New Music (11/25 — 12/1)

Blutengel: “Disobedience”

Lindemann: “Frau & Mann”

Third Realm ft. Chiasm: “Tides of the Sea”

Erdling ft. Chris Pohl: “Wölfe der Nacht”

Iggy Pop: “Sonali”

Tokio Hotel: “Chateau”

Annihilator: “Psycho Ward”

The Blue Stones: “Shakin’ Off the Rust”

Oh Wonder: “I Wish I Never Met You”

AronChupa & Little Sis Nora: “Hole in the Roof”

Black Veil Brides: “Saints Of The Blood”

Black Veil Brides: “The Vengeance”

AWOLNATION: “California Halo Blue”

Imminence: “Erase”

Bleed From Within: “The End Of All We Know”

Bury Tomorrow: “The Grey (VIXI)”

Bodysnatcher: “Black Of My Eyes”

Currents: “Poverty of Self”

Scandroid: “I Remember You”

Spiritbox: “Rule Of Nines”

Obscura: “Emergent Evolution”

Opeth: “Universal Truth”

Bryan Adams: “Joe And Mary”

Blossoms: “The Keeper”

Church of the Cosmic Skull: “Sorcery & Sabotage”

Nada Surf: “Something I Should Do”

Lordi: “I Dug A Hole In The Yard For You”

Bombay Bicycle Club: “Everything Else Has Gone Wrong”

Bonded: “Je Suis Charlie”

Plini + Adam ‘Nolly’ Getgood: “Blue Angel”

Optic Oppression Share First Track From Upcoming Album (via Side-Line)

Optic Oppression, the electro-industrial-synth rock band I’ve been raving about since July, is releasing their first full-length LP on November 29th. The album, entitled Halfway to Hell, is available for pre-save on Spotify. (If you choose to do this, you will receive the digital rewards package, which includes behind-the-scenes videos and high resolution artwork.)

This morning, Side-Line offered readers the premiere of the first single from Halfway to Hell, a song called “Revolution.” Check it out here.

For more Optic Oppression goodness, visit the band’s official site, Facebook, Instagram, or YouTube.

New Music (11/11 — 11/17)

Bring Me The Horizon: “Ludens”

Delain: “One Second”

Grace VanderWaal: “I Don’t Like You”

Die Krupps: “Vision 2020 Vision”

Seven Spires: “Succumb”

The Raven Age: “The Face That Launched a Thousand Ships”

Konvent: “Trust”

Once Human: “Sledgehammer”

Enslaved: “What Else Is There?”

Jorn: “Lonely Nights”

Arion: “No One Stands in My Way”

From The Abyss: “Unconditional”

Little Big: “Go Bananas”

Mister Misery: “Tell Me How”

Highly Suspect: “16”

Sons Of Apollo: “Goodbye Divinity”

Northlane: “4D”

Spoil Engine: “Venom”

Tygers Of Pan Tang: “Destiny”

Atlas: “Uni”

Super Whatevr: “yours truly.”

In Our Wake: “Never Letting Go”

No Paradise: “Thirst”

Null Positiv: “Turm der Angst”

TR/ST: “Iris”

Cory Wells: “Cement”

Lindemann Offers Snippet of “Gummi”

Lindemann, a Swedish/German duo made up of Peter Tägtgren (Pain, Hypocrisy) and Till Lindemann (Rammstein), are releasing their sophomore album, F & M, on November 22nd. So far, there have been three singles — “Steh auf,” “Ich weiß es nicht,” and “Knebel” — and three days ago, the band offered a 49 second clip of a track entitled “Gummi.”

I am so excited for this album!

