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0 EPK – Hog Meets Frog – The Urbanizer (You Know Where The Flowers Have Gone) ft. Marco Minnemann (single) (2025)

July 16, 2025
by Asher
· EPKs · Hog Meets Frog (Echotunes)

EPK – Hog Meets Frog – The Urbanizer (You Know Where The Flowers Have Gone) ft. Marco Minnemann (single) (2025)

Publicist – Jon Asher – Jon[@]ashermediarelations[.]com

For fans of Primus, RHCP, System of a Down, TOOL, Frank Zappa

“And the urbanizer opened his arms and said: Let all greenery be erased! So let us be deaf, dumb, and blind on our way to extinction and take away our own biosphere! And if you have doubts as you pave over meadow after meadow, root out forest after forest, and poison river after river while blasting greenhouse gases into the atmosphere like there’s no tomorrow, then raise your head and look up to me in awe – but don’t expect salvation from your fears, for I am your creation: the urbanizer.” - Hog Meets Frog

Band: Hog Meets Frog
Single Title: Urbanizer (You Know Where The Flowers Have Gone) ft. Marco Minnemann
Release Date: July 7, 2025
Label: Echotunes

Sales Links: Hogmeetsfrog.bandcamp.com | Spotify | Apple Music

“We have featured on the tune ‘The Urbanizer’ drummer Marco Minnemann (The Aristocrats, Steven Wilson, Joe Satriani), which is a great honour for us. A mutual friend brought us together – thanks, Alan!! The song’s main riff was written many years ago, and a few years later, the first four verses and thus the character of the urbanizer emerged. Over the years, however, it has become clear that society isn’t getting to grips with the issue; rather, the effects of human actions, which have been driving global warming for decades, are actually increasing in a lot of areas. Why? Well, some deny ecological changes out of fear, some out of greed, and still others just to show that they’re ‘against the system’ – whatever that means. Precisely because of the subject matter, the song is one of those that even we couldn’t make into a particularly funny song… but, hey! Let’s just say that HOG MEETS FROG also has a dark side.” – Hog Meets Frog

Hog Meets Frog – The Urbanizer Greening Tour 2025
July 26 – Schwarzach, Austria – Tauerngold Festival
July 30 – Ottawa, ON – Avant-Garde Bar
Aug 1 – Toronto, ON – The Rockpile
Aug 3 – Drumheller, AB – Loud As Hell Open Air Festival w/ REVOCATION, FIRST FRAGMENT, FILTH, INSURRECTION, GORGATRON, OPAL IN SKY and more!
Aug 6 – Montreal, QC – Piranha Bar
Sept 6 – Schwaz, Austria – Woodlight Festival

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Band: Hog Meets Frog
Single Title: Urbanizer (You Know Where The Flowers Have Gone) ft. Marco Minnemann
Release Date: July 7, 2025
Label: Echotunes

Single Credits:
• song performed by: HOG MEETS FROG feat. MARCO MINNEMANN
• All songs written by: HOG MEETS FROG
• Produced by: Lukas Wiltschko (LW Sonics), PETZ
• Mixed by: Lukas Wiltschko (LW Sonics)
• Mastered by: Lukas Wiltschko (LW Sonics)
• Album Artwork by: Attila Zolt Tornyi (LaMañana)

Single Band Line Up:
Marco Minnemann – Drums
Markus Bratusa – Guitar
Peter “PETZ” Schwabl – Bass, Vox

Live Band Line Up (for Canada-Tour 2025):
Markus Bratusa – Guitar
Ivo Matoš – Drums
Peter “PETZ” Schwabl – Bass, Vox

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About The Single Artwork:

The artwork comes – how could it be otherwise – from Attila Zolt Tornyi (LaMañana). It is an excerpt from the video for the song and shows the skull and face of the “urbanizer”, who can be seen in the middle of a concrete landscape created by him.

The skull is yellow-orange and could be a symbol for the sun, as the “urbanizer” himself says about himself: “I’m the god of the building industry, I’m the sun of the spoiled sky…”

In this context, it can also be understood as “concrete gold”, a symbol of the fact that more and more is being built by speculators for speculators, but less and less affordable living space is being created for most people. This is also reflected in the oppressively gray, deserted surroundings, in which no one is to be seen apart from the “golden” skull – not a person, but also not a plant.

About the single as a whole (LYRICALLY & MUSICALLY):

Lyrically – this time – we take a look at one of the causes of the increasingly extreme climate situation – the urbanization.

The story is told from the perspective of the “urbanizer” and paints a picture of how we humans pave over meadow after meadow, root out forest after forest, and poison river after river while blasting dirt into the atmosphere like there’s no tomorrow. With that, we also want to address the unpleasant social and health-related developments that the lining of nature brings with it.

The arrogance and short-sightedness of this, our behaviour, is described by the words of the urbanizer, who obviously does not realize that in the end, he will ultimately meet his end with the extinction of mankind – just as people do not seem to understand that they cannot live without nature.

Musically, the song begins to make its way rhythmically unconventional – for some, it may simply leave them asking, “WT*!?” but only for a few seconds until their thoughts are stomped out of their heads and into their stomachs by a darkly epic riff that unexpectedly hits them.

Then there comes the awakening of the urbanizer, soft, slow, groovy, and dry, only to find himself shortly thereafter in the alarmist “right in your face lick”. This is repeated once more before the tune takes a turn for the hardcore, punchy, and honest, which makes him slide into a playful but serious solo part. The urbanizer dances through the musical scene once more, this time a little more exhilarated than before until the song finally jumps into what feels like a fast final part – which it probably is.

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BAND STORY ANGLES / FUN FACTS:

1. HOG MEETS FROG play their music in honor of the holy spirit SQUEAUQACK. He created everything with just one fart and then fell into a deep sleep, on the edge of infinity. Maybe one day he will come back and – hand in hand with Kthulu (the misunderstood savior), the flying spaghetti monster, and some characters of the HOG MEETS FROG family – make the world a place of love, peace, and joy.

2. After a show, PETZ was asked by some fans if he wanted to drink liquor or whiskey with them or smoke a joint. PETZ thankfully declined, saying that he doesn’t drink or smoke, whereupon he was asked, “Really? And how do you get ideas like that without alcohol or drugs?”

3. HOG MEETS FROG seems to be funny… but it isn’t.

4. HOG MEETS FROGs music was defined as ‘avant-garde funk’.

Bottom L-R: : | ARIYAN Rezaei Jahromi (guitar) | Ivo Matuš (drums)
Top: | Peter ’PETZ’ Schwabl (bass, storytelling)
Photo Credit Vicky vanSane

Hog Meets Frog is the genre-bending, groove-infused trio that’s been warping minds and melting faces since their sonic leap onto the scene. Hailing from Austria, this power trio blends progressive metal, jazz fusion, funk, and absurdist humor into a sound that’s as technically dazzling as it is wildly unpredictable.

With a reputation for tight musicianship, tongue-in-cheek lyrics, and a fearless approach to composition, Hog Meets Frog has carved out a niche that’s equal parts Frank Zappa, Primus, and Meshuggah—yet unmistakably their own.

Their latest single, “Urbanizer”, drops like a wrecking ball into the modern prog landscape. A blistering commentary on city life and digital overload, the track fuses polyrhythmic riffs, slap bass wizardry, and theatrical vocals into a chaotic anthem for the overstimulated. It’s a bold evolution of their sound—more aggressive, more intricate, and more unhinged than ever.

Whether you’re a math-metal disciple or a jazz-funk explorer, Hog Meets Frog invites you to embrace the weird, worship the groove, and get lost in the madness.

Single Band Line Up:
Marco Minnemann – Drums
Markus Bratusa – Guitar
Peter “PETZ” Schwabl – Bass, Vox

Live Band Line Up (for Canada-Tour 2025):
Markus Bratusa – Guitar
Ivo Matoš – Drums
Peter “PETZ” Schwabl – Bass, Vox

Discography:
2025 – the urbanizer (you know where the flowers have gone) ft. Marco Minnemann – single
2024 – ADOLF the ant (…or am I steve?) – single
2023 – humANIMALization (EP)
2019 – apes don’t smoke cigars – just pipes (single)
2018 – peeping-bear’s exegesis of not peeping (single)
2012 – holy spirit SQUEAQUACK (LP)
2006 – RUN tha FREAKS (multimedia single)
2004 – FREAKY RITES (EP)
2003 – infernal promotion (EP)

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What the press has said about 2023 EP – humANIMALization

“The quirkily name Hog Meets Frog are an Australian funk prog metal trio who released their third EP, humANIMALization, in February, and from which the equally odd Of Snakes ‘n’ Moles ‘n’ Bulls ‘n’ Dough, is taken. We’re getting strong Primus vibes here, and the band also admit to a Tool influence.” – Prog (Great new prog music in our Tracks of The Week – April 28, 2023)

“If you are a fan of the jerky, spiky, awkward sounds of Primus you’ll love this. I daresay if you enjoy a bit of early Red Hot Chili Peppers you may also dig this – certain parts of the record do have a sneak peek toward Frank Zappa and The Mothers Of Invention and The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown – not too obviously, but those sly, sideways little looks are there.” – Ever- Metal UK

“‘Does humor belong in music?’ was once a question that the late/great Frank Zappa asked – and Austrian funk-prog metallists apparently agree wholeheartedly, as evidenced within the video for their new tune, “Peeping-Bear’s Exegesis of Not Peeping,” – Bravewords

“Many hard rockers like when it is funky. Then this cool act must not be overlooked! This unit is a tight bunch of players and they have catchy tunes, for sure… Well worth checking out for fans of crazy funky hard rock.” – Melodic.net

“There’s an element of uniqueness to how each of these songs are written, although you can’t deny the clear influence of say the Primus bass lines or Zappa-esc experimentation, yet it is within the niche, thematic storytelling that gives Hog Meets Frog a real musical identity. The way they can tell a story with humour yet allow you to consider the real and often times scary true circumstances behind where these stories originate is what gives this band their staple. Certainly one to look out for in the future, long live Sqeekquackmusic!” – Metal Epidemic

“On their latest EP, this Austrian band presents offbeat funk-metal with semi-spoken vocals that tell absurd stories about weird characters. There are all sorts of slap-happy bass parts you could imagine Les Claypool coming up with, insanely busy and leading the band. That’s Peter Schwabl on the bass, and he handles the “storytelling” vocals as well… HumANIMALization is 23 minutes of big fun” – Exposé Online

“If I had to draw a comparison for this band… it’d be Primus, heavy catchy, quirky and big bass guitar. Great stuff!” – Mosh Pit Radio 89.9 FM (Madison, WI)

“One of the most creative and interesting bands I’ve heard in some time comes in the form of Austria’s Hog Meets Frog. The trio is extremely talented and unique.” – Transcending The Mundane

“They’re from Austria. One of the greatest song titles (Peeping-Bear’s Exegesis of Not Peeping) I’ve ever heard. That’s all you’re getting. Press play and share the adventure” – Metallum Sub Terra

“If you love listening to the whimsical funky excursions of Les Claypool, and wouldn’t mind exploring similar landscapes that also include a bit more of a progressive metal approach and attitude, this EP will just about guarantee you an enjoyable experience.” – Progressor

“If the song titles like Apes don’t smoke cigars, just pipes are very funny, the musical aspects are of very high quality and definitely not “suitable for a headband”. Sure, funk isn’t a run-of-the-mill genre to sing along to, but sophisticated music at the highest level. So to speak, jazz music of the metal species. One can clearly register the inspiration of Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Primus and Co. on this record, whereby the songs transport positive energy.” – Rock Magazine

“Overall – As chaotic as claimed, with quirky features, throughout, it’s fair to say that you never know where this is going to go, next. Trippy, outlandish and bizarre, it’s a wacky wonderland, all of its own… ‘HumANIMALIZATION’ can never be accused of being boring or predictable. Spicy and novel, in equal measure, it may appeal more to niche audiences. Hard to summarise easily, it’s a case of suck it and see.” – Rock Queen Reviews

“with all the wild antics they pull off in tracks with titles like snakes ‘n’ moles ‘n’ bulls ‘n’ dough, apes don’t smoke cigars – just pipes and ZIGGY the unpigcorn, it all remains surprisingly easy to follow. Even the lyrics, which are all kind of inverted fables, with humans and the animalistic traits in their personalities. Weird? Absolutely. Wild? Certainly. But never just a gimmick, never a mess, in short, just a damn good album. Does Humor Belong In Music? Zappa once asked. Well, if the music is SQUEAQUACKmusic it is.” – Rock Portaal

0 EPK – Unpunished – Echoes of History (2025)

July 16, 2025
by Asher
· EPKs · Uncategorized · Unpunished

EPK – Unpunished – Echoes of History (2025)

Publicist – Jon Asher – jon[@]ashermediarelations[.]com

“We hope our new EP album will get us noticed on the local and national metal scene. We want to demonstrate that we approach music with a professional and focused mindset. We want to get listeners’ attention with a unique blend of past and modern metalcore, sprinkled with melodeath and deathcore accents. We also hope we can showcase our technical and musical abilities.

Echoes of History marks an evolution in our sound. More technicality, more brutality, but a lasting place for melodic choruses and guitar solos. Each band member grew as a writer and composer, elevating the overall quality. The first single, As water fills my lungs, deals with themes of anxiety, disease, and the fear of death. It’s a last cry for help from someone who is losing the battle against his own demons.” – Unpunished

For fans of As I Lay Dying, The Black Dahlia Murder, Trivium, Parkway Drive, Bleed From Within

Band: Unpunished
EP Title: Echoes of History
Release Date: September 5, 2025
Label: Self-Release

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Unpunished.bandcamp.com

“Le groupe de metalcore qui contient des sonorités de deathcore et death metal, Unpunished, a dévoilé une couleur plus agressive avec son nouvel extrait ¨Burn The Traitors¨, titre qui est collaboré au niveau vocal par Alex Leblanc de Fracturus (Ancien Mass Murder Messiah / Neuraxis).” – Grizzly Media

“It’s all this musical baggage that Alex Leblanc (Fracturus, ex-Mass Murder Messiah, ex-Neuraxis) brings to this new song UNPUNISHED. As a collaborator, of course, but he allows us to give another dimension to their sound which leans more towards melodic death this time. The intensity of the song growl from Jean-Christophe Magnan takes up much more space and gives new weapons to UNPUNISHED. At times we feel like we have a mix between Amon Amarth, Soilwork and Killswitch Engage. To discover!” – Metal Universe (2023 – Burn the Traitors – single)

“Unpunished comes to us with an EP that will please fans of metalcore from the good years combined with the more modern melodic side. The vocal playing between clear and « growl » is effective, especially on the title track « Shadows And Dust ». The guitar riffs are eye-catching and that’s one of the things that introduced me to metalcore in the mid-2000s, and we’re well served with this EP. They knew how to bring their personal touch to their influences, and that is what makes « Shadows And Dust» so effective.” – Metal Universe (2022 – Shadows and Dust EP)

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Band: Unpunished
EP Title: Echoes of History
Release Date: September 5, 2025
Label: Self-Release

Track Listing:
1. As Water Fills My Lungs – 4:49
2. Plague of Our Race – 4:39
3. Shattered in Dissaray – 5:06
4. Echoes of History – 4:52
5. Burn the Traitors – 4:38
EP Length: 24:06

Recording Credits:
• All songs performed by: Unpunished
• All songs written by: Unpunished
• Produced, mixed, and mastered by: Justin Lefebvre
• Album Artwork by: I And I Art
• Member of SOCAN
• Canadian Content (MAPL)

EP Recording and Live Line Up:
Jean-Christophe Magnan (vocals)
Justin Lefebvre (drums)
Alex Brochu-Meloche (bass, backing vocals)
Pierre-Luc Defoy (guitar, backing vocals)
Dean Pavicic (guitar)

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About EP Artwork:

The artwork for Echoes of History was inspired by the Ouroboros, an Egyptian symbol that represents the eternal cycle of time, but with an almost empty hourglass in the middle, signifying that humanity keeps repeating the same mistakes, never learns from the past, but now, time is running out and our world is about to end. The artwork serves as a final warning that humanity is doomed if it continues on this self-destructing path.

