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  Brit post-hardcore unit MERCERS will unveil their debut EP, 'The Liminal Tapes', on Friday, 17th July. The band have also just released their new single and video, 'New Stockholm'. Watch the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwoUNQCAMM8 Listen to MERCERS on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/0hUc6FIsCsAGv1muQXWDHZ . Formed in 2025, MERCERS bring together vocalist Olly James and guitarist/programmer Phil Bashford, both previously known for their work in nu-metallers, FONY. However, this is not a reunion, but a continuation of a long-standing songwriting partnership behind much of FONY’s material, including Routine Irregular and Circles. What began as an idea to revisit and reshape older material into the form it was always intended to take quickly developed into something far bigger. With the addition of drummer Richard Titheradge and guitarist Simon Glover, the project evolved beyond its original concept and found its own identity. The Liminal Tapes...

  Leeds post-hardcorers KILL THE SILENCE are back with their hugely captivating new EP, Resolve, set for release on Friday 17th April. The band have also just released their alluring new single and video, 'The Final Word' - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-Z5rsDi_dU Listen to the band at https://open.spotify.com/artist/190ULwkT4wrUba7vLSo4Bv . Formed by vocalist Jason Walsh and lead guitarist Sam Rickerby during their college days, the band completed their line-up in 2018 with Ian Souch on bass and John Wallis on drums, and made their initial impact with their debut EP, Bloodlines, which helped build their formidable reputation as a compelling live act. The following years saw KILL THE SILENCE support the likes of We Came As Romans and Mallory Knox, while releasing the dynamic singles: Inevitable, Sinner, and Lost At Sea. Rhythm guitarist Daniel Ridding also later joined the band, adding yet another layer and dimension to their already engaging sound. After time spent writi...

  British post-hardcore outfit KEEP THIS UP charge forward with unstoppable momentum, and have just revealed their towering new single and video, 'Remedy' - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iq67kD8vVM0 Listen to the band at - https://open.spotify.com/artist/3HplGXpBPq2q0KciEc5Ncz Hailing from Peterborough, England, KEEP THIS UP blend melodic singalongs, thunderous breakdowns, rapid-fire riffs, and raw, emotive screams, crafting a sound that’s both punishing and powerfully heartfelt. Their intense energy and razor-sharp songwriting have quickly made them one of the UK’s most exciting emerging heavy acts. Although originally formed in 2019, the band truly hit their stride in 2022 with the release of their acclaimed debut EP, Paper Houses. The release propelled them into the spotlight, earning spots on the Kerrang! Charts, global radio airplay, and strong support from BBC Radio 1’s Alyx Holcombe. Since then, KEEP THIS UP have delivered a steady stream of hard-hitting singles and ...

Svalbard have released an important, heart-wrenching statement for their fans: After much reflection, we have decided that 2026 will be the final year of Svalbard. Our final UK tour will be in November 2025. Following that, we plan to do a final EU tour, a final Japanese tour and a few more select farewell shows in 2026. Thank you to everyone who has supported us during our 15 years as a band. Your support has meant the world to us. We've shared so many unforgettable moments with you all throughout our career, and we look forward to commemorating our final year as a band with you in 2026. SVALBARD - FINAL UK TOUR NOVEMBER 2025 w/ Cage Fight and Knife Bride Tickets are on-sale now via the below links. 19 Nov UK - Glasgow, Slay 20 Nov UK - Manchester, Rebellion 21 Nov UK - Newcastle, Think Tank 22 Nov UK - Bristol, Thekla 23 Nov UK - London, Oslo Hackney Svalbard will reveal more final show dates in due course... Svalbard's latest and final record, The Weight Of The Mask, is thei...

  Copenhagen’s Siamese announce new studio album 'Elements' for 9 August 2024 via Long Branch Records. Hailing from a small country with big dreams, Siamese stands out as a beacon of hope in the Danish music scene. Drawing inspiration from bands like Architects and Bad Omens, Siamese navigates the contemporary heavy music landscape with finesse. As they gear up for their upcoming album 'Elements', Siamese embarks on a journey of exploration and evolution. With tracks already gaining traction on Octane and Kerrang! Radio, 'Elements' not only showcases their heavier sound but also commemorates their 10-year journey as Siamese and having shared stages with heavyweights such as Korn, Corey Taylor, Nothing More and Beartooth it is clear that for Siamese, the journey is far from over. In conjunction with this announcement, today, the band released their new single 'Predator' alongside a brand new music video. Siamese singer Mirza Radonjica comments on the ne...

