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ENTHEOS will join Jinjer on their North American tour later this Spring. The journey begins on June 5th in Ottawa, Ontario and runs through July 24th in Las Vegas, Nevada. Additional support will be provided by Crystal Lake. As an added bonus, ENTHEOS has announced several co-headlining shows with Crystal Lake scattered throughout the tour featuring performances in Detroit, Montreal, Harrisburg, Salt Lake City, and Indianapolis.

Comments vocalist Chaney Crabb, “We’re honored to be supporting Jinjer across the US and parts of Canada alongside Crystal Lake. In addition, we’ve announced a few exclusive co-headlining shows alongside Crystal Lake. We look forward to seeing you all on the road.” 

Tickets are on sale now. See all confirmed dates below.

ENTHEOS w/ Crystal Lake Co-Headlining Shows:
6/04/2026 Sanctuary – Detroit, MI **
6/06/2026 Piranha Bar (Upstairs) – Montreal, QC **
6/13/2026 Capital City Music Hall – Harrisburg, PA
7/11/2026 Metro Music Hall – Salt Lake City, UT
7/16/2026 Black Circle – Indianapolis, IN

ENTHEOS w/ Jinjer, Crystal Lake:
6/05/2026 Bronson Centre – Ottawa, ON **
6/07/2026 Danforth Music Hall – Toronto, ON **
6/09/2026 Big Night Live – Boston, MA
6/10/2026 Dome At Oakdale – Wallingford, CT
6/12/2026 Paramount Times Square – New York, NY
6/14/2026 The Fillmore – Philadelphia, PA
6/16/2026 Roxian – Pittsburgh, PA
6/17/2026 The Fillmore – Charlotte, NC
6/18/2026 Buckhead Theater – Atlanta, GA
6/19/2026 Brooklyn Bowl – Nashville, TN
6/21/2026 House Of Blues – Orlando, FL
6/23/2026 House Of Blues – Houston, TX
6/24/2026 House Of Blues – Dallas, TX
6/25/2026 Aztec Theatre – San Antonio, TX
6/27/2026 Emo’s – Austin, TX
6/28/2026 Diamond Ballroom – Oklahoma City, OK
6/30/2026 Marquee – Tempe, AZ
7/01/2026 House Of Blues – San Diego, CA
7/02/2026 The Wiltern – Los Angeles, CA
7/03/2026 The Fillmore – San Francisco, CA
7/05/2026 Ace Of Spades – Sacramento, CA
7/07/2026 Roseland Ballroom – Portland, OR
7/08/2026 Commodore Ballroom – Vancouver, BC
7/09/2026 Temple Theatre – Tacoma, WA
7/10/2026 Revolution – Boise, ID
7/13/2026 Val Air Ballroom – Des Moines, IA
7/14/2026 The Sylvee – Madison, WI
7/15/2026 The Pageant – St. Louis, MO
7/17/2026 INKarceration – Mansfield, OH ^
7/19/2026 House of Blues – Chicago, IL
7/21/2026 Summit – Denver, CO **
7/22/2026 Revel – Albuquerque, NM **
7/24/2026 House of Blues – Las Vegas, NV **
** No Crystal Lake
^ Festival date

ENTHEOS released their “Empty On The Inside” standalone single last Fall with an accompanying video directed by Malcolm Pugh. Said Crabb, “’Empty On The Inside’ is a raw, cathartic song about pouring your entire soul into something that you thought would bring fulfillment to your life, but it only makes you feel empty in return. It is ENTHEOS in our purest form, expanding on our grunge and alternative metal sound. This track truly marks the beginning of a new era for our band.”

Watch the video for “Empty On The Inside” HERE.

Preview/purchase ENTHEOS’ “Empty On The Inside” and An End To Everything at: metalblade.com/entheos.

ENTHEOS Live Lineup:
Chaney Crabb – vocals
Navene Koperweis – drums
Scott Carstairs – guitar
Michael Stancel – guitar

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Out NOW Via Metal Blade Records Words by: Liam Hedges Vomitory return this April with their tenth full-length album, In Death Throes, out through Metal Blade Records. Formed in 1989 in Sweden, Vomitory are well established masters of death metal. Their sound to me is best described as faster old-school death metal, particularly considering bands […]

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Despite the name, Oathbound are not sword-core like I (and probably you) first assumed, but instead position themselves as a progressive metalcore band. With that utter betrayal of expectations out of the way, Colors in Grey is this Seattle collective’s debut long-player following a popular EP in 2024’s Until It’s Gone. Composed of guitarists Taylor Harper and Viktor Schultz, bassist Steve Schwarz, drummer Travis Morlan, and vocalist Chris Fox,¹ Oathbound already have big tour plans and an established fanbase and are driven by a mission “to offer catharsis, hope and connection through music that speaks from—and to—the soul.” I cannot knock the hustle of Oathbound. I can knock their use of both the American spelling of “colors” and the British spelling of “grey.” But can I knock Colors in Grey?

I’m interested in what Oathbound believe qualifies music as “progressive.” If I were to hazard a guess from my time with Colors in Grey, big synthesizers and noodly guitar leads are the ticket, as Oathbound make ample use of both of these across the album’s half-hour runtime. Sometimes the synths accentuate riffs (“False Ideals”), and sometimes they shape the melody (“Set Adrift”); sometimes the noodling textures a chorus (“Insomniac”), and sometimes it ends a passage (“The Masks We Wear”). But as far as I’m concerned, playing At the Gates riffs between single-string chugs and synth breaks puts Oathbound more akin to Attack Attack! than any branch of the Prog Tree. With just enough hardcore barks and knuckle-dragging riffs to pass as heavy, Oathbound packaged Colors in Grey in a loud, compressed mix and stuffed it with enough Nü metal chugs (“Searching for an Answer”) and bloops (“Misunderstood”) and robo-voiced pop-hook choruses to accommodate radio.² Think less Born of Osiris or Protest the Hero for Oathbound, and more Three Days Grace. Simply, Colors in Grey is SiriusXM bait.

