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Flea releases the album he has aspired to make for more than 35 years, Honora, today on Nonesuch Records. After a nearly five-decade (and counting) career as one of his generation’s defining rock bassists, he has returned to his first musical loves, jazz and trumpet. The New York Times says the album’s ten songs “embody […]

Eight years after the release of their critically acclaimed album Eonian, Norwegian symphonic black metal titans Dimmu Borgir returns with a towering new opus: "Grand Serpent Rising." Set for release on May 22 via Nuclear Blast Records, the album delivers thirteen punishing yet remarkably diverse tracks that reaffirm the band’s status as one of the… Read More/Discuss on Metal Underground.com

Dark Mofo returns to Lutruwita/Tasmania from 11–22 June 2026. Organisers invite audiences to embrace the cold for a packed program of art, performance, live music, movies and more. The midwinter festival will introduce art into sites around Nipaluna/Hobart including Spirit of Tasmania V, a 48,000-tonne ship moored in Dark Park. Highlights include Candela Capitán’s cam-girl […]

Sydney based experimental rock act, Stormflower present, Human, the 5th and final single from their recently released EP Equanimity. Quickly building a strong reputation for their genre-defying sound that fuses powerful riffs with emotive depth. Stormflower’s music delivers a dynamic blend of intensity and vulnerability, designed to stir the soul and provoke the senses. With […]

There is a particular kind of warm loneliness that only a city in late winter can produce: not the theatrical kind, nor the sort that begs for witness, but the quieter condition of moving through vast public spaces while feeling privately sealed inside yourself, while the numbness in your fingers warms around a coffee during that icy commute. The City Gates understand that sensation well. On Capitol Hill, the Montreal outfit turns it into something graceful and grand, letting driving post-punk rhythms, gauzy shoegaze textures, and distant vocals gather into a song that feels like a long exhale against a freezing pane of glass.

The single arrives as the latest glimpse into the band’s forthcoming third LP, due May 15 via Icy Cold Records and Velouria Recordz. The record promises a deeper push into cold, expansive terrain, and Capitol Hill makes good on that premise straight away. A propulsive bassline keeps the track moving with real purpose while icy synth drones hang overhead and the vocals drift in from somewhere just out of reach. When the harmonies gather, the effect lands with unusual force: tender, remote, and unmistakably human. Produced & Mixed by The City Gates at Velouria Studio, Montreal, the release was mastered by Francesco Giuliano at Innerwood Music Mansion in Succivo, Italy.

The video, produced and edited by TWEAX & The City Gates, gives the song a fitting visual counterpart. Shot on Montreal’s cold streets, in the Metro, and throughout the city’s concrete arteries, it turns the urban landscape into a study in stark geometry, motion, and estrangement.

Rendered in severe black-and-white, the clip moves through snow-choked sidewalks, brutalist overhangs, circular wall forms, station corridors, escalators, revolving doors, and the blur of a Metro train streaking past in bands of light and shadow. Men in dark coats drift through these spaces like half-remembered thoughts. Faces appear in overexposed close-up, then dissolve again into glass reflections, scratched surfaces, and passing bodies. Elsewhere, the band gathers in interior spaces that offer brief shelter without ever fully dispelling the chill outside, culminating in scenes shot at restarant, where the city’s social warmth feels momentary, almost provisional. Even the most ordinary elements, a tunnel of ceiling lights, the ribbed metal teeth of an escalator, a revolving door catching figures in fragments, take on a strange emotional pressure. The result feels less like a literal narrative than a sequence of urban impressions: transit as ritual, architecture as mood, companionship as something glimpsed between departures.

What makes the video work so well is its trust in atmosphere, repetition, and place. Montreal becomes both setting and state of mind: a city of thresholds, underpasses, stairways, passing trains, café windows, and brief encounters, where movement never quite guarantees arrival. That suits Capitol Hill perfectly. The song carries a steady forward motion, yet everything around it seems caught between memory and disappearance.

Watch the video for “Capitol Hill” below:

The City Gates’ latest single, Capitol Hill, is out now via Icy Cold Records and Velouria Recordz. Order Here

The City Gates, based in Montreal, have built an international following on the strength of their dark, melodic, emotionally charged sound, first through Age of Resilience and then Forever Orbiter. Their work has landed on year-end charts across the globe and brought them coverage from outlets including Post-Punk.com, Sonic Seducer, Orkus, and Sanctuary.cz. Over the years, they have toured Europe, the UK, the US, and Canada, appearing at festivals such as Dark Spring Berlin, Return to the Batcave, Kalamashoegazer, Dark Spring Boston, and Focus Wales, while sharing stages with acts including The Chameleons, A Place to Bury Strangers, The March Violets, Trisomie 21, Ductape, Traitrs, Selofan, Vision Video, Forever Grey, Nothing, Solar Fake, Actors, The Foreign Resort, and Hapax.

To support the release, the band will head out on a Canadian East Coast mini-tour in April alongside Golden Apes, followed by a European run beginning May 29 in Berlin and continuing through early June.

