![[Heavy News] ALCEST Release New Video For 'Amèthyste'](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67738900deaf1a5f243892aa/1738900812723-DBESPYPEFMD4W655CR66/alcestbandcover.jpg)
[Heavy News] ALCEST Release New Video For 'Amèthyste'
Renowned French post-black metal/shoegaze outfit Alcest have just dropped a lush new music video for the single ‘Amèthyste’ off their fantastic LP Les Chants De L'Aurore released June 2024. Peep the link to check out the new video, as well as artist links and additional statement from Neige around where they’re at. Enjoy the vibes!
![[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.
![[Fantasy Friday] Free League’s Dragonbane Two-For-One Kickstarter.](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67738900deaf1a5f243892aa/1738909723469-XD4YU9T0T9O4FZU6XRXB/22d3b660-09bf-4509-9e6e-e95724c9a0f1_1200x600.jpg)
[Fantasy Friday] Free League’s Dragonbane Two-For-One Kickstarter.
Featured/Blog Post Image Credits: Free League Publishing and associated artists (see within for details). Not content to just burp up an also-ran GPT-slop copy-paste of promo releases, I’ve added in some thoughts and commentary (plus contributor/creator links to separate projects) alongside this belated Tabletop Thursday/Dicey News re: new Dragonbane RPG double-hitter Kickstarter in Secrets of Luvataan/ Hardships of The Wilderness! Play this RPG to Conan.
![[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.
![[review] Without Warning-Time is Running Out](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67738900deaf1a5f243892aa/1738808389344-KQ4XJ2R6LIKMBQ22WR8M/ww_muse_tiro_cover_3000x3000px_update.jpg)
![[Interview]: with Tabletop Designer, Steve Dee](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67738900deaf1a5f243892aa/1738660506102-DEVWWJU7JVFM3J9VZMA8/Kickstarter_banner.png)
[Interview]: with Tabletop Designer, Steve Dee
Steve Dee is one of Australia’s most prolific tabletop designers. I probed him about his upcoming Kickstarter project, The Worldwell, and his philosophies on design.
![[Heavy News] XOTH Announces U.S. West Coast Tour, Launching April 4th!](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67738900deaf1a5f243892aa/1738655847256-RZCKXYGGVJRNXHBJENDW/xothbandphto.jpg)
[Heavy News] XOTH Announces U.S. West Coast Tour, Launching April 4th!
Seattle (WA) - Death/thrash/black metal futurists, XOTH, are thrilled to announce their U.S. West Coast Tour, beginning on Friday, April 4th in Tacoma, WA, where the band will share the stage with the legendary 3 Inches of Blood. Along the way, XOTH will join forces with a host of killer bands, including Starcourt, Street Cleaner, and Upon Stone. Check the link for you lucky-ducks in the US - full tour dates and much more!
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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!
![[Heavy News] BEHEMOTH Unveils Video For Title Track Of New Album ‘THE SHIT OV GOD’](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67738900deaf1a5f243892aa/1738557018173-X2FZ3UM9KDM662L9JO3X/behemothcover.png)
[Heavy News] BEHEMOTH Unveils Video For Title Track Of New Album ‘THE SHIT OV GOD’
Extreme metal giants BEHEMOTH have revealed the title, cover art and release date of their upcoming new opus, The Shit Ov God, which is due to be released on May 9th via Nuclear Blast Records. Alongside the title track, which is streaming now, an opulent music video. Check the link for the clip, relevant artist links, additional album details and more! Horns = raised.
![[Dicey News] EXALTED FUNERAL Brings Thee: Godhusk from Plastiboo! Cave Evil Art Book! Ungodz!](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67738900deaf1a5f243892aa/1738508829715-ZQ5ZHRZWZ3I651MWYY1K/ungodzz.png)
[Dicey News] EXALTED FUNERAL Brings Thee: Godhusk from Plastiboo! Cave Evil Art Book! Ungodz!
If you erroneously believe there’s no overlap between indie tabletop-roleplaying, extreme metal brutality and sick grimdark art, I’ve got news for you son. More specifically, darlings of the TTRPG OSR-focused underworld Exalted Funeral do. I just added commentary and SICK art. ITT: metal-as-hell RPG books in The Glumdark, Dirtbagz, Ungodz, Arkos , a compendium of nasties in Manifester Monsters, plus a shooty-shooty sci-fi RPG Kickstarter Dirtbagz. A few Kickstarters actually!
![[Riff] Don’t give up, there’s hope on the horizon.](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67738900deaf1a5f243892aa/1738332367562-S5HTUEQ8MM4HR27IFT2F/473556627_591868246964309_83424344857037123_n.jpg)
[Riff] Don’t give up, there’s hope on the horizon.
In this Riff (article), Mal provides a nice little playlist broaching both alternative and pop-music titles from across a wide palette. (Plus, we get a playlist which is linked inside this post!). Most importantly, Mal provides some lovely, strengths-based reflections that are prompted/drawn from said songs. In these confusing, uncertain and chaotic times, it’s important to lean into this little nuggets of hope from our creative muses.
