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Two years after its original release, Black Magic Fumes, the debut album from Chilean extreme metal trio STRIGOI, is receiving a new CD pressing. Dawnbreed Records will issue the album internationally on September 11 in a limited run of 300 copies. Originally released in October 2024, Black Magic Fumes occupies the volatile ground between black, […]

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“…When we thought about how to introduce ourselves to whatever the new Warped Tour crowd is, we thought ‘Breathing In A New Mentality’ was a pretty good statement to kick the night off. It worked.”

The post Underoath Release “Breathing In A New Mentality” Live Video From Long Beach ‘Vans Warped Tour’ Set appeared first on Theprp.com.

Earlier this year, Mike Watt joined forces with J Mascis to cover each other’s bands on a split. The Minutemen cofounder has stayed active since then; most recently, he announced a collaborative album with Ontario experimental noise rock band Thresher. It’s called Beekeeper, and it arrives next week.

The post Mike Watt Announces New Album With Thresher, New Supergroup With Mike Baggetta & John Herndon appeared first on Stereogum.

Between the teeth of misery

The hunger takes a hold of me 

I take my time now I make it right now 

ACTORS have always sounded like they knew that the nightclub was going to get closed down by gentrification eventually, which may explain why their new album Our Love Will Live Forever hits with such peculiar force: this time the closing hour has stopped being metaphor, and now indeed is the time to party like there is no tomorrow, because tomorrow is never guaranteed. Mastermind Jason Corbett suffered a serious cardiac emergency while making the record, and suddenly all those polished guitars, black-glass synthesizers, romantic fixations, and doomed little dances had to answer to the wails of an ambulance.

“Getting wheeled into an emergency room and spending days in the cardiac care unit put me in a state of deep reflection,” Corbett reflects. “Would I finish the album? Would I ever be on a stage again? I was given a second chance to cherish every experience and live in the moment. My goal was to bring that energy to the album.”

You can hear it. These songs carry the nervous velocity of somebody who has seen the trapdoor beneath ordinary life and decided to dance directly over it.

The title predates Corbett’s hospitalization. Our Love Will Live Forever is engraved on his grandparents’ tombstone, which already carried enough emotional freight before Death suddenly walked into the studio and pulled up a chair. Afterward, the words became a dare…if everybody knows this grim appointment is coming, then what are you doing with the hours beforehand?

Left On Read is a beautifully petty modern nightmare, romance reduced to glowing glass, silence, and the humiliating authority of an unanswered message. Corbett turns digital abandonment into old-fashioned psychic damage while the band dresses the anxiety in immaculate synths and guitars. Once upon a time heartbreak required somebody to slam a door. Now your phone can ruin an entire evening without making a sound.

Then CTRL starts issuing orders. Its hook has the merciless efficiency of advertising copy, the rhythm grabs the hips before permission has been granted, and guitar lines cut across the synths with sudden flashes of attitude. Depeche Mode’s leather poise, the Human League’s pop nerve, Bootblacks, and the exploratory rush of early Simple Minds can all be detected in the bloodline, but ACTORS have been doing this too long to sound like record collectors arranging their shelves.

“(CTRL) is a rally cry, a reaction to a world spinning out of control,” says Corbett. “Being true to yourself is an act of resistance.”

That sentence could have come off a placard. On the record, it becomes physical.

Elsewhere, memory, desire, fear, and attachment keep colliding without turning the album into some tasteful meditation on mortality suitable for soft lighting and solemn nodding.

Corbett’s production at Jacknife Sound stays beautifully controlled while allowing plenty of abrasion around the edges. Drums land with authority, basslines keep the blood moving, guitars carve openings through the synths, and his voice maintains that familiar balance between romantic composure and somebody quietly coming apart behind it.

By album three, ACTORS have nothing left to prove about belonging to post-punk. Our Love Will Live Forever is after a nastier question: what happens when mortality quits being philosophy and becomes paperwork, hospital lights, machines, and the possibility that your unfinished record stays unfinished?

Their answer makes excellent sense.

Turn it up while you still can.

Our Love Will Live Forever is out now via Artoffact Records, on vinyl, CD, and all major digital and streaming platforms. Listen to the album below and order it here.

ACTORS go on tour throughout Europe and Canada this autumn! The tour takes ACTORS across Europe in September, with stops in Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Spain, France, and the UK before heading back to Canada in October. The run includes festival appearances, club shows, and a closing stretch through Vancouver, Edmonton, and Calgary. Catch them live on the following dates:

• September 4 — Berlin, Germany — Lido
• September 5 — Leipzig, Germany — NCN Festival
• September 8 — Bielefeld, Germany — Movie
• September 9 — Bochum, Germany — Die Trompete
• September 11 — Cologne, Germany — Club Volta
• September 12 — Rotterdam, Netherlands — Baroeg Open Air
• September 13 — Russelheim, Germany — Das Rind
• September 16 — Martigny, Switzerland — Les Caves
• September 18 — Barcelona, Spain — Sala Wolf
• September 19 — Madrid, Spain — Nazca
• September 20 — Valencia, Spain — 16 Toneladas
• September 23 — Paris, France — Le Chinois
• September 25 — Manchester, UK — Gorilla
• September 26 — Bristol, UK — Strange Brew
• September 27 — London, UK — Earth
• October 9 — Vancouver, Canada — Rickshaw
• October 23 — Edmonton, Canada — Starlite Room
• October 24 — Calgary, Canada — Dickens

Follow ACTORS:

• Spotify
• Bandcamp
• Apple Music
• YouTube
• Instagram

The post Vancouver Post-Punk Quartet Actors Release New Album “Our Love Will Live Forever” — Now on Tour in Europe! appeared first on Post-Punk.com.

