Next Friday, September 23rd, Relentless Beats and Psycho Steve Presents will co-host the first annual Hearts On Fire Music Festival featuring The All-American Rejects, Boys Like Girls, Mayday Parade, and more. The event will take place at Phoenix Raceway in Avondale, AZ, where Relentless Beats has hosted many of its events this year.

Fans of the post-hardcore stylings of Rain City Drive have had a lot to enjoy from the band this summer. The group successfully completed the SiriusXM Octane's Remade In Misery Tour with Memphis May Fire, From Ashes To New, and Wolves At The Gate. After that tour ended, Rain City Drive then went on Set It Off's Welcome To Elsewhere Tour Part 2 with OXYMORONS, Concrete Castles, and Weathers. Both tours showcased Rain City Drive’s highly infectious riffs, heavy bass, and well-written melodies.

Many metalheads will recognize the Russian deathcore band Slaughter To Prevail from lead vocalist Alex Terrible’s insanely popular YouTube channel. In addition to highlighting the band’s official videos and live performances, Terrible also does reaction videos and sings covers. With 922k subscribers, the channel attracts more than 36.5 million YouTube views and 305 million cross-platform streams. With such a high-profile platform Terrible has chosen to voice his concerns about recent world events through his music.

Alt-pop band The Driver Era has announced the release date of their latest studio album, Summer Mixtape which is due to release September 16th. This release comes nearly a year after their critically acclaimed sophomore album Girlfriend. The Driver Era’s first single off Summer Mixtape was the dance song “Keep Moving Forward,” which featured soul and blues singer Nikka Costa. Now the band has released their second single entitled, “Malibu.”

Progressive rock and metalcore converge in Loathing Light, the new album from ONI. The project is the brainchild of Jake Oni, the Canadian singer/songwriter. Taking the name of the traditional demon of Japanese folklore, ONI debuted in 2014. Since then, ONI has released the well-regarded album Ironshore (Metal Blade Records), and the EP Alone (Black Light Media), whose title track single garnered 1.3M spins on Spotify alone. Promoting those releases, ONI has toured with acts such as Gojira, Children of Bodom, and Rob Zombie. Loathing Light is the first studio album from ONI in seven years. 

Machine Head, the Bay Area metal legends, has announced the release of their new album ØF KINGDØM AND CRØWN. This marks the tenth studio album from the group. The album is set to be released on August 26th, 2022, via Nuclear Blast x Imperium Recordings. Machine Head has already released a music video for the track “UNHALLØWED” to promote the album. In an unusual move, the video doesn’t feature the song's album version but a live performance. The video features Machine Head playing “UNHALLØWED” on the band’s own Electric Happy Hour web series.

“Today is the greatest day I've ever known” because 90s alternative legends Smashing Pumpkins have announced dates for their North American tour. This 32-date tour will start in  Dallas, Texas, and then circle the United States and Canada till they end in Los Angeles, California. The Spirits on Fire Tour is produced by Live Nation and will kick off on October 2, 2022.

Ask Doc Hammer what they are about, and they will tell you, “Doc Hammer likes to party. You like to party. Let's get together and make normal situations weird.” The San Diego punks have been playing hardcore party rock up and down the west coast since their explosive debut, the 2019 album Neon Devil. Their follow-up album, the 2021 EP Final Form featured the heavy-hitting single, “Firewalker” with its hilarious music video, highlighting the band’s irreverent sense of humor. Their latest EP is titled, Paradise, which is an appropriate title for a hardcore album by a band that enjoys wearing Aloha shirts as they rage out in the mosh pit. The album dropped on April 1st, but don’t be fooled. Doc Hammer takes their music seriously. 

Fans of dark music may manage to crack a rare smile upon hearing the news that Kooper Kain has released a new album titled, Dose Dredge. This is one of the latest releases from the vampiric Canadian goth rocker. Kain self-produced Dose Dredge at his S/N RATIo studio in Vancouver, British Columbia which has been putting out music and animation projects that embraces darker aesthetics in art.

