Jersey season.
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SXSW 2026: The Sounds, Part 2
LOS LOBOS It doesn’t get much better than Los Lobos. Seriously. They’ve shared more than 50 years of great music and performances with the world, and they ain’t done yet. Their introduction at the NPR day stage spoke volumes: “Whoever your favorite band is, their favorite band is Los Lobos.” They were even brought back […] -
Gig Review: Kreator / Carcass / Exodus / Nails – O2 Academy, Glasgow (29th March 2026)
This was a big gig, a huge package (fnaar), and as such worthy of two reviewers. WeeG takes on opening band Nails and headliner Kreator, and Mosh fills in the sandwich with Exodus and Carcass… Mosh: We got there around 6pm expecting the queue to have largely disappeared but due to an extended soundcheck found … Continue reading Gig Review: Kreator / Carcass / Exodus / Nails – O2 Academy, Glasgow (29th March 2026) -
Bleeding Through Announce “The Truth” 20th Anniversary Shows With I Declare War & Extortionist
A trio of PNW stops. including Canada.
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Loathe’s Teaser Site Is Now Hosting A Countdown Timer
Could it finally be happening?
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San Francisco Goth Ensemble Octavian Winters Share Expressionist Video for “Elements of Air” – Tour With Pink Turns Blue Begins Next Week!
Who is the demon
And who is the depraved
With no laurels of justice
There’s no goodness to claimSan Francisco’s Octavian Winters returns with “Elements of Air,” a lush and dramatic new single that moves with the heightened tension of an Expressionist dream, where light and dark lean against one another in every frame. Produced by William Faith and appearing just ahead of the group’s Western US dates with Pink Turns Blue, the single carries itself with the confidence of a band already speaking in a distinct language: one fluent in deathrock urgency, post-punk bite, gothic grandeur, and the more diaphanous drift of darkwave.
Elements of Air hovers and lunges at once, circling around the idea that perception can become a weapon, that the mind can dress destruction up as certainty and call it truth. The lyrics move through emotional and moral wreckage with a startling sense of elevation and impact: divine violence, private damage, the ugly glamour of collapse. There is no easy sorting of sinner and saint here, no polished moral vantage point from which to pass sentence. Instead, the song keeps returning to air as omen, as condition, as a medium where one might rise or plunge depending on forces barely under control.
Ria Aursjoen’s voice is central to the spell. She brings an ethereal sheen without softening its sense of danger. Her performance gives the song height, but also ache. Around her, the guitars open out in broad, sweeping arcs, rich with gothic grandeur, while the rhythm section keeps the song moving with a dark, deliberate insistence.
“Elements Of Air really exhibits my love for tension and release,” says guitarist Stephan Salit, who then sharpens the thought into a concise credo: “Dissonance and harmonic resolve. This one is pure alchemy.”
The song is personal, but also wider than that, alert to how private grievance can swell into a worldview, and how that worldview can collapse into wreckage. “(It’s) about how we see the world, our chosen frame of reference, and how much power that holds over us — including the power to destroy things we value,” Aursjoen explains. “The direct inspiration was someone I knew who chose to view the world through a lens of hate, and how that ultimately cost the friendship.”
The video extends these ideas with striking elegance. Shot in black and white and framed like a silent film, complete with title cards, it sends the band drifting through a cemetery as though they have wandered into a séance staged by German Expressionists after midnight and then left to develop in some psychedelic darkroom. Aursjoen, crowned in her signature black flowers, looks both ceremonial and severe, a figure from another century carrying modern disquiet in her gaze. There is a tactile conviction to the imagery, because the band has taken pride in keeping generative AI out of the process. The result feels physical, intentional, and alive to chance.
“We wanted the visuals to mirror the feeling of the song — that sense of how we see the world,” says drummer Randy Gzebb, adding they searched for a location with a “raw, elemental quality” and the value of spontaneity once David Kruschke’s camera was rolling.
Watch the video for Elements of Air below:
Formed in San Francisco in 2022, Octavian Winters continues to make a persuasive case for themselves as one of the more compelling groups in contemporary gothic music. Elements of Air feels like a threshold moment: severe, sumptuous, and emotionally charged, with one foot in classic deathrock and the other stepping toward something larger, stranger, and more exalted. It leaves you with the sense that Octavian Winters are building momentum and myth, one gust at a time.
Listen to Elements of Air below and order the single here.
