A few months after unveiling its debut single with the official music video of “Mady”, French rock’n’core outfit Schoolyards just unleased a brand new excerpt from its upcoming album with the animated video of the song “From 29 to 44” available right now on YouTube
The band, which is including actual of former members of Anna Sage, Dirty BastarZ, Memories Of A Dead Man, Seven Days or Revive will released its debut album called ‘Comrades 2.0’ on September.
Official statement from the band : “From 29 to 44” is a summertime foxtrot-boogie-core song which address the causes of the recent rise of xenophic-populism in occident.
Currently the Gini index – which mesures wealth inequalities – is close to its 1929 records. In this context, Schoolyards thought it was quite fair to notify the new ordo-liberals and their paws, that it might still be time to stop privatizing profits and socializing losses: intentionaly creating uneducated unemployed angry people is never a good receipe for your future and its safety. Maybe
Rise Records announce the addition of BLINDWISH to the roster. The band formed in Dallas, Texas in March 2016.
Blindwish will release their debut album Good Excuses, which was recorded and produced by Ryan Furlott, on 1st September. The album features the tracks “After Midnight” and “The Maze,” which were co-written with multi-platinum songwriter and producer John Feldmann.
Check out the song “After Midnight”
Good Excuses is available for pre-order here.
Blindwish will capture the attention and ears of fans of bands that authored the signature rock sound of the ’00s like Taking Back Sunday and Bayside.
Blindwish have previously shared stages with Dance Gavin Dance, Underoath, Palisades, Silverstein, and more.
GOOD EXCUSES TRACK LISTING:
After Midnight
Bittersweet
Single Word
Cold Shoulders
Down
They’re Not Real
Infected
Tied in Nots
The Maze
Echo
Sleeping With Sirens have announced the release of their fifth studio album Gossip, due out 22nd September via Warner Bros. Records. Produced by David Bendeth (Paramore, All Time Low), the album is brimming with catchy riffs, intricate beats, and singer Kellin Quinn’s soul-striking vocals. The 11-track set takes Sleeping with Sirens to a new era in their career, while maintaining the unique spirit that has resonated with millions of listeners since their 2010 debut album. The first single, “Legends” – a triumphant call-to-arms – is out today alongside the official video, and has been named the official song of Team USA for Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games PyeongChang 2018.
Watch “Legends” Lyric Music Video:
Gossip is available to pre-order now at all digital retailers. Additionally, exclusive red-colored vinyl and a CD/Digital including two bonus tracks will be available for pre-order along with Gossip Merchandise at https://s-w-s.io/gossipas.
On Gossip, Sleeping With Sirens have reached the artistic heights they began moving towards since their debut nearly 10 years ago. “We finally captured the live experience with Bendeth,” explains frontman Kellin Quinn. “We have the production, but there’s a rawness that comes through. Musically, I feel like it’s the first Sirens record that sounds specifically like us. We took chances, experimented, and continued to do what we do best: create art. It’s something new. It has an authentic sound that we’ve been working towards all this time.”
Sleeping With Sirens – Kellin Quinn [vocals, keyboards], Jack Fowler [lead guitar], Nick Martin [rhythm guitar], Justin Hills [bass], and Gabe Barham [drums]— have emerged as one of the most influential artists in the alternative rock genre, selling an impressive 1.5 million albums worldwide with over 400M + Spotify streams and 350M+ Youtube views. Since the release of their 2010 debut With Ears to See and Eyes to Hear, the band has quietly pushed the envelope, delivering a delicate one-two punch of towering melodies and tight musicality that has galvanized a diehard fan base dubbed “Strays.” From the #3 debut of 2013’s Feel on the Billboard Top 200, to the Top 15 success of 2015 follow-upMadness, Sleeping With Sirens have earned unanimous acclaim, with The New York Timespraising how the music “blends tender and anguished in equal measure,” whileAlternative Press dubbed them 2014 “Artist of the Year” at the Alternative Press Music Awards and have touted them on its cover six times. They have headlined sold-out shows all over the world, and graced the main stages of several prestigious festivals, includingWarped Tour, Reading & Leeds and more.
Gossip Tracklisting
Gossip
Empire To Ashes
Legends
Trouble
One Man Army
Cheers
Closer
Hole In My Heart
I Need To Know
The Chase
War
Sleeping With Sirens will be main support for Rise Against on their upcoming UK and EU tour.
All UK shows are below: 1st November – O2 Academy, Birmingham
2nd November – O2 Apollo, Manchester
4th November – O2 Academy, Leeds
5th November – O2 Academy Brixton, London
6th November – The Academy, Dublin (IRE)
8th November – O2 Academy, Newcastle
Shiraz Lane touring in Europe w Brother Firetribe this Fall!
