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The Jayhawks have spent much of their career balancing country songwriting with a rock-band approach, and Sanctuary Park continues that tradition. That makes Buffalo Springfield Again a useful predecessor. The 1967 album mixed country instrumentation, folk-rooted harmonies and electric rock without treating those elements as separate styles. The Jayhawks work from a similar foundation, but with the benefit of decades spent refining their own version of it.

DÉTRESSE have enlisted Vestal of French black metal band MERRIMACK for “Les Nuits Jaunes,” the second single from their forthcoming album, Misères. The collaboration pushes the Austrian-Québécois trio toward one of the harshest and most relentless pieces they have recorded to date. Vestal contributes both vocals and lyrics to the song. His frantic delivery intensifies […]

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METALITE have distilled the energy of a live performance into “The Metal Elite,” the latest single from their forthcoming fifth studio album, Discovery. Released with an official visualizer, the track is built as a celebration of metal and the connection formed between musicians and their audience. Rather than extending the album’s science-fiction narrative directly, “The […]

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A flickering light above dark water, a friend claimed by the lake and a grieving miller no longer certain where reality ends: VANAHEIM explore loss through Dutch folklore in “Kroos en Slijk,” the visualizer released alongside their second album, Roede voor de Borst. Meaning “Duckweed and Muck,” the song follows a man trying to understand […]

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BEHEMOTH have joined forces with Dimmu Borgir frontman Shagrath for a new interpretation of VENOM’s “In League with Satan.” The cover appears on the Polish extreme metal band’s newly released eight-track collection, I, Scvlptor, and arrives with a video produced by Polish production company Grupa 13. The collaboration grew from BEHEMOTH’s forthcoming co-headlining tour with […]

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Jamie Webster: Running Round The Sun (Modern Sky) All Formats Available Out Now Buy Here Jamie Webster releases Running Round The Sun his, fourth album compiling 12 songs of social commentary, personal discovery and defiant, big stage ambition… The first time I heard Jamie Webster I didn’t get the appeal. I dismissed him as another […]

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When SPIRITUS MORTIS reach their 40th anniversary in 2027, the Finnish doom metal pioneers will mark the occasion with a new studio album. No Human Contact is set for release on January 15 through Svart Records, continuing the path established on 2022’s The Great Seal. The first glimpse of the album arrives with “The Hairy […]

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AVULSED have completed the eleven-part journey behind their Nordic death metal tribute album, Nordic Embryogenesis. For the final track, the Spanish veterans turn to Finland and revisit “Pestilential Mists,” originally released by ABHORRENCE on the band’s self-titled 7-inch EP in 1990. Listen to AVULSED’s version of “Pestilential Mists” ABHORRENCE were among the most extreme names […]

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After announcing the end of their regular live activity in 2024, CIRITH UNGOL have opened another chapter in their long and unpredictable history. The Californian heavy metal veterans will release their seventh studio album, All the Shadows, on October 30, 2026, through No Remorse Records. The title track serves as the album’s first single and […]

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Think you know Whitesnake? These five songs might make you dig a little deeper. Continue reading…