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Dogma: Dogma (2023)

2024 Vinyl Release

MNRK Heavy Records

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New High on Fire. Not stoked on the AI music video but the song is cool.

High on Fire - "Burning Down" Cometh the Storm April 19th, 2024 Sludge / Stoner / Thrash Metal MNRK Heavy Oakland, California, USA

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1. High On Fire announces U.S. tour dates with Pallbearer. 

2. New Enterprise Earth 'Luciferous' vinyl variant back in stock. Be sure to catch them on tour. 

3. Win a 'Celebrity Therapist' LP from The Callous Daoboys - details on their Instagram channel. 

4. Filth Is Eternal's new album 'Find Out' is out September 29 - listen to 'Pressure Me' on repeat in the meantime. 

5. Catch Mouth For War on tour, and listen to their new song 'Under The Gun' at full volume.

6. Will the next Dead Icarus single be heavier or more melodic? It's "coming soon," so stream 'Sellout' now. 

7. Looks like Bodysnatcher is in the studio with Will Putney. 

8. Rolo Tomassi's 'Where Myth Becomes Memory' has been restocked on Bandcamp.

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Album Review: Texas Hippie Coalition - The Name Lives On (MNRK Heavy)

It's a great release and it manages to keep Southern rock interesting from beginning to end, which isn’t often the case.

Heavy Southern rock band Texas Hippie Coalition will release their seventh studio album, The Name Lives On, on 21st April 2023 via MNRK Heavy. You’d be hard-pressed to find a person who doesn’t enjoy at least one track from Texas Hippie Coalition, thanks to their inimitable catchy groove. The band are adept at creating head-banging anthems and, once again, they have absolutely smashed it with…

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Carcass, Municipal Waste, Sacred Reich, & Creeping Death Live Show Review: 4/18, Metro, Chicago

BY JORDAN MAINZER

These days, new Carcass albums--and subsequently, tours and live shows--are rare enough to warrant must-see status. Their 2013 comeback, Surgical Steel, ranked among their best ever albums, and 2021′s Torn Arteries (Nuclear Blast) at the very least stood up to their classic material, a feat considering only two albums ago was the disappointment that was their original Swansong. Immediately into the band’s headlining set Tuesday at Metro, it was apparent they’d chug along and smash in as many songs as possible. His bass pointed to the sky like a scepter, Jeff Walker alternated between icy conjuring and guttural growling, tossing seemingly infinite picks into the crowd, while guitarist Bill Steer was his usual understated, but mighty self. And whether soloing or navigating the band through complex time signatures, drummer Daniel Wilding, the band’s drummer since 2012, propelled new and old songs with ease and force. Carcass’s set was, simply, professional, minimally laden with stage banter, maximally laden with enveloping heaviness.

That Carcass is touring with the party-hard thrashing of Municipal Waste and righteous riffage of Sacred Reich is mildly surprising, given that the bands occupy different subgenres of metal. The latter’s lead singer, Phil Rind, even admitted to not being super familiar with the music of the Liverpool death metal legends, also remarking that the last time Sacred Reich played Metro was in the early 90′s with Obituary, who sang “no words, just growls.” But the clear crossover fandom in the crowd was, if not evidence of the decreasing importance of genre purity, certainly a refreshing reminder that heavy music occupies different moods and states of mind that can take place in the same night, or even at once. Municipal Waste conquered first-track sound troubles to deliver a breakneck set of beer-chugging anthems spanning their entire discography. “Shoutout to security,” declared lead vocalist Tony Foresta as they deal with crowd surfers and broken down boxes thrown on stage during “Breathe Grease”. “This is not a Built to Spill show,” he smirked. Celebrating lead guitarist Nick Poulous’s birthday, the Richmond band built their setlist around chant-heavy material, from “You’re Cut Off” and “Sadistic Magician” to band theme song “Born to Party”. As the crowd chanted back, “Municipal Waste is gonna fuck you up,” it felt like they were paying the highest compliment to the people on stage.

Sacred Reich was, as expected, a bit more politically outspoken, or at least unafraid to expose the earnestness behind their songs. Really, anybody who has heard “The American Way” knows the band’s socially conscious, anti-capitalistic stance; these days, their songs look inward to imagine a better world outward. “Manifest Reality”, from the band’s most recent record Awakening (Metal Blade), which was released in 2019 a full 23 years after its predecessor, is a “be the change you want to see in the world” type of song. “Salvation” is, simply, an ode to music. And Awakening’s title track is proof that you can still sound like a mammoth when being compassionate. Like Municipal Waste, Rind has a sense of humor, too: When he announced that the band almost had a new record done to sparse applause, he joked, “We’re thankful for all 7 of you.” But at the end of the day, every Rind wail, every Wiley Arnett guitar solo and Dave McClain snare hit and Joey Radziwill power chord led up to their performance of “Death Squad”, dedicated to founding member Jason Rainey who died of a heart attack in 2020. Sacred Reich's looking forward as long as they can occasionally reflect on their past.

