Whitechapel has just unveiled the new music video for the song “I Will Find You” off their October 29, 2021 release Kin. View the video HERE. Kin is available on CD, vinyl, as a limited imported Box Set, digitally, and streaming HERE.
Opener “I Will Find You” takes place right after the last track off The Valley, “Doom Woods”, which sees Bozeman entering into his life following the events characterized on that album. “I am being followed by my alternate reality/evil self. It’s the part of me that can’t let go and will go to any heights to find the real me and pull me back into the dark past that I want to move on from.“
The video was shot and produced by David Brodsky of MyGoodEye Visuals and comes just as the band prepares to hit the road on a US headlining tour where the band will perform their critically lauded 2019 full-length, The Valley, in its entirety! The special month-long trek begins on April 14th in Atlanta, Georgia and runs through May 13th in Nashville, Tennessee. Support will be provided by Archspire, Signs Of The Swarm, and labelmates, Entheos.
Whitechapel‘s upcoming tour marks the band’s first headline run in four years due to the pandemic. Supporting the band on the upcoming tour are Archspire, Signs Of The Swarm, and labelmates Entheos. Whitechapel will also play an extended encore of classic bangers in addition to The Valley so make sure you don’t miss it!
See all confirmed dates below.
WHITECHAPEL w/ Archspire, Signs Of The Swarm, Entheos:
4/14/2023 Masquerade – Atlanta, GA
4/15/2023 The Orpheum – Tampa, FL
4/16/2023 Revolution – Ft. Lauderdale, FL
4/18/2023 The Underground – Charlotte, NC
4/19/2023 The Canal Club – Richmond, VA
4/20/2023 Baltimore Sound Stage – Baltimore, MD
4/21/2023 The Gramercy Theater – New York, NY
4/22/2023 The Palladium – Worcester, MA
4/24/2023 St. Andrews Hall – Detroit, MI
4/25/2023 The House Of Blues – Chicago, IL
4/27/2023 Granada Theater – Lawrence, KS
4/28/2023 Gothic Theater – Denver, CO
4/29/2023 Metro Music Hall – Salt Lake City, UT
5/01/2023 Showbox Market – Seattle, WA
5/02/2023 Hawthorne Theater – Portland, OR
5/04/2023 Ace Of Spades – Sacramento, CA
5/05/2023 The Regent – Los Angeles, CA
5/06/2023 The Observatory – Santa Ana, CA
5/07/2023 The Nile Theater – Mesa, AZ
5/09/2023 Mohawk – Austin, TX
5/10/2023 Grenada Theater – Dallas, TX
5/12/2023 Red Flag – St. Louis, MO
5/13/2023 Basement East – Nashville, TN
In other news, Whitechapel will be performing at Louder Than Life Festival, held September 21-24 in Louisville, KY. Louder Than Life will feature performances from a spectacular list of rock artists including: Foo Fighters, Green Day, Tool, Queens of the Stone Age, Weezer, Rancid, Corey Taylor, Coheed and Cambria, and many more. Tickets and full lineup can be found here: LouderThanLifeFestival.com
The Valley is WHITECHAPEL‘s seventh full-length studio offering, released in 2019 via Metal Blade Records. The record was mixed by David Castillo, mastered by Ted Jensen, and produced by Mark Lewis (Cannibal Corpse, The Black Dahlia Murder). Exclaim crowned The Valley, “the strongest release of [WHITECHAPEL's] career…” In a 9/10 review, Metal Injection championed, “one of the most well-written metal albums I have heard in quite some time,” furthering, “The interplay of the heavy and the melancholy is done beautifully.” Added Consequence Of Sound, “Thanks to a unique blend of instrumentation, excellent vocal talent, and poetic lyricism, WHITECHAPEL’s The Valley takes its place among the upper ranks of the band’s discography.“
UNEARTH delivers another bar raising track of extraordinary musicianship loaded with technical prowess and an utterly brutal vocal delivery, taking listeners from dismal to hopeful and yet again raising UNEARTH to higher ground.
Trevor Phipps says, "A riff fueled interstellar endeavor sums up our third single ‘Into the Abyss’. Our future planet is in disrepair and the fortunate are forced to flee to a distant world to continue the human race while billions of the less fortunate are left behind to meet a hellish end. Buz McGrath lights the path with a journey of melodic riffs, leads and solos that set it apart from the bulk of The Wretched; The Ruinous album. Beyond oblivion we ride!"
On album number eight, The Wretched; The Ruinous, UNEARTH not merely continues to amp-up their metal meets hardcore intensities, but they also exceed themselves with a record that incorporates elements of classic UNEARTH offerings dating back to 2004’s “breakthrough” The Oncoming Storm, while exploring beyond the recent back-to-basics promise of 2018’s Extinction(s). For UNEARTH’s founding mainstays, Trevor Phipps and guitarist Buz McGrath, it feels like the beginning of a new chapter. “Buz took the entire pandemic to write these songs,” says Trevor. “He pushed himself to get out of his comfort zone and explore what UNEARTH is, both past and present. Buz adding these new elements and killer song structures inspired me to be more diverse vocally. The Wretched; the Ruinous is still UNEARTH, but it’s also the most dynamic record we’ve ever done.”
