Denver duo Neon Cities has released its first music video for the new single, “Toulouse,” following on the success of the In Waves EP. The title comes from Neon Cities’ Chase Dobson, who developed the song’s concept on a day off in the city of Toulouse while touring with down-tempo/ambient artist Tycho. The video for “Toulouse” comes as a psychedelic and sensual composition, featuring time lapse botanical and nature footage [..]

 
Ever on the musical front lines of sociopolitical strife, KMFDM has made a brief but powerful declaration to everyone to “Exercise your civil rights” and “VOTE!” with an “emergency broadcast” snippet track. With the band’s usual directness and authority, Sascha “Käpt’n K” Konietzko commands the fans to “do it this time, don’t be tentative” in the impending U.S. elections, with “Register to vote,” “Nominate your candidate,” and to “use your voice, make your choice!” stated sharply and simply [..]

 
After 11 years, The Clay People returned this year with the release of Demon Hero and Other Extraordinary Phantasmagoric Anomalies and Fables, followed by the music video for the album’s first single “Colossus.” Having recently performed as an opener for Stabbing Westward, The Clay People will now be joining heavy metal band Otep [..]

 
Slovenian electro/rock act Borghesia has released its thirteenth album, titled Proti Kapitulaciji, which translates to ‘Against Capitulation.’ Released via Moonlee Records on October 23, the album is available in CD, digital, and double 12-inch vinyl formats. Founding members Dario Seraval and Aldo Ivančič were inspired by Modernist poet Srečko Kosovel [..]

 
DIM7, the solo outlet of producer/musician Alex Crescioni, has released a new EP, titled In Sterquiliniis Invenitur. With the title translating roughly to “In filth it will be found,” this new EP follows up on DIM7’s dual BATS EP releases in 2017, once again demonstrating Crescioni’s prowess in the realms of doom-laden and darkly crushing gothic and death metal, with drummer Iorden Mitev providing his usual blunt force percussive assault. [..]

 
After making waves with two introductory EPs and being handpicked by Amy Lee to support Evanescence during the band’s 2016 tour, Nashville electro-pop/rock trio Veridia has now released its full-length debth album, The Beast You Feed. Produced by Matt Squire, the album is wrought with themes that the band describes as black and white, “brokwn up into two parts: the first is a confessional, while the second is a declaration.” Vocalist Deena Jakoub goes on to state that the record “starts from a selfish, wounded, ‘dark’ perspective [..]

 
After independently releasing the highly anticipated full-length debut Sleepy Skeletor earlier this year, U.K. crossover act Seething Akira has officially signed with Armalyte Industries for the release of the band’s new single, The Islander. “It’s been tough to keep this one quiet,” states “chief shouter” Charlie Bowes, further stating the band’s excitement to share the label’s roster with such acclaimed acts as Cubanate, Chris Connelly, C-Tex, and Concrete Lung; he goes on to say, “We’re extremely pleased to become part of the Armalyte family [..]