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  If 11 tracks worth of Blood, Hair, and Eyeballs wasn’t enough for you, your luck has taken a sweet and dark turn: Today marks the release of two all-new, previously unheard Alkaline Trio songs. “The Sacrifice” and “At Sickness” are now available everywhere as a double A-side digital single. Listen to the new songs below: Additionally, “The Sacrifice” and “At Sickness” will be released October 18th as a limited edition 7” vinyl in two variants, available exclusively via alkalinetrio.com and RiseRecords.com . Guitarist/vocalist Matt Skiba commented: "We are very excited to be releasing these two songs as a seven inch. Putting out an EP on 7” vinyl is something we haven’t had the opportunity to do for a long time, so having two new songs to offer up on such a classic format is fun for us as vinyl enthusiasts. Both 'At Sickness' and 'The Sacrifice' were initially written and recorded for our Blood, Hair, and Eyeballs album and leaving them off the record wasn’t ...

  Alkaline Trio have announced a run of UK and European tour dates ahead of their new album “Blood, Hair, and Eyeballs”, released this Friday, January 26th on Rise Records. Catch the band’s electric live performance at one of the following shows: July 22nd Newcastle, Boiler Shop 23rd Nottingham, Rock City 24th Bristol, O2 Academy 26th London, O2 Forum Kentish Town 27th Leeds, O2 Academy 28th Manchester, O2 Ritz 30th Glasgow, O2 Academy August 4th Cologne, Germany, Love Music Hall 6th Berlin, Germany, Huxley’s 10th Wels, Austria, Alter Schlachthof 11th Munich, Germany, Backstage Werk Pre-order the album and get early access for tickets HERE: https://alkalinetrio.tmstor.es/ General Tickets on sale on Friday from www.alkalinetrio.com / www.ticketmaster.co.uk Blood, Hair, and Eyeballs was recorded by Skiba, Andriano and since-departed drummer Derek Grant with Webb producing at Studio 606 in Northridge CA, and will be the first Alkaline Trio album to be released via the band’s new...

  For the final time as a collective, Grammy-nominated band Sum 41 have announced their upcoming double album, Heaven :x: Hell, expected for release on 29th March, 2024 via Rise Records. Heaven :x: Hell is the most ambitious album from Sum 41 yet - Heaven is 10 tracks of snarling high energy pop punk, while Hell consists of ten heavy metal anthems spiked with fret-burning solos, thrashing riffs, and fist-pumping hooks. The band has been straddling the line of pop-punk and metal for their entire career, and Heaven :x: Hell is a testament to their innovative sound and unmatched skill, proving them as pioneers 27 years after the bands inception. Heaven :x: Hell is available to pre-save and pre-order now at https://sum41.lnk.to/HeavenHell On the new album, vocalist Deryck Whibley says, “Once I heard the music, I was confident enough to say, ‘This is the record I’d like to go out on.’ We’ve made a double album of pop punk and metal, and it makes sense. It took a long time for us to pav...

  Alkaline Trio serves up another helping of Blood, Hair, and Eyeballs in the form of “Bad Time,” the darkly melodic second track to be released from their 10th album, due January 26th, 2024 on Rise Records. “Bad Time” follows last month’s unveiling of the album’s frenetic title track — hailed by Consequence for its “fresh approach” and by Brooklyn Vegan as "classic Alkaline Trio… their grim yet catchy punk sounds as unmistakable as ever” — with a more subdued yet no less intense vibe. This makes perfect sense, as the lyrics find Trio guitarist/vocalist Matt Skiba finding the eyes of multiple storms in the form of the same friend’s voice: “‘Bad Time' was initially inspired by a friend and crush who happened to call me while I was on tour in El Paso, Texas as an active shooter situation was happening just across from where we were staying. We could hear gunshots and sirens as the situation escalated. My friend asked if it was a bad time to talk, and I said no — I really wanted ...

