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Listen: ‘If You Found This It’s Probably Too Late’ by Hellripper

Posted: 20 October 2026 in Recommended Streams and Videos, Singles and EPs
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Scotland’s ibex-obsessed blackened thrash bastards of Hades otherwise known as Hellripper continue to globally promote their fourth studio album Coronach which was released via Century Media Records earlier this year.

Next up, Hellripper are embarking on a first complete North American tour in October/November and in order to whet the appetite for the upcoming activities, Hellripper have already released a digital double-single with the cover versions of Seattle’s legendary speed-metal-punks Zeke of the tracks ‘Let’s Get Drugs’ and ‘Mainline’. Hellripper have now also unleashed a blackened metal reimagining of an Arctic Monkeys B-side track ‘If You Found This It’s Probably Too Late’.

Hellripper’s mastermind, guitarist/vocalist and songwriter James McBain comments on the Arctic Monkeys cover song as follows: “I wanted to record something that would perhaps be a little unexpected, and this Arctic Monkeys B-side was screaming for the Hellripper treatment. It may be kind of surprising to some, but they’re one of my all time favourite bands, and though it may not be immediately evident in my music, they have always greatly influenced how I approach songwriting and production. Enjoy!”

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Hellripper – Live:

MO 26.10.2026 Roseville, CA (USA) – Goldfield Trading Post ^

TU 27.10.2026 Berkeley, CA (USA) – Cornerstone Berkeley ^

WE 28.10.2026 Los Angeles, CA (USA) – The Regent Theater ^

TH 29.10.2026 Fresno, CA (USA) – Strummer’s ^

FR 30.10.2026 Las Vegas, NV (USA) – Backstage Bar Billiards ^

SA 31.10.2026 Mesa. AZ (USA) – Nile Theater ^

MO 02.11.2026 Dallas, TX (USA) – AM/FM ^

TU 03.11.2026 Austin, TX (USA) – Come and Take it Live ^

WE 04.11.2026 Houston, TX (USA) – Warehouse Live Midtown ^

FR 06.11.2026 Atlanta, GA (USA) – Masquerade (Hell) ^

SA 07.11.2026 Nashville, TN (USA) – Basement East ^

SU 08.11.2026 Asheville, NC (USA) – Eulogy ^

MO 09.11.2026 Richmond, VA (USA) – Canal Club ^

WE 11.11.2026 Baltimore, MD (USA) – Baltimore Soundstage ^

TH 12.11.2026 Harrisburg, PA (USA) – Capital City Music Hall ^

FR 13.11.2026 Boston, MA (USA) – Brighton Music Hall ^

SA 14.11.2026 New York, NY (USA) – Racket ^

SU 15.11.2026 Lakewood, OH (USA) – Mercury Music Lounge ^

TU 17.11.2026 Detroit, MI (USA) – Catacombs at the Sanctuary ^

WE 18.11.2026 Chicago, IL (USA) – Reggies ^

TH 19.11.2026 Kansas City, MO (USA) – Recordbar ^

FR 20.11.2026 Denver, CO (USA) – Gothic Theatre ^

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WE 25.11.2026 Montreal, QC (Canada) – Piranha Bar

TH 26.11.2026 Quebec, QC (Canada) – La Source De La Martinière

FR 27.11.2026 Ottawa, ON (Canada) – Dominion Tavern

SA 28.11.2026 Toronto, ON (Canada) – Supermarket Bar & Variety

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SA 09.01.2027 Mangualde (Portugal) – Mangualde Hardmetalfest

