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Hardcore

Upcoming tours in Europe/UK – part II

February 15, 2023

A few weeks into 2023 and already a lot of amazing live shows happened. So many great acts are currently touring over the pond, it’s really hard to choose. So here’s part II of a selection of upcoming tours in Europe/UK. Devin Townsend Last time Devin Townsend played here, was probably the acoustic tour in 2020. In November 2022 Devin released his latest record “Lightwork”. With the upcoming European tour, which starts in Oslo, Norway in February 21st, he brings the new record to European and UK stages. Choose your date(s) and get your tickets! For more information on Devin Townsend, follow his social media: https://www.facebook.com/dvntownsend https://hevydevy.com/ https://twitter.com/dvntownsend https://www.instagram.com/dvntownsend Erra Birmingham (AL)-based band Erra will be touring in Europe/UK in February/March 2023. It’ll be their first headliner tour. They will be joined by Silent Planet, Invent Animate and Sentinels. Erra are currently on tour in the US supporting We Came As Romans. In May 2023 they will be joining Bad Omens on tour in the US. Get your tickets HERE. Take your chance to see [Read More]

Tour

2023 – Upcoming tours Europe / UK – mark your calenders!

January 7, 2023

2023 is only a few days old and looking at tour announcements, it’s going to be a wild one. Here are a few of the upcoming tours we can look forward to: Architects   The tour through Germany is already underway. They also have European festival dates coming up (e.g. Hellfest France in June). For further dates, check the band’s social media: https://www.facebook.com/architectsuk https://www.architectsofficial.com/ https://twitter.com/architectsuk https://www.instagram.com/architects/ Trivium / Heaven Shall Burn Trivium are currently on tour in the UK with Heaven Shall Burn. Both bands will soon after hit European stages with a co-headliner tour. They will be joined by Obituary and Malevolence. For more information on both bands, follow their social media: https://www.facebook.com/Trivium/ https://www.trivium.org/ https://www.instagram.com/triviumband/ https://twitter.com/TriviumOfficial https://www.facebook.com/officialheavenshallburn https://www.heavenshallburn.com/ https://instagram.com/heavenshallburnofficial Dropkick Murphys Their massive European tour starts on January 13th in Belfast N. Ireland and ends on February 18th in Mannheim, Germany. They will be playing in the US in March 2023. They will also play Wacken Festival this year! Don’t miss your chance to see them live! For more information on the band and [Read More]

Punk Rock

Rancid announce EU/UK tour for 2023

December 18, 2022

Legendary punk rock band Rancid from East Bay announced their comeback to European/UK stages for a few festivals and headline shows in June 2023. Tour starts June 2nd in Rimini, Italy, where the band will attend Slam Dunk festival, followed by shows in Slovenia, Austria, Poland, Germany, Spain, Belgium, the UK, the Netherlands, and the Czech Republic.   For the headline shows, they’ll bring The Bronx and Grade 2 on tour. Get your tickets HERE. For more information, follow the Rancid’s social media: https://www.facebook.com/rancid https://www.rancidrancid.com/ https://twitter.com/rancid https://www.instagram.com/rancid/ (Source: Starkult Promotion)

Metalcore

Architects release new single “deep fake”

August 31, 2022

Shortly after the announcement of their new album and new tour dates, UK-Metalcore-legends Architects released their new single “deep fake” via Epitaph yesterday. The song is the opener of their highly anticipated new studio record “the classic symptoms of a broken spirit”. It’s a pulsating and bombastic album with a rave-rock-intro, which peaks in a vortex of pure hard rock riffs. After the hymn-like appetizer “when we were young”, which has reached 10 million streams so far, and the second forerunner “tear gas”, the pure power of the third pre-released song shows again, why Architects are amongst the most successful rock acts of the current decade. “the classic symptoms of a broken spirit” will already be the 10th studio record of the band and follows last year’s highly praised UK #1-record “For Those That Wish To Exist”. The band didn’t have much time to celebrate the success extensively, because they soon started the writing process of the new songs, which will be on the new record. It was produced at Deacon’s Middle Farm studios and [Read More]

New Music

Weatherstate release new single ‘Headstone’

January 10, 2022

As Weatherstate approach the release of their second album ‘Never Better’, which will be out 11 February via Rude Records, the Weymouth punk band has revealed another new track from it ‘Headstone’. Showcasing a slower, more contemplative side to Weatherstate, building to that anthemic, singalong chorus complete with signature Weatherstate riffage, it’s a track about fulfilling your potential. “Headstone is about trying to make something out of ourselves in the time we have here,” says guitarist Callan Milward. “It’s okay to go through periods of life unhappy and that’s what makes the good bits all the better. The lyric “Catch me I don’t want to come down” specifically relates to friends being around when you need a safety net and how important it is to have a support network that can get you through those monotonous times. We’re only around for so long, and that’s the way it is, we shouldn’t beat ourselves up too much, and it’s completely okay to sometimes just roll with the punches.” Never Better’ is the follow-up to 2019’s ‘Born [Read More]

New Music

Holding Absence release live video for “Drugs And Love”

December 17, 2021

Earlier this year Holding Absence performed their latest album ‘The Greatest Mistake Of My Life’ live & in color during a stream from the beautiful Portland House in Cardiff. To mark the band kicking off their UK tour supporting Creeper, they have released a video taken from the livestream of their performance of album track ‘Drugs and Love’. Frontman Lucas Woodland comments “We are once again super excited to show you guys some more footage from our live-streamed album-in-full performance from earlier this year! Drugs and Love is one of our favourite songs on the record, and we’re hyped to release this version for everyone to enjoy.” Determined to make the stream as special as possible, the band enlisted not only Grammy-nominated producer Romesh Dodangoda (who produced previous singles ‘Gravity’ and ‘Birdcage’ and mixed the Bring Me The Horizon ‘Live At The Royal Albert Hall’ DVD) and director Zak Pinchin (who worked with the band on ‘Like A Shadow‘, ‘In Circles‘, ‘nomoreroses’ and more) to work on the project, but also additional musicians Toby Evans [Read More]

New Music

Buster Shuffle announce new record and share new single “New Badge For My Uniform”

December 3, 2021

London based ska/punk/rock band Buster Shuffle announced a brand new record  today. “Go Steady” will be released March 18th, 2022 via the band’s own label Do Nothing Records. In addition the band also shared their new single/video “New Badge For My Uniform”. After the devastating effects of the pandemic and other troubles on tours in Great Britain and Europe, which directly affected British artists, Buster Shuffle decided to finance the album through crowd funding and use the power of the fans to spread the Shuffle-gospel far and wide. Bandleader Jet Baker comments: “It was a few hard years with the pandemic and therefor we thought that we ask our loyal fans, that grew with us for more than 10 years, to help us release the album. We have never done something like this, but we saw other bands working with their fans successfully to release music and we thought that our time has come now.” Jet turned at the peak of the lockdown to the friends of punk music, to release a bad-ass AA-side-7-inch-single “Unsung [Read More]