New Music (11/4 — 11/10)

Common Rarity: “American Way”

Mayhem: “Falsified and Hated”

Sepultura: “Isolation”

Blood Incantation: “Slave Species of the Gods”

Lorna Shore: “Death Portrait”

Angels & Airwaves: “Kiss & Tell”

coldrain ft. Ryo: “Mayday”

The Dark Element: “Not Your Monster”

AWOLNATION: “The Best”

Ye Banished Privateers: “No Prey, No Pay”

The Agonist: “The Gift of Silence”

Crystal Viper: “Bright Lights”

Riverside: “Wasteland”

Pretty Maids: “Will You Still Kiss Me (If I See You In Heaven)”

Switchfoot ft. Lindsey Stirling: “Voices”

Tropic Gold: “Smile”

Blacktop Mojo: “Come Get Your Coat”

The Raconteurs: “Somedays (I Don’t Feel Like Trying)”

Ozzy Osbourne: “Under The Graveyard”

Chris Stapleton: “Second One To Know”

Polaris: “Masochist”

Our Last Night: “Lost”

The Naked And Famous: “Sunseeker”

Greyson Chance: “Boots”

Vulvodynia: “Nyaope”

Missio: “Sing To Me”

Lordi: “Shake The Baby Silent”

Windrunner: “Heather”

Terrorbyte ft. Spencer Charnas: “Boogeyman”

Casting Crowns ft. Matt Maher: “Make Room”

New Music (10/28 — 11/3)

Fletcher: “All Love”

The 69 Eyes ft. Wednesday 13, Calico Cooper, and Dani Filth: “The Last House On The Left”

Once Upon a Flatline: “Those Last, Fatal Days”

Marquis Of Vaudeville: “The ENIGMA Men”

Hollywood Undead: “Already Dead”

Children Of Bodom: “Hexed”

Ice Nine Kills: “Savages”

Hey Violet: “Clean”

Ava Max: “Freaking Me Out”

Jinjer: “Pit Of Consciousness”

Knasterbart: “Kneipenschlägerei”

Wolves At The Gate: “A Voice In The Violence”

Lindemann: “Knebel”

Airbourne: “Backseat Boogie”

Nile: “Snake Pit Mating Frenzy”

The Word Alive: “Burning Your World Down”

She Must Burn: “Of Blood & Bone”

Clint Lowery: “Kings”

Days To Come: “Vultures”

Kickin’ Valentina: “Sweat”

Volbeat ft. Neil Fallon: “Die To Live”

Nothing Left: “Dust Into Dust”

Powerwolf: “Kiss Of The Cobra King”

Dirty Shirley: “Here Comes The King”

Agnostic Front: “I Remember”

Our Last Night: “Losing Sleep”

Shallowpoint: “Broken Life” and “Fade Away” [Double Feature]

Decarlo: “Lightning Strikes Twice”

A War Within: “Better Off Dead”

Lionheart: “Born Feet First”

New Music (10/21 — 10/27)

And I’m back!

Lindemann: “Ich weiß es nicht”

Bring Me The Horizon: “in the dark”

Fame on Fire: “Ransom”

Krewella: “Ghost”

The Devil Wears Prada: “Chemical”

Tom Keifer: “Waiting on the Demons”

Blutengel: “Damokles”

Selena Gomez: “Lose You To Love Me”

I Built The Sky: “Light Pillars”

Before The Silence: “Gravity Falls”

Davey Suicide: “Rock Ain’t Dead”

Victorius: “Super Sonic Samurai”

Written By Wolves: “As Long As It Takes”

Bad Wolves: “Killing Me Slowly”

Our Hollow, Our Home: “Burn It//Bury It”

Outloved: “Dying To Leave”

Spoil Engine ft. Jeff Walker: “The Hallow”

Dawn Of Disease: “Where The Clouds Reach The Ground”

Locket: “Hunnie”

Life Awaits ft. Akin: “Everlast”

Wolfmother ft. Chris Cester: “Chase The Feeling”

Simple Creatures: “One Little Lie”

DK-Zero: “Boom Boom”

Miscreant: “Out Of Place”

Soilwork: “Feverish”

MONO INC.: “The Book of Fire”

Make Way For Man: “Strangers”

Groovenom: “Faust”

Dream State: “Twenty Letters”

Violent New Breed: “Crazy”

Home Tonight, So Here’s An Update

My mom and I spent the majority of the day at the nursing home with my grandmother. There has been no change, except her blood pressure has dropped slightly (no cause for concern, according to Hospice) and they are now having to suction out her throat and esophagus at least two or three times a day. So, please continue praying/sending us positive thoughts, if you would.

