Los Angeles-based singer, songwriter, and producer Betty Moon has announced the release of her newest album Undercover. This would be Betty Moon’s 11th studio album and her first since the critically acclaimed Cosmicoma released just last year. Undercover highlights the diverse influences that Betty Moon has drawn from throughout her career. The new album includes covers of bands representing an eclectic mix of synth-pop, hard rock, folk, and soul classics.

On the night of Friday, February 4th, the band Afterus opened up a show at Lucky 13 Saloon in Brooklyn, NY. This local NYC band has a sound all their own, they perfectly mesh together extreme metal, folk metal, industrial metal, metal, modern metal, and melodic death metal making them stand out from the rest. Recently, they had released their music video for their single Obsidian Moon giving us just a small taste of what's to come from them in the future.

On January 18th, 2022 the Virginia-based metal group Bad Omens dropped a track off their called “Like A Villain” off of their upcoming album The Death of Piece of Mind which is set to release February 25th.

On January 14th, 2022, artist Years & Years released a new track, “Sooner or Later”. This was the last single released for his album, Night Call, which was released on January 21st.

Clutch has announced that they will embark on a massive North American tour this Spring. This will be the band’s return to touring since their successful co-headlining tour with Dropkick Murphys back in 2019. The band has decided to split the 38-day tour into two legs. Each leg of the tour will feature different supporting acts.

On January 12th, 2022, Belgian musician Stromae released new single “L’enfer”. The song will be a track featured on Multitude, which will come out on March 4th of this year.

Since forming in 2014, Shadow of Intent has attracted a following due to their progressive rock styling of deathcore. The band uses their highly technical musical skills to create symphonic style metal that has contributed to a new renaissance within the deathcore scene. To this day, Shadow of Intent has earned 60 million streams, 22 million YouTube videos, and 240,000 monthly listeners on Spotify. Shadow of Intent looks to continue their success with the new album, Elegy.

On January 7th, 2022, New Jersey pop-punk group All Systems Go released a new single, “Don’t Let Me Go”. Paired with a music video released on January 14th, this song is a motivating and hopeful song through times of struggle.

The creepy Las Vegas-based shock rockers Vampires Everywhere have released a new single and music video for their song "Sudden Death.” While fans of Vampire Everywhere will no doubt greet the announcement with great pleasure, news of the release can be thrilling for the members of the band themselves.

On January 14th, heavy metal band Once Human released their fourth latest single and music video for “Erasure” off their soon-to-be-released album “Scar Weaver” available on February 11th. The band had been working hard the last handful of years to release their third studio album and so far it seems it has been well worth the long wait since their previous album back in 2017 titled “Evolution”.

Pop-punk band Loss Of Signal is based in Belfast, Northern Ireland but you would be forgiven if you thought they came straight out of Southern California. Loss Of  Signal has a style that is very much influenced by the pop-punk bands of the 90s and early 2000s. Fans of bands such as Blink-182, Sum 41, and New Found Glory will gravitate towards Loss Of Signal whose sound, while reminiscent of earlier pop-punk, also throws in newer influences as well. 

On Friday, January 7, 2022, the undeniable rock chanteuse DIAMANTE dropped her latest single "Difícil De Amar" (out via Anti-Heroine). The track is the Spanish version of her heartbreaking single "Unlovable" which has already clocked up a staggering 763,000 views and counting on YouTube.

Waterparks has been one of my favorite bands for the past 6 years or so. I’ve watched them release their first full-length album, and I’ve seen them grow from that. In 2021, their album Greatest Hits was released, paired with the “A Night Out on Earth” tour - which I, of course, attended. 

On December 17th, musical group Christopher Hill and the Stardust Crush released their new single, “The Gravity of the Goddess (No One Else Can Dance Like You)”. It is paired with a music video, featuring Christopher Hill themself laid over nature and space scenes.

Over Thanksgiving weekend, Jeff Rosenstock came back to his former hometown of Brooklyn, NY to perform three nights of music at Warsaw, in a quiet corner of Greenpoint. He was touring in support of his latest album No Dream, playing shows that had been delayed thanks to the ongoing pandemic. Asking fans to remain masked at all venues, Jeff and co. set off to hit the stage all across the country before landing in NYC for the long weekend. Starting off on Black Friday was Ska Dream, where Rosenstock channeled his former ska bands and gave the crowd a night filled with brass tones and dancing. Nights two and three consisted of the No Dream shows that had been taking over the US and parts of Canada.

Fans of ethereal and dark genres such as goth, synthwave, and shoegaze will find much to enjoy in the music of Black Rose Burning. Instrumentalist, producer, and engineer George Grant formed this dark rock band. Reminiscent of classic bands like The Dammed, The Cult, and The Veldt and newer acts Twin Tribes and Creux Lies, Black Rose Burning combines pop sensibilities with a grounding in hard rock amid a gothic atmosphere. Four years after the band’s debut, Black Rose Burning has announced the release of the sophomore album, The Wheel. 

On December 30th and 31st, EDM fans rang in the New Year at Decadence Arizona. It was definitely a party with fans traveling from all over the state and even the country to attend the event. The line-up featured some of the most prominent names in EDM, such as Excision, Marshmello, and Dillon Francis, who ushered partygoers into 2022.

This year just kept on giving with new albums and singles at every turn. After the hellish 2020 year, we all needed some normalcy in a world of chaos. Every genre of music rolled out new singles for their fans to get back to what we all know and love. Along with new albums, new singles, and tour dates being released, we all can't help but feel spoiled with getting back to what we missed most.

Here at Death Moth Press, we wanted to give you all our opinions of Album of the Year for 2021. It was hard to narrow down to just one but in case you missed it, here’s the albums that made our year.

The multi-faceted artist AMMO has utilized her experience as a photographer and filmmaker to better connect with audiences. A rock photographer, AMMO became very much involved in the music community by profiling bands she saw as being vital to the scene. After getting her start in fashion photography and directing music videos, AMMO would eventually produce a feature film. She then co-founded PLAG Present, a platform to promote women and LGBTQ  musicians. 

On December 16th, musician Nat Puff - known as Left at London - released a new single, “Bloodlust”. After coming up with the lyrics in an Instagram live and fleshing it out from there, the song took a different musical form and was released as a standalone single.