About the album as a whole (LYRICALLY & MUSICALLY):

A journey through many different emotions, a journey through struggles and battles. From the internal battles we all fight within ourselves, to the battles we fight openly in society.

Track by Track (LYRICALLY & MUSICALLY):

1. As Water Fills My Lungs
Musically, this track revolves around a very melodic chorus that carries a lot of emotions. The verses put emphasis on fast guitars and drums that carry a feeling of anger. The bridge section offers a moment of rest as an emotionally charged guitar solo and highly melodic vocals take the lead. A breakdown then brings the emotional culmination of the song, followed by one last chorus and a pummeling end part. Lyrically, the song is a journey through anger and despair. The realization of betrayal, the panic that follows, and the despair of a life ruined by those you trusted the most.

2. Plague of Our Race
This song is one of the heaviest songs we’ve ever written. Largely influenced by death metal and deathcore, it’s a song fueled by rage, disgust, and despair as it illustrates the never-ending failure of humankind to learn from history and always allowing dictators to emerge and spread chaos and death. Pummeling drums, furious riffs, a blistering guitar solo, and ferocious vocals make Plague of our race an intense ride through hell.

3. Shattered in Dissaray
Slower and darker, Shattered in disarray is the story of someone realizing he ruined his life and failed his loved ones. Will he end his life? Is there still hope to fix what’s broken? It invites the listeners to reflect on their own failures and how they could have done better. Musically, it’s focused on a very melodic chorus riff and 3 different guitar solo sections that carry the conflicting emotions of the lyrics.

4. Echoes of History
The most metalcore and melodeath influenced song of the EP, Echoes of History is a fast-paced, angry, and relentless song about the countless genocides committed through time as a ruling society seeks to annihilate another from history. Amid all the chaos, a spark of hope remains, highlighted in the bridge section, through a slow-paced riff and emotional solo. The rest of the song is musically challenging with fast riffs, drums, and vocals that give no rest to the listeners.

5. Burn the Traitors
Musically Burn the Traitors is our most brutal song ever. It’s much more melodic death metal than metalcore, as there are no clean vocals. It’s written as a relentless track with little place to breathe. The chorus is melodic and catchy, but without the use of clean lyrics. The solo is the slowest section of the song, as a way to catch our breath before the breakdown and final stretch of intensity. Lyrically, the theme is centered around vengeance, inflicting pain on those who betrayed, abused, and inflicted pain on their people. Remastered from its initial 2023 release, Burn the Traitors ends the EP with ferocity and leaves no one indifferent.

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Fun Facts – Story Angles

1. As water fills my lungs is our first single since 2023. We played it live a few times already, but we never had time to properly finish the recording. We also wanted to have our 2nd EP ready to release this song as the first single, but it took us much longer than anticipated to finish writing the EP.

2. Justin Lefebvre (drummer) is the producer on this new EP. He spent countless hours developing his production skills to the point that he was the obvious choice for us to have our drummer handle the production duties. Since Unpunished is a band of perfectionists, we spent a lot of time with Justin to develop our sound, set the guitar and bass tones, and perfect each part so we were all happy with the end result.

3. Fun fact: all the demos that are brought in by the band members usually have a silly name to make fun of J-C’s age, as he is older than everyone else by a decade. This song was a rare exception of not having a name like ‘’JC’s hip replacement surgery, ‘’JC’s Cialis overdose, ‘’JC’s last colored pubic hair, etc. The first title of this song was ‘’NYYEEEAAA’’, or else known as Arnold Schwarzenegger’s famous scream. Dean initially added a clip of this famous Arnold scream at the beginning of the demo. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BdaywIhVeI

L-R – Justin Lefebvre (Drums), Pierre-Luc Defoy (Guitar, Back Vocals), Jean-Christophe Magnan (Vocals), Alex Brochu-Meloche (Bass, Back Vocals), Dean Pavicic (Guitar)

Photo Credit – Julien Bouffard

Unpunished, one of Quebec’s fiercest metalcore exports, have officially announced their second EP “Echoes of History” set to be unleashed on September 5th, 2025. A blistering five-track journey through despair, defiance, and destruction, this EP from the ferocious five-piece is ready to ignite mosh pits around the globe.

Originally formed as tribute act Tidal Wave, performing songs by Trivium and Parkway Drive, the band reinvented itself during the COVID pandemic, writing original music that blends metalcore roots with melodeath and deathcore elements. Their sound is melodic, intense, diverse, energetic, and aggressive.

“Echoes of History took us over two years to write, and each of us faced major personal challenges during that time. Sorting through dozens of demos was tough; we all have different musical tastes, which makes it hard to agree, but also gives us our unique sound,” adds the band.

Rather than follow a formula, Unpunished built each song with its own emotional journey, combining the brutality of modern death metal with the melody and groove of classic metalcore. The EP was also produced by drummer Justin Lefebvre. From its guitar tones to vocal layering, every detail reflects hours of obsession and refinement, reflecting the band’s obsession with perfection.

“We want every track to hit differently. From anxiety and despair to rage and revolt, this EP is all about movement and mood,” says the band.

Unpunished prides itself on precision and passion. No ego, just relentless intensity that invites fans to scream and sweat as one. Recommended for fans of As I Lay Dying, The Black Dahlia Murder, Trivium, Parkway Drive, and Bleed From Within, the “Echoes of History” EP pre-order (out Sept 5th) is available at https://unpunished.bandcamp.com.

0 EPK – Ancient Thrones – Melancholia (2025)

June 28, 2025
by Asher
· Ancient Thrones · EPKs

EPK – Ancient Thrones – Melancholia (2025)

Publicist – Jon Asher – jon[@]ashermediarelations[.]com

For fans of The Black Dahlia Murder, The Red Chord, Deafheaven, Revocation, Opeth

“I think this album is a turning point in the band, where we were able to take the atmosphere of our previous record, and kick the aggression up to a thousand. The last record was intended to be poetic and hopeful, but this record intends to crush any ounce of hope that is left. We just want as many people to move to our music as possible, whether it’s at home, at a show, or anywhere in between. Bang your head and feel something. Lyrically, I want to get under your skin with this album. With the last album, it was story-driven and at times dialogue-heavy. This time around, I left a lot to be interpreted by the listener, and kept things more grey and abstract. It was hard to choose singles to release, since the album as a whole flows so naturally and every song has something unique to offer. We could not possibly be more excited to welcome you to this new chapter of the band. It was a long but fulfilling 5 years to get to this point. We’re proud to share this album with our fans, old and new, and we hope this album moves you in unnatural ways. Enjoy the trip while it lasts”. – Sean Hickey – Ancient Thrones

Band: Ancient Thrones
Album Title: Melancholia
Release Date: September 19, 2025
Label: Self-Release

Facebook.com/Ancientthrones | Instagram.com/ancientthrones | Youtube.com/@ancientthrones234

Ancientthrones.bandcamp.com | Spotify | Apple Music

“Hailing from Halifax, Nova Scotia, Ancient Thrones’ second album, Melancholia not only cherry picks from a sturdy stable of metallic subgenres — from the melodic, blackened and textural to the technical, exploratory and unhinged — but is also ground zero for an interesting concept/story. The record’s nine songs tell the story of a colorblind individual who dives head first into psychedelic drug use as a last ditch attempt to experience life in color. The album chronicles everything they experience in the process as life goes on with their newly minted perceptual capabilities. Given that it’s an extreme metal album, we can only surmise that the story doesn’t end on a particularly happy note, but you can find out for yourself via the stream of Melancholia we’re running below, a single day before its release date.” – Decibel Magazine

“The music is indeed violent, and immediately so, exploding in a blast of turbulent riffing, heavily undulating bass tones, and furious beats. The guitars wildly writhe and rapidly spear off in crazed angles, kaleidoscopic in effect, and the words spit forth in caustic screams that are equally deranged. Dissonant and dismal tones intrude, along with guttural roars, blast-beat outbursts, and pulverizing blows, and the riffing also seems to swarm in agony, adding further dimensions of darkness to the song’s overarching manifestation of delirium. Backed by a pulse-pounding and highly headbangable groove, the song also introduces yet another dimension, an eerie guitar solo that slowly slithers, brightly swirls, and evolves into an entrancing harmony, very much like a beckoning and seductive presence that manifests within the mayhem.” – No Clean Singing (single – A Moon Fused Key – 2025)

“indeed a contentious and brutal slab of metal that will roll right over you and crush your skull into dust. Just when you think the band has reached their limit of intensity, they take it up a notch to impossible heights. If you dare, travel to their world of “Melancholia.”” – Metal Temple

“Who needs a compact disc when you have a vinyl? That’s what Canadian’s Ancient Thrones are saying as they approach the 19th September arrival of their new album “Melancholia“. Curiously enough with their guitar playthrough for new song “A Turning Point” the outfit trade Speed for Sludge, Groove and emotional weight as they continue to evolve their progressive and existential sound.” – Metal Noise

“Thrashy blackened death metal, pretty cool stuff.” – The Mosh Pit 89.9 FM (Madison, WI)

“Tracks like A Moon Fused Key and Vacant drive the narrative through blasts of speed, cinematic atmosphere, and suffocating heaviness, pulling from black, death, and tech death while pushing into surreal territory.” – IDIOTEQ

“The whole album, clocking in at 42 minutes, is a descent into what I can only call emotional extremity, not just brutality for brutality’s sake, but a narrative steeped in alienation, transformation, and the horror of seeing the world differently. Tracks like “Achromatopsia” (a 90-second tone poem of dissonance) and the doom-smeared closer “Vacant” frame a journey that’s as cerebral as it is crushing. Think Deafheaven’s atmosphere meets Archspire’s velocity, with a dash of The Red Chord’s structural madness. And the production? Impeccably violent. Every layer was obsessively sculpted: tones dialed, performances honed over a year just to play the damn thing. You can hear it. This isn’t noise; it’s architecture. A cathedral of dissonance with stained glass made of feedback.” – Papy Jeff Metal

“Let us commence this week’s proceedings with a bit of Melancholia, seeing as I’m in that kind of mood. The video for this song, the title track from the Nova Scotia-based blackened death metal marauders’ second full-length album, is set in a birthday party for the band’s drummer who doesn’t seem entirely keen to be celebrating the event. This is certainly apt! I love the sense of macabre gleefulness throughout the whole affair. The album is due to be made available on September 19th and, needless to say, it’s heavy as all Hell, with some virtuoso musicianship on display from these crazy Canadians!” – Metal Lair

“Ancient Thrones offer up their latest full length for your enjoyment, and I’ll say it now, I’ve no idea how these guys are unsigned. They feel that they have jettisoned all that was extraneous from their sound and amp up that aggression. I think you can say that its job done. I heartedly recommend having a decent pair of headphones for this or play it at insane volumes in order to let it swamp over you. Ancient Thrones drop you straight in the middle of this as A Moon Fused Key opens up their account with an incredibly well polished song that brings all that is good about heavy metal into one space. ” – Musipeda of Metal

“There’s A LOT going on in each of the nine tracks on Melancolia. Vocalist/Drummer Sean Hickey, has a quintessential late 2000’s/early 2010’s melodeath high/low vocal combo (think The Black Dahlia Murder or, The Juliet Massacre, if you will) that pair oh, so well with Nick Leslie and Dylan Wallace’s frantic melodic riffs and Sean’s brutal blast beats that pepper the nuked soundscape from track to relentless track. (Apologies to Matt “No Not THAT Matt LeBlanc” LeBlanc as I wasn’t able to make out much in the way of bass work, but I can’t tell if that’s my headphones going to shit or if it was something that happened during production.) This album has me convinced that these guys would have made a great touring/festival accompaniment to Alterbeast or The Kennedy Veil. Highlights: Album opener “Moon Fused Key” screamed out of my speakers like a warning shot from a Kratos heavy assault tank while my favorite track, “Blight” attempts to break your neck with its sudden plunge into The Red Chord-esque deathgrind.” – The Posers Graveyard

“A psychedelic trip turns sideways on Ancient Thrones’ second album, Melancholia. A concept inspired by vocalist/drummer Sean Hickey’s own experience on hallucinatory drugs, chilling fright is given through blackened death metal. Their songwriting trims the excess from their debut The Veil, while never losing sight of the overarching story of a person’s inner turmoil. A few songs use piano for cinematic effect, including the calming interlude “Achromatopsia” and rumbling stance of “Vacant.” The latter is the group at their slowest, slinking along as each word is coughed out with disdain. A cavalcade of drum fills perks the tune up before an extended bout of noise finishes Melancholia on a hopeless note for our suffering main character.” – Heavy Music HQ

What the press has said about 2020’s “The Veil”:

“A full-throttle attack, the song (The Sight of Oblivion) delivers bludgeoning rhythms, vicious darting and slashing guitar-work, scorching blackened shrieks, and cold-hearted roars. There’s a brazen, borderline-unhinged quality to the barrage, generated by screaming, rapidly whirling leads, magma-like bass notes, and fast-changing, bone-cracking drums. But within the assault there are also fluid, sinuous melodic leads whose mellifluous, reverberating tones give the music a mysterious, mesmerizing, and mournful quality. And near the end one of those leads morphs into a fret-burning dual-guitar extravaganza that really gets the blood rushing.” – No Clean Singing (2020 – The Veil)

“Nearly an hour in length, The Veil earns that run-time with crisply-written compositions and an arsenal of sky-ripping riffs. The acoustic reprieve of “Sentient” and melodic grief of “Permanent” reveal the album’s heavy heart. But the album conjures strength from those pensive moments. Rife with nimble axe-work from Dylan Wallace and Nick Leslie, The Veil never succumbs to the solemnity of its subject. The Veil remains an impactful listen down to its final dying note.” – Decibel Magazine (2020 – The Veil)

“Trailer Park Boys and Hobo With a Shotgun aren’t the only pieces of media that have emerged from Nova Scotia that you should get excited over.” – MetalSucks

“From the massive tremolo sections and bludgeoning riffs to the surprisingly melodic harmonies between guitarists Dylan Wallace and Nick Leslie, Ancient Thrones have definitely honed in on something special with this track.” – GearGods

“From earth crushing riffs and face-melting guitar solos to the overarching theme of grief and devastation that the record encompasses, this single really ramps up the intensity” – Bravewords

“From the icy lands of Halifax, Nova Scotia lies one of Canada’s best-kept secrets: Ancient Thrones! …Fusing the intensity of traditional black metal with the modern stylings and production of death metal and tech death, “Divided/Dissolve” has a little bit of something for everyone. From the massive tremolo sections and bludgeoning riffs to the surprisingly melodic harmonies between guitarists Dylan Wallace and Nick Leslie, Ancient Thrones have definitely honed in on something special with this track.” – GearGods (2020 – The Veil)

