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The Jesus Lizard - Announce First Album In 26 Years, New Video, And Touring Schedule

Noise rock titans The Jesus Lizard have reunited as a live band since 2017, but now that reunion finally resulted in a new album. Rack will be released on the 13th of September through Ipecac Recordings, and you can watch the video for the first single, "Hide & Seek", below. You can also check the band's announced touring schedule for 2024 and 2025.

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Source: facebook.com
Band profile: The Jesus Lizard
Posted: 06.06.2024 by RaduP | Comments (0)


Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Announce North American Tour

In addition to the previously announced extension to the European Tour, post-rock outfit Godspeed You! Black Emperor will also take the Liberation Autumn Of '24 Tour to the other side of the ocean. The North American tour dates will have Alan Sparhawk of Low as opening act. See the extended tour below.

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Source: instagram.com
Band profile: Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Posted: 05.06.2024 by RaduP | Comments (0)


Batuska - Court Decision About Name Dispute Reached

After the very publicly controversial split / name dispute that made Bartłomiej Krysiuk's Batushka and Krzysztof Drabikowski's Батюшка spawn out of the original Batushka, during which time both incarnations toured and released music using the "Batushka" name, it seems like the Polish legal system has finally reached a conclusion about the name ownership.

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Source: facebook.com
Band profile: Batushka
Posted: 05.06.2024 by RaduP | Comments (14)


Rockstadt Extreme Festival 2024 - Running Order Announced

The 2024 edition of Rockstadt Extreme Festival has already had its huge share of lineup announcements, as well as sadly also its fair share of cancellations. Right now the festival posted the provisional running order, with the caveat that it is prone to change due to logistics and artist schedules. You can find the running order below.

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Source: facebook.com
Event: Rockstadt Extreme Festival 2024
Posted: 31.05.2024 by RaduP | Comments (2)


Clouds - Daniel Neagoe Recovering From Stroke

Daniel Neagoe, most famously of Clouds, Eye Of Solitude, as well as various other projects, has recently suffered a stroke and is currently recovering from it. The health and financial woes were described in a Facebook post, along with a link to a funding page to help alleviate the financial hardship. You can read the statement below.

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Source: facebook.com
Band profile: Clouds
Posted: 15.01.2024 by RaduP | Comments (1)


Dordeduh - Announce February European Tour

Romanian progressive black metal outfit Dordeduh have just unveiled plans for an European tour in February, and even though some of the dates are still left to be announced, you can see the currently announced dates below.

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Source: facebook.com
Band profile: Dordeduh
Posted: 03.01.2024 by RaduP | Comments (2)


Roadburn Festival 2024 - Second Batch Of Bands Announced

After a relatively small initial batch of bands announced we now have a more sizeable batch announced for the 2024 edition of Roadburn Festival.

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Source: facebook.com
Event: Roadburn Festival 2024
Posted: 07.12.2023 by RaduP | Comments (0)


Rockstadt Extreme Festival 2024 - Big 4 Of Teutonic Thrash To Perform

After a pretty big announcement, a much smaller but more precise lineup announcement for the 2024 edition of Rockstadt Extreme Festival is here. And the "Klash of the Teutons" will include Kreator, Sodom, Destruction, and Tankard performing on the same day.

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Source: facebook.com
Event: Rockstadt Extreme Festival 2024
Posted: 07.12.2023 by RaduP | Comments (1)


Orchid (USA-MA) - To Play First Shows In Two Decades

Screamo legends Orchid (USA-MA) have just announced a string of reunion shows to happen next year in North America. These are the band's first shows since their breakup back in 2002.

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Source: instagram.com
Band profile: Orchid (USA-MA)
Posted: 06.12.2023 by RaduP | Comments (2)


Krzysztof Drabikowski's Батюшка - Show In Belgrade Cancelled Due To Religious Protests

Krzysztof Drabikowski's version of Batushka embarked on an European tour along with Kanonenfieber and Uburen that was supposed to also have a date in Belgrade, Serbia on the 23rd of November. Sadly, due to pressures from the Serbian Orthodox church that show was cancelled. A replacement date for the tour was instead added in Brno, Czechia.

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Source: facebook.com
Band profile: Krzysztof Drabikowski's Батюшка
Posted: 16.11.2023 by RaduP | Comments (7)


Rockstadt Extreme Festival 2024 - New Batch Of Bands Announced

With two batches of confirmations already behind us, we not get a third one, one that seems to round up the lineup for the time being.

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Source: facebook.com
Event: Rockstadt Extreme Festival 2024
Posted: 26.10.2023 by RaduP | Comments (0)


Roadburn Festival 2024 - First Batch Of Bands Announced

Following the initial announcement of Khanate playing their first show since the reunion as the first band announced for the 2024 edition of Roadburn, now we have the first proper batch of bands announced.

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Source: facebook.com
Event: Roadburn Festival 2024
Posted: 25.10.2023 by RaduP | Comments (1)


ARTmania Festival 2024 - First Acts Announced

Having already confirmed the upcoming 2024 edition, now we have the first acts for the 2024 edition of ARTmania Festival. These are Satyricon, The Flower Kings, Borknagar, Taine, and alongside those there are the two showcase winners, Alpha Q and Awake The Demons.

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Source: facebook.com
Event: ARTmania Festival 2024
Posted: 25.10.2023 by RaduP | Comments (1)


Full Of Hell - Announce Collaboration With Nothing

US grind act Full Of Hell have already shown a penchant for collaboration, having collaborated with the likes of Merzbow, The Body, and Primitive Man. Shoegaze band Nothing is one that they have played a collaborative set with at Roadburn Festival 2022. Now that live collaboration gets its studio counterpart with When No Birds Sang, out on the 1st of December 2023 via Closed Casked Activities. You can watch the video for "Spend The Grace" below.

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Source: closedcasketactivities.com
Band profile: Full Of Hell
Posted: 11.10.2023 by RaduP | Comments (1)


Corrupted - Surprise Drop New EP

I am not sure how much I can call a band with virtually no social media presence just casually dropping a one-track EP a "surprise release" as opposed to a normal release cycle, but regardless we now have a new Corrupted EP, Mushikeras, one that unlike the previous EP since their last studio album, is both in their sludge metal style and has over twenty minutes of runtime.

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Source: corrupted1994.bandcamp.com
Band profile: Corrupted
Posted: 03.10.2023 by RaduP | Comments (1)