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San Francisco quartet Hell Fire announce new tour dates to perfectly close out an epic year of shows, with the band supporting thrash legends Death Angel throughout North America. The tour kicks off November 16th in Seattle. Please see all dates below. Check out their video 'On The Loose': Mania is the band's first proper album on RidingEasy Records, following the label's worldwide reissue of the band's self-released 2017 sophomore breakout Free Again, released on January 18th. Formed in recent years in San Francisco, though it may seem more likely that they hatched fresh out of a time travel portal from the mid-80s Bay Area thrash scene, Hell Fire have the classic look and sound of modern metal's halcyon days. Hell Fire's sonic assault warmly condenses elements of influences like Angel Witch, Iron Maiden, Rainbow, Exodus, Metallica, Riot, Virtue and Diamond Head into 10 tracks of headbanging MUYA anthems. The free-wheelin' creativity and...

Gothenburg trio MONOLORD team up again with UK caveman battle doom outfit CONAN to bring heaviness to the UK and Ireland starting in Birmingham on May 7, 2018. Prior to that MONOLORD appear at Desertfest Berlin and Nijmegen with Monster Magnet and end in Leiden, Netherlands on May 20th, 2017. MONOLORD May 04 - Berlin, DE: Desertfest May 05 - Nijmegen, NE: Doornroosje (w/Monster Magnet) May 06 - TBA* CONAN + MONOLORD May 07 - Birmingham, UK: Mama Roux's May 08 - Manchester, UK: Rebellion May 09 - Glasgow, UK: Audio May 10 - Nottingham, UK: Rescue Rooms May 11 - Brighton, UK: The Green Door Store MONOLORD May 12 - Bournemouth, UK: The Anvil CONAN + MONOLORD May 14 - Bristol, UK: Thekla May 15 - Dublin, IE: Voodoo Lounge May 16 - Belfast, UK: Voodoo May 17 - Stoke, UK: Sugarmill MONOLORD May 19 – TBC May 20 - Leiden, NE: Gebr De Nobel (Small Hall) ww.ridingeasyrecords.com https://www.facebook.com/monolordsweden https://www.facebook.com/hailconan/

NYC trio BLACKOUT Streaming Forthcoming Album Via Noisey NYC trio Blackout are streaming their forthcoming album The Horse ahead of release in its entirety starting today via Noisey. Hear and share The Horse album HERE: https://noisey.vice.com/en_us/article/psych-doom-trio-blackout-rides-again-on-new-lp-the-horse Ask any New Yorker what makes them special and they'll all tell you something different. But there's something very particular about a city so condensed with a vast range of humanity all facing myriad daily challenges that gives its rock music a brash, direct aggression, unlike other places. Case in point, NYC trio Blackout's take on doom and stoner rock is filled with a gritty, mechanistic heft unlike bands of their ilk from anywhere else. Subsumed within the greasy grooves of The Horse there are echoes of NYC heavy legends like Helmet, Cro-Mags, Judge, Prong and others -- not as intentional homage, but rather a vibe that permeates and inadvertently gives i...