Awake in the night, the Danish duo AyOwA go searching their sub conscious to the haunting lyrics of Danish writer Mette Moestrup. ‘Insomnia’ is the first single from their forthcoming EP ‘Farvel’, to be released in May 2018 on Copenhagen label Music For Dreams. Based on their trademark electronic approach, but this time with many acoustic elements, the duo goes exploring new sides of their nordic, dark, and moving electronic songs.
Watch the video to ‘Insomnia’ here:
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York-based hardcore punk band and Aural Aggro favourites today announces its death with a new free-to-download eight-track album, The Blackened Carnival Of Societal Ineptitude (which has already clinched the AA album title of the year award), on December 20, 2017.
Of the record’s development, drummer, Dom Smith comments, “This is a dedication to all of the bands we’ve played with, and all the people who have supported us through our existence.”
He adds: “Life is bleak, loads of terrifying, dark shit happens with brief moments of pure and absolute wonder, and then you die. Thank you, and goodnight.”
The band encourages hateful goodbye messages via Facebook: www.facebook.com/seepaway
Here’s a track from the forthcoming album, a cover of ODB’s iconic ‘Shimmy Shimmy Ya’… Get it while it’s hot.
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Japanese power trio Boris share a Goth-Trad reconstruction of ‘DEADSONG’, a track from their latest album release, Dear (Sargent House). Check it here:
Boris head out on the road on a co-headlining tour of Europe with Amenra next year, including a number of UK shows. Dates below.
BORIS & AMENRA CO-HEADLINE TOUR DATES
14/02 – Bristol, Thekla, UK
15/02 – London, Heaven, UK
16/02 – Norwich, Arts Centre, UK
17/02 – Nottingham, Rescue Rooms, UK
18/02 – Manchester, Gorilla, UK
19/02 – Glasgow, St. Lukes, UK
20/02 – Leeds, Brudenell Social Club, UK
21/02 – Lille, Aeronef, FR
22/02 – Oberhausen, Drucklufthaus, DE *No Boris on this show
23/02 – Dresden, Beatpol, DE
24/02 – Warsaw, Progresja, PL
25/02 – Prague, Palac Akropolis, CZ
26/02 – Budapest, A38, HU
27/02 – Ljubljana, Kino Siska, SL
28/02 – Bologna, Locomotiv, IT
01/03 – Rome, Monk, IT
02/03 – Milan, Santeria Social Club, IT
03/03 – Karlsruhe Jubez, DE
04/03 – Haarlem, Patronaat, NL
Having recently announced that their new album Anatomical Venus will be released early next year, Black Moth have shared the first single from the record in the form of the psychedelic video for ‘Moonbow’, directed by Ben Foley (Foley previously worked with BM on their spectacularly kinky ‘Looner’ clip, 2015).
Vocalist Harriet Hyde comments:
‘It is an ode and an offering to the moon herself, in the hope that she will shine her silver blessings on Mothic ventures to follow. Ben Foley’s directorial work with us has gone from Looner to Lunar. His deft creative touch on ‘Moonbow’ drags the viewer with us through a psychedelic neon dreamscape – an intoxicating experience of lunar worship’
While their first 2 albums were released by New Heavy Sounds, Black Moth will have their latest / third studio album issued worldwide via Candlelight Records on February 23rd 2018, the result of an alliance between Candlelight and NHS.
Produced by Andy Hawkins (Hawk Eyes, Maximo Park) with Russ Russell (Napalm Death, Dimmu Borgir) handling the mix, this 10-track affair sees the Leeds / London outfit – vocalist Harriet Hyde, guitarists Jim Swainston & Federica Gialanze’, bassist Dave Vachon and drummer Dom McCready – further honing the various elements of their sound to make the hooks more barbed and the focus more collective.
Lead single ‘Moonbow’ provides the first taste of things to come, successfully combining wide-eyed wonder with true metallic weight, the whole thing supported by the aforementioned clip that delivers from the off in both intensity and colour. Watch the video here:
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Psychedelic, occult rockers Jess and The Ancient Ones have shared the second track from their brand new album The Horse and Other Weird Tales which is released on 1st December via Svart Records. You can take a listen to ‘Return to Hallucinate’ here:
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French industrial-goth metal band Porn have just released their third album, The Ogre Inside, from which the song ‘You Will Be The Death Of Me’ is taken.
Porn leader Philippe Deschemin describes the song as being about "life, death and love and the fact that love is like humans – mortal. I am obsessed by death, which I see everywhere. Everything ends, everything dies. And sometimes, maybe always, being in a relationship means to kill the previous version of yourself. You change, and in a way you die, to be reborn as another you. The new video is a metaphor for death, a ‘mise à mort’, and I wanted to place the female protagonist in the dominant position."
Do people still use ‘NSFW’ these days? If so, this meets the criteria. If you’re not at work, or work in Westminster, you can watch the video here:
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Black Rebel Motorcycle Club have revealed their first video for single “Little Thing Gone Wild” via their Facebook. The band recently announced their forthcoming album Wrong Creatures, produced by Nick Launay (Nick Cave, Arcade Fire), out on January 12th, 2018.
Watch the visceral, live video directed by Brian T Lauzon here:
Industrial metal pioneers Godflesh will release their new album Post Self on November 17th via Justin K. Broadrick’s Avalanche Recordings on CD, digital and LP formats, with a cassette version incoming on Hospital Productions. Over two years in the making, Post Self explores a different side of Godflesh, taking in their formative influences to conjure something informed by late 70’s/early 80’s post-punk and industrial music. The album deals with themes of anxiety, depression, fear, mortality, and paternal/maternal relationships.
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US death metal pioneers Autopsy are set to return on 15th December with new mini album Puncturing the Grotesque set for release on Peaceville to coincide with the band’s 30th anniversary. You can listen to the title track here:
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With the album No Cure For Death incoming via Southern Lord next month, the label have unveiled the opening track from the second album by SECT. With ‘Open Grave’, the North American straightedge/vegan hardcore/crust group go all-out on the gnarly nastiness.
Southern Lord will release No Cure For Death on CD, LP, and digital formats on November 24th.
Get your lugs round all 1:20 of the brutality that is ‘Open Grave’ here:
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