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Power Trip vocalist Riley Gale dies

Power Trip vocalist Riley Gale has passed away. The band shared the news on social media Tuesday. Gale died Monday evening according to the statement signed by the vocalist’s family. The cause of death has not been disclosed. While funeral arrangements are pending, they ask that all donations be sent to Dallas Hope Charities in […]

All Pigs Must Die - Nothing Violates This Nature

All Pigs Must Die Nothing Violates This Nature When All Pigs Must Die dropped 2011’s visceral God Is War, a damn fine record by anyone’s standards, they were still that band with members drawn from the ranks of the Hope Conspiracy, Bloodhorse and Converge. On Nothing Violates This Nature, the Boston hardcore mob demonstrate once […]

Burning Love announce Canadian tour

Burning Love will be playing some shows in their native Canada next month. Dates below. The band's new album Rotten Thing To Say is due out June 19 via Southern Lord. 06/08 Toronto – Silver Dollar (feat. Purity Control, Suicider, Wasteoids) 06/11 Sudbury ON – Millards Garage 06/14 Winnipeg MB – Mondragon 06/15 Saskatoon SK […]

Premiere: Burning Love, "Hateful Comforts"

Check out this premiere of Burning Love's “Hateful Comforts.” It's from the band's upcoming full-length Rotten Thing To Say, out June 19 via Southern Lord. The lyrics can be found below. CNN amnesiac waiting for the earth to crack. Memorize the planted phrase, burn the books, retract the praise. let the people sink or swim, […]

Pelican - Ataraxia/Taraxis EP

Pelican Ataraxia/Taraxis EP This review originally ran in AP 286. After a two-year dormancy, instrumental post-metal outfit Pelican have lurched out of the ether for an ambitious four-track EP. Wisely, the quartet avoid the well-trodden road of “epic” guitar rock to deliver textures loaded with lyrical guitar phrasings within over-modulated grit and distortion. The fabulous […]

Listen to the new EP from Pelican, "Ataraxia/Taraxis"

The new EP from Pelican, Ataraxia/Taraxis, can be streamed below. It's due out next Tuesday via Southern Lord.

Black Breath - Sentenced To Life

Black Breath Sentenced To Life Alongside labelmates Nails and All Pigs Must Die, Seattle’s Black Breath have been doing a fine job of keeping the spirit and sound of crust punk alive and well in recent years. With 2010’s Heavy Breathing, they took the fuzzy clamor, sneering obnoxiousness and hardcore attitude of Discharge or Hellbastard […]

Narrows, All Pigs Must Die announce tour

Narrows and All Pigs Must Die will be touring together in March. Dates below. 03/09 Brooklyn, NY – Knitting Factory 03/10 Allston, MA – Great Scott 03/11 Washington, DC – DC9 03/12 Chapel Hill, NC – Local 506 03/13 Atlanta, GA – 529 03/15 Austin, TX – TBA (“SXSW“) 03/16 Austin, TX – TBA (“SXSW“) […]

Burning Love recording new 7-inch next week

Burning Love (Southern Lord Records) will be recording a new 7-inch next week, according to this update: “We're recording next week with our friend Josh Korody (who did our track Mess for City Limits) for a 7″ that'll come out in the spring on High Anxiety, featuring the track Karla on the a side (come […]

Pelican release new song, "Lathe Biosas"

Pelican has released a new song for free download titled “Lathe Biosas.” The track will appear on the band's upcoming EP Ataraxia/Taraxis, due out April 10 via Southern Lord. Grab it here.

Loincloth - Iron Balls Of Steel

Loincloth Iron Balls Of Steel It's taken 12 years, one instantly out-of-print 2003 demo, and the departure of a founding member (guitarist Pen Rollings), but Virginia/North Carolina instru-metal trio Loincloth can finally cement their legacy with a full-length debut. Album—and song (“Sactopus,” anyone?) titles notwithstanding—Iron Balls Of Steel is as serious as a metal recording […]

Pelican announce new EP, "Ataraxia/Taraxis"

Pelican will release a new EP titled Ataraxia/Taraxis on April 10 via Southern Lord, following up the instrumental band's 2009 full-length What We All Come To Need. Check out the track listing as well as the group's upcoming European tour dates below. 1. Ataraxia 2. Lathe Biosas 3. Parasite Colony 4. Taraxis PELICAN Upcoming Tour Dates: […]

Burning Love join Southern Lord Records

Southern Lord Records has added Ontario-based hardcore outfit Burning Love to their roster. The band will release their sophomore full-length, Rotten Thing To Say, in spring 2012 through the label. The album was recorded at Godcity Studio in Salem, Massachusetts by Converge guitarist Kurt Ballou.

All Pigs Must Die - God Is War

All Pigs Must Die God Is War On All Pigs Must Die’s debut full-length, there are no moments of respite nor opportunities to reflect on the sheer violence your ears have been subjected to. There’s just wave after wave of naked, nihilistic aggression. With members hailing from the fertile Boston hardcore scene (vocalist Kevin Baker […]