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The name may be unfamiliar, but the musicians behind VIOLENCE ONLY are anything but newcomers to brutal death metal. Drawing personnel from Between The Killings, Stabbing, Flesh Hoarder, Horrific Visions, Embodied Torment and Enfrenzied, the US-based group will release its self-titled debut EP on November 6 through Comatose Music. After several delays, the five-track recording […]

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“Disaster Dawn” opened the campaign for Abomination of Mind. Its follow-up now pushes SAGITTARIUS further into the darker and more progressive territory promised by their debut album. The Polish heavy metal band have released “Voice of Myst,” the second single taken from Abomination of Mind, which arrives worldwide on October 9 through Wormholedeath. Built around […]

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Within the independent music world, there’s been a growing enthusiasm this year for Historic New Jersey, a recording collective and/or record label in Philadelphia making retro-tinted pop-rock, scrappy yet finely crafted, familiar but seemingly beamed in from an alternate timeline. The hype started to build in February, when Emily Moales graced us with her brilliant Star Moles album Highway To Hell, and it intensified this summer, when siblings Sam and Louise Sullivan released their charming and inspired Love & Devotion. Kevin Basko, whose home studio plays host to all this creation, has been regularly name-dropped in coverage of these projects, and it’s left me wondering when we’d get a potential breakthrough release from his own project, Rubber Band Gun. Without notice, that time has come.

The post Rubber Band Gun Shares Surprise New Album <em>Bloodwork</em> Feat. Sam And Louise Sullivan & Star Moles appeared first on Stereogum.

It always stops me in my tracks a little bit when I’m reminded that the same Martin Rygge that is responsible for one half of the guitar insanity in Oslo avant-grinders Beaten to Death is also responsible for one half of the chin-stroking technical wizardy in Oslo progressive metal trio Grant the Sun. The band took a small corner of the prog metal community by surprise with their debut, Voyage. Comparisons were drawn to Meshuggah, post-SYL Devin Townsend, newer Cynic and the like, none of which anyone in their right mind would dispute. Three years on and the band — also consisting of drummer Håvard Sveberg and guitarist/bassist/vocalist Markus Lillehaug Johnsen — are ready, set and itching to offer up their latest work, Biomes. Set to be issued by Mas-Kina on October 16th, Biomes continues in the same vein, though with an increased expansiveness in the chord selection and arrangement department and a greater sense of melodic maturity.

“Tedium” is the album’s first single (and second track) and today we’re offering an advance listen. Says the band about the song: “‘Tedium’ is about the endless desert, a barren and boring landscape that never changes. It was one of those songs we had no idea how to approach when it came time to record the drums. The track is a bit all over the place, with an early Pantera vibe running through it, but somehow all those different elements came together in the end. We felt ‘Tedium’ became the perfect single to showcase what this record has to offer: unpredictable, restless, and heavy.”

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We’re just three months away from the return of Magazine Metal & Beer Fest: Denver—the world’s loudest, heaviest, headbangingest, two-day craft beer event—so it’s time to make those December 3-5 weekend plans NOW!

Southern doom supergroup Down make their first Denver appearance in over 12 years to headline Saturday night (December 5), while crossover thrash metal legends Suicidal Tendencies will unleash their first Denver headline performance in over eight years on Friday night (December 4).

The already stacked artist bill, presented by BLKIIBLK Records, is rounded out by: legendary DMV grind force Pig Destroyer (performing a special 25th anniversary Prowler in the Yard set); reunited progressive psych sludge institution Kylesa; New York hardcore legends Cro-Mags (performing a special 40th anniversary The Age of Quarrel set); Denver’s own Americana gunslingers Wayfarer; freshly resurrected death/thrash/crust killers Black Breath; progressive sludge crew Intronaut (performing for the first time in over four years); masked mincecore marauders Haggus and Denver doom lords In the Company of Serpents.

