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"As the Walls Close In" by THE SILCENCE INDUSTRY is the first in a series of digital 7-inch releases

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  Van Muylem    11 december 2023

"As the Walls Close In" is the first in a series of digital 7-inch releases featuring new music from The Silence Industry. The title track is a bass guitar driven ode to the angst of our times and builds on the prog/noise/goth rock of The Silence Industry..

While She Sleeps - DOWN ft. Alex Taylor (Malvolence) (Spinefarm Records)

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  Van Muylem    10 december 2023

While ‘DOWN’ is informed by the band’s desire to bring a whirlwind of fresh sonic influences to the fore, it nonetheless maintains the fierce aggression that typified the band’s roots. The track opens with an ominous blare of an MS-20 synth, before grinding heavyweight rif...

French heavy metal pioneers NIGHTMARE premiere music video for Eternal Winter, re-recorded with new singer Barbara Mogore!

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  Van Muylem    10 december 2023

Founded in 1979, French heavy metal pioneers NIGHTMARE have been an integral part of the European metal scene for the past three decades, and have been prolific with their album releases, all the while updating and evolving their sound.

Skeptical Minds – Kharon (FYB Records)

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  Van Muylem    9 december 2023

Skeptical Minds is based in Belgium but has members who are originated from Poland, Italy to Greece! The female fronted industrial/metal has it’s own sound and works together with the very talented Alain Poncelet who created a comic book for this album (as the follow up to what he did with ...

Cinematic/Symphonic metal band MALEVOLENT (BE) releases new single “Ways”

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  Van Muylem    10 december 2023

Malevolent is a cinematic/symphonic Metal band hailing from Belgium/Spain. For fans of epic movie-like orchestration, astonishing female vocals, and deep death grunts. The band presents its first self-titled EP in alliance with Necktwister  on 21/12/2023.

Sweet Pill - Chewed Up (Hopeless Records)

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  Van Muylem    9 december 2023

“Chewed Up” follows “Starchild” and is musically much more in-your-face. Sort of like the intrusive thoughts that keep you up wide-eyed in bed at night. Different from the opening track, “Chewed Up” is a plea to say what I mean and to ask for what I want. To ma...

TRUE NORTH Drops New Single “Still Enough”

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  Van Muylem    9 december 2023

The LA-based alternative rock/emo band True North released their latest single, "Still Enough"! "Still Enough" stands out as a hook-laden alternative rock anthem, deeply exploring self-worth in relationships. The track is a product of a collaborative e...

Japanese metal unit RYUJIN reveals heaviest single yet, "Gekokujo", alongside new music video

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  Van Muylem    8 december 2023

Formed in 2011 as Gyze, Samurai Metal band RYUJIN deftly deliver heavy metal and blazing guitar wizardry from Japan with their upcoming self-titled album, RYUJIN, out January 12, 2024 via Napalm Records. Today, the band is thrilled to share their heaviest, fastest folk-infused...

TRICK OR TREAT - A Creepy Night Live (Scarlet Records)

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  Van Muylem    8 december 2023

Trick Or Treat celebrate more than twenty years of an established and successful heavy metal career with their first official live record. Recorded during the tour in support of the latest studio-album 'Creepy Symphonies', 'A Creepy Night Live' retraces the stages of the Italian b...

Sujin: debut album 'Save Our Souls' out in February; first single/video out now

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  Van Muylem    7 december 2023

Sujin draws its inspiration from various metal scenes and other genres too, with a distinctive stylistic approach. Their music is a crossover between melo-death, deathcore, progressive and thrash metal, summarized by the band itself as modern metal.