Website [Release date 03.09.26] I do like an uncompromising artist, and Ewan Macintyre is certainly one of those. From Gaelic sung Americana, to Scottish inspired Meters type funk, he pulls no punches in his left field delivery of songs. So does … Continue reading
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LUCY (Cooper B. Handy) is a prolific New England musician. He’s been releasing avant-pop music for over a decade but also contributes to the lo-fi rock duo Taxidermists with childhood pal Salvadore McNamara, the electro-pop project Safe Mind with Boy Harsher’s Gus Muller, and the dance project Club Casualties with producer Ghost. (He even had a studio space in the same building as Prewn’s Izzy Hagerup.) Yesterday, he announced a new album CITIZEN’S ARREST, out Oct. 9, with the new single “COURTSIDE.” It sounds like a toddler walking up a giant flight of inflatable stairs, slanted and playful and very wobbly.
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Today, London, UK-via-Asheville, NC musician Bex Vines released “Misfortune,” her debut single under the moniker lifepath99. The song, which was produced by Liam Brand (Zach Bryan, Mount Kimbie), transforms a nightmare into alternative bliss.
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Down is gearing up for its next chapter. The band’s fifth full-length, Volume V, arrives November 20 via Nuclear Blast Records, and the quintet has kicked things off with a new single, “Blood Oath.”
Thirty-plus years in, Down still runs on the same fuel: a set of friendships that trace back to childhood in New Orleans. That chemistry between Philip Anselmo, Pepper Keenan, Kirk Windstein, Jimmy Bower and Pat Bruders is exactly what’s kept the band’s sludgy, groove-heavy sound distinct from anything the members do on their own.
“We were all excited about this,” smiles Anselmo. “There was a sense of lightness in the air. Everyone’s attitude was positive. There was more focus than ever. It just felt fresh again. Each one of us was individually striving for something, and I believe we achieved what we wanted to achieve. The record is a journey. It’s classic Down, but it’s also unique.”
“Everybody played their asses off, wrote great riffs, and Philip is singing amazing,” adds Windstein. “There’s so much electricity when we get together. To me, it’s the same vibe as our debut NOLA, but we’ve got another 35 years of experience as songwriters.”
“The five of us are from the same era, grew up together, and accomplished a lot on our own,” Keenan observes: “We all sounded different, but we’re still from the same 20-block radius. As far as what makes Down special, we knew one another before any of us had done anything. There’s history.”
That history runs deep. All five crossed paths as teenagers playing in local New Orleans bands, then went their separate ways to build reputations elsewhere — Anselmo fronting Pantera, Keenan handling guitar and vocals in Corrosion of Conformity, Windstein leading Crowbar, Bower slinging riffs in Eyehategod.
Most of Volume V came together across two writing sessions at Anselmo‘s home studio, Nodferatu’s Lair — the same clubhouse setup the band has leaned on since Down II. The songs were built in the room together rather than assembled remotely, with the material taking shape throughout 2025. Keenan and Windstein tracked guitars side by side, which gives the record a live, unified punch.
Opener “The Myth” sets the tone early with a powerhouse vocal and pummeling rhythm work. “Merciful Fate” brings in King Diamond for a vocal duel against Anselmo, backed by solos clocking in around 120 bpm — Diamond‘s wife, Livia Zita, adds her own dark touches to the track as well. Closer “Twice-Told Tales” brings the record home on a heavier, more hypnotic note. “It’s a conglomerate of tight riffs and blues rock mixed with the diligence of classic metal,” Anselmo reveals. “It’s an important song to us. I could feel Ozzy Osbourne‘s influence on me in the strangest way.”
Lead single “Blood Oath” leans on a riff that’s as hard-hitting as it is hummable, building to a chorus built for shouting along. The New Orleans references are baked in from the start.
“Anybody who’s from New Orleans is going to get a kick out of the references to the city,” grins Anselmo. “Musically, it’s got a big hook. It’s a Down song, but it takes a turn.”
“You’ll know it’s Down right off the fucking bat”, adds Keenan. “It’s heavy in its attack.”
Volume V was produced by Eddie Mapp and Down, mixed by Dave Fortman, and mastered by Maor Appelbaum at Maor Appelbaum Mastering in California.
Down is currently on the road for its North American headlining run, with Helmet and Spirit in the Room in support.
Down‘s origin story goes back to a 1991 jam session that produced a three-song demo — a tape that eventually laid the groundwork for the platinum-selling NOLA in 1995. Metal Hammer called it a rock classic outright, and Stereogum credited it with defining how the rest of the world hears Deep South metal. Since then, the band has delivered Down II: A Bustle in Your Hedgerow (2002), Down III: Over the Under (2007), and the two-part Down IV (2012, 2014), while sharing stages with Metallica, Heaven & Hell, Danzig and Melvins and playing festivals like Aftershock, Louder Than Life, Hellfest and Sick New World. Revolver has ranked the band among the greatest supergroups in hard rock and metal history.
Down is:
Philip Anselmo / Vocals
Pepper Keenan / Guitars
Jimmy Bower / Drums
Kirk Windstein / Guitars
Pat Bruders / Bass
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Earlier this year, the former Muncie Girls leader Lande Hekt released Lucky Now, her first solo album since her band broke up in 2023. It was lovely. Today, Hekt announces plans to follow that record with a new EP called Threadbare, and it seems likely that this record will be just as lovely, at least if we’re judging by its lead single.