  Best described as a hybrid of post-hardcore and alternative-fused metalcore, East Coast Rapcore group Dizasterpiece will release a new album entitled “ZZONEBOUND [QRX4-Notion]” on May 17th. In anticipation of the album, Dizasterpiece released the first of several tracks on April 5th, the title track “ZZONEBOUND [QRX4-Notion]” . What starts out as a catchy, chill, trip-hop-influenced song becomes a swarm of post-hardcore, metal and screamo-rock in the new single - a sneak preview of what’s to come in the full album. This single will be followed by “Nosferatu”, the next single and music video off of the album on Friday, April 26th via Shake The Earth Records and Innergy Records. DIZASTERPIECE "NOSFERARU" MUSIC VIDEO (Directed by Eric DiCarlo) Watch here: https://youtu.be/DZvoBV946d0?si=oCDhBV08fvVAyops “Nosferatu” tunes into the melodic shoegaze/alternative rock/nu-metal side of the group, with slamming dropped tuned guitars, and hard-hitting vocals. Lyrics like “No I won’...

  Following their triumphant start to 2024 which has seen Scottish pop-fueled post-hardcore outfit newshapes open up for both Atreyu and The Blackout, they today look at life after love with their new single ‘feel it’. The emphatic new single sees newshapes team up with Scott Kennedy of Scottish compatriots Bleed From Within in a track that shows off newshapes’ heaviest tendencies with a heartfelt flair. Speaking about ‘feel it’ newshapes vocalist Ian Mann comments, “After finishing our debut EP I felt like there were still a few things that I hadn’t quite managed to release from within myself, and continued writing to try and find words that would bring this creative chapter of the band to a close. ‘feel it’ is both a literal and spiritual successor to the emotions and thoughts explored during ‘i hope this finds you’, looking at a life beyond love after an EP that kind of tended to indulge feelings of heartbreak.” Bleed From Within vocalist Scott Kennedy speaks about featuring on ...

  Manchester based Art-Rock / Post Hardcore outfit Pleiades are today proud to release their debut album ‘Affinity With’. This ten track body of work builds on Pleiades previous post-metal sound, sculpting a more cohesive Post-Hardcore approach in places whilst pushing their sound into the weirder corners. Talking through the concept of ‘Affinity With’, vocalist Andrew Calderbank shares - “Affinity With as a title is defined as “a natural liking or understanding of something or someone” and in turn each track is an opportunity to understand or relate to a complex character in its twisting narratives. The album’s objective is to speak on the actions and consequences of human behavior from different perspectives, both personal and historical.” On top of the album release, Pleiades have today shared the official visual for album focus track ‘Honeyguide’ - the opening track of the album and the one that started the band on their journey to create this debut album. “It was the genesis o...

  As we draw ever closer to their debut album, Manchester based Art-Rock / Post Hardcore outfit Pleiades have today released the lead single, ‘Amos Clift’. Acting as a centerpiece for the album, ‘Amos Clift’ replicates Pleiades' live energy with frenetic urgency and confidence bleeding through every pacing moment. Talking through the concept of Amos Clift, vocalist Andrew Calderbank shares - “Amos Clift is really a track that sits at the core of the storytelling in ‘Affinity With’. The story is told from the perspective of lighthouse keeper Amos Clift, observing the Egg War of 1863 in San Francisco where food shortages caused by the population boom from California’s Gold Rush lead to an all out war between rival gangs over seabird eggs on the nearby Farallon Islands. Andrew continues to mention - ”Clift’s character is used as a guide to recount how desperation and hunger led to mass greed and violence, holding a magnifying glass to the inherent and destructive flaws of human nature...

  Manchester based Post Hardcore outfit Pleiades are today proud to share their brand new single ‘Siberian’. Encouraging themselves to be seen as an anomaly of the alternative world, Pleiades have spent the time since their formation cultivating an artistic, heavy sound that leaves them unbound by categorisation. Inspired by stories of empathy and human nature, they aim to be the sculptors of a bold new sonic landscape. 'Siberian', produced by Joe Clayton (Pijn, Leeched) reflects the story of Alexander I, a Russian emperor in the 1800s alleged to have faked his own death to live a life of isolation and solitude. “...after a lot of reading during 2020 I came across the story of Alexander I of Russia and a rumor that he faked his own death to live as a hermit. It served as a vehicle for my narrative of giving up everything in search of solitude and that no amount of wealth was enough. Whether it was because of the pressure of titles or the guilt of living in such privilege while ...

