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Fans of quality Melodic Hard Rock will have no problem remembering the 1990 debut from Blue Tears. With its loving mix of Bon Jovi meets Def Leppard hard-hitting riffs and melodies, this was one band that really should have scaled the heights. Back in 2005, the band were invited to play the second ever edition […]

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Michigan heavy band Killcrown have dropped the official music video for their debut single “DEATH,” from their upcoming, yet‑to‑be‑titled full‑length album due later this year on Exitus Stratagem Records.

Shot by Pixel Page Photography inside the band’s former jam space, the video has a claustrophobic, raw feeling:

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​“This music video is for our debut single, ‘DEATH.’ It’s about messing with the wrong person and finding out the hard way. We had Pixel Page Photography shoot this for us at our old jam space. It is going to slap all of your senses!” says vocalist Steve Maple.

“Huge shout out to Decibel Magazine for premiering the official music video for our debut single release, ‘DEATH!’ This video was shot and produced by Pixel Paige Photography at our old jam space. It’s about pushing the wrong guy too far. I think this song is a blood-boiling BANGER!!!

​“We truly feel that people are going to connect with this track. This album is written from a very honest standpoint that is BRUTAL, yet beautiful,” adds Maple.

Stream the track here. 

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Oklahoma Rockers Hillbilly Vegas have released their new single & video for ‘Mr. Midnight‘, which was written by and features Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame inductee Paul Rodgers (Bad Company).  The track is the 2nd single from their new album ‘A La Mode‘, which is slated for release on May 8th via Quarto Valley […]

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“I try to love everyone, because I think that’s what you’re supposed to do – and I do.”

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I’ll disappear in the crowd

Trade my complexion for another round

Somehow I’ll piss away that money I found

Yeah, I swear I’ll always let you down

Time is a rotten comedian, always showing up late with a greasepaint grin and a broken watch, so maybe it makes perfect sense that Choir Boy comes back with a song called I’ll Always Let You Down and makes it sound like the sweetest possible collapse. That title alone lands like a kiss blown from the ledge of a very tall building.

Six years since their last album is long enough for expectation to turn feral, for fans to start checking the horizon like sailors with split lips, and Choir Boy seems perfectly aware of the absurdity. “Triumphantly return? Just say that we got lost,” they joke. Since the release of 2020’s Gathering Swans, Choir Boy has kept producing surrealist music videos, posting avant-garde content on social media, and performing live throughout North America and Europe. However, compared to their previous album, the absence of new music feels like an eternity to many in their loyal fanbase.. “Tell everyone the delays are my fault…blame everything on me,” Klopp asserts.

That cracked humour runs right into the bloodstream of the single. “I’ll Always Let You Down is an anti-love song; a sardonic self-indictment of a failing lover,” the band says. There it is: romance dragged through the mud by a man who knows he is carrying the bucket. The song lives in that awful little gap between longing and behavior, between wanting to be held and knowing your own hands are unreliable equipment. It aches with self-disgust, but it never wallows. It moves. It glides. It grins through broken teeth.

Musically, Choir Boy have always known how to dress damage in finery, and here they pull it off with real panache. Drum machines skitter with nervous purpose, the synth bass dirties up the floorboards, and those bright keyboard accents drift in like church light filtered through motel curtains. Adam Klopp sings from somewhere high and bruised, a voice that still feels touched by devotion even while confessing failure. You can hear parallels to Bronski Beat and The Associates in the way it all unfolds, but Choir Boy remains gloriously themselves: grand, wounded, a little camp, a little cruel, very funny when the world starts caving in.

Producer Jorge Elbrecht turns out to be the right co-conspirator, who had “a shared sense of humor about the bleakness,” according to the band. “In (the song’s) previous incarnation, before we were working with Jorge, there was something missing.” Elbrecht uncovered depth with motion, a fuller emotional mess, more air in the room, more rot in the roses.

And then there is the self-directed video, which plays like a hallucination: an archaeologist digging too deep and finding some primordial fool loose inside himself, like a crustpunk trapped in the dinosaur daydream of Pee Wee’s Playhouse. Against these heavenly vocals, the imagery feels gleefully deranged. Perfect, really. Choir Boy came back wearing a clown’s oath and a wounded heart, and for once, disappointment sounds magnificent.

Watch the video for I’ll Always Let You Down below:

Listen to I’ll Always Let You Down below and order the song here.

Choir Boy supports AFI on their Holy Visions tour this month, before returning to the studio this Spring. They’ve also confirmed a performance at Darker Waves later this year. Tickets are available here.

Choir Boy (with AFI) Live Dates:

• Apr 17: Portland – Roseland Theater ~
• Apr 18: Vancouver, BC – Commodore Ballroom ~
• Apr 20: Spokane, WA – The Big Dipper – Headline
• Apr 21: Missoula MT – The Wilma ~
• Apr 22: Boise, ID – Knitting Factory ~
• Apr 23: Sacramento, CA – Ace of Spades ~
• Apr 25: Salt Lake City, UT – Urban Lounge – Headline
• Apr 27: Albuquerque, NM – Historic El Rey Theater ~
• Apr 28: Boulder, CO – Boulder Theater ~
• Apr 30: Omaha, NE – Admiral Theater ~
• May 01: Kansas City, MO – The Truman ~
• May 02: Minneapolis, MN – First Avenue ~
• Nov 14: Darker Waves – Huntington Beach, CA

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HIs new album arrives next week.

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A new Lumon?

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The lead single features Daedric’s Kristyn Hope.

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