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Claire Cronin is the author of the 2020 book Blue Light Of The Screen, about her obsession with horror movies and supernatural imagery, and she’s also a singer-songwriter who makes uneasy folk music that’s inspired by doom metal and drone. It’s been a while since we’ve heard from Cronin, but she’s about to return with her new LP The Bruise, her follow-up to 2021’s Bloodless.
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Wasted Wizards are back with ‘Wannabe Rockstar‘, the first single taken from their forthcoming EP ‘Wake Up Dead‘, and a song that finds the young Swedish band leaning into a rougher and more streetwise side of its hard rock sound. Stream ‘Wannabe Rockstar‘ – here The ingredients will feel familiar to anyone who has followed […]
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Do you, like me, ever find yourself missing the sheer metallic perfection of the first few Mercyful Fate albums? Both Melissa and Don’t Break the Oath cast such a brilliantly macabre, occult atmosphere that they surely amplified the already palpable Satanic Panic of the mid-80s. Good things never last, but for a brief time, In Solitude managed to partially fill the dead spot in my heart that longed for more albums like those Fate classics, but all too soon they were gone too. Enter German metal crew The Night Eternal to fill the gap created by In Solitude, if not the yawning chasm left by Mercyful Fate. I discovered them on their 2023 sophomore release Fatale, and was quite impressed. Their sound was like an early, less Satanic Fate strained through a Goth rock filter, and it worked exceptionally well. Now, a few years later, we get the follow-up, Cold Velvet. The basic template is still in place, but this time they’ve gone deeper into the Goth rock doldrums and dulled their heavy metal edge in the process, approximating the Idle Hands / Untoothers material. It’s a bold strategy, Cotton. Let’s see if it pays off for ’em.
The Night Eternal’s strengths heard on gems like “In Tartus” from Fatale are still present on opener “Where This World Ends,” as frontman Ricardo Baum’s slick merger of King Diamond, To Die For’s Jarno Perätalo, and Amorphis’ Tomi Joutsen pays big dividends. The pure metal quotient of the backing music feels a touch softer than last time, even approaching Ghost-levels of hard and Goth rock, but the song works and hooks you in. As Cold Velvet plays out, the Goth vibe increases. “Eurydice (Don’t Look Back)” is a polished take on 80s Goth rock, and it has legs and memorability that demand replays. This could have sat on Mana by Idle Hands and fit right in if they added a few werewolf-y grunts and howls. “Caught in a Spell” is a very laid-back piece of Goth flair with an easy breezy charm, and after a few spins it cements itself into your nerve clusters. It even has a vague Wytch Hazel vibe that adds extra charisma points.
The best moments come when The Night Eternal put their foot on the accelerator and dial up the metal. “The Veins of Time” is a throwback to Fatale, hitting the sweet spot between metal and Goth. It’s a bit more urgent and edgy without forsaking the sadboi glumness, and there’s a Sisters of Mercy vibe under the surface. My personal favorite track is “Shape of Sorrow” as it’s the most jacked-up version of the band’s current formula. It’s hardly a face-melter, but it offers more intensity and less moping and feels considerably heavier than the rest of Cold Velvet. Unfortunately, a few tracks, while good, just don’t sizzle enough to excite the grey matter, and when teamed up with the album’s languid vibe, they drag the excitement factor down a few notches. “When the Last Candle Dies” is like a lost modern Ghost track, and it’s okay but not much more, and closer, “Dance on Crimson Ground,” is the longest here at 7 minutes, but it isn’t all that interesting. At 42-plus minutes, Cold Velvet isn’t a challenging listen, but it isn’t the most exciting one either. The Goth influences result in a muted, sometimes drab expanse, and though the writing overcomes the limited color scheme at times, the album merely glides but never soars.
As with past outings, Ricardo Baum is the star of The Night Show. He’s got a big vocal presence that’s hard to resist, and he’s the kind of frontman that elevates everything a band does. He can sound like a youthful King Diamond, but this time he seems much more determined to turn himself into the prototype for an 80s Goth rock hero. He regularly delivers slick vocal hooks and phrasing that add a cool factor to everything the band does. There’s an argument to be made that the music behind Baum is more anodyne than last time. Robert Richter and Heinrich Käseberg can be a potent guitar tandem as they demonstrated on the prior albums, injecting classic metal and NWoBHM influences into their playing. Here, however, they dial things back to more Goth-appropriate levels, sacrificing power for poise. That makes for a less dynamic listen with fewer big, brain-shaking metal moments. Talent abounds, but the material feels overly restrained and held in check, and that’s unfortunate.
The Night Eternal are a very good band capable of delivering solid music that spans several genres. On Cold Velvet, they deliver some high-quality moments, but these highs aren’t as lofty as last time, and they get tangled in a series of less animated moments that sink the album into a Gothy bog. Cold Velvet is plenty classy, but it isn’t bashy enough for its own good. This gives me the sadz in the wrong way. Still worth a listen.
Rating: 3.0/5.0
DR: 6 | Format Reviewed: 256 kbps mp3
Label: Metal Blade
Websites: thenighteternal.bandcamp.com | thenighteternal.com | instagram.com/thenighteternal_official
Releases Worldwide: August 21st, 2026
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