to stages across North America this summer.
For fans of boundary-pushing extreme metal, this is one release and one tour worth keeping on your radar.

First off, they’re lying. It’s not personal. It’s relatable to by everyone, and it’s silly. At best it’s silly masquerading as serious. But what would you expect from Russ Custard and other reprobates from Footprints in the Custard, Frozen in Shadows and Godhand? If you know those bands then you’ll have an idea of what … Continue reading Album Review: Malamutant – This Time It’s Personal

Rising UK rock outfit The Howling have officially released their studio cover of Madonna’s pop classic “Like a Prayer”. A firm staple of the band’s live set over a frenzied ten months of touring, the track has finally been given a full studio release alongside a brand-new live video for their original track “Incantation”. While … Continue reading Classic Cover: The Howling – “Like a Prayer” (original by Madonna)