Doom Groove Orchestra

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KLc113Mfvw The gloomy, doomy, virtual hard rock trio Doom Groove Orchestra are back with a new A/B side single entitled "Only Here To Die/The Traveller," released last month on July 2nd. Since having released "The Hunter / Falling Into Shadow" back in March, the band also released another single "A Thief in the Night / …

Indie Press Release: Exit the Matrix

https://open.spotify.com/album/1RlPXBQ6DKl3Hp7V1SNAaA?si=0CGRc6h-SFaj73FERc1Szg The band Exit The Matrix debuted in June of 2020 with an 8 track album, "The Anomaly Traces." Not much info is out there about this obscure prog metal band from Belgium, but there is some buzz in parts of the Northern European Metal community right now about their upcoming new single that is …

Band without Band Releases New Single

https://open.spotify.com/track/2D39rjYNc6zZbi1ptKI71r?si=24e43c7cf16d4f72 The multi-instrumentalist, to whom through my research I've only been able to refer to as Marc (…*in my best Tommy Wiseau voice* "Oh, hi Mark"... ) or perhaps better known by the name of his Goth Metal project Band w/o Band, has just dropped a new single four days ago entitled, "Wake Up." This …

Big Dog: Love Ghost Releases New Single and Announces Contest

In just 17 days since dropping what was previously the most recent single, "Beamer Boy," and 36 days since I covered "Get Faded," which was officially released just six days before that, the content mega-machine that is Love Ghost is back again with a couple new singles, "Big Dog" and "El Perro Grande" (the Spanish …

The Power of a Velvet Pain

Velvet Pain is a hard rock project born of multi-instrumentalist Tobias Sacher from Heilbronn, Germany. Although he has been playing guitar since 10 years old, the brainchild that is Velvet Pain is a relatively brand new project in terms of discography, releasing a debut EP "Force Your Voice" in mid-December 2021 and just recently dropping …

Killing In Apathy: Conductors of Madness

According to their Spotify Bio, a reunion of the project transpired with not much more explanation other than "a fight over an empty beer cooler," and a mission statement to "leave no ass un-kicked."

Bands to keep on your radar: Dead Cassette

Since dropping "Revive" in November of 2021 and "Neverending" in March of 2022, the band Dead Cassette from Akron, Ohio has managed to drum up quite a buzz for the anticipated album that followed in April of 2022, also entitled "Revive" and which also includes the two preceding singles on it as well. The band …

Band w/o Band – “When Death Comes”

https://open.spotify.com/track/55TABD40jcrWe0xUnZmI2o?si=082cf371ee804732 Hamburg, Germany, a city rich in history, is home to an independent artist named Marc who is in a band... without a band. Hence, the name of his project, "Band w/o Band," or by the more SEO friendly nomenclature: "bandwithoutband." Since high school, he has been writing music and playing an assortment of pubs …

Hysterical Blindness – New LP Coming out 06-30-2022

https://open.spotify.com/album/7AWC4cE6SGGgwTE2yC0FTJ?si=k82b97cWSvykoOHKesj8Zg The project once featured by Metal Injection as "The One-Man Black Metal Album You Need Today," has a new album dropping on June 30th called "Notre Héritage." That project is none other than Montréal's Hysterical Blindess and the new LP is to be the follow up to 2020's "Mysterious Dogma." If precedent is anything …

Get Faded on Love Ghost’s new single

https://open.spotify.com/album/3V4UDOEI8kbhwXKrncWqqY?si=3bj7CYMvSf6axXr_ja_Eaw The L.A. based, genre bending, Trap Metal band Love Ghost have released a brand new single as of last Friday, May 27th, entitled, "Get Faded." Lots has been going on with Love Ghost since reviewing their first single of the year, "Chains," back in January. Since then, if you also count the version of …