TH 14.01.2027 Rio De Janeiro (Brazil) – Experience Music

FR 15.01 2027 Curitiba (Brazil) – Basement Cultural

SA 16.01.2027 Sao Paulo (Brazil) – Burning House

SU 17.01.2027 Belo Horizonte (Brazil) – Caverna

TU 19.01.2027 Buenos Aires (Argentina) – Uniclub

WE 20.01.2027 Santiago (Chile) – Sala RBX

TH 21.01.2027 Lima (Peru) – Vichama Conciertos

SA 23.01.2027 Bogota (Colombia) – Ace of Spades

SU 24.01.2027 Quito (Ecuador) – Necronik

TU 26.01.2027 San Jose (Costa Rica) – Amon Solar

TH 28.01.2027 Monterrey (Mexico) – Cafe Iguana

FR 29.01.2027 Hermosillo (Mexico) – London Pub

SA 30.01.2027 Tijuana (Mexico) – Dragón Rojo

SU 31.01.2027 Mexico City (Mexico) – Circo Volador

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SA 13.03.2027 Eindhoven (The Netherlands) – Dynamo / Welcome To Hell Festival

TH-SU 25-28.03.2027 Oslo (Norway) – Inferno Festival

FR-SA 28-29.05.2027 Kirchdorf bei Haag (Germany) – Bavarian Battle Open Air

FR-SA 28-29.05.2027 Buchenbach (Germany) – Boarstream Open Air Festival

TH-SA 03-05.06.2027 Stykkisholmur (Iceland) – Satan Festival

FR-SU 11-13.06.2027 Leeuwarden (The Netherlands) – Into the Grave Festival

FR-SA 23-24.07.2027 Freißenbüttel (Germany) – Burning Q Festival

TH-SA 26-28.08.2027 Næstved (Denmark) – Næstved Metalfest

^ w/ Havok

And many more shows to be announced soon!

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Forensics – Dogtown

Posted: 20 October 2026 in Reviews, Singles and EPs
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Gotta love the Leeds scene. It keeps on throwing up noisy bands who really capture the zeitgeist. Sure, the city’s been redeveloped and gentrified and is a world away from the dingy days of Thatcher’s Britain, which saw it become the heartland of the early 80s goth scene. But for all its plush shopping centres and slick office spaces, home to wealthy finance firms, and for the way university life is now less The Young Ones and more the domain of the well-heeled – most often from overseas – who can afford to take on forty grand’s debt with only limited hope of a better job – it’s still a place where there is considerable poverty.

My generation was lied to: we were promised ‘graduate jobs’ which paid salaries well above the national average. Call me a failure: after a three-year degree in English literature – followed by an MA, and then a PHD, I failed to land a job which paid a ‘graduate’ wage and eventually, twenty-five years after graduation, I had my three student loans written off. Yes, I’d advocate staying poor as a career choice, naturally.

I digress somewhat, but the Leeds scene has always been, and continues to be, different. More recent years has seen the city’s sound move away from goth to noisy shit. This fashion started in the mid 00s, with the likes of That Fucking Tank, Pulled Apart by Horses, and These Monsters, and there was oddball stuff like Forward Russia! And This Et Al, and while lumped in with the post-rock trend. iLiKETRAiNS (later I Like Trains) always stood apart. Leeds has long been… well, different.

Forensics are different, too, and quintessentially Leeds, too. As they pitch it, they’re ‘Influenced by a desire to establish a sound that was as gritty as it was unrelenting’ and ‘have set straight their objective from the start; to put the world to rights as an unforgivably noisy 5 piece unafraid to incorporate influences from noise to hardcore punk, from black metal to garage rock’.

‘Dogtown’ is raw and biting. It’s built around a dingy, grainy garage-rock bassline, and during the verses, a sinewey guitar line twists through skewed angles in a fashion that calls to mind The Jesus Lizard, and, by some kind of default, Blacklisters. Then the chorus drives straight ahead with a racing urgency, the rabid punk vocals reminiscent of a screamier Wayne Barrett of Slaughter and the Dogs. It’s fierce.