![ISC Podcast Ep. 33: [INTERVIEW] w/ ROBERT ERIKsSON, Drummer of Sweden’s THE HELLACOPTERS.](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67738900deaf1a5f243892aa/1738414509042-Y091QM06C17X67PJU9IS/hellacopterscover.jpg)
ISC Podcast Ep. 33: [INTERVIEW] w/ ROBERT ERIKsSON, Drummer of Sweden’s THE HELLACOPTERS.
Another music-scene veteran with many years of industry experience under his belt in Robert Erikkson! Robert is the long-term mainstay drummer of Swedish hard-rock institution The Hellacopters. We caught up on Tue 28th Jan just prior to release of their infectious, hooky and fun latest LP Overdriver, available as of the 31st. Check out the full interview plus artist bio, album order links, latest singles and more! Rock on, Svenska style.
![[Archive] Interview with AARON TUCK of Black Metallers LUMEN AD MORTEM.](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67738900deaf1a5f243892aa/1739080389492-88WXR2185K96UDW5IW73/image-38.png)
[Archive] Interview with AARON TUCK of Black Metallers LUMEN AD MORTEM.
Pic Credit: Jai from @crannkmedia. Originally posted on our sadly now-defunct old website (RIP) in November 2024, ahead of their imposing presence/our review of same @ Froth And Fury Festival - here’s a Q&A interview with indominable frontman Aaron Tuck of South Australian black metal all-stars Lumen Ad Mortem! It’s a great chat and worth revisiting. Go check out their stuff, fantastic live too - can confirm.
![[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.
![[Heavy News] Sludge-Soaked UK Rockers SLUNG Announce Debut Album, New Single + UK Tour.](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67738900deaf1a5f243892aa/1737702527411-Y13CWERSF6WPA6ICQXUG/Slung3.jpg)
[Heavy News] Sludge-Soaked UK Rockers SLUNG Announce Debut Album, New Single + UK Tour.
From the Heavy News desk here at ISC. Australian label Art as Catharsis bring you a whole bunch of details on UK sludge-rockers Slung re: upcoming LP In Ways. Check the link for music video, Soundcloud stream link and mp3 direct-download link for latest single ‘Laughter’. UK followers, you can also get the skinny on all the tour dates as well! For fans of: Mastodon, Kylesa, QOTSA, Red Fang.
![[Podcast] A CONTENT-CHALLENGER Has Appeared! Please Welcome Newest ISC Team Member - Spiro ‘The Hype Guy’!](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67738900deaf1a5f243892aa/1737869823177-TP60EYGJTJJ0QKSR9W1Q/449489258_1601451417368496_1316748943146880322_n.jpg)
[Podcast] A CONTENT-CHALLENGER Has Appeared! Please Welcome Newest ISC Team Member - Spiro ‘The Hype Guy’!
Please give a warm and heartfelt welcome to the fourth addition to this humble podcast/blog/streaming platform at Inner-Strength Check, in SPIRO, aka THE HYPE GUY! As you’ll see in the post, that warrants Caps Lock. Check out his various energetic content-happenings and a primer on his recent projects, including a very important drive for the currently-struggling JamPot Studios on the Sunshine Coast. Welcome, mate!
![[Gig Review] ENFORCER @ The Leadbeater Hotel, Melbourne 25.01.25.](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67738900deaf1a5f243892aa/1737969903782-LTJ9L6VK9H41K3HBL7QD/Enforcer+-+Leadbeater+Hotel+250125-28.png)
[Gig Review] ENFORCER @ The Leadbeater Hotel, Melbourne 25.01.25.
What an honour! Our first local review as an official outlet in Melbourne, and it could’ve been a better pick to kick things off in that respect. Sweden’s Enforcer blazed The Leadbeater Hotel in Richmond last night with a level of NWOBHM/trad/speed-metal and classic rock bombast that was transcendent, skilled and heartfelt! Read on for full the review, including sets by support acts Burnout, Aardvark and Livewire, gig footage, pics and more!
![[Riffs] Interview with Adelaide’s SUNDOWNER, Pre-Froth and Fury 2024.](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67738900deaf1a5f243892aa/1737783213222-MV13J0FE4CD3P1V8UI1Q/sundowner.jpeg)
[Riffs] Interview with Adelaide’s SUNDOWNER, Pre-Froth and Fury 2024.
Originally posted on our unfortunately now-defunct old website in November 2024, prior to our coverage (and their fantastic set) of Froth and Fury Festival in Adelaide, SA. Since then, we’ve added in additional artist links, footage of their set from the festival and more! Doom on, enjoy some of SA’s most groovy and hostile blues.
![[Dicey News] ALIEN The Roleplaying Game Evolved Edition Bursts onto Kickstarter on March 25.](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67738900deaf1a5f243892aa/1737618714717-PQSHWLZBFVRTKZ0QPQC9/aliencrb.jpg)
[Dicey News] ALIEN The Roleplaying Game Evolved Edition Bursts onto Kickstarter on March 25.
DUDE. New Alien RPG: Evolved Edition launch their Kickstarter campaign on March 25th! Check the link for details - there’s so much good stuff coming! New starter set! New corebook! Minis! A solo mode made in collaboration with solo GOAT Shawn Tomkin! New tools, rules, weapons, characters, everything! Courtesy of Sweden’s greatest RPG heroes in Free League Publishing.