“Canadian band Ancient Thrones perform a combination of black, death and thrash metal with some progressive tendencies on The Veil. They have similarities to Skeletonwitch, but have an even more dynamic sound. The songs are both aggressive and intelligent in equal measure and run through a variety of different emotional tangents. There is a vile and harsh aspect to the band, but there is also a forward thinking one. It all results in a creative and dynamic listen.” – Heavy Music Headquarters (2020 – The Veil)

“The prize for most ambitious album of 2020 already has the name of Ancient Thrones carved in marble. Who among you fancies a 56-minute blackened death metal saga with an epic meditation on one man’s descent into the afterlife? No band thought it conceivable to write the metal version of Ingmar Bergman’s The Seventh Seal, but this Nova Scotia quartet are not just any band. This is a remarkable journey for the contemplative mind.” – Scream Blast Repeat (2020 – The Veil)

“a 57-minute descent into purgatory….” – Permafrost Today (2020 – The Veil)

“The Sight of Oblivion and The Millionth Grave are steeped in ferociousness and savagery as only a band well versed in blackened death metal are capable of producing.8.5/10” – Games, Brrraaains & A Head-Banging Life (2020 – The Veil)

“With this new incarnation, Ancient Thrones has moved into strict Black/Death territory, producing an album filled with pummeling riffs, intricate song structures, and technical musicianship that’s leavened by atmospheric segments and epic, sometimes audacious melodies that border on Cascadian. The production matches this style perfectly, being heavy and abrasive while allowing the songs enough room to stretch out… fans of more epic and melodic Black/Death will want to give The Veil a listen. 4/5” – The Metal Crypt (2020 – The Veil)

“It is fast, thrashing extreme metal with shrieked/growled vocals, and a headbanging attitude. They have elements of thrash, black and death but their method of delivery won’t confuse anyone. It is metal to make the fans move. It is pretty thrashy, pretty brutal but also melodic, and the guitar work has plenty to offer both in the riffs and the melodies.” – Metal Bulletin (2020 – The Veil)

“one of the most promising young bands in the region (Atlantic Canada) right now […] I already can’t wait for the next one. 4/5 stars” – Mettalworx Music Group (2020 – The Veil)

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Band: Ancient Thrones
Album Title: Melancholia
Release Date: September 19, 2025
Label: Self-Release

Track Listing:
1. A Moon Fused Key (5:12)
2. Achromatopsia (1:19)
3. Melancholia (6:17)
4. A Turning Point (5:46)
5. A Pellucid Prism (4:26)
6. Sacred Swollen Glass (6:16)
7. Blight (2:18)
8. A Pale Palace (4:55)
9. Vacant (5:31)
Album Length: 42:00

Album Credits:
All songs performed by Ancient Thrones
Piano by Dan Richards on tracks 1, 2, 3, and 9
Additional vocals by Dylan Wallace on track 7
All songs written by Ancient Thrones
All lyrics by Sean Hickey
Produced by Ancient Thrones
Mixed and Mastered by Dylan Wallace
Drum editing by Nick Leslie
Album Artwork by Carter Doody
Content is 100% MAPL

Band Lineup:
Dylan Wallace – Guitar
Nick Leslie – Guitar
Matt LeBlanc – Bass
Sean Hickey – Drums & Vocals

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About The Album Artwork:

The album cover is symbolic of the character in the story. The character is treading a path to destruction while on a hallucinogenic journey to some sort of peace. I wanted the colours to feel like colours you recognize in nature, but to feel like there’s something off with them, something not right. The bloody red birds fleeing the castle are meant to symbolize the blood leaving the body. The castle is made of glass, symbolizing its jagged, dangerous nature, but also the fragility of life, and it stands tall and menacing, but still somehow beautiful and intriguing. We worked with an artist named Carter Doody from our home province in New Brunswick, and we gave him tons of details about the album’s story to incorporate into the cover. There are references to glass, birds, sirens, and storming water all throughout the album, and it is on full display on the cover. Imaginative realism is the best description I can think of, something that could possibly exist, but most certainly should not.

About the album as a whole (LYRICALLY & MUSICALLY):

The album is about a person who is seemingly colourblind, who takes psychedelic drugs as a last-ditch effort to see colour. As the trip unfolds, he begins to live his ideal life, seeing colour for the first time. In reality, something else is happening. The writing is on the wall from the beginning of the record to the bitter end.

Musically, the album is tailored to the lyrics, and ebbs and flows as the character makes challenging decisions, and experiences pain, joy, and perhaps most prominently existential exhaustion. The album is fast, jagged, and unapologetic in its aggression, as we lead this character to his final tripped-out day in a fantastical place.

Track by Track (LYRICALLY & MUSICALLY):

1. A Moon Fused Key- Kicks off the record, setting the stage for the violent nature about to unfold both musically and lyrically. This is the point of the record where the character severs every piece of life from his body. At the end of the song, he sees the hand of god pulling him to heaven, and he severs it. This song is fast, filled with crushing riffs, and sets the stage for what’s to come.

2. Achromatopsia- This is the point where we go back in the story, an interlude of sorts, fading in between the worlds of A Moon Fused Key, and eventually leading us down the path to Melancholia.

3. Melancholia- This is the introduction to the character and his condition. He describes how he feels out of place. At 260 beats per minute, we encapsulate every ounce of self-loathing rage the character has in this song. There is a foreshadowing at the halfway point of the record, a premonition of things to come.

4. A Turning Point- The point where the character notices his surroundings have changed, the woods are speaking to him, and something, or someone, is calling to him. We were inspired by bands like Gojira to focus on a more groove-oriented passage for this song; it’s also one of the few times we felt the need to feature a burning guitar solo. I was inspired by the image of Herbet James Draper with Ulysses being tied to the mast to avoid the sirens, which we reference on the back part of the album. The character is being drawn into this eerie place.

5. A Pellucid Prism- From here, we cross the bridge and enter the castle. He sees new colours, feels new feelings, as he’s exploring the rotting structure. This song is one with more post-black metal sensibilities, with droning guitars and blast beats. This is also the only time on the record where we incorporate a breakdown, with the opening track melody played slower and more sinisterly hinting at the connection.

6. Sacred Swollen Glass- This is when things lyrically begin to turn for the worse. We continue through the post-black metal landscape, connecting these two songs seamlessly and expanding upon the blasting forward verses.

7. Blight- The decision, “which void will I feed?”, live life in misery or end it all succumbing to the void, as the brain turns on it’s itself. There was never an option. In a linear timeline of the narrative, this song would play before A Moon Fused Key. This song also features backup vocals from Dylan in the first verse.

8. A Pale Palace- The character, while dying, imagines what could have been. The mirage is falling apart before him. We were really inspired to write something totally out of our comfort zone for this particular track. This song was semi-inspired by post-rock bands like Russian Circles, as well as more straight-ahead Black & Roll. The riff at the end took us about 5 months alone before we could play it all as a band.

9. Vacant- The end of everything he once knew, as a new castle is forming beside him. Nick Leslie wrote the main riff for this song, and we all thought it just killed. I’m trying to do my best Jamie Saint-Merat (Ulcerate) impression here, with just a barrage of drum fills as the world of our character is being swallowed by the sands of time. I wanted this song to sort of speak the message that if you let it, time will replace you.

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FUN FACTS – STORY ANGLES

1. Sean was inspired to write the concept of this album after a traumatic experience using psychedelics. He’s been sober ever since.

2. One of the main inspirations given to the album artist, Carter Doody, was from the imaginative realism artist Michael Whelan.

3. Aside from the drums, the album was recorded, mixed, and mastered entirely by the band themselves. During the pandemic, every band member upgraded their home studios in order to record demos, practice ideas, and eventually leading to remotely track their respective parts on the final album.

4. Guitarist Nick Leslie became so fed up with the inaccuracy of Sean’s cheap drum triggers that he designed, engineered, and 3D printed the drum triggers used to record this album, and currently being used today. The triggers are purple, which is Sean’s favourite colour, and a dominant colour of the album cover.

5. Sean found the lyrical components of the album so depressing that he opted to write and direct a cartoonishly violent music video about a bad birthday, instead of directly adapting the harsh and unsettling tone of the album. There are still several components from the album in the video, such as a bad drug trip taking place. The idea for the video also came from the desire to show the dichotomy between the lyrics and the visuals, which is a prominent theme throughout the album.

6. Filmmaker Gaspar Noé was a large influence on the band, with “Enter the Void” being used as a sample in the album, and the opening sounds of the film being sampled to open the live show.

Ancient Thrones Current Line Up

Top L-R: Dylan Wallace (Guitar) | Nick Leslie (Guitar)

Bottom L-R: Matt LeBlanc (Bass) | Sean Hickey (Drums & Vocals)

Photo Credit – Matt Leblanc

Ancient Thrones, formerly “Abysseral Throne”, is an Atlantic Canada-acclaimed blackened metal outfit that rebranded to suit major changes in line-up and songwriting.

Formed in 2011 in New Brunswick and now residing in Halifax, NS, they quickly went to work to establish themselves among their scene and gained local notoriety, eventually allowing them the opportunities to open for renowned metal acts from across the globe.

Sean Hickey (drums/vocals) is the sole original founder of Abysseral remaining. Matt LeBlanc joined in 2015 on bass and improved and refined the sound and operation drastically. Once they lost their original singer and guitar player, Jonny Rains, Dylan Wallace joined and took over main songwriting duties. Hickey took over completely on vocals with a black/death metal vocal style, and Nick Leslie joined shortly after on the second guitar. Work began on writing a new album, which took about 3 months to write the music for. The new material sparked the name change to Ancient Thrones as an homage to one of Hickey’s favorite bands and inspirations, Wolves in the Throne Room.

In 2013, the band released its debut record and its subsequent follow-up in 2016, “Storming The Black Gate”, which was nominated for an East Coast Music Award. Ancient Thrones have toured throughout Canada and played at several festivals, sharing the stages with bands such as The Agonist, Black Crown Initiate, Skull Fist, Beyond Creation, Wormwitch, The Faceless, Rings of Saturn, Within Ruins, Vital Remains, Omnivide, and more.

2020 saw the release of the concept album “The Veil,” showcasing the band’s desire for storytelling and pushing them to new heights musically. That album explored the journey of a man faced with tragedy, his mortality, and ultimately the permanence of our actions, told through technical soundscapes and haunting atmosphere. It was highly praised by metal media and fans globally.

Now, in 2025, the band returns with their next epic, “Melancholia”, an album about a person who is seemingly colourblind, who takes psychedelic drugs as a last-ditch effort to see colour. As the trip unfolds, he begins to live his ideal life, seeing colour for the first time. In reality, something else is happening. The writing is on the wall from the beginning of the record to the bitter end. Musically, the album is tailored to the lyrics, and ebbs and flows as the character makes challenging decisions, and experiences pain, joy, and perhaps most prominently existential exhaustion. The album is fast, jagged, and unapologetic in its aggression, as it leads this character to his final tripped-out day in a fantastical place.

“This is the sound of existential exhaustion. Melancholia is truly an unapologetic extreme metal concept album, from the opening drum fill in “A Moon Fused Key” to the washed-out doomy fallout of “Vacant”. This is 42 minutes of pure aggression, where the band is a translucent body, and you can’t look away from the jagged insides that lie beneath the skin. The musicianship, intensity, and speed are on full display in this sophomore release, while still retaining the cinematic narrative that coincided with the music from their previous work. The lyrics follow a fully colour blind person taking hallucinogens in order to see colour, with many twists and turns throughout, that’s sure to please any dread-laden listener brave enough to venture into this surreal landscape, like a bad trip that you can’t escape. It’s an album that emphasizes the dangers of idealism, while giving the listener a brutal experience of emotional blackened death metal unlike anything you’ve heard before.” – Sean Hickey (Drums, Vocals)

“Melancholia” is due out September 19, 2025.

Discography:
2025 – Melancholia – LP
2020 – The Veil – LP

Shared Stage with: Beyond Creation, Wormwitch, Black Crown Initiate, The Faceless, Rings of Saturn, Within Ruins, Vital Remains, The Carrion Veil, Omnivide, Aepoch

0 EPK – Matt Miller – Fiber Tormentum (2025) (Exitus Stratagem Records)

June 26, 2025
by Asher
· EPKs · Matt Miller

EPK – Matt Miller – Fiber Tormentum (2025) (Exitus Stratagem Records)

Publicist – Jon Asher – exsr[@]ashermediarelations[.]com

Management – Mark Kloeppel (EMG) – emg.markkloeppel[@]gmail[.]com

For fans of Necrophagist, Symphony X, Wintersun, The Faceless, Death

“I think fans will be pleasantly surprised. Especially being the first release as a full band and having vocals. I heard from many fans that they really like the instrumental music but they would also really like to hear the tracks with vocals and see the live shows with a full band. Which I completely agree with. This album features so many new elements including the heaviest, melodic, and most technical music in my catalog that has been released so far. It’s got a lot to offer for the instrumental fans as well as new fans who want to hear the music with vocals and the unique things each of these musicians is bringing to the table. I think listening to music sets the scene to tell a story. In this case I think that listeners are going to hear a lot of nuance and a wide range of emotions. Overwhelming is how I would describe it. We make music that is catchy but relentless.” – Matt Miller

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“All in all, it’s a fascinating song (Effectively Neutralized) — head-spinning and heart-palpitating but also a heavy-hitter and a conjurer of strange, sinister, and haunting visions. In other words, in the space of just five minutes it pulls off a lot of impressive feats. And the well-filmed and well-edited video for it is a perfect complement, in that it shows us how all these talented performers executed all the impressive accomplishments.” – NoCleanSinging

“I am super excited. I already know this is gonna destroy. Matt Miller just absolutely destroys it on all facets. He has so many guitar techniques that he has absolutely mastered and he can literally play it all.” – Omar Rodriguez – The Metal Mixtape – YouTube Channel

“Hell yeah. Holy moly canoli. Fiverr to Fiber Momentum, and that was the album. This song is Descent into Violence. Holy moly canoli, dude. Go support, Matt Miller. That was absolutely badass. Total shredding. Jordan, also a homie of mine, your drums are incredible. The new singer, Bo, I love the harsh vocals in the clean. Total is it almost the cleans almost reminded me of Queensryche meets Cannibal Corpse. It’s pretty freaking sweet. And of course, Justice always lays down the heavy bass with the beautiful bass faces. But an absolutely incredible album….Matt Miller, you could find him everywhere. He’s an incredible guitar player, one of the best guitar players of our generation. Remember, this is Fiber Tormentum courtesy of Exitus Stratagem Records. So, a huge shout-out to them as well. Matt Miller has so many more songs. If you guys like this song (Descent into Violence), believe me, this guy is an absolute shred master. Not only does he do like a ton of his own originals, he does a ton of covers, and also he’s just a shred master of all sorts. Just exactly how they say, melodic, technical, and death. But I will definitely say the big thing that stands apart about this whole song is great structure, absolutely shredding on all levels, and the vocals are just 100% one-of-a-kind. And I totally enjoyed it. Guys, I love you guys from the bottom of my heart. This has been Matt Miller with his new song, Descent into Violence. Pick up the new album on September 12, Fiber Tormentum.” – Omar Rodriguez – The Metal Mixtape – YouTube Channel

“Soaring, crushing, ferocious, emotive, and relentless, are words that strongly describe Decrepit Shed. The album has a lot to offer from various metal sub-genres and encompasses the best elements of technical guitar playing while still having well-written songs”. – Brave Words

