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Posted on August 13th 2026, 5:47pm

Nashville-based rock band Cinema Stereo are proud to announce the release of their highly anticipated debut full-length album, ‘12:34‘, arriving Friday, October 2nd, 2026, on all digital streaming platforms, CD, and limited-edition vinyl. Pre-order the CD and vinyl here. Pre-save the digital edition of the album here. To coincide with the news of the debut […]

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Italian atmospheric and post-depressive black metal project MAREA has announced its most refined and emotionally resonant full-length album to date. Entitled “A Caress of Autumn for All the Lost”, the record is scheduled for release on October 9th, 2026, offering listeners an immersive, compassionate journey through autumnal melancholy. Led by mastermind Matteo Balzarini, MAREA has […]

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BEATRIX is known as a furious and energetic live band in the Finnish underground, playing nightmarish black thrash metal, with skull crushing riffs, haunting melodies and demonic vocals.

After a successful Baltic tour with fellow maniacs JÄVELINand NIGHT SLASHER, a new song has been battle tested and is ready to be unleashed on the bleeding eardrums of the unsuspecting listeners. 

The self titled song “BEATRIX” is the first single from the upcoming full length concept album the band has been building on since it’s incarnation in 2019.

It’s about becoming something greater, a praying mantis queen born from human flesh, which also answers the question of where the band’s name comes from.

Listen to the single on music services (Spotify, Deezer, Tidal, Apple Music, Bandcamp etc.): https://push.fm/fl/beatrix-beatrix

The album will be released next year on Diabolic Might Records. In the meanwhile BEATRIX will join Japan’s BARBATOS on tour for 5 support shows in Finland and Estonia.

Tour dates & venues:
15.8 Oulu, Finland – Snooker Time
17.8 Tampere, Finland – Varjobaari
18.8 Tampere, Finland – Vastavirta (All ages)
20.8 Espoo, Finland – Olarin Ossi
21.8 Tallinn, Estonia – The Krypt

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Louder Than Life, America’s largest rock and metal festival, has officially announced the set times for its colossal 2026 edition, meaning you can get planning on how you’ll be spending your weekend. And if you haven’t got tickets yet, don’t panic; there’s still time to secure your place at what will surely be one of this year’s most unforgettable, action-packed weekends.

Get your tickets for Louder Than Life 2026 here

Taking place September 17-20 at the Expo Center in Louisville, Kentucky, Louder Than Life 2026 will see heavyweight headliners Iron Maiden, My Chemical Romance, Limp Bizkit and Tool head up a bill of almost 200 bands. Amongst them are the likes of Megadeth, Pantera, Pierce The Veil, A Day To Remember, Papa Roach, Gojira, Sublime, Danny Elfman, Rise Against, The Pretty Reckless and many, many more.

To get stuck into this year’s set times and to start planning your weekend, head to the Louder Than Life website or, if you want to personalise your own schedule and get the most up to date information on what’s happening across the festival, download the official Louder Than Life app.

If you’re yet to secure your pass for Louder Than Life 2026, you still can do via the Louder Than Life website, where a variety of options are waiting including General Admission, VIP and various packages. All ticket holders also get free access to the amusement rides inside Kentucky Kingdom, which for the weekend will be open exclusively to Louder Than Life attendees. You can find out everything else that will be happening on site during the weekend, including the huge variety of food and drink options, here.

Remember, Louder Than Life isn’t just an amazing lineup with a plethora of experiences: it will boast some one-off performances that you won’t find anywhere else. Amongst these are Pantera’s only U.S. show of 2026, Danny Elfman’s first show in the Eastern half of the U.S. for the first time in decades, reunion sets from Circa Survive, Get Scared, Blood For Blood, Metal Church, Primer 55, Sent By Ravens and 40 Below Summer and album celebrations including Jimmy Eat World’s Bleed American, Sleeping With Sirens’ Let’s Cheers To This and Sepultura’s Roots, courtesy of Cavalera.

So what’s keeping you? Make sure you have your ticket, get on the app, download those set times and get ready for the weekend of the year.

Heading to see Twenty One Pilots at All Points East later this month? Well, the band want you to help them make their footage even more special.

The band’s creative and content director Mark C. Eshleman has sent out a plea for anyone attending the show at Victoria Park on August 30 to get in touch.

Here is his message:

“Hello. This message is for any Twenty One Pilots fans attending the London gig this month at All Points East.

We will be capturing the show to be released at a later date but we want to add something unique to toss in between a few of the songs during the edit.

I am on the hunt for about 10 fans that I can send both Hi-8 and miniDV cameras to capture a little of their fan life as well as the journey to the show.

It will feel vlog-style but your footage doesn’t have to be very wordy. I am mostly interested in capturing what it feels like to be a fan. You can show off some artwork, what your themed bedroom looks like, an outfit you are making for the show.

Experience with a camera is a plus but we have support on standby to help you land how to create with our cameras.

We will collect your cameras and footage when you arrive on the festival grounds later this month.

To audition, send a self tape to casting@twentyonepilots.film and my producers will get back to you if you have been selected.

Please include your name and age along with a link to your video.

Auditions are due by Saturday 15th, end of day.“

What an opportunity! You best start filming.

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Twenty One Pilots will be joined at their massive show by Hot Milk, The Meffs, Ray Bull, Headsend, Witch Post, Wunderhorse, REN, BBNO$, PVRIS, Nova Twins, Dead Pony, Kid Kapachi, LEAP, NOAHFINNCE, Honey Revenge, Royal & The Serpent, Mouth Culture, Half Alive, Red Leather, Teen Jesus And The Jean Teasers, Artio, Emi Grace, Reece Young, Gang of Youths and Jessie Murph.