  Ontario, Canada- Grammy nominated band Sum 41 make a boisterous return with “Landmines”, their newest single and first release on Rise Records. “Landmines” is a testament of going to hell and back for the ones that matter – vocalist Deryck Whibley paints a picture of dodging shrapnel and smoke, but valiantly holding on to the ones you love. The chorus is an instant crowd-pleaser with anthemic chants that pull a room together, glued by drum fills that shake the ground as hard as the metaphorical landmines. The track is paired alongside a brand new music video that finds the band transforming prom from the class of 1998 into a raucous rock show-turned-foodfight, thrusting Sum 41 and their fans back to the early days of their career. Although Sum 41 may have announced the impending closing of their chapter, “Landmines” proves that the pop punk legends are going out with a bang. "When I wrote Landmines I had no intention of writing an old school “pop punk” song. It just came out rea...

  Flogging Molly, who recently announced the impending release of their first new album in five years, Anthem (9th September via Rise Records), have previewed a new track from the 11-song collection, releasing “This Road of Mine”. A nod to the band’s, and particularly singer/guitar player Dave King’s, unique history, “This Road of Mine” is, as King says, about taking your own path: “we’ve always done things the way we want to do it.” Plucked from obscurity, and the hopelessness of Dublin’s Tenement Row, King was hand-picked by Motörhead’s “Fast” Eddie Clarke in 1983 for Clarke’s new band, Fastway. King has often shared the ups and downs he experienced in the years that followed. With Fastway imploding in the wake of grunge, King was free to create his own vision, but along the way he spent days scrubbing toilets and painting houses as he performed nearly nightly at the Los Angeles club, and Flogging Molly’s namesake, Molly Malone’s. Now, 25 years later, the band’s unique concocti...

NEW ALBUM TOO FAR GONE OUT THROUGH RISE RECORDS ON 19TH JANUARY UK TOUR SUPPORTING MOTIONLESS IN WHITE FOR 2018 CANE HILL have released the new song "It Follows" from the band's second full-length, Too Far Gone, out January 19th through Rise Records. About the song, singer Elijah Witt told Revolver where it originally premiered, "This was a really fun song to write and it probably took us the longest. It's heavy and catchy all at once. We were trying to go for full on 'metal epic' without over-reaching and I think we did just that." Check out the video for 'It Follows' below: Too Far Gone, which is the follow up to 2016's Smile is available for pre-order HERE . Cane Hill will return to the road next month, embarking on a North American tour with Of Mice & Men, Blessthefall, and Fire From the Gods. All confirmed dates are below. The band will also perform at Rock on the Range in the spring. ICYMI: Can...

EIGHTEEN VISIONS Release New Track ' THE DISEASE, THE DECLINE AND WASTED TIME' Taken From Long-Awaited New Album XVIII, Out 2nd June Via Rise Records Eighteen Visions, the seminal metal band that recently announced they had reformed and signed with Rise Records have unleashed a brand new track ' The Disease, The Decline and Wasted Time'taken from their long-awaited new album, XVIII out 2nd June. "The Disease, The Decline & Wasted time was the first song we wrote for "XVIII." It's heavy and aggressive nature definitely help set the tone for the rest of the album.” says singer James Hart. Check out the new song below! XVIII, the reunited and reenergised band’s first new album in over a decade, is both mission statement and battle cry. It’s a blistering, dense, and diverse album. Recharged and newly partnered with Rise Records, 18V sound liberated from the expectations of the outside world and driven only by their own personal and arti...

PVRIS are a fast and forever rising American trio from Massachusetts. They released their highly successful debut, 'White Noise' in 2014, and are still reaping the benefits and soaring to greater heights with it! They decided to release a deluxe version of their dark electro cinematic rock sound, out now (released 22nd April 2016), which luckily for us includes new song, 'Empty', which is hugely ambient and atmospheric, with Lynn's characteristic powerhouse vocals, leaving a lasting impression, and a stunning stripped down version of new single, 'You And I' , which differs greatly from the original, but is equally powerful and impressive, having a seriously emotive, beautiful and haunting raw sound.  They are certainly in the spotlight right now, having recently supported Fall Out Boy in the US in February/March 2016, they then embarked on their first ever headline UK tour which started and finished this month, which went down a storm , with many a ...