Melodic hardcore outfit DEAREST ENEMY will release a digital EP titled, These Streets, Those Ghosts, on April 6th.
Produced and mastered by Defeater guitarist Jay Maas (Getaway Recording), this 6-track offering is the gut wrenching, nerves exposed, turn me inside-out truth for people trying to deal with this sick, cold world.
Check out their first single Blight Town here:
A UK run of shows are currently in the planning stages for the Spring, in support of the EP release.
Feb. 23, 2015 Jacksonville, Florida-based metal newcomers STAGES have dropped their gripping debut single via BryanStars. The song, which comes to listeners in the form of an artistically abrasive lyric video, is undeniably heavy — a powerful debut from a band ready to take the metal and hardcore scene by storm.
"'New War' is about anybody who has left me behind," said frontman Aaron Berkshire on the lyrically transparent track. The song, which was produced by internationally-renowned music producer Joey Sturigs (The Devil Wears Prada, Asking Alexandria), is the first to come off of the band's debut EP of the same name. The song features a dynamic guest vocal spot from Steven McCorry of Rise Records band Exotype.
STAGES frontman Aaron Berkshire on "New War":
"I truly believe there is so much out in the world besides the normal. I have fought a lot of my own demons over my dreams and the heart and knowledge it takes to succeed. "New War" is about anyone who has left me behind...you have only made me want to fight a battle to prove myself. This is "forever our war" to fulfill what we feel we are born to do. It lives and burns inside everyone of us. Forget about the past and remember. It is time to move on. This is a new war."
Summer 2015 sees the return of multi-award winning music band THE DARKNESS. A new track ‘Barbarian’ is currently manfully straddling the information super highway and is a palate cleanser for their fourth album ‘Last Of Our Kind’, produced by guitarist Dan Hawkins. Penned in Ireland, where the band play a small but perfectly formed tour next month, the record is bursting with the very finest rock-based music available to mankind, as one might expect.
Out 1st June 2015, ‘Last of Our Kind’ will be released in partnership with Kobalt Label Services and is the first album to feature new drummer Emily Dolan Davies. She replaces original drummer Ed Graham who departed in mysterious circumstances. Having been drumming since 1999, Emily has played with everybody from the likes of Bono, Bryan Ferry and Tricky. Now she has shown herself to be equal to the ultimate music challenge.
Emily's ability is face-shatteringly evident in 'Barbarian’ – described by vocalist Justin Hawkins as having “not one but two dramatic monologues, a guitar solo that has been declared 'irresponsible', a riff that weakens lady-knees and a chorus that makes grown men shit directly into their pants." Justin goes on to point out that "The lyrics describe the Viking invasion of East Anglia which culminated in the decapitation of Edmund the Martyr. So yeah, classic Darkness.”
'Last of Our Kind' is the meaty and impassioned follow-up to 2012’s ‘Hot Cakes’ which saw the band reunited having enjoyed a well-publicized and well-deserved hiatus. As distinguished guests of Def Leppard, The Darkness destroyed Download Festival in 2011, then waved goodbye to their loved ones and toured planet Earth for over 18 months. They rounded off 2013 with a celebratory tour marking the 10th Anniversary of their legendary number one debut album. 'Permission to Land' featured the classics ‘I Believe In a Thing Called Love’, 'Love is Only a Feeling', 'Love on the Rocks with No Ice' and 'Love is a Many Splendoured Thing'; it was the fastest selling debut album by a British band in America since that of The Spice Girls.
'Last of Our Kind' will be released on limited edition colour vinyl, Compact Disc and downloadable computer files. The Darkness will be announcing more touring plans for later this year very, very soon.
New album: ‘LAST OF OUR KIND’ – 1st June 2015
Track Listing:
Barbarian * Open Fire * Last of Our Kind * Roaring Waters * Wheels of the Machine *Mighty Wings * Mudslide * Sarah O’Sarah * Hammer & Tongs * Conquerors
Irish Tour:
6 March DUNDALK, The Spirit Store
7 March DERRY, The Nerve Centre
8 March DUBLIN, Whelan’s
10 March DUBLIN, DCU
11 March MAYNOOTH, NUIM
13 March GALWAY, Monroe’s
14 March LIMERICK, Dolan’s Warehouse
15 March TULLAMORE, The Bridge House
17 March CORK, Cyprus Avenue
18 March CLONMEL, O’Keefe’s
19 March NEWBRIDGE, Judge Roy Bean's
THE DARKNESS: JUSTIN HAWKINS (vocals/lead guitar), DAN HAWKINS (guitars/backing vocals), FRANKIE POULLAIN (bass/backing vocals) and EMILY DOLAN DAVIES (drums/backing vocals).