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Watch: ‘T.R.L.T’ by Shooting Daggers

Posted: 19 October 2026 in Recommended Streams and Videos, Singles and EPs
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London punk trio Shooting Daggers released their new mini-album The Real Life Thing in June via New Heavy Sounds, which featured special guests in the form of The Menstrual Cramps and Dennis Lyxzén from Refused.

This morning the band have shared a new video for the single, ‘T.R.L.T’ a track which they say, "is an invite to keep focusing on what’s real and tangible, genuine relationships with people, animals and the planet.”

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“’T.R.L.T’ is an invite to keep focusing on what’s real and tangible, genuine relationships with people, animals and the planet.”

‘T.R.L.T’ is the new single from Shooting Daggers, the band that never seems to stop. Sal, Bea and Raquel are one of the hardest working outfits out there, constantly playing shows and lending their support to myriad causes all around the U.K. and Europe.

Two years on from the release of their acclaimed debut album Love & Rage the band released new mini-album The Real Life Thing in June (New Heavy Sounds).

Recorded at Bear Bites Horse Studio with Wayne Adams (Big Lad, Green Lung), The Real Life Thing is the latest hardcore sonic missive from one of London’s must-see bands, and it absolutely does not disappoint. Shooting Daggers are the real deal; the best, and most exciting and adventurous hardcore-inspired band in the country. A ‘mini album‘. 7 songs and 20 minutes of driving rocket fuelled punk meets melody picking up from their debut to go further into their own space, featuring special guests in the form of ‘The Menstrual Cramps’ and Dennis Lyxzén from Refused.

Thinking of a concept for the video for new single ‘T.R.L.T’ was an easy choice for the band. They state, “We wanted a good old tour and recording BTS video.  We wanted to capture some of the good moments we had as a band so far, highlighting the wonderful people we met on our path, the beautiful cities we visited and the ecstatic energy that only playing on a stage can give you and lastly the love we have for each other as band members that goes behind simple friendship. You can find snippets of tours and moments as old as 3 years ago right up to last summer.  It’s such a privilege to be able to look back and realise how lucky we’ve been and how far in the world hard work can take you.”

Upcoming shows:

Oct 22nd – Rotterdam – Poortgebouw ^ (NL)

Oct 23rd – Charleroi – Carolo Culture ^ (BE)

Oct 24th – Paris – Le Chinois (FR) ^

Oct 29th – Strasbourg – Molodoi (FR) ×

Oct 30th – Karlsruhe – P8² (DE) ×

Oct 31st – Basel – Sommercasino (CH) ×

Nov 13th – Manchester – The Old  Pint Pot (UK)

Nov 14th – Glasgow – Core Fest (UK)

Nov20th – Bordeaux – Burdi Fest  (FR)

Nov 21st – Montaigu – Fury Dance Revenge (FR)

^ w/ The Menstrual Cramps

× Femme Rebellion Fest

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Watch: ‘The Dead End’ by Virgin Birth

Posted: 18 October 2026 in Recommended Streams and Videos, Singles and EPs
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Louisville, Kentucky – based industrial punk band, VIRGIN BIRTH has just returned with a new six-song EP, The Dead End.

The Dead End continues VIRGIN BIRTH’s fascination with the darker corners of electronic music, punk, and the increasingly strange world we all find ourselves living in. Where previous releases looked outward at collapse on a larger scale, these songs feel closer to the ground… more immediate, claustrophobic, and personal.

The Dead End is a collection of songs about exhaustion, isolation, dread, and the feeling that the path forward has narrowed considerably. It’s industrial punk for a world that seems to be running on fumes. There’s no solution waiting for you at the end of these songs… only a dead end.

Watch the video for the title track here:

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VIRGIN BIRTH is an industrial punk trio consisting of Phillip Olympia (vocals, synth, drum machines), Jake Miller (guitars, synth) and Matt Haas (bass) based in Louisville, Kentucky. All three bring deep roots in punk and indie rock, having played in various bands over the years. Their shared appreciations for the industrial scene of the ’80s and ’90s sparked numerous conversations, which eventually led them to aggressively experiment with drum machines, synthesizers and sampling.

