TOUR OF THE YEAR ALERT

Power Trip + Sheer Mag Announce Full North American Run!

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1/13: Petaluma, CA – Phoenix Theater
4/27: Jacksonville, FL – Welcome to Rockville
4/28: Ft. Lauderdale, FL – Fort Rock
4/30: Atlanta, GA – The Masquerade #
5/01: Birmingham, AL – Saturn #
5/04: Charlotte, NC – Carolina Rebellion
5/05: Richmond, VA – Broadberry #
5/06: Pittsburgh, PA – Spirit #
5/07: Philadelphia, PA – Union Transfer #
5/08: Washington, DC – The Black Cat #
5/10: Brooklyn, NY – Elsewhere #
5/11: Boston, MA – Paradise #
5/12: Syracuse, NY- The Lost Horizon #
5/13: Toronto, ON – Lee’s Palace #
5/15: Detroit, MI – El Club #
5/16: Chicago, IL – Reggie’s #
5/18: Columbus, OH – Rock on The Range
5/19: Chicago, IL – The Empty Bottle #
5/20: Minneapolis, MN – Fine Line #
5/21: Winnipeg, MB – The Park Theatre #
5/23: Saskatoon, SK – Louis’ #
5/24: Edmonton, AB – The Starlite Room #
5/25: Calgary, AB – Dickens Pub #
5/27: Vancouver, BC – Modified Ghosts #
5/28: Seattle, WA – Neumo’s #
5/29: Portland, OR – Hawthorne #
5/31: San Francisco, CA – Great American Music Hall #
6/01: San Jose, CA – The Ritz #
6/02: Los Angeles, CA – The Regent ^
6/03: San Diego, CA – Soma #
6/04: Mesa, AZ – Club Red #
6/05: Albuquerque, NM – Launchpad ^
6/07: Austin, TX – The Mohawk ^

GUST To Support Burn On European Tour This March

Sweden’s GUST has announced the band’s upcoming participation supporting New York hardcore innovators, Burn, on the band’s Do Or Die tour of Europe this March. Drawing from their harsh self-titled full-length on Southern Lord, and sharing some new material coming together for the follow-up album, the Gothenburg-based GUST crew is eager to hit the road again.

With ten tracks in just under a half-hour, GUST unleashes a maelstrom of cutting edge demolition, with cerebral elements continually emerging from the shadows with an almost ethereal effect on their self-titled LP. Self-recorded at Fvck Life Studios, and mastered at Audiosiege by Brad Boatright (Warcry, From Ashes Rise, Deathreat,) who also supplies guest vocals to the album, Gust is a crushing and incredibly dynamic album, displaying a unique style of crust-infused hardcore and talented songwriting from the young act.

See GUST’s video for “Reality Chokes” RIGHT HERE.

Highly recommended for fans of Cursed, Oathbreaker, Rise And Fall, and of course Southern Lord labelmates The Secret, Baptists and Dead In The Dirt, stream and purchase Gust at Bandcamp HERE.

GUST w/ Burn:
3/07/2018 MTC – Köln, DE
3/08/2018 Underworld – London, UK
3/09/2018 Willemeen – Arnhem, NL
3/10/2018 Hafenklang – Hamburg, DE (matinee)
3/11/2018 Revolver – Oslo, NO
3/12/2018 Underwerket – Copenhagen, DK
3/13/2018 Naumanns – Leipzig, DE
3/14/2018 Faust – Hannover, DE
3/15/2018 Cassiopeia – Berlin, DE
3/16/2018 Pogłos – Warsaw, PL
3/17/2018 007 – Prague, CZ
3/18/2018 Roter Salon – Nürnberg, DE
3/19/2018 Durer Kert – Budapest, HU
3/20/2018 Arena – Vienna, AU
3/21/2018 Circolo Magnolia – Segrate, IT
3/22/2018 Feierwerk – Munich, DE
3/23/2018 Stadtmitte – Karlsruhe, DE

“GUST meld the head-down take no prisoners approach of crust, the flair and technicality of metallic riffing and the wrecking ball power of pace-driven hardcore to create a deadly brand of devastation.” -Metal Hammer

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SECT: No Cure For Death LP Streaming At Revolver Magazine; Album Out This Friday Through Southern Lord

North American straightedge/vegan hardcore/crust outfit SECT — featuring members of Cursed, Left For Dead, Catharsis, Undying, Earth Crisis, The Path Of Resistance, Day Of Suffering, Racetraitor, and many more – will release their second album, No Cure For Death, this Friday via Southern Lord. Advancing its release, the entire LP is now streaming at Revolver Magazine.

