The Melvins, who have a history of imaginative line-up changes, feature not one, but six different bass players on their appropriately titled new album, Basses Loaded (June 3, Ipecac Recordings).  

AUTHOR & PUNISHER, led by one-man industrial doom enigma, Tristan Shone, will haul its steel through the motorways of North America this Spring as direct support for Weedeater. Shone’s latest excursion commences with the previously announced dates which run from March 14th and through April 3rdand include a performance at this year’s edition of SXSW in Austin.  

Sirens is the forthcoming new full-length from long-running Stockholm hardcore crust troopers, VICTIMS. Set for official detonation on April 15th via Tankcrimes Records, the band’s first full-length since 2011’s acclaimed A Dissident LP was tracked at Studio Gutterview by Fred Estby (Dismember, At The Gates, Refused), mastered at Audiosiege by Brad Boatright (Iron Reagan, Nails, Integrity), and features the expected white-knuckled surges of angst as well as some more expansive elements throughout the album, all enshrouded in a barbed-wire vocal delivery, packed with unstoppable gang-chants and inescapable hooks.  

A short run from the sludge degenerates from NOLA, Goatwhore.  

2015 was a busy year for SUNN O))). Following the recent release of the triadic entity Kannon — their first full-length album since 2009’s Monoliths And Dimensions — a series of magnificent European appearances, culminating in their curation of four days at Utrecht’s Le Guess Who? festival, the band now presents the news that their live album, Dømkirke, will see dawn of day again this February.  

Chicago’s celebrated torchbearers of instrumental metal, PELICAN, will return to Europe for a string of dates this Spring. This marks the band’s first European tour since the successes of their innovative 2013 LP Forever Becoming and 2015’s 4-track EP, The Cliff — both released via Southern Lord — and their 2014 Arktika live 2xLP.  

Passing their three decade mark this month, NEUROSIS has confirmed that the band will be returning to Electrical Audio in Chicago with engineer Steve Albini on December 27th to record their forthcoming brand new LP, their follow up to 2012’s Honor Found In Decay. Additional details on the album and its approximate release in 2016 will be revealed in the early months of the year.  

THEORIES‘ “Burnt Concrete” from their recently-issued Regression full-length will be included in TONIGHT’s episode of You’re The Worst on FXX!  

Puscifer is streaming their new album, Money Shot (Oct. 30, Puscifer Entertainment), via Pandora.  

Italy’s dynamic instrumental rock trio, STEARICA, has just issued a pro-filmed, multi-camera live video of “Geber“, the track hailing from the band’s sophomore LP, Fertile. The “Geber” video is released as the band prepares to begin a sporadic new European tour this weekend, with shows throughout Belgium, Germany, Spain and Italy planned over the upcoming month.  

Born of Osiris, the Chicago-based band who release their fifth full-length album, Soul Sphere (Sumerian Records), on Friday, are streaming the twelve-song release now in its entirety via YouTube.  

Polish progressive grindcore unit, ANTIGAMA, has just launched a brand new video for the song “Eraser“, which hails from their seventh album, The Insolent.