Metallic hardcore legends Integrity have released the first single from their upcoming album Howling, For the Nightmare Shall Consume. Entitled Hymn for the Children of the Black Flame, the track continues the band’s established tradition of dark occult-themed metal-tinged hardcore. The full album is due for release on Relapse Records on Friday July 14.
Melbourne’s Bench Press have announced that they’ll be joining the roster at Poison City Records. With a debut full length in the works, the band has released new single Group Anxiety. See them launch the single at The Grace Darling Hotel on Thursday June 29.
Following a long year of worldwide touring of their album If This is All We’re Going to Be, Tasmanian favourites Luca Brasi have announced the release of a new standalone single Got To Give. Frontman Tyler Richardson explains the immense year the band has had and the background to the new single: “The last year has surpassed any hopes and dreams we could have had, I can’t even express how stoked we are to get to do this type of stuff. People often tell me how thankful they are for the band, and how stoked they are. All I can ever reply is that from our end, it’s just disbelief and we’re more thankful for them than they could imagine. Got To Give is about that exact feeling, and needing that kind of support wherever you can get it. Being able to rely on the ones you need and love when things change is something I’m eternally grateful for.” Got To Give is available now on all streaming platforms.
Melbourne’s Lincoln LeFevre and the Insiders have announced the upcoming release of their new album Come Undone. The band’s first since 2012’s Resonation, the new album continues LeFevre’s folk-influenced emo rock. Due for release on Poison City Records on Friday July 21, with first supporting show at The Reverence Hotel the next day. Pre-orders are available now through Poison City.
The Dillinger Escape Plan have announced a second Melbourne show on what will be their final tour this October. Calling it quits after 20 years as a band and in support of their new album Dissociation, the band will play Corner Hotel on Wednesday October 18 and Thursday October 19. Tickets are on sale now and moving fast.
Los Angeles pop-punks Bad Cop/Bad Cop have released a single and video from their recently released second album Warriors. Entitled Amputations, the track documents the band’s experience with drug addiction and keeping the band together through tumultuous times. Detailed in a press release, the band explained: “We were on the Fat Wreck Chords 25th anniversary tour in 2015, and Stacey was partying really hard. She ended up bottoming out on the tour, and we had to leave. It was not a good separation. We had to go home and drop off the tour and figure out if we were still a band, what are we going to do about Stacey. Thankfully, Fat helped send her to detox, and she came out of that as a completely new person with a totally different trajectory. Before that, she was demonically possessed. She was destroying everything around her.” New album Warriors is out now on Fat Wreck Chords.