SECT vocalist Chris Colohan states, “For a band of people spread so far and wide, No Cure For Death is the record we got to make once we were really rolling – after we’d played a year of shows together, had dusted SECT off and put in the time on stage and on the road to take better aim at both the sounds and messages we wanted to make.

Revolver offers with their album stream, “Recorded with Converge guitarist Kurt Ballou at GodCity Studios, the album finds the scene vets taking a stand against the sociopolitical status quo… The doomsday clock is ticking, and there’s no time to waste.”

Unleash SECT’s No Cure For Death at Revolver RIGHT HERE.

Southern Lord will release No Cure For Death on CD and digital formats this Friday, November 24th, with the LP following shortly after; find preorders at iTunes HERE, Spotify HERE, and find merch bundles via Southern Lord’s US webshop HERE and Euro store HERE.

SECT unites vocalist Chris Colohan (Cursed, Burning Love, Left For Dead), guitarists James Chang (Catharsis, Undying) and Scott Crouse (Earth Crisis, The Path Of Resistance), bassist Steve Hart (Day Of Suffering), and drummer Andy Hurley (Racetraitor, The Damned Things). No Cure For Death was recorded with Kurt Ballou at God City studios, mastered by Alan Douches at West West Side Music. Fueled by socio-political vitriol, for SECT, the purpose of hardcore as they know it is to convey an urgency that transcends age, credentials or scene politics, to convert desperation into real talk and action.

The band’s “Day For Night” video, directed by Justin Reich (Black Label Society, Crowbar, Hatebreed), can be seen HERE, and footage of the recording sessions can be viewed HERE.

SECT this week kicks off a run of West Coast shows supporting the LP, with performances in Seattle, Portland, and Vancouver November 24th through 26th. An East Coast run is also looming, with shows in Brooklyn, Albany, and Washington DC, December 8th, 9th, and 10th. Watch for additional tour dates to be announced.

SECT Tour Dates:
11/24/2017 Black Lodge – Seattle, WA
11/25/2017 Black Water – Portland, OR
11/26/2017 333 – Vancouver, BC
12/08/2017 The Kingsland – Brooklyn, NY
12/09/2017 Pauly’s Hotel – Albany, NY
12/10/2017 The Pinch – Washington, DC

the metallic hardcore is filthy and sinister, laden with a guitar tone resembling a power tool and with feedback akin to the noise one would make scraping on steel.” – Exclaim!

the video is an all-action affair that captures the intensity of both the band’s performance style and the song at hand… the song sounds both massive and mean.” – No Echo

The album was produced by Converge’s Kurt Ballou, so you should know what it’s going to sound like already – total fucking Armageddon.” – Metal Injection

For review copies of No Cure For Death and interviews with SECT in the Americas contact dave@earsplitcompound.com and in Europe contact lauren@rarelyunable.com.

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LIFESICK: Danish Metallic Hardcore Crew Announces European Tour Including Shows Supporting Harley Flanagan

Danish metallic hardcore outfit LIFESICK has announced a European tour which begins next week and runs through mid-December, providing support for Harley Flanagan on most the shows.

LIFESICK is an overwhelmingly hard-hitting act who integrates elements of morbid, extreme metal into aggressive, mosh-primed hardcore. The band is currently in Dead Rat studio recording their follow up to 6.0.1 which was released in November 2016 on LP format via Southern Lord, and prior to that on CD format via FWH Records.

See LIFESICK’s official video for “In Love With Hate” RIGHT HERE.

