PELICAN, the instrumental quartet whose singular vision of heavy music eschews classification, is set to release their first new music in six years via a two-song 7″ on Southern Lord coming as an indie exclusive on Record Store Day (April 13th, 2019 #RSD2019). Read more…

Norwegian rockers Okkultokrati reveal a trio of live dates on the horizon in Sweden and Denmark, where they shall be road testing new material that they are currently working on. Their previous acclaimed album Raspberry Dawn was released via Southern Lord in 2016 – more Read more…

SUNN O))) is pleased to present Life Metal, their first new studio album in four years, due for release on Southern Lord Recordings in April 2019. The album will be supported by their first US tour Read more…

Washington, DC-based DARKEST HOUR today embarks on the Death To False Metalcore Tour across Eastern Canada. The tour runs through February 8th and sees DARKEST HOUR co-headlining alongside Unearth.

This Canadian segment of the tour will be followed by a European leg of Read more…

Southern Lord’s CASPAR BRÖTZMANN MASSAKER album reissue series begins this week as the label today officially presents the masterful debut The Tribe, originally released in 1988, and second album, Black Axis, originally released in 1989. Both albums have been remastered and Read more…

As their first tour through Japan wraps up this week, Philadelphia-based metallic hardcore outfit JESUS PIECE announces a run of late-January West Coast North American dates in support their vicious debut LP, Only Self, which saw release through Southern Lord in August.

Southern Lord Recordings presents Cease & Decease, a double-LP discography by oppressive sludge juggernaut, TOADLIQUOR, released as part of Southern Lord’s 20th Anniversary series. The unreleased newly-recorded song included on the record, “(Closing Sections Of) Inter-Stellar Space,” is now streaming at Cvlt Nation.

Following their Northeast US Coast headlining mini-tour as well as their set at The Power Of The Riff in Los Angeles, Washington, DC-based DARKEST HOUR announces new tour through Canada for early 2019. The Canadian leg of the Death To False Metalcore Tour Read more…

CASPAR BRÖTZMANN is one of the most unique and innovative guitarists of the last forty years. With his Berlin-based trio MASSAKER, he evolved a whole new autonomous approach to writing rock songs, starting from sounds that were widely considered ornamental if not detrimental Read more…

Baptists have announced they are heading to Europe for the first time ever – supporting SUMAC, their third album Beacon Of Faith is out now via Southern Lord. Also joining the tour on select dates are Endon and Nordra. Find full dates below:

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THIS WHITE LIGHT, the new band featuring guitarist Greg Anderson (Sunn O))), Goatsnake), drummer Jade Devitt (Lucky Me, Gale Forces), bassist Bryan Herweg (Pelican), and vocalist Jen Wood (solo artist and formerly of Tattle Tale and collaborator with The Postal Service) shares a new track, Read more…

Washington, DC-based DARKEST HOUR will embark on their special East Coast mini-tour next week, which will see the long-running metal quintet headlining with support from some of their hand-picked favorite hometown scene acts.

DARKEST HOUR will kick off the mini-tour on their home turf in DC Read more…