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March 8th, 2024

SKELETAL REMAINS DROPS THEIR NEWEST DEATH METAL MUST-HAVE WITH FRAGMENTS OF THE AGELESS!!!

American act Skeletal Remains prepare another death metal assault on “Fragments of the Ageless” for Century Media. The line-up of Chris Monroy (guitars/vocals), Mike de la O (guitars), Pierce Williams (drums), and Brian Rush (bass) embody the genre, going deeper, darker, and to the edges of brutality. “‘Fragments of the Ageless’ is a pummeling slab of pure death metal,” says the band. “A tyrannical blast-laden barrage of no-frills riffs and compositions. Everything about this album is f*cking brutal and in your face.”

Skeletal Remains wrote ‘Fragments of the Ageless’ between European and US tours/festivals with Emperor, Morbid Angel, Mortician, Left to Die, and Defeated Sanity among others. The songwriting sessions were characterized by a no-limit mindset, where creativity and known genre rituals were given equal footing.

The outcome was not just a definitive death metal showpiece, but an evolution. “We took things up a notch and really dialed in on the technicality and ever-increasing intensity while still maintaining catchiness,” the group says.

“With each new record, we strive to better ourselves in our musicianship and songwriting capabilities. On one end, we’ve increased in density and brutality, and on the other, we wrote a few songs with longer and more ‘epic’ structures.” The lyrical themes of “Fragments of the Ageless” span folklore, science fiction, history, and personal struggle. They were inspired by the striking Dan Seagrave (Entombed, Memoriam) cover art. The album was co-produced by the band and studio maven Dan Swanö (Opeth, Incantation), who also mixed and mastered. Death metal’s not dead with “Fragments of the Ageless”. It’s never been deadlier!

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SHOEGAZE CLASSIC GUILTY OF EVERYTHING FROM NOTHING GETS A 10TH ANNIVERSARY REISSUE!

The Philly miserablists are the pre-eminent heavy shoegaze band of the last decade, and any track on this record — the careening Bent Nail,” the surging “Hymn to Pillory,” the bashing “Get Well,” the ballooning title track — demonstrate why.” – Revolver Magazine

NOTHING return with the 10th year anniversary edition of their landmark debut album, Guilty of Everything. Recorded and produced by Jeff Zeigler (Kurt Vile, War On Drugs, etc), Guilty of Everything is a triumph of a debut that successfully manages to be massively loud, darkly introspective and totally beautiful all at once.

NOTHING’s Nicky Palermo comments on the bonus material, highlighting a cover of Big Star’s track, “Holocaust”: “We wrote and recorded this track right before I almost got killed in Oakland. We were out on tour with Cloakroom and Tony Molina, so before Doyle joined Nothing. Forgot it existed until a couple years ago while demoing with Nick in Oakland for The Great DIsmal. Hard to imagine a more crushing piece of music than the Alex version, but looking back and how things progressed following recording, this version really holds heavy weight as well to me. Looking back, it’s almost like an eerie premonition now of how quickly things can turn devastating.”

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VIAGRA BOYS DROP WELFARE JAZZ THIS WEEK SERVING UP MORE OF THEIR UNIQUE SOUND!

Viagra Boys The band’s album, Welfare Jazz, doesn’t bargain with the anxiety in that defeated feeling, but rather a boiling certainty that nothing and no one is absolute. There’s plenty of blame to go around, and things are just a lot more interesting when you admit that you’re not always going to be nice, you’re not always going to pick the right words in a fist-fight. So why not keep moving forward, swaying and strutting into the night.

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HIP HOP LEGEND KRS-ONE’S D.I.G.I.T.A.L SERVES UP A PURPLE VINYL DEBUT OF THIS RAD B-SIDES COLLECTION!

For the first time ever on vinyl – an essential collection of B-sides and features recorded by KRS-One through the ’90s and early ’00s!Features guest appearances by Big Pun, Truck Turner, Kool G. Rap, Common and more! KRS is an immensely influential figure in modern rap who helped define hip-hop music!

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THE LEGENDARY JUDAS PRIEST DROPS THEIR NEXT MUST-HAVE RELEASE WITH INVINCIBLE SHIELD!!!