LIFESICK European Tour Dates:
11/29/2017 Innocent – Hengelo, NL
11/30/2017 Vort’n Vis – Ieper, BE
12/01/2017 The Crowndale – London, UK
12/02/2017 Temple Of Boom – Leeds, UK w/ Harley Flanagan
12/03/2017 Patronaat – Haarlem, NL w/ Harley Flanagan
12/04/2017 Hafenklang – Hamburg, DE w/ Harley Flanagan
12/05/2017 Faust – Hannover, DE w/ Harley Flanagan
12/06/2017 Scheune – Dresden, DE w/ Harley Flanagan
12/07/2017 Hydrozagadka – Warsaw, PL w/ Harley Flanagan
12/08/2017 Arena – Vienna, AU w/ Harley Flanagan
12/09/2017 Legend Club – Milano, IT w/ Harley Flanagan
12/15/2017 Ungdommenshus – Fredericia, DK

LIFESICK twists the clobbering sounds of bands like Merauder, Xibalba, and Nails, combined with the northern European climate: harsh, cold, and steeped in metal history. Between brutal breakdowns and direct, forceful vocals, the young Danes make their mark with evil melodies that ooze black and death metal vibes, all delivered in the crushing tone of the HM-2.

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JESUS PIECE Announces North American Tour With Knocked Loose, Terror, And Stone

Following a US tour supporting Comeback Kid and Burn this fall, as well as other widespread regional live actions this year, hardcore outfit JESUS PIECE continues to announce new tour dates well-into the new year.

This week, JESUS PIECE announces that they’ll join Knocked Loose, Terror, and Stone on an extensive North American tour in early 2018. The newly-announced tour begins February 28th in Nashville, then circling through the US and Canada through all of March, the tour ending on April 1st in JESUS PIECE’s hometown of Philadelphia.

Additional tour dates for JESUS PIECE will be announced in the coming weeks and throughout next year as the band records their debut LP for Southern Lord for release mid-year. Stand by for continuous updates. Fans of Disembodied, Cold As Life, Xibalba, Harm’s Way, God’s Hate, and similar groove-heavy acts of metallic brutality are advised to stay tuned.

The entire JESUS PIECE set from this year’s This Is Hardcore fest is playing RIGHT HERE and another hometown set from October is playing HERE.

JESUS PIECE w/ Knocked Loose, Terror, Stone:
2/28/2018 The End – Nashville, TN
3/01/2018 Blind Tiger – Greensboro, NC
3/02/2018 The Masquerade – Atlanta, GA
3/03/2018 Crowbar – Ybor City, FL
3/04/2018 1904 – Jacksonville, FL
3/06/2018 Walters Downtown – Houston, TX
3/07/2018 Alamo City Music Hall – San Antonio, TX
3/08/2018 RBC – Dallas, TX
3/09/2018 Davey’s Uptown – Kansas City, MO
3/10/2018 Marquis Theatre – Denver, CO
3/11/2018 In The Venue – Salt Lake City, UT
3/13/2018 El Corazon – Seattle, WA
3/14/2018 Analog Theater – Portland, OR
3/16/2018 924 Gilman – Berkeley, CA
3/17/2018 Teragram Ballroom – Los Angeles, CA
3/18/2018 Chain Reaction – Anaheim, CA
3/19/2018 Nile Theater – Mesa, AZ
3/21/2018 89th Street – Oklahoma City, OK
3/22/2018 Sokol Underground – Omaha, NE
3/23/2018 Amsterdam Bar & Hall – St. Paul, MN
3/24/2018 Bottom Lounge – Chicago, IL
3/25/2018 Skully’s Music Diner – Columbus, OH
3/26/2018 The Magic Stick – Detroit, MI
3/27/2018 Velvet Underground – Toronto, ON
3/28/2018 Theatre Fairmount – Montreal, QC
3/29/2018 California Brew Haus – Rochester, NY
3/30/2018 The Palladium – Worcester, MA
3/31/2018 Brooklyn Bazaar – Brooklyn, NY
4/01/2018 Underground Arts – Philadelphia, PA

JESUS PIECE is a band that works tirelessly to play to everyone they can. Their anthems lyrically range from personal struggle and loss, to racism, police brutality, and many other social and political injustices. The band formed in 2015 and self-released their first demo/EP in the same year, followed by a self-released EP in the Summer of 2016. Most recently, Bridge Nine Records released a split 7″ between JESUS PIECE and Malice At The Palace in early 2017. The band has paved their own way into the national scene by booking multiple headlining coast-to-coast tours among many bouts of regional touring and performances at notable festivals including This Is Hardcore, Nature World Fest, Sound And Fury, FYA Fest, and others. 2018 will see the band record their debut LP for release through Southern Lord.

