After a twenty-year wait, Connecticut hardcore legends 100 Demons have officially announced their third studio album, Embrace the Black Light. Set for release on 5th June 2026 via Closed Casket Activities, the record marks a significant new chapter for a band that has remained one of the genre’s most uncompromising forces for over 25 years. … Continue reading 100 Demons return with first new album in two decades, ‘Embrace the Black Light’

Bronski Beat’s Smalltown Boy was never polite pop product; it was a getaway note set to a drum machine, a public wound dressed in nightclub chrome. Every second of it carries the sick knowledge of being marked, mocked, and finally pushed toward the station with nowhere to go but far away. It carried itself with pop poise, but inside it lived panic, flight, and the cold slap of recognition. You heard Jimmy Somerville singing from the edge of the platform with a suitcase in one hand and a life in tatters behind him, and every kid who ever felt cornered by a hometown knew exactly what train he was boarding.

Now, London Plane makes that old sorrow feel frighteningly current. With Carlos Dengler (ex-Interpol) producing and Oweinama Biu, Havovi Cooper, Bryan Garbe, Andrew B. White, Kristofer Widholm, and David Mosey rounding out the band’s lineup, the song takes on a broader, more harrowing dimension. Subtitled A Refugee Song, their version stretches the original ache across a wider map of dislocation, where the boy on the run becomes one among millions driven from home by war, persecution, collapse, and the ordinary daily brutality that makes departure feel like the last available prayer. That is a dangerous move, because grand gestures can flatten a song this beloved into piety. London Plane avoids that trap by making the performance feel immediate, physical, and slightly unmoored, as if the room itself were beginning to splinter while the singer struggles to hold the center.

David Mosey comes in first with a delivery that has a bit of stage blood under its fingernails. You can hear the glam spectre in him: a little Peter Murphy, a little latter-day Bowie, but he keeps his footing, sounding like a man trying to keep dignity intact while the floorboards give way. Then the band arrives with force and shape: those immortal Bronski synth lines now reinforced by electric guitars, bass that rolls like bad news under the door, drums that land with serious intent, and Bryan Garbe’s steel pan adding a strange gleam, almost festive until you realize it’s catching light from a fire.

Smalltown Boy was never merely autobiographical: personal pain is political pain when enough people are made to carry it. Dengler’s production gives the arrangement breadth without sanding off its nerves, and the ensemble plays like six people who know that songs about escape should never sound comfortable. Smalltown Boy: A Refugee Song, drawn from the sessions for Villains Heroes Ghosts (out this summer via Declared Goods), feels less like a cover than a reopening of the case file, the evidence spread out again under harsher lamps.

The lyric video, assembled by Andrew White in the style of La Jetée from Alice Teeple’s New Year’s Day photographs in NYC’s Astoria Park, gets the mood exactly right: still images, passing time, memory under pressure, history refusing burial. A song about leaving home becomes, once again, a song about who gets to have one.

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The song soundtracks a new video recap of last weekend’s ‘WrestleMania 42’ event in Las Vegas, NV.

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Aussie legends Spiderbait have added a second and final Melbourne show to their anticipated national Ivy & The Big Apples 30th Anniversary Tour this July. With the first Melbourne show now completely sold out, Spiderbait’s just-announced night at the Forum on Thursday 23 July will be the final opportunity for fans to catch the band […]

And new music is coming too.

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Tampa-based extreme metal outfit Blood Of Angels have returned with their most introspective offering to date, the haunting new single “Nevermore”. Accompanied by a lyric video, the track serves as a precursor to their forthcoming full-length concept album, Les Agnst ov Thanatou, which is set for release on 21st June 2026. Centred around the psychological … Continue reading Blood Of Angels confront mortality with new single “Nevermore”

A long-lost relic of Eastern European extreme metal resurfaces in definitive form, as F.O.A.D. Records present a newly remastered edition of FANTOM’s seminal demo material, now available on vinyl.

Remastered by Patrick Engel, this upgraded version captures the raw essence of one of Hungary’s earliest and most obscure black/thrash entities, often regarded as even darker and more sinister than their contemporaries.

This official reissue includes the band’s classic 1987 demo Lucifer jelenj meg!, now expanded with 7 additional tracks taken from a rare 1987 session not featured in the previous 2016 vinyl edition. The material has been re-transferred from a rediscovered tape – the best sounding source in existence – and meticulously remastered for vinyl by Patrick Engel at Temple Of Disharmony.

Drawing influence from bands such as Bathory, Possessed, Hellhammer, Venom and Slayer, FANTOM forged a primitive yet highly distinctive sound. Their songwriting is direct and unrefined, but steeped in a uniquely oppressive atmosphere of darkness, malevolence and occult tension.

The release comes as a silver laminated LP, including two inserts featuring lyrics, rare photographs and original artwork, preserving the band’s visual and sonic identity in full detail.

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A crucial document of early black/thrash from behind the Iron Curtain: raw, obscure and essential for collectors and devotees of the genre’s darkest origins.

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Over the weekend, the Strokes ended their Coachella set with a video condemning US actions in Iran and Gaza. Today, frontman Julian Casablancas appeared on the newest episode of SubwayTakes and used the opportunity to call out American Zionists.

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