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Mimi Barks returns with her brand new single and video Jericho, the second track to be revealed from her upcoming EP Dreamstate Of Fear, set for release on July 24.
Following the release of Dreamstate Of Hell, which opened the door to a darker and more focused new era, Jericho pushes her self-defined DOOM TRAP sound even further. The track collides Alternative Metal, Industrial weight and modern rock with Heavy guitars, dynamic vocals and a hook-driven chorus.
At its core, the track explores inner collapse, transformation and the breaking apart of everything false to make space for something new. The video, filmed in Bordeaux and Paris by NineNine99 and Phenix Agency, visually reflects this intense shift.
“What looks like collapse is really release, an undoing of everything that was never truly mine,” Mimi Barks said. “There’s no real enemy unless you choose to become one to yourself. The shift happens when the self remembers itself, when the energy turns inward and transforms.
“The old world dissolves, making space for something unknown. That’s where freedom begins. What will you choose? Heaven or Hell?”
From the underground scenes of Berlin and London to her current base in Los Angeles, Mimi Barks has built a unique identity blending Metal, Industrial and Trap influences. Known for emotionally charged performances, she is currently on her debut US tour with Little Miss Nasty and will return to Europe this summer with dates alongside KING 810 and Wargasm.
Dreamstate of Fear will be released on July 24 via her own imprint DEATHKISS Records and is now available to pre-order on limited edition LP, tape and CD. For more details, visit ffm.to/mimibarks-jericho.
With her debut US tour with Little Miss Nasty taking place now, Mimi Barks returns to Europe this summer with dates in the UK in September with Swarm6ix.
Tygers Of Pan Tang have released their brand new single and video Electrifyed, marking the start of a new chapter for the legendary heavy rock band. Built around a razor-sharp riff-driven core, Electrifyed delivers urgency and power, combining classic Tygers grit with a modern punch.
With driving rhythms, an electrifying twin-guitar attack and an anthemic chorus, this is all designed for maximum impact and is a very tasty opening for the bands new album.
“In Tyger’s history, rarely has a song title suggested the album title,” vocalist Jack Meille said, “but this time it was clear for all of us that Electrified was the one. It’s another ‘Robb riff-based song’ which will keep you headbanging all the way through.”
And the new album and single news had Robb Weir celebrating. “I’m shocked,” he said. “The last Tygers single was released on 21 April 2023. Can you believe that? 2023?
“I’ll tell you something even more shocking, Electrifyed, the brand new single from the big cats, is out on the 4 of May. If this doesn’t blow the door off your fuse box, nothing will.”
With over 40 years of history, Tygers Of Pan Tang continue to evolve, delivering fresh energy while staying true to their roots in Heavy Rock and Metal. Electrifyed proves the band are still pushing forward at full throttle.
The single is available now on all major streaming platforms, with the official video also released. For more details, visit bfan.link/topt-elec.
Chaton pushes forward with We Are Invincible, a driving techno cut built on momentum and forward motion. As a rising electronic artist exploring futurist themes, Chaton leans into pulsing rhythms and clean, hard-hitting production to create a track that feels both uplifting and club-ready. There is a sense of purpose in its progression, where repetition becomes power and energy steadily builds without distraction.
We Are Invincible thrives on its simplicity and intent, delivering a focused, high-impact listen designed for late nights, movement, and collective release on the dancefloor.
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Every week there is a tidal wave of new music released unto the world. Each Friday we’ll round up some of the best new music available, some we’ve reviewed, some we haven’t, but all worth checking out!
Theres a lot of new heavy music hitting the airwaves this week, everything from black metal, death metal, gothic metal, Stoner rock, doom, thrash metal and even some of your traditional heavy metal!
Here’s what we think you should check out today!
Dallas-based death metal outfit Frozen Soul unleash ‘No Place Of Warmth’ via Century Media Records.
“you’ll be dragging your destroyed, shattered form back for more out of sheer adrenaline and power dished out.”
Read out full review here.
Greek Black Metallers Yoth Iria unveil ‘Gone With The Devil’ via Metal Blade Records.
“Yoth Iria aimed to make a statement, and they did exactly that “
Read our full review here.
Swedish grindcore veterans Gadget drop new EP ‘Coerced’ via De:Nihil Records.
“you don’t look to Gadget for their progressive approach, you come to them for balls-out grind.”
Read our full review here.
Resurfacing after eight years of silence, Lago finally unveil ‘Vigil’ via Everlasting Spew Records.
“seven tracks each as rampant and rabid as the one preceding”
Read our full review here.
Blending sludge, post-metal and doom, A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers release debut EP ‘Towers of Silence’ via Lay Bare Recordings.
“the music is beautiful before the ethereal vocals invade your wandering mind.”
Read our full review here.
From the ever-fertile spawning grounds of East Java, Vile Desolation spew new album ‘Annihilating The Consciousness’ via Comatose Music.
“an absolute war machine of a release.”
Read our full review here.
Orange County’s finest, Social Distortion are back with ‘Born To Kill’, their first album in fifteen years, released via Epitaph.
“a furious blast to remind people that they are back in the game”
Read our full review here.
Swedish thrashers Eradikated release ‘Wiring of Violence’ via Indie Recordings.
“From the cutting riffs to the cutting social commentary, “Wiring Of Violence” is a solid thrasher”
Read our full review here.