Today, NJ/NYC based metallic hardcore band Court Order is BACK with a brand new single “Göz Taşı” off their soon to be released album Kingdom Gone which will be available everywhere on August 12th. This is only a small taste of what is to come and I have to say, the world isn’t ready.

The latest video from German thrash metal innovators Kreator delves into the shadowy world of folk horror. The third single from the band’s newest album, Hate Über Alles, is the song “Midnight Sun.” The lyrics explore ancient rites and death cults. Visually the video takes its cues from the most recent horror film trends.

The Velveteers are a hard-rocking group hailing from Boulder, Colorado. Formed in 2014 by then fifteen-year-old Demi Demitro and her fourteen-year-old cousin Baby Pottersmith, The Velveteers played the Colorado club scene for years until coming up with their signature sound that shows influences from indie rock, glam, avant-garde, and classic rock. Performers as divergent as T.Rex, Elvis Presley, Stevie Nicks, and St. Vincent are cited by the band as inspirations.

While most bands had to halt their careers when Covid-19 first stuck an unsuspecting world, Nashville band Lydia’s Castle was forged right in the raging fire of the pandemic. Lydia’s Castle was founded in 2020 by the husband and wife team Cody Denton and Tonya LeeAnne. With a passion for hard rock and metal, the couple sought to create new music that expressed the issues that they were currently dealing with.

Opposition to Putin’s invasion of Ukraine is growing the world over, including within Mother Russia herself. Mysterious electronic metal musicians IC3PEAK have never shied away from voicing their grievances against the government. This video is further proof of their iconoclastic worldview. The video for “Dead But Pretty” is a protest against the current war. The duo directed and edited the video themselves showing how invested they are in its message.

Post-punk group Weimar has been rocking the Manchester club scene with their music heavily influenced by various genres such as art-rock, cabaret, prog, goth, and jazz. The band proudly proclaims that their latest single “The Girl of LA” shows influence from Violent Femmes, Pylon, The B-52s, Wall of Voodoo, The Divine Comedy, The Velvet Underground, The Fall, The Buzzcocks, and Iggy Pop.

Back in February, metalcore band Promises Unsaid from Binghampton, NY released a new single “Mind Play” off their second album. This latest release shows off their influences in creating an incredible unique multi-genre single. “Touching on the subject of doubting yourself and your own mind, "Mind Play" is for those who need that uplifting message that they aren't alone in their struggles.” This single comes as a follow-up to the band's debut LP Growing Pains which was released independently late last year.

On Friday, February 25, 2022, Atlanta, GA, nu-deathcore powerhouse Left to Suffer released their latest music video for single, "Overwhelming Power".

The hard-rocking rap duo of Twiztid (Jamie Madrox and Monoxide Child) is back curating the fifth edition of Michigan’s own award-winning convention Astronomicon. This year’s edition, referred to as Astronomicon 5, is set to take place in Burton Manor, Livonia, MI on the weekend of April 22nd to 24th, 2022. This major pop culture event will include a vast array of guests representing all corners of the entertainment world. 

On February 4th, 2022, duo Brittany and the Blisstones release their music video for “Mermaid”, the first track for their upcoming EP. This song is the first song Brittany Bliss ever wrote with Reid Givens.

Hedras is a modern guitar master whose transcends the limits of genre to create innovative music. Hailing from Dallas, Texas, Hedras Ramos has been a multi-instrumentalist since childhood. While starting out on drums at age six, by age thirteen the guitar become the focus of his musical education. Entirely self-taught, he began to practice 12 hours a day. By 2011 when he was only nineteen, he composed and produced his first instrumental album, Atoms and Space. Now known as Hedras, the artist was able to attract renowned rock guitarists Andy James and Jennifer Batten to appear on his debut album.