Toodles & The Hectic Pity – Hold Onto Happiness With Both Hands
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Toodles & The Hectic Pity will release album Hold Onto Happiness With Both Hands on June 23 through Specialist Subject Records.
“It seems to me kind of pointless to write a merely depressing song or a merely depressing album,” says vocalist Callum McAllister, “so most of these songs and the album as a whole attempt to take a journey that ends in positive resolution and catharsis.”
Kvelertak – Endling
Kvelertak will release new album Endling on September 8 through Rise Records/Petroleum Records.
Guitarist Vidar Landa said: “On Endling, we tell the stories of the extinct and dying men and women of Norway. Old and new myths, culture, and rituals come to life — the folklore that doesn’t fit a TV series concept. Vikings and trolls are for television. This is the real deal.”
The band said: “As the sun fell, at the time when oxen are unyoked, following the trail cut by the footsteps of Rasmus Vardal, the marauders of rock came riding again, screaming Kielland is dead, long live Kielland!”
Tracklist
“Fedrekult”
“Likvoke”
“Motsols”
“Døgeniktens Kvad”
“Endling”
“Skoggangr”
“Paranoia 297”
“Svart September”
“Morild”
Trophy Eyes – Suicide and Sunshine
Trophy Eyes will release new album Suicide and Sunshine on June 23 through Hopeless Records.
“It’s the human experience,” says John Floreani. “What we experience and how we navigate it. The millions of tiny flashes of light that are memories and thoughts and feelings and smells, all those little moments make up a lifetime. They’re beautifully tragic because they don’t mean anything to anyone, and on the scale of everything in the universe don’t mean a damn thing. But it’s so beautiful that they happen in the first place.”
Tracklist
1) Sydney
2) Life In Slow Motion
3) People Like You
4) My Inheritance
5) Blue Eyed Boy
6) Runaway Come Home
7) Burden
8) Sean
9) What Hurts The Most
10) OMW
11) Kill
12) Sweet Soft Sound
13) Stay Here
14) Epilogue
Sevendust – Truth Killer
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Sevendust will release new album Truth Killer on July 28 through Napalm Records.
Tracklist
- I Might Let The Devil Win
- Truth Killer
- Won’t Stop The Bleeding
- Everything
- No Revolution
- Sick Mouth
- Holy Water
- Leave Hell Behind
- Superficial Drug
- Messenger
- Love And Hate
- Fence
Parker – Never Let This Go
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Parker will release new record Never Let This Go on June 30.
Shade Empire – Sunholy
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Shade Empire will release new album Sunholy on September 15 through Candlelight Records.
Comments the band: “Six years after the release of Poetry of the Ill-Minded, we are pleased to present you with our new album Sunholy. We are very excited to let our fans hear what we have been up to. The record is brutality and beauty in perfect harmony.”
Tracklist
1. In Amongst The Woods
2. The Apostle
3. This Coffin an Island
4. Sunholy
5. Torn Asunder
6. Maroon
7. All-Consuming Flame
8. Profane Radiance
9. Rite of Passage
The Dirty Nil – Free Rein to Passions
The Dirty Nil will release new album Free Rein to Passions on May 26 through Dine Alone Records.
“Fuck Art had a lot of singing on it. There were not a lot of parts where you could just jam out on riffs,” says frontman Luke Bentham. “Free Rein to Passions is a bit of a nastier record where we didn’t sweat the small insignificant details. If it sounded cool, we went with it.”
Tracklist
1. Celebration
2. Nicer Guy
3. Undefeated
4. Atomize Me
5. Land Of Clover
6. Blowing Up Things In The Woods
7. Stupid Jobs
8. 1990
9. Free Rein to Passions
10. The Light The Void and Everything
Danko Jones – Electric Sounds
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Danko Jones will release new album Electric Sounds on September 15 through AFM Records.
“Not working for two years really felt like touring rock bands were being put out to pasture,” recalls Danko. “But I guess that only made us try harder. We were still able to record and release an album during the pandemic (Power Trio, 2021). We toured as soon as we were allowed. Now that Electric Sounds is getting released, it doesn’t feel like we missed a beat. During the pandemic, we moved away from each other. JC lives in Finland and Rich lives in Prince Edward Island. So the writing for this band has changed. We used to bash out ideas in our rehearsal place, day after day, but it’s more about sending files back and forth now. However, last summer, while on tour, we did manage to jam out ideas in a rehearsal room in Berlin for a few days. Out of those jams came the nubs for five songs…”
Tracklist
01. Guess Who’s Back
02. Good Time
03. Electric Sounds
04. Get High?
05. Stiff Competition
06. She’s My Baby
07. Eye For An Eye
08. I Like It
09. Let’s Make Out
10. What Goes Around
11. Shake Your City
Girlfriends – Over My Dead Body
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Girlfriends will release new EP Over My Dead Body on May 12 through Big Noise Records.
Speaking on the EP, Travis shares: “These songs came about in a completely new way for us as a band because they were made one by one with some time in between but somehow sound so cohesive and like we wrote them all that way on purpose. We got to do a lot of cool things while making the EP and being able to tour while recording, really informed some of the songs. They’re annoyingly catchy, the hooks are big and better than ever and it’s a statement for us as a new band.”
snake eyes – health
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snake eyes will release new EP health on June 16 through Alcopop! Records!
Tracklist
1. no one is truly cool
2. crybaby
3. medicine
4. 40 winks
5. nothing better
The Deadnotes – Forever Outsider
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The Deadnotes will release new EP Forever Outsider on May 26 through 22Lives Records.
We worked, wrote, arranged and produced so much to finish these songs, more than on any other release before, without much questioning and overthinking,” said Jakob.
“Is this really us? Will it be heard by our musical contemporaries and fans? Is there a break referring to our previous history? We deliberately didn’t think about these questions. We wanted to do exactly what felt right in the moment and create our own space as outsiders. For us, this EP is like the first release with a completely new band.”
Tracklist
1. Forever Outsider
2. Downward Spiral
3. Dog Years
4. A Glade Inside The Vines
Rancid – Tomorrow Never Comes
Rancid will release tenth album Tomorrow Never Comes on June 2 through Epitaph Records.
Tracklist
- Tomorrow Never Comes
- Mud, Blood, & Gold
- Devil In Disguise
- New American
- The Bloody & Violent History
- Don’t Make Me Do It
- It’s a Road to Righteousness
- Live Forever
- Drop Dead Inn
- Prisoners Song
- Magnificent Rogue
- One Way Ticket
- Hellbound Train
- Eddie the Butcher
- Hear Us Out