Dissonant Blackened Death Metal quartet, Voidthrone, return with ‘Dreaming Rat’.
“Voidthrone haven’t released an album here so much as an attack of auditory night terrors”
Read our full review here.
And thats just the tip of the iceberg! Other releases today we think you should check out include…
Black Orchid Empire – Lore (Year of the Rat Records)
Bong Voyage – Hedonistic Hard Rock (Ripple Music)
Fighter V – Deja Vu (Frontiers Music SRL)
Mörkekraft – Fragments (Octopus Rising)
The Family Men – Co/de/termination (Welfare Sounds & Records)
The Quill – Master of the Skies (Metalville)
Who On Earth – It Takes The Village (Independent)
Old Moon – Home To Nowhere (M-Theory Audio)
sace6 – Brutalist (Sumerian Records)
Sins of Shadows – The Last Frontier (Independent)
Telomyras – Duskfall (Independent)
Trip Villain – Dose (Seeing Red Records)
Without Mercy – Infinite Loss [EP] (Independent)
Acoluthus – Unearthly Kingdoms ‘neath Lifeless Stars (Inverse Music)
laCasta – Olibanvm (Argonauta Records)
Lloth – Archees Legeones (Theogonia Records)
Möhrkvlth – Gwenojennoù An Ankounac’h (Antiq)
Teloch Vovin – Towards The Inevitable (This Spake Qayin Records)
Goholor – Locus Damnation (Personal Records)
Iatt – Etheric Realms of the Night (Black Lion Records)
Sacriversum – Before The Birth of Light (Fireflash Records)
Scarab – Transmutation of Fate [EP] (Brutal Records)
Voidthrone – Dreaming Rat (Independent)
Draconian – In Somnolent Ruin (Napalm Records)
Motus Tenebrae – in Sorrow’s Requiem (My Kingdom Music)
Restless Spirit – Restless Spirit (Magnetic Eye Records)
Solar Mantra – State of Joyful Lightness (Independent)
Beyond The Styx – DIVID (Innerstrength Records)
Exploding Head Syndrome – Deathbeds (Vestkyst Records)
Harms – Rebirth of the Cold (Time To Kill Records)
The Narrator – Phosphor (Nuclear Blast Records)
Electric Sun Defence – Estuary (Road to Masochist)
Ivoire – Uragano (Independent)
T H R O W N N E S S – Marrow Part II: A Fire Through The Ether [EP] (Raging Planet Records)
Rexoria – Fallen Dimension (Black Lodge)
Torian – The Lost Legion Rising (Massacre Records)
Black Sea of Trees – Cult of the Sun (Independent)
Karcius – Black Soul Sickness (Independent)
Teramaze – The Silent Architect (Wells Music/Screaming Crow)
Koyo – Barely Here (Pure Noise Records)
The Flatliners – Cold World (Rude Records)
Victory Kid – Catalyst (SBÄM Records)
Abuser – Blood Marks (Xtreem Music)
Eradikated – Wiring of Violence (Indie Recordings)
Haggard Cat – The Pain That Orbits Life (Church Road Records) [Post-Hardcore]
Otay:Onii – Love Is In the Shit (Pelagic Records) [Experimental / Post-Industrial]
Torchia – They Are Born Under Rules of the Darkness (Rockshots Records) [Dark Folk]
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Reviewed by Matthew Williams
I think I’ve just found out why the phrase “utterly bonkers” was created, and as soon as you listen to the debut EP from A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers, you will fully understand why. I’ve played it several times now and each time my heads spins a little more trying to figure out not only what the hell is going on, but also, how have they done that?
The Dutch four piece come from diverse musical backgrounds, and they’ve taken this, put it into a melting pot, added an angry, anxious narrative and come up with three songs that will test anyone’s musical and political allegiances. With a name that references amongst other things, a Van der Graff Generator song and a Robert Eggers film, their sound is distinctive as it crosses over from metal to jazz, from sludge to spiritual enlightenment so there’s plenty to keep the listener interested.
It begins with four hits on the cymbal from drummer Derek Twiss as he opens “Massacre of Flour” and it’s a social comment about the ongoing genocide in Palestine. It’s a quite ferocious song, with many complex layers wrapped up in some tender moments, with powerful vocals from Joost Verhagen. The bass from Sterre Marree illuminates the composition before they go all spiritual with the use of a shruti and tanpura. And this is where they keep you thinking, what happens next, where does it lead? The answer, another two minutes of madness with screeching guitars and screaming vocals.
The wonderfully titled “I Fuck People” is next, which offers support for the marginalised queer communities, and it sounds like a maelstrom of avant garde jazz meets metal. It’s all over the shop and your head is being battered as Tristan “Lama Waaien” adds saxophone alongside playing guitar. The jazz infusion is fun and builds to a mighty crescendo before easing off slightly and then erupting over the phlegm inducing vocals.
The title track rounds off the EP, with “Towers of Silence” being the longest song at just over 9 minutes and you are immediately greeted with the sounds of a journey into a utopian spiritual world. It gives you food for thought, in this complex world we are currently part of, but the music is beautiful before the ethereal vocals invade your wandering mind. It’s a minimalist, stripped back approach, in stark contrast to the previous two songs, but most importantly, it gives us an insight into the minds of these four musicians.
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