![[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] #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] 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] SYLOSIS Set To Lay Waste To Australian Crowds - Tour Kicks Off!](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67738900deaf1a5f243892aa/1739238156347-CRCROG57D7W7RRKSN8VF/sylosisband.png)
[Heavy News] SYLOSIS Set To Lay Waste To Australian Crowds - Tour Kicks Off!
Sylosis have just dropped onto our shores and are ready to spread modern thrash-metal havoc across Australian shores from today onwards! Check the link for tour dates, ticket links, background info on artist/recent singles and links for same in the scorchers ‘Deadwood’, ‘Servitude’ and ‘The Path’. Their first time here since 2013, we can personally vouch for an energetic and grandiose show. Get amongst it!
![[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] GOTTHARD unleash new single & video 'Thunder & Lightning'; ‘STEREO CRUSH’ now available for pre-order](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67738900deaf1a5f243892aa/1737964062720-IZNJ12JKX2ZY9Z2HUHJW/gotthardband.png)
[Heavy News] GOTTHARD unleash new single & video 'Thunder & Lightning'; ‘STEREO CRUSH’ now available for pre-order
Swiss rock legends Gotthard are 16 albums deep into a successful, decade-spanning career. Not content to rest on their laurels, here at the Heavy News desk for our Music Mondays column we’ve been given a swathe of details on up-and-comer LP Stereo Crush. There’s plenty of content here to sink into - album bio/details, video/streaming links for newest singles ‘Thunder and Lightning’ & ‘Boom Boom’, plus all a heap more! Stereo Crush will be released courtesy of Reigning Phoenix Music in Oz.
![[Archive] Interview with OLOF WIKSTRAND of Sweden’s ENFORCER + Australian Tour Details.](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67738900deaf1a5f243892aa/1737520812639-U43J3B80ZKQQ5WVCID3A/472871823_1144203967066725_9209872957837145904_n.jpg)
[Archive] Interview with OLOF WIKSTRAND of Sweden’s ENFORCER + Australian Tour Details.
AUSTRALIA! Are you ready to rock out in your finest leathers and gauntlets? You should be, ‘cause Swedish heavy/true-metallers Enforcer are on our shores and are about to show Newcastle the Steel! Check the link for my video interview with Olof Wikstrand, frontman/guitarist, which was originally posted on our website that unfortunately went down on 31.12.24. It’s too late, however - peep the link and get the scoop on tickets, artist links, new singles and more!
![[Archive] ISC Pod EP. 28 (Part 1): Review of FROTH AND FURY FEST, Sat 9th Nov 2024 - A Day of Metal & Mayhem.](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67738900deaf1a5f243892aa/1737436311029-A1AK2X1WIG3J3DY0XEDV/458314957_821529990096799_6768939003107938271_n.png)
[Archive] ISC Pod EP. 28 (Part 1): Review of FROTH AND FURY FEST, Sat 9th Nov 2024 - A Day of Metal & Mayhem.
See here for Part 1 of Brady and Mal’s MASSIVE coverage of 2024’s Froth and Fury Festival in Adelaide, South Australia last November. We cover a swathe of detail raging from site and venue to the first half of our gig reviews from the day - Bifurcation, Sundowner, Signals, Lumen ad Mortem, Pizza Death, FANGZ, Future Static, Great American Ghost, Hands Like Houses and Dharma. Plus some of the wrestling and medieval fighting events (you heard right), cool vendors and more!
![[Heavy News] GATES TO HELL Announces New Album DEATH COMES TO ALL Out March 21st + New Single, 'Next To Bleed', Streaming Now + Available As 7-Inch Vinyl](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67738900deaf1a5f243892aa/1737350790114-99VQK0865MBYA209V9AW/image007.jpg)
[Heavy News] GATES TO HELL Announces New Album DEATH COMES TO ALL Out March 21st + New Single, 'Next To Bleed', Streaming Now + Available As 7-Inch Vinyl
The ground quakes, the surface fractures, and a colossal force rises from the abyss: GATES TO HELL have returned to deliver their undeniable truth—Death Comes to All. The Louisville natives charge onto the heavy music scene with their second full-length which will be released March 21st via Nuclear Blast Records. Check the link for initial single ‘First to Bleed’, preorder links, exclusive merch opportunities and more!
![[Heavy News] BURNING WITCHES Announce May 2025 Debut Australian Tour](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67738900deaf1a5f243892aa/1737348379249-Q8EEBGWX60ORZBS6XXVP/bwcover.png)
[Heavy News] BURNING WITCHES Announce May 2025 Debut Australian Tour
Swiss heavy/power-metal quintet Burning Witches bring their coven of traditional heavy metal witchery to Australian shores in 2025! Check the link for tour dates, latest single, artist links and more. For #musicmonday here at ISC, from the #heavynews desk.
![[Archive] ISC Podcast Ep 22.: Interview with ANDREW CRAIGHAN, Guitarist of MY DYING BRIDE.](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67738900deaf1a5f243892aa/1737011005975-6677WFNSCGAYMXSK0KHY/mdb.jpg)
[Archive] ISC Podcast Ep 22.: Interview with ANDREW CRAIGHAN, Guitarist of MY DYING BRIDE.
Note: This is an archival repost, originally posted to our now-defunct prior website (RIP old site 22.03.2024, sniff). Check the link for our March 2024 interview with Andrew Craighan, guitarist for perennial UK doom veterans My Dying Bride. We discuss the 2024-released LP among many other topics pertaining to musicianship and sustaining a career in the industry. It’s a sincere, earnest and fun conversation. Thanks again to Andrew and MDB!
Relevant podcast links and additional album/artist info also contained within this post.
![[Heavy News] Introducing: Music Mondays and Tech Tuesdays!](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67738900deaf1a5f243892aa/1736945266015-ZY5CR0M2KV34E7T3SKPZ/image-6.png)
[Heavy News] Introducing: Music Mondays and Tech Tuesdays!
Featured Image: Lachlan R. Dale, solo artist and label owner of Worlds Within Worlds and Art as Catharsis. (interview with Lachlan incoming as i extract it from the carcass of our now-defunct old website, RIP). This article was originally posted to our old website, long may it rest, and introduces Music Mondays for the first time - a regular column including all the latest in heavy and alternative music news, features, reviews, ISC content updates and our own musician updates as well!
![[Heavy News] DYNAZTY Release New Single 'Call Of The Night' + New Album GAME OF FACES Out On February 14th](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67738900deaf1a5f243892aa/1736648608453-8WRF4HF4WR5PJZR3C7GL/image005.jpg)
[Heavy News] DYNAZTY Release New Single 'Call Of The Night' + New Album GAME OF FACES Out On February 14th
First New ISC Heavy News item for 2025! Creators of power metal super-track 'Heartless Madness', DYNAZTY today release their third single 'Call of the Night'. The new album Game of Faces will be released on February 14th, 2025 via Nuclear Blast Records. See the link for full album details, tracklist, preorder link and streaming/video links for the latest single.
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[Archive - 26.11.24] Introducing: #MusicMondays and #TechTuesdays!
Whilst I don’t have the capacity re: time and energy etc, plus have lost a bit of metadata with the death of my prior site - I can’t in good conscience let stellar posts and input from the Musolegion community (as well as a chance for promoting a lot of great bands!) go to waste. See here for an explainer and initial introduction to Music Mondays (featuring our Musolegion ‘From The Community’ column) and Technical Tuesdays blog series. Keep following us on the new site for future segments!