U.D.O. Announces "Game Over" Tour Dates

Game Over? NO, but the WAITING is finally over! U.D.O. -- the band led by iconic singer Udo Dirkschneider, who celebrated his 70th birthday (April 6th) in the form of his first solo album titled "My Way" earlier this year (released April 22, 2022 through Atomic Fire Records; hitting #4 of the German album charts, the highest entry of his entire career!) -- are pleased to announce an extensive headline run across the continent today: lasting from September until the end of November, it will only be paused to play a series of even more gigs in Latin America in October. Support on their European journey will be coming from French heavy metal quartet Existance. But before the aforementioned tour kicks off, make sure to also see U.D.O./Dirkschneider at select festivals. All upcoming dates are listed below, more information and tickets can be found here.

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Nicolas Cage Fighter Posts New Music Video Online

Ballarat, Australia's Nicolas Cage Fighter is back with their latest single "Compound And Fracture" streaming now everywhere, including a brand new official video, which can be streamed below.

The track, off of the band’s upcoming release "The Bones That Grew From Pain," is "basically the ‘fuck you’ song, it’s entirely centered around personal accountability and taking control of your own life instead of blaming everyone else and everything around you for your own problems. The world can be a really shitty place but too often we see people around us that whinge and bitch about things that they could easily fix if they got off their ass and just did it."

The Bones That Grew From Pain is slated for release on July 22, 2022 worldwide. More...

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Grief Ritual Reveals Debut EP Details

Grief Ritual are a band sitting at a musical crossroads – caught between blackened metallic hardcore, post-metal, and the heavier, slower sides of black and death metal, Grief Ritual are as heavy and as miserable as their name suggests. The trio have released their debut single "Immurement," which you can view below.

"Immurement" is the first glimpse of Grief Ritual's debut EP, "Spiritual Disease." "Spiritual Disease" - a metaphor for the mental illness brought on by the despotic state of the world - will be released on 9th September.

"Immurement" is about feeling trapped by the world, cut off by your health - and the anxiety, paranoia, and trauma this can cause. The word itself means "Live entombment or a form of imprisonment, usually until death, in which a person is sealed within an enclosed space with no exits."

Grief Ritual comment: "'Immurement' is about about airing the very real struggles that way too many people face on a day to day basis. At a time when more and more individuals and families are finding it harder to get by and are forced to make painful choices, this can only affect their mental health, and with support in short supply, things are only going to get worse unless major political policy and party changes occur."

Human rights continually stripped away, poverty increasing, inequality propping up the super-wealth of the few: these are the themes which Grief Ritual play on. "Spiritual Disease" is a haunting listen, grim and cathartic, a twenty-minute release of paralyzing, fearful, angry emotion, reminiscent of END, Leeched, Harms Way, Nails, and early Napalm Death.

"Spiritual Disease" was recorded with Joe Clayton at No Studio (Pijn, Curse These Metal Hands) in the shadow of Strangeways Prison. More...

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Svalbard Signs With Nuclear Blast

Nuclear Blast Records are proud to announce that Svalbard have signed to the label globally. Formed in Bristol UK in 2011, the blackened post-hardcore group have since released three studio albums, three EPs and several split releases. Their exceptional latest studio album 'When I Die, Will I Get Better?' was dubbed by Metal Hammer as "the most important British metal record of 2020". A career milestone, it cemented Svalbard as a powerful and vital component of our global music scene.

Svalbard's Serena Cherry stated,
"I have many fond memories of visiting my local record shop and buying anything that had the Nuclear Blast logo stamped on it. You always knew you were in for a tasty metal treat with a Nuclear Blast band! Most days I have to pinch myself that we have now joined Nuclear Blast, it is a real dream come true for me to work with this amazing label."

Svalbard's Liam Phelan stated,
"I'm absolutely thrilled that we have been welcomed into the Nuclear Blast family with open arms and cannot wait to work with this iconic label."

