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Release Date: September 17, 2021 FFO: Martyr, Royal Hunt, Blackhearth Location: Chicago, Illinois Fierce Atmospheres, one of Chicago's premiere examples of Progressive Power Metal, are back with their second full-length album, "The Speed of... More

Release Date: September 17, 2021 FFO: Martyr, Royal Hunt, Blackhearth Location: Chicago, Illinois Fierce Atmospheres, one of Chicago's premiere examples of Progressive Power Metal, are back with their second full-length album, "The Speed of Dreams". Mixed and mastered by Andy La Rocque at Sonic Train Studios in Sweden, The Speed of Dreams is a collection of songs formed around intricate guitars, relentless rhythm structures, and powerful melodies that create a dynamic and dramatic mix, reflective of the band's American Heavy Metal and European Power Metal influences. The teamwork between La Rocque and Fierce Atmospheres in this album signifies an upward evolution in the band's sound, making it more direct and heavy while maintaining their unique progressive touch. Check out the video! [jrEmbed module="jrYouTube" youtube_id="g7Z1jbQ2Gvw"] Check them out on Spotify and add them to your playlists! Lineup: Eric Gosselin: Guitars & KeysSean Coogan: GuitarsJohn Ashe: DrumsLance King: BassTaran de Pablos: Vocals Support the band and purchase the album on Bandcamp! The Speed Of Dreams by Fierce Atmospheres Follow the band at these links: www.fierceatmospheres.bandcamp.com https://www.facebook.com/fierceatmospheres https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeRfdn2G-Ad5U14TjPAPAKw Less

BLACKHEARTH "The Wrath Of God" - featured & Interviewed by The Metal Mag! Check it out here at this link: https://www.themetalmag.com/ Release Date: December 1st, 2021 FFO: Halford, Judas Priest, Iced Earth Alex Hernández (Lead &... More

BLACKHEARTH "The Wrath Of God" - featured & Interviewed by The Metal Mag! Check it out here at this link: https://www.themetalmag.com/ Release Date: December 1st, 2021 FFO: Halford, Judas Priest, Iced Earth Alex Hernández (Lead & Rhythm Guitar) and Asier Larrea (Drums) have remained Blackhearth's primary driving force throughout the years. At the beginning of 2017 they focused their minds on recording an album. Their debut album 'Blackhearth' was released thru with Sliptrick Records in August 2019. “The Wrath Of God” will be released on December 1st 2021. Blackhearth reveals the details of its second album entitled “The Wrath Of God”, the album! Contains 10 songs recorded at Chromaticity Studios and produced by Pedro J. Monge (Vhäldemar). Here, you can listen to the second single of the album “The Wrath Of God”, featured guest vocalist Tim Owens (Judas Priest, Iced Earth, Beyond Fear, Yngwie Malmsteen...). Check out the video! [jrEmbed module="jrYouTube" youtube_id="CNwjipfkWKo"] THE WRATH OF GOD Tracklist: 01 - Betrayal02 - Into The Unknown03 - My Bornless Child04 - Rotten To The Core05 - Nothing But Dust06 - This World07 - The Wrath Of God (Feat.Tim Owens)08 - True Belief09 - Reaching The Shore10 - Banished Forever Follow the band at these links: https://www.facebook.com/blackhearth.metal https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCz5VTQDT52S54hmwNmU75Ng https://blackhearth.bandcamp.com/releases https://open.spotify.com/artist/4ZQVbWMhZuWBO0Txqe0R63?si=VEbwXdk5Tg-r6zNCt62pAg Less

Gloves Off - "Life...And Everything After" - Reviewed By Decibel Magazine! Check it out here at this link: https://www.decibelmagazine.com/ Photo Credit:  Ariella Lungin Release Date: January 28, 2022 FFO: Hatebreed, Terror, Brick By... More