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SECT Debuts New Track “Stripes” Via Punktastic; No Cure For Death Incoming Via Southern Lord November 24th + Tour Dates Announced

SECT shares the caustic, riotous “Stripes” through a premiere at Punktastic. The track is taken from their second album, No Cure For Death, due out through Southern Lord next Friday, November 24th. Fueled by socio-political vitriol, for SECT, the purpose of hardcore as they know it is to convey an urgency that transcends age, credentials or scene politics, to convert desperation into real talk and action.

Vocalist Chris Colohan explains the thinking behind this particular track “‘Stripes’ is about the prison industrial complex in overdrive and the political and penal system keeping it stocked compensating economically for the abolition of slavery, and undercutting the gains of the civil rights movement. Essentially, de facto enslavement that aims to recreate and maintain the same original racial and pecking order with the same scapegoats and victims of not just decades but centuries ago that the West was built on. It’s an ugly reminder in the age of the overt white supremacist resurgence and the struggle against it that we’ve never yet gotten beyond that underlying foundation.”

Stream SECT’s “Stripes” at Punktastic RIGHT HERE.

The vegan straight edge SECT collective unites vocalist Chris Colohan (Cursed, Burning Love, Left For Dead), guitarists James Chang (Catharsis, Undying) and Scott Crouse (Earth Crisis, The Path Of Resistance), bassist Steve Hart (Day Of Suffering), and drummer Andy Hurley (Racetraitor, The Damned Things). No Cure For Death was recorded with Kurt Ballou at God City studios, mastered by Alan Douches at West West Side Music.

Footage of the recording sessions can be viewed HERE, see the band’s “Day For Night” video directed by Justin Reich (Black Label Society, Crowbar, Hatebreed) HERE, and stream the song “Open Grave” HERE.

Southern Lord will release No Cure For Death on CD, LP, and digital formats on November 24th; find preoder merch bundles via Southern Lord’s US webshop HERE and Euro store HERE.

SECT has also booked new live performances supporting the LP, a West Coast run through Seattle, Portland, and Vancouver November 24th through 26th, and an East Coast run through Brooklyn, Albany, and Washington DC December 8th, 9th, and 10th. Watch for additional tour dates to be announced.

SECT Tour Dates:
11/24/2017 Black Lodge – Seattle, WA
11/25/2017 Black Water – Portland, OR
11/26/2017 333 – Vancouver, BC
12/08/2017 The Kingsland – Brooklyn, NY
12/09/2017 Pauly’s Hotel – Albany, NY
12/10/2017 The Pinch – Washington, DC

the metallic hardcore is filthy and sinister, laden with a guitar tone resembling a power tool and with feedback akin to the noise one would make scraping on steel.” – Exclaim!

the video is an all-action affair that captures the intensity of both the band’s performance style and the song at hand… the song sounds both massive and mean.” – No Echo

The album was produced by Converge’s Kurt Ballou, so you should know what it’s going to sound like already – total fucking Armageddon.” – Metal Injection

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UNSANE To Begin North American Tour Supporting Southern Lord-Released Sterilize LP This Week

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New York City’s UNSANE begin a new North American tour in support of their eighth studio full-length album, Sterilize, released in September through Southern Lord.

With their intense month-long European tour ending only one week ago, UNSANE begins another massive trek which sees them out for over a month on North American soil. The new tour begins this Thursday, December 16th with two consecutive shows in Brooklyn, after which they’ll run a clockwise path of smoldering demolition throughout the US and lower Canada through December 19th, the tour ending in Philadelphia. Direct support for UNSANE will be provided in New York by Cherubs, for the following two-and-a-half weeks by Plaque Marks, and for the final eight shows with Child Bite and labelmates Big|Brave.

Stream UNSANE’s entire Sterilize now at THIS LOCATION.

See a new tour trailer by Chariot Of Black Moth HERE.

Sterilize is available now through Southern Lord on CD, LP, and digital formats; find preorders and merch at Southern Lord’s webshop HERE.

Closing a five-year gap since the 2012 release of the Alternative Tentacles-issued Wreck LP, UNSANE makes a vicious return with Sterilize, a record that recalls the most defining elements of the band’s seminal albums, surging with their unrelenting singular sound created by guitarist/vocalist Chris Spencer, bassist/vocalist Dave Curran, and drummer Vinnie Signorelli. Sterilize showcases the group sounding as dense and damaging as ever, and sees them remaining as necessary as ever, nearly three decades since they began.