Nathan Barley Phillips, Senior Nuclear Blast A&R stated,
"I'm absolutely delighted to welcome Svalbard to Nuclear Blast! Ever since I heard the raw and visceral emotion of 'Disparity' back in 2015, I was an instant fan.
With biting lyrics and a keen observation of today's societal issues, Svalbard continue to be one of the most important and challenging voices in the heavy scene today. I’m delighted to be able to amplify this voice as the band get set to make an indelible mark on our genre."

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My Sleeping Karma Shares "Mukti" Video

Closing a seven-year gap since their latest studio album, "Moksha," July 29th will see heavy hypnotic rock masters My Sleeping Karma return with their new album, entitled Atma, marking the band‘s darkest, most emotional and deep record to date.

Most of the six new album tracks near the 10-minute mark and shine in distinctive My Sleeping Karma fashion – from crystal clear, otherworldly intros bursting into bittersweet melodies of vulnerable beauty to imposing soundspheres of mesmerizing heaviness with entrancing undercurrents. From the album‘s first tone, it‘s immediately evident that Atma isn‘t just another new My Sleeping Karma record – it‘s an infinite darkness, despair and sadness that furiously drives the German four-piece on studio album number six. As Dave Wyndorf once said, My Sleeping Karma is ART – and their new, cathartic record not only captures the zeitgeist of the times, but leaves a little light for hope, love, beauty and strength amid all the ugly facets of our vulnerable lives.

Following the previously-released first single "Prema," today My Sleeping Karma has shared a music video for the haunting track "Mukti." At just under seven minutes, it‘s the shortest song off the band‘s sixth studio album.

Says drummer Steffen about the new single:
"In times when the majority of news seems to be negative, everyone can decide where to focus the attention. A universal law says that energy always follows attention. By directing our attention towards positive things, we can take the energy away from the negative. This is the way that each individual is able to make a small contribution to healing.
Mukti means liberation, letting go, experience of the highest peace and points exactly to this possibility of choice." More...

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Bloodbath To Release New Album In September

It’s time for another deep dive into the horrors of mortality and the foul side of the supernatural – It’s time for "Survival Of The Sickest"! The sixth full-length album from Bloodbath, Sweden’s undisputed masters of old school death metal, will be unleashed on September 9, 2022 via Napalm Records. This is death metal at its ugly best: vicious, unrelenting and irrevocably sworn to the black.

The world is in flames, and "Survival Of The Sickest," produced by Bloodbath and co-produced and mixed by Lawrence Mackrory at Rorysound Studios, offers no respite from the horrors of reality. Instead, with the addition of new guitarist Tomas ‘Plytet’ Åkvik (Lik) onboard, Bloodbath’s latest and greatest album gleefully confronts the slavering ghoul lurking in the shadows, and treats him to ten songs of ripping death metal frenzy. Alongside Bloodbath's official alumni, "Survival Of The Sickest" boasts a smattering of irresistible cameos from the great, good and ghoulish of the metal underground, including Barney Greenway (Napalm Death), Luc Lemay (Gorguts) and Marc Grewe (Morgoth).

Alongside its pre-order kickoff, Bloodbath has released the crushing new single and album opener, "Zombie Inferno," a thrashing death metal assault set to draw the listener into a lunatic outburst of ferocity. The song breaks in with anxiety-inducing riffs and the insanely killer vocals of Nick Holmes, and is visually highlighted via a fast-paced, gory music video, acting as a tribute to the glory days of 80s splatter flicks.

Bloodbath on "Zombie Inferno":
"One man's struggle to rid the World of Zombie Infestation that seems to have inconveniently taken over the planet. Particularly, as he's just refueled his 1969 Dodge Super Bee 440." More...

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Becoming The Archetype Return After 10 Yrs Hiatus

A new music video for Becoming The Archetype‘s comeback track “The Lost Colony” has premiered streaming via YouTube and Spotify for you below. That single is taken from the band’s upcoming album “Children Of The Great Extinction“, due out August 26th on Solid State and finds the group’s core trio of vocalist/bassist Jason Wisdom, guitarist/vocalist, etc. Seth Hecox and drummer Brent “Duck” Duckett returning from a 10-year hiatus.

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