Gloves Off - "Life...And Everything After" - Reviewed By Decibel Magazine! Check it out here at this link: https://www.decibelmagazine.com/ Photo Credit:  Ariella Lungin Release Date: January 28, 2022 FFO: Hatebreed, Terror, Brick By Brick PA's metallic hardcore heathens release the second chapter to their debut release on Upstate Records, "Life...And Everything After"; an emotional rollercoaster of pure aggression and angst that is sure to leave the listener battered and bruised! This heavy metallic hardcore outfit out of Bucks County, Pennsylvania, revels in a particularly down 'n' dirty brand of aggression. Their catalog is rife with cranium-crushing instrumentation, emotive lyrical content, a methodically vicious bite, and more pent-up antagonism than most can reasonably muster. Overtly inspired by literary greats such as Edgar Allen Poe and Arthur Rimbaud, and following in the musical footsteps of acts such as The Acacia Strain, Baptists, and A Life Once Lost, Gloves Off comfortably wreck havoc in the no man's land that sits somewhere between "firmly grounded" and "explosively volatile." From a musical, emotional, and thematic standpoint, this quintet’s output bears considerable weight.  Check out the video! [jrEmbed module="jrYouTube" youtube_id="_2Sbar-XDmo"] Check them out on Spotify and add them to your playlists! Gloves Off’s next project, out January 28th, 2022 in collaboration with Upstate Records, isn’t entirely typical. The framework of this forthcoming is deliberately unconventional, born of the implicit challenges presented by the pandemic. The first four tracks were released in March of 2020 in the form of an EP entitled Life, which appears here once more alongside five brand new songs seeking to explore ...And Everything After. If the preexisting tracks comprising Life aren't enough to accordingly whet your whistle, keep one ear open for the Poe-inspired lead single "Conqueror Worm,"--an homage to the play of man wherein the titular harbinger of apocalypse is the true hero--which will drop on December 10th of this year. A subsequent second single, the gritty yet emotively bombastic "My Death Was a Banquet," inspired by Rimbaud's "A Season In Hell," enters the arena on January 7th.  Although bifurcated, this project forms a cohesive whole: in the words of vocalist Cody Clark, the project’s tail end is an exploration of the process after the loss of life.  Life and death are intrinsically hefty topics, and Gloves Off strives to exorcize the demons rather than simply pretending they don’t exist.  As such, Life...And Everything After is an intentionally therapeutic project, both for the band and for any listener grappling with the enormity of life, death, and inevitable loss.  And, lest we forget the exhilaration of peeling off the gloves and throwing hands: grappling in a physical sense is wholeheartedly encouraged as well. "In the second part of our release "...And Everything After" we wrote it not as in the process of losing everything (Life),but the process after the loss of losing everything, there's a certain romance and poetic stance on death that can be beautiful as well as disturbing, we write what we like as a band, musically and lyrically, just so happens we think about life and death in a dark sense instead of hiding demons, we let them out in a therapeutic way for the listener as well as us to enjoy" -Cody Clark, Vocalist   Catch GLOVES OFF on November 20, 2021 at the first ever Upstate Records Family and Friends showcase at The Brooklyn Monarch Brooklyn, NY with Nuclear Assault, Subzero, Tombs, Sworn Enemy and more! Doors at 3, Show starts at 4. More Info And Tickets HERE! Follow the band at these links: https://www.upstaterecordsny.com/gloves-off https://open.spotify.com/artist/5SE7UIL8zWk8FPPKI2UIlu https://www.facebook.com/GlovesOffPAHC https://www.instagram.com/glovesoffpahc/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClCZazj0MJzP5OGhnd1ch4A https://upstaterecords.bandcamp.com/ Less

Last summer Cassius King (Jason McMaster vocals, Dan Lorenzo guitars, Ron Lipnicki drums and Jimmy Schulman bass) releasedtheir debut album Field Trip on California's Nomad Eel Records. A mere 6 month's later and Cassius King grace us with a... More

Last summer Cassius King (Jason McMaster vocals, Dan Lorenzo guitars, Ron Lipnicki drums and Jimmy Schulman bass) releasedtheir debut album Field Trip on California's Nomad Eel Records. A mere 6 month's later and Cassius King grace us with a brand new single and lyric video for easily their catchiest song yet; Bad Man Down. Guitarist Dan Lorenzo co-wrote the single with Jason McMaster. "I remember how long it took me to write the music to the first two Hades albums in the 80s. I literally had no music left after each album. Songwriting started to get much easier for me when I started Non-Fiction in the summer of '89, but it's never been this easy." Lorenzo said. "I'm not doing this for the money, but it's as fun or more fun than it ever was honestly. "When asked what the lyrics to Bad Man Down mean, McMaster said,  "This takes me to a place where we don't have much control. We can get cozy and feel good, because we did it all 'safe', and politically correct, etc....but, you cannot stop the bus just because you pull the chain. I am not a young man anymore, I am not trying to be, so these things we do to try and live longer, healthy diet, etc..they work, but still...the bus won't stop. Bullets fly by that were not meant for you.... your doctor misses' things in your visits, next thing you know.... This lyric is about who's 'round the corner. I have tried make friends with him, and the black cat crossing my path."Cassius King plan to release 10 new songs (plus you can always expect a fun cover song or two) later this year Nomad Eel in America-MDD Records Europe.  The world is in a very strange place right now, but it's hard to keep these bad men down. Jay Bones from Space Based made the video.Watch the video at: [jrEmbed module="jrYouTube" youtube_id="0ybwWcoOo1I"] Less

