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They wrapped up recording their new album last fall.

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Moodring symbolizes transformation.

The musical entity’s name hints at volatility — color, emotion, and temperature in flux. Nowhere is that more evident than in death fetish, a defining album for a haunting and defiant new chapter. For founder and frontman Hunter Young, this is more than a record.

It’s survival, reflection, and metamorphosis. It is art made from the raw materials of pain, purpose, and persistence. The album, steeped in nu metal, alt, and industrial influences, arrives on March 27 via SharpTone Records. Pre-order it here

With its moody, quiet-loud dynamics, rich layers, and palpable sonic tension, the song is another thrill ride in which listeners can ride sidecar. It’s the perfect execution of industrial ambience and metallic edge.

“Anywhere But Here is about the breakdown of a relationship where a shared creative world became a source of manipulation and envy,” shares Young. “The chorus lyric is coming from a place of irony, but also represents a longing for freedom and steadiness.”

The Moodring origin story puts the timber and tone of the music in clear view.

Young conceived Moodring alone, in his bedroom, an exercise in catharsis through art. The resulting debut EP, 2021’s Showmetherealyou, resonated with a surprising number of diverse listeners. That connection inspired Moodring to evolve into a creative outlet that transcended its simple origins.  Both sensual and suffocating, the Stargazer album followed in 2022. In a glowing review, Kerrang! praised the full-length as “hefty from the get-go” and likened it to “a cool wave of water lapping over you.” The album’s “vivacious” vocal work and vibe made new Moodring fans around the world.

The following year’s EP, Your Light Fades Away, expanded the palette further, fusing ferocity, shimmering melody, and nü-metal groove into something equally cinematic and claustrophobic.  The “black-velvet nu-metal melodies and bleak-booming breakdowns” (Revolver) of 2025’s half-life were, sadly, inspired by a life-changing medical diagnosis that left Young unable to tour with Moodring or his accomplished deathcore outfit, SharpTone Records labelmates PSYCHO-FRAME.

Unable to tour and unwilling to compromise, Young focused on writing and recording new music. death fetish  is the sound of transcendence—an artist refusing to disappear, even as the light fades.

For all its darkness, death fetish is not a surrender. It’s a reclamation. It’s Young taking back control of his narrative — body failing, mind racing, still creating, still here. “I just wanted to make a dark, honest record,” he says. “And if people don’t like it, I don’t really care. I had to do it for myself.”

Moodring, once a more traditional “band,” now exists as something far more elusive and infinite: A vessel for transformation, a mirror for mortality, and a living testament to pain and creation.

ANYWHERE BUT HERE – OUT NOW
https://moodring.bfan.link/anywhere-but-here

DEATH FETISH – OUT MARCH 27
https://bfan.link/death-fetish

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Alternate indie/rock band DEADLETTER release their new single, ‘Songless Bird’, out now via So Recordings/Civilians. ‘Songless Bird’ is the third single taken from the band’s upcoming sophomore album, Existence Is Bliss, following the release of the lead single ‘To The Brim’ and ‘It Comes Creeping’. Existence Is Bliss is set for release on Friday, 27th February.

On ‘Songless Bird’, DEADLETTER deliver an exquisitely refined track, purveying aesthetics from across the alt, indie, and rock spectrum. As can be heard on the band’s previous singles, ‘To The Brim’ and ‘It Comes Creeping’, DEADLETTER have taken a sonic shift on ‘Songless Bird’, initiating a new era for the band. This new single explores a more sophisticated, genre-fluid sound that fuses influences from across the rock and indie spectrum. The production is sublime, with frontman Zac Lawrence’s raw vocals tying the track together. With the release of ‘Songless Bird’, DEADLETTER once again makes a statement, showcasing the lofty levels of what is to come from one of the UK’s most exciting new bands.

Speaking about ‘Songless Bird’, lead singer Zac Lawrence said: “Withholding that which haunts you, that which torments you, that which cripples, is no conducive means to a healthy existence. After all, existence ought to be bliss?”

DEADLETTER’s upcoming sophomore album is entitled Existence Is Bliss and is set for release on Friday, 27th February. Existence Is Bliss is available to pre-order now and is available on LP, Limited Edition LP, and CD HERE.