Sterilize was reviewed as Bandcamp’s Album Of The Day, including, “Throughout, Dave Curran and Vincent Signorelli steamroll any rival noise-rock rhythm section into surrender. Chris Spencer’s virulent riffs add to the effect, while his growled lyrics cover a whole gamut of hopelessness: misery, delusion, corporate greed, history’s sick habit of repeating itself, running out of time, running out of breath, running ever towards oblivion.” Noisey’s feature includes that Sterilize, “continues that characteristically bloody legacy with another grisly scene front-and-center… The red splatter adorning the cover accurately matches the tone of its contents. ‘Aberration’ squeals with feedback and a meaty bassline by longtime member Dave Curran, while ‘Inclusion’ slowly grinds a steel-toed boot into the grime and viscera. For fans of the group, these ten tracks deliver the messy goods.”

Exclaim! Magazine’s review boasts that Sterilize is, “an intense ride through conventional rock crafted with an ugly, chaotic sense of aggression that shows the band have no plans of ending their reign over the genre… it succeeds in solidifying UNSANE’s rule as the kings of noise rock.” New Noise Magazine’s feature states, “Sterilize is angular in dimension, with UNSANE‘s trademark spiral extensions billowing out from within the prism. The record is hard, completely chugging, and never shy to explore the more harrowing and circular environment it was born in. It’s old-school and still utterly fresh.” Invisible Oranges encourages, “Relive the glory days of extraordinarily ugly, grooving noise rock with their most angular sons,” and Last Rites issues, “In the never-ending world of turmoil and shit it’s always a good time to get into Unsane or expand your catalogue. Their soundtrack is prescient, falsely comforting and altogether rocking… As they say, we will get ‘no reprieve.’ So why worry? Relax. We’re fucked.

UNSANE Tour Dates:
11/16/2017 Saint Vitus Bar – Brooklyn, NY w/ Cherubs, Buildings
11/17/2017 Saint Vitus Bar – Brooklyn, NY w/ Cherubs, Plaque Marks
11/18/2017 Ottobar – Baltimore, MD w/ Plaque Marks
11/19/2017 Strange Matter – Richmond, VA w/ Plaque Marks
11/20/2017 The Earl – Atlanta, GA w/ Plaque Marks
11/21/2017 Gasa Gasa – New Orleans, LA w/ Plaque Marks
11/25/2017 Lost Well – Austin, TX w/ Plaque Marks
11/26/2017 Ridglea Lounge – Ft. Worth, TX w/ Plaque Marks
11/28/2017 Club Congress – Tucson, AZ w/ Plaque Marks
11/29/2017 Beauty Bar – Las Vegas, NV w/ Plaque Marks
11/30/2017 Jewel Room at Union – Los Angeles, CA w/ Plaque Marks
12/02/2017 Bottom Of The Hill – San Francisco, CA w/ Plaque Marks
12/04/2017 Old Nick’s – Eugene, OR w/ Plaque Marks
12/05/2017 Highline – Seattle, WA w/ Plaque Marks
12/06/2017 Cobalt – Vancouver, BC w/ Plaque Marks
12/07/2017 Tonic Lounge – Portland, OR w/ Plaque Marks
12/08/2017 Neurolux – Boise, ID w/ Plaque Marks
12/10/2017 Hi Dive – Denver, CO w/ Plaque Marks
12/12/2017 7th St Entry – Minneapolis, MN w/ Big|Brave, Child Bite
12/13/2017 Cactus Club – Milwaukee, WI w/ Big|Brave, Child Bite
12/14/2017 Grog Shop – Cleveland, OH w/ Big|Brave, Child Bite
12/15/2017 Loving Touch – Detroit, MI w/ Big|Brave, Child Bite
12/16/2017 Hard Luck Bar – Toronto, ON w/ Big|Brave, Child Bite
12/17/2017 L’Astral – Montreal, QC w/ Child Bite
12/18/2017 Great Scott – Boston, MA w/ Big|Brave, Child Bite
12/19/2017 Kung Fu Necktie – Philadelphia, PA w/ Big|Brave, Child Bite

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SECT: No Echo Debuts “Day For Night” Video From Southern Lord-Bound No Cure For Death LP

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SECT – founded by members of Cursed, Left For Dead, Catharsis, Undying, Earth Crisis, The Path Of Resistance, Day Of Suffering, Racetraitor, and more — has issued an official video created for the song “Day For Night,” which hails from the band’s impending second album, No Cure For Death, set for release later this month through Southern Lord.