It is an amazing day out.

The remaining tickets are available from right here.

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(written by Islander) By this point the Bay Area grindcore miscreants Deathgrave probably need no introduction to the kind of miscreant listeners who visit our site, but there’s also a chance someone just awoke from a long coma or just recovered from a debilitating mental disease, so we’ll make a quick one. Originally formed in […]

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Oh, Tinashe is going for it. Next month the resurgent dance-pop/R&B cult hero will hit us with her new album Popstar, and early singles “Too Easy” and “Crash Out” are extremely encouraging. Today, Tinashe shares the all-out dancefloor blitz “Melatonin,” which is already my favorite of the Popstar singles. This thing goes so much harder than a song called “Melatonin” should be expected to go.

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US black metal weirdos Xasthur and stoner boys Temple Of The Fuzz Witch will be sharing the road on their USA tour this autumn. Check out the dates below. Xasthur will be promoting their upcoming album, Open To Misinterpretation, set for release on October 2nd; Temple Of The Fuzz Witch are still touring on their third full-length, 2024’s Apotheosis.
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Sometimes you need an album that slaps. An album to lower the type of smackdown to make The Rock jealous, an album that brings out the joyful superlatives and meme-tier descriptors. Swedish death is the lynchpin of this idea, the undying zombie of subgenres, the style that spits in the face of innovation and artistic wankery in the name of digging further and further into still untapped and worm-riddled pockets of the grave soil. Somehow this sound was exhausted in scope years after its inception, yet it simply refuses to crawl into its own coffin as every new moon more bands pick up the Dismember’ed remains of the founding fathers to prove that it was this, specifically, Jack Black was referencing when he said: “You can’t kill the metal.” Gravecrawler (who, appropriately, are actually from Sweden) are the next to offer up their skulls for the skull throne with their debut album Nidus, and my friends, if you love to worship at the altar of the hm-2, grab your hymnals, because this right here is a rabid, bloodthirsty beast.

As is well documented through the genre’s history, good Swedeath lives on two elements: its production and its riffs. Nidus has both in spades, with a mix that is fat, burly, and deranged, flinging weepy leads and rotting remnants of entrails in equal measure. There are only so many ways in the English language to say “you know what to expect”, and short of my writing something like “무엇을 예상해야 할지 아실 겁니다.”, it’s hard not to sound plagiaristic of every other review ever. Guitars buzz away with the roaring hm-2 tones, atmosphere oozes through the riffcraft, and the superiority of the CHUG-G-G-G-G reasserts itself in all its resplendent aggression. Though starting out with an emphasis on the violent part, moods and melodies take shape as Nidus unfurls. “Primordial Sludge” has a main refrain lashed forward at a marching pace, pushed by Sebastian Olsson’s ever-shifting drumming, drenched in reverb and power. On the opposite side of the coin, “Manifest Entropy” drips a haunting atmosphere, using the best elements of modern Decapitated to run from stuttery chord progressions to leads that reek of melancholy and disdain.

What sets Gravecrawler apart from the glut of Swedeath is their grasp of the spirit of the formula: meaner, bigger, and better. Key lynchpin Billy Lundevall is one of the major ingredients, with his vocals equally diseased, wet, and powerful. Striking a key balance between the gurgles of Pharmacist and Cattle Decapitation’s Travis Ryan, his voice is no cookie-cutter death growl, elevating the music to new heights of disgust and energy. Look no further than “Primordial Sludge” to hear him oscillate between his two greatest extremes, flinging vocal narrations which shift between screeching crackhead goblin energy and vomit-spewing belches. Compositionally, guitarist and bassist Jesper and Roni pull from multiple influences, flirting with whiffs of Dark Tranquility melody (“Bogs of Torvus”), straightforward Vader curb-stomping thuggery (“Contagion”), and even foul slam experiments in “Carrion Soil.” Nidus is a refreshing album where every track comes with a highlight of riff or air-guitar moment, all the way down to the requisite grand finale of the concluding track “Nothingness Awaits.” In fact, this is the only real complaint I can muster; the final two tracks put so much stock into their well-composed atmospheres that they somewhat undo the memory of all the arterial blood spray that came before, though they’re both quality songs unto themselves.

And the sound? Saints alive, the sound. Gravecrawler got it right on their first try, with the entirety of Nidus being open and spacious, even on my streamed listen. The bass is a constant presence, mixed and produced with the care and affection of Cryptopsy, with enough tonal presence to make William Murderface weep with jealousy. Drums echo and thunk with extreme prejudice, and the guitars don’t put so much emphasis on the traditional tones that they come across as isolated and thin (looking at you, Frozen Soul), instead sounding dummy thiccc and full throughout the album. This mastery of care for the overall package renders Nidus at once an exemplary example of the genre without doing much to try to get outside of its constraints, with fantastic results.

In the year of our Lord 2026, it might seem absurd to insist that “just another Swedeath album” is glorious, but it is, I am, and I’m not apologizing. Gravecrawler has offered up a debut which has captivated and engaged me, while constantly sending me away with broken teeth and covered in beer and bodily fluids. A keen ear for production and songwriting, beguiled by their youth, has announced these Swedes as a force to be reckoned with, and with some fine-tuning, they will be ready to catapult themselves alongside the Gatecreeper’s and LIK’s. Check this out.

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Rating: 3.5/5.0
DR: n/a | Format Reviewed: Stream
Label: Independent Release
Website: Album Bandcamp
Releases worldwide: August 7th, 2026

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