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big|brave a chaos of flowers review

Big|Brave – A Chaos of Flowers

The Montreal trio’s world has never seemed so vast

Thou

Thou announce new album, Umbilical

Hear “I Feel Nothing When You Cry”

The Body & Dis Fig

The Body and Dis Fig announce summer tour

Dates announced in support of ‘Orchards of a Futile Heaven’

Frail Body

6 Great New Metal Albums to Kick Spring Into High Gear

Living legends, heavyweights, and new breakthroughs.

REZN

REZN announce new album, Burden

Hear new song “Chasm,” featuring Russian Circles’ Mike Sullivan.

Knocked Loose

Hear a new Knocked Loose ripper, “Don’t Reach For Me”

‘You Won’t Go Before You’re Supposed To’ out in May

Sumac

Sumac announce new album, The Healer

Hear “Yellow Dawn”

Umbra Vitae

Umbra Vitae announces new album, Light of Death

Hear “Belief is Obsolete”

Frail Body Artificial Bouquet review

Frail Body – Artificial Bouquet

An intense, trailblazing album for a new generation of screamo

Aseethe

Aseethe announce new album, The Cost

Hear “Last Time I Do Anything For a Fucking Friend Ever”

Big Brave

Big|Brave share new song, “canon: in canon,” featuring Marisa Anderson

‘A Chaos of Flowers’ out April 19

Full of Hell

Full of Hell share new song “Gasping Dust,” featuring Immolation’s Ross Dolan

‘Coagulated Bliss’ out April 26

GWAR

GWAR’s Dave Brockie, a.k.a. Oderus Urungus, left a legacy of bad taste and wild entertainment

10 years after his death, we look back at the impact left by the late GWAR frontman

Scarcity - best new metal albums

Scarcity announces new album The Promise of Rain

Hear “In the Basin of Alkaline Grief”

Pallbearer

Pallbearer announce new album, Mind Burns Alive

Hear “Where the Light Fades”

Necrot

Hear a new song from Necrot, “Drill the Skull”

‘Lifeless Birth’ is out in April

HEALTH live - Richmond

HEALTH live in Richmond: The goth metamorphosis is complete

We caught the veteran noise rock/industrial group live in their gloomy element

Darkthrone It beckons us all review

Darkthrone announce new album, It Beckons Us All

Watch a trailer for the black metal legends’ new album

Judas Priest Invincible Shield review

Judas Priest : Invincible Shield

Fifty years into their career, the heavy metal gods keep up a late-period winning streak

Sleepytime Gorilla Museum of the last human being review

Sleepytime Gorilla Museum : of the Last Human Being

The eccentric cult prog band return with their signature dissonance after 17 years