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Enslaved have pushed back tier European 2021 Tour to February & March 2022. Support comes from Intronaut, Obsidian Kingdom and Crown.

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June 4th, 2021, will see Chilean avant-garde metal act Wooden Veins to release their highly anticipated debut studio album, titled “In Finitude”, via powerhouse label The Vinyl Division.

Featuring former members of well known doom metal units like Mourning Sun and Mar de Grises, the participants are by far no strangers to the scene. With the idea of creating a different kind of music, including sub genres and traces of other elements, Wooden Veins truly create their very own and other-worldy universe of sound.

World-renowned guitar virtuoso, Joe Satriani, has rescheduled his Shapeshifting European & UK Tour to Spring 2022, due to the coronavirus pandemic. Tickets for his April and May 2021 UK “Shapeshifting” tour dates remain valid for the rescheduled Spring 2022 dates.

Tickets are available here and here. See all dates below.

Romanian psychedelic doom and post-rock collective Methadone Skies has announced the details of their upcoming, fifth studio album, entitled “Retrofuture Caveman”, which is slated for a released on May 7th, 2021.

Born in Athens in 1983, John Makris became known to the Greek public as a member of the Greek comedy rock band “Anorimoi”, whose discography consists of five official albums, two of which with Warner Music Records.

As a producer, guitarist and sound engineer, John has also participated in projects in Greece and abroad.

His first personal long-play album “Ark”, is an instrumental guitar-driven work, created in reference to vintage sci-fi soundtracks.

GY!BE returns with another soundtrack for our times, like only this inimitable and venerable ensemble can forge. As the heretical anarcho-punk spirit of the title implies, Godspeed harnesses some particularly raw power, spittle and grit across two riveting 20-minute side-length trajectories of noise-drenched widescreen post-rock: inexorable chug blossoms into blown-out twang, as some of the band’s most soaring, searing melodies ricochet and converge amidst violin and bassline counterpoint.

Minimalism and instinct, structure/freedom and meticulous timing form the cornerstones of Big|Brave’s precise, rhythmical sound.

Lyrically, the new album “Vital” explores the weight of race and gender, endurance and navigating other people’s behaviours, observation and protest. The band further commented “this album involves what it means navigating the outside world in a racialized body and what it does to the psyche as a whole while exploring individual worth within this reality”.
 

Steve Von Till has made a life’s work out of seeking the elemental. With a solo discography that stretches back more than two decades, he has toiled in a shadow realm, peeling back layers of reality in a never-ending search for true meaning and raw emotion.

Israeli progressive metal outfit Subterranean Masquerade this week unveils the details for their anxiously awaited new album, “Mountain Fever”. The band’s fourth LP, and sixth overall release, marks the band’s first record to see release through their new label home, Sensory Records, who this week unveils the album’s cover art, track listing, and more.
 

Avant-rock trio Odd Circus will release their mind-bending “Mantha” EP this April through Good Idea Music.