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Blackened death grind unit IMMORTAL BIRD will kick off their anticipated North American headlining tour this weekend. The two-week journey begins December 7th in Dayton, Ohio and will come to a close December 20th in their home city of Chicago,... More

Blackened death grind unit IMMORTAL BIRD will kick off their anticipated North American headlining tour this weekend. The two-week journey begins December 7th in Dayton, Ohio and will come to a close December 20th in their home city of Chicago, Illinois. See all confirmed dates below.   IMMORTAL BIRD: 12/07/2019 Turnbuckles & Brews - Dayton, OH12/08/2019 Howlers - Pittsburgh, PA12/09/2019 The Meatlocker - Montclair, NJ12/10/2019 Atlas Brew Works - Washington, DC12/11/2019 Union Pool - Brooklyn, NY12/12/2019 Kung Fu Necktie - Philadelphia, PA12/13/2019 Hong Kong - Cambridge, MA12/14/2019 Chrome - Waterford, NY12/15/2019 Foufounes Electriques - Montreal, QC12/16/2019 Bovine Sex Club - Toronto, ON12/17/2019 Sanctuary - Detroit, MI12/18/2019 X Ray Arcade - Milwaukee, WI12/19/2019 Part Wolf - Minneapolis, MN12/20/2019 Empty Bliss - Chicago, IL   IMMORTAL BIRD will be touring in support of their Thrive On Neglect full-length, released in July through 20 Buck Spin. With a multi-layered sound running the gamut from pummeling grind and death metal to dissonant blackened metal, angular noise, and complex hardcore, IMMORTAL BIRD defies simple categorization. The band's compositions fuse into strikingly savage songs, vast in their scope and more than the sum of their disparate parts, merging the progressive and destructive into a maelstrom of raging fire. Rae Amitay's seething vocal exorcisms and targeted lyrical aggression provide the connective tissue holding the stylized violence together. Featuring the punishingly heavy production work of Dave Otero (Archspire, Cattle Decapitation, Khemmis), ideally suited for IMMORTAL BIRD's tumultuous arrangements and orchestrated chaos, Thrive On Neglect takes the perilous road of musical diversity and commands it with a bloodthirsty rage.   IMMORTAL BIRD's Thrive On Neglect is out now on CD, LP, and digital formats. For physical orders, go to THIS LOCATION. Find digital orders at the 20 Buck Spin Bandcamp at THIS LOCATION where the record can be streamed in full.    "Thrive On Neglect is a take-no-prisoners-and-add-no-filler kind of record; each song is loaded with a sense of urgency and notes don't feel wasted or unnecessary. Vocalist Rae Amitay is on fire on Thrive On Neglect, delivering each line with a throat-shredding tone that matches her bandmates' furious playing. There's something for everyone here: blackened, blasting insanity, crushing down-tuned parts and even a few opportunities for quiet introspection." - Decibel   "There is an undeniable element of danger that the band is able to capture, almost as if they themselves don't know what's coming next, whether it be a violent tempo change, a burst of dissonance or a hardcore-infused transition into a blackened dirge."  - Metal Injection   "A band making beautiful music for a broken sort of person." - Kerrang's 50 Best American Metal Bands From The Last Decade   "A tour-de-force demonstration of the feral rage of which the group is readily capable, the track explodes into violent action with a dissonant blackened staccato riff and thundering blast beats before vocalist Rae Amitay's derelict vocals descend upon the grime and chaos of the group's sonic misanthropy." - Invisible Oranges on "Avolition"    "This is, absolutely, music that intends to overwhelm. To hear a band like IMMORTAL BIRD live is to be able to lose oneself in the bursts of energy and anarchy that they wield so capably." - Treble Album Of The Week   "Here is a record without any downsides, and with a lot of ferocious-and moving-upside. Uncompromising and niche-less, Thrive On Neglect should place Immortal Bird on best-of lists come year's end, and secure for them a place at the table of the heaviest hitters in modern metal. But most of all, it should be in your library and your rotation." - Last Rites   "...it might be one of the finest extreme releases of the decade. There is nary a wasted riff, cymbal choke, or unfathomably deep growl through its course and IMMORTAL BIRD dance so goddamn gracefully between ludicrously heavy grind and morose, progressive death metal of the highest order." - Heavy Blog Is Heavy   http://www.facebook.com/immortalbirdbandhttp://www.20buckspin.comhttp://www.facebook.com/20buckspinhttp://www.twitter.com/20buckspinlabelhttp://www.listen.20buckspin.com Less

