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New Music
Albums/EPs
In The News
Manchester’s Parting Gift have joined Fearless Records.
Hopeless Records have announced the signing of Chicago-based singer/rapper dying in designer.
Melbourne quartet MOBS have joined Rude Records.
Hertfordshire alt-metallers Defences have welcomed screamer William Young as their second vocalist.
Canadian pop-punk band Bellevue have joined Penultimate Records.
Nine-piece, funk punk collective Just Friends have joined Pure Noise Records.
Album/EP Releases
March:
15th:
Venom Prison – Samsara (Prosthetic Records)
1. Matriphagy
2. Megillus & Leana
3. Uterine Industrialisation
4. Self Inflicted Violence
5. Deva’s Enemy
6. Asura’s Realm
7. Sadistic Rituals
8. Implementing The Metaphysics Of Morals
9. Dukkha
10. Narak
Just Friends – Nothing But Love (Pure Noise)
1. 1800CHOPCITY
2. Never Gonna Bring You Down
3. Keep Up
4. Supersonic
5. Flex
6. I Wanna Love You
7. 107.7 KJFC
8. Get Down (ft. Caliph)
9. Nothing but Love
10. Sick of it All
11. Bang My Line 2
12. Faucet
13. Worry
22nd:
Parting Gift – Ensom EP (Fearless Records)
1. Pale
2. 03:07 (Moonlight)
3. Without Sin
4. Cold
5. Ensom
April:
12th:
Dave Hause – Kick (Rise Records)
Andy Black – The Ghost of Ohio (Lava/Republic)
Scream Blue Murder – Rock Bottom (Stay Sick Recordings)
19th:
Jordan Rudess – Wired for Madness (Music Theories Recordings / Mascot Label Group)
1. Wired For Madness – Part 1
2. Wired For Madness – Part 2
3. Off The Ground
4. Drop Twist
5. Perpetual Shine
6. Just Can’t Win
7. Just For Today
8. Why I Dream
26th:
Trade Wind – Certain Freedoms (End Hits Records)
1. Surrender
2. No King But Me
3. Close Encounters (of The 3rd Floor)
4. I Can’t Believe You’re Gone
5. Certain Freedoms
6. Moonshot
7. How’s Your Head?
8. Cut
9. Flower Machine
10. Untitled II
11. Beige
12. Nashinga
May:
3rd:
Tacocat – This Mess Is a Place (Sub Pop)
1. Hologram
2. New World
3. Grains of Salt
4. The Joke of Life
5. Little Friend
6. Rose Colored Sky
7. Phantom
8. Crystal Ball
9. Meet Me at La Palma
10. Miles and Miles
Whitesnake – Flesh & Blood (Frontiers Music Srl)
10th:
Mental Cruelty – Inferis (Unique Leader Records)
1. Inferis
2. Planet Of Misery
3. Blood Altar
4. Tormentum (feat Dickie Allen of Infant Annihilator)
5. Priest of Damnation
6. Mundus Vult Decipi (feat Jack Simmons of Slaughter To Prevail)
7. Cosmic Indifference
8. Godhunt (feat Jason Evans of INGESTED)
9. Human Evisceration
10. Monocerotis (feat Marco Bayati of Desolace)
11th:
Bellevue – Picking Up The Pieces EP (Penultimate Records)
31st:
Yonaka – Don’t Wait ‘Til Tomorrow (Asylum Records)
1. Bad Company
2. Lose Our Heads
3. Awake
4. Guilty (For Your Love)
5. Rockstar
6. Creature
7. Don’t Wait ‘Til Tomorrow
8. Punch Bag
9. Fired Up
10. Wake Up
11. The Cure
Festival News
The final bands for this year’s Slam Dunk Festival have been announced: Neck Deep, As It Is, Boston Manor, A Loss For Words, Press To MECO, Shvpes, Justin Courtney Pierre, grandson, Story Untold, Between You & Me, Rob Lynch, Lizzy Farrell, Liam Cromby, Kublai Khan, Chas Palmer-Williams and Cruel Hand.
Cancer Bats, Taake, Raging Speedhorn, Shvpes, And Resin are the latest additions to this year’s Bloodstock Open Air Festival.
34 new names have been announced for the Groezrock Festival:
Brutus, Slow Crush, Pkew Pkew Pkew, Spanish Love Songs, Beach Slang, Dream State, Press Club, The Tidal Sleep, Bearings, Deez Nuts (‘Stay True’ anniversary set), Landmvrks, Trash Talk, Candy, Fit For a King, Koji (backed by Such Gold), King Nine, Jesus Piece, Rich Widows, STAB, Access Unlocked, Raw Peace, Hæster, NØFX (NOFX tribute band), Tusky, Get Dead, Bad Cop / Bad Cop, The Penske File, The Devil Makes Three.