In other news, it’s October — my favorite time of the year! (I know we’re already 13 days in, but I’ve been distracted.) I have no idea what I’m going to be for Halloween. I’m leaning toward a variation on Harley Quinn, the girl on the cover of Mindless Self Indulgence’s Frankenstein Girls Will Seem Strangely Sexy, or Tim Sköld. I haven’t had the chance to indulge in many horror movies so far; however, my best friend and I have binge-watched “Light as a Feather” on Hulu.

Other highlights of October: it’s finally below 1000 degrees here in Alabama, and my favorite college football team, the Alabama Crimson Tide, is undefeated. Oh, and Alter Bridge is playing a show within two hours of me on the 17th.

Given that this is a music blog, I guess I should mention something about music, huh? Ha! Okay. Here are a few upcoming releases:

  • Super Junior – Time Slip (10/14)
  • Shane Eagle – Dark Moon Flower (10/15)
  • Alex Vargas – EGO (10/18)
  • Alter Bridge – Walk the Sky (10/18)
  • Cody Jinks – The Wanting (10/18)
  • HXXS – Year of the Witch (10/18)
  • Jimmy Eat World – Surviving (10/18)
  • The Lacs – Rise and Shine (10/18)
  • Third Eye Blind – Screamer (10/18)
  • Cigarettes After Sex – Cry (10/25)
  • Fit For An Autopsy – The Sea of Tragic Beasts (10/25)
  • Jinjer – Macro (10/25)
  • Night Flowers – Fortune Teller (10/25)
  • Norma Jean – All Hail (10/25)
  • PVRIS – Hallucinations EP (10/25)
  • Scarlett Rose – Welcome to Wonderland (10/31)

I’m trying to schedule some posts in my free time so that my blog isn’t lacking content for consecutive days, or even a full week. I hope to resume the playlist challenge and choose a featured band on the 21st.

New Music (9/23 — 9/29)

Varials: “I Suffocate”

Drown This City: “Stay Broken”

State Champs: “Real World”

Ice Nine Kills: “IT Is The End”

Shinedown: “ATTENTION ATTENTION”

Dirty Honey: “Rolling 7s”

Warbringer: “Firepower Kills”

One Time Without: “Hate”

Plastic Tears: “Look of Lies”

We Came As Romans: “Carry The Weight”

Danny Blu: “Sanctuary”

Hand Of The Tribe: “The Last Time”

Eggvn: “Heresy”

Delain: “Burning Bridges”

Jimmy Eat World: “All The Way (Stay)”

Alcest: “Sapphire”

Being As An Ocean: “Find Our Way”

Borknagar: “Voices”

Life Awaits: “Blind Belief”

The Almost: “Chokehold”

Clawfinger: “Tear You Down”

Our Hollow, Our Home: “Parting Gift”

Amon Amarth: “Shield Wall”

HellYeah: “Skyy and Water”

Vancouver Sleep Clinic: “Fever”

Aurora: “Apple Tree”

Atlas: “Aika”

Aephanemer: “The Sovereign”

Abbath: “Hecate”

H.E.A.T: “One By One”

New Music (9/16 — 9/22)

Omnium Gatherum: “Chaospace”

Cold: “Without You”

Citizen Soldier: “Weight of the World”

Ambleside: “Still Life”

Mass Worship: “Celestial”

Fever 333: “Animal”

In Flames: “Follow Me”

In Motive: “Subtle Mistakes”

Your Life & Mine: “Runaway”

Like Moths To Flames: “All That You Lost”

Devin Townsend: “Why?”

A Killer’s Confession: “Numb”

Spite: “The Offering”

Kublai Khan: “The Truest Love”

Bayside: “Interrobang”

The Darkness: “Heart Explodes”

Avatarium: “Rubicon”

Leprous: “Alleviate”

Danko Jones: “Fists Up High”

Strigoi: “Phantoms”

Jeremy Camp: “Only You Can”

Tauren Wells: “Miracle”

Our Last Night: “The Beaten Path”

New Years Day: “Come For Me”

Jake Miller: “Could Have Been You”

Stand Atlantic: “Hate Me (Sometimes)”

Amber Run: “What Could Be as Lonely as Love”

Crystal Viper: “Still Alive”

Davey Suicide ft. Telle Smith: “Medicate Me”

Blasterjaxx: “Blackout”