 

THE CITY GATES THE GREAT DEVOURER TOUR:

CANADIAN EAST COAST MINI TOUR 2026

• April 09 Montreal, CA – Cabaret Foufs /w Golden Apes + Scene Noir
• April 10 Québec, CA – Centre Hub Creatif /w Golden Apes + Palissade
• April 11 Toronto, CA – BMST 254 /w Girlfriends and Boyfriends + Golden Apes

EUROPEAN TOUR 2026

• May 29 Berlin, DE – Wild at Heart /w Cataphiles
• May 30 Holzminden, DE – Horstberg 76 /w Golden Apes
• June 02 Paris, FR – QG103
• June 03 Gent, BE – The Crossover /w Fragment
• June 04 TBC
• June 05 Wuppertal, DE – Loch /w Us and I
• June 06 Modave, BE – Deux-Ours

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Scotland’s premier purveyors of “party slam,” Party Cannon, have officially unleashed their latest EP, Subjected To A Partying, today via Unique Leader Records (stream / order it now). If you’ve been following the Dunfermline loons for a while, you’ll know they don’t exactly do things by halves – unless we’re talking about their collective IQ … Continue reading Party Cannon drop new EP, ‘Subjected To A Partying’, and “Parisian Bedbug” video – tour imminent

London alt-pop outfit Exploring Birdsong have announced their forthcoming debut album, Every House We Built, set for release on June 26 via Long Branch Records. Featuring previously released tracks “42” and “Romanticise,” the record sees the band turn inwards, drawing from lived experiences to explore the complexities of relationships spanning friendships, family and romance. Using houses as a central metaphor, the album reflects on how connections are carefully built with intention yet can unexpectedly collapse, leaving behind the lingering weight of something once thought permanent.

The announcement is accompanied by the release of the band’s new single “You Like It Best When It Hurts.”

Speaking of the track, vocalist Lynsey Ward shares, “‘You Like It Best… ‘ actually began its life as a completely different song, but easily found a way to take the shape that it has now. For as long as we’ve been a band, we’ve been proud that our sound has such broad shoulders, so we felt we could really push our influences from heavy music out into the open with this one and create the heaviest Birdsong music to date. Lyrically, it is written about observing a type of person that we have all come across — self-sabotaging and self-destructive almost to the point where it seems that they can’t, or don’t want to, break the cycle. More new territory for us, as we’re now equipped to convey anger and aggression convincingly. It felt completely natural to write a bit of a love letter to heavy music whilst channeling our own frustrations.”

Stream “You Like It Best When It Hurts” and pre-order the debut album here.

EVERY HOUSE WE BUILT TRACK LISTING:
“Archipelago”
“42”
“Romanticise”
“Footprints”
“Arrhythmia”
“Spy In The House Of Love”
“I_You”
“The Warning”
“You Like It Best When It Hurts”
“Cartography”
“Every House We Built”
“Meadowlands”

Exploring Birdsong will embark on a headline UK tour this September, playing their biggest headline shows to date. The run of dates will see the band kick things off in Glasgow on September 23, before heading south for shows in London and Bristol and wrapping up the tour with a final date in Manchester on September 26. Get tickets here.

EXPLORING BIRDSONG ON TOUR:
9/23 — Glasgow, Scotland — Classic Grand
9/24 — London, England — Islington Assembly Hall
9/25 — Bristol, England — Strange Brew
9/26 — Manchester, England — Gorilla

EXPLORING BIRDSONG ARE:
Lynsey Ward — Vocals + Piano
Jonny Knight — Bass + Synthesizers
Matt Harrison — Drums + Percussion

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Taken from Don Broco’s newly released album “Nightmare Tripping”.

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They have denied the blood
That is on their hands
And invisible bodies cover their disguise 

Diavol Strâin comes roaring back with 11 Ecos like somebody kicked open the doors to a sealed chamber and let all the old curses, all the state lies, all the bloodstained memories come spilling across the floor in a rush of black smoke and broken glass. This is the first shot from Eterno Retorno, and brother, it lands with the kind of force that makes you sit up straight and wonder what exactly got disturbed in the walls.

For a band already carrying close to eleven years of hard-earned history, Lau M and Ignacia Strain, bona fide icons of Chilean and Latin American darkwave, sound possessed by fresh purpose here, as if they found a deeper wound to press until the room changed colour. The track drags the memory of dictatorship and civic terror into the present tense, and it does so with a terrible elegance, with guitars stacked in great collapsing sheets and rhythm moving underneath it all like boots down a corridor.

11 Ecos hit carries historical violence without turning into a lecture or museum placard. The Spanish-language track feels feverish and full of pressure. The lyrics circle rage, pain, ruined hope, exile, numbness, torture, and the sleazy theatre of power, where the guilty hide their hands and the dead keep walking beside the living. There is menace in that vision, and there is also sorrow in the older, heavier sense of the word: communal hurt, the kind that gets passed from body to body, year to year, until it starts to feel like leather.

The video, directed and edited by Lau M, pushes the song further into a world of symbolic horror. A strange bacchanalian feast unfolds in a red velvet room, performance footage cutting through the ritual like a blade. The imagery has that Lynchian perfume, and there is a trace of The Hunger in the whole decadent pageant, with fruit, bodies, ghosts, and power all slipping into one another until you start asking the right question: what exactly are these people becoming?  “We took it to more symbolic imagery, we wanted to represent characters who wield political power, with an esoteric and tense aesthetic, a focus on violence and the idea of ghosts that haunt and frighten people because of their actions,” says the duo’s vocalist and bassist.

Watch the video for 11 Ecos below:

…And then there is the muscle behind the Diavol Strâin’s latest record. Pablo Giadach handled the sessions at Estudio Lautaro, and William Faith took care of mixing and mastering, which gives the whole enterprise extra weight, extra reach, extra poison in the perfume bottle. 11 Ecos feels like the opening of a major statement, the sound of a band widening its frame while keeping the knife sharp. If Eterno Retorno follows through on this promise, Diavol Strâin may have delivered an album that turns the song’s pressure into a prophecy.

Listen to 11 Ecos below and order the single here.

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Medical bills have been piling up.

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