![[Heavy News] CONTRARIAN's George Kollias and Jim Tasikas Back in the Studio!](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67738900deaf1a5f243892aa/1741069079808-Q56LZV9TTLJM11C6UF5J/kolliasdrumming.jpeg)
[Heavy News] CONTRARIAN's George Kollias and Jim Tasikas Back in the Studio!
Rochester (NY)/ Athens (GR): from the #heavynews desk we have word George Kollias (drumming legend of Nile fame) hasn't let the Euro-circuit conclusion allow for laurel-resting. Nope, he's right back in the studios in Greece for prog-death-metal project Contrarian w/ guitarist Jim Tasikas. The pair are laying tracks under the guise of George Bokos of Athens' Grindhouse Studios! The latest LP comes courtesy of Willowtip Records.
![[Heavy News] CABAL Release New Single 'Redemption Denied' + New Album EVERYTHING ROTS Out On March 21st](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67738900deaf1a5f243892aa/1741055931114-TSZ0NAW3ZVJC9ZJ31EVR/cabalcover.png)
[Heavy News] CABAL Release New Single 'Redemption Denied' + New Album EVERYTHING ROTS Out On March 21st
ISC Heavy News: As the release of their new album Everything Rots approaches CABAL unless another ferocious slice of deathcore with the new single 'Redemption Denied'. The new album Everything Rots will be released on March 21st via Nuclear Blast Records. In spring 2025 CABAL will support CALIBAN on their "Back From Hell Tour". Check link for single, preorders, tour dates and more!
![[Heavy News] Italian Death-Doom Trio DEAD CHASM Release Title-Track Single + Preorders for ‘Spectral Tyranny’ LP.](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67738900deaf1a5f243892aa/1740999594409-9GJ99UXKMD6NSLHSWET8/deadchasmprofile.png)
[Heavy News] Italian Death-Doom Trio DEAD CHASM Release Title-Track Single + Preorders for ‘Spectral Tyranny’ LP.
From the Heavy News desk - New Transcending Obscurity Records signing Dead Chasm from Italy deliver a short but highly potent slice of dark, doomy death metal that they have been perfecting since their debut. They’re unleashing they next LP Spectral Tyranny in May 2025 - check the link for title-track single video, artist bio, album preorder link, band/label links and more!
![[Heavy News] GHOST BATH Announce New Album ROSE THORN NECKLACE Out On May 9TH May + Release Music Video For Title Track](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67738900deaf1a5f243892aa/1740379298979-FZO88ZZ4ZWAXP2DCIG9H/ghostbathband.png)
[Heavy News] GHOST BATH Announce New Album ROSE THORN NECKLACE Out On May 9TH May + Release Music Video For Title Track
One-man wanderer above the sea of depressive/atmospheric black metal, solo artist Dennis Mikula (Nameless) of Ghost Bath has returned with news of a new LP in Rose Thorn Necklace, which drops 9th May 2025, via Nuclear Blast. You can check out the full details, track-list, latest single/music clip premiere, album order links and much more via our Heavy News article, for #MusicMondays at ISC.
![[Heavy News] MACHINE HEAD Monumental 11th Album UNATØNED Out April 25th + Release Music Video For First Single 'UNBØUND'](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67738900deaf1a5f243892aa/1739945488031-E7GJVVGL90AVYYKOW814/machineheadcover.png)
[Heavy News] MACHINE HEAD Monumental 11th Album UNATØNED Out April 25th + Release Music Video For First Single 'UNBØUND'
Bay Area metal veterans Machine Head, one of the most omnipresent bands in the heavy collective consciousness, are back with 11th LP UNATØNED, dropping April 25th! Nothing’s been spared on their official press release for it either - there’s everything here from stream and music clip for title track as first single, a whole smorgasbord of physical/digital media pre-order options, statements from the band themselves and heaps more! Machine Farkin’ Head, mate!
![[Heavy News] #ICYMI: LOVE IS NOISE Release Century Media Debut LP With ‘To Live In A Different Way’.](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67738900deaf1a5f243892aa/1739795245297-VY7A9QHESJ8W14QYE2K7/loveisnoise.jpg)
[Heavy News] #ICYMI: LOVE IS NOISE Release Century Media Debut LP With ‘To Live In A Different Way’.
