UK Thrash/ Hardcore Outfit CAGE FIGHT Announce Album + New Single/ Video


Hardcore / thrash / crossover band Cage Fight, featuring TesseracT guitarist James Monteith and former Eths vocalist Rachel Aspe, have announced their debut self-titled album, Cage Fight, due for release May 13th on the Candlelight label.  

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LOATHE reveal Sleep Token collaboration version of their track ‘Is It Really You?’


Loathe have revealed a second collaboration version of their track ‘Is It Really You?‘, with enigmatic alt-rockers Sleep Token. This stripped down version with piano accompaniment and moving vocals from Sleep Token‘s Vessel, emphasizes the nostalgic nature of the song-writing. Taken from their 2020 record I Let It In And It Took Everything, ‘Is It Really You?‘ has been identified as one of the pivotal moments in Loathe‘s sonic evolution. 

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FEATURE – SLASH on new album ‘4’: “Recording live the way we did it was something I have wanted to do my whole career”


Interview Q&A with Slash by Carina Lawrence / Dark Art Conspiracy

Legendary Guns N’ Roses guitarist Slash has kept busy with his solo group. His latest project is his fifth solo album and fourth with Slash featuring Myles Kennedy & The Conspirators, hence the album name ‘4’. The album is out on February 11th 2022 via Gibson Records in partnership with BMG. The new album ‘4’ will be the first-ever album released on the new Gibson Records label, headquartered in the iconic American instrument brand Gibson’s hometown of Music City, Nashville. Considering the long partnership between Gibson and Slash, with Slash named the first global ambassador for the brand, it makes perfect sense that ‘4’ would be the first Gibson Records release.

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Mayday Parade Release New Music Video For “Angels Die Too”


Alternative mainstay Mayday Parade have shared the music video for single “Angels Die Too,” taken from their new studio album What It Means To Fall Apart – out now on Rise Records. Written about helping the people closest to you traverse difficult times in life, “Angels Die Too” sees singer Derek Sanders reflecting on the friends that have been lost to suicide.

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ASGAARD Premiere First Song From ‘What If…’ Album With “Sny na jawie”


What if…” is the brand new, seventh album in the band’s career and a follow-up to a critically acclaimed “Stairs To Nowhere. This time around, Asgaard reinvents its formula and the album is the first ever of their releases to feature more rock-oriented sound, rather that straight-up metal one. “What if…” is the very first record in band’s discography with songs composed in more traditional way, full of beautiful melodies and grand, epic choruses. Band enters another novel territory – two out of eight songs on the album are sung in Polish, which language native to the members of the group. Additionally, Asgaard included stylistic features of the broad genre of electronic music in the intricately structured new songs. New album still retains characteristic sense of romance and nostalgia, present in the band’s outputs since the beginning. Such emotional load brings to mind bands like KatatoniaAmorphisMoonspellOpethAnathema
What if…” is a triumphant return of Poland’s rock/metal avant-garde.

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Candlemass announce 35th anniversary reissue of ‘Epicus Doomicus Metallicus’


Limited Edition 35-year anniversary 3LP deluxe set for release on Peaceville on 3rd June

SPECIAL TRIPLE COLOURED VINYL SET COMMEMORATING 35 YEARS OF THE ICONIC DEBUT OF MASTERFUL DOOM METAL, CONTAINING REMASTERED AUDIO, PLUS RARE PRE-EPICUS RECORDINGS FROM 1985 INCLUDING THE LEGENDARY ‘WITCHCRAFT’ DEMO. ALSO INCLUDES 8 PAGE BOOKLET, A2 POSTER, & LETTER PRINT FROM FOUNDER LEIF EDLING 
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