WARGASM have unveiled another explosive single via their new label home at Hopeless Records.
After announcing their signing to the legendary label with the pulsating swagger of ‘Get Down’, the duo’s latest single ‘Swallow’ is another bold and boisterous introduction to their latest era.
Clocking in at just over three minutes, it’s an intensely unapologetic blitz of gritty electronics, blistering riffs and snarling attitude. Basically, it’s got a little bit of everything that makes WARGASM so great.
Speaking about ‘Swallow’, the band have shared:
“From the immortal teaches of Peaches: ‘fuck the pain away’. This is our soundtrack to mistakes and love in this hell of a century. You can feel good when you’re being bad. Human touch just to feel something. This is Spit.’s hot cousin. This is Swallow.”
The band are currently playing shows across the US as support for Scene Queen.
Here are all the dates you can still catch them:
SEPTEMBER
23 – LAWRENCE Granada Theatre 25 – HOUSTON Scout Bar 26 – SAN ANTONIO Paper Tiger 27 – DALLAS The Echo Lounge & Music Hall 29 – MESA The Nile Theater
OCTOBER
01 – SAN DIEGO House of Blues 03 – LOS ANGELES The Regent Theater 04 – LAS VEGAS 24 Oxford 07 – ENGLEWOOD Gothic Theatre 09 – CHICAGO House of Blues 10 – INDIANAPOLIS Deluxe at Old National Centre 11 – GRAND RAPIDS The Intersection 13 – CUDAHY X-Ray Arcade 14 – DETROIT Saint Andrew’s Hall 16 – NEW YORK Racket NYC 17 – PHILADELPHIA Brooklyn Bowl 18 – WORCESTER Palladium Upstairs 20 – CHARLOTTE Music Farm 23 – ST. PETERSBURG Jannus Live 24 – FORT LAUDERDALE Revolution Live 25 – ORLANDO House of Blues
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Enter Shikari have announced a pair of intimate shows ahead of their upcoming UK & Europe arena tour.
With the band set to dominate an arena run in November, they’ll be easing back in with a couple of shows in Oxford and Leicester.
Playing Oxford’s O2 Academy on October 21 and Leicester’s O2 Academy on October 22, support at both shows will come from London’s Sunday Best.
Presales are already underway for both shows, with general sale coming soon.
If you’re not lucky enough to live near one of those spots though, you can still catch Enter Shikari in November, albeit in some much bigger rooms.
With support coming from Holding Absence and The Callous Daoboys, check out the full list of dates below.
NOVEMBER
13: NOTTINGHAM Motorpoint Arena 14: CARDIFF Utilita Arena 15: HULL Connexin Live 18: GLASGOW Hydro 19: MANCHESTER Co-op Live 20: LONDON Alexandra Palace 21: LONDON Alexandra Palace
RØRY‘s second album ‘BLOODLETTING’ has landed at No.8 in the UK Album Chart.
Photo credit: Derek Bremner
Released independently, the album has also hit the top spot in the Rock & Metal Album Chart.
Following a week spent travelling around the UK playing in record stores to promote the album, it marks RØRY’s highest album chart position to date.
With physical sales of the album accounting for a jaw-dropping 97.2% of the album sales, it’s an incredible feat that highlights not only RØRY’s huge impact on the scene, but the power of independence and the value of physical media.
Speaking about the news, RØRY has shared:
“I can’t believe BLOODLETTING is #8 in the chart. I want to dedicate this to Miles Kent, and everyone we’ve loved and lost too soon. And of course to the #37Club, you did this. And I am eternally grateful.”
RØRY is also on the cover of the latest issue of Rock Sound.
Featuring a photograph deemed too inappropriate for the social media algorithm, we can only present it to you online in this custom-made, sealed-off packaging. The only way you will see the cover is by opening it up and looking inside…
Inside the magazine, confronting grief, mortality and the darkness that lingers even after your wildest dreams come true, RØRY takes us through the fantastical story of ‘BLOODLETTING’.
You can get yours alongside a limited edition signed poster, with just 200 available, right now from SHOP.ROCKSOUND.TV
Northlane have given us another taste of their upcoming album ‘Anemoia’, and it’s an abslutely crushing one.
Photo credit: Kane Hibbard
With the band’s latest full-length set to be released on October 30, their blistering new single is titled ‘Crucified’.
It follows previously released tracks ‘Evian’ and the bludgeoning ‘CUT_it’, this time taking things in the direction of pure, unfiltered aggression.