ALBUM ‘TIME AND TRAUMA’ OUT NOW VIA SPINEFARM RECORDS
36 Crazyfists have curated a ‘Metal Madness’ playlist for Digster, featuring 12 tracks personally picked by the band, plus their brand new album ‘Time and Trauma’ in full.
You can listen to it via Spotify and/or Deezer HERE
The Cadillac Three – well-versed in blending groovy metallic weight with outlaw song-writing and genuine Southern pride, will have a new 6-track EP released through Spinefarm Records on March 23rd ; titled ‘Peace, Love & Dixie’,
The record , available on CD & download, features the first fresh material released by the Nashville trio since their debut ‘Tennessee Mojo’ album, also released via Spinefarm in April of last year.
‘Peace Love & Dixie’ EP; track-listing
01 Peace Love & Dixie
02 Hot Damn
03 Real People
04 Party Like You
05 White Lightning (live)
06 Down To The River (live)
Recorded by the band and Ryan Gore, the EP includes four new studio tracks, including current single / video ‘Party Like You’, plus two live outings from TC3’s sold-out show at The Garage in London in December of last year. Indulge now in the video for ‘Party Like You’:
Following on from their visit in December, The Cadillac Three have confirmed a 6-date tour, their first genuine UK headline run, for March of this year.
The ‘Peace Love & Dixie’ EP will be exclusively available at these shows prior to release…
March 2015: headline dates:
4 Wolverhampton, Slade Rooms SOLD OUT
5 Glasgow, Cathouse
7 Leeds, Key Club SOLD OUT
8 Norwich, Waterfront Studio SOLD OUT
9 Southampton, Talking Heads SOLD OUT
10 London, Dingwalls SOLD OUT
The Cadillac Three – Jaren Johnston (vocals / guitar), Kelby Ray (lap steel / bass) & Neil Mason (drums) – enjoyed a hugely busy and successful 2014 that saw them playing over 200 shows and visiting the UK & Europe on several occasions; they also triumphed in the ‘Best New Band’ category at the Classic Rock Awards in Los Angeles.
Reflecting on the band’s fast-rising profile overseas, Neil says:-
“We ended 2014 with some great shows in the UK, and we promised to keep coming back as long as y'all will have us… so we couldn't be more excited to announce a new string of dates, some in familiar towns and some in places we’ve never been to! The UK has become like a second home to us over the past year or so, and we can’t wait to come back! We've been working hard on new music for y'all, too, and we’re looking forward to sharing some of it with you! See y'all soon!"
Basingstoke chaotic hardcore band ARTEMIS have announced that they will release their new EP ‘Nothing Left To See‘on 30th March as a very limited run available on CD, cassette tape and digital download. The band will also be hitting the road with Ithaca and Ilenkus later this year.
Uninterested in conforming to the current expectations of the modern metal scene, they’ve spent the past few months developing their sound into a furious combination of controlled anarchy and explosive hardcore which they can truly call their own unique take on the genre.
Previously supporting bands including This Is Hell, War From A Harlots Mouth, Baby Godzilla, Gravemaker, Heart In Hand, Liferuiner, Bastions, 68 and many more, the quintet have already toured the UK and EU relentlessly to perfect the clusterbomb pandemonium of their live show.
With plenty more shows to be announced across Europe and the United Kingdom this year, nobody is safe from the crazed gaze of Artemis in 2015.
UK w/ Ithaca and Grindhouse:
19.03 Reading, Face Bar
21.03 Wellingborough - Raff's Bar
22.03 Worcester - Pig And Drum
EU w/ Ilenkus:
22.04 (SWI) Geneva, Kavingrad
24.04 (DE) Holdorf, Jugend Treff Dinklage
25.04 (DE) Greifswald, Juz Klex
28.04 (PL) Poznan, Las
29.04 (CZ) Ostrava, Plan B Hardcore Cafe
01.05 (NL) Utrecht, ACU
02.05 (NL) Hoogeveen, Het Podium
Artemis are:
Kurt - Drums
Jamie - Bass
Mike - Guitars
Brandon - Guitars
Dan – Vocals
NIGHTWISH's forthcoming album 'Endless Forms Most Beautiful' will be the band's first studio album to feature Dutch vocalist Floor Jansen and is set for release on 30th March 2015 via Nuclear Blast. The first single from the album titled Élan premiered last week and the band have now released a trailer documenting why they picked this track. Watch the guys explain all here:
Famed evolutionary biologist and atheist writer Richard Dawkins will appear as a guest on the band's eighth studio album, which is available to pre-order
