Florida’s dark torchbearers The Noctambulant opened the gates to the abyss with their new single ‘Bring The Sorrow’ earlier this month. A new album is coming next year!
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Heavy Americana collective Bask announced their heavy, psychedelic album ‘The Turning’ to be out in August with Season of Mist, and unveiled a first track and video with ‘Dig My Heels’!
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Lamb of God guitarist Mark Morton shared the new track ‘Brother’, featuring acclaimed country artist Cody Jinks, another taste of the upcoming solo album ‘Without The Pain’, filled with dark country and Americana, set for release in April via Snakefarm.
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A group of renown and talented musicians gathered and made dark, brooding music coming from deep within… En Minor was born.
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Pakanafestarit returns to Espoo in just two weeks: a celebration of Nordic folklore, rituals, community, and one of the strongest line-ups yet, from folk icons Värttinä to pagan metal force Havukruunu and so much more from The Gallows Dance to Kallomäki, Ilkka Heinonen, Rauni, Iterum Nata and Ínkar and of course plenty of vendors yet again! Here are the top reasons why we think you should join us there…
Gary’s albums of the year venture away from our more standard metal selection with a bunch of stellar punk releases from bands like The Bar Stool Preachers, Grade 2, The Darts, The Dollyrots, Rumkicks and Rancid, but also sidesteps into other music like the special brand of rock that Public Image Ltd. brings, blues rock with Samantha Fish and Jesse Dayton, an acoustic Dropkick Murphys and a trip back into time, reminiscing about London’s legendary Batcave Club!
Another week with amazing releases, check out the 13 singles that caught our attention with Rue Vox, Enter Shikari, …And Oceans, Aphyxion, Dirty Shirt, For I Am King, Hoaxed, Seas On The Moon, Stake, Suicide Silence, VV, Demeted and Tallah!
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Far from Vikings and church burnings, these cowboys from hell continue their epic tales of the old west on Wayfarer’s fifth album ‘American Gothic’, out via Century Media and Profound Lore.
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Gather round all you folk of the woods as Sean Kratz will take you once more across the wilds of his Appalachian homeland on Osi and The Jupiter’s newest record ‘Stave’. Out now via Eisenwald.
En Minor sees Phil Anselmo hang up his electric guitar for a funeral procession along the New Orleans delta.
Go out an explore vast mountain ranges and forests on Osi and the Jupiter’s latest EP of Americana tinged, spiritual folk: ‘Appalachia’.
The Luciferian bard King Dude is back with his seventh serving of dark music.
My first acquaintance with Emma Ruth Rundle came from her beguiling performance at Roadburn two years ago. Amidst all the stoner and doom heavyweights stood a fragile looking girl alone with just her guitar in hand.
Wayfarer’s latest piece, ‘World’s Blood’ invokes images of the old Frontier tales from the Rocky Mountains through razor sharp USBM and dark Americana. Check out their third album and debut for Profound Lore and find yourself become a trapper exploring the wilds of the West.
The Dark Red Seed is an experimental folly of King Dude’s guitar player Tosten Larson. While you will find some references to the dark Americana of his main band, the music presented herein is something quite different from what you might have hoped or expected: from Hindu esoteric to The Doors.
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