This November/December, Whitechapel will embark on a North American tour, entitled “Decade of Defilement”, to commemorate the 10th anniversary of The Somatic Defilement. Featuring Carnifex, Rings of Saturn, Entheos, and So This Is Suffering as support, this trek will also include a set list with select tracks from The Somatic Defilement (some of which have not been played since the album’s release!), making this is one show not to be missed! See below for all dates. Whitechapel “Decade of Defilement” tour dates w/ Carnifex, Rings of Saturn, Entheos, So This Is Suffering Nov. 10 – Atlanta, GA – Masquerade Nov. 11 – St Petersburg, FL – State Theater Nov. 12 –...
Legendary Los Angeles rock band Mötley Crüe celebrate the 30th anniversary of 4x platinum album, Girls, Girls, Girls with today’s release of a special album reissue (via Eleven Seven Music). On the actual 30th birthday of the album, May 15, 2017, the band teamed up with Pledge Music to commemorate this iconic release with various exclusive cd, cd/dvd and vinyl packages and limited edition merchandise for fans to celebrate the anniversary with the band in style.
Powerman 5000’s legacy continues to push the boundaries of rock, metal, industrial, rap, and punk to create innovative and groundbreaking releases time and time again. Their upcoming highly anticipated album, New Wave, hits shelves on October 27, 2017, in digital and retail outlets worldwide. New Wave is PM5K’s eleventh official release since forming in 1992 and continues the strides and success from their platinum-selling album Tonight the Stars Revolt! to their most recent chart-topping single in 2014, “How to Be a Human.”
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...
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...