Catch Octavian Winters on tour this month with Pink Turns Blue!
Black Swan Tour 2026 (Tickets)
- Mon, 6 April: San Diego, CA @ Casbah
- Tue, 7 April: Los Angeles, CA @ Zebulon
- Wed, 8 April: San Francisco, CA @ DNA Lounge
- Fri, 10 April: Portland, OR @ Star Theater
- Sat, 11 April: Seattle, WA @ El Corazon
- Mon, 13 April: Salt Lake City, UT @ Urban Lounge
- Tue, 14 April: Denver, CO @ HQ
- Fri, 17 April: Austin, TX @ Elysium
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Poison Demanded Candy + Canned Fish in Unearthed ’90s Tour Rider
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Pepper Keenan + Woody Weatherman – The COC Interviews
Pepper Keenan and Woody Weatherman discuss Corrosion of Conformity's new album, 'Good God / Baad Man,' and look back on the band's legacy. Continue reading… -
PUSCIFER Release “A Public Stoning” Video Featuring Animated Version Of “Tales From The Pusciverse #2: The Briefcase”
Photo credit: Travis Shinn “A Public Stoning” video featuring animation by Raul Araujo & Chris Rubey: https://youtu.be/fVIUwpOWTYM
The Pusciverse – With the debut of Puscifer’s new comic book series, “Tales From The Pusciverse,” and two issues already sold out, the band shares an animated adaptation of “Tales From The Pusciverse #2: The Briefcase,” set to “A Public Stoning” (https://youtu.be/fVIUwpOWTYM), from their new album, Normal Isn’t.
The story centers on the longest running mystery in the Pusciverse: The Briefcase. For years, the object has appeared in Puscifer’s videos and photographs, prompting the recurring question among fans: “What’s in the briefcase?”
Written by Maynard James Keenan, “The Briefcase” features artwork by Marlin Shoop (“Captain Action,” “G.I. Joe,” “Unprepped”) with lettering by Jack Morelli (“Afterlife with Archie,” “Peter Parker Annual,” Marvel Comics). The animation for the “A Public Stoning” video was created by Raul Araujo and Chris Rubey.
“The Briefcase has been part of the Puscifer mythology for years,” Keenan notes. “Everyone wonders what exactly is inside. This issue doesn’t necessarily answer the question… but it moves the story forward.”
The new clip arrives as the band is in the midst of their Normal Isn’tNorth American tour, with dates this week slated for Asheville, Durham, Bethlehem, and Boston. Tickets are available via Puscifer.com, and the full list of dates is below.
Puscifer’s new album, Normal Isn’t, is out now via Puscifer Entertainment/Alchemy Recordings/BMG.
Normal Isn’t North American tour dates (tickets and VIP packages are on-sale now via Puscifer.com):
March 31 Asheville, NC Thomas Wolfe Auditorium
April 1 Durham, NC DPAC – Durham Performing Arts Center
April 3 Bethlehem, PA Wind Creek Event Center
April 4 Boston, MA Boch Center – Wang Theatre
April 7 New York, NY Terminal 5
April 8 Hershey, PA Hershey Theatre
April 10 Mashantucket, CT Premier Theater at Foxwoods Resort Casino
April 11 Atlantic City, NJ Ovation Hall at Ocean Casino Resort
April 15 Niagara Falls, ON OLG Stage at Fallsview Casino
April 16 Akron, OH Akron Civic Theatre
April 18 Detroit, MI Fox Theatre
April 19 Cincinnati, OH Taft Theatre
April 21 Louisville, KY The Louisville Palace
April 23 Indianapolis, IN Murat Theatre
April 25 Chicago, IL The Chicago Theatre
April 26 Milwaukee, WI Landmark Credit Union Live
April 28 Madison, WI The Sylvee
April 30 St. Louis, MO The Factory
May 1 Kansas City, MO The Midland Theatre
May 3 Morrison, CO Red Rocks Amphitheatre
May 5 Salt Lake City, UT Maverik Center
May 8 Portland, OR Theater of the Clouds
May 9 Seattle, WA WAMU Theater
May 11 San Francisco, CA Golden Gate Theatre
May 13 San Diego, CA San Diego Civic Theatre
May 14 Los Angeles, CA The Greek Theatre
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Babymetal Announce 2026 North American Tour Dates With Halestorm
Babymetal have booked out their 2026 with North American and Latin American tour dates with Halestorm and Violent Vira. Continue reading…