Alienist – Love/Hate
Alienist will release new EP Love/Hate on March 1 through UNFD.
“We explore a lot of different themes on this EP,” reveals guitarist, vocalist and lead songwriter Damon Renes, “but obviously the entire overall theme is love/hate and the fact that there’s such a big dichotomy between the two words at the same time.”
“People do a lot of things that are hateful, and yet use the word that they’re doing it for as “love” and vice versa,” Renes adds. “Love can make you do a lot of hateful things as well. The EP explores relationships with religion, but it also explores toxic relationships and abusive relationships and the falling apart of relationships that you think were going to be your “forever”, and what it feels like when you realise that that’s not going to be the case.”
“It explores all those sorts of themes and I hope some people listen to the lyrics of some of the songs and really think about their own situation. Or if they’re stuck in a situation that they’re not happy in, or one where they don’t feel safe – I hope that they feel like they’re not alone in that, and that they can get help or get the support that they need.”
Tracklist
Godless
Distorted Reflections
Absent
Hypnotise
Prisoner Of You
Blackgold – Back With Another One
Blackgold will release new EP Back With Another One on May 10!
Tracklist
International Touring
Back With Another One
Social Blackout
One Chance
Today’s My Day
Rains In My Life
Eidola – Eviscerate
Eidola will release new album Eviscerate on April 12 through Blue Swan/Rise Records.
We spent our downtime completely immersed in our desire to push our own limitations” says the band’s Andrew Michael Wells.
“We wanted to take the concepts of this project and double down on the things we felt were most ambitious and exploratory. While keeping our core sound, we chose to experiment with a new producer, 7 string guitars, deep drop tunings, and lean into the violence and loss in our lyrical content.”
Tracklist
Atman- An Introduction To Suffering
A Bridge Of Iron And Blood
No Weapon Formed Shall Prosper
Who Of You Will Persevere
The Weight Of Sin
He Who Pulls The Strings Ties A Knot
Fistful Of Hornets
God Takes Away Everything
Ziggurat
Ashes In Gehinnom
Golgotha Compendium- Fith Temple
Kali Yuga
Ecclesiastes- The Burden Of Wisdom
Artificial Language – Distant Glow
Artificial Language will release new EP Distant Glow on March 22.
Tracklist
Two Faced Star
Rain Follows
Stranded
House of Hoarded Sands
Skinwalker
Capstan – The Mosaic
Capstan will release new album The Mosaic on May 24 through Fearless Records.
Tracklist
I. “Revolve”
“Misery Scene”
“Final Words”
“Undertow”
“An Open Letter”
“Hailey”
“Bloom”
“Empire”
“What You Want”
II. “Revise”
“Dwell”
“Arrows”
“Compendium”
“Bête Noire”
“Moloch”
“What Can I Say”
“Heart to Heart”
III. “The Mosaic”
Alien Ant Farm – ~mAntras~
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Alien Ant Farm will release new album ~mAntras~ on April 26.
Guitarist Terry Corso said: “Growing up, divorce, children, family, death, band break-ups, surgeries, illness, health—everything is in this record. It’s literally a product of all the fucking shit, good and bad, that we went through.”
“For a band that released “Smooth Criminal”, we are a crazy prog band,” chuckles Dryden Mitchell. “If you scratch that just a couple of songs in, there’s some real goodness going on in there.”
“Longevity has kind of become the luxury,” adds Corso, “because it lets us do all this stuff that we want to do. It gives us a bit wiggle room to have those prog tendencies and move in ways that feel good to us.”
Tracklist
The Wrong Things
Last dAntz
Fade
No. 1
Storms Over
So Cold
What Am I Doing
Prosperous Futures
Glasses
Everything She wAnts
~mAntras~
Brontide – Artery (10th anniversary reissue)
Brontide will release a 10th anniversary edition of Artery on August 2.
The album will be pressed on a limited edition silver fade vinyl.
Tracklist
Tonitro
Bare My Bones
Kith and Kin
Cabin
Knives
Still Life
Caramel
Red Gold
Mammoth Penguins – Here
Credit: Gavin Singleton
Mammoth Penguins will release new album Here on May 3 through Fika Recordings.
Tracklist
SPECIES
I Know The Signs
Flyers
Blue Plaque
Everything That I Write
Here
Nothing And Everything
Help Yourself
Old Friends
Lost Friends
Success
A Plea For Kindness
Pearl Jam – Dark Matter
Credit: Danny Clinch
Pearl Jam will release new album Dark Matter on April 19 through Monkeywrench Records/Republic Records.
The band recently heard the album with a special listening party.
Vocalist Eddie Vedder said: “I’m getting chills, because I have good memories. We’re still looking for ways to communicate. We’re at this time in our lives when you could do it or you could not do it, but we still care about putting something out there that is meaningful and we hopefully think is our best work. No hyperbole, I think this is our best work.”
Bassist Jeff Ament added: “What Ed said about getting us in a room at this point, we felt like we were about to make a really important record. A lot of that had to do with the atmosphere Andrew set up. He has encyclopedic knowledge of our history, not only as a band and how we wrote songs, but as players. He could pinpoint things we did on old songs to the point where I was like, ‘What the fuck is he talking about?’ His excitement was contagious. He’s a force. I just want to say thanks for keeping us on track. I couldn’t be prouder of us as a band. I feel so grateful for the fans, but mostly for my brothers and these people I’ve made music with.”
Tracklist
Scared of Fear
React, Respond
Wreckage
Dark Matter
Won’t Tell
Upper Hand
Waiting for Stevie
Running
Something Special
Got to Give
Setting Sun
