Lots of stuff to cover today so let’s roll right into it.

• Let’s start with a couple of tour announcements. First, Agnostic Front announced a quick September and October run with Angel Du$t, Step 2 This, and Turnstile joining them (depending on the dates). Here’s the schedule.
• And then Finnish rockers The Rasmus announced their first North American run with Saint Agnes and Death Valley Dreams alongside. Those are also September and October dates and tickets can be acquired here come Friday.
• Out of Nuclear Blast, progressive metal crew Stellar Circuits dropped a powerful new single titled “Stargazer”. A visualizer for that one can be seen here.
• How about a dose of dark folk? Xasthur will release Open to Misinterpretation on October 2nd through Prophecy Productions and “Put You Out of Your Misery” is available now.
• And to pick things right back up, we have Australian deathcore outfit A Night In Texas. Their fifth full-length, The Darkest Side of Humanity, will be out through Unique Leader on September 4th. “Metastatic Misery” is the early sample pulled from that one.
• We’ll wrap up with something I simply cannot stop listening to. Enslaved partnered with Kevin Kicking Woman for the release of “Spirit Helper”. It is a truly powerful collaboration with an Elder of the Blackfeet Nation. Listen to it. Watch it. And then do it again and again.

“Ein Bier… bitte.”
– cmb