Supporting Ghost Bath on Luminescence · Europa · MMXVIII Tour 

"Glacial post rock collapsing into icy black metal blasts. It's epic and stirring stuff. Absolutely crushing." - Daniel P Carter, BBC Radio1 Rock Show

Danish blackgaze powerhouse MØL have premiered their new video for the title track of their album Jord via Kerrang! Magazine.  Watch the video in full here: https://youtu.be/e0mEj8NWi3c

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Following a busy year with their debut album release, summer touring and festival appearances, the band now see out the rest of 2018 by hitting the road as as support for atmospheric black metallers GHOST BATH on their forthcoming Luminescence · Europa · MMXVIII European Tour. Tickets are on sale from now. 

Dates are as follows:

01.11.18 Belgium Brugge - Villa Bota [Tickets]  
02.11.18 UK Birmingham - The Flapper [Tickets] 
03.11.18 UK Leeds - Damnation Fest [Tickets]  
04.11.18 UK Bournemouth - The Anvil  [Tickets] 
05.11.18 UK Manchester - Satans Hallow  [Tickets]   
06.11.18 UK Glasgow - Audio  [Tickets]
07.11.18 UK London - Boston Music Room [Tickets] 
08.11.18 Netherlands Arnhem - Willemeen  [Tickets]  
09.11.18 Germany Cologne - MTC  [Tickets] 
10.11.18 Germany Hamburg - Hafenklang  [Tickets] 
13.11.18 Germany Hannover - Mephisto   [Tickets]  
14.11.18 Germany Berlin - Cassiopeia    [Tickets] 
15.11.18 Germany Jena - Rosenkeller  [Tickets]  
16.11.18 Germany Leipzig - Naumanns  [Tickets] 
17.11.18 Austria Vienna - Escape   [Tickets]  
18.11.18 Austria Graz - Explosiv  [Tickets] 
19.11.18 Germany Munich - Backstage  [Tickets] 
20.11.18 Germany Trier - Exhaus   [Tickets] 
1.11.18 Germany Wiesbaden - Schlachthof  [Tickets]  

Debut album Jord was released to worldwide critical acclaim by Holy Roar Records in the UK/EU [buy now] and Deathwish Inc in the USA [buy now] on April 13th this year. 

Find Out More:
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Strangefruit to be released 23rd November

'Beautiful/Dangerous' out now

Liverpool rock duo RIVAL BONES have released their new single 'Beautiful/Dangerous', the second from their forthcoming EP Strangefruit, due to be released 23rd November via Alya Records.

Watch the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqZW8J-gjKA

Listen on Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2CO4kxt

And pre-order the EP here: https://www.rivalbones.com/merch/strangefruit-physical-pre-order

All limited editions of the Strangefruit EP have now sold out amidst support from Kerrang! Radio, Planet Rock, Classic Rock Magazine, Rolling Stone, and BBC Introducing.

RIVAL BONES are comprised of just two members: Chris Thomason (formerly of Boss Keloid) on drums, while the powerful riffing and vocals come from James Whitehouse.

The duo sit astride several musical worlds, bringing to mind Foo Fighters, Queens of the Stone Age, and Audioslave, all while showing that less is more.

RIVAL BONES made their debut back in 2015 with the release of ‘You Know Who You Are’, receiving airplay from BBC Introducing, Planet Rock, Kerrang Radio, Team Rock, Amazing Radio and Real XS.

Followed up by ‘Robot Girl’ and ‘Lost Along the Way’ in 2016, the two-piece began to establish themselves as one of the hottest rock bands to emerge from the North West in the last decade. In 2017, RIVAL BONES released their self-titled EP, signing soon after to Alya Records and playing Zandari Festival in Seoul, South Korea.

Upon their return the band were invited to support Frank Turner's Mongol Horde, Electric Six, Dead! and Fizzy Blood at their respective shows in Manchester and were booked to perform at Sound City Liverpool, Focus Wales and The Alternative Escape, as well as Amplified Festival and INmusic Festival Zagreb.

Now follows Strangefruit, a highly impressive four-track collection further showcasing the band's undeniable talent and muscle.

Catch the band live:

Oct 29:
The Pub
Lancaster, United Kingdom

Nov 09:
The Griffin
Newton-le-willows, United Kingdom

Dec 07:
Brickyard
Carlisle, United Kingdom

Dec 08:
The Camden Mixer
London, United Kingdom

For further information:
www.rivalbones.com
www.facebook.com/rivalbones
www.twitter.com/rivalbones
www.instagram.com/rivalbones
www.youtube.com/rivalbones
www.soundcloud.com/rivalbones

Strangefruit tracklisting:

1. Beautiful/Dangerous
2. Tie So Tight
3. Pull Me Under
4. Hot Blooded

Streaming now

Italian metallers ELYNE have released their new single 'Stand Tall' (26th October 2018).