Interrupting the flow of heavier things for a second, for Music Mondays here at ISC we’d like to change it up a gear. Singer-songwriter Cameron Humphrey has been peddling a whole bunch of lush aural soundscapes via Love is Noise since 2021. Cameron’s project evokes bright tones and all sorts of emotional range, from dream-pop, garage-rock and shoegaze through to some heavier, Deftones/Glassjaw adjacent moments. Check out link for info as well as LiN’s various links!
![[Heavy News] Into Eternity to Headline ProgStorm, Canada’s First Progressive Metal Festival!](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67738900deaf1a5f243892aa/1739776435014-95B0QM2O5JHJX60NXFDN/intoeternity.jpg)
[Heavy News] Into Eternity to Headline ProgStorm, Canada’s First Progressive Metal Festival!
Seems I’ve got two things to be jealous of regarding our Canadian Canuck Commonwealth kin, right now - 1. Not frying in Australian summer, and 2. Into Eternity announcing HUGE news by way of headlining Montreal’s first-ever progressive-metal festival - Progstorm! Scope out the details, links to the festival/tickets etc, announcement from the band and more! Merci beacoup!
![[Heavy News] U.S. Black Metallers, LENAX, Unleash Hellscape Vol. I (The Voices) EP](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67738900deaf1a5f243892aa/1739773998421-L3TZ20NL80EAN085GXN7/a1886797854_10.jpg)
[Heavy News] U.S. Black Metallers, LENAX, Unleash Hellscape Vol. I (The Voices) EP
Heading across the pond a ways for our second Heavy News feature for Music Mondays, we have Nashville-based black metal fiends Lenax. They’ve chopped and hacked at their own infernal EP, now released as Hellscape Vol. 1 (The Voices). Check the link for streaming embed (which contains additional bonus tracks), pre-order link, a hefty and informative artist/album/production bio, Lexas’ links (linx?!) and more! Get grim and kvlt with this one, y’all.
![[Heavy News] Polish Death Metal Duo, DORMANT ORDEAL, to Release Tooth and Nail on Willowtip in April!](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67738900deaf1a5f243892aa/1739771812411-F013H17ORTZA2GG20R2F/rsz_1dormantordeal-1.jpg)
[Heavy News] Polish Death Metal Duo, DORMANT ORDEAL, to Release Tooth and Nail on Willowtip in April!
Krakow-based Polish are our first cab off the rank for a busy #MusicMondays segment, with lots of Heavy News to come! This stellar duo in Maciej Nieścioruk (guitars) and Maciej Proficz (vocals) have completed recording of their upcoming harsh, expansive and gritty LP Tooth and Nail in April, via Willowtip. Check the link for album/artist bio, singles links, album pre-order and more! Death, doom and much cool nastiness abounds.
![[Heavy News] MESHUGGAH Announce ‘Immutable - The Indelible Edition’ LP, Unveil Music Video for ‘Ligature Marks’](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67738900deaf1a5f243892aa/1739510149510-G7E4Y3IWMC7Y1PI4UYN5/meshuggahcover.jpg)
[Heavy News] MESHUGGAH Announce ‘Immutable - The Indelible Edition’ LP, Unveil Music Video for ‘Ligature Marks’
Meshuggah. An ever-dependable, technical and progressive metal powerhouse, who’ve endured genre-trends and rejected tradition for decades now. They’ve just released a work-up/bonus-features-packed Indelible Edition of previous LP The Immutable, with digipak, vinyl and other versions available. Check the link for order details, album bio and link to music clip for reworked single in ‘Ligature Marks’. Hail to the Kings.
![[Heavy News] Australian doom outfit Ghostsmoker drop sludge-ridden new single ‘Elogium’.](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67738900deaf1a5f243892aa/1739178618771-GP77IX6D3PLLWRR3MHMN/ghostsmoker+band.jpg)
[Heavy News] Australian doom outfit Ghostsmoker drop sludge-ridden new single ‘Elogium’.
