8 Kalacas release new music video for ‘Pudrete’

8 KALACAS have released a new music video! The new music video, for the track Pudrete, is taken from the Californian self-proclaimed ‘skacore’ band’s upcoming new album, Frontera, which is scheduled to be…

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Joe Satriani ‘The Elephants Of Mars’ – Behind The Bass Sound

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Beddy Rays release new music video for ‘Milk’

BEDDY RAYS have released a new music video! The new music video, for the track Milk, is the brand new single from the Australian Speaking about the new song, frontman Jacko says, “Milk is…

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Helpless release new song ‘The Empty Gesture’

HELPLESS have released a brand new song! The new song, titled The Empty Gesture, is taken from the UK-based grindcore/noise band’s upcoming new album, Caged In Gold, which is scheduled to be released…

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Polaris announce European tour

POLARIS have announced a headlining European tour! Set for September and October this year, the tour will see the Australian metalcore band touring across mainland Europe and the UK in support…

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Krüller – AUTHOR & PUNISHER

While gleefully hurling spanners into the works, at some unholy midpoint between industrial, drone, doom and alternative metal, AUTHOR & PUNISHER (Tristan Shone to his friends) has already made eight full-length albums of spine-wrenching, soul-flaying heaviness and avant-garde sound subversion. It would be no exaggeration to say that “Krüller”, album number nine, is easily the most accessible so far, and yet such are the layered depths and all-encompassing weight of these songs, that Shone’s second album for RELAPSE RECORDS is also utterly uncompromising and, at times, overwhelming.

If Shone does have a formula, it hinges on the fervent souping up of machines, and the endless, dread-filled bottom end and waves of excoriating distortion and feedback that emerge as a result. Coupled with a much greater sense that AUTHOR & PUNISHER is a songwriting vehicle, rather than just a means to flatten people’s skulls, and “Krüller” swiftly outstrips its predecessors.

Opener “Drone Carrying Dread” does exactly as advertised, plumbing new depths of dub-inspired, slow-motion crush, as viscous melodies ooze and something that may once have been a guitar stirs up a whirring storm of freeform scree, for seven murderous minutes. “Incinerator” makes greater use of space, with ambient resonances and fizzing synths locked in synch with the grinding ebb and flow of cosmic tides. “Centurion” is damnable electro-rock, priapic with vitriol and as ominous and oppressive as early SWANS. “Blacksmith” does evil things to a breakbeat and drifts in and out like some free-roaming electromagnetic nightmare, while the title track’s excruciating freefall toward oblivion may be the most unapologetically twisted and nihilistic burst of industrial metal since MINISTRY’s “Filth Pig” album.

AUTHOR & PUNISHER’s debt to doom is most apparent on “Maiden Star”, which is soporific, mechanistic shoegaze with a heart of impenetrable darkness, while “Misery” employs a persistent pulse that steadily builds to a bleakly bombastic crescendo of disfigured guitars and poisonous pomp. Only a cover of PORTISHEAD’s “Glorybox” gives any indication that there is a twinkle in Shone’s eye: “Krüller” is focused on the impending end of all things, and its own ability to turn that finality into sonic weapons of war. This is a triumph for the visceral potential of sound, and the emotional catharsis that comes when everything is cranked up to the absolute max. Being crushed by the wheels of industry has seldom felt more satisfying.

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Konvent release new music video for ‘Pipe Dreams’

KONVENT have released a new music video! The new music video, for the track Pipe Dreams, is taken from the Danish death/doom band’s upcoming album, Call Down The Sun, which is scheduled to…

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Joe Bonamassa: “Songwriting is the last frontier. You can recreate your favorite sounds, but far more important is pushing yourself to write better songs”

JoBo talks Time Clocks – his strongest and most diverse album to date – and discusses his newfound role as 2021’s foremost blues/rock impresario

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TED NUGENT On Transgender Women Competing On Female Sports Teams: 'It Is The Work Of Satan'

Ted Nugent has spoken out against the participation of transgender women in female sports, calling it “the work of Satan” and “absolutely unacceptable.”