Watch the video for 'Stand Tall', premiered by Impericon, here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJSbRFKxE70

Stream the single here: http://smarturl.it/elyneST

Supported by Kerrang! Radio, and landing on two Spotify playlists (New Core - 340,000 followers and New Metal Tracks - 341,000 followers), the new single has proved to be an instant hit - landing at #1 on the Italian iTunes Metal Chart.

Forming in 2013, ELYNE immediately found themselves touring, including shows with Chelsea Grin, Architects, Sworn In, and Being As An Ocean. In 2015 the band released the single 'Frames' and went on their first European headline tour, before releasing their second full length Alibi in April 2017, which reached #3 on the national Metal iTunes Chart.

The release of Alibi saw ELYNE play Home Festival (100,000 attendance) for the first time, one of Italy's largest music festivals, before ending the year with Of Mice & Men. 

Following the release of the highly anticipated new single 'Stand Tall' the band will tour across Europe and beyond. Dates to be announced soon.

LINKS: ​
Website: www.elyneofficial.com
Facebook: ​www.facebook.com/elyneofficial
Instagram:​ www.instagram.com/elyneofficial
Twitter:​ www.twitter.com/elyneofficial
Youtube:​ www.youtube.com/c/elyneofficial

The Language of Injury to be released 1st February 2019 (Holy Roar Records)
'The Language of Injury' single out now

Photo credit: Ben Gibson

Metallic hardcore's finest newcomers ITHACA are excited to reveal their debut full-length record, The Language of Injury, to be released 1st February 2019 via one of heavy music's premier forward-thinking labels in Holy Roar Records.

The band have also streamed the first single from the album. Watch the video for the self-titled track here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBFcYn78C4Q

Stream here: https://soundcloud.com/holyroarrecords/ithaca-the-language-of-injury/s-cX1yg

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Pre-order: smarturl.it/ITHACA

Formed out of a mutual love of metallic hardcore but despair at its lack of ambition, ITHACA draw influence from everything from Southern doom to 90's math rock, as well as the untethered savagery of early Poison The Well and melodious battery of Oathbreaker.

The result is crushing grooves and shrieking guitar squalls that give way to haunting melodic passages and desolate reprieves. The debut album will be the band's most ambitious and emotionally raw material to date, following from their 2015 Trespassers EP (COF Records/Soaked in Torment). 

ITHACA have previously toured with Employed to Serve, Venom Prison, Renouncedand more. 

Watch the band live:

11.11.18: Boston Music Room (supporting Ohhms)

For more information:

http://www.holyroarrecords.com/news
https://www.facebook.com/IthacaUK/
https://ithacauk.bandcamp.com/

The Language of Injury tracklisting:

1. New Covenant
2. Impulse Crush
3. Secretspace
4. Slow Negative Order
5. (No Translation)
6. The Language of Injury
7. CLSR.
8. Youth Vs Wisdom
9. Gilt
10. Better Abuse

'The Sunset and the Silhouette' streaming now

SERPENTS (Andrew Mikhail, ex-Oceano, Defiler) are today streaming their new single 'The Sunset and the Silhouette'.

Watch the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcaxtQqZDDM

And stream: http://www.trvemedia.com/

Within it's seven years of existence, fans have collectively praised SERPENTS as an underground “art movement” with its two albums to date, powerful message, and their select performances on tour alongside the likes of Wretched and The Browning.

After the independent success of the 2014 album Pestilence, SERPENTS are gearing up to release their third album this Winter with the help of acclaimed producer Logan Mader(Five Finger Death Punch, Gojira, DevilDriver) manning the boards.

SERPENTS will guest at Spooky Empire Rock, Horror, and Tattoo Convention: October 26-28, Caribe Royale, Orlando FL.

For more information:

http://www.facebook.com/weareserpents

New album The Grand Delusion out November 30th

German alternative rockers THE INTERSPHERE have released their new single & video for 'Antitype', taken from their forthcoming album The Grand Delusion. The band's fifth studio album - and first since 2014's Relations in the Unseen - will be released 30th November 2018 via Long Branch Records.