The band most faithful to the spirit of the night’s headliner was the first band who played given the least amount of time. Dallas death metal group Creeping Death combined nimble lead guitars and rhythms that bounced between stomps and barnburners. Their stage setup was remarkably democratic, roaring vocalist Reese Alavi sandwiched between leg-kicking guitarist Trey Pemberton, guitarist A.J. Ross, III, and bassist Eric “Rico” Mejia, tight in both their playing and synchronized hair spinning. Though they played mostly older material, including the blistering title track to their 2021 EP The Edge of Existence, they thankfully performed “Intestinal Wrap”, the single from their upcoming album Boundless Domain (MNRK Heavy). Alavi’s a dynamic vocalist, to the point where you didn’t even feel the absence of Cannibal Corpse’s George “Corpsegrinder” Fisher from the studio version of the song. Creeping Death was certainly the least known among other bands on the bill who have been at it for decades, but they were anything but green.

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Underoath Shares New Song + Video, "Survivor's Guilt;" 'They're Only Chasing Safety' 20th Anniversary Tour Underway

Underoath Shares New Song + Video, "Survivor's Guilt;" 'They're Only Chasing Safety' 20th Anniversary Tour Underway. #underoath @UnderoathBand

Last month, metalcore legends Underoath returned with a new single “Teeth,” and hinted at plans for a full album release via MNRK Heavy in 2025. Today, they are sharing another taste of what’s to come with the punishing new song “Survivor’s Guilt” and its music video, which the band self-directed while on tour and brought to a final edit in under forty-eight hours just last week, working in…

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ESCUELA GRIND Drops New Single & Video For The Track, "Always Watching You"!

Massachusettes-based death grind powerhouse ESCUELA GRIND has been making some waves in extreme music circles as of late. The band has released a new single and video for their track, “Always Watching You”. The track comes from the band’s untitled new LP due to be released this Fall on MNRK Heavy. Watch the video below with more details. From The Press Release New England extreme metal…

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CROWBAR ANNOUNCES US HEADLINING DATES BAND TO PLAY THE DECIBEL MAGAZINE METAL & BEER FEST + ROCKS OFF CONCERT CRUISE

CROWBAR Announces US Headlining Dates; Band To Play The Decibel Magazine Metal & Beer Fest + Rocks Off Concert Cruise   Photo by Justin Reich   CROWBAR has announced their latest round of US headlining dates, confirming a two-week Spring run from March 30th through April 14th, with support from Morbid Visionz. The tour will see CROWBAR performing a special set of songs from their Crowbar and Odd…

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Ace Frehley: 10,000 Volts (2024)

Comes in gatefold cover, inlcuding printed inner sleeve and download card.

Indie Retail Exclusive

Limited Edition 180 G

Color In Color Splatter Vinyl

MNRK Records

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ESCUELA GRIND TO RELEASE  NEW LP 'DREAMS ON ALGORITHMS'

New England extreme metal powerhouse, Escuela Grind, will release its new LP, ' Dreams on Algorithms,' on October 18 via MNRK Heavy (High on Fire, Zakk Wylde). Recorded at Salem, Massachusetts' GodCity studio with producer Kurt Ballou, and mastered by Nick Townsend (Dr. Dre, Betty Davis) the record is the highly anticipated follow-up to Escuela Grind's celebrated 2022 full-length debut, 'Memory Theater', a recording hailed as "an opus of extremity" by The New York Times.

In sync with the new album announcement, Escuela Grind today drops the new single + video "Turbulence," which showcases clean vocals over an earworm chorus -- a first for Escuela Grind  -- without pulling away from unhinged brutality. Stream the "Turbulence" video now, directed by Zack Perez for Astral Media.

 

"It will be immediately obvious when you first hear this song that it is a departure for us," offers vocalist Katerina Economou. "We wanted to take a risk with "Turbulence", and after performing so many live shows over the last year we were ready to compile all that influence. The clean singing may take some people off-guard coming from a grind/hardcore band, but after touring with Napalm Death, we realized we wanted to incorporate that aspect into our music in a similar way. We definitely wanted a grungy, catchy chorus to sing at all of our upcoming festival appearances, and I hope the fans like the song as much as we do"

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Album Review: Escuela Grind - Dreams on Algorithms (MNRK Heavy)

Some misses, some odd experimentation, and some directions that just don’t work, stop this being an instant classic, but it’s still a very good extreme metal record.

USA extreme metal powerhouse, Escuela Grind, will release their new album, ‘Dreams on Algorithms’, on 18th October via MNRK Heavy. This new Escuela Grind album finds the band in an interesting place, clearly wanting to experiment a bit more, but not quite capable of realising what that means or how to deliver it. Especially when expectations are so heavily based on this band delivering manic and…

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Heavy Music Awards 2023 Winner: Best UK Artist Presented by MNRK Heavy

Sleep Token

Spinefarm Records

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Underoath Shares New Song "Teeth" Ahead of "They're Only Chasing Safety" 20th Anniversary Tour

Underoath Shares New Song "Teeth" Ahead of "They're Only Chasing Safety" 20th Anniversary Tour. #underoath @UnderoathBand

Underoath’s new single “Teeth,” out today, is a lush, boundary-pushing glimpse into the beloved band’s new era. Their signature, exploratory and evocative synthesizer experimentation is on full-display, accompanied by dance-driven drum programming and complimented by flowing vocals. Heaviness and aggression combine for a juxtaposition emblematic of the band’s innovation. The metalcore legends…

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