Slipknot: New Masks Revealed July 1st Via Spinner.com

On July 1, Slipknot, will unveil its new imagery in an exclusive partnership with AOL Music, the web’s most trafficked online music destination*. This highly anticipated debut kicks-starts the launch of Slipknot’s new album, All Hope Is Gone, which is set for release on Roadrunner Records on August 25th.
Masks are an integral part […]

Bobatron Speaks: The Sin Of Fandom

I do not like people being in the position to manipulate me. I do not appreciate people who assume they know what is better for me interfering with my life. That sort of reliance and influence can and will often lead to exploitation. In the case of religion, God is this being or entity that, […]

Middle Class Rut: US Tour Dates Announced

Middle Class Rut will be on tour with Burning Brides throughout July. Look out for a review of their self-titled EP coming soon on Sonic Dice.
Tour Dates
June 27 - The Boardwalk - Orangevale, CA (CD Release Show)
July 7 - Rudyard’s - Houston, TX *
July 8 - Red 7 - Austin, TX *
July 9 - Club […]

Album Review: Venetian Snares

[Album: Detrimentalist]
[Label: Planet Mµ]

‘Detrimentalist’ signals the return of the hyper-jungle-mash-up style that is synonymous with Aaron Funk a.k.a. Venetian Snares‘ most well-known work. Snares is such a prolific producer and virtuoso of this style of Renoise-propelled breakcore that there is great anticipation to where he will take it next. This album is a change of […]

Get Well Soon: New Single “If This Hat Is Missing” Out August

Get Well Soon release a new single, If This Hat is Missing, I Have Gone Hunting, on digital download from Monday 11 August. The single is taken from the debut album, Rest Now, Weary Head! You will Get Well Soon.
Get Well Soon is the musical vision of 25 year old Berlin based songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer […]

Glade Festival Offer £15 Discount On Tickets For Glastonbury Ticket Holders

Glastonbury Festival is supporting its ‘baby’ by offering a £15 discount on tickets to the Glade Festival for anyone that has bought a ticket for Glastonbury. Tickets can be bought through See Tickets.
Glade also returns to its birth place next weekend as the UK’s and indeed Europe’s largest festival returns for yet another year–Glastonbury Festival. […]

Gig Review: Lonely The Brave

[Venue: Barfly, Cambridge]
[Date: 3 June 2008]

It’s just gone 8.30pm and I feel like shit. I’m just about to leave the stage area and boot it through the Barfly to the toilet. It’s going to be messy and Mr Wong is going to get a phone call from me shortly as I have to cut my […]

EP Review: The Arusha Accord

[EP: Nightmares of the Ocean]
[Label: Basick Records]

The Arusha Accords, so Wikipedia tells me, were a set of five rules signed in Tanzania to help end the Rwandan Civil War in July 1993. Just about 15 years later, you can assume a band using that as the basis for their name are reasonably well read. […]

Trivium: New Album ‘Shogun’ Out In September

The third fourth album from metallers Trivium has been finished. Titled Shogun, it is hyped to be Trivium’s most mature and complex offering to date.
In 2005, critics and metal-heads worldwide took notice when Trivium crashed into the metal world with the release of their enormously successful Ascendancy album. The band landed magazine covers across the […]

Brian Jonestown Massacre: New Mini-album + UK tour

This mini album entitled ‘Just Like Kicking Jesus’ consists of 5 songs (4 never released before) runs over 27 minutes and was recorded in Reykjavik. The first track of this release features the vocals of Icelandic artist & film maker Unnur Andrea Einarsdottir. It will be released on July 28th via 12 Tonar/’a’ Records.
The Brian […]