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He is set to be discharged today and will need some time to heal.

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Imaginary not real

In a world that has fallen from grace

And in the park, the rush begins to make its way down

Down, down he goes

After more than a decade as DRIFT., Nathalia Bruno has pushed the project into a new, harder shape. The solitary synth work of earlier releases has given way to a full-band attack, with Max Oscarnold on guitar, Finn Kidd on drums, and Lucy Lucifer on keys joining Bruno for Violence For Your Furs, out September 16 via God Unknown Records. The shift suits her: the music still carries her familiar chill, but now it comes dressed in glam-goth sleaze, rock n roll cabaret menace, and the charged feeling of a London night already halfway off the rails.

Rough Rider is the record’s streetlamp confession, a nasty little ride through Kingsland Road where romance has been mugged and left arguing with itself. Bruno sings as if she has spent the afternoon listening through walls, picking up curses, sirens, and the burden of the Ten of Wands card. “There’s a world outside your door” hits as a dare from someone who has seen what waits there and still reaches for the handle.

The band plays with the cruel economy of people who know excess works best with a switchblade tucked under the coat. Oscarnold’s guitar scratches at the corners, Kidd’s drums shove the song forward with alley-cat impatience, and Lucifer’s keys give the scene a cabaret stink, part cheap perfume, part electrical burn. Bruno sits above it all with a delivery that calls up Alan Vega, Anne Clark, Fad Gadget, hanging out at an after-hours where somebody has put Suicide on repeat and locked the exits. Those names are coordinates, useful because they sketch the room: black leather humour, broken drum-machine discipline, art-school dread, and the blessed naïveté of rock still thinking salvation might be hidden in volume.

The song’s lyrics are chock full of bodies, cops, masks, vomit, bikes, glass, meat, overdose; lovely stuff, because pop music has spent too many years selling self-help lotion to people who need a brick hurled through their window. DRIFT. gives us “cold country” and “hope country” as two names for the same cracked pavement, and the trick is that both feel true. Every generation gets told it lives with promise, then spends the night finding out that promise has a boot on its throat.

The video, with Bruno performing behind wet glass, pushes the song deeper into that aquarium panic, as though we are watching a nightclub priestess from the wrong side of the tank. She appears trapped, blurred, touchable and unreachable at once, making theatre out of distance while keeping pain clear of boutique gloom. The images smear, the song stalks, and the quartet sounds thrilled by its own bad news. You can almost smell beer, rainwater, burnt cable, and an extinguished clove cigarette.

Watch the video for Rough Rider below:

Rough Rider belongs to the tradition of songs that know the city can crack jokes while bleeding and pass for hard while begging somebody, anybody, to notice the damage. DRIFT. has found a new body for Bruno’s private apocalypse.

Listen to Rough Rider below and pre-order Violence For Your Furs here.

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Hamilton, Ontario, extreme‑metal outfit METALADIAN erupt with the release of “Deaditation,” the ferocious and hypnotic title track single from their upcoming debut album out on Canada Day, July 1st, 2026. After more than twenty years of composing, refining, and shaping the band’s sound, composer, lead vocalist, and drummer Andrew Brophy finally unveils the first official chapter of METALADIAN’s long‑awaited recorded legacy.

“Deaditation” is METALADIAN’s most aggressive and unrelenting work, a dizzying, chromatic, multi‑vocal assault built on a three‑stage structure: plateau, ascension, descent. Each time the cycle restarts, the tempo subtly increases, dragging listeners deeper into a spiralling frenzy.

“The interplay between vocalists is quick, dizzying and hypnotizing… the music is incrementally and constantly gaining momentum, driving the track to a spiralling frenzy by the final descent,” adds Brophy.

Lyrically, the single paints a blackened world where victims reclaim power through a psychic retaliation, a Deaditation, forcing abusers to feel the pain they inflicted “100,000 fold.” Musically, it opens with riotous crowd samples, chromatic bass lines, droning harmonies, ripping feedback, and a tribal drum solo that launches the track into its relentless progression.

Fans of extreme metal, progressive death metal, and classical‑influenced metal will immediately recognize the ambition and precision behind the single.

Listen to the lyric video for “Deaditation” at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hjKm_7NoCs

Arriving July 1, 2026, “Deaditation”is the culmination of more than two decades of writing. Brophy began composing the framework on classical guitar in 2003, later expanding the material into a full three‑album arc.

Track Listing:

1. Left Hand Path – 9:44
2. Deaditation – 6:21
3. No Worse Death Than The Loss Of All Hope – (Wondering Why I Wonder Why) – 7:35
4. Confrontation With God – 11:59
5. Cure For Judgement – 6:51
6. Welcome To Your Holy Hell – 8:49
   Album Length: 51:19

The debut album is a story‑driven descent and ascent, moving through spiteful violence, spiralling depression, suicidal ideation, 
confrontation with God, revenge, and finally, redemption.