Existence Is Bliss Tracklist
Purity I
To The Brim
Songless Bird
It Comes Creeping
What The World Missed
Cheers!
Among Us
Focal Point
(Back To) The Scene of the Crime
Frosted Glass
He Himself And Him
Meanwhile in a Parallel

Speaking about their upcoming album, Existence Is Bliss, DEADLETTER said: “We are surrounded, totally enveloped by impurity and subjected to the lassitude its relentless jaws leave behind. To choose to live amidst this reality, as opposed to merely exist in it, is, to paraphrase a great philosopher, heroic.  The temptation to choose the latter is a powerful, all too familiar sensation, yet, to look deep into one’s own eyes, to choose to embrace the struggles of life and use the world’s oxygen not to breathe, but to act, to indulge; that is what makes us people. Existence is Bliss, but to LIVE is a great turmoil whose payoff is without bounds.”

DEADLETTER are a Yorkshire-born alternative band. The band first formed in 2020 with life-long friends Zac Lawrence(vocals), Alfie Husband (drums), and George Ullyott (bass). Since then, the band has taken on many forms and now exists as a 6-piece. With influences including LCD Soundsystem, The Stranglers, Captain Beefheart, and Can, DEADLETTER are known for their winding lyrical mazes atop alternate-rock/indie instrumentals. In 2024, they released their critically acclaimed debut album, Hysterical Strength, which NME called “dark and foreboding and it’s irresistible and fun” in a 4-star review. Now, the band return with their incredible sophomore album, Existence Is Bliss. Stay tuned for more news and music from one of the UK’s most exciting new bands.

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She’s obviously a great skier, but did you know that Mikaela Shiffrin has a love for music? She even plays guitar.

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They’ve also just dropped a live video for “Blindfolds Aside” from the included Blu-ray disc.

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The crossover group feature Rick Jimenez of This Is Hell fame.

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Austrian blackened death metal titans Belphegor have thrown open the gates once again with the release of their crushing new single, “Scarlet Beast – Leviathan.” And they are not easing back into the fire. They are walking straight through it.
The new track finds the band at their most calculated and menacing. Instead of racing toward chaos, “Scarlet Beast – Leviathan” moves like an advancing war machine. The riffs are massive and deliberate. The pacing is suffocating. This is not about speed for the sake of speed. This is about command, authority, and total domination.
https://belphegor.rpm.link/leviathanPR
Built on monolithic guitar work and a looming atmosphere, the song blends ritualistic black metal darkness with the sheer weight of death metal brutality. The result is a sonic leviathan that feels inevitable, towering and unrelenting. It does not chase. It conquers.
Accompanying the single is a stark, uncompromising music video that strips everything down to shadow and invocation. No flashy distractions. No overproduction. Just raw imagery, ritualistic symbolism, and an unfiltered embrace of darkness. It feels less like a performance piece and more like a summoning.
The timing could not be more fitting. Belphegor launch their Praise The Beast North American Tour 2026 tomorrow, bringing this new chapter directly to stages across the continent. Given the sheer weight and tension embedded in “Scarlet Beast – Leviathan,” fans can expect a live experience built on atmosphere, precision, and controlled devastation. This is not chaos for chaos’ sake. This is ritual intensity delivered with purpose.
Praise The Beast North American Tour 2026 Dates:
February 19 – Brooklyn, NY – Brooklyn Monarch
February 20 – Lowell, MA – Taffeta Music Hall
February 21 – Montreal, QC – Le Studio TD
February 22 – Toronto, ON – Lee’s Palace
February 23 – Lakewood, OH – Mercury Music Hall
February 24 – Joliet, IL – The Forge
February 26 – Denver, CO – HQ
February 27 – Albuquerque, NM – Launchpad
February 28 – Haltom City, TX – Haltom Theater
March 1 – Houston, TX – Scout Bar
March 2 – San Antonio, TX – Paper Tiger
March 5 – Mesa, AZ – The Rosetta Room
March 6 – San Diego, CA – Brick by Brick
March 7 – San Francisco, CA – DNA Lounge
March 8 – Roseville, CA – Goldfield Trading Post
March 9 – Los Angeles, CA – 1720
March 10 – Anaheim, CA – The Observatory
Tickets are available now at the band’s official website.
With “Scarlet Beast – Leviathan,” Belphegor prove once again that true extremity does not need to sprint. It advances with patience, power, and absolute conviction. The beast is awake. And it is heading straight for North America.

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