Dälek, who have been “mixing the searing political rhetoric of Public Enemy, the suffocating shoegaze textures of My Bloody Valentine and the primal appeal of squealing industrial noise” for over 18 years (Rolling Stone), stream their new album, Endangered Philosophies (Sept.1, Ipecac Recordings) via NPR (http://www.npr.org/2017/08/24/545530932/first-listen-d-lek-endangered-philsophies). “Endangered Philosophies is Dälek’s signature sound pushed in new directions,” explains MC Dälek. “It is a very introspective record about very external forces. This isn’t about one listen… it’s about your evolving perception when you immerse yourself in the layers of sounds and words. Endangered Philosophies... 

JELLO BIAFRA JOINS DEAD CROSS FOR ROUSING, ALTERNATE VERSION OF DEAD KENNEDYS’ “NAZI PUNKS F*** OFF”: “NAZI TRUMPS F*** OFF”  

  While he’s been performing live shows for nearly five decades, this week marked a first for OZZY OSBOURNE. The rock icon performed one of his signature tracks “Bark At The Moon” as the historic eclipse of 2017 plunged the entire field in southern Illinois into darkness;  

On September 29th, Metal Blade Records will release two classic Testament albums on vinyl for the first time in the USA: Low and The Ritual! Pre-order your copies now at: https://www.indiemerch.com/metalbladerecords/band/testament  

San Diego natives FOR THE WIN have delivered “Us Versus Them,” the fourth video from their upcoming album Heavy Thoughts, set for release this Friday, August 25th. The song kicks off the new album with its immediate callout, “This is a song for the beaten and broken!’ and skyrockets FOR THE WIN’s singalong, pile-on, aggressive guitar driven pop into mosh pits (and speakers) worldwide.  

I’ve had Anathema’s Alternative 4  on my iTunes for as long as I can remember. Seriously, it has been there for an undisclosed amount of time and I have enjoyed that album time and time again over the years. It’s a product of where the band was mentally at the time, a phase in which they’ve evolved from, but there’s a certain quality to the music that makes it feel like the start of something, where it’s perhaps the band entirely leaving their doom metal roots and evolving into the progressive, symphonic, alternative rock outfit they’ve become. Yet nearly 20 years since that album’s debut, however, Anathema have only ascended as musicians, and if their dramatic return to New York City was a testament... 

  Sweden’s DEAD LORD proudly present you another track and video from the band’s forthcoming new album, “In Ignorance We Trust”, which will be released via CENTURY MEDIA RECORD on August 25.  

Finnish post-punk quintet GRAVE PLEASURES have released their new single, “Be My Hiroshima”, taken from their upcoming sophomore album “Motherblood”, due for release on September 29 via CENTURY MEDIA RECORDS.  

Lynch Mob release the second music video from upcoming album, The Brotherhood, scheduled for release on September 8th via Rat Pak Records. The video for “Mr. Jekyll and Hyde” is now live and can be seen here: https://youtu.be/8TwZ73a3aI8. The video also features a cameo appearance from members of Beasto Blanco and shows Lynch Mob performing at a freak show. The video comes on the heels of the video for “Main Offender” (https://youtu.be/ONZk7sof40w) that has resonated with fans being viewed over 125K times in three weeks.  

With the release of their third full-length studio album, Sleeping Lions, slated to arrive next month (Sept. 22), Las Vegas-based Hard Rock outfit OTHERWISE are pleased to announce that they will be joining Red & 10 Years on a month-long Fall tour in the states. Speaking about the band’s upcoming tour with 10 Years & Red, Otherwise frontman Adrian Patrick comments:  

French death metal legion THE WALKING DEAD ORCHESTRA will release their second full-length, Resurrect, on October 13th via Unique Leader Records.  

On August 25th, Finnish cinemascope metallers Crimfall will release their new album, Amain, worldwide via Metal Blade Records! Crimfall has now premiered the first video clip in support of the new album.  The new single “Until Falls the Rain”! Crimfall comments: “Before we unleash the third storm that is ‘Amain‘, we present you our very first music video. ‘Until Falls The Rain’ is the crushing conclusion for the album, last simmering truths are laid low, throats bared against the unforgiving fall. It was a long day of drowning under homemade sprinklers, shooing away fire brigades and mopping away thousand lakes of water. In the end we are more than satisfied with the forlorn...