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Watch: ‘T.R.L.T’ by Shooting Daggers

Posted: 19 October 2026 in Singles and EPs, Recommended Streams and Videos
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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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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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Watch: ‘Cop Out’ by Bokassa

Posted: 8 October 2026 in Recommended Streams and Videos, Singles and EPs
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Norwegian stoner-punk rockers Bokassa return with a bang on ferocious new single ‘Cop Out,’ a no-nonsense barnburner set to please fans of the band’s heavier side.

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The track sees the power trio firing on all cylinders, leaning into their metallic hardcore roots with a dash of thrash metal. ‘Cop Out’ is an unapologetic blast inspired by everything from protest songs with lyrics so broad they could apply to anyone, to bands that probably should have called it quits years ago but are still squeezing money out of their fans.

“It’s about quitting while you’re ahead, before you become something you despise. Before you start doing expensive VIP meet & greets, before you write lyrics that are just empty buzzwords, before you start doing TikTok dance videos to sell more tickets. I don’t wanna spend my time coming up with new ways to get views on social media when I know there are still different pizzas out there I haven’t tried yet,” says vocalist Jørn Kaarstad.

Perhaps that’s one of the reasons why, in 2026, Bokassa are releasing music through their own label, Kings of Stonerpunk Records, under which they’ve released several titles over the years, including their universally acclaimed 2017 debut, Divide & Conquer.

Alongside the new single, Bokassa also announce their fifth album, Anomalies, a fitting title for a band that has never quite fit in anywhere.

The band’s relentless collision of punk, metal and rock subgenres into their own self-styled stonerpunk has seen them tour with acts as diverse as Clutch, Lagwagon, Therapy?, Zebrahead and Mastodon. That same refusal to stick to a single genre has always made Bokassa difficult to pigeonhole. In a world where bands are often rewarded for sounding like other bands people already love, Bokassa mostly sound like themselves.

“I don’t wanna be a ‘we got McDonald’s at home’ version of an older, better band. I see bands becoming universally acclaimed for that, and it’s probably smart to do so for commercial success, but then again, we’ve never been a band known for smart decisions. So we’ll stick to what we think is exciting,” says Kaarstad.

Anomalies will arrive in March 2027, accompanied by an extensive tour across Europe, the UK and the band’s native Norway.

Catch Bokassa live across Norway, the UK and Europe on the following dates:

March 12 – Kulturhuset i Bergen – Bergen, NO
March 13 – Blårock – Tromsø, NO
March 20 – Rockefeller – Oslo, NO
April 2 – Kafé Krank – Kristiansand, NO
April 3 – Folken – Stavanger, NO
April 9 – Byscenen – Trondheim, NO
April 16 – The Cobblestones – Bridgwater, UK
April 17 – The Black Heart – London, UK
April 18 – The Old Salutation – Nottingham, UK
April 19 – The Lodge – Manchester, UK
April 20 – The Joiners – Southampton, UK
May 6 – Monument 013 – Gothenburg, SE
May 7 – Stengade – Copenhagen, DK
May 8 – Betty – Hamburg, DE
May 9 – FRANNZ CLUB – Berlin, DE
May 11 – Nachtleben – Frankfurt, DE
May 12 – Luxor Live – Arnhem, NL
May 13 – DB’s – Utrecht, NL
May 15 – Antwerp Metal Fest – Antwerp, BE

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Watch: ‘Get Up’ by Mass Minor

Posted: 5 October 2026 in Recommended Streams and Videos, Singles and EPs
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Mass Minor is an Austin, Texas-based darkwave and electronic rock project led by Andrew J. Martin, Jr.. Blending atmospheric synths and driving guitars into cinematic songwriting, Martin also draws from post-punk, synth-pop and alternative rock influences to create a sound that feels both nostalgic and thoroughly modern.#

Mass Minor recently signed to Metropolis Records and have released a new single entitled ‘Get Up’. “This song is a conversation with God at 169 BPM  about sin, money, mortality and the things we sacrifice our lives to,” explains Martin. "It comes from this idea of asking God to save us from problems we created ourselves. Maybe it’s not God’s job to save us. Maybe we need to fix our own shit. You’re the one holding the light. Get up.”

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‘Get Up’ is the follow-up to the pulsating ‘Nowhere Now’, which was issued as a single in late July, with both songs included on a long-awaited new Mass Minor album, Beyond The Edge Of Reason, out in late February 2027.