“Monument of Velocity” initially had a different title and was not going to be a Matt Miller release and some of the songs were written with vocals in mind and were not going to be instrumental, however, it turned out to be the sixth of seven powerful albums in his discography. contains eight tracks full of technical and progressive metal eliciting feelings of suspense, and tension while being fun, melodic and brutally heavy. Miller’s melodic and relentless music has a wide range of influences and is recommended for fans of Jeff Loomis, Necrophagist, and Obscura.” – Rock’n’ Load

“Even though Miller’s music is instrumental, he likes to think of the guitar as a voice. Which in turn makes him ask what is the guitar saying? He is able to easily convey emotion, tone, and a story even without the use of vocals. Throughout his releases, his music has developed a more modern sound in both the music and the production. Musically the songs are more well written and a lot of the ideas he writes are being accurately represented. He is always trying to push himself as a musician and this is reflected in his discography. Influenced primarily by technical and progressive death metal with a dash of power metal and symphonic metal as well, Matt Miller’s music is recommended for fans of Obscura, Dragon Force, and Racer X” – Metal Sucks

“Mr. Miller can shred like his fingers are on fire” – Ever-Metal.com

“Matt shreds all over this album with guitar solos galore”. – Transcending the Mundane

“Soaring, crushing, ferocious, and emotive, Miller conveys a wide range of tones throughout his instrumental music. It is recommended for fans of Dragon Force, Racer X, and Jeff Loomis” – Metal-Rules

“For guitar enthusiasts, I guess it is a feast for the eyes and ears.” – Antichrist Magazine

Band: Matt Miller
Album Title: Fiber Tormentum
Release Date: September 12, 2025
Label: Exitus Stratagem Records

Track Listing:
1. Descent into Violence (5:04)
2. Summoned (3:33)
3. Effectively Neutralized (4:53)
4. Blight and Disfigurement (3:23)
5. Maimed Paralyzed Dead (3:12)
6. Horror Beyond Comprehension (3:15)
7. Fiber Tormentum (Instrumental) (3:31)
8. Abiotic Origin (3:14)
Album Length: 30:08

Album Credits:
Matt Miller (Guitars, Synth)
Jordan Kelso (Drums, Synth)
Justice Robinett (Bass)
Biko Wright (Vocals)

Songs written by Matt Miller
Produced by Matt Miller and Jordan Kelso
Mixed and Mastered by Jordan Kelso
Artwork by Joshua Nassaru Ward
Jordan Kelso (ASCAP)

Live Band Lineup:
Matt Miller (Guitars, Synth)
Jordan Kelso (Drums, Synth)
Justice Robinett (Bass)
Biko Wright (Vocals)

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About The Album Artwork:

The album cover was made by a dear friend, Joshua Nassaru Ward. I remember talking with Josh about the overall concept of the album when I was playing guitar for a tour with his band Voraath. I had told him the loose concept of the lyrics and about human DNA being manipulated and programmed by travelers of time and space. So the face is crying out in torment as the fibers of their DNA are changed. The name for Fiber Tormentum came from a history documentary about the Roman Empire. Fiber Tormentum is the sound a Ballista makes when the ropes are tightened to launch the projectile. When I heard that, I immediately grabbed my phone and wrote it down.

About the album as a whole (LYRICALLY & MUSICALLY):

The album musically is a relentless assault. Even the clean singing parts help to up the intensity and push the soundscape to even more epic heights. The lyrics match the music in their intensity and weave a story of an advanced civilization using subtlety to control humanity.

Track by Track (LYRICALLY & MUSICALLY)

1. Descent into Violence – Lyrically, desperation and struggle against all odds. The music is intense and emotive.

2. Summoned – The travel and detailed plans of the invaders. Using astonishing acts. The music is something like a computer algorithm or an alien language.

3. Effectively Neutralized – This is the enactment of the plan and its immediate effect on humanity. Musically, this song has a lot of twists and turn,s just like a good plot.

4. Blight and Disfigurement – The devastation of our environment. Musically it has a march kind of feel and the break is super epic. Something that could be in a nature documentary about spring after a long harsh winter but in this case things are even worse.

5. Maimed Paralyzed Dead – This is about the effects on the human body and what the changes to DNA have on people. Musically it’s something out of a monster movie. Like a zombie crawling on the floor or lumbering towards its victim.

6. Horror Beyond Comprehension – Lyrically, it’s about humanity’s plea to the invaders to show mercy on them. Humanity has capitulated. Musically, it’s the sound of being completely overwhelmed.

7. Fiber Tormentum (Instrumental) – Musically it’s a snapshot of the entire album. Each section of the song is a scene from every track. From the highest highs to the lowest lows and all epic moments in between.

8. Abiotic Origin – Lyrically is the realization that humanity had brought this on themselves through their ignorance, inviting other beings to our planet without thinking they could be malevolent. However, hope is not lost just yet. Musically, it’s an epic track that has some really powerful sections, including the outro.

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Fun Facts – StoryAngles:

1: Everytime vocals were done in one take Biko channeled his inner Murderface for a resounding quote “One take Willy” It’s hidden in one song if you listen closely.

2: Vocal tracking was done between Biko’s filming of the Discovery Channel show Expedition Bigfoot.

3: We ate Subway every day after tracking and they gave us our own table in the dining room as we became regular customers on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 8 pm.

4: This is a concept album with influence from the negative effects that COVID-19 had on society.

5: We tried to record samples and track them with high-end pianos and a harp using a portable recording rig. We were asked to leave and banned from multiple stores. On one occasion, they knew us before we had a chance to set up the mics.

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L-R – Justice Robinett (Bass), Jordan Kelso (Drums, Synth), Matt Miller (Guitars, Synth), Biko Wright (Vocals)

Photo Credit – Lilly May Everett

Akademia-Award-winning producer, engineer, and songwriter MATT MILLER side-steps these industry achievements to embark on something deeply introspective and personal; a transcendent, reactionary, and vile personage embodying soaring progressive melodies and captivating crushing rhythms that engulf the listener in black clouds of desperation and shimmering hope.

Drawing upon the gut-wrenching timed-precision of European death metal stalwarts NECROPHAGIST and SPAWN OF POSSESSION, MATT MILLER progressively blends this approach with deep synthetic and symphonic atmospheres like that of DEVIN TOWNSEND, often arriving at surprisingly emotive and heart-clenching metallic passages like that of RIVERS OF NIHIL.

Calling upon other single-member death metal projects such as PUTRID PILE or INSIDIOUS DECREPANCY, the live performance can best be described as a reclaiming and repainting of the earth by a relentlessly sweeping and deranged berzerker appealing to the vast minions of extreme music. The combination of elements within MATT MILLER distills the traditions of the international metal realm, the progressive atmospheres of modernity, and reactions to a vile world into a single unrelenting persona of despair and vengeance.

MATT MILLER’s first self-produced instrumental EP came in 2017, drawing on influences from classic metal bands such as MEGADETH and IRON MAIDEN to shredders like YNGWIE MALMSTEEN and PAUL GILBERT, while combining a technical death metal approach to create maximum-intensity music with a frenetic and frantic feel and ferocious atmosphere. Since then, and a few releases into this brief career, MATT MILLER boasts 12,000 consistent monthly listeners on Spotify before hitting the international touring circuit. This was garnered from his 2017 EP, the 2021 self-released ‘Decrepit Shed’ LP, the ‘Reekomposer/Decomposer’ covers double LP, as well as the ‘8E’s’ 1980’s themed covers LP.

In 2022 Matt released the formidable original instrumental LP Monument of Velocity on Blood Blast Distribution. Matt also toured supporting Rings of Saturn on the CYBER SHRED TOUR 2022. 29 shows encompassing the continental United States. Matt has released the cover LP Only What the Light Allows through Blood Blast Distribution.

In 2023, Matt assembled a full band consisting of drummer Jordan Kelso and bassist Justice Robinett, both of whom are world-class musicians. Soon after, Matt headed to Europe in support of death metal pioneers Possessed on their Oblivion Over Europe Tour. In 2024, Matt began writing a new instrumental LP. After completing the demos, it became abundantly clear that the new record required vocals. Thus vocalist Biko Wright entered the fray, and the end result became the new LP Fiber Tormentum. Fiber Tormentum is a step forward and makes the bold statement that nothing will stop Matt from his campaign of musical devastation.

Matt Miller hails from the rain soaked northern Oregon Coast; influenced by the natural foreboding environment. Moving into the present, MATT MILLER has joined up with Extreme Management Group to spread a singularly relentless auditory mind-bend.

Band Lineup:
Matt Miller (Guitars, Synth)
Jordan Kelso (Drums, Synth)
Justice Robinett (Bass)
Biko Wright (Vocals)

Discography:
2025 – Fiber Tormentum LP
2023 – Decrepit Shed Remaster LP
2023 – MMXVII Retrack EP
2022 – Only What the Light Allows LP
2022 – Monument of Velocity LP
2022 – Reekompose LP
2021 – 8E’s EP
2021 – Decrepit Shed LP
2021 – Decomposer LP

Artist Endorsements: Siggi Braun Zenrok Guitars, GHS Strings, EMG Pickups, Rok Lok Strap Locks, Music Nomad, Kahler USA, Tsunami Cables, Arachnid Cabs

Shared Stage: Rings of Saturn, Possessed, Vapor, Stoic Suffering, Distinguisher, Voraath, Extortionist, Last of Lucy, Cyborg Octopus, No Living Witness, Vintersea, Cobra the Impaler, Voices of Ruin, Greyhawk

Tours and Festivals:
Hallowfest Medford OR 2024
Nor Cal Death Fest 2024 Redway CA
Summer Immolation Tour 2024 Portland OR
Pacific Shred Invasion Tour 2024 CA All Dates
Possessed Oblivion Over EU Tour 2023 All Dates
Rings of Saturn Cyber Shred Tour 2022 All Dates
Western Desolation Tour Salem OR 2022

0 EPK – Visitant – Rubidium (2025) (Exitus Stratagem Records)

June 25, 2025
by Asher
· EPKs · Visitant

EPK – Visitant – Rubidium (2025) (Exitus Stratagem Records)

Publicist – Jon Asher – exsr[@]ashermediarelations[.]com

Band: Visitant
Album Title: Rubidium
Label: Exitus Stratagem Records
Release Date: August 22, 2025

“We are hoping it is received positively. There are so many dynamic moments that grab you. We hope it resonates with people for years to come. We ultimately want this to take you on a journey. A story through sounds. If we can take people away from their woes through our music, we will consider it a success.” – Visitant

Tony: Imagine Dimmu and UADA being smashed together like action figures during recess.

Kilian: “This record, I think, threads the needle, blending a lot of different genres. But yes, imagine a bunch of metal bands as action figures in the best super smash bros type of way.”

Taylor: While the genre bending is ever present, the release as a whole works cohesively, every part making up a piece to the puzzle.

Chelsea: I really do think it’s genre-bending as well. I really didn’t actively approach it with that in mind, but I went for what I felt each part needed or made me feel. It was a freeing experience. I was hoping we could create something that was impactful. I think we did that. After you listen to the album from beginning to end, you feel like you were just on the biggest journey. It evokes all sorts of feels. Like damn.. I feel like I was audibly hit by a big ol bus. In a good way… if there was a good way!

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Digital Single (Spotify) – https://hypeddit.com/visitant/fodder

“Visitant is here to utterly wreck your morning thanks to their brand new single “Fodder”, the first offering from their upcoming album Rubidium due out on August 23 via Exitus Stratagem Records. Visitant is vocalist Chelsea Marrow (Voraath, The Monster Factory, Doom Eternal, Hellblade 2, etc.), guitarist Taylor Tidwell, drummer Anthony Lusk-Simone (Abiotic, Lattermath & ex-Pathogenic), and bassist Kilian Duarte (Abiotic, Lattermath, Felix Martin & Scale The Summit). So a real powerhouse of a band that brings some savage energy to the metal world.” – Metal Injection

“Visitant introduce the song (Starless) with subdued classical strings and rippling piano keys which together create a sorrowful but entrancing mood. The gentle nature of that overture makes the sudden crash that follows it even more startling — a sudden attack of slashing and sizzling fretwork, gargantuan bass-moans, neck-cracking beats, savage roars, and scorching screams. The song continues to bring in classically influenced piano melodies coupled with vividly dancing guitars, creating an almost diabolical kind of elegance, but the song also ignites a blackened firestorm of blasting drums, delirious fretwork, and sweeping symphonics. The notes vibrantly dart and blaze as the rhythm section thunder, and the music both elevates to heights of daunting, haughty grandeur and sweeps like wildfire. The torrid and tormented vocals seem to hold nothing back, howling and screaming out on the bleeding edge of intensity, and as if the song couldn’t get any more extravagant, the band make room for a head-spinning guitar solo at the end, in the midst of lots of other equally head-spinning fretwork and rhythm-section spectacles.” – No Clean Singing

““Fodder“, presents different warps and wefts in its weave. Also presented through a video (this time we get to see the band perform), it was inspired by a very dark dream in which Chelsea attempted to bring a murdered friend back to life and lost her own life in the process, leaving the friend trapped in a hellish limbo, bound to a body over which their control had been lost to dark spirits. To be sure, this song is also musically extravagant. It features a lot of borderline deranged and technically demanding high-speed maneuvers (a tour de force that would make lots of tech-death bands jealous) but it’s also hallucinatory, and unhinged in many other respects. It further demonstrates that Chelsea Marrow can really sing, as well as howl like a wolf and scream like a goblin. It’s a highly theatrical experience, but also instrumentally kaleidoscopic and viscerally frightening, and the singing makes the song stand out as much as every other demented and dazzling aspect of it.” – No Clean Singing

“Emerging from the shadowy fringes of the metal scene, blackened death metal outfit Visitant has unleashed their riveting debut single, “Fodder.” Released as a precursor to their eagerly anticipated first full-length album, “Rubidium,” the track invites listeners into a deeply atmospheric yet punishing sonic landscape.” – See Rock Live Magazine

“Uniting seasoned musicians from the Extreme Metal underground scene with members known for their previous works in Abiotic, Scale the Summit, Unaligned and Voraath, Blackened Death Metal quartet Visitant have spent the better part of three years crafting a debut album. The promise is of something dark, beautiful, visceral and compelling with single “Fodder” an almost ritualistic journey that weaves ethereal elements into an unrelentingly aggressive soundscape. Turning personal experiences into ghost stories for the half an hour of power that is “Rubidium” caught the attention of Exitus Stratagem Records who will distribute the affair on 29th August.” – Metal Noise

“Visitant weaves ethereal elements into a soundscape that is as haunting as it is aggressive. Lyrically and musically, the band crafts immersive dreamscapes – ritualistic and unrelenting” DNA Entertainment

“Visitant by all accounts has an amazing lineup composing music for the project ” – Metal Purgatory

Band: Visitant
Album Title: Rubidium
Label: Exitus Stratagem Records
Release Date: August 22, 2025

Track Listing:
1. Unworldly – 4:48
2. Briars – 5:20
3. Starless – 5:07
4. Rubidium – 5:24
5. Fodder – 4:37
6. Envies Lament – 4:56
7. Moon Bathe – 2:38
Album Length: 32:50

Album Recording and Credits:
Taylor Tidwell, Anthony Lusk-Simone
All songs written by: Visitant
All songs performed by: Visitant
Producer: Anthony Lusk-Simone
Mixed By: Anthony Lusk-Simone
Mastered By: Jason Fisher
Album Art: Image by Chelsea Marrow with Maxwell Aston for layout and logo

Album Band Line Up:
Chelsea Marrow – Vocals
Kilian Duarte – Bass
Taylor Tidwell – Guitars
Anthony Lusk-Simone – Drums / Orchestration

Live Band Line Up:
Chelsea Marrow – Vocals
Taylor Tidwell – Guitar & Backing Vocals
Kilian Duarte or Anthony Wheeler – Bass
Sean Carpenter or Charles Webber – Drums
Thomas Weidick – Guitar

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About The Album Artwork:

The model was my friend, Aria. To me it resembles facing immortality. Something that haunts you throughout your time on this earth. As vivid as the red.