But that’s just the (sober) half of it! America’s most metal breweries and meaderies will descend upon the beer capital of America to provide essential suds to the soundtrack of crushing metallic thuds! Presented by American craft beer vanguard 3 Floyds Brewing (IN), the murderous maelstrom of malts includes Featured Breweries—and Meadery—WarPigs Brewing (IN), XUL Beer Company (TN), Brimming Horn Meadery (DE), Bear Cult Brewing Co. (DE), Odell Brewing Co (CO), Zymos Brewing (CO), Mythk Brewing (FL), Surly Brewing Co (MN), Left Hand Brewing (CO), plus pours from Ratio Beerworks (CO).

Daily lineups can be found below. All ticket options for Metal & Beer Fest: Denver 2026, including single-day tickets, are ON SALE NOW!

DECEMBER 4 TICKETS
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TWO-DAY TICKETS
THREE-DAY TICKETS (INCLUDES PRE-FEST)

IMPORTANT: We’re already down to an extremely limited number of three-day passes that include tickets to the official Metal & Beer PRE-Fest at Ratio Beerworks (Larimer Street location) on December 3 with Clusterfux,  Axeslasher and Victim of Fire. Full daily lineups below.

DECEMBER 3 (Pre-fest at Ratio Beerworks)
Clusterfux
Axeslasher
Victim of Fire

DECEMBER 4 (at Fillmore Auditorium)
Suicidal Tendencies
Pig Destroyer (special Prowler in the Yard set)
Cro-Mags (special The Age of Quarrel set)
Black Breath
Haggus

DECEMBER 5 (at Fillmore Auditorium)
Down
Kylesa
Wayfarer
Intronaut
In the Company of Serpents

“Just Metal” Ticket (21+)

Admittance to the day’s event, but as the name suggests, you just get to see the show—no beer samples.

 “Metal & Beer” Ticket (21+)

Admittance to the day’s event plus unlimited* sampling from our diverse lineup of national breweries presented by 3 Floyds. Decibel Magazine Metal & Beer Fest: Denver 2026 sampling cups provided. Limited tickets available per day.

*Please note: In extremely extreme cases, certain high-ABV pours will be ticketed, with attendees receiving a limited number of tickets available to redeem for each offering.

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Zymos Brewing
Mythk Brewing
Odell Brewing Co.
Left Hand Brewing
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Dark Descent Records
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Our Top 10 Rod Stewart songs list covers the songs the legend released as a solo artist during the 1970s. Rod Stewart has released so much material and has been a member of so many bands that it would be impossible to make an overall top 10 Rod Stewart songs list that covers his entire career. We also intended to focus on his rock material from the 1970s. Although Rod Stewart released solo albums in the 80s and 90s, we narrowed this list to his classic songs recorded during the 1970s. Rod Stewart’s first official solo album was released in

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There may be no 15-minute epic on Construction of Conflict, but FEBRUUS have hardly made their music easier to navigate. The Swedish progressive death metal project instead compresses its twists, rhythmic disruptions and stylistic collisions into eight tightly packed tracks, most of which run for approximately five minutes. The entire album can now be streamed […]

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What remains of an absolute truth when those preaching it reveal their own interests? HATESPHERE confront that question in “Dogma,” the second single from the Danish thrash-death veterans’ forthcoming album, Guillotine. The song arrives with a new lyric video and examines the contradictions the band sees within religion, particularly when faith is treated as the […]

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The club and R&B experimenter Kelela is a bit of a futurist. You could say that she’s really interested in whatever tomorrow brings. But right now, we get a fascinating chance to see her reach into her past. Kelela released her excellent album new avatar over the summer. To promote it, she recently stopped by LA’s Spotify Music Studios, and that’s where she busted out an Incubus cover.

The post Kelela Covers Incubus With A String Quartet appeared first on Stereogum.

Two guitar legends who met as teacher and student in 1973 are finally releasing their first album together after five decades of friendship. Continue reading…