Washington, DC metalcore pioneers DARKEST HOUR begin their co-headlining West Coast tour with Unearth today. The festivities commence tonight in Seattle, with shows in Portland, Orangevale, Los Angeles, San Diego, Scottsdale, Las Vegas, Grand... More

Washington, DC metalcore pioneers DARKEST HOUR begin their co-headlining West Coast tour with Unearth today. The festivities commence tonight in Seattle, with shows in Portland, Orangevale, Los Angeles, San Diego, Scottsdale, Las Vegas, Grand Junction, and Denver through December 15th.   A month later, DARKEST HOUR will kick off 2020 with a return to Europe for a sixteen-city special 25th anniversary tour, where they'll be joined by special guests Fallujah, Bloodlet, Une Misere, and Lowest Creature.   Produced by Kurt Ballou (Converge), DARKEST HOUR's eleventh LP, Godless Prophets & The Migrant Flora, continues to solidify the band's legacy as a major metal powerhouse. Raw, complex, melodic, yet cutting with razor blade precision, Godless Prophets & The Migrant Flora is a fierce album which shows the long-running band as lethal and ravenous as ever. Following its 217 release through Southern Lord, the band has continued to tour regularly throughout North America and Europe.   Godless Prophets & The Migrant Flora is available on CD, black vinyl LP, picture disc LP, and all digital platforms via Southern Lord; find ordering options at the label's webstore HERE, via Bandcamp HERE, and through all digital providers.   DARKEST HOUR West Coast US Tour w/ Unearth: 12/06/2019 El Corazon - Seattle, WA 12/07/2019 Dante's - Portland, OR 12/09/2019 The Boardwalk - Orangevale, CA 12/10/2019 Club 1720 - Los Angeles, CA 12/11/2019 Brick By Brick - San Diego, CA 12/12/2019 Pubrock - Scottsdale, AZ 12/13/2019 601 Fremont - Las Vegas, NV 12/14/2019 Mesa Theater - Grand Junction, CO 12/15/2019 The Roxy Theatre - Denver, CO 25th Anniversary Tour w/ Fallujah, Bloodlet, Une Misere, Lowest Creature: 1/17/2020 Weiße Rose - Karlsruhe, DE 1/18/2020 Kavka - Antwerp, BE 1/19/2020 Petit Bain - Paris, FR 1/20/2020 Rebellion - Manchester, UK 1/21/2020 Underworld - London, UK 1/22/2020 Willem Twee - Den Bosch, NL 1/23/2020 Conne Island - Leipzig, DE 1/24/2020 Logo - Hamburg, DE 1/25/2020 Bi Nuu - Berlin, DE 1/26/2020 Hydrozagadka - Warsaw, PL 1/27/2020 Arena - Vienna, AU 1/28/2020 Futurum - Prague, CZ 1/29/2020 Dürer Kert - Budapest, HU 1/30/2020 Backstage - Munich, DE 1/31/2020 Kiff - Aarau, CH 2/01/2020 Matrix - Bochum, DE   "The quest that DARKEST HOUR, the DC melodeath warriors, have been on for more than two decades is one that is wholly about tearing faces off with precision, intent, and riffs. The band's most recent album, last year's great Godless Prophets & The Migrant Flora, showcased them knowing exactly what kind of music they wanted to make and how to make it." - Noisey   "This album is full of death metal riffs, savage hardcore pummeling in drums, and melodic beauty, making for a terrific heavy record. Godless Prophets & The Migrant Flora is a work that feels like the good ole days of outstanding hardcore that meets today's brilliant technicality and soaring metal. This is unlike anything that DARKEST HOUR has presented before in their discography, and dare I say it: their best work. 9.5/10" - Metal Injection   "As rich and ferocious as it is blessedly authentic...a freshly bloodthirsty DARKEST HOUR with a gritty edge and a fretwork at the forefront...With some of the band's early spirit restored, some newly memorable songwriting skills, and superbly euphoric guitarwork, it would seem that DARKEST HOUR plus Kurt Ballou plus Kris Norris is as killer a formula as expected." - Metal Hammer   "They're firmly back on the horse here with a collection of acerbic aural hand grenades...the quintet set about ripping you limb from limb from the outset...A ripper." - Rock Sound   http://officialdarkesthour.comhttps://www.facebook.com/DarkestHourDudeshttps://twitter.com/darkesthourrockhttps://www.instagram.com/darkest_hour_officialhttp://www.southernlord.com Less

