Fast-rising South London rockers The Karma Effect have today confirmed a new 13-date UK headline tour for autumn 2026 in support of their eagerly-awaited forthcoming third album ‘Cruel Intentions’, which is set for release on May 15th, 2026 (via Earache Records). With just a handful of tickets now remaining for the band’s previously-announced album launch […]
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The Barbarians of California are back once again with another huge hardcore hit that showcases their knack for blending heaviness and humour wonderfully.
Titled ‘Vanilla Latte’, it sits perfectly at the intersection of ferocity and fun that the band have such a great handle on. Bludgeoning riffs, rallying drums and calloused howls aplenty, with added tongue-in-cheek references and musings on modern living, it’s the sort of sensational heaviness that is impossible not to lose all inhibitions to.
Quite simply, you’re going to love it.
Guitarist Eric Stenman had this to say about it:
“For ‘Vanilla Latte’, we dip back into our thrashy side with the usual dose of sarcasm and irreverence. The music video for this one has to be my favourite yet. It was shot entirely during our time on the ShipRocked cruise… so much fun!”
The video really is loads of fun, and you can check it out below.
The track comes hot on the heels of the sensational ‘Bomb To A Knife Fight’, which sounds like this:
The band will be hitting the road for a string of shows with Converge and Poison The Well later this year. Those dates look like this:
MAY
09 – AUSTIN Stubb’s Outdoors
10 – HOUSTON House of Blues
12 – PHOENIX Nile Theater
13 – LOS ANGELES The Belasco
15 – ANAHEIM House of Blues
16 – SAN DIEGO The Observatory North Park
17 – SAN FRANCISCO The Regency Ballroom
They will also be supporting the legendary Guns N’ Roses on a pair of dates on their North American run. Those are…
AUGUST
19 – RIVERSIDE Morton Amphitheater
SEPTEMBER
12- RIDGEDALE Thunder Ridge Nature Arena
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Posted on March 31st 2026, 11:00a.m.
Reviewed by Patrick O’Reilly
A complex and bizarre name reflects the complex and bizarre nature of this band. Mixing Slam, Brutal Death Metal, hints of prog metal and other influences makes for a heady brew of extreme music.
Opener ‘Conquering Divinity’ bursts out of the blocks like a bullet leaving an exit wound after leaving a trail of carnage and ruin. Deep guttural vocals fight for attention with machine gun blast beats and razor-sharp guitar riffage, not quite an original combination, but one played and written very professionally. Track teo does not really deviate from this format but by track three we are entering the realms of the weird and wonderful.
‘Severing what makes me human’ fits into its 2 minute 41 second runtime a myriad of angular obtuse riffs, atonal and unapologetic.
If you think this is the direction the album is headed in then you are wrong, as track four ‘Apotheotic Apotemnophilia’ plays like if a grunge band realise they are playing the wrong genre and decide to become a slam band IN THE MIDDLE OF A SONG!
This eclectic approach never lets up for the whole of the album, with so many familiar yet alien sounds emerging, riffs that sound like they were written by a thrash band, or slow dirgey sections that come straight from doom metal’s playbook.
Does this approach work? Incredibly, yes! The album stays fresh and interesting; there is always something you draw your attention to and keep you listening. Combine this with the band’s art and lyrical efforts and it makes for a crazy, heady mixture of the heavy and the ridiculous, but at least it’s never boring!
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George Thorogood and The Destroyers have announced the final tour of the UK, as part of The Baddest Show on Earth tour of North America and Europe. There will be just two shows: Monday 29th June 2026 at University of Wolverhampton at the Civic Hall, followed by Tuesday 30th June 2026 at indigo at The O2 in London. Tickets […]
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