New Shiraz Lane material coming up later this year
Finnish young rock dynamite Shiraz Lane will return to European venues in October and November 2017, supporting their great fellow countrymen Brother Firetribe, who are celebrating their 15th anniversary this year!
Shiraz Lane´s been working on their 2nd album in Stockholm for the whole year with a Swedish songwriter/ producer Per Aldeheim (Def Leppard, Pain, Fatboy, Soilwork…). The album will be out in early 2018, and the guys are super happy about both with their results in the studio and these upcoming Fall live dates:
“We are extremely excited to join forces and support Brother Firetribe through Europe during the upcoming Autumn of 2017. It will be a pleasure to revisit some of the awesome venues and embrace the atmosphere we were so warmly welcomed on our last tour, and are thrilled to bring our caravan to new destinations for your eyes and ears to witness. You might even have an exclusive chance to hear some new material we have been working so hard on throughout the year. Perhaps we might even release a single before the leaves fall from the trees? Time will tell..!”
Shiraz Lane will continue the album´s vocal recordings in Gröndahl Studios in this month and will play live this Summer still in Üferrock (DE), Summer Breeze (DE) and Hair Metal Heaven (UK), before focusing on the European tour, beginning on the 11th of October.
Brother Firetribe 15th Anniversary European Tour w. Shiraz Lane:
11.10. GER – Berlin, Quasimodo
12.10. PL – Wroclaw, Firlej
13.10. CZ – Prague, Nova Chmelnice
14.10. GER – Leipzig, Hellraiser
16.10. GER – Hamburg, Knust
17.10, GER – Bochum, Zeche
18.10. GER – Frankfurt, Nachtleben
19.10. FR – Paris, Maroquinerie
21.10. UK – London, Bordeline
22.10. UK – Nottingham – Rockingham Festival (BFT only)
24.10. BE – Vosselaar, Biebob
25.10. GER – Cologne, Underground
26.10. GER – Nuremberg, Hirsch
28.10. HU – Budapest, Durer-Kert
29.10. AT – Vienna, Chelsea
30.10. GER – Munich, Backstage Halle
1.11. CH – Zurich, Dynamo Werk 21
2.11. IT- Milan, Legend
4.11. ESP – Madrid, Caracol
More Shiraz Lane tour dates will be anounced later this year.
Take a sneak peak to their funny studio sessions (incl. English subtitles):
Monolord announces their new album Rust today with the streaming release of the title track, along with artwork and track listing. Here’s all the info you should need to share the news.
The song, “Rust” features John Gamino (Mondo Drag) on keyboards and Trevor Church (Beastmaker) playing a guitar solo at the end of the tune.
Artist: Monolord
Album: Rust
Label: RidingEasy Records
Release Date: September 29th, 2017
Tracklist:
01. Where Death Meets The Sea
02. Dear Lucifer
03. Rust
04. Wormland
05.Forgotten Lands
06. At Niceae
Monolord is a rare breed: A band both encompassing and transcending genre; a vortex of heavy rock density that consumes all others. Their thunderous, tuneful heft has built a rabid international fanbase in short order since their 2014 debut. But Rust, the band’s third full length, truly exemplifies why some refer to them as the Nirvana of doom.
Monolord’s enveloping, syrupy sludge is a vibe, it’s a state of mind. Not riffs for riffs sake, but a collective buzzing, rattling and rumbling that’s more total environment than collection of songs. Together, guitarist/vocalist Thomas Jäger, drummer Esben Willems and bassist Mika Häkki create a massive, dynamic sound with ultra-low frequencies serving as its fourth member.
“We’ve always been inspired by great band musicians – as opposed to technical solo peacocks,” Willems says. “Because that force of a band really playing together as one single unit is incomparable. At its best, it’s just unstoppable.” And, Monolord is truly unstoppable, on record and on stage. “A heavy groove that contains both bombastic overkill and a lot of dynamics is what we always aim for in Monolord; in playing, in song writing and arranging, in recording,” Willems says.
Album opener “Where Death Meets the Sea” perfectly exemplifies their mastery of dynamics and hooks with a driving, infectious buzzsaw riff that lesser bands would ride off into the sunset, but Monolord uses subtly to spur the song’s skull rattling rhythmic core ever onward. Jäger’s watery vocals glide over ominously building verses that erupt with the song’s insistent refrain. Being such a tight rhythmic unit, it sounds almost like an early ZZ Top record played at half speed. “Dear Lucifer” squeals and hums with slow deliberation as Willems summons Dale Crover pummel with chasm like low-tuned toms and syncopated cymbal crashes. The album’s title track is also its centerpiece, opening with a dramatic, shimmering Hammond organ intro as Jäger sings, “you are the reason that I lied/ You are the reason that I cried/ Please don’t wait until tomorrow/ There’s only pain, hate, grief and sorrow.” Suddenly, the band kicks in with a bellowing line downtuned to B that nosedives down the guitar neck as the drums hammer down for the kill. Elsewhere, tastefully understated guitar harmonies elevate the behemoth churn of “Wormland” and apocalyptic album closer “At Niceae” simmers in a slow build of rumbling guitars and rolling drum triplets.
