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Canadian extreme metal crew Eaten By Sharks go deep on new full-length The Undertow of Hate, a crushing, composition-focused plunge into nautical horror, psychological collapse and total oceanic ruin. If 2022’s Eradication established the band’s appetite for progressive death metal precision, deathcore violence and groove-heavy punishment, The Undertow of Hate expands the feeding zone into something darker, moodier and more cinematic.

Out July 17 via CDN Records, The Undertow of Hate finds Eaten By Sharks tightening the screws without losing the sense of scale. The riffs still hit with blunt-force intent, but there’s a stronger narrative pull this time around: polyrhythmic churn, odd-time lurches, slam-weighted breakdowns and passages that feel less like songs drifting past one another than scenes in a single disaster unfolding at sea. Fans of Fit For An Autopsy, Gojira and Cattle Decapitation should have a pretty good idea of the pressure system they’re sailing into here.

The band’s recent single “Capsized” set the tone, capturing the moment when calm water gives way to chaos. Across the full album, that chaos becomes the point: transformation, destruction and the ugly realization that once the ship starts going down, nobody is coming to save you.

“We took time to fully immerse ourselves in the writing process and build a cohesive concept rooted in a single cinematic moment of horror,” the band tell Decibel. “This album reflects a deeper understanding of who we are as artists.”

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Bath-based post-punk quartet Bureau De Change is thrilled to announce they have officially signed with the beloved UK

Following the break-up of The Stooges in early 1974, Iggy Pop seemed hell-bent on self-destruction. The singer’s addiction to heroin and cocaine was out-of-control, he had nowhere to live, and his behaviour was becoming ever more erratic, and increasingly alarming to his friends in Los Angeles.

In 1975, after a number of run-ins with the LAPD for assorted misdemeanours, Pop was given a choice: he could be locked up in a prison cell, or he could ‘voluntarily’ check himself in to a psychiatric ward to seek professional help. He opted for option two, and was committed to UCLA’s Neuropsychiatric Institute under the care of Doctor Murray Zucker. Here he was diagnosed with hypomania, a condition which his biographer Paul Trynka described as a “bipolar disorder characterised by episodes of euphoric or overexcited and irrational behaviour, succeeded by depression.”

“Hypomanics are often described as euphoric, charismatic, energetic, prone to grandiosity, hypersexual, and unrealistic in their ambitions,” Trynka noted in his excellent 2008 biography, Open Up And Bleed, adding “all of which sounded like a checklist of Iggy’s character traits.”

Pleased that Pop was getting the help he so obviously needed, friends – including David Bowie – rallied around the singer, and visited him regularly at the facility.

“Iggy was in a mental hospital when I first met him and so my mum (Bowie’s costumier and fashion designer Ola Hudson) and I and David went to visit,” Guns N’ Roses guitarist Slash recalled in a 1991 interview with Q magazine. “He’s such a fragile, sweet, soulful, honest and sincere guy.”

At the time, Bowie was facing his own addiction issues, and wasn’t always given to making the best decisions. One example of this being the day that he and actor Dennis Hopper decided to pay Iggy a visit in hospital to share a selection of hard drugs with the singer. For reasons never explained, the pair chose to undertake this well-intentioned but ill-advised mission while dressed in astronaut suits.

“We trooped into the hospital with a load of drugs for him,” Bowie later recalled. “This was very much a leave-your-drugs-at-the-door hospital. We were out of our minds, all of us. He wasn’t well; that’s all we knew. We thought we should bring him some drugs because he probably hadn’t had any for days!”

As foolish as this this plan was, Pop would later credit Bowie for his help in getting through what was clearly a traumatic and challenging period of his life.

“By 1975, I was totally into drugs, and my willpower had been vastly depleted,” he recaled. “But still, I had the brains to commit myself to a hospital, and I survived with willpower and a lot of help from David Bowie. I survived because I wanted to.”

Paris-based post-hardcore band Depuis l’Abîme recently dropped a powerful double-single release, featuring the tracks “Santiago” and “La Dernière

Slaughter To Prevail frontman Alex Terrible has directly addressed backlash aimed at tour opener Rev3rent, telling fans he understands if the rising deathcore band decides to step away from the tour rather than deal with the fallout. The statement comes days after Slaughter To Prevail announced their fall North American tour, with Rev3rent among the confirmed openers — a pairing that immediately drew criticism online tied to long-standing allegations against Terrible.

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Where The Backlash Comes From

Terrible has faced allegations of Nazi and transphobic sympathies for years, tied to his past in Russia. He publicly denied being a Nazi or holding homophobic beliefs back in 2023, but the allegations have continued to follow the band — and, as Terrible himself notes, they tend to follow whichever band agrees to open for Slaughter To Prevail. Rev3rent, a Californian deathcore act that recently signed with Atlantic Records’ Deep Love Recordings imprint and is widely tipped for a breakout year, became the latest target after this week’s tour announcement.

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Terrible’s Full Statement

Rather than issue a brief denial, Terrible posted a lengthy, candid statement addressing the pattern directly:

“We just announced our U.S. tour for this fall, and we’ll be announcing a Latin American tour soon as well. I remember there was a time when we toured by ourselves, and people kept complaining that we didn’t have an opening band. So we started inviting support acts, and every single time the same thing happens. Fans of those bands start calling us Nazis and say they don’t want to see their favorite bands touring with us.

“That’s why, personally, it’s much easier for me to tour alone, without any support acts, so they don’t have to deal with the backlash or damage to their reputation. I don’t want to hurt anyone’s reputation. So if Rev3rent decides not to be part of this tour, I’ll completely understand and wish them nothing but the best. I genuinely like their music, and I believe they have a bright future ahead of them. As for us — a band from Russia with a bad reputation — we’ll keep walking our own difficult path. At least it’s never boring.”

Other Artists Rally Behind Him

The statement drew quick support from elsewhere in the scene. I Killed The Prom Queen guitarist Jona Weinhofen offered his own band as a replacement opener, writing simply, “IKTPQ will do it.” Carnifex vocalist Scott Ian Lewis echoed the offer: “Hit us up next time bro, you know we’re down.” King 810’s David Gunn took a broader shot at the discourse itself: “Heavy music is a joke.”

Terrible has built a track record of high-profile collaborators willing to work with him despite the ongoing controversy, and Slaughter To Prevail’s fall tour — which also features Three 6 Mafia’s DJ Paul on select dates — is shaping up to be one of the year’s more talked-about runs, for more reasons than one.

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TL;DR

• Alex Terrible addressed backlash directed at tour opener Rev3rent over their association with Slaughter To Prevail
• The backlash stems from long-standing Nazi and transphobic allegations against Terrible, which he denied in 2023
• Terrible said he understands if Rev3rent chooses to leave the tour and wished them well either way
• I Killed The Prom Queen’s Jona Weinhofen and Carnifex’s Scott Ian Lewis both publicly offered to fill in as replacement openers
• The tour in question also features Three 6 Mafia’s DJ Paul on select dates

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Hertfordshire-based indie outfit Legends of the Seven Golden Vampires (LOTSGV) recently released their stunning new single, “To Think,

Somehow, it’s been nearly seven years since the last Beck album. In the waning weeks of 2019, Beck Hansen released Hyperspace, a forward-thinking pop-rock album that counted Pharrell Williams among its core production team. Between touring, collaborations, and special events, he’s never really gone away in the interim, but not until April single “Ride Lonesome” was he back in rollout mode.

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