Last summer’s Tokyo Olympics were the first to see publicly out transgender athletes compete. According to ESPN, Laurel Hubbard, a weightlifter from New Zealand, and Chelsea Wolfe, an alternate on the United States BMX team, became the first transgender women to qualify for the Olympics. Canadian soccer player Quinn and American skateboarder Alana Smith became the first out non-binary athletes to compete at the Olympics.

Hubbard’s participation as a trans woman in the Summer Olympics was met with controversy, with critics saying her eligibility was a threat to fairness in sport.

Nugent addressed the hot-button issue during a recent episode of “The Nightly Nuge”, a news-style clip in which Ted offers his take on the news of our world every night “in a concise, fiery fashion that [is] totally Ted.” The outspoken conservative rocker said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “This transgender atrocity is a manifestation of cultural deprivation the likes of which I don’t believe mankind has ever experienced, much less the soullessness, the rot, the evil, the mean-spiritedness, the cruelty that could ever support a man beating women’s records, much less a biological man entering a woman’s locker room or a girls’ bathroom at a high school to perpetrate rape or molestation. This is happening. This is absolutely unacceptable. It is the work of Satan. It is the work of evil.”

He added: “Conscientious, empathetic, passionate, compassionate, sensible, decent human beings know that this is an atrocity. We have got to eliminate this. This is just a self-inflicted curse of pure rot being unleashed upon the American public. And I’m afraid it’s gonna be a global phenomenon.”

Ted previously touched upon the decision to allow Hubbard to compete in the Olympics during a May 2021 Facebook Live session. At the time, he said: “I heard the story of the world record holder weight-lifting champion which was born a man was allowed to compete against women. See, there’s a manifestation of a cultural abandonment the likes of which I don’t think we’ve ever seen before — where a man gets to go, ‘I feel like a woman so I’m gonna compete against the women.’ Then they set world records in athletic events because they’re a man competing with women. And some dirtbag would go, ‘Yeah, that’s perfectly legitimate. That makes perfect sense.’ Because women can’t lift as much as men, so the man who claims he’s a woman — he’s not a woman; the penis might be an indicator. And he sets world records in athletic competitions where a man is competing against women. And some mindless dirtbag goes, ‘Well, that’s legitimate. That’s good.’

“Woah! You have to literally trade in your soul for a sun-baked turd to believe that a man can compete against women and that that’s okay,” Ted continued, before adding: “What is wrong with these liberal Democrat Marxist Satanists?”

According to ABC News, experts have said that there is no evidence that trans athletes are disproportionately dominating sports that correlate with their gender identity or that they have an advantage in their sport.

Dr. Eric Vilain, a geneticist who studies sex differences in athletes, told NPR in March 2021 that testosterone affects performance in only a very small number of athletic disciplines and doesn’t provide any advantage.

Caitlyn Jenner, who competed in the 1976 Olympics decathlon as Bruce Jenner, had previously declared her opposition to transgender girls competing in girls sports, telling TMZ that it “isn’t fair. That’s why I oppose biological boys who are trans competing in girls sports in school. It just isn’t fair, and we have to protect girls’ sports in our schools.”

Transgender Athletes And TheIr Impact On Fairness In Sports

As the Olympics put a spotlight on Men’s and Women’s global athletic competition, here in America there is a battle to integrate transgender athletes. Ted makes his position clear and you need to hear why he feels the way he feels. TNN anchor, Keith Mark, wonders aloud where feminists and the NCAA stand in regards to fairness.

Posted by The Nightly Nuge on Tuesday, February 8, 2022

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Slam Dunk Festival announce eight new bands

Slam Dunk Festival have revealed eight new bands for this year’s festival! After announcing the likes of NECK DEEP, CANCER BATS, THE BRONX, AS DECEMBER FALLS and more last month, now, another eight bands have been…

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