Kazakhstan thrashers ZARRAZA have released a video for "Chaos 19". The song is taken from their recently released EP Rotten Remains.Watch the video here:  [jrEmbed module="jrYouTube" youtube_id="a99unHxci0c"]Order Rotten Remains here:... More

Kazakhstan thrashers ZARRAZA have released a video for "Chaos 19". The song is taken from their recently released EP Rotten Remains.Watch the video here:  [jrEmbed module="jrYouTube" youtube_id="a99unHxci0c"]Order Rotten Remains here: https://zarraza.bandcamp.com/ About Rotten Remains The band says, "This EP is new but at the same time old. All songs are old – they were written years ago and released on self-produced demos Bullets & Beliefs (2012) and Cutting Meat. Fast & Loud (2013). We decided to re-recorded it fully because we still play some of this shit live. So we carefully dig these remains, inject them with new viruses and put out as EP." They continued, "Also it is our way to honor ex-mates who help us start ZARRAZA: guitarists Max Saklakov and Damir Yunussov, bass player Alex Filatoff. Guys! Though you escaped from the band you are still infected and keep rotting with us!   And last... The EP was recorded with bassist Eugene Hablack who left the band in the middle of the recording process but helps us to finish it. Thanks for your support (though our new bass player Adil Aliakpar is jealous as fuck!)" Less

The intrepid duo of Edmonton’s Sleepwraith are releasing their debut album “Day Terrors” on January 17, 2020. This is the first album from Sleepwarith in what is expected to be a series of releases under the name. The songs and overall flow of... More

The intrepid duo of Edmonton’s Sleepwraith are releasing their debut album “Day Terrors” on January 17, 2020. This is the first album from Sleepwarith in what is expected to be a series of releases under the name. The songs and overall flow of the album feel like a journey that takes an emotional toll on the listener, with dynamic parts and unexpected turns. To Sleepwraith it’s important to create music with levels of intricacy that you might not notice on the first listen. Sleepwraith explains their motivation behind writing the album: “We created an album with little thought as to how it would be received, instead of focusing on making an album that we would want to hear. We’ve always felt that making art with this starting point has created some of the most genuine music out there. Hopefully, our fans enjoy music for the same reasons we do and enjoy this album as much as we do.” The first single from this album is 'The Aphelion Complex', described by the band as an angry trip to the infirmary with soaring melodies and heavy intricacy. Sleepwraith expands on the lyrical themes present: “The main inspiration is the need to expel the demons within and contain them in an art form. We use this inner turmoil as a starting place, and try to make it into something beautiful. It’s painful and sometimes disgusting, but it’s also therapeutic.'The Aphelion Complex' is streaming on Sleepwraith’s on YouTube and website Sleepwraith.com [jrEmbed module="jrYouTube" youtube_id="8QmQrHgkMwQ"] Track Listing:1. The Aphelion Complex (6:16)2. Transorbital Decay (4:08)3. Anamnesis (7:19)4. Burial Plot (4:26)5. Biomite (4:36)6. Sol (5:09)7. Carnival Dread (5:19)8. A Demon’s Pawn and The Abyss (4:54)9. The Vile, Raptured (1:58)10. The Vile Raptured (4:49)11. Dystory (6:04)Album Length: 55:04 For more info:Sleepwraith.com Facebook.com/sleepwraith Instagram.com/Sleepwraithofficial Twitter.com/sleepwraith EPKAbout: Sleepwraith comes from Edmonton, Canada and the project has been incubated over the course of 20 years and five previous bands ranging from grunge to metalcore to punk rock to hardcore. The partnership of Seedy Mitchell (guitars/vocals) and Ryan Biggs (drums) is based on a friendship that goes back to before either of them were playing music or even listening to metal. Now that partnership has developed into a dark and dynamic collaborative undertaking that sees Mitchell bringing material to the table in the form of multiple personalities (guitar, bass, vocals) and those elements being worked on together until a song is built. Coming from different musical backgrounds, Mitchell and Biggs have found their differing styles complement each other and blend to form their brand of deep and intricate metal. Their music conveys emotion through the music but also maintains a technicality that makes it interesting to write and play, and subsequently, listen to. Sleepwraith wants to tell stories musically and lyrically, focused primarily on creating and releasing new music and art without being concerned about playing it live. All of their energies have been pointed at that goal. With influences coming from all over the metal map including prog, death, mathcore, metalcore, and hardcore, Sleepwraith is an upcoming original band with something for all listeners. The more you listen to it, the more there is to hear. Their debut album "Day Terrors" is slated for release on January 17, 2020. Less