About the album as a whole (LYRICALLY & MUSICALLY):

Rubidium was sort of like shadow work for us. I feel like all of our albums will be like that. Embodying the bleakest parts of being human. Grief, loss, betrayal, vengeance, time lost, regret.

Track by Track (LYRICALLY & MUSICALLY):

1) Unworldly – Lyrically, this song expresses the overall theme of the album. We are haunted by the loss of time and the inescapable fact that everything is temporary. The visual I had while writing this song was that of a time-traveling man. Escaping the shell of what his old self used to be. He was trying to get to his younger self. His Time Machine had broken down. He was trapped in a limbo where he could see his old body in post-stroke form. And he could also see the young version. Almost like looking through aquarium glass. Stuck in a purgatory, watching a dream state for eternity. ** Musically it sounds like.. If Danny Elfman had a tea party with the Jackal from 13th Ghost. It was the first song we wrote for the album. We wanted to bring the bleakness with this track. Chelsea and Taylor had just split with their prior project and wanted this to come more into focus. We took what we thought were the best attributes of our first single and amped up as much as we could, adding a more progressive sound and speeding things up. Then Tony made the beautiful orchestrations that are throughout the track, and Killian laid down the base, which added all the beef

2) Briars – This one is a story of a man who doesn’t realize he’s died immediately. As he figures it out, he pleads that it wasn’t his time yet.. and as his pleads are not heard..he realizes that there is no god in the afterlife..no matter how big of a name you were.. or how much work you put into something, you’ll be forgotten in the end. I envisioned him being confined to a house.. his own home.. And the people.. even strangers coming and going in a time lapse as the house disintegrates around him. He just wants to be home. He’ll never have that again. Musically, this song was born very organically. The beginning of the composition came from a writing session between Taylor and Chelsea, from which the main riffs came. We wanted to make a very crushing and somber song with a bit of technicality, but overall, with an emphasis on the atmosphere. We wanted the song to have a lot of twists and turns and be as exciting as possible. We really wanted this one to grab you.

3) Starless: Starless lyrically is about self-preservation and protection, in a way. It embraces dark femininity. It’s about burying the darkest parts of you, letting them fester and unleashing it unto all who have hurt you while building walls shutting out the world. It evokes the embodiment of wrath and vengeance. It speaks from grief in the angry stage. It’s probably the darkest song on this album, I feel. Spiritually and musically. Starless was another song that was musically born in a very organic way. It was made during a writing session, and we pretty much wrote the bulk of the song at one time. This one we wanted it to be in your face and heavy, and compelling. The song was born naturally, and we think you can hear that in the song. This one, too, has a very bleak and somber atmosphere to it. We wanted to convey the pain.

4) Rubidium: Rubidium lyrically is about this deity or titan that lures humans to feed into the earth’s soil to keep forests alive. It must survive on human souls and tissue. In my mind, even the trees have human-like faces in their trunks. Almost organic enough to not notice, but so frequent in each tree that it’s hard not to. The people’s minds are washed of any humanistic qualities. All bow and lower to their knees to be absorbed by the sour soil. Musically speaking, the start of this song came from Taylor, who often times imagines animals or colors when writing music, decided he wanted to write a song that reminded him of a serpent. We wanted this song to slither into your ear and stay with you. This is one of the heavier tracks on the album and one of the more progressive songs.

5) Fodder: This song, lyrically, was written from a really dark dream. In the dream, I was wandering through the dark, I found a stone cottage with an altar in the center. It had a fireplace or hearth that was also stone and falling apart. Centuries old. I noticed a smell. Rot and decay. I look towards the hearth and I notice dripping. It was blood. I gather courage and peer into it. My friend, in the dream, had been murdered and his body had been shoved into the fireplace. A book appeared on the altar. Even though my ancestors warned me a thousand times over not to attempt to bring the dead back to life, I attempted anyway. Needless to say, the outcome was atrocious, and I lost my own life in the process. And my friend was stuck in this hellish limbo, existing in this body that no longer served him. The spirits from the darkest realms have taken over physicalities, as my friend was trapped to watch from the inside of the vessel with no control of his physical form.

In real time, this friend of mine killed himself years ago. I often wonder if it was just my mind processing it in a different way. How could he take his own life. It must have been someone else…

Musically, this song is so powerful. I feel like this captures our abilities so well, which is why we chose this as our first single. It’s just hard-hitting from the get-go, but still so melodic and feral. Musically, Fodder is a song that comes out swinging from the gate, heavy, punchy, dissonant, and groove-driven driven all the while retaining melody and a hook.

6) Envies Lament: Lyrically, this song touches base on sleep paralysis dreams, loss, and wanting life to end. When I first moved back to Pensacola, I was staying in my grandparents’ house. My grandfather passed away in this house. I began having those sorts of dreams a lot. I couldn’t see the figure, but in the dream, of course, I couldn’t move, but I felt the presence of a hand in mine. Another night of these dreams, the hand was that of a child’s. It just got weirder and weirder. I absolutely believe there was something attempting to get my attention there. The song delves into more personal experiences I’d like to keep to myself. I just didn’t want to be on this planet. It was a form of goodbye. I don’t feel that way so much these days.. I really hold on to life so intently. I know it is short. And I am so grateful to be here and with my bandmates. Musically, this track musically feels like you’re overcoming sorrow. It starts out big and sorrowful, and quickly picks up the pace with more thrash, driven parts, and hence back-and-forth at the sadness throughout, but ultimately it feels triumphant.

7) Moonbathe: This one doesn’t have lyrics. Just ambient, powerful vocals, and crushing yet epic guitar/bass parts and orchestrations. It takes you on a journey that is quite different than the rest of the album. It feels like it’s a resolution. The feeling that’s there after experiencing stages of grief. The journey continues even still. *Rides off into the sunset.” Our drummer/engineer, Anthony Lusk-Simone, said it sounds like.. “If Opeth got lost in the desert,” musically, this song was intended to be an intro or an interlude, but we liked it so much we turned it into a full song. We wanted the end to have this big, beautiful, sprawling soundscape to it.

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Fun Facts – Story Angles:

1) Half of us live in Massachusetts, and the other half live in Pensacola. It’s been a revisited question of how we are able to make it work. I fly to MA as often as I can to record and hang out with Tony and Kilian. In the future, Taylor and I both plan to fly to MA to write. As far as live performances, we have stand-ins if any of us is unable to make it.

2) Overall concept of the band, we “create a haunting dreamscape, wrought for the embodiment of restless and vengeful spirits”

“Deep is the heart.. Forged in the mire”

3) We recorded layers of vocals throughout the album on a Disney Princess mic. It created really cool lo-fi tones. Gritty as hell with harsh vocals

4) Our drummer, Tony, engineers and creates orchestrations for our music. He and I have also tag-teamed the videography so far. We brainstorm video concepts and visuals together.

5) Kilian our bass player when he first heard the music and concepts “ oh thank god . we have fucking choruses” or something to that extent. Emphasising the lack of hooks, melodies, and return to ideas in a lot of metal music. We like the idea of creating something that not just musicians can appreciate.. Something that is relatable to all. Something that can bring you to a different world, mentally, while retaining interest throughout. It’s a story. Told from beyond. At least we envision it that way.

Visitant is a Blackened Death Metal band that weaves ethereal elements into a soundscape that is as haunting as it is aggressive. Lyrically and musically, the band crafts immersive dreamscapes—ritualistic and unrelenting—that channel the essence of restless, vengeful spirits.

For fans of Gojira, Opeth, Naglfar, and Between the Buried and Me, Visitant offers a visceral experience that transcends genre boundaries.

The band features a lineup of seasoned musicians:

Anthony Lusk-Simone (drums) – Abiotic, Lattermath, formerly Pathogenic
Kilian Duarte (bass) – Abiotic, Lattermath, Felix Martin, Scale the Summit
Taylor Tidwell (guitar) – Unaligned, Withered Throne
Chelsea Marrow (vocals) – Voraath, The Monster Factory

Formed in February 2022 by founding members Taylor Tidwell and Chelsea Marrow, the band builds on a strong collaborative history. Chelsea’s vocal work can also be heard in acclaimed video games such as DOOM ETERNAL and Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II.

Visitant is signed to Exitus Stratagem Records and will release their debut album, Rubidium, on August 22, 2025.

Album Band Line Up:
Chelsea Marrow – Vocals
Kilian Duarte – Bass
Taylor Tidwell – Guitars
Anthony Lusk-Simone – Drums / Orchestration

Discography:
2025 (August) – Rubidum – Album
2022 – Dematerialization – Single

Artists Endorsements: CAD AUDIO, KIESEL, DARKGLASS ELECTRONICS, VOLTA INNOVATION, GHS, ARACHNID CABINETS

0 EPK – Ivy Gardens – Death of Don Valley (2025)

June 21, 2025
by Asher
· EPKs · Ivy Gardens

EPK – Ivy Gardens – Death of Don Valley (2025)

Publicist – Jon Asher – jon[@]ashermediarelations[.]com

For fans of Acid Bath, Rush, King Crimson, Mastodon, Kyuss

Band: Ivy Gardens
Album Title: Death of Don Valley
Release Date: August 29, 2025
Label: Paper Cut Recordings

“It may be a fairly surprising shift. This music is more dour than Goon, which had more positive energy. Most fans will have seen this coming; it’s been in the works for a long time, and most longtime fans will have heard something from this record live and loud at some point. We tried to make almost every song unpredictable. Much of it is dark, heavy, and oppressive, but always in tandem with moments that uplift you out of those emotions into something greater.” – Ivy Gardens

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Ivy Gardens – Live or Die Tour:
Aug 29 – St. Catharines, ON – Warehouse Concert Hall
Aug 30 – Toronto, ON – Monarch Tavern
Sept 5 – Kitchener, ON – The Golden Apple
Sept 12 – Windsor, ON – Phog Lounge
Sept 13 – Sarnia, ON – AJs Bar
Sept 14 – London, ON – Grogettes Living Room
Sept 18 – Halifax, NS – Radstorm
Sept 19 – Sydney, NS – Daniels Ale House
Sept 20 – Charlottetown, PEI – Babas Lounge
Sept 21 – Moncton, NB – Generator Show
Sept 25 – Woodstock, NB – Montieth Manor
Sept 26 – Montreal, QC – Turbo Haus
Sept 27 – Quebec City, QC – Sonum
Oct 9 – Barrie, ON – CW Coops
Oct 10 – Sudbury, ON – Townhouse Tavern
Oct 11 – Thunder Bay, ON – Black Pirates Pub
Oct 12 – Winnipeg, MB – Bulldog Event Center
Oct 16 – Regina, SK – The Cure Kitchen and Bar
Oct 17 – Saskatoon, SK – The Black Cat
Oct 18 – Calgary, AB – Palomino
Oct 19 – Edmonton, AB – Blak Bar
Oct 23 – Kelowna, BC – Dunnenzies
Oct 24 – Vancouver, BC – Black Alley
Oct 25 – Victoria, BC – Fernwood Community Center

“First of all, can we just give a lot of overdue appreciation to the fact that there are still hard-gigging bands out there that play with the kind of urgency as IVY GARDENS. You can damn AI music straight to fiery pits of hell; this is where the real sound and fury is at. Another thing I appreciate about Ivy Gardens is all the dark humor. You see it in their new music video, with its Red Fangish tongue-in-cheek adventure. This one features a vintage style videotaped car chase, which would play well off a viewing of V/H/S/94. …Fake blood ahead… We’re arrested right away by the powerful strumming of the guitar as “Eye Witness” opens. Drumming is crazy, a frenetic attack of Animal from The Muppets, chasing that beat all over the place… Of course, the classic organ-sound of the keyboards adds a certain kind of spookiness to it all, which can be at once cheeky, mysterious, and cool. I myself love this send-back to ‘60s rock, while respecting that Ivy Gardens brings us a sound that clearly feels “now.”” – Doom and Stoned

“With the premiere of the video for “Burden” below, Niagara Falls progressive sludge trio Ivy Gardens announce their second full-length, Death of Don Valley, will be out Aug. 29 through Paper Cut Recordings. The follow-up to the sans-bass three-piece’s well-received 2024 debut, Goon, is introduced with the lead single “Burden,” which you can find the band playing live in the video premiering below. This ethic would seem to be the crux of Death of Don Valley itself, hence “live off the floor sophomore album” in the headline below. “Burden” benefits from the lack of trickery behind it, from the visually-evidenced capacity on the part of guitarist/vocalist Andrew Blackborow, key-specialist/synthesist Sebastian Hogg and drummer/vocalist Joe Zandwyk, the latter two of whom are also responsible for samples on the record, and while one can hear a bit of Melvinsian do-rock-and-make-it-weird ethos underlying, “Burden” brings charge to coincide with its telltale rhythmic intricacy — not quite doing ‘math’ in the musical sense, but not far off. They say the album’s more complex than the last one, and even if it was tracked entirely live with no overdubs, “Burden” bears that out.” – The Obelisk

Reviews – Goon (2024):

The Canadian National College Radio – May 2024 – Top 20 Loud – #9 Ivy Gardens (Earshot)

The Canadian National College Radio Loud Chart – #8 Ivy Gardens (Earshot) – For the Week Ending: Tuesday, May 21, 2024

Goon – #38 on DoomCharts.com (April 2024)

“…the sonic equivalent of a panic attack.” – Canadian Beats

“Stoner metal, a little chilled sounding, but fast paced, cool stuff.” – Mosh Pit – WORT 89.9 FM (Madison, WI)

““Boner” has got a really cool groove, too, showing you what can happen when you’ve got a band that is truly possessed by the power of The Riff. It’s one of those grinding, motoriffic jobs in the spirit of Kyuss’ “Green Machine.” And it doesn’t take long before we, too, are caught under its sway. The retro organ sound from the keys provides a spooky touch to the chorus, which comes like a sigh of relief after the tense build-up of those guitar-driven verses. The drumming is swarmy and frenetic, and strikes with power at pivotal moments. The breakdown at 4 minutes is a headbanging oasis, made even cooler with the synthesizer’s late-’60s garage twist.” – Doomed and Stoned

“This Canadian trio are promising us a debut album that is “a relentless onslaught of vulgar, belligerent punk, sludge and sweat” when it is released in April. If this lead single is anything to go by, things are going to get very belligerent and sweaty when the full-lengther finally hits our death decks.” – Uber Rock

“GOON is an action packed and turbocharged release powered by Pissed Off grooves and a snarling Punk Rock Attitude which allows IVY GARDENS to deliver a devastating FREAKY slice of Psychedelic Sludge/Stoner Metal.” – Outlaws of The Sun

“Nothing about Ontario’s Ivy Gardens is predictable. Describing it is just going to sound trite. I love it when I know I’m going to miss the mark no matter what I write. But here’s my take: take some awesome keyboard parts from 1967, link them to 80’s New Romantic Synth parts played on guitar, add equal parts Stoner, Punk and Post-Metal. I mean, these guys drank the wrong whiskey and mixed it with the wrong drug while listening to the Clash, and then came down listening to Elvis Costello and early Queens of the Stone Age. Someone somewhere was blasting the B-52’s and the Stooges. It’s a heady mix that when mashed together is cohesive, fresh and original.” – Clean And Sober Stoner

““Goon” by IVY GARDENS. Pretty cool stuff. I like the inventiveness of it. Not something you’ll find carbon copies of. I also like the Stoner edge. Definitely worth checking out.” – Metal-Temple

“Alright, folks, if you haven’t already been swept up by Ivy Gardens, now’s the time. The Niagara, Ontario crew—masters of raw, unfiltered punk and sludge—delivered their first full-length album, Goon, back in April 2024. And let me tell you, it’s an auditory onslaught like no other… Goon is more than just a debut album; it’s a setlist Ivy Gardens fans have been craving. Since their thunderous arrival on the scene in 2021, they’ve been wreaking havoc across Canada’s east coast. And with a summer tour already in the works, this runaway train isn’t slowing down. Ready to dive in? The volume’s punishing, the intensity’s relentless, and there’s zero room to catch your breath—it’s like a panic attack in musical form. Ivy Gardens is daring you to join their world, where the mosh pit never ends, and the ringing in your ears is the only encore you’ll get. If you’re into Kyuss, Truckfighters, or Queens of the Stone Age, then Goon is about to become your new favorite album.” – Papy Jeff Metal

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Band: Ivy Gardens
Album Title: Death of Don Valley
Release Date: August 29, 2025
Label: Paper Cut Recordings

Track Listing:
1. Burn For Murder – 2:02
2. Eye Witness – 2:50
3. Burden – 3:08
4. Guiding Hand – 6:18
5. Frozen Limbs – 5:15
6. Gearth – 2:29
7. Astray – 4:56
8. Bliss – 8:59
9. Golden – 7:07
Album Length: 43:08

Album Credits:
All songs written and performed by Ivy Gardens
Produced by Ivy Gardens
Recorded and mixed by Frank Ditillio
Mastered by Cameron Lee
Album Artwork by Ivy Gardens
Death of Don Valley is Canadian Content (MAPL)

Recording and Live Lineup:
Joe Zandwyk: Drums, Vocals, Samples
Sebastian Hogg: Organ, Piano, Synth, Samples
Andrew Blackborow: Guitar, Vocals

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About The Album Artwork:

A corpse lies between the banks of the flooded Don Valley River, circa 1908.