Oathbound have talent, but the production and songwriting woes of Colors in Grey don’t let it shine often. Many of the aforementioned nimble guitar leads are hopelessly buried beneath louder walls of sterile, generic rhythm guitars (“Misunderstood”) or drowned by the vocals placed so far upfront it violates my personal space (“Colors in Grey”). The drums sound big and fake like only metalcore can do, and the bass guitar is an implied presence at best. Nonetheless, Colors in Grey has its moments, like the beefy Amon Amarth stomp in “Misunderstood,”³ the bendy guitar solo on “Searching for an Answer” or the major surprise of “Hold On,” which swaps between punk riffs and spacious, epic doom-worthy leads.⁴ But Colors in Grey is a vocally dominated record with plain bad vocals. While Fox’s screams are a bit grating with his high register and strained delivery, they’re preferable to his cleans constantly reaching for buttrock anthemics and slathered in pitch-correction, rendering them toothless, robotic, and bereft of stank. With the skill Oathbound clearly possess, they could create a truly forward-thinking record. Colors in Grey isn’t it?

Colors in Grey’s most damning quality, however, is that Oathbound built each song around its chorus while making the chorus universally its worst part. Whatever momentum or attitude Oathbound may have established on any given track evaporates at the chorus. Everything from the crushed production to the uninspired instrumentation to the insipid vocals conspires to turn these intended highlights into dull thuds. They’re superficially big but the hooks themselves are usually pretty undynamic and tuneless, not to mention hard to differentiate between each other due to their near-uniform performances. This total dedication to the chorus and to pop structuring deprives Colors in Grey’s verses, bridges and instrumentals the time to progress or develop, killing whatever progressive tendencies Oathbound have before they can take off. As a result, somehow the opening instrumental “Origins” proved to be the best track, because though it’s a basic, mostly-acoustic build-up for “Colors in Grey,” there isn’t a black hole chorus like the rest, and it lets the song build and grow.⁵ Chorus-centric music isn’t necessarily bad; hamstringing your song in favor of a lackluster chorus is.

I don’t fault Oathbound for their ambitions towards mainstream attention—get heard, get paid, dudes—but I do fault them for their complete lack of audacity. There’s just not a challenging idea on Colors in Grey. Everything is pristine, calculated, and impossible to connect with. Colors in Grey isn’t bad because it’s completely unenjoyable, but because it showcases a talented band hampering their potential through cliché. And that’s worse than any absence of swords could ever be.

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Rating: Bad
DR: 4 | Format Reviewed: 320 kbps MP3
Label: Eclipse Records
Websites: facebook.com/oathboundband | oathboundband.com
Releases Worldwide: March 3rd, 2026

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Out 17 April, 2026 Via Fearless Records Words by: CECILIA PATTISON-LEVI LØLØ (aka Lauren Mandel) is the 28-year-old Toronto-based pop-punk and rock musician who has been causing a sensation in the pop-punk world since her early EP releases and one of 2024’s best albums: the fabulous Falling For Robots And Wishing I Was One. LØLØ […]

Afrika Bambaataa, the hip-hop pioneer who was successfully sued for child sex trafficking later in life, is dead. Bambaataa died around 3 a.m. today in Pennsylvania due to complications from cancer, TMZ reports. He was 67.

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Einar Solberg of Leprous is set to release his upcoming second solo album Vox Occulta, on 24th April, 2026. A bold, heavy and symphonic statement, the album was recorded in collaboration with the much-sought-after Norwegian Radio Orchestra.

Today, Einar is pleased to present a new track titled “Vita Fragilis”, a song created alongside the aforementioned orchestra. The video gives a glimpse behind the scenes at the orchestra recording the parts.

Einar comments: “‘Vita Fragilis’ was done together with the Norwegian Radio Orchestra. A cinematic and progressive track with no normal verse/chorus structure, and the longest stretch of harsh vocals I’ve done in a while. Curious how odd time signatures sound with a full symphonic orchestra?”

As well as the beautiful orchestration, Einar is joined by drummer Keli Guðjónsson (Agent Fresco), violinist Chris Baum (Bent Knee), guitarist Pierre Danel (Novelists), bassist Jed Lingat, as well as guitarists Ben Levin (ex-Bent Knee), and John Browne (Monuments). The album was mixed by Adam Noble (Nothing But Thieves, Biffy Clyro) and co-produced with David Castillo.

The album sees Solberg taking a deeply personal approach, having been an avid fan of classical music and soundtracks for more than 20 years. The lyrics are personal as well, and they make Vox Occulta something of a thematic follow-up to 16. Where Solberg’s solo debut revisited the death of his father and his past struggles with anxiety, this set is a warts’n’all portrait of himself and how he views the world in 2026.

Vox Occulta will be released as a Limited CD Digipak, Gatefold white/black 2LP & a very limited Gatefold transparent red 2LP, as well as digitally. It can now be pre-order now here.

Official merchandise and special collector’s boxes are available here.

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Slo-Mo Neon Luminate Hoverings brings together two giants of modern jazz and experimental music, trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire and guitarist Mary Halvorson. The pair will release the record in June via Nonesuch, representing the culmination of sporadic collaborations dating all the way back to 2009. This material specifically was hashed out in January 2025, performed at…

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