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Listen – ‘Bye Bye Land’ by THEN COMES SILENCE

Posted: 16 October 2026 in Singles and EPs, Recommended Streams and Videos
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Stockholm post-punk trio Then Comes Silence present ‘Bye Bye Land’, the third single from their impending Requiem Ballroom album, due in late November via Metropolis Records.

Confronting the helplessness of watching a loved one struggle with trauma, this song delivers a deeply personal reminder of life’s value, the power of human connection, and the hope of finding a reason to carry on.

A tightly focused trio since 2022, Then Comes Silence was formed in 2012 by vocalist-bassist Alex Svenson in 2012. Drummer Jonas Fransson and guitarist Hugo Zombie, round out the band in its most direct, powerful and uncompromising form. One of the leading names on today’s goth, post-punk and darkwave scene, they are driven by a fascination with horror, the occult and the raw intensity of underground music, having forged a distinctive sound and a devoted international following.

“This song is, in many ways, a slap in the face to one of my dearest friends. Someone who, after experiencing a life-changing trauma, reached a point where he decided he no longer wanted to be here. I’m not going to pretend that I know what was going through his mind or that I can fully understand what he was feeling. But I do know how deeply grateful I am that he’s still here. And I know I’m far from the only one who feels that way. With this song, I want to remind him of how much he means to all of us… and, most importantly, how much his life means to himself,” says Alex Svenson.

“Watching someone self destruct can leave you feeling completely helpless, especially when it seems like there’s nothing you can do to intervene. If you or someone you know is going through a difficult time or experiencing thoughts of suicide, please know that help is available. You don’t have to face it alone.”

Listen here:

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Watch: ‘20’ by a shoreline dream

Posted: 15 October 2026 in Singles and EPs, Recommended Streams and Videos
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Colorado outfit A SHORELINE DREAM present their landmark album  Waiting, arriving 20 years after their debut album Avoiding the Consequences. Formed in 2005, RYAN POLICKY and ERIK JEFFRIES have forged an expansive, guitar-driven sound that blends shoegaze, post-punk, psychedelia and experimental textures. A prolific duo with collaborations spanning Ulrich Schnauss, Ride’s Mark Gardener, and members of Engineers and Chapterhouse, the Barnum-based project is one of Colorado’s longest-running independent music acts. Waiting reflects on the ups and downs, and the personal sacrifices, uncertainty, and persistence that come with a life devoted to music, asking what ultimately remains.

The album was previewed by the singles ‘Legacy’ and ’20’, whose short film blurs the line between dreams and reality — a journey through longing, emotional highs and lows, and the passage of time. The project represents a shift from waiting for life to happen toward actively shaping what comes next, transforming frustration and reflection into music that is emotionally direct and unflinching. With Waiting, A Shoreline Dream honor the legacy they have built while looking firmly ahead — a testament to the enduring power of independent artistry, creative partnership, and the determination to keep moving forward.

As a taster, you can see the video for ‘20’ here:

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Watch: ‘Seven’ by Gates Of Autricon

Posted: 14 October 2026 in Recommended Streams and Videos, Singles and EPs
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French melodic death metal/metalcore quartet GATES OF AUTRICON have released a music video for their new single ‘Seven,’ a hard-hitting blast of relentless riffs, guttural vocals and epic melodic leads, fusing melodic death metal with modern metalcore muscle.

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Hailing from France’s Franche-Comté region, GATES OF AUTRICON bring together the melodic aggression of death metal with the immediacy and power of modern metalcore. Drawing influence from bands including Trivium, Malevolence and Children of Bodom, the quartet balance crushing riffs and visceral vocals with soaring melodies, guitar solos and an unmistakable desire to tear things apart on stage.

With ‘Seven’ that aggression is matched by an equally confrontational subject.

