Summer concert season is coming to a close, can you believe it? The hottest tours have rebooked their rescheduled tours, fresh new tours have dominated my email blasts, and we are at a concert almost every night now. You can hear the cry of the pumpkin spice girls in the not so distance. Jason is peering around one corner and the beautiful laughter of the Sampson sisters is soon to be crisp in the air. The outdoor season while it’s leaving soon, the line-up for the Fall season is pretty kick-ass.

The season of album releases is now upon us as well. To wrap up this week, we’ve got some much-anticipated arrivals that have us tapping our toes, clawing on fists, and screeching, “Finally!” We’re sure you can see which ones we think you should grab and which ones we think may deserve a pass (cough)… Dive in at your own risk, and let’s hear your picks!

**All dates are for U.S. releases unless otherwise noted. Dates are subject to change. 

ALBUM RELEASE CALENDAR September 9th, 2022

• A Void — Dissociation
• The Afghan Whigs — How Do You Burn? (Royal Cream/BMG)
• Aqua — Aquarium (Reissue)
• Ari Lennox — Age/Sex/Location (Dreamville/Interscope Records)
• Badge Époque Ensemble — Clouds of Joy
• Beacon — Along The Lethe (Apparent Movement)
• Big City — Liquid Times EP
• BLOODBATH — Survival Of The Sickest
• Blue Largo — Got To Believe
• Bo Armstrong — if your tired heart is aching… EP
• Booter —  10/10
• Built To Spill — When The Wind Forgets Your Name (Sub Pop)
• Breland — Cross Country (Bad Realm Records/Atlantic Records/Warner Music Nashville)
• Charles Stepney — Step On Step (International Anthem Recording Co.)
• Charley Crockett — The Man From Waco (Son of Davy/Thirty Tigers)
• CHLSY — Quantum Entanglement EP
• Craig Wedren — Sabbath Sessions Summer 2022
• Chris Tomlin —  Always – Capitol
• Cults —  Host B-Sides & Remixes EP
• Cursive —  Domestica (Reissue)
• Daniel Romano’s Outfit — La Luna (You’ve Changed Records)
• The Deer — The Beautiful Undead (22 Sound Records)
• Falluja — Empyrean
• Flogging Molly — Anthem (Rise Records)

• Foreign Air — Hello Sunshine (Lex Records)
• George Riley — Running In Waves (PLZ Make It Ruins)
• Greentea Peng — GREENZONE 108
• High Vis —  Blending
• Highly Suspect — The Midnight Demon Club (Roadrunner/FRSKT)

• The Holy —  Vortex EP
• Holy Fawn — Dimensional Bleed (Wax Bodega)
• Imagine Dragons — Night Visions (Expanded Edition)

• Jackson Wang — Magic Man (Team Wang)
• Jockstrap — I Love You Jennifer B (Rough Trade Records)
• John Legend — Legend (Columbia)
• JR Slayer — Not Rotten EP (Memory Music)
• Julian Lenon — Jude
• Kane Brown — Different Man (Sony Music Nashville)

• Lake Street Dive — Fun Machine: The Sequel EP (Fantasy Records)
• Lindsey Webster — Reasons
• Living Hour — Someday Is Today (Kanine)
• Luca Yupanqui — Conversations
• Marlon Williams — My Boy (Dead Oceans)
• Mike Adams — Graphic Blandishment (Joyful Noise Recordings)
• Miya Folick — 2007 EP (Nettwerk)
• ONE OK ROCK — Luxury Disease
• Oliver Sim — Hideous Bastard (Young)
• Ozzy Osbourne — Patient Number 9 (Epic Records)
• The Paranoyds — Talk Talk Talk (Third Man Records)
• Parkway Drive — Darker Still (Epitaph Records)
• Pinty — Pinty’s House
• Powerman 5000 — Tonight the Stars Revolt! (Vinyl Reissue)
• Preoccupations — Arrangements (self-released)
• Reuben And The Dark — In Lieu Of Light (Arts & Crafts)
• Robbie Williams — XXV (Columbia)
• Rocky Votolato — Wild Roots
• Sampa The Great — As Above, So Below (Loma Vista)
• San Fermin — Your Ghost EP (Better Company Records)
• Santigold — Spirituals (Little Jerk Records)
• Sarah Davachi — Two Sisters (Bleep)
• Son Little — Like Neptune (ANTI-)
• Spacehog — The Chinese Album (Vinyl Reissue)
• Stray From The Path — Euthanasia
• Steve Stickz Heyliger — Soulapower
• Sudan Archives — Natural Brown Prom Queen (Stones Throw)
• Suzi Analogue — Infinite Zonez (Disciples)
• Tyler Bryant & The Shakedown — Shake The Roots (Rattle Shake Records)

