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This is Leveler like you've never heard it before! We fully re-recorded the entire album from scratch, changing song tunings, writing new guitar solos, and adding guest performances from Matt Heafy of Trivium, Misha Mansoor of Periphery, and Ryan Kirby of Fit For A King. The album was produced and mixed by Carson Slovak and Grant McFarland.

Track listing:

1. Empire
2. Internal Cannon (feat. Matthew K Heafy)
3. Divisions
4. Cutting the Ties
5. Pangaea (feat. Misha "Bulb" Mansoor)
6. Carpe Diem
7. 40 Nights
8. Salt & Light
9. Poor Millionaire (feat. Ryan Kirby)
10. 1/16/2011
11. Boys of Fall
12. Leveler

Drain -- frontman Sammy Ciaramitaro, guitarist Cody Chavez, and drummer Tim Flegal -- formed back in 2014 and cut their teeth in Santa Cruz’s fertile DIY hardcore scene. COVID lockdown couldn’t stop their 2020 debut, California Cursed, from making waves, and their 2023 follow-up, Living Proof, hit the hardcore scene like a Cali beach during hurricane season -- a torrential classic. Since then, Drain have blazed through hundreds of shows worldwide: headlining festivals, taking their friends and heroes on tour, and even playing arenas with Blink-182. Regardless of whether they're opening for pop-punk jukeboxes like Neck Deep or grabbing the stage-dive torch from Terror, Drain’s only goal is to make the crowd go buckwild.

Santa Cruz hardcore institution Drain dropped “Who’s Having Fun?” off their forthcoming new album …IS YOUR FRIEND, arriving November 7th via Epitaph. “Who’s Having Fun?” is the only track on the album where vocalist Sammy Ciaramitaro sings, backed by plenty of shredding, eventually climaxing into Ciaramitaro’s trademark growls. “"Who's Having Fun?" is summertime music written to be played really loud in the car with your friends and the windows down on a beautiful sunny day” Ciaramitaro explains.  “Its what happens when you just write music that makes you feel happy and don't really care about fitting into a box or meeting someone else's genre criteria. DRAIN is gonna do whatever the hell we want. This was the first song that we wrote for this album - it started out as a pretty barebones punk rock song, but we kept adding little moments and flare and all the sudden we turned it into a badass song that truly encapsulates everything that DRAIN is. This song can be about whatever you want it to be - but I think when looking for the truth in life, a good rule of thumb is to ask yourself: Who's Having Fun? Hopefully it's you.”

FOR FANS OF: Speed, Mindforce, Pain of Truth

TRACK LIST:

1. Who’s Having Fun Yet?

PRESSING INFO:

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Scowl has quickly made a name for themselves as one of the most vivid and hard-working acts in the rock world. On "Psychic Dance Routine," Scowl continues to push the boundaries of their sound and artistic presence, now laying somewhere between hardcore and alternative. The highlights and challenges of performing, whether in the studio, on tour, or in the act that is life, became a recurring notion on this five-track EP. Vinyl version includes digital download and a silkscreened B-side.

Track Listing:

1. Shot Down
2. Psychic Dance Routine
3. Wired
4. Opening Night
5. Sold Out

Tracklist:

• I Shaved My Head
• Man With Hands And Ankles Bound
• Autofiction Detail
• Environmental; Catastrophe Film
• Self-Portrait Backwards
• The Field
• Siblings Fistfight At Mom's Fiftieth / The Un-Sound
• Landlord Calls The Sheriff In
• Steve
• Top Sellers Banquet
• Saturation Diver
• I Dreamt Of A Room With All My Friends I Could Not Get in
• No One Was Driving The Car
• End Times Sermon

 