“This song is about our leaders’ disregard for the voice of the people and social peace,” says the band. “It crystallizes 10 years of mounting tension. It was important for us to record it in the studio and pay special attention to our sound. It’s a hard-hitting track that encapsulates what we do best.”

The band’s roots stretch back to Chartres, known as Autricon in the Celtic language, where its members spent years developing their shared musical identity and love of aggressive riffs and guttural vocals. It was later in Belfort that GATES OF AUTRICON fully brought the project to life, eventually releasing their debut EP Reclaim.

Since then, the band have steadily established themselves within the eastern French metal scene. With artistic support from Belfort venue La Poudrière, they opened the Sapins Metaliks Winter Fest in November 2025 alongside Assigned Fate, Fractal Universe and Gorod, closed the Fête de la Musique at the legendary Atelier des Môles in June 2026, and most recently headlined La Poudrière’s Support Your Local Bands event in October 2026.

At the heart of GATES OF AUTRICON is a constantly evolving take on modern metal, pairing ambitious songwriting and an aggressive, melodic sound with socially conscious lyrics rooted in anxiety, frustration and growing social tension.

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Listen: ‘Endless Bridge’ by Martin Saint

Posted: 13 October 2026 in Recommended Streams and Videos, Singles and EPs
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Montreal-based indie rock/alt-pop artist Martin Saint presents his new single ‘Endless Bridge’, a poignant exploration of love, loss, forgiveness, and letting go. The song follows a relationship from its tender, snow-covered beginnings through heartbreak and separation, ultimately arriving at the possibility of reconciliation and emotional release.

Drawing on the atmospheric DNA of ’80s artists such as The Mission, The Church and Echo and the Bunnymen, ‘Endless Bridge’ evokes changing seasons, long distances, and the passage of time. Its imagery moves between the innocence of early romance, a sense of divine grace, and the vulnerability of confronting what remains after two people part.

At its core, the song is about what happens when love is tested by time and distance. Rather than holding on at all costs, the narrator gradually arrives at a place of acceptance—where forgiveness becomes a form of freedom, and letting go becomes its own expression of love. The final image, like an offering carried out to sea, captures that surrender: painful, beautiful, and ultimately liberating.

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Martin Saint is a Montreal-based singer-songwriter who is perhaps best known as lead singer and guitarist of The Ember Glows and Citylake prior to that. Since The Ember Glows parted ways in 2024 after half a decade and a solid string of releases, Martin has established himself as a solo artist. Apart from writing, recording and performing his own music, he also collaborates with a handful of fellow Montreal artists, such as Johnny Couteau, SU, DJ Sarcastic, and HJ & The Constellations.

‘Endless Bridge’ is Martin’s first new music since his full-length Seekers album, released in spring of 2025. With glimmers of Nick Cave, David Bowie, Leonard Cohen, Bauhaus and The Doors infused through his work, his music presents a unique cinematic mood permeated by poetic lyrics, baritone vocals, and hooks over soundscapes.

“The song ‘Endless Bridge’ is about as close to a love song as I’ll ever get, but there’s a bittersweetness to it. Beginnings, endings, renewals. It expresses faith in the future and letting go of forces holding us back, even if this may take a lifetime. There’s definitely a spiritual undertone tucked in there. Musically, I wanted something that’d sound epic. Something that is melancholic and foggy, but ultimately also uplifting and catchy,” says Martin Saint.

“In between the two albums, I went back into the studio to re-record ‘Endless Bridge’, one of my holder songs that I had originally released back in 2017 with my former band Citylake. I felt this song, in particular, deserved a dedicated rework and a new release — under my own name this time around. This song and its performance reflects where I am at this moment in time, as well as how far I’ve come since the period that the song was penned.”