Watch the in-studio video for 'Antitype' here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rf5EGNImwWc

Singer and guitarist Christoph Hessler comments:

"Antitype was one of the first songs we wrote for the new album. It forms the basis for the content, from which the overall album idea The Grand Delusion developed. The song describes the social powerlessness in the capitalist system, the illusion of liberal thinking in borderless growth, the physical and emotional self-exploitation, a cynical development that has long since passed the apex of social and societal utility and, historically speaking, inevitably collapses in recurrent cycles.“

Listen to the single and pre-order the record here: https://theintersphere.lnk.to/thegranddelusion

The background for the album The Grand Delusion is the highly subjective question that is not only posed by Paul Watzlawick in his eponymous book, but that has now reached a completely new dimension in the madness of media coverage: How real is reality? The songs are not only concerned with thinking and acting in sociological and societal contexts, in systems, orders and interpretations of reality created by humans, but also with reflecting on oneself, introspection and the question “What foundation is my own reality based on?”.  Almost five years after the last release, and after personal crises and changes, The Grand Delusion is lyrically the most personal album to date from THE INTERSPHERE, but also one of the most varied, loudest and angriest. 

Hessler continues: “The production aimed at recording the four main instruments live and as close up, big and detailed as possible, and thus duplication was largely avoided. We also experimented with new open tunings and countless distortion and fuzz pedals that make the sound more distorted and dirty. But there are also a couple of opulently arranged songs that enrich the sounds of The Intersphere with new colours and facets that people have never heard from us before.”

Like its predecessor, Relations in the Unseen, the album was produced by Christoph Hessler and THE INTERSPHERE, recorded live at Toolhouse Studios in Rotenburg (Germany), mixed and co-produced by Moritz Enders and mastered by Robin Schmidt. The artwork was once again created by the band's longtime associate Pierre Schmidt Dromsjel.

Pre-order the record here: https://theintersphere.lnk.to/thegranddelusion?mc_cid=137b6551dd&mc_eid=[UNIQID]

'"bravado"' available to listen now

US post-rockers THE END OF THE OCEAN are back, with '"bravado"', their new single and first release in seven years.

Watch the video for '"bravado"' here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jt6YugLWGaw

And stream: https://evr.lnk.to/bravado

The single follows the announcement made earlier this year that THE END OF THE OCEAN have signed with Equal Vision Records / Rude Records. The band have recently completed their highly-anticipated label debut with producer Mike Watts (The Dillinger Escape Plan, Glassjaw), which will be released early next year, with more details to be announced soon.

This is the first new material since the band's highly praised 2011 debut, Pacific-Atlantic. With so much going on in their personal lives, Tara Mayer (keys) says that THE END OF THE OCEAN needed to “give ourselves a chance to hurt so that we could have the chance to heal” before even thinking about another release. The past few years have forced the band to come to terms with their own humanity and mortality, as well as that of their bandmates and friends. Now finally in a place to focus on new music, THE END OF THE OCEAN are back and stronger than ever.

Their new music balances rich, thoughtful melodic passages, high-energy riff-wielding and truly epic climatic outpourings. Championed for their maelstrom of nostalgia, hope, beauty, melancholy, chaos and tranquility, THE END OF THE OCEAN are bigger, bolder and ready to return.

For more information:

www.twitter.com/endoftheocean
www.facebook.com/theendoftheoceanband
http://theendoftheocean.com/

Debut album Solitude and Savagery to be released via APF Records on 16th November 
 

British monsters of heavy groove and thick riffs BARBARIAN HERMIT have revealed their new video for single 'Black Mass'. The track is the second single to be taken from their forthcoming debut album Solitude and Savagery which is due for release via APF Records on November 16th 2018. 

The video, which originally premiered on the Sludgelord website, is now available to view here:  https://youtu.be/XjHA4yAVh2c 

You can also pick up the single via iTunes or add to your Spotify playlists here. 

Black Mass - Barbarian Hermit

Black Mass by Barbarian Hermit 

Playing a heady mix of downtuned, fuzz-laden guitars, the quintet kick out some of the raunchiest riffs in rock draped over elephantine grime and groove on their debut to create a sound that is as irresistibly catchy as it is crushingly heavy. 

Working with the legendary Chris Fielding at Skyhammer Studios, the producer behind such mammoth sounds as Electric Wizard, Conan, Primordial, Witchsorrow, Winterfylleth and mastered by James Plotkin (Khanate, OLD), BARBARIAN HERMIT’s Solitude and Savagery bears seven bruising tracks of pummelling groove metal that smoulders with swampy rawness and feral energy.

Pre-orders for Solitude and Savagery are now available via APF Records here. 

Catch the band live:
November 10 - Cvltfest 2018, Cafe Indiependent, Scunthorpe
November 16 - Solitude and Savagery Album Launch, Northern Monk Refectory, Manchester 
December 22 - Rock Into Xmas, Rebellion, Manchester 

Find out more about the band
Facebook || Twitter || Instagram || Spotify || Bandcamp || APF Records


ABOUT BARBARIAN HERMIT 

BARBARIAN HERMIT are a five piece doom/sludge/Stoner act, based in Manchester, England. Formed in 2013 from former members of disbanded Manchester bands Bisonhammer, Arke, Severed Fate, Random Act of Violence, Mountains Became Machines and That Sunless Tide and the disbanded South Korean band FatalFear.