“The album is drenched in violence and darkness, but with a hint of light that begins to show itself as the album progresses,” says Brophy.

Musically, the record is dense, chromatic, harmonically lush, and rhythmically punishing. Vocally, all four members contribute in a rapid‑fire call‑and‑response style: Andrew Brophy (drums, lead vocals) with melodic leads and rhythmic anchors, Dustin Smith (bass) brings guttural, ogre‑like lows, Dan Brophy (guitar) adds vicious, rabid‑dog riot vocals and Ruth Guechtal (guitar) exports ripping, high‑screeching screams. The result is a massive, layered vocal machine unlike anything in the Canadian metal landscape.

METALADIAN formed in Hamilton, Ontario, as the vehicle for Andrew Brophy’s intricate compositions, music that blends thrash, death, progressive, and technical metal with the darker works of classical composers such as Bartók, Penderecki, Mussorgsky, Stravinsky, Beethoven, and Mahler.

“Metaladian is my passion, my main source of creativity and catharsis for years,” adds Brophy.

Their sound is best described as complex, emotional, heavy, dark, and hypnotizing. The band’s lineup is deeply interconnected: Andrew and guitarist Dan are brothers, Ruth (guitar) is Dan’s wife, and Dustin (bass) is their “metal brother from another mother.”

All four also perform in the Hamilton extreme‑theatre metal act 30 Immolated; 16 Returned, and three members hold classical‑music degrees, including two doctorates in composition.

Recommended for fans of Strapping Young Lad, Metallica (early), Suffocation, Bela Bartok, and Ludwig Van Beethoven, METALADIAN’s “Deaditation” is available for pre-order at: https://metaladian.bandcamp.com/

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Brutalismus 3000, the duo of producer Theo Zeitner and singer Victoria Vassiliki Daldas, appear framed inside a Zoom window from their Berlin apartment, set against an art piece of Blade, half-human, half-vampire, posed in front of an American flag. The image is a fitting background for artists whose work thrives on tension, distortion, and cultural collision. It’s bold, colorful, and fucking fun.

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
DOOMHERRE FEATURE ON FOUR ALTARS OF SIN — NEW NORDIC FOUR-WAY SPLIT OUT JUNE 26 VIA MAJESTIC MOUNTAIN RECORDS

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Stockholm doom trio Doomherre appear on the upcoming four-way split Four Altars of Sin , joining forces with Kaiser (Finland), Hexjakt , and Ordos for a crushing Nordic collaboration set for release on June 26 via Majestic Mountain Records.
Doomherre contribute Blood Relics of Old , a slow-burning descent through plague-ridden imagery and ancient weight. The track moves with deliberate force, circling themes of pursuit, excavation, and inevitability, digging into what has been buried and refusing to look away from what resurfaces. It follows the path of a forgotten figure with nowhere left to run, anchored in classic doom tradition with zero excess and no shortcuts.
Stripped, heavy, and unrelenting, the song stands firmly on its own while sharing spiritual ground with acts like Bonegoat and Plaguelords, carrying the same raw, grounded approach to doom without compromise.
Four Altars of Sin brings together four distinct visions of Nordic heaviness:
Four Altars of Sin
Release Date: June 26, 2026
Label: Majestic Mountain Records
Format: Limited vinyl / Digital
Tracklist:
Doomherre — Blood Relics of Old (6:51)
Ordos — Inferno (10:50)
Hexjakt — Svartkonst (6:38)
Kaiser — Sonic Satan (11:14)
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How about that intense sunshine? Thankfully, here are 10 bands which have thoughtfully scheduled new music in advance to help take our minds of those red and amber weather warnings. It’s like everything Nuclear Assault predicted in the ’80s is coming true.

Check the best 10 metal songs of the week before your local power infrastructure buckles under the weight of a million fans being switched on at once.

The Hu – Grey Hun

Mongolian folk metallers The Hu are set to release their third album Hun on July 24. According to horsehead fiddle player and backing vocalist Enkhsaikhan ‘Enkush’ Batjargal, Grey Hun is a thumping anthem that celebrates everyone’s right to be themselves and deserves to be played at a more than reasonable volume.

“It started with composing the riff as I imagined a man riding his horse through a vast landscape,” he explains. “From there, it took a while for us to finish the song because we wanted to make sure to clearly communicate [its] positive message.”

Loathe – Fangs

Merseyside four-piece Loathe release their long-awaited new album A Stranger To You on July 17. Fangs is a bass-y slab of downtuned R&B featuring a sublime vocal performance from Kadeem France. Following on from the thudding metalcore of Revenant, it’s clear that their time away has been wisely spent adding even more colours to their sonic palette.