Martin self-released the 2020 debut Mass Minor album, Become Each Other, as well as several singles subsequently collected together on EPs, and has maintained a consistent presence in the dark alternative scene via radio support, multiple SXSW appearances and performances alongside groups such as Twin Tribes, Ultra Sunn, TRAITRS, Vision Video, Urban Heat and Sacred Skin.

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Metamorph – Witchfire

Posted: 30 September 2026 in Reviews, Singles and EPs
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Every day is Halloween in the world of Margot Day. So the fact that she’s dropped ‘Witchfire’ mid-September is simply her doing her thing. The New Yorker’s been doing shimmery gothy stuff since the 80s with The Plague, and as Metamorph, she’s been prolific in conjuring witchy-themed electropop for a whole decade now, and ‘Witchfire’ is all treat, no trick.

It’s a succinct sliver of a song, which balances equally elements of quintessential post-punk and contemporary pop stylings. How this translates is a song driven by an uptempo, propulsive synth bass and pumping drum machine paired with a song-song vocal melody treated, in places, with some heavy autotune. The autotune thing has become a massive trend in recent years – not in using it to tidy things up, but that wildly overprocessed ‘feature’ that we first heard on Cher’s ‘Life After Love’. Why is it all the rage now? I don’t know, and I can’t say I’m a fan, but its application here shows how Margot Day continues to move with the times, and that she’s unashamedly a pop artist as much as she is as a purveyor of sultry, seductive, supernatural gothiness. And it would be difficult to deny that ‘Witchfire’ is catchy.

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The dance mix which provides the b-side emphasises the bangin’ beats and adds a minute and a half, some of which is given to a flute solo, which works considerably better on the ears than it does on paper.

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Watch: ‘Blue Nine’ by This is Shit

Posted: 30 September 2026 in Recommended Streams and Videos, Singles and EPs
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French electro-rock outfit THIS IS SHIT (or TH/S /S SH/T as they are also known) have released their hypnotic new single ‘Blue Nine’ and its definitely not shit!

‘Blue Nine’ is more than a song, it’s a signal picked up from our own future, something that survived and caught its breath again. The track steps away from expected formats: it builds in stages, letting electro and rock search for a common frequency before fully locking into sync in the song’s final stretch.

The phantasmagoric video, directed by INFRAROUGE, ventures into a territory no camera could have reached. Red neons, liquid chrome, architectures that exist nowhere: INFRAROUGE builds a world of its own, coherent down to its smallest details, where photorealism keeps slipping into hallucination. These aren’t effects layered onto real footage, it’s an entire geography, born elsewhere, that never had a filmed version.

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THIS IS SHIT are set to return for 2026 with their second album ΛV coming on 30th October and like the slanted signs of ΛV (pronounced “lambda V”) that invert and mirror each other, this new record interlocks two aesthetics that were never meant to coexist: rock and electronic music. A formula unique to THIS IS SHIT.

Behind this graphic project with its sharply crafted artistic direction stands composer Loïc Louraco. Driven by the need not to choose between two radically different ways of creating : rock, which he has practiced his entire life, and electronic music, which he explores in parallel, he formed a hybrid creation in 2017: a trio in which he is both producer and principal instrumentalist. And thus sparked the collision between the two worlds.

A signature sound first discovered by audiences through the EPs / (“Slash”) and // (“Double Slash”) in 2018, followed by the album /// (“Triple Slash”), which concluded a first creative cycle in 2020.

After a challenging start to the decade, the artist entered a new writing phase that stretched over several months. Born from improvisations or long nights of production on Ableton, the tracks were pushed to their limits. The sound is more controlled, the album more impactful. For this new project, THIS IS SHIT chose to take production even further by collaborating with Swedish producer Hans Olsson (Division of Laura Lee).

An initial studio session in Paris allowed the three musicians to record, in a traditional rock band setting, guitars, bass, and drums. The tracks were then sent to Gothenburg, where they were reworked by the producer and director as a temporary electronic duo. The collaboration felt natural, and the results fruitful, bringing a unique coherence to this new release. Like a film soundtrack, ΛV carries the listener from scene to scene, from emotions to sensations, from celebrations to contemplation, in a continuous, unbroken flow between tracks.

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Watch: ‘Vengeance (You’ll Be Seen By Your God)’ by Lockslip

Posted: 27 September 2026 in Recommended Streams and Videos, Singles and EPs
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Los Angeles metallic hardcore outfit LOCKSLIP today release the video for ‘Vengeance (You’ll Be Seen By Your God),’ the second single from their forthcoming debut album The Conversation, out November 6 via Bleakhouse, the label founded by King Yosef.