Invincible Shield is the nineteenth studio album by British heavy metal band Judas Priest. Announced onstage at Power Trip festival in California, the new record marks the band’s first release in 6 years, having recently celebrated 50 years in music and 50 million records sold. Judas Priest is Rob Halford, Ian Hill, Glenn Tipton, Scott Travis and Richie Faulkner.

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DEERHOOF’S CLASSIC REVEILLE GETS A NEW REISSUE THIS NEW RECORD FRIDAY!

Back in print on vinyl! Deerhoof debuts their new guitarist JohnDieterich and achieves widespread critical acclaim for the first time. 2002’s Reveille is a defiant expression of artistic rebirth, spilling over with madcap exuberance, apocalyptic imagery, newfound technical confidence belying their no-budget DIY recording methods, and jarring stylistic about-faces in which no two songs sound alike. The contrast of Satomi’s ever-catchy, ever-charming melodiousness with John and Greg’s noisy, cinematic bombast still has the power to thrill and tickle and upset, more than 20 years after it’s initial release. Includes reimagined cover art with the faint morning glow the band had always envisioned, pressed on clear sun-colored vinyl. Complete lyrics included for the first time, written by Satomi on the center labels.

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ARIANE GRANDE’S NEWEST RELEASE ETERNAL SUNSHINE DROPS WITH GORGEOUS RED VINYL!

Limited ruby red colored vinyl LP pressing with alternate cover. 2024 release. Eternal Sunshine is the seventh studio album by Ariana Grande. Includes the single “Yes, And?” – Ariana Grande’s first album since 2020’s Grammy-nominated Positions, eternal sunshine arrives after the pop star took a recording break to film the movie adaptation of the Broadway musical Wicked. Eternal sunshine includes the dancefloor-ready track “Yes, And?” and is pressed on ruby color vinyl.

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ALICE COOPER’S CLASSIC BILLION DOLLAR BABIES GETS AN ALL NEW 50TH ANNIVERSARY DELUXE RELEASE!

Hello Hooray,” a new version of BILLION DOLLAR BABIES, is on the way as Alice Cooper’s delightfully subversive sixth album returns in all its snakeskin glory for an extended 50th-anniversary celebration. After hitting #1 on the album charts in America and the U.K. in 1973, the record remains a highwater mark for the original lineup, featuring hits like “No More Mr. Nice Guy” and “Elected.”

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BILLION DOLLAR BABIES: “TRILLION DOLLAR” DELUXE EDITION (3LP)features a newly remastered version of the original album, along with bonus material, including studio outtakes, single mixes, and an electrifying 1973 concert recording. The gatefold cover faithfully replicates the original’s textured snakeskin wallet design and comes complete with a $1 billion dollar bill tucked inside.

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An instant smash when it was released in March 1973, BILLION DOLLAR BABIES delivered a theatrical mix of hard rock and glam laced with macabre lyrics that explored wealth, decadence, and fame’s darker side. Newly remastered, the platinum-certified album sounds better than ever. The set also features outtakes (“Coal Black Model T”), single mixes (“Mary Ann”), and “Slick Black Limousine,” which originally came out on flexi-disc within an issue of the British rock paper New Musical Express.

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The “TRILLION DOLLAR” DELUXE EDITION also features a live show recorded in Texas in April of 1973, during the “Billion Dollar Babies” tour. The powerful performance includes live versions of many of the album’s tracks, highlights including “Elected” and “Hello Hooray,” along with several of the band’s earlier hits, including “I’m Eighteen” and “School’s Out.”

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This 3xLP version comes with an oral history of the album and the bonus tracks by the surviving band members – Alice Cooper, Dennis Dunaway, Michael Bruce, and Neal Smith – and Bob Ezrin, who produced the album. (Sadly, guitarist Glen Buxton died in 1997)

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In the notes, Cooper recalls writing “I Love The Dead” and “Sick Things.” He says, “We were writing those songs looking at each other, and every time we’d write a line I’d say, ‘Oh, this is gonna kill them. Oh, they’re gonna hate us on this one.’ But at the same time, it was almost like an Edgar Allan Poe short story when you listen to ‘I Love The Dead.’ I tried to write that the way Vincent Price would sing it.”

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