Author: Dom Vigil

With the release of their debut album fast-approaching, four-piece Berkshire alt-rock outfit Hindsights have announced another clutch of live dates. These follow a stint supporting Milk Teeth around the UK and a special album release show at The Garage in London on 17th Feb. The album ‘Cold Walls/Cloudy Eyes’ will be released on 23rd February 2015 through UK indie label Beach Community and the band are now streaming a new track from the record, ‘Cloudy Eyes’, here. The song was written about a week before the band went into the studio and came together very quickly. Maybe the most pop-influenced music on the record. ‘Cold…

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Laramie, Wyoming punks Teenage Bottlerocket have announced details for their 6th studio LP (and Rise Records debut). ‘Tales From Wyoming’ will be released on March 31 and is now available for pre-order on MerchNow.Album art and track listing are revealed below.Stream a new track titled “Nothing Else Matters (When I’m With You)” here or below.The band says, ““We worked hard with Jason Livermore and Andrew Berlin engineering at the Blasting Room and the one and only Bill Stevenson producing and we cannot wait for everyone to hear it!.” Teenage Bottlerocket will be touring in the U.S. with Pennywise and A Wilhelm Scream from March 12 to…

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The Dreaming Rise Again

Review by Dom Vigil “Alone,” the intro track for The Dreaming’s Rise Again, sets the perfect tone for this huge album. Big and anthematic, “Alone,” is the best way to introduce yourself to The Dreaming if you’ve never listened to them before. It’s easy to imagine this track opening the band’s set in a huge arena – the drums and amazing bass tone build anticipation, and when the vocals come in and the chorus hits, everything seems to come together and explode. The balance on this track is amazing – no one part stands out too much. The vocals are…

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Torche roll out several songs from Restarter (Feb. 24, Relapse Records) this week, with Metal Hammer premiering “Bishop In Arms” today (http://metalhammer.teamrock.com/news/2015-02-09/torche-unveil-bishop-in-arms).Alternative Press shares “Undone” tomorrow, Stereogum debuts “Restarter” on Wednesday, followed by Paste’s stream of “Blasted’ on Thursday and Metal Sucks hosting “Barrier Hammer” on Friday. Noisey will begin streaming the album in its entirety, with a first listen to “Believe it” and “No Servants” on Monday, Feb. 16.Late last week, Relapse unleashed Torche vs. Robots: Annihilation Affair (www.torchevsrobots.com), a single-player game featuring each of the Torche band members as characters trying to save the city of Miami from destruction bend robots. Fans who play the game…

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Swedish rock legends EUROPE will release their 10th studio album, War of Kings, on March 10, 2015 in the United States via Hell & Back Recordings. In celebration of the release, the band has launched the official worldwide premiere of their new music video for the title track “War of Kings”, directed by Patric Ullaeus of Revolver Film Company (In Flames, At The Gates, Arch Enemy). UltimateClassicRock.com is hosting the North American premiere of the video. Watch the official video here: http://ultimateclassicrock.com/europe-war-of-kings-video/ Stay tuned for more tracks and teasers coming soon from EUROPE in anticipation of War of Kings!War of Kings will be available in multiple formats, as a CD digipak, a CD jewel…

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Seasons After and Pavement Entertainment have premiered the official video for “Lights Out” via Loudwire, which can be streamed here: http://loudwire.com/seasons-after-lights-out-exclusive-video-premiere/. The lead single from the band’s upcoming album CALAMITY SCARS AND MEMOIRS (MRI/ Sony-RED in North America and Plastichead in the UK / Europe) impacted Active Rock radio late-January and is building stream at the format, following a similar trajectory to past hits for the band “Cry Little Sister” and “Getting Even.”Front man Tony Housh shares, “’Lights Out’ was written as an expression of the discontentment toward a situation that we had no control over. Writing music is our way of visiting…

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Stick To Your Guns is gearing up for the release of their highly anticipated album, Disobedient, on Tuesday, February 10th, and anticipation the band is streaming the entire record today on AltPress.com. Fans can also pre-order the album now at iTunes here: http://hyperurl.co/Disobedient_iTunesStream Disobedient now at AltPress.com: http://bit.ly/1vwc0fJStick To Your Guns fifth studio album, Disobedient, is a non-stop onslaught of pit-churning hardcore, fused with memorable, melodic choruses as heard on tracks like “Nobody,” “What Choice Did You Give Us” and “RMA (Revolutionary Mental Attitude).” The record was produced by John Feldmann (The Used, We Came As Romans, Black Veil Brides) and features guest vocals from H2O frontman Toby Morse (on “RMA (Revolutionary Mental Attitude)”), Rotting Out vocalist Walter Delgado (on “Nothing You…

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Rotting Out has debuted a new video today at Noisey.com for their song “Born” from their upcoming EP, Reckoning, that’s due out on March 10th via Pure Noise Records. Additionally, fans are now invited to pre-order the record at http://rottingout.merchnow.com/.Watch the new video for “Born” now at Noisey.com: http://bit.ly/1Ko5ta5″Most of the footage is from the toy drive that gets put on every year around Christmas which means a lot to me personally, the rest is from Sacramento and Australia which was a blast,” singer Walter Delgado says of the new video. “The song itself is an apology. I know things I’ve done in life weren’t right or appropriate, I’m not a saint…

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Guitar legend ULI JON ROTH will release Scorpions Revisited, a highly-anticipated brand new double album of 19 re-invented Scorpions tracks, in physical format on March 10 via UDR Music. Order the album now via iTunes. This week and next, Guitar World Magazine will host a dual web premiere of ULI JON ROTH’s re-workings of classicScorpions tracks “In Trance” and “Virgin Killer”, both featured on Scorpions Revisited. Today, you can listen to “In Trance” here, and stay tuned next week to hear “Virgin Killer”: http://www.guitarworld.com/uli-jon-roth-premieres-new-song-trance-scorpions-revisited-exclusiveCatch ULI JON ROTH supporting Scorpions Revisited on the Extreme Guitar Tour now: 2015 ULI JON ROTH US Tour Dates – Extreme Guitar Tour:FEBRUARY05.02.2015 – Connecticut – Hartford – Infinity Hall06.02.2015 – New Hampshire – Londonderry – Tupelo Music Hall07.02.2015 –…

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No Sleep Records has announced it has welcomed beloved, singer-songwriter Koji to the label’s growing roster of musical acts. The prolific musician, artist and activist has a busy year ahead of him with an upcoming UK tour with Bob Nanna (Braid) and a new music due out later this year. They’ve collaborated in the past on various records, but this marks the first time that No Sleep will serve as Koji’s primary record label.“We have been long time fans/friends of Koji – he is literally one of the nicest and sincerest guys you will ever meet,” says No Sleep president Chris Hansen. “Having…

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