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The Number Twelve Looks Like You announces its fifth full-length album – and first new music in ten years: Wild Gods. Wild Gods will be released September 20th via Overlord Music (double LP vinyl, CD, and digital formats).

Stream the album’s first single, “Ruin The Smile”, here via the official lyric video:

Releasing four albums and…

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Extreme metal outfit Graven – formed by members of Swarm Of The Lotus – makes its destructive return in 2018, ending a nearly five-year hiatus with the recently-completed new EP, Heirs Of Discord. With members currently residing in Arizona, Maryland, New Jersey, and Florida, the band recorded Heirs Of Discordin multiple studios over nearly an entire year, and the results…

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New Jersey-based progressive metal quartet Etherius was formed by guitarist Jay Tarantino in 2017. After gaining experience as a touring rhythm guitarist for guitar virtuoso Angel Vivaldi, Tarantino decided to branch out on his own with the goal of making music unlike the djent/electronic stylings of the current instrumental guitar scene. The result is Etherius– a fresh…

Official press release: New Jersey-based metal/rock outfit Gyre — formed by members of the metallic hybrid Junta and others — will release their debut full-length, Shared Visions, in June. The album features ten sprawling new tracks mixed and mastered by Kevin Antressian (The Dillinger Escape Plan). A brief trailer has been issued alongside the album’s track listing, artwork, and more. After…

Early Riser performed at Backroom Studios in Rockaway, New Jersey, on July 2, 2017. Check out the setlist, video, and photograph from the concert!

Early Riser 

Just Start Dancing

The Nevers

Two Roads

Find for me the Waltz

The Line

Wrecking Ball for a Dead End

Oh, Nevermind

Official press release: Philadelphia-native progressive group In The Presence Of Wolves rattled the east coast metal scene with their 2015 full-length release, Thalassas, deftly mixing a bevy of classic progressive rock, modern prog-metal, experimental, post-hardcore and jazz rock influences that have since been unparalleled by any up-and-coming local artist of late. Tight live and recorded…

Official press release: What began as a steadfast expression of the human condition comes Madison, WI atmospheric doom metal outfit Bereft with their unique style of powerful metal unbound to any genre. The group have announced their debut full-length album will be titled Lands and is scheduled for worldwide release via Prosthetic Records on March 31, 2017. The albums cover artwork was completed…

We’ve got a fire gig coming up in a few weeks at Backroom Studios!