“BIG|BRAVE are big and oceanic, their music flowing and crashing like waves…Robin Wattie’s clear, piercing vocals, which occupy an emotional zone right at the point between ecstasy and abject despair.” – Pitchfork

“BIG|BRAVE have somehow made a ruthlessly loud Read more…

Philadelphia hardcore outfit JESUS PIECE is the maiden act to perform at the US version of Kerrang! Magazine’s K! Pit series, and the visual evidence of this occurrence is now online.

JESUS PIECE released their acclaimed Only Self LP Read more…

Sunn O))) is pleased to collaborate with Record Store Day (#RSD19) to release Life Metal for the first time on CD and vinyl on April 13th via USA/UK/EU indie retail. April 26th marks the official release date of the CD, digital and all Read more…

Swedish crust metal punks MARTYRDÖD have released “Cashless Society,” the first single from their impending seventh studio album, Hexhammaren, which is set for release through Southern Lord on May 10th in North America.
 
MARTYRDÖD reveals about the “Cashless Society” single, “This track Read more…

BIG|BRAVE has announced their incoming fourth LP, A Gaze Among Them, set for release May 10th through Southern Lord. A brief trailer for the album, as well as its cover art and other details have been revealed. The band has also posted North Read more…

Swedish crust metal outfit MARTYRDÖD will make their return to the US this spring, providing support for Skeletonwitch on tour in late May into early June.

MARTYRDÖD, who has not toured on North American soil since their participation in the Read more…

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.