  Newcastle Upon Tyne Alternative Post-Hardcore band ‘headcage’ have shared their brand new single ‘false gold’. It’s a single that encapsulates the way a lot of people feel in the current societal climate towards those with wealth and status. With ‘false gold’ headcage share a personal take of the sheer disparity that exists between the different classes living in the North East of the UK. “With this track I’m trying to lay down the premise of always wanting more from life, as in wealth, status or fame but ultimately realising the people and culture that those things predominantly exist in are not the world I come from or identify with in any way, shape or form. To put it simply, it's something I’ve always wanted for so long, and is also something I hate”. - Vocalist, Leyum Pattinson. Check out the official music video below: To coincide with the release of ‘false gold’ headcage have announced their biggest headline show to date in their hometown Newcastle on the 6th May 2023. S...

  Newcastle Upon Tyne Alternative Post-Hardcore band ‘headcage’ are today proud to share their brand new single ‘nothing’. With influences that lie within the early noughties post-hardcore, emo & metal brackets, ‘headcage’ have blended riff-based grooves with colossal, melodic vocal crooning to create their new single ‘nothing’. It’s a track that encapsulates everything headcage stands for. “Lyrically the song details the struggle to overcome the feeling of uselessness and the everyday battles that come alongside living with ADHD and Anxiety. I wanted to state in layman’s terms the difficulty that I face to remain persistent or disciplined in many aspects of my life. The song itself acts as catharsis, a real and true personal expression of the negative aspects of these conditions that I have to face everyday”. - Vocalist - Leyum Pattinson Watch the official music video below: Having premiered on BBC Radio 1 by Alyx Holcombe earlier this week who said “It slaps so hard”, ‘noth...

  South coast four-piece ACRES have dropped a new song and revealed details of their sophomore studio album. 'Into Flames' is the third song to be released from the forthcoming full length, Burning Throne, and is accompanied by a video directed by Lewis Cater (All Time Low, Hot Milk, Sum 41). Watch the music video for 'Into Flames' HERE . “Into Flames is about having everything you love getting taken away from you,” explains frontman Ben Lumber. “During the pandemic everyone's life was turned upside down and this song is about the fear of the unknown, wondering if things will ever be as they were.” The follow up to 2019’s Lonely World, new album Burning Throne is set for release on 3rd March 2023 via A Wolf At Your Door Records. On the new record, guitarist Alex Freeman states: “I am extremely proud of this record but making it wasn’t easy. I had to teach myself how to write on my own again, and knowing that it was all on me was pretty unnerving. But I feel like t...

  Salt Lake City's in\error have released a video for their track "Pretend". The track is taken off the band's debut EP Death By Design which came out late last year. The video honors the memory of a band's close friend who took his own life. Vocalist Jesse McGivney says, “Pretend is a song I wrote a couple of months after my best friend took his own life. Death is a very hard, strange thing to try to navigate and cope with that everyone deals with differently. I know myself and many others find solace through music, and being able to create this song and video along with the people I care about most has helped me/us so through helped us through some of the hardest times. Music heals and we hope this song is able to help you too.” Music Video Credits: Written & Performed by: in/error Produced & mixed by: Clayton Blue Video Produced by: Tim Burton Lyrics by: Jesse McGivney ABOUT IN\ERROR in\error is a completely independent metalcore/post-hardcore band b...

  Ever since their respective bands toured together in 2017, guitarist Chris Wethington (of Softspoken) and drummer Cody Frain (of A Scent Like Wolves) entertained the idea of writing together in a new project. Four years later, after touring across the world, racking up millions of streams, and releasing Billboard charting albums separately, their ideas and talents have come together to create the perfect blend of progressive metalcore grooves and beautifully dissonant melodies. Giving a voice to the music is Chris Roberts - the original vocalist of (formerly) post-hardcore band Emarosa (then also known as Corsets are Cages). Roberts played a large part in writing the first versions of most of the songs that would end up on Emarosa's breakout EP "This is Your Way Out", but parted ways with the band to see success in two other regional acts (The Revival Sound, Take Me Home) before taking a break from performing. Having shared the stage with Roberts while in his first band...