The artwork anthropomorphizes the river itself. A river that once formed a foundation for life in the area, slowly killed until nothing but mud and toxicity remains.

About the album as a whole (LYRICALLY & MUSICALLY):

The record is about death. The unstoppable decay of oneself and the world around them.

The life and death of the Don River encapsulates this.

Track by Track (LYRICALLY & MUSICALLY)

1. BURN FOR MURDER
“I hear they burn for murder…. Well, they say it just takes a second to die.” This is a quote from Lee Harvey Oswald, hours after having successfully assassinated the President of the United States. The lyrics are as violent and impulsive as the music. Frenetic, aggressive, murderous.

2. EYE WITNESS
Pure fiction from two perspectives. One commits an act of violence. The other experiences it on the receiving end. This instrumental is incredibly intricate by our standards. This is a piece we kept cramming with ideas until it was one of the most dense pieces of music on the record.

3. BURDEN
An almost satirical take on the nihilist’s dream. Musically, Burden is perhaps the most straightforward track on the record. Quick and succinct.

4. GUIDING HAND
A song about being pushed forward by a higher power. This was the first song we wrote for the album. It is an exercise in repetition, improvisation, and variations on a theme. At the time, it was the longest song we had ever written, and it was quickly dwarfed by even bigger pieces.

5. FROZEN LIMBS
Martin Hartwell was a bush pilot in the Canadian Arctic. In 1972, his plane crashed. After 31 days, he was found alive, but only after having consumed the flesh of a passenger who didn’t make it. This track is one of the most intricate compositions on the record. It builds to perhaps the heaviest moment in our discography.

6. GEARTH
A moment of peace. Mostly improvised, relaxed, and completely instrumental.

7. ASTRAY
The song is about Sarnia’s “Chemical Valley” and the consequences of unchecked industrial pollution. Musically, Astray establishes its core rhythms and grows naturally with improvisation and variations on its themes.

8. BLISS
Our biggest arrangement to date. Ultimate encapsulation of everything we were trying to do as musicians on this record, as well as finally reaching the sound we’ve been hunting for all these years.

9. GOLDEN
Finally wrote a song about the sun exploding. Ultimate ecological destruction.

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Fun Facts – Story Angles:

1. In one of our last music videos, we filmed a very bloody and very gory murder in a shower stall with a hockey skate. Lots of fake blood, ground beef, and guts everywhere. Fake scalp covered in blood. Real horror show. We kept filming as long as nobody was around and only started cleaning the guts when we heard a bunch of kids lining up to use the change room at the local arena where we were filming.

2. At our last release show in St Catharines, I met two very young kids in the front row right before we were about to start. They were pretty pumped for the show and I told them to wear some earplugs cause this was gonna be insanely loud. Myself and Andrew both brought double the cabs we usually bring, we were absolutely deafening up there.

After the show I meet the kids again, thank them for coming out, they seemed pretty bewildered but absolutely into it. I ask them if they wore earplugs, and I don’t think either of them did. One kid asks me “when does it stop?” I think that little dudes ears were ringing like crazy. What an icon.

L-R – Andrew Blackborow (Guitar, Vocals), Joe Zandwyk (Drums, Vocals), Sebastian Hogg (Keyboards)

Photo Credit by Luka Kartveli

Ivy Gardens, the experimental sludge metal band from Niagara Falls, Canada, has announced the release of their highly anticipated new music video for the single “Burden” and their sophomore album, “Death of Don Valley”, set to drop on August 29th, 2025, via Paper Cut Recordings. The record marks a bold new chapter in the band’s sound, with more complex compositions, darker themes, and a shift into a more experimental and atmospheric direction.

Formed in the parking lot of Princess Auto, Ivy Gardens’ journey began with a mutual love for covering Rush instrumentals and an obsession with heavy, sludge-infused sound. From those humble beginnings, the band’s unique chemistry and vision have led to the creation of their most ambitious and thematically focused album yet.

“Death of Don Valley” is a concept album, exploring the themes of death, decay, and the unstoppable erosion of life and the environment. The concept is rooted in the history of the Don Valley River, a once-thriving waterway now plagued by pollution and degradation. The album’s artwork reflects this with the haunting image of a corpse between the banks of the flooded river, anthropomorphizing the water itself as it becomes a symbol of death and decay.

The material on “Death of Don Valley” was designed to be heard live, with massive stacks of amplifiers and a commitment to delivering the music in all its raw, unfiltered glory. It marks a bold new direction for Ivy Gardens; the band has no plans of slowing down. Their dedication to the project is evident in every note they play and every lyric they write as they continue to push musical boundaries and explore new sonic territories. Lyrically, the record draws from a mix of historical events, such as the tragic story of Canadian bush pilot Martin Hartwell, and fictional narratives, creating a dark and gripping atmosphere. The songs explore everything from violence, death, and survival to environmental destruction and existential dread. As the band explains:

“Death of Don Valley is the natural progression of their sound, with more complexity and a deliberate thematic structure. Musically, it marks a shift in Ivy Gardens’ approach. This album is darker, more experimental, and more intricate than our previous work on 2024’s Goon. While Goon carried a more positive, energetic vibe, this LP is more about confronting the darker aspects of life, and it reflects a deeper exploration into musical and thematic complexity.”

Ivy Gardens’ influences are vast, ranging from progressive icons like Rush, Yes, and King Crimson to sludge pioneers like EYEHATEGOD and Iron Monkey. Their sound blends elements of stoner metal, sludge, math rock, and progressive rock, creating an unpredictable listening experience that takes the listener through a series of emotional and sonic landscapes.

Fans of Ivy Gardens can expect an intense live performance soon, as the band does plan to tour in support of the new album this coming September. Stay tuned for dates to be announced, and Ivy Gardens are bringing their thunderous sound to stages nationwide. Expect a live show that will test the limits of your ears and your emotions.

“Death of Don Valley” (out August 29th) is available for pre-order at https://ivygardens.bandcamp.com/

Discography:
2022 – Ivy Gardens – EP
2022 – Walk Like an Egyptian (single)
2024 – Goon – LP
2025 – Death of Don Valley – LP

Tours and Festivals:
2024 – NXNE – Toronto, ON
2025 – Rhune Mountain Festival, Dunnville, ON

0 EPK – CHAKA – It’s Not Human (single) (2025)

June 15, 2025
by Asher
· CHAKA · EPKs

EPK – CHAKA – It’s Not Human (single) (2025)

Publicist – Jon Asher – jon[@]ashermediarelations[.]com

“We believe our single ‘It’s Not Human’ will be well-received since it is an extension of our earlier heavy music, and it will be on our first full-length album. When composing, we have really made a point to allow the new songs a chance to breathe as they were being coaxed out of their fledgling status. We hope that the listeners of this single will have a fun, cathartic, and head-banging experience! We always try to make the songs as heavy, groovy, and airtight as possible.” – Mark Sokoll – Bass, Vocals – CHAKA

For fans of Carnivore, Venom, Celtic Frost, Motorhead, Voivod

Single Title: It’s Not Human (2:47) (off forthcoming album Amplifying the Past LP)
Release Date: 06/06/25
Label: Seven Percent Solution
Distribution: CD Baby

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“CHAKA unleashes the primal force of the past with a single “It’s Not Human.”… Hardly any other underground thrash formation from New York has fought for its place in the metal underground as uncompromisingly as CHAKA. Since the rough debut EP „Neanderthal Tales“ (2019) the quartet plows constantly through the clubs of Queens, Brooklyn and Long Island. Creative Motor is bassist and singer Mark Sokoll, flanked by guitar heavy workers Frank Principe, Drum Berserker Mike Caldarella and studio all-rounders Ty Canon from Ireland. Their trademark: guitars like volcanic rock, drums like thunderous avalanches and a bass that makes every heater vibrate.” – Blattturbo

“If “Musth” and “Mister Brink” are any indication, ‘Amplifying the Past’ will not only stand alongside the genre’s greats — it may very well cast a shadow over them. It’s a work born of memory but aimed at the future, one boot planted in the blood-soaked soil of history, the other crashing down with glorious defiance. CHAKA isn’t just amplifying the past — they’re weaponizing it! – Jam Sphere

Neanderthal Tales EP Reviews 2020:

“To my understanding, this is a side project of Darkside (NYC) bassist Mark Sokoll , and it is quite the shock to the system. While elements of Doom and Hardcore rear their heads throughout this rather short 4 song EP, the main strain showing glaring prominance is the sludgy, speaker fraying, super amped metal that raises the eyebrows & the adreneline for sure.” – Guillotine Zine

“The sludgy bass sounds of “Flak” give it a dirty raw sound that combines the sounds of Motorhead with Crowbar and Cro-Mags to create a blood-and-thunder affair, with Sokoll playing the Cave Man throughout and it is beer-drinking good fun. The uptempo drive of the track keeps the fires burning and the sonics are less primitive than meet the eye (ear)… A couple of neat tempo shifts move from a slower Doom-laden sound to a raw, Hardcore-Punk one with a fuzzy bass sound that is abrasive enough to be on a Black Metal album.” – Metal Noise

“I read the lyrics to the songs before I actually listened to the music, and was astonished at just how well-written the content was on that end… Mark Sokoll’s lyrics are witty, thoughtful, and clever… CHAKA has several strong components going for them beyond the theme. Mark Sokoll’s vocal performance is passionate and vibrant…The bass-heavy tones are refreshing for the genre. CHAKA rinsed away my skepticism and misgivings. Neanderthal Tales is more than anything else, proof that originality can still be found in the foundational Metal genres.” – Contaminated Tones

“Ladies and gentlemen the year is 2020 and with the new year comes the birth of the latest rock sub-genre…. CAVE METAL! Mark Sokoll… bassist of Darkside NYC (as well as the highly-underrated Terminal Confusion from way back in the day) is the main brain behind this four0song, ten minute debut which has its share of backstories… “Flak” leads off (check out the video) with a fuzzy bass and some straight outta da cave styled vocals. With so many styles of metal out there to be had cave metal is not that bad of a self-description to be honest with you. What I like about “Neanderthal Tales”is that these songs mix shit up… there is no singular pattern that they stick to. Just for that this EP gets some bonus points.” – In Effect Hardcore Magazine

Single Title: It’s Not Human (2:47) (off forthcoming album Amplifying the Past LP)
Release Date: 06/06/25
Label: Seven Percent Solution
Distribution: CD Baby

Single Recording Credits:
• All songs performed by: CHAKA
• All songs written by: CHAKA
• Produced by: CHAKA
• Mixed by: Ty Canon
• Mastered by: Ty Canon
• Single Artwork by: Moises Hellforge from Brazil

Recording Lineup:
Ty Canon – Guitar
Frank Principe – Guitar
Mike Caldarella – Drums
Mark Sokoll – Bass, Vocals

Live Lineup:
Frank Principe – Guitar
Mike Caldarella – Drums
Mark Sokoll – Bass, Vocals

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Describe The Single Artwork:
For our It’s Not Human single, the artwork features two primitive axe/bone weapons crossed with a gruesome DNA strand double helix down the center, resembling a hideous spinal cord, which sits behind two rotting, opposing skulls: one modern and the other primitive, with our logo displayed above.

About the single (LYRICALLY & MUSICALLY):
For our It’s Not Human single, the song is about the archeological discovery of an ancient tooth originally thought to come from a human being. It was a Neanderthal tooth, and it allowed scientists to map the Neanderthal genome and ultimately, ours. It also covers the important discovery of the DNA double helix by Drs Watson and Crick. Musically, it is a juggernaut due to its abrupt start and quick pace. The rhythm undulates, becomes dreamy, and ultimately returns to being Thrashy.

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BAND STORY ANGLES / FUN FACTS:

1. Guitarist Ty Canon lives in Ireland, while drummer Mike C. lives in NJ. Guitarist Frank P. lives on Long Island, NY, and bassist and vocalist Mark Sokoll lives in Queens, NY.

2. All of the members of CHAKA are from a Queens neighborhood called Auburndale in Flushing. We have known each other for 40+ years!

3. Drummer Mike C. recorded one of the upcoming songs for the Amplifying the Past LP without any musical reference!!

L-R – Mike Caldarella (Drums), Mark Sokoll (Bass & Vocals), Frank Principe (Guitar)

NYC heavy trio CHAKA has dropped their thunderous new single “It’s Not Human”, a primal assault of groove and aggression that marks the first release from their upcoming debut full-length album, “Amplifying the Past”, due out later this year.

Formed as a studio project and now evolved into a live sonic force, CHAKA has deep roots in Queens’ metal and hardcore scene. Founding bassist and vocalist Mark Sokoll, a veteran of bands like Darkside NYC and Terminal Confusion, is joined by longtime friends Mike C. (ex-White Trash) on drums and Frank P. (Lost Cause) on guitar. The band also collaborates remotely with Ireland-based guitarist Ty Canon, a childhood friend whose riffs continue to shape their recordings.

Lyrically, “It’s Not Human” presents a sonic excavation. The song delves into the real-life discovery of a Neanderthal tooth, a pivotal moment in tracing the human genome.

“It’s about evolution, science, and ancient ancestry,” says Sokoll. “We’ve always drawn inspiration from human origins, military history, and authors like Arthur C. Clarke and Carl Sagan.”

Musically, the track is a relentless juggernaut—starting abruptly, rushing forward with thrash intensity, then turning dreamy before returning to a pummeling close.

