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Finnish melodic death metallers RE-ARMED unleash their fourth highly anticipated album on June 5th via Black Lion Records titled Ignis Aeternum which is Latin for 'fire forever' which seems a very fitting title for what is to come...

Opening track 'Dive Within' is powerful and fast throughout with quick fierce vocal bursts matching the speed and tone of the instruments wonderfully. It ends on a ambient beautiful note and gives you everything and more to keep you gripped.

Soaring single 'Beyond The Horizon' features endless resonant and striking guitars which makes it exhilarating throughout, as well as memorable clean vocals in the chorus, making a nice contrast to the harsher vocals and acts as a brilliant representative track for the band and album. It is solid and slick with technical instrumentation and tonnes of depth, something the band thrives on. This is one to stick on repeat.

'Ode To Life' opens with some strong and prominent bass and great le…

RIVIA, the four-piece band from Liverpool, announce Down & Out as their third independent single release and it comes with a message about lack of creativity in our education system.

Down & Out tells the story of each band members struggle as young musicians trying to make their way in the local scene. Many musicians can relate to the constant mocking of their ambitions from others, negative comments like ‘get a real job’ or ‘you are wasting your time’. “That mindset has to change” says Matt, “Ambition and creativity, should be encouraged, not discouraged”.

Being locked inside amidst the Covid-19 pandemic, band mates Matt, Warren, Peter and Chris wanted to use their next single as a message, that message is one of creativity. The question of what to do with all this free time for many is a difficult question to answer. The boys from RIVIA want to encourage people to let their creativity flourish.

Throughout our childhood we are told at school we must learn x, y and z and that lea…

The United Rock Nations (T.U.R.N.) is a quality band that has broken the norm of music making. They create music together in separate locations around the world. Hailing with the inspiration of Guns N’ Roses, Scorpions, Skid Row, Def Leppard and Van Halen. This band brings the familiarity of the 80s into 2020.

Originally formed by Hammer Head (Bass,USA) and Daniel Valberg(Vocals, Sweden) as a cover project. Hammer and Daniel realizes they figured a formula to start an original band that has rarely been done before. After they realized they had potential, Hammer found a multi-instrument musical genius in Graham Lane(Guitar,Keyboards, England). The three started working on songs that had been laying around in their catalog.

Once the band started rolling they continued to perfect their craft of remote recording and writing together, Hammer then recruiter his talented brother DES Samita (Guitar, USA). There was still a missing piece and after many try outs and failures the band didn’t giv…

One Eyed Toad Records Proudly Present: Vesicarum - Reign Of Terror.

Vesicarum are a visceral five-piece death metal band from Kent, UK, bursting at the seams with brutal energy - featuring frantic, technical riffing; topped off with frontman Glynn Neve’s signature vocal style.

The band was originally created in 2016 as a solo project by Glynn, growing in early 2018 to include guitarists Martin Shipton and James Thompson, bassist Orla Blue Reed and drummer Donal McGee.

The name, ‘Vesicarum’ - meaning ‘to fester’, in Latin is an ode to the sinister nature of the band’s music and lyrical content. Featuring darker subjects including serial killers and The Ankou (The Graveyard Watcher), the central lyrical theme is hatred - the band describe their music as “an adrenaline rush that is a great escape from the stresses and strains of life.”

2020 sees the release of Vesicarum’s savage debut EP, Reign Of Terror - featuring lead single, The Sick And The Depraved.

Check out the video for singl…

LIFE RENEWED debuts their first single "By Faith" feat. Alvin Triplett of BoughtXBlood and Nick West. A project founded on the solid ground of faith that musician and producer Rob Volkoff believes in and began. A plan of music expression that focuses on life experiences and takes them to the heavier sounds of music manifestation. Debuting their first single "By Faith", Rob Volkoff has stepped into the realm of his own declaration of what he believes with his Passion Project. Having worked with several other Metalcore bands, it was time to release his vision through his own platform. "By Faith" is Volkoff's first from his up and coming EP Launching From Ground Zero due out sometime in late 2020. "

Check out the song below:


'"By Faith" features the vocalist Alvin Triplett of the Christian Metalcore Project BoughtXBlood from the Lynchburg, VA area with his harsh vocals and Nicholas West on clean vocals. This was the first song written in…

Belgian Stoner/Progressive/ Metal/Rock band BufferState releases its very first music video.

The song this video is about is called “Archean”, taken from their first EP 'Anthropy' which came out on Nov 10th 2018 as an Independent Release.

The video for “Archean” can be found here:

https://youtu.be/76EOUuPiHxY



Together with Josse de Maesschalk(aka WAANZIN), BufferState has now released their first music video.

The song is an archetype of the band’s very particular, uncompromising sound.

The lyrical theme is aggressive at first sight, very militaristic and us-versus-them. Having most fun when being creative, the story has been rewritten from scratch to the same theme for this video. Still, the images of the video match the feeling of the original lyrics and, of course, the flow of the song.



BufferState is extremely proud of this cooperation with the up-and-coming movie talent of Josse de Maesschalk(aka WAANZIN). Creativity, community, engaging with other artists, that’s what it’s abou…

Platinum selling International recording artists STATIC-X has released the official music video for "All These Years," the second single off of their upcoming album, Project Regeneration Vol. 1. The song features lead vocals by the legendary late front-man WAYNE STATIC. Directed by Xer0 and co-directed by MATT ZANE, the clip is a campy narrative set in the bedroom of a young WAYNE STATIC back in the 1970’s, who comes face to face with his future rock star self through his black and white television.

The band says that the idea was inspired by the song lyrics for “All These Years:”

“It’s very challenging to represent someone in a music video, who is no longer alive, but that was something that we really wanted to do and I think it came out great” says drummer KEN JAY. “These are some of Wayne’s last works, so we really wanted to make this video all about him and to continue to celebrate his life and legacy. What better way to do that than through a fun, fictional story about …