Speaking about the single, frontman Marcus Bridge has shared:
“‘Crucified’ is about the collapse of civil discourse – the way every disagreement now defaults to attack, every conversation becomes a battleground, every difference of opinion ends with someone playing the victim. Not only touching on politics, it’s about the regression of communication as a whole: arguments online, wars, general difference of opinion. If you’re offside, misaligned / we won’t rest tonight / till you’re fucking crucified. The instinct to go for the throat rather than hear someone out has seeped into every corner of life.”
Take a listen.
The band’s full-length follow-up to 2022’s ground-breaking ‘Obsidian’ was executive-produced by none other than Jordan Fish.
Exploring how the world of trance music can cross streams with heavy music, it finds Northlane twisting their electronic metal instincts into a whole load of new and exciting shapes.
Check out the artwork and tracklisting for ‘Anemoia’ below.
1) Pierce The Sky 2) NEED2FEEL 3) Crucified 4) Deathwish 5) Evian 6) CUT_it 7) S∈GA 8) The Otherside 9) Start Again 10) Anemoia (Feat. Dayseeker)
The band are also set to make their way around the UK and Europe later this year as support for Dayseeker.
I have been taken with the last three albums by the gothic style of Germans Lacrimas Profundere. 2016’s Hope Is Here, 2019’s Bleeding the Stars, and their last release, 2022’s How To Shroud Yourself With Night, were all fine albums and hit several chords with me. Although they have played over 100 concerts, including a supporting slot to Paradise Lost in 2025, they have kind of dropped off the radar.
Having been in the business for over three decades, a band can both reflect and look forward. So, to the uninitiated, how do you describe their sound? A mix of HIM and Metalcore, Dimmu Borgir meets The Cure, or even Billy Idol and Cradle Of Filth were all used to describe the last album.
I noted that it was Metal dark and laced with gothic flashes, but contemporary and modern in other ways.
Clean vocals mix with gravel-throated growls, while emotional melodies and delicate passages mix with a definite Melodeath style in parts. There is a bit of everything here. I would drag in Dark Tranquillity and In Flames from the Gothenburg sound, the haunting parts of Paradise Lost and even the melodic bits of Evergrey.
It has a very European feel. But there are also hints of gothic heroes across the album, combined with elements of Metalcore, which has resulted in the term Gothcore being used.
Lacrimas Profundere – Lay Me Down O Silent Fear will surely delight their hardcore fanbase
Whatever the label placed on Lacrimas Profundere, Lay Me Down O Silent Fear will surely delight their hardcore fanbase, whilst tempting in a few who may have been merely curious before.
Opening with Days Of Doom, you are instantly confronted with a heady mix of edgy riffs, angry and clean vocals, and some orchestral strings. It makes for an interesting introduction to the album, even if the layered production is a little overpowering at times.
Nevermore feels a little generic, a gothic-era Paradise Lost chug combined with melodic choruses that would sit comfortably on a Stone Sour album. Yes, there is a definite Cory Taylor likeness to Julian Larre’s cleans, and I will be honest, it is a minor distraction. It is lightweight, but this is a band who determine their own direction.
Heart I Will Break You Before You Break Me is described as Anathema with Glen Danzig on vocals, something I do not get at all. There are orchestrations which give the song depth, but that’s where the comparison ends. In fact, it is one of the more distinctively Lacrimas Profundere tracks on the album.
Each song does present a bit of classic Lacrimas, yet the variation that spans this record is enough to maintain the interest that I have had on other albums. O Silent Fear, for example, is gloriously chaotic in its mix of raging growls and subtler cleans. Its melodies bring it towards the more accessible range of their output, and there is a gorgeous riff that chugs the song along.
Faceless, on the other hand, is a dark battering ram. A mixture of Metalcore and gothic sensibilities that twist the mind with a soaring chorus that sits very much in the former genre camp.
Power forward to the penultimate track, Veil XV, this is a ballad that echoes Taylor’s more emotional pieces. It is a towering effort that showcases Larre’s ability and range. There are huge moments on the album, but here is where he really is highlighted.
Lay Me Down O Silent Fear certainly stands alongside the work the band has delivered before. It has many moments that make you stop. And that is sometimes enough.
At a stage where they need to prove nothing, Lacrimas Profundere has once again pulled out a strong and impressive release.
Lacrimas Profundere release Lay Me Down O Silent Fear on 25 September 2026 via Steamhammer. For more details, visit lacrimasprofundere.lnk.to/OSilentFear.
