A new Whores. track titled “Sicko” has arrived online, serving as the third advance single from the band’s new album “War. (due out April 12th.) The noisy sludge rockers have also lined up the following U.S. tour for the record, which will find Venus Twins joining on select dates. Source: <a href="https://www.theprp.com/2024/02/24/news/whores-debut-new-track-sicko-reveal-spring-u-s-tour/" target="_blank">ThePRP.com</a>

“‘Burning Down‘ kicks off with a classic Pike riff. I think this song harkens back to the early High On Fire sound, but infused with fresh, new elements. It has a killer groove that you can really sink into. The body of the song took shape in our PNW rehearsal space, and we came up with the bridge/solo section and finalized the arrangement while we were at GodCity. Kurt Ballou’s input as a producer was also hugely helpful. His keen ears and fresh perspective were invaluable in making this album.” Source: <a href="https://www.theprp.com/2024/03/05/news/high-on-fire-debut-burning-down-music-video/" target="_blank">Theprp.com</a>

Menacing powerviolence/grind band Full Of Hell have pulled the wraps off of their sixth studio album, “Coagulated Bliss“. An April 26th release date has been scheduled for it through Closed Casket Activities. Eric Richter (Lorna Shore, Knocked Loose) was tasked with directing the below video for the album’s lead single, “Doors To Mental Agony“. Source: <a href="https://www.theprp.com/2024/03/06/news/full-of-hell-share-details-for-new-album-coagulated-bliss-debut-doors-to-mental-agony-video/" target="_blank">Theprp.com</a>

'Adrift / Tending the Embers' marks Pelican's first new music since 2019 and the first songs written with the band’s original lineup since 2012. The EP marks both a reunion and a departure, eschewing the caustic bombast of 2019’s 'Nighttime Stories' for more delicate and nuanced territory that imbibes their pastoral Midwest post-rock tendencies with triumphant riffs that feel indebted to the classic Dischord pantheon. Source: <a href="https://pelican.bandcamp.com/album/adrift-tending-the-embers" target="_blank">Bandcamp</a>

MIDNIGHT has been slaying the metal/punk underground with their own addictive brand of lust, grime, and sleaze dating back to the band’s inception. Filthy, belligerent, and obnoxious, MIDNIGHT makes music to start fights to. Source: <a href="https://www.earsplitcompound.com/midnight-unleashes-nuclear-savior-single-hellish-expectations-full-length-nears-release-on-metal-blade-records/" target="_blank">Earsplitcompound.com</a>

Acclaimed instrumental post-rock band IF THESE TREES COULD TALK is back with a new single, “Trail Of Whispering Giants,” the group’s first new music in eight years, out today and streaming via Metal Blade Records. “Trail Of Whispering Giants” marks the anticipated return of the Akron, Ohio-based lineup spearheaded by drummer Zack Kelly and his guitarist-brother Cody Kelly. IF THESE TREES COULD TALK has been praised by Metal Hammer for, “uplifting post-rock that layers cascading guitars over tight drums with a deep emotional resonance,” while the lineup’s third LP and Metal Blade debut, 2016’s The Bones Of A Dying World, was called, “a fluid-flowing masterpiece that builds upon complex, progressive dreamscapes.” . Source: <a href="https://www.earsplitcompound.com/if-these-trees-could-talk-akron-ohio-based-post-rock-outfit-issues-trail-of-whispering-giants-single-their-first-new-music-in-eight-years/">Earsplitcompound.com</a>

Instrumental Psych Rock Maestros MONKEY3 herald the new year with an epic magnum opus! Source: <a href="https://monkey-3.bandcamp.com/album/welcome-to-the-machine" target="_blank">Bandcamp</a>

If patience is a virtue, Love Sex Machine might as well be saints; albeit saints with a taste for the filthiest sludge metal riffs offset by down-tempo, post-metal grooves and a fiendish sense of lyrical humour. ‘Trve’ is 10 long-awaited tracks of revitalised righteous indignation, wry social commentary and, of course, unspeakably disgusting heaviness. Source : <a href="https://lovesexmachine.bandcamp.com/album/trve" target="_blank">Bandcamp</a>

"Toadliquor is a band of sin and loathing. At least, that's how they sound. I don't think that I've heard a group that smells like blood, wine, and gasoline, but here we are. Sludge in your veins." Source: <a href="https://toadliquorsl.bandcamp.com/">Bandcamp</a>

Born out of the Danish punk/metal scene, OXX has since grown into a feral beast of its own by weaving elements of avant/free music, afrobeat, and film scoring into its compositions. The band’s raw, spontaneous blend of chaotic hardcore, sludge, and crust acts as an extension of the lyrics; an unfiltered, feverish stream of thought—bits and pieces of novels, obscure cinema, video games, etc. rushing by in a maelstrom of impressions of existence filtered through the eyes of the woefully unstable. Source: <a href="https://www.nefariousindustries.com/collections/oxx">nefariousindustries.com</a>