BITTER AND SARDONIC WITCHERY FEATURED IN METAL INJECTION’S WEEKLY INJECTION OF NEW RELEASES

Metal Devastation PR Clients Earn Editorial Recognition for New Releases

September 4, 2026 – Metal Devastation PR is proud to announce that BITTER and SARDONIC WITCHERY have both been featured in this week’s Metal Injection “Weekly Injection of New Releases.”
Montreal, Quebec-based slamming beatdown deathcore outfit BITTER was featured for their crushing new EP Slamosaurus Rex , released through CDN Records . The band continues to build momentum with their devastating combination of guttural vocals, crushing riffs, massive grooves, and punishing breakdowns.
Also featured is Portuguese black/thrash metal force SARDONIC WITCHERY with their fifth full-length album Hell’s Thorns Attack . Released September 1, 2026 through Firecum Records in Europe and JEMS in the United States , the album delivers a savage dose of raw, old-school black/thrash metal.
Having two Metal Devastation PR clients featured in the same Metal Injection roundup represents another strong result for the agency and its ongoing efforts to connect independent metal artists and releases with influential media outlets.
Congratulations to BITTER, CDN Records, SARDONIC WITCHERY, Firecum Records, and JEMS!
And a huge thank you to Metal Injection for continuing to spotlight new music and support the heavy music community.
Metal Devastation PR
Promoting the underground. Pushing the releases. Getting the music heard.
Go check it out here: https://metalinjection.net/upcoming-releases/heavy-new-releases/the-weekly-injection-new-releases-from-behemoth-sleep-sigh-and-more-out-this-week-9-4

Check out the bands here:
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https://metaldevastationradio.com/thebeast/blog/29233/bitter-unleash-new-music-video-the-slamosaurus-encounter-ahead-of-upcoming-ep-slamosaurus-rex

Belgian black metal band RADBRAKER will release their debut album, When the Mist Falls…, on October 30 through Osmose Productions. The five-track concept album will be available on CD, vinyl and cassette, as well as digitally. Rooted in the harshness of countryside life, When the Mist Falls… follows different stages of existence under suppression. Despair […]

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Florida hard rock outfit Umbilicus will release its new EP, Ambiguous, on Nov. 20, 2026 via Listenable Insanity Records. The band pairs death metal veterans Paul Mazurkiewicz (Cannibal Corpse, Heavens Gate) and Taylor Nordberg (Deicide, Inhuman Condition) with Vernon Blake (ex-Napalm Death live, Anarchus) and vocalist Brian Stephenson (ex-Annihilator/Skull Fist live), and the five songs on the new EP show off just how far the group’s range extends.

Leading the charge is “Take Off,” an up-tempo rocker built on soaring vocals and guitar work over a rhythm section that barrels forward like a freight train.

Mazurkiewicz couldn’t hide his enthusiasm for the new release: “We are back with five new songs that really exemplify the growth of the band! It’s exciting to finally unleash these gems upon the universe and we hope everyone has as much fun listening to these sonic beauties as we did creating them.”

The EP marks the band’s second release, and it will be available on 12-inch vinyl and digital platforms. Pre-orders are available here.

Ambiguous was recorded, mixed and mastered by Taylor Nordberg and Jeramie Kling at Smoke & Mirrors Productions in Spring Hill, Florida.

Umbilicus is:

Brian Stephenson / Vocals 
Paul Mazurkiewicz / Drums 
Vernon Blake / Bass 
Taylor Nordberg / Guitar

The post UMBILICUS, Featuring CANNIBAL CORPSE & DEICIDE Members, Debut “Take Off” From Their New EP “Ambiguous” appeared first on Sonic Perspectives.

Nearly four years after their previous release, Polish project JASMENO are returning with a dramatically reshaped musical identity. Their new album, Assemblage of Cinematic Idioms, will be released on September 11 through Tangled Records, while the official video for “His Rebirth”, featuring Bartłomiej Krysiuk of PATRIARKH, is available now. Watch “His Rebirth”: An Album Assembled […]

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Plus Angel Du$t, Breakdown, Earth Crisis, Harm’s Way, God’s Hate & more

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Four years after releasing two debut albums simultaneously, Swedish black metal band TROLLDOM are preparing their third full-length. Tronen will arrive on October 30 through Debemur Morti Productions, with “Etter Falla…” serving as the record’s first and only advance track. The six-song album draws deliberately from the Swedish second-wave black metal released between 1995 and […]

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