No Echo has debuted the new video, which was directed by Justin Reich (Black Label Society, Crowbar, Hatebreed) alongside an interview with guitarist Scott Crouse, offering in part, “the video is an all-action affair that captures the intensity of both the band’s performance style and the song at hand… the song sounds both massive and mean as fuck.”

See SECT’s “Day For Night” video at No Echo RIGHT HERE.

Vegan straight edge outfit SECT unites vocalist Chris Colohan (Cursed, Burning Love, Left For Dead), guitarists James Chang (Catharsis, Undying) and Scott Crouse (Earth Crisis, The Path Of Resistance), bassist Steve Hart (Day Of Suffering), and drummer Andy Hurley (Racetraitor, Fall Out Boy, The Damned Things). The result is a caustic, riotous, belligerent style of vile hardcore fed by a boundless well of socio-political vitriol. No Cure For Death was recorded with Kurt Ballou at GodCity Studios and mastered by Alan Douches at West West Side Music.

See footage of the No Cure For Death recording sessions at THIS LOCATION and stream the track “Open Grave” HERE.

Southern Lord will release No Cure For Death on CD, LP, and digital formats on November 24th; find preoder merch bundles HERE.

SECT gets right down to the blast beats and breakdowns that fight it out in their chaotic jams. They cut the shit and go for the throat with no time to waste, “because the Orwellian police states and irreparable social and ecological disasters we once saw off on the horizon are now on our front doorsteps, in full swing. And in just such a volatile, precarious moment as this for civilization, there is more reason than ever to keep lashing out at a world more suicidally-bent on its own destruction and the exploitation of people, species and the ecosystem itself, than perhaps ever before in history.”

For SECT, this is the purpose of hardcore as they know it, conveying an urgency that transcends age, credentials or scene politics, to convert desperation into real talk and action.

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POWER TRIP To Join Trivium’s Euro/UK Tour; Band Confirmed For Welcome To Rockville Festival

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The unstoppable POWER TRIP has once again expanded their upcoming tour schedule, today announcing their participation in Trivium’s 2018 UK/European tour, as well as their confirmation for Welcome To Rockville Festival and more.

POWER TRIP continues to tour across the US with Cannibal Corpse and Gatecreeper, on the tail of their huge North American tour supporting Obituary and Exodus. Early 2018 sees the band heading to Europe to join the 2018 Persistence Tour along with Hatebreed, Madball, Terror, Broken Teeth, and Insanity Alert in January.

Now, POWER TRIP has just been announced to take part in Trivium’s The Sin & The Sentence Tour this spring. Presented by Metal Hammer, the tour kicks off in Koln, Germany on March 11th and wraps up in London, UK on April 21st, with Venom Prison also included on the bill, and Code Orange joining for the UK leg of the tour. POWER TRIP is sure to be performing choice cuts from their widely praised, second album, Nightmare Logic, out now on Southern Lord. The band states, “We’re honored to come to Europe for our fifth time, especially with such a massive band as Trivium. We’re excited to watch and learn from Trivium and hang out with our friends in Venom Prison. The end of the tour has Code Orange joining the package; it’ll be good to play with those lunatics again. That’s it. That’s all. Don’t fuck up and miss this tour.”

About the tour Trivium reveals, “One of the greatest things about headlining a tour is picking the bands to round out the bill. Code Orange, Power Trip, and Venom Prison are not only the leading edge of the next wave of great metal acts, they are also three of our personal favorites.” Metal Hammer adds, “Heavy music is on absolute fire right now, and this bill proves it. Metal Hammer couldn’t be more delighted to be supporting our brothers in Trivium alongside three truly excellent young bands in Code Orange, POWER TRIP, and Venom Prison on a tour that is going to tear 2018 to shreds. See you next Spring, motherfuckers!”

Tickets go on sale this Friday, November 10th at 10am local time.

POWER TRIP has also just been announced as part of the Monster Energy Welcome To Rockville, set to be held on April 27th through 29th at Metropolitan Park in Jacksonville, Florida. The massive event sees the band joining the likes of Ozzy Osbourne, Foo Fighters, Avenged Sevenfold, Queens Of The Stone Age, Billy Idol, and countless more. Tickets are now on sale.