Monolord formed in 2013, quickly recording their 2xLP debut Empress Rising, which RidingEasy Records released in April 1st, 2014. The second album, Vænir, followed April 28th, 2015. The 2-song Lord of Suffering / Die in Haze EP was issued in late 2016 amid the band’s relentless touring schedule in order to tide fans over until the next full length. Vænir landed on countless Album of the Year lists in 2015, and Rust is poised to open an entirely new range of possibilities for Monolord.
Rust will be available on LP, CD and download on September 29th, 2017 via RidingEasy Records. Pre-orders are available at RidingEasy and Bandcamp.
The Tangent, the progressive rock group led by Andy Tillison, recently announced the release of their first new music since 2015. Their new ninth studio album ‘The Slow Rust of Forgotten Machinery’ is set for release on 21st July 2017
and today sees the release of an edit of the track ‘Slow Rust’ which you can listen to here:
Andy comments: “The song ‘Slow Rust’ is a long involved piece that looks at the whole massive set of implications of the various refugee crises around the world today. The piece tries to take on many of the points of view from different groups like The Press, Politicians, Industry, Education and all of US – but just for this section of the song we turned the camera on the people actually in the middle of this story, desperate people doing desperate things in a world that has little time to help them.
‘The Actual Story’ is a small section of this massive piece – a subsection of it. Marie Eve de Gaultier’s voice becomes the leading instrument here in a rare Tangent acoustic section and is one of the highlights of the album as a whole, part of one of the band’s most complex ever songs both in musical construction and lyrical development. The piece is challenging, dynamic and ‘of its time’.”
A series of track-by-track interviews featuring Andy Tillison and Luke Machin discussing the album in detail were recently launched, and you can watch the latest one here: https://youtu.be/q7r-e3v_Bo8
The line-up for this album once again features Tillison on keyboards, vocals (and for the first time on a Tangent record – drums), Jonas Reingold on bass, Luke Machin on guitars and vocals, and Theo Travis on sax and flutes plus new member Marie-Eve de Gaultier on keys and vocals. There are also guest appearances from author/playwright and Chumbawamba founder Boff Whalley on vocals, and upcoming DJ/producer Matt Farrow.
The album sees The Tangent in political commentary mode once again – this time often focussing on the horrendous plight of refugees from war torn parts of the world – and the way in which they are treated by the West, and in particular by the tabloid press. The album laments the new trend in building walls and defending borders across the world yet takes time to look at the breakup of friendships and other more personal issues – along with a song about the fate of wildlife in the modern consumer world.
And it’s a Progressive Rock Record. Full of intricacies, long developed pieces, challenging arrangements and virtuoso playing from all members. New sounds and styles (the band have brought a DJ on board for some sections) – new voices and techniques (first female vocals in The Tangent since the “Not As Good As The Book” album 10 years ago). A new producer in the form of Luke Machin whose open and deep/clear sound is a major factor of this album, a new drummer in the form of Andy Tillison who decided at long last (after drumming for 30 years) to let his own performances guide the rest of the band rather than adding another musician later. And after 13 years of asking, Jonas finally agreed to play some double bass in a song where Luke also plays some Scat guitar and Andy does a full on drum solo.
“The Slow Rust Of Forgotten Machinery” also features stellar artwork from Marvel / DC Comics artist Mark Buckingham. The sleeve of the album is totally based on the music it contains and was especially created for this project.
The album will be available on limited digipak CD, gatefold 2LP + CD, and digital download, and you can find the full track-listing below. Pre-order the album now here: http://smarturl.it/TheTangentTSROFM
Two Rope Swings
Doctor Livingstone (I Presume)
Slow Rust
The Sad Story of Lead and Astatine
A Few Steps Down the Wrong Road
Basildonxit
The band will head out on tour in support of the new record, once again joining forces with Sweden’s Karmakanic to present albums by both bands. The full list of dates is as follows:
Aug 26th 2017 – Bierkeller, Reichenbach, Germany
Sept 1st 2017 – 2 days of Prog +1 Festival, Veruno, Italy
Sept 9th 2017 – The Boerderij, Zoetermeer, Netherlands
Oct 8th 2017 – SUMMERS END Festival, Chepstow, UK
Oct 21st 2017 – Progtoberfest, Chicago, USA
Oct 22nd 2017 – Shank Hall, Milwaukee WI, USA
Oct 24th 2017 – Token Lounge, Westland MI, USA
Oct 26th 2017 – Roxy & Dukes, Dunellen NJ, USA
Oct 27th 2017 – The Regent Theatre, Arlington MA, USA
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