"It’s been six years since La Dispute released their last album, Panorama. Since then, the
Michigan post-hardcore band—made up of Jordan Dreyer on vocals, Brad Vander Lugt on
drums, Chad Morgan-Sterenberg and Corey Stroffolino on guitar, and Adam Vass on
bass—dealt with the stagnance of the pandemic, celebrated the ten-year anniversaries of
Wildlife and Rooms Of The House, and began working on No One Was Driving The Car. The
fifth studio LP is the first entirely produced by the group, and it came together in Grand Rapids
and Detroit, the United Kingdom, Australia, and the Philippines: “I think the change in
environment was really helpful to breathing new life into the process each time we came back to
it,” Dreyer says.
Partly inspired by the 2017 psychological thriller First Reformed, No One Was Driving The Car
reckons with malaise in the shadow of the looming apocalypse, which has noticeably been
worsened by the advancement of tech. The title comes from a quote from a police officer Dreyer
read in a news article about a lethal self-driving Tesla crash, an absurd event which raises
questions about the amount of control we have in our own lives. In fourteen dynamic tracks, the
band grapples with the existential topic and the human need to find comfort and a sense of
security in an existence where we’re often thrust into chaos without permission. Dreyer yells
with a more primal sense and sings in a more refined way, and the guitars have a sharper edge
than ever before. “As much as I don’t enjoy the creative process because it’s taxing and often
not fun, I also think it’s the most fun that I ever have,” Dreyer contemplates. “It’s the revelations
you make, the breakthroughs. It’s banging your head against a wall and suddenly something
clicks in a way that feels almost divine, like it came from somewhere else.” - bio by Danielle Chelosky

Northlane are a chart topping, award-winning metal band from Sydney, Australia. Their new offering, Obsidian, is their most expansive and dynamic album yet.

Self-recorded and self-produced, the sound Northlane have been working towards over the span of their career has been fully realised on Obsidian.

Sonically spanning the gamut of their entire discography, Northlane's trademark heavy comfortably coexists with techno, drum and bass, intriguing synths, perplexing time signatures and widescreen choruses.

It's this fearless evolution that keeps them light years ahead of everyone else in heavy music.

 

Track List:

1. Clarity
2. Clockwork
3. Echo Chamber
4. Carbonized
5. Abomination
6. Plenty
7. Is This A Test?
8. Xen
9. Cypher
10. Nova
11. Inamorata
12. Obsidian
13. Dark Solitaire

Tracklist:

1. Inferno
2. Dawn Curse
3. Sabaku Kyu (feat. Volitile Ways)
4. Remnants
5. The Bond
6. Empty Promises

With the broader adoption of the internet around the turn of the century, how people would engage with and discover underground music would change forever. As a result of the new digital era, DIY was now worldwide, and no band embraced this new frontier better than Have A Nice Life. Formed in 2000 by duo Dan Barrett andTim Macuga, the Middletown, CT-based pair would, throughout the 00s, self-release and share a number of demos and home recordings via early social media channels as well as establish its in-house label ENEMIES LIST HOME RECORDINGS.These first steps set in motion Have A Nice Life’s rise to renown as an icon of underground music in the internet age, culminating with the release of its pivotal 2008 debut album, Deathconsciousness. Through word of mouth and online discussion, Deathconsciousness became subject to viral praise thanks to its synthesis of bleak post-punk, lo-fi shoegaze, and carpets of hypnotic drone music. Eventually, this humble self-released project would attain the status of a post-internet cult classic, amassing Have A Nice Life a fervent online following that the band would interact with in kind.

In an effort to thank and continue to engage with Have A Nice Life’s internet cult following, Barrett and Macuga would regularly share links to old demos, works in progress, and outtakes from the recording of Deathconsciousness.Over time, a group of fans would compile these demos into an unofficial release. Dubbed Voids, this fan-made compilation several alternate takes of tracks from Deathconsciousness,as well as a handful of early versions of songs that would appear on Have A Nice Life’s two following albums, The Unnatural Worldand Sea of Worry. While undeniably reminiscent of their final album version counterparts, the earlier versions of these tracks each feel distinct in a way that makes the moody, decidedly lo-fi aura of Voidsan essential slice of the Have A Nice Life discography. Hungry for more from the enigmatic duo, fans swarmed around this compilation, accompanied by loud calls for it to receive a physical release. Seeing that demand and with the band’s blessing, a pair of fan-made tape pressings of Voids would be released via Music Ruins Lives, a DIY label run by Have A Nice Life superfan Thom Wasluck, also known for his band Planning for Burial. Between both instances of the tape swiftly selling out and the compilation’s long absence from streaming services, Voidshas historically been an elusive release to track down, only available in the obscurest corners of the internet or physically on the secondary market at eye-wateringly high prices.

