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Helms Alee are nothing if not mysterious, the Seattle-based trio laying down a sound somewhere between atmospheric sludge, post-hardcore and post-metal throughout their catalog, which now includes fifth album Noctiluca, out tomorrow on Sargent House. 

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We have teamed up with Austin's LEVITATION 2019 to present two shows of our artists including:  
Nov 8 at Empire: Deafheaven, Russian Circles, Emma Ruth Rundle, Jaye Jayle, Brutus & Lingua Ignota  
Nov 9 at…

Deafheaven & Touché Amoré have announced their co-headlining EU/UK 2019 tour with support from Portrayal of Guilt. Tickets on sale Friday, April 26th at deafheaven.com

SEP 16 Budapest, HU @ A38 
SEP 17 Ljubljana, SL @ Kino Siska …

full article via The Guardian

Kristin Hayter believes extreme music is overdue a reckoning with misogyny and violence – and uses her own ‘survivor anthems’ to spread the word.

Lingua Ignota is swinging a pair of bright-white lights…

full article via KERRANG

Home. It’s where the heart is. It’s the places we retreat to for a sense of safety and stability when everything else in our life is in flux. It is the people we hold…

Album of the Day: Ioanna Gika, “Thalassa”

via bandcamp daily

Ioanna Gika wrote and produced her first solo record, Thalassa, during a period of turbulent change. In the wake of the deaths of her…

HELMS ALEE Premieres The Appropriately Titled Track “Beat Up”

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Sludge metal trio, Helms Alee, are back at it with a brand new album titled Noctiluca, and if you’re looking something heartwarmingly crude and groovy, then you owe it to yourself to check this out!

Today we’re excited to bring you the track “Beat Up” off the album, a quick number that is disgustingly raw and catchy at the same time, leaving you to smash that repeat button more than you’d like to admit.

Pre-order the new album, Noctiluca , to be released on April 26th via Sargent House.

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Changing the game: Emma Ruth Rundle at Roadburn 2019

Roadburn had no shortage of female musicians, generally being awesome. Whether it is the heavy bass work of Tamaki Kunishi (MONO), the multi-layered keyboards of Helen Stanley (Crippled Black Phoenix) or Amalie Bruun (Myrkur) achieving two critically acclaimed black metal albums. Of course, it seems redundant writing about female representation in heavy music today, let alone in regards to a massively diverse festival such as Roadburn. However, it isn’t all that long ago that bands were marketed as ‘all female’ or ‘female fronted’ as if this was something new. So even in this day and age, with those labels long gone out of hot shot marketers’ mouths, female representation is as important and relevant as ever. Enter Emma Ruth Rundle, who is prominently featured at this year’s festival and quickly became one of this edition’s most valuable players.  

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Olympia, Washington’s Dylan Carlson has kept his legendary, long-running drone-metal project Earth going since 1989. In those years, he’s collaborated with Kurt Cobain, branched out into different musical ideas, and pioneered the whole idea of instrumental metal as full-immersion ambient music. Carlson has been busy lately, but it’s been five years since Primitive And Deadly, the last proper Earth album. Next month, they’ll be back at full force with a new studio LP called Full Upon Her Burning Lips. We’ve already heard the early track “Cats On The Briar,” and now they’ve shared another one called “The Colour Of Poison.”

Jaye Jayle is on tour in EU/UK now. Tickets: https://sargenthouse.com/jaye-jayle

APR 15 Brno, CZ @ Kabinet Muz
APR 16 Prague, CZ @ Klub 007
APR 17 Dresden, DE @ Scheune
APR 18 Vienna, AT @ Arena
APR 19…

Full feature & photo gallery via CoS

Setting the Stage: A steady rain descended on Manhattan as fans filtered into the industrial concert space Terminal 5 for a stacked bill. Baroness and Deafheaven were making the final stop on…

