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La Dispute have always been a band that operates entirely on their own axis. For over two decades, the Grand Rapids, Michigan post-hardcore titans have bypassed traditional genre boundaries, instead crafting a visceral, emotionally exhausting world built on spoken-word poetry, jarring rhythms, and some of the most fiercely passionate storytelling ever committed to tape. They […]

When the news broke that progressive metal titans The Ocean had lost two-thirds of their lineup, the heavy music community as a whole held its collective breath. Longtime vocal powerhouse Loïc Rossetti, alongside Paul Seidel and David Ramis Åhfeldt, all stepped away. For lesser bands, a mass exodus like that is a definitive death knell. […]

Berlin atmospheric post metal visionaries The Ocean will release their twelfth studio album, Solaris, on September 25 via Pelagic Records. Solaris follows 2023’s Holocene and marks the beginning of a new chapter for the band, introducing an expanded international lineup while returning to the cinematic, crushing sound that made albums like Pelagial and Phanerozoic modern […]

From the glory of the Light-Bringer to rebellion and magical fulfilment, MORTGRIM’s second album follows a path through occult and spiritual transformation. Evangelium Luciferianum will arrive on October 31, 2026, through Fetzner Death Records, with opening track “Majesty of the Morning Star” available now as a lyric video. The Budapest solo project combines atmospheric black […]

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Topdown released itsThe Earth & All Its Pavement album to streaming on September 17, with CD and LP

Live Nation has announced that American heavy metal band Avenged Sevenfold are returning to Australia and New Zealand for the first time in 12 years. Known for their spectacular live shows, Avenged Sevenfold will make their long-awaited return with special guests Coheed and Cambria and Thornhill on all tour dates. The tour kicks off October […]

Bradford Cox hath returned to us. In recent years, the Deerhunter frontman and Atlas Sound mastermind has been virtually inactive. Deerhunter and Atlas Sound both played their last shows in 2019. In 2023, Cox played a one-off set of seemingly improvised noise at a vintage market in Athens, Georgia, and that was pretty much it for this decade. But Atlas Sound was announced as a last-minute addition at Philadelphia’s Making Time ∞ festival, and Cox finally returned with an entire set of new songs on Sunday.

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HORRENDA return to an established song with a changed line-up and a new arrangement on “Loudun, 1634.” Released digitally on September 18, 2026, the single draws on the persecution surrounding Urbain Grandier and the alleged possessions at Loudun, examining how fanaticism and political power can turn accusations into instruments of violence. The Dublin black metal […]

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It’s Autumn Kings season as the band releases their new full-length album: EPIPHANIES. The highly-anticipated record arrives as the band’s smash GONE, GONE, GONE, steadily climbs the U.S charts. The band is now sitting on their first ever top-5 hit, a milestone they are endlessly proud of, and is also an all-time high for their […]

THE DARK.FM are stepping into their next chapter with an intoxicating new single, transporting us straight onto the darkened streets of LA.

Released via Arising Empire, the LA band’s latest track is titled ‘Thai Angel’.

A cut-throat slice of modern metal infused with 80s-inspired guitars and a gargantuan chorus, it’s a huge statement of intent from the fast-rising five-piece.

Speaking about the track, vocalist Craig Johns Jr. has shared: 

“Thai Angel was the name of an (alleged) after-hours in Koreatown that I would frequent after getting off work at the nightclub around the corner. It was very much a “if you know, you know” type spot. The door was locked, it was hot, crowded, and the DJ was loud as hell. Lyrically, the song is about a particular night I had there. Rather not dive into that too deep. Sonically anyway, I wanted it to feel like the highs and lows of being in a place like that at 6am in Los Angeles. It starts with this 80’s-esque octave chorus guitar, almost sounds like a synth, followed by an absolutely stacked riff – simple as ever but it’s like “Oh hell yeah, we’re finally here”. You’ve entered the club, you made it. The verses come in as this beat-driven moment of intimacy and scene-setting, the vocals are soft like we’re right next to each other, and then the pre-chorus rises into a familiar feeling of adrenaline. The chorus feels like a moment you’ve been waiting for, that hit of dopamine, and then it all cycles around again until the end of the song becomes this unrelenting wave of intoxicating intensity that you didn’t expect, only to close out with a classic DJ exit transition, leading seamlessly into ‘epoch.exe’.”

Check it out below.

With a new era now underway, THE DARK.FM have a couple of festival appearances lined up this October.

Here is where you will be able to catch them.

OCTOBER

10: BIRMINGHAM (AL) Furnace Fest
24: FORT WORTH (TX) Sick New World Festival

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