Recorded between Berlin and Baltimore, Demand to Be Taken to Heaven Alive! is the experimental rockers' first album to feature vocals, and follows 2022's Comradely Objects. It builds out Horse Lords' core lineup of Owen Gardner, Max Eilbacher, Sam Haberman, and Andrew Bernstein with bass clarinetist Madison Greenstone, trombonist Weston Olencki, and vocalists Nina Guo and Evelyn Saylor.
It started out as an album full of death metal songs with speed and aggression. Then Chris had the brilliant idea to keep half of those death metal songs and add some groovier songs in the vein of the early SIX FEET UNDER material.
The new album Everything Must Go arrives on April 24 via Bad Time Records and Community Records, and first single 'Free Dom' is out now. It finds Bad Operation doing what they do best, fusing 2 Tone's influence with fresh, urgent new ideas and coming out with something danceable, catchy, and powerful.
In an Instagram post, the band stressed that while Fogarino "played and co-wrote the new record," he is "still not available" to join them on the road. The percussionist underwent spinal surgery in 2023.
Terror remain a veteran hardcore band that is deeply involved with the current hardcore scene, and every band opening this tour is a band that's shaping the future of hardcore as we speak: LIHC ass-kickers Pain of Truth, Baltimore's charismatic End It, and LA youth crew revivalists Start Today.
Seefeel will return with their first full-length in 15 years, Sol.Hz, on May 1, via their longtime label Warp. The follow-up to their 2024 mini-albums Everything Squared and Squared Roots will arrive in the middle of a tour of mainland Europe that starts in April.
Nocturnal Womb features two new songs that a press release says were "too dark and visceral to fit the story of Blackbraid III," as well as an acoustic version of the Blackbraid II song "Barefoot Ghost Dance on Blood Soaked Soil."
Prince Daddy & the Hyena have announced a new album, Hotwire Trip Switch, which reunites them with Counter Intuitive Records (after a stint on Pure Noise) and producer Joe Reinhart of Algernon Cadwallader (who produced the band's 2016 debut LP I Thought You Didn't Even Like Leaving). It comes out on April 17.
"'Dancing' really captures the playful side of what Steve and I discovered on stage together last summer - that push-and-pull of melody and energy. The video gave us a chance to show that spirit in a completely different way. Watching ZZ bring this absurd casting concept to life - and having Brendon step into the madness - made it even more fun."
Mitski's eighth album Nothing's About To Happen To Me is Mitski's first studio album since 2023's The Land Is Inhospitable And So Are We. Last October, she surprise-released a live album to accompany the premiere of her concert film, Mitski: The Land. The film, directed by Grant James, included footage from three shows the artist played at Atlanta's Fox Theatre in 2024, accompanied by a seven-piece band.
Foo Fighters are currently playing a series of warm-up dates in Ireland and the UK ahead of their upcoming summer 'Take Cover' stadium tour. During a recent Dublin show, Dave Grohl and co. debuted a new song, titled 'Of All People,' from their upcoming album, Your Favorite Toy.
In a statement, frontman Ben Gibbard said the band is "thrilled to be joining the roster at Anti- which includes some of our favorite artists, old friends and in many cases, both." Atlantic signed Death Cab away from Barsuk in 2004 off the strength of the band's first four albums, including their 2003 mainstream breakout Transatlanticism. The group went on to release six albums with the label, starting with 2005's and ending with their most recent album, 2022's Asphalt Meadows.
Murry was a mentor to me when we made that first record all those decades ago, and this album felt like the right time to work with him in that capacity again.
"It's music for a statistically wealthy population that somehow can't afford food or medicine-endlessly scrolling past vacation photos, gym selfies, and images of child amputees in the same feed."