Find POWER TRIP’s Nightmare Logic at YouTube HERE, Spotify HERE, iTunes HERE, and at the Southern Lord US store HERE and European store HERE.

POWER TRIP Tour Dates:
11/06/2017 New Daisy Theater – Memphis, TN *
11/08/2017 Trees – Dallas, TX *
11/09/2017 White Oak – Houston, TX *
11/10/2017 The Mokawk – Austin, TX +
11/12/2017 Club Red – Phoenix, AZ *
11/13/2017 The Observatory – Santa Ana, CA *
11/14/2017 Slim’s – San Francisco, CA *
11/15/2017 Slim’s – San Francisco, CA *
11/17/2017 Neumos – Seattle, WA *
11/18/2017 Hawthorne Theater – Portland, OR *
11/19/2017 Knitting Factory – Boise, ID *
11/20/2017 The Complex – Salt Lake City, UT *
11/22/2017 Summit – Denver, CO *
11/24/2017 Thalia Hall – Chicago, IL *
11/25/2017 St. Andrews Hall – Detroit, MI *
11/26/2017 Agora Ballroom – Cleveland, OH *
11/27/2017 Chrome – Waterford, NY &
11/28/2017 Royale – Boston, MA *
11/29/2017 Stage 48 – New York, NY *
11/30/2017 TLA – Philadelphia, PA *
12/01/2017 Broadberry – Richmond, VA *
12/02/2017 The Tarheel – Jacksonville, NC *
12/03/2017 Pete’s – Greensboro, NC *
12/05/2017 Diamond Pub Concert Hall – Louisville, KY *
12/06/2017 Exit/In – Nashville, TN *
12/07/2017 Masquerade – Atlanta, GA *
12/08/2017 The Orpheum – Tampa, FL *
12/09/2017 One Eyed Jack’s – New Orleans, LA !
1/18/2018 Astra Kulturhaus – Berlin, DE ^
1/19/2018 Tivoli Ronda – Utrecht, NL ^
1/20/2018 Eventwerk – Dresden, DE ^
1/21/2018 Backstage – Munich, DE ^
1/22/2018 Komplex – Zurich, CH ^
1/23/2018 Schlachtof – Wiesbaden, DE ^
1/24/2018 Sono – Brno, CZ ^
1/25/2018 Stadthalle – Lichtenfels, DE ^
1/26/2018 De Mast – Torhout, BE ^
1/27/2018 Turbinenhalle – Oberhausen, DE ^
1/28/2018 02 Forum Kentish Town – London, UK ^
3/11/2018 Live Music Hall – Koln, DE #
3/12/2018 Turbinenhalle 2 – Oberhausen, DE #
3/14/2018 KB – Malmo, SE #
3/15/2018 Fryshuset Klubben – Stockholm, SE #
3/16/2018 Rockefeller – Oslo, NO #
3/17/2018 Arbis – Norrkoping, SE #
3/19/2018 Cable Factory – Helsinki, FI #
3/21/2018 Pustervik – Gothenburg, SE #
3/22/2018 Pumpehuset – Copenhagen, DK #
3/23/2018 Huxleys – Berlin, DE #
3/24/2018 Täubchenthal – Leipzig, DE #
3/25/2018 Progresja – Warsaw, PL #
3/27/2018 Roxy – Prague, CZ #
3/28/2018 Majestic – Bratislava, SK #
3/29/2018 Durer Kert – Budapest, HU #
3/30/2018 Simm City – Vienna, AU #
4/01/2018 Tvornica – Zagreb, HR #
4/02/2018 Kino Siska – Ljubljana, SI #
4/03/2018 Phenomenon – Novara, IT #
4/04/2018 Komplex – Zurich, CH #
4/06/2018 Sala Santana – Bilbao, ES #
4/07/2018 Teatro Barcelo – Madrid, ES #
4/08/2018 Sala Razzmatazz – Barcelona, ES #
4/10/2018 L’Usine – Geneva, CH #
4/11/2018 Tonhalle – Munich, DE #
4/12/2018 LKA-Longhorn – Stuttgart, DE #
4/13/2018 Bataclan – Paris, FR #
4/15/2018 Trix – Antwerp, BE #
4/16/2018 O2 Academy – Bristol, UK @
4/17/2018 O2 Academy – Birmingham, UK @
4/19/2018 O2 Academy – Glasgow, UK @
4/20/2018 Academy – London, UK @
4/21/2018 Academy Brixton – London, UK @
4/27/2018 Welcome to Rockville Festival – Jacksonville, FL [info]
5/27/2018 Modified Ghost Festival III – Vancouver, BC [info]
+ w/ Cannibal Corpse, Blanck Mass
* w/ Cannibal Corpse, Gatecreeper
& w/ Gatecreeper
! w/ Suicideyear
^ w/ Hatebreed, Madball, Terror, Broken Teeth, Insanity Alert
# w/ Trivium, Venom Prison
@ w/ Trivium, Venom Prison, Code Orange