The hypnotic hypnotic dirge and dense atmosphere of ‘ Elogium’ shows why they are one of the finest sludge and doom bands in Australia today. The Melbourne-based doom-peddlers have crawled up from abyssal depths to spew forth a fine pile of well-crafted gristle. Yes, that’s possible. Don’t believe me? Click the link to listen to the stream direct, stream/download new single, check Melb/Syd tour dates and pre-order Inertia Cult, which drops March 21st, via Art as Catharsis records.
![[Heavy News] BENEDICTION Release Video For New Single, Engines Of War +Album Pre-Order For RAVAGE OF EMPIRES Commences](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67738900deaf1a5f243892aa/1739172475830-ZYB94XQ6OJZZJIOMDH77/benedictionband.png)
[Heavy News] BENEDICTION Release Video For New Single, Engines Of War +Album Pre-Order For RAVAGE OF EMPIRES Commences
For Music Mondays, straight from the Heavy News desk: British death metal legends, BENEDICTION, have unleashed the first single from their upcoming new studio album, Ravage Of Empires,due to be released on April 4, 2025, via Nuclear Blast Records. ‘ Ave a good peep at this one, guv’nor! There’s links to the single stream for ‘Engines of War’ + upcoming LP. Righto cobber, get your brutal on, innit!
![[Heavy News] LORDI take fans on a nostalgic trip with lyric video for new single 'Retropolis'](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67738900deaf1a5f243892aa/1739154394146-ZXX5GSXMZ1MJFF29T4OG/lordibandcover.jpg)
[Heavy News] LORDI take fans on a nostalgic trip with lyric video for new single 'Retropolis'
Finland’s Lordi have been bringing the glammed-up horror-themed heavy metal and hard to international audiences for decades now. From the Heavy News desk for Music Mondays here at ISC comes the anthemic single ‘Retropolis’, inspired by 80’s pop culture. Check out the post for link to single, full-album stream/order link re: upcoming LP Limited Deadition, album details/bio, artist bio/socials links and more!
![[Heavy News] THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN Announce August 2025 Australian Tour](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67738900deaf1a5f243892aa/1738849675088-0B1CO2DYQ2EPHFLVY4U7/dillingercover.jpg)
[Heavy News] THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN Announce August 2025 Australian Tour
MASSIVE! Absolutely massive! The Dillinger Escape Plan return from their prior hiatus to provide you lucky Aussie heavy-music-enjoyers another final opportunity to see their incredible, intense live show on our shores one last time! This one cannot be missed.
![[Heavy News] NERVOSA Announce First-Ever Aus Tour in ‘15 Years of Nervosa’](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67738900deaf1a5f243892aa/1738823900082-KMVEX6L1YCTCURBIZRUP/nervosacover.png)
[Heavy News] NERVOSA Announce First-Ever Aus Tour in ‘15 Years of Nervosa’
One of Brazil’s finest modern death-thrash exploits, Nervosa, are slated to tour Down Under for the first time! That’s going to be a ripping pit and a neck-injuring great time, especially as they’re celebrating 15 years of mayhem. Get the skinny on tickets (onsale this week, including VIP packages), tour dates, venues, latest singles, artist links and more right here! Get your thrash-mania on, ‘Straya.
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[Music Mondays] Mon 3rd Feb, 2025.
This week’s Music Monday contains more than you shake a stick at! Multiple recent Heavy News items - album releases! Recent Riffs (articles)! Reviews and more! Plus a whole swathe of updates from the equally-busy Musolegion community - more album reviews, gig reviews and several packed Musolegion Recommends pieces exploring bands from Iceland, Japan and Central Asia! Dig in, music-lovers.
![[Heavy News] MEPHETIC CORPSE’s ‘Sickness Attracts Sickness’ Out Now!](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67738900deaf1a5f243892aa/1738576059786-Y9JNDGAEMP8IAT8R0WMA/Mephitic+Corpse+promo.jpg)
[Heavy News] MEPHETIC CORPSE’s ‘Sickness Attracts Sickness’ Out Now!
From the Heavy News desk for Music Mondays here at ISC - The debut full-length from US vomit-grinders MEPHITIC CORPSE has been unleashed! Sickness Attracts Sickness is now available on digital and physical formats. Extremely Rotten Productions will release the album to European audiences with Headsplit Records (vinyl, CD and cassette) and 625 Thrashcore (vinyl and CD) releasing the album in the US. Get your gore and blast on!