The band have been gigging heavily around the UK for the last few years. Recently, playing at big events like HRH festival, Bloodstock Festival and supporting big names like Raging Speedhorn, Dopelord and Crowbar. Their debut self-titled EP came out in early 2016 and received rave reviews from the press and will follow this up with their debut album Solitude and Savagery which is set for release from APF Records in November 2018.

Solitude and Savagery Tracklisting 

1. Enter the Hermitage
2. Black Mass
3. No Sleep
4. Beyond the Wall
5. Lifebreather
6. Reawaken
7. Laniakea

The Sun' streaming now
The Moon has Fallen to be released October 26th

Australian 6-piece prog rockers AlithiA have released their new single for 'The Sun', the final track to be released ahead of their highly anticipated sophomore record The Moon has Fallen (October 26th, Wild Thing Records). 

You can listen to 'The Sun' here: https://youtu.be/jV3RwnSDl1A

To pre-order the album, visit: http://smarturl.it/alithia

The band are touring with avant-garde rockers Shining (NOR). Purchase tickets from: http://www.shining.no/tour-dates/

Dates:

Sunday November 4 - Satan’s Hollow, Manchester, UK
Monday November 5 - The Underworld, London, UK
Wednesday November 7 - Botanique, Brussels, Belgium
Thursday November 8 - Le Ferrailleur, Nantes, France
Friday November 9 - Backstage By The Mill, Paris, France
Sunday November 11 - Rex, Toulouse, France
Monday November 12 - Caracol, Madrid, Spain
Tuesday November 13 - Bóveda, Barcelona, Spain
Wednesday November 14 - Jas’rod, Marseille, France
Friday November 16 - Legend Club, Milan, Italy
Saturday November 17 - Traffic Club, Rome, Italy
Sunday November 18 - Cycle Club, Calanzano (FI), Italy
Monday November 19 - Viper Room, Vienna, Austria
Tuesday November 20 - Reflektor, Timisoara, Romania
Wednesday November 21 - Fabrica, Bucharest, Romania
Thursday November 22 - /Form Space, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Friday November 23 - SKCNS Fabrika, Novi Sad, Serbia
Sunday November 25 - Logo, Hamburg, Germany
Monday November 26 - Cassiopeia, Berlin, Germany
Tuesday November 27 - Das Bett, Frankfurt, Germany
Wednesday November 28 - Backstage, Munich, Germany
Thursday November 29 - Dürer Kert 041, Budapest, Hungary
Saturday December 1 - Winter Days Of Metal Festival, Ljubjana, Slovenia

Recorded in Athens, Greece, The Moon has Fallen delves deep into the realm of psychedelic tribal post-prog rock. It is AlithiA’s first record written entirely collectively with the inspired addition of percussionist Jeffrey Raul Ortiz Castro, who interlaces the album’s sound with Latin rhythms, celestial synthesisers, and distinctive secondary vocals. 

AlithiA, meaning 'truth' in Greek, was formed by singer John Rousvanis in 2004. Following the release of two experimental EP’s in The Rising (2009) and A Realm O Null (2011), AlithiA honed their sound with the ethereal debut album To the Edge of Time (2014). To the Edge of Time garnered international interest in the group, including Metal Hammer. Recently the band have embarked on a 29-date European tour with Leprous and Agent Fresco (2017; this was their fourth European tour), and 2018 saw the band tour Australia with Leprous, and The Contortionist and SikTh.

AlithiA have directly supported some of the biggest names in progressive music such as Animals As Leaders, Alcest, Dead Letter Circus, Ne Obliviscaris, The Ocean, sleepmakeswaves, Caligula’s Horse, Tides From Nebula, Mother’s Cake, Vulture Industries, and many others. The band have performed Australia's BIGSOUND, and at PROGFEST a record five times.

ALITHIA – Lineup
John Rousvanis - Lead Vocals, Guitar
Nguyen Phambam - Guitar
Tibor Gede - Bass
Danny Constantino - Keyboards, Backing Vocals
Jeffrey Ortiz Raul Castro - Percussion, Keyboards, Backing Vocals
Mark 'Vel' Vella - Drums

Tracklisting:

1) The Sun
2) Empress
3) Diamonds
4) Blood Moon
5) Three Eyes
6) The Knife
7) Breathe
8) Faces in the Leaves