…the best they’ve sounded, the tightest representation of their no-holds-barred thrash attack that pummels you into dirt for 32 frenzied minutes straight, without so much as a 10-second breather…” – Billboard

one of the best live acts of the modern day” – Loudwire

You don’t need to be a metalhead to have a blast with Nightmare Logic… POWER TRIP’s fist-pumping choruses, ricocheting grooves, and ample charm are so animated that they leave us with something addictive and, well, fun. – Pitchfork / Best New Music

possesses a certain monolithic quality Lemmy would admire: a massive rawness and a sludgy, heavy hopelessness that thrashes with punk immediacy and metal intricacy…it’s a track preparing for war” – NPR

one of the most highly anticipated records in aggressive music in recent memory” – The New Yorker

For review copies of Nightmare Logic and interviews/live coverage of POWER TRIP in North America contact dave@earsplitcompound.com and internationally contact lauren@rarelyunable.com.

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FRIENDSHIP: Hatred LP By Japanese Harsh Hardcore Act Now Available Through Southern Lord; Album Streaming

Hatred, the corrosive debut full-length onslaught from Japan’s mysterious harsh, doom-fueled crust/hardcore outfit FRIENDSHIP, is now available through Southern Lord, the LP streaming in its cruel entirety.

While FRIENDSHIP‘s identity remains an enigma, those who have encountered their antagonistic, loud, and murky sonic world, can testify to the sheer power of the auditory torture the band creates. FRIENDSHIP has previously self-released two CD EPs which sold out in a month since reissued as I & II vinyl and cassette version through Sentient Ruin. For their Hatred LP, the band delivers twelve caustic tracks in just over twenty-five minutes, the album recorded in their home city of Tokyo, the album then mastered by Brad Boatright at Audiosiege. Blackened, ominous, and intense, fans of prior Southern Lord releases by Nails, Heartless, Dead In The Dirt, Gust, and similarly devastating acts should not ignore this.

Stream FRIENDSHIP’s entire Hatred LP HERE.

Originally released by Daymare Recordings on CD and digital formats back in June, Southern Lord now issues FRIENDSHIP‘s Hatred on LP format.

Place digital orders for Hatred HERE and order physical product HERE.

Having gained a reputation for extremely loud live shows through playing with the likes of Full Of Hell, Sumac, Endon, and others, FRIENDSHIP will open for Sleep in Tokyo in January. Find more info HEREand watch for international tour dates from FRIENDSHIP to be announced in the months ahead.

FRIENDSHIP Leave Them All Behind 2018:
1/13/2018 Garden – Tokyo, JP w/ Sleep, Mutoid Man, Nepenthes

Stereogum declares of Hatred’s vile attack, “tracks like ‘Life Sentence’ also showcase a riff dexterity and subtle multi-section mastery that evades a lot of genre-adjacent HM-2 steppers… Other bands would labor over a way to get the listener from Point A to Point B. FRIENDSHIP realizes that you don’t need much connective tissue if Point A and Point B both kick ass. And that’s the takeaway: While fast/slow, particularly punk-fast and sludge-slow, is one of the dustier tropes, to be a legitimate two-tool threat is still rare.” Svbterranean’s review includes, “From start-to-finish, FRIENDSHIP make quite the name for themselves on this monstrous, unforgivably heavy debut. Despite their name, FRIENDSHIP‘s music is the furthest thing from friendly.” Metal Trenches warns, “Hatred, as the name suggests, is a no frills, no bullshit slice of bitter hardcore and grind with no regard for your eardrums or well-being… Listening to this album conjures images of concrete slabs and dried bloodstains.”

For review copies of Hatred in North America contact dave@earsplitcompound.com and internationally contact lauren@rarelyunable.com.

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