Photo Credit: K Enagonio Check out the premiere of “Edge Lorde” from Matriarchs Here: Knotfest Merging fluid bars with core aggression the collaboration reiterates the band’s fresh take on the sound. Emerging LA-based metalcore unit... More

Photo Credit: K Enagonio Check out the premiere of “Edge Lorde” from Matriarchs Here: Knotfest Merging fluid bars with core aggression the collaboration reiterates the band’s fresh take on the sound. Emerging LA-based metalcore unit Matriarchs have delivered a steady succession of singles over the course of the last year. Dropping convincing performances on single like “R.A.N.,” “Ascendency” and “Solace,” in recent months, the collective comprised of members of previously established bands like Hoods, Ruckus, and The Faceless continue to craft a stylistic collision that sources the best of alternative culture’s broad range of influences. The band’s brand of metalcore, coupled with own individual lean loans itself to outside the box thinking and a unique receptiveness to experiment with their sound without compromising their integrity. Thus, tracks like “Edge Lorde” are born. Enlisting the lyrically fluid talents of Decatur-based wordsmith Jarren Benton, Matriarchs embraced spirit of collaboration and approach the former Funk Volume/Roc Nation artist with nothing more than a track and their appreciation. Matriarchs drummer Ben Levi detailed the origins of the track, “I discovered Jarren Benton last year, Ironically the spotify algorithm had slipped one of his tunes onto my queue after my playlist had finished. I instantly fell in love, looked him up and hit him up with something I had been working on and he was down to kick it off for us. Both K (Matriarchs vocalist) and I are huge fans, and are super proud of what we were able to come up with together. All Jarren had was a song title and the music but he set the tone right away and it was easy to vibe lyrically off of that.  There are a lot of different elements we don’t normally use and we were interested in expanding our sonic means of communication. We are very proud of this release.” The track underscores the band’s continued sonic evolution. Turning heads in 2020 with the unveiling of their Year of the Rat LP, the band’s metallic hardcore roots, have since been bolstered by a progressive approach to the genre. Fusing personally-charged lyrics and a modern take on metalcore, Matriarchs blur genre lines with a level of authenticity that separates them from the pack. - Ramon Gonzales for knotfest.com MATRIARCHS "Edge Lorde" on Knucklehedz Inc Order HERE! About Matriarchs: Matriarchs is a metallic hardcore band formed in Los Angeles CA in 2014. It started out as strictly a studio project by founding guitarist Ben Levi. The project was inspired by his affinity for modern European Beat Down and 90s New York metallic hardcore. Ben had played with drummer Alfred Santa Cruz, bassist Miguel Vasquez, and guitarist Marty Cole in several other projects throughout the last decade so they were no strangers to getting creative together. After playing their first show to a packed house the boys never looked back. They've gone on to play with bands like Soulfly, Harm's Way, Disgrace, Bane, Backtrack, Sworn Enemy, and Vision Of Disorder. An ambitious release produced by Nick Jett of Terror, and Mastered by Matt Hyde, (Lionheart, Hatebreed, Deftones) Scandalous Jointz fuses together the visual aesthetic and presentation of more thought-provoking heavy acts with the sonic ferocity and energy of hardcore. A few national festivals and two tours later saw the band taking a hiatus and reflecting on what the general direction and purpose of the band would be. In 2018 Matriarchs parted ways with vocalist Richard Barthel. After teaming up with Jeremy Valentyne and Brandon Wolfe to produce their new release, adding veteran Carlos Pagan to the line up on guitar and meeting new vocalist K Enagonio during the pandemic, the band found the new fire it needed. In K the band finds its truest voice. Over the quarantine, they wrote their 2nd full-length Year of The Rat. Matriarchs lineup: K Enagonio - VocalsCarlos Pagan - Guitar David Rubenhold - BassBen Levi - Drums  Matriarchs online: instagram.com/matriarchshcfacebook.com/matriarchshctwitter.com/matriarchshxcmatriarchs.bandcamp.com http://open.spotify.com/album/1Cjhob6gzsUMdYrlVKlSfthttps://music.apple.com/us/album/edgelorde-single/1602327938https://youtu.be/rNS9yFx9tbs  Less