  Driving, energetic and with a catchy pop-appeal starts “Misery Loves Company”. In contrast to the dark pop side of Letters Sent Home’s previous single “Blue Lights”, the band from Hannover/Wolfsburg, Germany now inspires with blends of heavy post-hardcore. This newfound heaviness underlines the significance of the song’s deep topic, which narrates of loving a person too much and projecting their problems on yourself. A situation that always leads to misery. “Wanna break free, but misery loves company.” It’s the R&B vocals, as well as the shouts of Joel Quartuccio, that make this song so unique and fusion it into a contrast-loaded, yet dynamic interplay filled with emotions. Choosing Quartuccio as a guest is no coincidence at all. The passion and emotion deep in his voice always touched every single member of Letters Sent Home. “We wanted to highlight the emotional aspect with power and furthermore wanted to integrate shouts”, as singer Emily explains. In fact, Being As An Oce...

Canadian hardcore melodic act Alexisonfire have released their first new song in nearly ten years called 'Familiar Drugs'. This is the first new music from the band following the announcement of their breakup in 2011 after 10 years together. They have since reunited and have been playing sporadic shows since 2015 but have not played or released anything new. Check out the new song and video below for 'Familiar Drugs ': The track, Familiar Drugs, is available for  pre-order  as a single-sided 7-inch vinyl as well as some special limited edition vinyl. As well as a new song they have announced just four headlining shows in June, taking place in London, New York, Los Angeles and Toronto. Tickets for all show dates go on sale Friday 22nd February. Jun 1: Alexandra Palace, London Jun 8: Terminal 5, New York Jun 13: The Wiltern, Los Angeles Jun 15: The Budweiser Stage, Toronto https://theonlybandever.com https://www.facebook.com/AOFofficial/

Welsh 5 piece and Kerrang! Awards 2018 'Best British Breakthrough' winners DREAM STATE can now reveal the video for their huge single, and recent Radio 1 Annie Mac exclusive first play, 'New Waves'. The track is taken from the bands new 'recovery' EP which is out now through UNFD. Watch 'New Waves' - HERE  and below! From DREAM STATE vocalist CJ on the single/video - " I wanted to show our fans, as I know a lot of them are going through their own troubles, that they have it in them to push through it. Sometimes we have to face our battles alone, but there is always going to be that inner voice that tells you that you've got this and that is the one you need to be listening to. We had so many amazing quotes sent through that any weak moment I had during the filming process, I had all these amazing, positive quotes surrounding me that brought a tear to my eye and it helped me perform better than I ever have. I hope our listeners can t...

Cleveland‘s own, SINK THE SHIP, are very excited to announce their signing with SharpTone Records. The band have just unveiled their awesome, new song and music video for “Domestic Dispute,” which can be viewed below. The track also features Bert Poncet (Chunk! No, Captain Chunk!) on guest vocals. Look for more details on the band‘s SharpTone Records debut to be revealed over the coming weeks. Check out the official video below! Markus Staiger (Nuclear Blast CEO / SharpTone Records Co-Founder) states: "SINK THE SHIP just delivered the best melodic metalcore debut! They created an epic album with an exceptional mixture of metalcore, pop punk and post-hardcore!" Colton Ulery (Vocals) further adds: “SINK THE SHIP took a break in 2017 to re-group and solidify what we wanted the band to be. During that time, SharpTone had made contact with me and we began sending them new material. We‘re so excited to be coming back and in partnership with them. The experience with ...

LOATHE & HOLDING ABSENCE ANNOUNCE SPLIT EP  PLUS CO-HEADLINE UK TOUR! Heavy experimental collective of five Loathe and Cardiff ascending post-hardcore group Holding Absence are pleased to announce an exciting new collaborative project. Each band will be contributing 2 brand new studio tracks to a split EP titled ‘This Is As One’ out February 16th via SharpTone Records. Pre-orders for the ‘This Is As One’ EP are available now: 10" Splatter vinyl: http://nblast.de/ThisIsAsOneVINYL Digital: http://nblast.de/ThisIsAsOneDIGI www.thisisasone.com Both bands are today premiering videos for new EP tracks! Make sure you check those out at the locations below: Loathe ‘White Hot’ Holding Absence ‘Saint Cecilia’ Loathe and Holding Absence first officially met when they toured the UK together in April of this year with Blood Youth, bonding over their shared common principals as well as a respect for each other’s music and vision. Despite what some might see as fairly big sonic dif...