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The Battery Farm – Your House Looks Spooky

Posted: 12 October 2026 in Reviews, Singles and EPs
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Manchester’s finest self-labelled gutter punks, The Battery Farm are back with their first release in almost two years. Despite having only started out in 2019, ‘Your House Looks Spooky’ is their seventeenth single. There have been three albums in that time, too. Still, in the time away, they’ve regrouped, refocused, and penned another album: you could hardly accuse them of slacking, especially when the first taste of said forthcoming album lands in the form of such a ball-busting punk blast.

It’s only a fraction early for Halloween, but since the supermarkets have been flogging sweets, skeletons, and pumpkins since August bank holiday, the timing is probably about right, in fairness. And despite the title, and the cover art, it’s not actually a Halloween-themed song. As ever, there’s a lot happening here, both musically and lyrically. They describe it as ‘A song about punching down, judgement and the importance of good home décor’. Seemingly unrelated matters, but they spin them together nicely, pinned to a gut-shaking, snarling bass and piton-pumping drums, which provide the foundations for driving guitars and a gritty vocal delivery.

And when it comes to punching down, it seems to be the in-thing right now. Everything’s shit: that’s a fact, not an opinion. But right-wing opportunists are swooping on it and making capital by blaming migrants and the poor. Yeah, those asylum seekers who aren’t allowed to work, and are given a sustenance allowance of pennies a day while living in ‘accommodation’ which is practically a prison? Farage and Robinson and the like – moneyed grifters who are living it large on donations – whip up outrage among the lowest-educated, lowest-paid, and / or benefit claimants, by telling them that these people are taking their jobs and are the reason their lives are shit. Yep, Yaxley-Lennon pleads for donations from these dupes from his sun lounger in Spain, and Farage… Farage – married to an immigrant – needs to just fuck off and doesn’t warrant any more column inches anywhere. We’ll not even start on Trump, the most corrupt piece of shit to ever hold the American presidency. To cut to the chase, the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer, and the worst of it is that the rich are doing so at the expense of the poor, as executive pay soars year on year while the workers who earn the money to fund those executive salaries receive below-inflation pay increases, year after year. Circuitously, but by a necessary detour, I arrive at the point: the rise to the top isn’t achieved by positive qualities, but by means of subtraction, and Battery Farm rail against all that shit by punching outwards, punching upwards, and punching hard with heartfelt fury against the system, the status quo.

Looping back to the cover art, the graffiti on the devastated, flame-wracked building is a statement in itself, and tells you where The Battery Farm stand. They’re the good guys, on the right side of history. They’ve got fire and passion in abundance, too.

The surprise here is just how accessible ‘Your House Looks Spook’ is. It’s no radio-friendly pop song destined for any R1 playlists, but it is strong on hooks – and would perhaps even qualify as punk-pop if it wasn’t so damn dense and dirty. And this is why it’s great, of course. Dense, dirty, angry is what I’m here for.

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Watch: ‘Jealous God’ by Our Frankenstein

Posted: 12 October 2026 in Singles and EPs, Recommended Streams and Videos
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Industrial rock/metal band, OUR FRANKENSTEIN has just unveiled their new single and video for ‘Jealous God’ in anticipation of their forthcoming EP, Comedy.

Addressing envy and devotion: OUR FRANKENSTEINn tackle spiritual imprisonment. ‘Jealous God’ harkens back to the old gnostic belief that our reality is secretly under the control of a malevolent demiurge named, Yaldaboath. The song and music video contrast the false god’s wrath with real world catastrophe in a style that could only be viewed as satire.

The ‘Jealous God’ video invites the question that if our fate is in the hands of the powers that be…what happens if we (the people) obtain the crown? The video was shot by Pablo Salamone and directed / edited by Ryan Laney.

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OUR FRANKENSTEIN is a Gothic Metal band that was formed in Orange County, CA in 2013. Drawing influences from both cinema and the gothic music scene, the band has quickly evolved to what it is today. With one foot rooted in myth and the other in reality, OUR FRANKENSTEIN creates music that tells a story.

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