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A volatile collision of metallic hardcore, mathcore and metalcore, “Vengeance” barrels forward with breakneck drumming, violent rhythmic shifts, world-ending breakdowns and flashes of melody, channeling the emotional urgency of Converge and the technical chaos of The Dillinger Escape Plan.

Lyrically, the track confronts abuse and the systems that allow those in positions of trust and authority to escape accountability.

Vocalist Sara G explains: “A recurring theme throughout this album is one of consequences. This song was inspired by someone close to me who survived abuse while in the Boy Scouts. This led me to learn of the close connection between the Boy Scouts and the Catholic Church in their efforts to protect themselves against accountability. People in power, so-called righteous people, perpetrating heinous acts against those meant to trust them. Surely if their afterlife is real, they can’t escape judgement.”

Shot and edited by Harper King, the accompanying video captures footage from Lockslip’s August 2026 tour of the Pacific Northwest and Canada, mixing moments from life on the road with the sheer physical intensity of the band’s live performances.

‘Vengeance’ follows first single ‘Gray World,’ featuring guest vocals from King Yosef, and offers another glimpse into the unrelenting sound of The Conversation.

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Watch: ‘Devourer of Existence’ by Crucivore

Posted: 26 September 2026 in Recommended Streams and Videos, Singles and EPs
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Something brutal and pernicious is dragged kicking and squealing from the unfathomable depths of ancient Lisbon: CRUCIVORE unveil the filmed music video ‘Devourer of Existence’. The track is also the next advance single taken from the Portuguese band’s forthcoming debut full-length Desecration. The album has been slated for release on November 13, 2026.

CRUCIVORE comment: “The track ‘Devourer of Existence’ is pure brutality from start to finish”, guitarist Ricardo Jorge states on behalf of the band. “This song is packed with crushing riffs, slam, massive breakdowns, and relentless blast beats that don’t leave much room to breathe. Without a doubt, this is one of the most diverse and punishing tracks we’ve made so far and it will definitely shake your soul.”

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Crucivore were conceived on December 14, 2024. Precisely on that day, former ANALEPSY vocalist Ricardo Proença and guitarist Sérgio Páscoa (DOWNFALL OF MANKIND et al.) decided to join forces and form a new band. After recruiting more experienced musicians from Portugal, this new musical entity drew from decades of honing their craft to amalgamate crushing riffs, relentless drum pounding, devastating breakdowns, cavernous vocals, and carefully crafted dynamics into a contemporary sound that merges death metal intensity with the crushing weight of brutal death and slam.

Crucivore opted for the classic lyrical themes of their genre, and their songs generally revolve around corruption, decay, blasphemy, mortality, and apocalyptic scenes, while also exploring the grotesque nature of existence through a lens of darkness and desecration.

Rather than relying on nostalgia or trends, Crucivore seek to contribute to the ongoing evolution of death metal through conviction, experience, and an unwavering dedication to the underground. Instead of just delivering more of the same, the Portuguese seek for ways forward and they have found it in musical storytelling.

With Desecration, Crucivore deliver an outstanding debut full-length album and a musical vision that is bound to respectfully and diligently broaden the horizon of death metal.

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Watch: ‘A Desert Through the Trees (live)’ by Heavy Temple

Posted: 23 September 2026 in Recommended Streams and Videos, Singles and EPs
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HEAVY TEMPLE reveal a heavy-tripping music video featuring the track ‘A Desert Through the Trees (Live)’. The song is lifted from the psychedelic heavy rockers’ digital live album Live from the Inner Sanctum, which is scheduled for release on October 9, 2026.

HEAVY TEMPLE comment: “Our song ‘Desert Through the Trees’ was directly inspired by the Kyuss track ‘Asteroid’ with a dash of Soundgarden and, believe it or not, a pinch of Pantera”, frontwoman High Priestess Nighthawk reveals. “It’s also the first track on Lupi Amoris. With this album, I feel that Heavy Temple really started hit its stride.”

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HEAVY TEMPLE are built to perform. The natural habitat of these American heavy rockers is the stage. They live and breathe playing live. They eat and drink the sweet nectar of stage sweat and backstage grub.

With their digital album Live from the Inner Sanctum, HEAVY TEMPLE deliver an authentic, honest, and raw statement about that irresistible impulse that drives them onto the roads of America and Europe to work extra hard every night to delight their audiences.

Live from the Inner Sanctum is not faking it at all. Honest mistakes are not electronically polished away, AI holds no sway over humanity here. This album is deliberately truthful and pointedly neither glossy nor sugar-coated. Take HEAVY TEMPLE as they are or leave it.

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