The single’s artwork visually echoes this evolutionary theme, featuring crossed primitive weapons behind a grotesque DNA helix, flanked by dueling skulls—one ancient, one modern.

Set for release later this year, “Amplifying the Past” represents CHAKA’s most dynamic and collaborative work to date.

“This record expands on our earlier sound but lets the songs breathe more. We want listeners to feel like they’ve been on a cathartic, headbanging ride,” adds Sokoll.

The band’s style is best described in five words: Primal. Loud. Heavy. Aggressive. Groovy. Drawing on influences like Black Sabbath, Carnivore, Motorhead, and Celtic Frost, CHAKA delivers raw, no-frills metal with a scientific twist.

On stage, CHAKA amplifies their sound even further. Fans can expect not just volume, but presence.

“We’re a loud trio—maybe even louder than four or five-piece bands. We’re all in our 50s, but we don’t hold back.”

Despite geographical distance—band members live in New York, New Jersey, and Ireland—CHAKA thrives on modern file-sharing and old-school chemistry as the trio has known each other for over 40 years. That connection fuels their sound.

More singles and videos will follow as the band finalizes the LP. CHAKA also promises future EPs and extended releases, all staying true to their mission: making music that’s as thoughtful as it is heavy.

Discography:
2025 – It’s Not Human – single (in anticipation of the Amplifying the Past LP)
2024 – Musth – single
2021 – Mister Brink – Hallowe’en video/single
2019 – Neanderthal Tales – EP

Shared Stage with: Possessed, Hirax, and Obituary

Tours and Festivals:
2018 – Leperfest – Ypres, Belgium

0 EPK – Eternal Drak – The Warrior Order (2025)

June 13, 2025
by Asher
· EPKs · Eternal Drak · Uncategorized

EPK – Eternal Drak – The Warrior Order (2025)

Publicist – Jon Asher – jon[@]ashermediarelations[.]com

“This EP serves as a heartfelt homage to our journey, a way to honor the memories we’ve created and express our immense gratitude to the fans who have stood by us through the years. By revisiting and reimagining these older tracks, we aim to rekindle the connection with our long-time listeners while simultaneously inviting new fans to discover and embrace our unique sound. “The Warrior Order” aims to bridge the gap between old-school metal and modern sounds, blending the raw, nostalgic vibes of classic metal with the refined production and innovation of contemporary music. By doing so, the album seeks to evoke powerful memories and untold stories from the past while offering a renewed, enriched auditory experience that resonates with both long-time metal enthusiasts and newer audiences. We hope to strike a balance that not only honors the genre’s roots but also pushes its boundaries forward.” – Eternal Drak

Band: Eternal Drak
EP Title: The Warrior Order
Release Date: July 17, 2025
Label: FirstWave Canada

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“A fine collection from the masters of ancient evil” – Metal Noise (The Warrior Order – 2025)

“There’s evil intent at the start of next song “Eternal Drak” something I’d expect as it’s named after the band. Again, the trio are delving into themes of dark forces and mythical battles, but they have upped the intensity on this one as it sounds more powerful. It’s hard not to imagine a town or castle besieged by dragon’s fire and the hellish earth that awaits any survivors.” – The Razor’s Edge (The Warrior Order – 2025)

“another great sounding recording from Eternal Drak and if you are a fan of blackened thrash metal, you should check out this ep. RECOMMENDED TRACKS INCLUDE “Oda A La Luna” and “La Nueva Orden”. 8 out of 10.” – Bringer of Death Zine (The Warrior Order – 2025)

“„Eternal Drak“ is a small grab bag. Here they use different tempos that fit into the fast, rhythmic sound. With an extremely thrashy and vocally aggressive sound, you always have to be prepared for changing rhythms and moods. An extremely brutal melody blows with us „La nueva Order“ counter. At the end of the „EP“ they take a Metallica song from the album „Master of Puppets“ before. „Leper Messiah“ rewound in a radical version. Just as the album title says: they implement the warrior code musically.” – Hellfire Magazin (The Warrior Order – 2025)

“The Warrior Order is a real surprise and shows a completely new face of ETERNAL DRAK,” – PowerMetal.de (The Warrior Order – 2025)

““Oda A La Luna” sees a powerful drum at the beginning, before the rhythm settles in this dark ode. The lyrical theme is one of rebellion and ritual, and you can feel the intensity with each slap on the snare. The middle section has a sudden tempo change, with a riff that will get your head moving and the intensity follows through.” – The Razor’s Edge (The Warrior Order – 2025)

“This is a pretty good EP that’s got plenty of thrashy riffs, grooves and black metal harmonies and tremolos, give this a spin. ” – Drako’s Metal Reviews (The Warrior Order – 2025)

“”Drak Metal” is an excellent album, a deserving addition to any metalhead’s collection. With a few specific focuses here and there, the combination of Black and Thrash and Groove metals is done with near perfect balance, so there should be a wide appeal. ” – Metal Temple (2024 – Imprisoned Souls)

“the album comes with a sharp and grim expression set to an appropriately dark mood and mode, and in terms of mood and atmosphere this album did remind me ever so slightly of Celtic Frost, even if the music itself is rather different. That being said, I would imagine that quite a few thrash metal fans that also enjoy a little bit extreme metal as well as a band like aforementioned Celtic Frost would feel right at home with the landscapes explored on this production.” – The Viking in the Wilderness (2024 – Imprisoned Souls)

“‘Drak Metal’ is actually very enjoyable… it has a supreme raw quality to it which gives the album a sense honest integrity that just means that the listener cannot get enough of it, that passion is infectious and is more than enough to say, more of the same guys… more of the same.” – Metal Digest (2021 – Drak Metal)

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Band: Eternal Drak
EP Title: The Warrior Order
Release Date: July 17, 2025
Label: FirstWave Canada

Track Listing:
1. Oda a la luna – 4:22
2. Contra Viento – 5:16
3. Eternal Drak – 5:50
4. La Nueva Orden – 5:51
5. Leper Messiah (Cover) – 5:29
EP Length: 26:48

EP Recording Credits:
• Tracks 1-4 performed by: Eternal Drak
• Written by: Andres Martinez
• Metallica Cover – Leper Messiah
Written by James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich
• Performed by: Eternal Drak
• All songs produced by: Andres Martinez
• All songs mixed by: Andres Martinez
• All songs mastered by: Andres Martinez
• EP Artwork by: FirstWave Canada
• SOCAN member
• Canadian Content (MAPL)Album and Live Band Line Up:
Eternal Drak Line Up 2025
Andres Martinez (Drakar) – Vocals, Guitar
Mike Amyot – Guitar
Patrick Auger (PPO) – Drums

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About The Album Artwork:

The album represents a complete revitalization of the band’s debut, breathing new life into its legacy with four tracks meticulously re-recorded from scratch. This bold step not only enhances the sonic quality but also redefines the essence of the original work for contemporary audiences. The iconic cover art, an integral part of the album’s identity, has also undergone a transformation. The 2002 design has been entirely digitalized, showcasing a masterful depiction of Lucifer commanding his troops into battle. This striking visual not only complements the album’s themes of struggle and supernatural horror but also serves as a symbol of the band’s unyielding evolution and creative ambition.

About the album as a whole (LYRICALLY & MUSICALLY):

This album bridges two distinct eras in the journey of Eternal Drak: the energetic creativity of the 1990s and the refined artistry of the present day. It represents a homage to the band’s origins, where young minds passionately crafted what is now revered as old-school metal. These early works have been revisited and revitalized, bringing their raw spirit into the modern soundscape with enhanced production quality that respects the authenticity of the era while ensuring it resonates with contemporary audiences. Through meticulously re-recording the four original tracks, Eternal Drak breathes new life into their debut, preserving the integrity of black thrash metal while making it accessible to a new generation of listeners. To complement this effort, the album includes a cover of one of the most iconic and influential bands in metal history, serving as both a tribute and a testament to the enduring inspiration these legends have provided. This project encapsulates the band’s unwavering dedication to their craft, blending nostalgia with innovation to create a sound that is timeless yet refreshingly current.

Track By Track:

1. Oda A La Luna
“Oda a la Luna” is a dark ode. The song narrates the exile of celestial beings who, through magic and sacrifice, were banished to a neutral dimension. It delves into themes of paganism, immortality, and the essence of evil inherited by humanity. The lyrics weave a tale of rebellion, ritual, and the eternal connection to the moon as a symbol of power and transcendence. It’s a powerful anthem that combines the relentless energy of black metal with haunting imagery of supernatural struggle and legacy.

2. Contra Viento
“Contra Viento” is a fierce and evocative. The song explores themes of rebellion against religious oppression, the fall of institutions, and the dark forces that reign over humanity. Through chilling imagery of witches, druids, and cursed thrones, the lyrics paint a world consumed by shadows and cruelty. The track’s relentless energy and visceral narrative reflect a mythical struggle against conformity, highlighting the destructive yet liberating power of chaos and darkness. This song includes a lot of orchestral instrumentation and clean vocals.

3. Eternal Drak
“Eternal Drak” is a powerful thrash black metal song. delves into themes of eternal life, dark forces, and mythical battles. The lyrics narrate a cosmic struggle where beings like witches and spirits unite under the power of “ReficuL,” a malevolent entity seeking dominion. The song conjures vivid imagery of blood-soaked rituals, fallen orders, and the eternal flame of life purified from evil. With relentless energy and haunting narratives, “Eternal Drak” captures a tale of chaos and dominance, echoing the raw and unyielding essence of the genre itself.

4. La Nueva Orden
“La Nueva Orden” explores themes of transformation, power, and the rejection of traditional deities. The lyrics depict a narrative where warriors rise against supernatural forces, embracing a new era of enlightenment and dominance. Through vivid imagery, the song portrays a world where individuals transcend ancestral beliefs, mastering both the elements and their own mental strength to create a harmonious existence devoid of divine intervention. The battle against oppressive forces, symbolized by “HavoheJ,” showcases an unrelenting quest for freedom and control over destiny. With its fusion of mysticism and rebellion, the song captures the essence of bridging science and magic, pushing boundaries, and challenging the constraints imposed by ancient traditions. “La Nueva Orden” stands as a compelling declaration of evolution and resistance. Musically, the song moves in a fairly flamenco harmony and in the middle, an interlude of acoustic guitars gives it depth.

5. Leper Messiah
This is a powerful reimagining of Metallica’s legendary song, crafted to honor the iconic energy of the original while seamlessly incorporating the intense and unique style of Eternal Drak. With vocals adapted to resonate with the band’s distinctive sound, this cover transforms the classic track into an electrifying experience that fans of Metallica and Eternal Drak alike will find unforgettable. A bold experiment worth every listen.

Eternal Drak’s current lineup – Left, Andres Martinez “Drakar” (Vocal/Guitar) – Center, Patrick Auger “PPO”(Drum) – Right, Mike Amyot (Guitar)

Photo credit: Caroline Juneau

Eternal Drak is a band based in Quebec, Canada, but originally formed in Latin America during the 1990s. Thrash Black Metal has always defined their core sound, though it has evolved over time with various influences enriching their musical style. Thematically, their lyrics delve into darkness, both human and inhuman, expressed diversely across their seven official releases. They are currently signed with the Canadian label FirstWave.

In 1997, the Martínez brothers—Drakar and Warhammer—laid the foundation for Eternal Drak at the ages of 17 and 15, respectively. The following year, rhythm guitarist Oscar Layton (Reijav) joined the band.

In the early 2000s, Eternal Drak achieved recognition by winning the City TV network award for Best Metal Video with their song “Eternal Drak.”

Their first EP, *La Resurrección de la Orden Guerrera*, was released in 2002, followed by their first full-length album, *Eternal Drak*, which was recorded in 2005 but officially released in 2012.

In 2007, the band disbanded temporarily.

In 2020, the band regrouped in Quebec, Canada, with Drakar, Warmessiah, and Reijav joining forces to create the album *The Past is Gone, A New One is Coming*. This album was dedicated to the memory of Eduardo Martínez (Warhammer), the band’s co-founder, eternal drummer, and beloved friend.

In 2021, the band released their third full-length album, *Drak Metal*, featuring 12 original tracks and one cover. That same year, the lineup was restructured with the addition of drummer Juan Francisco Avella. They also signed a contract with the Italian label Wormhole Death for the physical release of *Drak Metal*.

In 2022, Eternal Drak released their fourth studio album, *Shadow Storm*, accompanied by the music video *Hide Your Madness*, filmed on Orleans Island in Quebec, Canada.

In 2023, the band released their second EP, *Interdimensional War of Satan*, which includes five tracks.

In 2024, they released their fifth full-length album, *Imprisoned Souls*, featuring 10 tracks. The lineup was further strengthened with the addition of Mike Amyot (lead guitar) and Patrick Auger (drums).

In 2025, the band will release *The Warrior Order*, a complete reimagining of their 2022 debut EP “La Resurreccion De La Orden Guerrera”. This newly recorded EP pays respectful homage to their origins while presenting a modernized sound.

Today, Eternal Drak continues to thrive, staying true to its name by delivering powerful riffs, thunderous drums, and commanding vocals. With more metal, melody, and harmony than ever before, the band remains as dynamic and determined as ever.

