Miss May I have released their eighth studio album, No Place For Me, through Solid State Records. The 10-song record arrived October 2 and marks several major changes for the Ohio metalcore veterans. It is the band’s first full-length since 2022’s Curse of Existence, its debut album for Solid State and the first to feature guitarist Elisha Mullins. The complete album is available now, with Apple Music confirming a 10-song, 33-minute release. Miss May I Turn Up the Metal Mulli

Escape the Fate have released their new album, The Last Goodbye, through Big Noise Music Group. The 13-song record arrived October 2 and follows 2023’s Out of the Shadows. It finds the Las Vegas veterans looking inward while reconnecting with the combination of metalcore aggression, dramatic guitars and massive melodic hooks that has powered the band for more than two decades. The full album is available now through major streaming platforms. Qobuz confirms a 13-track, 47-min

Michigan metalcore force Of Virtue have released their new album, Death Of The Altar, through Arising Empire. The 11-song record arrived October 2 and pushes the band into heavier, darker territory without sacrificing the massive choruses that helped turn 2023’s Omen into a streaming breakthrough. The label describes the album as a collision of crushing riffs, industrial electronics, atmospheric production and the contrasting vocals of Tyler Ennis and Damon Tate. Of Virtue ar

After nearly three decades of doing things their own way, Nonpoint isn’t slowing down. In fact, with their brand-new album The Last Word, the veteran rockers sound like a band with plenty left to say. Nonpoint officially released The Last Word on September 18 through the band’s own independent label, 361 Degrees Records. The 10-track record marks the band’s 11th studio album and their first full-length release since 2018’s X. And despite the title, The Last Word certainly doe

Written by: Annie Schlottman Photo credit: Eric Taylor Parker/SeventhSide Productions; Mary Baker; Ian Mimnall/icmvisuals; Tristan Seifert/TrisInThePit There are times when I stumble upon a band I wasn’t familiar with in an unexpected situation, and it's always an interesting story. Back in May 2025, I went to a show in Allentown, Pennsylvania, fifteen minutes from where I live, featuring one of my favorite bands, The Almas, and a band I was just starting to follow, Reign O

Written by: Annie Schlottman Photo credit: Sarah Novroski, @captainninj So Much Hope, Buried., a melodic post-hardcore band from Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, released their second full-length album, WITHER | GROW, June 12th. It is a perfect, beautiful work of art that deserves a lot of attention. This band is starting to turn heads in the industry, not just in their area affectionately known as “NEPA”, but nationally and internationally as well. Before I get into the band and

Written by: Annie Schlottman Iridium is a UK metalcore band that is quickly turning heads in the music world, recently releasing a new EP called “HELL IS A HALFWAY HOUSE” that fans of the genre are raving about. The band has reached 100,000 monthly listeners on Spotify, and there have been over 500,000 streams of the new EP, which has only been out since January 23rd. With the numbers rising, this looks like a band that’s about to take off. Band members of Iridium include

Written by: Annie Schlottman Live photo credit: Billy Collier / Through It All Photography I’m not sure how I initially became familiar with the band Catharsis. It could be a combination of things, such as social media algorithms, following other bands they’re connected to, and so on. There are so many different ways to discover bands and music, and it seems like I find something that intrigues me almost daily. Catharsis is an example of this. I was drawn to them right aw

Written by: Annie Schlottman Maryland’s Red Skies Dawning is a new alternative metal band started by frontman Chris Aleshire, who took songs he had written for a previous solo project and worked with his team to transform them into something special. Now, this band has released a debut EP called From Ashes , and is already planning on getting out and performing and creating more music in the future as a cohesive unit. The members of Red Skies Dawning include: Chris Aleshir

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