Five Finger Death Punch – De Oppresso Liber

It’s been about four years since Five Finger Death Punch released their last album, AfterLife. The Nevada quintet are readying the digital release of album 10 – Legacy – at the end of July, with physical releases planned for later in the year. On De Oppresso Liber, it’s business as usual for Zoltan Bathory’s mob. It’s got more crunch you could shake a stick at and a memorable, soaring chorus. “[The title] is more than just a motto,” says the guitarist. “It’s a calling. It’s a philosophy. It represents a willingness to stand between danger and those who cannot defend themselves. Throughout human history, there have always been people who were drawn to accept that responsibility. This song is our way of paying respect to that mindset.”

Bring Me The Horizon – Dehumanized

Bring Me The Horizon aren’t celebrating the 20th anniversary of their album Count Your Blessings with a lazy reissue. Count Your Blessings Repented is a new recording, which sees the Sheffield four-piece give the album a proper makeover and deliver the sound they’d envisioned as teenagers. Dehumanised is a brutal bastard of a single with an aggressive, unsettling video to match.

King Ultramega – Loud Love

King Ultramega is the star-studded tribute to late Soundgarden frontman Chris Cornell. This cover of the Louder Than Love single features an incredible vocal performance from Halestorm’s Lzzy Hale, Testament guitarist Alex Skolnick and former Pearl Jam drummer Dave Krusen. It’s a faithful rendition by all those involved and a bittersweet reminder of Cornell’s incalculable loss.

Chelsea Wolfe – Death is Not the End

This week, Chelsea Wolfe released two new songs which will feature on her as-yet-untitled ninth studio album. The first was the folky The Dark but it’s Death is Not the End that is the most affecting. A fragile vocal floats above a delicate piano and guitar line, before gradually swelling into a soaring, meditative doom riff by former Nine Inch Nails guitarist Robin Finck.

Russian Circles – Empath

Well, if it’s not our favourite post-metal hypnotists named after an ice hockey drill who return with a new song and news of a brand new full-length. Taken from the album Nine, which was recorded at Steve Albini’s Electrical Audio studio and engineered by Converge’s Kurt Ballou, Empath is gloriously heavy, all-enveloping, ominous and mesmerising. Absolutely perfect.

Psycroptic – No Blade of Grass

Australian quintet Psycroptic return with The Pulse of Annihilation, their first album in four years, on July 17. No Blade of Grass is a ferocious bark of tech-death with an immense groove. And to drive the song title home, the narrative part of their video is set in a desert. Thanks lads!

Green Lung – Necropolitan Line

Here’s another taster from the occultist stoner doom quintet’s forthcoming album Necropolitan. This song is about the Necropolis Railway, “a real-life train line that carried corpses and mourners across London in the late 19th century”. So imagine if Deep Purple were trapped in a carriage with a bag of cans and holding torches under their chins, then you’ve got yourself some creepy 70s psych pomp. Lovely stuff.

New Idea Society – Lantern

Here’s a second mention of Kurt Ballou, and that’s a wonderful thing. New Idea Society, a project featuring Cave In‘s Stephen Brodsky and Euclid’s Mike Law, have filmed a performance of the slow-burning Lantern at God City Studios with a few friends: Cave In’s Adam McGrath, Old Man Gloom’s Santos Montano and Ballou. The original can be found on the album Fire On The Hill, which was released last month through Relapse.

Cara Delevingne is famous for being a supermodel and an actress, but she’s also apparently buds with the relatively reclusive Fiona Apple. When Apple recorded her 2020 masterpiece Fetch The Bolt Cutters, Delevingne added some backup vocals, including a meow. Now, Delevingne is getting ready to release an album of her own, and she got some help from Apple. Last month, we learned that Apple co-wrote a song on Delevingne’s upcoming debut LP, which doesn’t have a title or a release date yet. Today, we get to hear that song.

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Horror metal titans Ice Nine Kills have officially stepped into the fog today with the release of their brand-new single, “Play Dead” (streaming now). The track and its accompanying cinematic music video have been created in direct collaboration with Dead by Daylight, the world’s leading multiplayer horror game, to celebrate the franchise’s landmark 10th Anniversary. … Continue reading Ice Nine Kills team up with Dead By Daylight with new single “Play Dead”

(written by Islander) Shades of mental and emotional darkness have been features of heavy metal in general, and extreme metal in particular, for a very long time. Sometimes it’s been represented through supernatural imagery and lyricism, sometimes by more direct experiences of real-world turmoil and desolation. But while it’s commonplace to see descriptions of metal […]

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This is the second album from Icelandic black metallers Vafurlogi. Following on from 2024’s Í Vökulli Áþján, Gneisti af eldi Guðs delivers 49 minutes of new material. Now rounded out to a full band, Vafurlogi’s black metal has been greater developed. The band were already in a good place with their music, but now they’ve taken … Continue reading “Vafurlogi – Gneisti af eldi Guðs (Review)”