Over a decade since its initial, unofficial release in 2011, The Flenser is proud to reissue Have A Nice Life’s Voids for the first time ever in an official capacity in physical form. Originally released digitally in early 2023 and freshly remastered for the occasion, this reissue of the beloved compilation will receive its first-ever wide release on physical formats (CD/LP/Cassette). This release also marks the first time fan-favorite tracks from Voids “Sisyphus”, “I’m Doctor House”, and “Human Error” will be available on vinyl and CD. Like a symbolic passing of the torch, the physical versions of the 2023 Voids reissue come with a foreword essay written by Wasluck, the previous custodian of Voidsduring the Music Ruins Lives days.

Track Listing:

1. The Big Gloom
2. Waiting for Black Metal Records to Come in the Mail
3. The Future
4. Earthmover
5. Who Would Leave Their Son Out in the Sun?
6. Human Error 
7. Trespassers W 
8. Defenestration Song 
9. I’m Dr. House 
10. Sisyphus
11. Destinos

Tracked with Shane Edwards at Electric Sun Studio and mixed by Zeuss at Planet Z Studios, "We Can't Be Saved" is the follow up to 2009's "Cold Streets".

Track Listing:

1. Stranded
2. Playdates With Wolves
3. Sylar
4. Homicide Note
5. Pedestrian Wasteland
6. The Cure
7. The End Of Eternity
8. We Can't Be Saved
9. City Of Misery
10. So Long Stranger
11. Medicate

Touche Amore announce their first new album in four years, "Spiral In A Straight Line." Returning to work with famed producer Ross Robinson for the second time following their critically acclaimed, 2020 album "Lament," which was awarded Best New Album by Pitchfork, "Spiral In A Straight Line" challenges the band to dig deep again. As a result, they return with a poignant body of work that captures a distinctly universal phenomenon - spiraling - and getting caught in the emotional debris of the words, emotions, memories, and pain that are left after things are flipped upside down.

Track Listing:

1. Nobody's
2. Disasters
3. Hal Ashby
4. Force Of Habit
5. Mezzanine
6. Altitude
7. This Routine
8. Finalist
9. Subversion (Brand New Love)
10. The Glue
11. Goodbye For Now

With the ability to excel in both quiet ballads and distorted rock anthems, Citizen (which recently expanded to a full quintet with the addition of former touring members drummer Ben Russin and guitarist Mason Mercer) has an incredible knack for channeling raw emotion and energy into singalong songs.

On Calling The Dogs, the band exemplifies that passionate songwriting and styling while stripping back to what they do best: guitar-driven rock'n roll.

Picking up labels ranging from post-hardcore to shoe-gaze over the years, it’s reductive to try to categorise Citizen as anything other than one of the best rock bands around today. Evolving from teenagers playing local dives to a vibrant band capable of selling out theatres and hitting major festivals around the world, vocalist Mat Kerekes, guitarist Nick Hamm and bassist Eric Hamm have earned their reputation as both tremendous songwriters and a must-see live act — and they do both better than ever on their new album, Calling The Dogs.

Track Listing:

1. Headtrip
2. Can't Take It Slow
3. Hyper Trophy
4. If You're Lonely
5. Lay Low
6. Needs
7. Bad Company
8. Dogs
9. When I Let You Down
10. Options
11. Takes One to Know One

VOL. 2 continues a mountainous sound borne of madness and revelation, ASTRODEATH report back from the precipice, bringing us haunting visions of a blind and indifferent universe and the hideous, mindless creations that lie in wait, insatiable in their desire to dominate and devour. Hailing from Cadigal Land in the Eora Nation (otherwise known as Sydney), singer/guitarist Tim Lancken and drummer Yoshi Hausler weave an otherworldly musical alchemy that belies their earthly origins and underpins the ritualistic hypnosis of Astrodeath's furious and intimidating sound, a titanic reverberation that far exceeds the sum of its twin parts.

Track Listing:

1. Permafrost
2. Leviathan Rising
3. Red Weed
4. Ceremonial Blood
5. Neo Nephilim
6. Golden Death Machine 
7. Invasion
8. The End