Teaming again with Extinction(s) producer, Will Putney (Body Count, Thy Art Is Murder), the goal was simple: create the definitive UNEARTH record. From the scathing title track opener to the explosive "Cremation of the Living", the brooding "Mother Betrayal" to the album’s riff-violent closer, "Theaters of War", The Wretched; The Ruinous is UNEARTH pulling out all the stops. “There’s certain songs where you can really hear the band’s hardcore roots,” explains Trevor. “The track 'Dawn of the Militant' is a true mix of metal and heavy hardcore, that to me define what the term 'metalcore' truly is. For the bulk of this record though, the metal, aggression, and technicality are reminiscent of our Watchers of Rule (2014) album. All of the ingredients of UNEARTH are present on these songs, but the band continues to explore new territories as writers and players."
The Wretched; The Ruinous is a turning point moment for UNEARTH. It’s first album in their canon recorded without guitarist Ken Susi, who mutually parted with the band in 2022. Trevor shares, "It simply came time for Unearth and Ken to take a break from working together. He'll always be a large part of the story of this band, and we wish him the best on all of his endeavors"
The frontman makes no bones about the arduous writing process for The Wretched; The Ruinous. “Coming out of the pandemic I found myself struggling to find my zone of creativity with writing, but I pushed through, and once I found it things caught fire.” Phipps has never been one to shy away from often scathing social commentary. “Lyrically, it’s a warning shot record,” Trevor continues. “I’ve spoken about the decline of our environment by Mankind’s hand dating back to our first record in 2001, and I've continued to write about the environmental crisis throughout our entire career. We are now at a tipping point with Mother Nature and our place on this planet, and I had to devote the entirety of this album to what is happening around us. This album is a collection of stories of what is happening, and what is to come, if we do not make monstrous changes to how we treat our only home."
“The Wretched; The Ruinous is about the eight billion people on this planet,” echoes the frontman of UNEARTH’s latest state of the world address. "We've created a man-made mass extinction event and have been too slow to correct our faults. Extreme weather, drought, famine, disease, erosion of land, culture wars, civil wars, wars for natural resources, and the displacement of billions of people, is all a current reality. This isn't a future problem; it is a now problem and I take this record to talk about it. As a species we are very quickly turning our once Garden of Eden into our future hellscape.”
"It's not all devastation and gloom though," adds Phipps. "On the track 'Call of Existence' I talk about how we can turn this around with swift, drastic changes to our emissions and consumption of natural resources. There is a responsible way forward that will benefit all life on our planet, and we have to embrace and act on that responsibility now."
About UNEARTH:
With their 25-year mark looming, it’s a daunting thought that UNEARTH has been a part of the metal landscape since making their recorded debut with 1999’s Above the Fall of Man EP. At that point, UNEARTH was one of the key bands in an-about-to-detonate New Wave of American Heavy Metal (NWOAHM) scene that included nascent lineups of Killswitch Engage, Lamb of God, Shadows Fall, Darkest Hour, Bleeding Through, and God Forbid. “It was a healthy competition between all of us,” the vocalist recalls. “It made for some great music and opened up a new chapter in American metal.”
The release of 2001’s The Stings of Conscience album (Eulogy) and its landmark follow-up Endless EP ignited excitement about UNEARTH, who in 2003 joined Killswitch Engage, Shadows Fall and Lamb of God on the inaugural MTV Headbanger’s Ball tour. Inking with Metal Blade that year for the album The Oncoming Storm, UNEARTH took their spot as one of American metal’s most explosive live acts. “Those early years of full-time touring were really impactful for us,” says Trevor. “We were hitting milestone after milestone, year in year out. Endless road work followed including countless tours, massive European, Japanese, and Australian festivals, and rite-of-passage American road-jaunts, including the Ozzfest and Mayhem festival tours, cemented the Mass quintet as a force in the world of metal. That unassuaged work ethic drives the band to this day.
Joining Trevor, Buz and long-time bassist, Chris O’Toole, on the road is not only new guitarist Peter Layman (ex-Apiary), who filled in for UNEARTH before, but also drummer Mike Justian, long considered an integral part of UNEARTH’s halcyon days. “Mike’s live performance and presence are unmatched, and we couldn’t be happier to have him back with us,” states Trevor. In the Summer of 2022, with Justian and Layman, the band headed off to Europe for festivals and haven’t looked back since, with appearances at various US festivals, a tour in Mexico to round out 2022, and upcoming world touring in 2023, with tours in Australia, Japan, Taiwan and Europe all on the docket in the first quarter of the new year.
Dystersol was formed back in 2013 and has always been influenced by various genres of heavy music.
With “Anaemic”, Dystersol continues into a harder and musically more complex direction of modern Death Metal. The aim was to write songs which combine uncompromising aggressiveness and memorable hooks without lacking variety or subtleness.
Alatyr was project that was founded by Igric and Striibog in early 2006 and was disbanded in late 2007.
Project Alatyr is not active anymore. This is remixed record from 2007 with some extra instrument layers recorded by Igric in 2021-2022 to make it sound more decent.
Hexencave cassette edition offers two additional and never published bonus tracks.
Atavism - Saturation with bogus notions of evolution
by Damnatory
Tracklist:
1.Atavism - Saturation with bogus notions of evolution 05:00
Finally after 20 years the first new tunes of obscure Swiss old school death metal band DAMNATORY. This song is going to be our part of a new split 7"EP with Swiss death metal band CHAOSMONGER. The ep will be released this summer. Digital release now. Limited edition vinyl (300 items) later as a collaboration of Sweet Chainsaw Melodies Records and Necronos Distribution.
instrumental death metal demo album, with DOOM games as the theme
released April 2, 2023
Divinationist is a one man band/independent artist who also delivers different musical styles in other projects: Maidcore ambient metal as Izumi the maid. Death and black metal as Divinationist. Meditation and lofi music as xezerik. Slamming deathcore as MuskyFungus