Interview via Create and Destroy Podcast

Adhering to the tropes of certain musical genres is not something that appeals to Lingua Ignota’s Kristin Hayter. In fact, Kristin’s hopes with Lingua Ignota it to create a genre of music…

Russian Circles have been added to Do Division Street Fest May 31 in Chicago, IL & ArcTanGent August 16 in Bristol, UK. Tickets: russiancirclesband.com

Super-collaboration group NEW IDEA SOCIETY has released their second single “Wave Goodbye”.
Stream / Download: smarturl.it/NewIdeaSociety

Deafheaven will be performing in Osaka & Tokyo, Japan on shows with Emperor this Fall.
Tickets on sale this Friday, April 12 at deafheaven.com 

Nov 13 Osaka, JP @ Namba Hatch 
Nov 14 Tokyo, JP @ Tsutaya O-East …

Full feature via The London Economic
St John’s on Bethnal Green, London 26/03/2019
Pictures: Graham Berry

There’s something imposing about a gig in a church. Heavy music and religion has a sometimes symbiotic, sometimes diametrically opposed relationship which can…

WATCH DEAFHEAVEN’S DEVASTATING LIVE PERFORMANCE OF NEW SONG “BLACK BRICK” via Revolver

In 2018, Revolver went on the road with Deafheaven for our two-part documentary Corrupt Love Across America; last month, we dropped in again, on a few…

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Greek-American singer songwriter Ioanna Gika crafts songs so towering, they nearly pierce through the atmosphere. Her self-produced debut album Thalassa (which translates to ‘sea’ in Greek) is out in its entirety today, and it’s a…

Ioanna Gika’s debut album ‘Thalassa’ is OUT NOW!
Stream or purchase HERE: smarturl.it/IoannaGika

Tour dates with Garbage // tickets HERE
MAY 03 Atlanta, GA @ Tabernacle
MAY 07 Raleigh, NC @ The…

Russian Circles Australia tour is coming up soon.
Tickets on sale at russiancirclesband.com

APR 23 Adelaide, AU @ The Gov
APR 24 Perth, AU @ Rosemount Hotel
APR 26 Melbourne, AU @ Max Watts
APR 27 Sydney, AU…

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Belgian trio Brutus first hooked me back in January with their insanely impressive live music video for “War,” featuring drummer/vocalist Stefanie Mannearts delivering an absolutely stunning performance on both instruments with an expressive, dynamic band behind her. I haven’t been able to stop listening to the band’s new album Nest ever since.

Review via Astral Noize

One of the most interesting trends in modern heavy music is the acceptance of a style that, on the surface, sometimes has very little in common with metal. At one end of this rather vast spectrum are the more obviously metallic stylings of Chelsea Wolfe, and at the other is Greek-American artist Ioanna Gika, whose compositions are intense but electronically driven. 

Tour continues // ticketing info at emmaruthrundle.com

Full article + photo gallery via Twin Cities Media

Closing out the intense night of music was Thou and Emma Ruth Rundle. Both powerhouses on their own, the two acts decided to join forces and give a few select cities the treat of seeing a collaborative set (thank you Jimmy from False for bringing this event to the Twin Cities). Now, as mentioned and per usual, I was going in a wee bit blind to this show so I couldn’t tell you if the songs being performed were by Thou, Emma Ruth Rundle, or brand new songs they all wrote together. What I can tell you is the way the music came across was absolutely perfect and honestly I could have easily been fooled into thinking that this was just one band that has been performing for years, not a collaboration that will only last a couple of shows.

“We wanted more space, more room, the record had to breathe…”

When Brutus released their excellent debut, ‘Burst’, in 2017, it wasn’t long before the plaudits started rolling in. The Belgian post-hardcore trio had won themselves some famous fans, perhaps most notably, Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich, who loved the record so much he invited Brutus to one of his band’s mammoth 2017 shows at the London O2. “We had to wait in the VIP bar,” remembers bassist Peter Mulders. “An assistant came and said: the Brutus guys? Are they here? Can you come with us because Lars wants to talk to you!”