Discography:
2025 – The Warrior Order – EP
2024 – Imprisoned Souls – LP
2023 – Interdimensional War Of Satan – EP
2022 – Shadow Storm – LP
2021 – Drak Metal – LP
2021 – My God Is The Sun – Single
2020 – Lets Get Rude – Single
2020 – The True Meaning Of Life – Single
2020 – The Past Is Gone, A New One Is Coming – LP
2012 – Eternal Drak – LP
2002 – La Resurreccion De La Orden Guerrera – EP

Shared Stage with: Inquisition, La Corriveau, Lancaster

0 EPK – DOLL – Better Days, Better Times (2025)

June 11, 2025
by Asher
· DOLL · EPKs

EPK – DOLL – Better Days, Better Times (2025)

Publicist – Jon Asher – jon[@]ashermediarelaitons[.]com

“This release marks a shift—more collaborators, new instruments, fresh energy running through the tracks. We’ve moved beyond the borders of the last two records, drawn from new experiences, and let the songs grow without constraint. It’s more honest, more personal. Still dark. Still unmistakably Doll. Just with a few more layers in the songs. With this album, we wanted to pull listeners in closer to what’s top of mind to us, our values, our experiences. It’s not just something to hear; it’s something to sit and listen to. It’s less about the volume this time, more about the weight behind the lyrics.” – DOLL

Band: Doll
Album Title: Better Days, Different Times
Release Date: July 18, 2025
Label: Self-Release

For fans of SoftCult, Amyl and the Sniffers, Scowl, Nobro, The Pretty Reckless

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“#1 Doll – Zach’s Picks of the Week – July 7 – 12, 2025 – Canadian Beats

“In one of the best comeback stories in music in 2025, Canadian Alt-Rock duo DOLL will release their first new collection of material since 2011’s The Ragdoll Diaries… In addition to five slamming originals, DOLL chips in an inspired take on the Deep Purple classic rock anthem – “Smoke On the Water!” “- Ghost Cult Magazine

“Doll sharpens their grit with new muscle and melody. Their return after more than a decade is not a nostalgia trip but a rebirth. The Ottawa band’s forthcoming EP Better Days, Different Times (July 18th) expands their core formula of raw energy and no-frills honesty by inviting new players and broader sonic choices into the mix. But even with cello flourishes and genre jumps, their identity remains firmly intact.” – Amplify The Noise

“The new track ‘Shark Bait’ from Doll is a blast! The world has been celebrating the 50th anniversary of “JAWS” and now we have a brand new punk-fueled bite in the pants to go along with all of the bloody hoopla. ‘Shark Bait’ is basically straight ahead hardcore riffage with razor sharp teeth, fun lyrics and a precursor to their new EP, ‘Better Days, Different Times’ set for a July 18th release. Catch it on your Home for the Best New Rock… W-J-O-EEEE” – WJOE – Findlay’s Home for Rock & Roll

“DOLL has returned as potent and as impressive as they were before but with greater impact we suggest, Better Days, Better Times quite simply a must exploration for punk and feral rock hearts.” – The Ring Master Review

“Christina Kasper’s changeable voice is impressive.” – Keep On Rocking

“‘Bleeding’ is a colourful mixture of Hard and Alternative Rock, paired with influences from Punk and Gothic, in a very melancholic sounding melody. The powerful voice of singer Christina Kasper dominates like a siren. ” – Metal Heads Forever Magazine

“The Rag Doll Diaries” is the story of a road weary/world weary band with so much to say and share. Its the combination on heartache and despair offered with a hand meant for holding. In other words here is real music for the real world.” – Heavy Metal Time Machine (2013 – The Ragdoll Diaries)

“Doll was conceived as a bridge between punk and rock, a bridge that was fulfilled in the early ’90s by bands like Nirvana and the mid-’90s by Foo Fighters… A good punk band doesn’t write about the joys of picking daisies and Doll is no exception.” – The Whig Standard (Kingston, ON) (2013)

“Doll provides a missing link between punk and rock.” – The Intelligencer (Belleville, ON) (2013)

“The four-piece are definitely reminiscent of the grunge era and have provided a concise four-word biography of the band: “Rock N’ Fucking Roll.” – Exclaim! (2011 – The Ragdoll Diaries)
“One of the most striking aspects of Inside The Dollhouse, after Christina’s whiskey-and-hell voice, is a fictional character by the name of Sally created to carry the songs. A concept completely unexpected given the band’s twentysomething youth, immediately reminiscent of Alice Cooper’s infamous character Steven, introduced on Welcome To My Nightmare in 1975.” – Bravewords (2010 – Inside the Dollhouse)

“The debut from Ottawa’s Doll caught me instantly like a fish on a hook. This is serious music. Dark, intense and magnetic, this is the kind of gritty ’90s grunge that doesn’t fuck around. Fronted by the vocally vicious Christina Kasper, Doll recall an angry and confused era of music devoid of pop but not catchiness. Kasper howls in the vein of Courtney Love and Brodi Dalle, and while the lyrics are simple and not exactly fresh, they are impacting. Songs like “Perfect” deal with trying to live up to society’s standards, while “Sally Lost Her Shoelaces” and “Daddy’s Little Girl” deal with hurt, confusion and heroin against a backdrop of chunky guitars, assaulting drums and badass attitude. Julie-Anne Madore’s backing vocals add a whispered, haunting feel to this record. If the dirty rock’n’roll alone doesn’t reel you in, nothing will.” – Exclaim (2009 – Inside the Dollhouse)

Band: Doll
Album Title: Better Days, Different Times
Release Date: July 18, 2025

Track Listing:
1. Bleeding – 4:32
2. Shark Bait – 3:07
3. Smoke on the Water – 4:26
4. Scene Dream – 4:28
5. Ends Like This – 3:24
6. Goodbye – 3:27
Album Length: 23:29

Album Credits:
All songs performed by: Doll
All songs written by: Doll
Produced by: Josh Hart, Jason Jaknunas
Mixed by: Josh Hart
Mastered by: Josh Hart
Album Artwork by: Mark KiddAlbum Lineup
Guitar: Pete Kasper
Guitar, Vocals, Bass: Christina
Drums: Chris Zimmerman – Smoke on the Water,
Josh Hart – All the Rest
Cello: Raphael Weinroth-Browne
Keys: Phil Campbell
Extra Guitars : Athanasios Maravelis

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About The Album Artwork:

The album’s artwork is a throwback to our childhood, and how BMX was king, and really focusing on what really matters, it is having fun, exploring, living life in real time, not on devices. We wanted to highlight that raw emotion with the bike under the street light, slightly ominous and mysterious.

About the album as a whole (LYRICALLY & MUSICALLY):

The new album takes you on a journey of different musical genres that we enjoy.

Track by Track (LYRICALLY & MUSICALLY):

1. Bleeding
The Bleeding is one that came out of watching True Detective, actually, the last season, we were huge fans of the season, and that influenced us lyrics and musically, making it that darker feel but with lots of single notes, which is more than we used to ever do before. There is homage to the trauma that the Indigenous People went through in Canada.

2. Shark Bait
Shark Bait was a fun some that we had come up with after playing around with some hardcore style riffing and our passion for the Jaws movies. We have always had a strong attraction to shark movies, and when Pete came up with the riff for the chorus, it just felt so right with the “Shark Bait” vocals, everything was clicking, and we just went for it.

3. Smoke on the Water
We have always done a cover version with each release of Doll, with White Wedding ,and JailBreak,

Smoke was another one that came together really quickly. We loved the original, but after seeing all the fires and the destruction that happened in 2024, there was this need to bring forward our own version of the song. We updated the lyrics to match how the disasters had made us feel, and musically, we have always wanted to try a more doom-inspired vibe, and this song let us express ourselves in a raw and emotional way.

4. Scene Dream
I think every band has been here, where the goal is always the same: to become “big”, whatever that means or looks like to you and whatever music you’re playing. As much as everyone says that they are playing for fun, there is always that hope that you “make it” and connect with an audience, if that means playing to 10 people to some or playing arenas to others. As much as we are playing for ourselves, the feeling you feel that someone else wants to hear your songs is amazing. This song talks to the pressures of others in the pursuit of making it in your scene.

5. Ends Like This
This song is about the struggles of being in a relationship. No matter how hard you try, and the promises made on both sides, sometimes all of that is moot, and nothing you do can prepare you for the outcome.

6. Goodbye
This is a personal song for Christina about losing her mom early on in life, with her own personal battles with pain. The hope is that this one may help others who may be going through similar circumstances.

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Fun Facts:

1. Christina and Pete are married.

2. They have been supporting and pioneering the Ottawa local scene by organizing shows in the area for over 20 years.

3. On tour, we always had hot and sour soup in every city.

4. Our first out of town runs of shows, we didn’t even have a band van, which we ended up finding late night the day before, purchased off someone privately, and had insured and plated the next morning before driving off in our amazing two tone brown GMC Safari (RIP), the best van ever created.

5. Everyone was a huge fan of Sonic Youth

After a long hiatus, Doll is back from the dead with a new album.

Doll is a Canadian alternative rock band from Ottawa, Ontario.

In 2009, Doll released their first album, Inside The Dollhouse. A video was also filmed for “Daddy’s Little Girl”, their first single, which played on MuchMusic and MusiquePlus. A second video was created for their second single, “Sally Lost Her Shoelaces”. Madore left the band a few years after,r and Paquette returned in her place.

In 2011, they released their second album, The Ragdoll Diaries.[5][6] Two singles/videos came out of this: “FMO” and “Youth of Today, Hope for Tomorrow”. This album was not only released in CD format, but also on vinyl. Soon after, Alex Vance was recruited to fill the bass position.[7]

Doll has been opening support for Three Days Grace, Lacuna Coil,[8] Danko Jones, Spinnerette, Protest the Hero, Band of Skulls, Anvil, Halestorm, SNFU, Hanzel Und Gretyl, Civet, The Creepshow, Die Mannequin, and many more.

Discography:
2025 – Better Days, Different Times
2011 – The Ragdoll Diaries
2009 – Inside the Dollhouse

Tours and Festivals:
2011 – Ottawa Bluesfest
2011 – IndieWeek
2011 – NXNE
2011 – Montebello Rockfest

0 EPK – Tangents – Molt (2025)

June 2, 2025
by Asher
· EPKs · Tangents

EPK – Tangents – Molt (2025)

Publicist – Jon Asher – jon[@]ashermediarelations[.]com

“So stoked and proud to release Molt. So much growth, so much change, evolution. Yet somehow we make it all make sense. Definitely our most focused effort, we present to you a multitude of experiences in a compact timeframe. This offering allowed us to open and embrace challenges and overcome the obstacles that come with growth” – Tangents

For Fans of The Dillinger Escape Plan, Every Time I Die, Dog Fashion Disco, Mr Bungle, Better Lovers

Band: Tangents:
EP Title: Molt
Release Date: April 11, 2025
Label: Self-Release

All Links: https://linktr.ee/Tangents705

Facebook.com/TangentsBand705 | Instagram.com/tangentsofficial

Tangents1.bandcamp.com | Spotify

“If you can imagine a Mike Patton era Faith No More creating bombastic and dramatic metal with a bit of a grunge undercurrent, then that may perhaps be a little bit of an indication about the type of music you will find on this EP. And if that notion strikes you as an intriguing one, chances are good for you to find this EP to be a rewarding one I’d suspect.” – The Viking in the Wilderness

Tangents – “No Dragons, No Lasers, Just LobsTour”
July 16 – Montreal, QC – Bar L’Hemisphere Gauche
July 18 – Windsor, NS – (Gutterfest) – Avon Valley Lanes
July 19 – Yarmouth, NS – The Red Knight
July 20 – Halifax, NS – Gus’ Pub
July 22 – Woodstock, NB – Monteith Manor
July 23 – Bathurst, NB – Bathurst Southside Lounge
July 24 – One Star Studio (secret location)
July 25 – Edmundston, NB – Microbrasserie Ateepic
July 26 – Lachute, QC – Royal Canadian Legion

Band: Tangents:
EP Title: Molt
Release Date: April 11, 2025
Label: Self-Release

Track Listing:
1. Assimilate (3:01)
2. Mass Delusion (3:33)
3. Forge (3:59)
EP Length: 10:34

EP Recording Credits:
• All songs performed by: Tangents
• All songs written by: Tangents
• Produced by: Chris Dimas
• Mixed by: Chris Dimas
• Mastered by: Chris Dimas
• Album Artwork by: Marc Lambert
• Canadian Content (MAPL)

EP Band Line Up:
Will Tennant – Guitars/Backing vocals
Nathan Chechock – Guitars/Backing Vocals
Rob Barnes – Bass
Matt Williams – Vocals/effects/samples
Simon Oliver – Drums/Backing Vocals

Discography:
2025 – Molt – EP
2022 -Tangents – EP
2020 – Sit Still – EP
2019 – Untitled – EP

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About EP Album Artwork

We wanted the artwork to reflect where we were as a band and what was happening to our band at the time. The album is about growth, rebirth, change……

Naturally, the human vs AI/computer was a good reflection of the current times,

About the EP as a whole (LYRICALLY & MUSICALLY):

It’s definitely the best representation of our true selves. The themes are very broad and open-ended.. You could, in theory, write entire catalogues of music around any one of them, so it leaves a ton of possibilities open for future directions we could take. The EP has recorded appearances from every member who had been in Tangents during the self-titled period as well as the current era. This informed the idea of calling the record “Molt”. It fits lyrically as well because each song explores a different instance of major change. Technology, political, and personal change.

Track by Track (LYRICALLY & MUSICALLY):

1. Assimilate
Lyrically, we decided to go with themes that are likely to be commonly felt by many people of the current generation and are yet deeply personal at the same time. Assimilate depicts the fears of someone like a Ted Kazinski kind of character who sees the evolution of technology as an inherent existential threat to humanity. The song takes themes from the movie Terminator 2 and compares them to the modern state of AI and the dark predictions for the near future.\

2. Mass Delusion
Mass Delusion takes inspiration from the story by George Orwell called 1984. It presents themes like displeasure with the state of the current political climate and the importance of keeping a conscious and critically thinking mind. The tune sends the message that one shouldn’t believe everything they hear, especially when it comes to mass media.

3. Forge
Forge is a much more personal and frankly angry song that comes from a place of feeling rented and undervalued as a human being. It paints a picture of the moment when after a long build up of frustration and deep sorrow the damn finally breaks and the feeling evolves into all out rage. Matt says, “ It was a dark period in my life. I had suffered several major personal losses, the biggest of which was losing my father to brain cancer. I had thrust myself into Deejaying weddings full time, but that also came with the feeling like I was everyone’s dancing monkey. I only got to entertain people who have these seemingly beautiful lives, which I just watched from the outside rather than ever getting to be a part of. I had also been through not one but two major break-ups, which had kinda crushed the only light I had seen at the end of the tunnel. Forge is about having to scratch and claw my way out of that hole of depression and dealing with the trials of gaining back my happiness. It’s not directed towards a person, but more so the force in life that seemed to keep slinging so much mud at me during that period. This song is for those who have faced major traumas and to let them know they AREN’T alone.”

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Fun Facts:

1. On tour through Ontario, we were once gifted a huge jar of pickled turnips. Every show, we encouraged people to drink out of it, and it became a viral thing. Haha,h it got stolen and there was a worldwide manhunt for the jar of turnips.

2. Tangents live by the motto “No dragons, no lasers,” which basically means nothing fancy, just give us electricity and we can play our stuff. No relying on gizmos and gadgets

3. Each member of the band is a multi-instrumentalist, which leads to really interesting ideas coming from all of the instruments

L-R – Will Tennant – Guitars/Backing vocals, Nathan Chechock- Guitars/Backing Vocals, Rob Barnes- Bass, Matt Williams – Vocals/effects/samples, Simon Oliver- Drums/Backing Vocals

Photo Credit – Rory P

Formed simply as a creative outlet in which there are no rules, Orillia, ON’s TANGENTS plays music with the idea of no constraints, no guidelines, and producing what they would want to hear. With elements of mathcore, prog, and post-hardcore, Tangents take you on a brutally honest journey with nothing to hide during an emotional and heavy 10 minutes on their latest EP, “Molt,” released on April 11, 2025. The band’s goal is to keep the listener on their toes, along with themselves as musicians. Keeping things fresh and ever evolving.

“For this EP, we decided on the 3 songs simply to capture that specific moment in time. I feel that there’s always room for growth, so we constantly keep evolving, we’re stoked and proud to release Molt. With our most focused effort, we present to fans a multitude of experiences in a compact timeframe. This offering allowed us to open and embrace challenges and overcome the obstacles that come with growth,” adds guitarist Will Tennant.

Taking pride that each member of the band is a multi-instrumentalist, Tangents are a bare bones heavy band, and at the end of the day, they get up there and rock out live to showcase very visceral songs. It’s a roller coaster of emotions throughout each track.

Recommended for fans of avant-garde mathy metal and bands such as The Dillinger Escape Plan, Mr Bungle, Every Time I Die, Dog Fashion Disco, and Better Lovers.

Bandcamp – https://tangents1.bandcamp.com

Spotify – https://spoti.fi/4knPCPM

YouTube – https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lbqCZ2QJmSbse8S6jgMo8AsgHKm7Gx-H0

Tangents live by the motto “No dragons, no Lasers,” which basically means nothing fancy, just give them electricity and they can play their tunes! No relying on gizmos and gadgets. Check them out live on the “No Dragons, No Lasers, Just LobsTour”.

Shared Stage with:
Cancer Bats, Comeback Kid, Teeth, Auras, Dog Fashion Disco, Captured!By Robots

Tour and Festivals:
Hundreds of Ontario Shows
2022- East Coast Tour
2023- Ontario Tour
2025- Ontario Tour
2025- East Coast Tour

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