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“Nothing Is What It Seems was written about Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. They’re the liar and the thief in the song”: Brinsley Schwarz on his state-of-the-world album Shouting At The Moon
A key figure in 70s pub rock is back with more songs “about politics or idiots with fingers on buttons” -
JUNGLE ROT – Back To The Old School EU Tour 2026 | Dates, Cities & Venues Listed
From Jungle Rot Facebook:
ATTENTION DEATHBANGERS!
Old School Death Metal is back in Europe!
JUNGLE ROT from the US will come back to Europe to celebrate the release of their new album out this spring 2026 with you guys!
Presented by WE-LIVE Agency, Deaf Forever, Unique Leader Records, metal.de
BACK TO THE OLD SCHOOL – EU Tour 2026
June (with KHNVM)
05.06.2026 Fri CZ Salvin Karpaty Festival*
06.06.2026 Sat NL Emmen Pitfest Festival*
07.06.2026 Sun DE Göttingen Musa
08.06.2026 Mon PL Bydgoszcz Over The Under Pub
09.06.2026 Tue LT Vilnius Narauti
10.06.2026 Wed LV Riga MCB Clubs
11.06.2026 Thu EE Tallin Paavli Kultuurvabrik
12.06.2026 Fri FI Turku Nirvana Fuusio
13.06.2026 Sat FI Tampere Varjobaari
14.06.2026 Sun FI Helsinki OnTheRocks
July (with RATS OF GOMORRAH)
03.07.2026 Fri CZ Trutnov Obscene Extreme Festival ***
04.07.2026 Sat AT Salzburg Rockhouse
05.07.2026 Sun AT Vienna Escape
06.07.2026 Mon RO Timisoara Nemesis Club
07.07.2026 Tue RO Bucarest Encore Club
08.07.2026 Wed RS Belgrade Zappa Barka
10.07.2026 Fri IT Val Resia eResia Festival
11.07.2026 Sat IT Erba Milano Centrale Rock Pup
12.07.2026 Sun FR Barberaz Brin de Zinc
13.07.2026 Mon CH Martigny SunsetBar
14.07.2026 Tue CH Basel Valhalla Bar
15.07.2026 Wed FR Lyon Rock n Eat
16.07.2026 Thu DE Weinheim Cafe Central
17.07.2026 Fri DE Bertingen RUDE Festival
18.07.2026 Sat DE Münster Tryptichon
August (with KHNVM)
01.08.2026 Sat DE Dortmund Deathfest***
02.08.2026 Sun BE Diest HellCafe
03.08.2026 Mon LU Esch Belval MK Bar
04.08.2026 Tue DE Stuttgart Schwarzer Keiler
05.08.2026 Wed DE Berlin Lido
06.08.2026 Thu DE Schwerin Club Zenith
07.08.2026 Fri DE Schlotheim Partysan Festival ***
08.08.2026 Sat BE Kortrijk Alcatraz Festival***
*** JUNGLE ROT ONLY!
WE – Live Agency
GHS Strings
Unique Leader Records
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“I interviewed him and he denied ever hearing the album. I find that somewhat hard to believe”: Did Jethro Tull inspire a character in Spinal Tap? The actor says no. Ian Anderson’s not so sure
British prog icon wonders if his American fans really got the humour in 1972 album Thick As A Brick – because they all laughed at the wrong moments -
Watch Turnstile Cover The Stone Roses’ “I Wanna Be Adored” For Triple J’s Like A Version
They also delivered an in-studio performance of “SUNFLOWER”.
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Apotheosis: The New Frontier is Pentrilox’s Album Out Now
Good Day Noir Family,
Pentrilox launch Apotheosis: The New Frontier with an ancestral female chant in “Breaking the Well,” and you understand this will be an epic journey.Apotheosis: The New Frontier is Pentrilox’s Album Out Now
The voice rises alone at first, ritualistic and evocative; then an arpeggiator cuts through with a futuristic pulse.
Soon after, guitars crash in with hard rock force, pushing the track forward without sacrificing melody. The balance between drive and tunefulness defines the band’s identity right away.
“Distant Future” expands that vision. Once again, the textures suggest distant galaxies and advanced civilizations; however, this time subtle harmonic variations introduce a Middle Eastern flavor that adds unexpected color. The female vocal shapes the atmosphere with grace and clarity, while the male counterpart injects grit and weight. Their interplay becomes one of the album’s strongest assets. She often carries the more melodic passages; he reinforces them with power, and together they create a dynamic contrast that feels purposeful and bold.
With “Finding a New Home,” the adrenaline rises noticeably. The male vocal sections venture firmly into metal territory, harmonically and rhythmically. The riffs tighten, the percussion intensifies, and the energy climbs. Yet the band never loses control. They channel that force into structured progression, keeping the track sharp and engaging.
Then “The Symbiotic Bloom” invites you to throw your horns in the air. The tempo is fast, the rhythm relentless, and the male vocal pushes with conviction. The dystopian and intense lyrics transport the listener into a futuristic world on the brink of transformation. The band paints vivid images of symbiosis between technology and humanity, reinforcing the conceptual thread of the album.
“The Galactic Bridge” hits like a black avalanche, driven by a crushing riff. Shortly after, the melody resurfaces through the female voice, and once more that familiar vocal interplay shapes the emotional arc. The production sounds powerful and direct, enhancing the cinematic dimension of the music.
“The New Destiny (Sol 2)” closes the record on an atmospheric note. It suggests renewal, a new beginning beyond the stars. As a whole, Apotheosis: The New Frontier feels like the soundtrack to an epic sci-fi film or a visionary video game, rich with fantasy and ambition.
Apotheosis: The New Frontier is Pentrilox’s Album Out Now!
Transcendent!
Pentrilox is a progressive metal and cinematic electronic project from Indianapolis, Indiana. Combining heavy riffs with expansive, futuristic atmospheres, they create immersive music inspired by space exploration, high fantasy, and human transcendence.
Produced entirely in their private studio, Pentrilox’s sound is bold, polished, and forward-looking — a powerful soundtrack for those who believe the future is something to build, not fear.
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Album Review: Vreid – The Skies Turn Black
Album Review: Vreid – The Skies Turn Black
Reviewed by Oli Gonzalez
Sognametal. After all these years of consuming metal and it’s countless subgenres, here’s a new one to me! A subgenre in which Norway’s Vreid have been credited as founders of, blending the darkened intensity of black metal with the more subtle elements of folk music. This is whilst exploring themes of local history and culture, and other more personal topics. Perhaps this is a suitable way to describe Vreid’s complex sound that has been carefully crafted and refined over the bands long storied career. A career which now sees them on the eve of their 10th studio album, “The Skies Turn Black”. One in which the band experienced personal hardships and struggles during the album’s writing, describing it as “inspiring and hell”. Personal themes that seep into the very fabric of the album. Take the album’s opening song, for instance.
You can say that the sound emerges from the very bowels and depths of Norway’s wilderness. This is both literal and metaphorical as a late night stay in a remote cabin spawned “one of those rare creative sparks”, with the product being ‘From These Woods’. Here you’ll be introduced to a rich folk undertone characterised by the soothing opulent strings segment in the opening passage to the song, and the intermittent deployment of cleaner chant like vocals adding an eerie ethereal quality. As well as the subtle introduction of background synths to add a medieval like timbre. Mixed with the more traditional KVLT style shrieks and an array blazing guitar riffs adds more of what you’d expect from a band with a back metal spine, along with the blast beats which emerge later. Though none of them overpower the mix and alongside the steady pace makes for a rather inviting and aesthetically pleasing take on black metal!
Who was there for Black Sabbath’s farewell show Back To Beginning in July 2025? Bassist Jarie was, and this serves as the creative impetus for ‘The Skies Turn Black’. The skies did turn black when the Prince Of Darkness himself Ozzy Osbourne left this world only a few weeks after this once in a lifetime concert. The whole song offers more of a classic heavy metal vibe that pays homage to Black Sabbath themselves, whilst the lyrics direct and straight to the point in a touching tribute:
“The stage was yours, the music now forever ours”
“Prince Of Darkness, let his kingdom come’.
Grab a tissue. It’s ok. Rest In Power, sweet Prince.
How often do black metal bands write the soundtrack to movies? Not very often, but Vreid’s instrumental effort ‘Kraken’ is the eerie and chilling soundtrack to the movie of the same name. What makes this even more special is that the band worked with a music teacher at the very start of their careers on this, in a true special full circle moment.
‘Build Destroy’, and ‘A Second Death’ offer more traditional tastes of black metal which are as raw and aggressive as they are on-the-nose in their delivery. Though with the modern clean production values and not the baked potato quality recordings you often hear with early black metal. This modern forward thinking approach is not just limited to the production approach. As we’ve seen, the band aren’t afraid to flirt with other genres. An unexpected highlight came in the
shape of ‘Smile Of Hate’. A gothic-doom inspired anthem which soul-piercing lead guitars and haunting piano segments as heavy as the death of a loved one.
Inviting guest musicians can add dimensions to the music that isn’t available within the band’s ranks. Vreid invite Agnete Kjolsrud from Djerv to inject her ethereal cleans to the band’s sound. The problem is, how will Vreid play this song live? Or is there no intention of it ever leaving the studio? Though Vreid have proven to be resilient problem solvers so surely they’ll figure this out. Maybe we’ll see a guest appearance on stage when the band hit mainland Europe alongside Vomitory, and Hypocrisy later in the year. The first time many will lay eyes on Vreid and will hear the sound of Sognametal.
Until then, there’ll be plenty of time to become more acquainted with the band. “The Skies Turn Black” serves as a more than adequate introduction to Vreid. In a genre full of cliches “The Skies Turn Black” offers fresh impetus by a band furiously devoted to writing music entirely on their own terms.
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Beartooth’s Caleb Shomo Deletes His Instagram Amid “Free” Controversy, Attila’s Chris Fronzak Cracks A Divisive Joke
Whether or not his account deletion is related to Shomo’s recent image overhaul is unclear.
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“We were just snot-nosed punks trying to do something different.” Metallica and the making of Master Of Puppets – only in the new issue of Classic Rock
Also in Classic Rock 351: The Black Crowes, Blondie, Megadeth, Suzi Quatro, Big Country, Brian Robertson, Puscifer, Danny Bryant, Buckcherry, Big Big Train and more -
Held. (Coheed And Cambria/The Sleeping) Launch Their Second Single “CONSTANT TENSION”
They’ve also announced a listening party this week for their debut album “GREY”.
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Mutilagia Premiere New Single “Symptoms Of Intrinsic Depravity”
Rio Gallegos, Santa Cruz,Argentina-based slamming brutal death metal band Mutilagia premiere a new single titled "Symptoms Of Intrinsic Depravity", streaming via YouTube for you now below. Matthias Joyce from Rottenness and To Violently Vomit guests on vocals. Read More/Discuss on Metal Underground.com