• Wayne Shorter — Live from The Detroit Jazz Festival
• Wyldest — Feed The Flowers Nightmares (Hand In Hive)

New Official Video –

Neural FX “Alan”

Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico-based progressive metal band Neural FX. The video is a trinket within the second part of a concept album “Inception, Chapter 2: Sorrow” The infectious guitar, intense vocals, and outrageous drumming meld with precise productions and gives a metalhead that one-two-three fist punch in the sky, and jump in that damn circle pit vibe. We look forward to seeing these guys on tour soon! Listen up! \m/ 

New Single –

Dead to Fall “Empire of the Pines”

Holy hell, y’all! It’s the return of the metal season. When I popped open my spotify I thought I was hallucinating. They are one of my first metal loves. New single is definitely on fire. Check it out!

New Single –

Lamb of God “Grayscale”

Keeping up with the OG’s this week Lamb of God release “Grayscale,” with distinct old school vibes the hardcore fans have been screaming for. Intensely brutal and beautiful, cannot wait to see this played live! Their new album, ‘Omens’ will be dropping on October 7th, 2022. 

Tour Starting This Week:

Miss May I

The new album ‘Curse of Existence’ out now. As well this week tour started. Purchase, Stream at: https://bfan.link/curse-of-existence

MISS MAY I Curse of Existence Album Out Now via SharpTone Records Catch MISS MAY I On Tour

“We are excited to release not only our seventh studio album, but our most truthful album. Curse Of Existence comes from a place of vulnerability and truth. This album is our story of the growth and responsibility we faced during the last five years as a band. This album was already in the works before the pandemic started and when the world shut down it added an entire new narrative to what we were working on. With the world stopped and the stress of a constant schedule hovering over us in the studio we were able to dig deeper than before and found who we really were as well as coming face to face with what we needed to deal with when the sound of the world was tuned out. This album is our reflection,” says Levi Benton.  Curse of Existence, the seventh studio album from MISS MAY I, explodes with the life experience of an established band, the uncertainty of mental health struggles, the isolation of the global shutdown, and the perspective gained from the most extensive time away from the road of each man’s adult life. Levi explains “Curse Of Existence is exactly what it reads, the curse we have in our existence. This doesn’t mean anything strictly negative, but it covers all existence that is the good and the bad, the highs and the lows, the sorrow and the joy. Everything that comes with life comes with a lesson and a price and that is what we have put into this new album. It tells our lessons over our lives that have shaped us and have brought us to the very bottom of our lowest low and the tallest point to our highest high. We know the reflection we all went through during the world coming to a halt and that experience brought a lot of these sheltered emotions to light!” Produced by Will Putney (A Day To Remember, The Amity Affliction, Every Time I Die), Curse of Existence is the sound of five people prying victory from the jaws of defeat. Unbroken by isolation, fearless in the face of fear, MISS MAY I wrestle with demons real and imagined all over the album. Get Curse of Existence here: https://bfan.link/curse-of-existence

Catch MISS MAY I on The Curse of Existence Tour  with special guests Currents, Kingdom of Giants, and Landmvrks    Saturday, September 10 – Vancouver, BC – Rickshaw Theatre Sunday, September 11 – Seattle, WA – El Corazon Tuesday, September 13 – Salt Lake City, UT – Metro Music Hall Wednesday, September – 14 Denver, CO – Oriental Theater Thursday, September 15 – Lawrence, KS – The Granada Saturday, September 17 – Joliet, IL – The Forge Sunday, September 18 – Flint, MI – Machine Shop Tuesday, September 20 – Toronto, ON – Velvet Underground Wednesday, September 21 – Montreal, QC – Theatre Fairmount Friday, September 23 – Worcester, MA – The Palladium Saturday, September 24 – Philadelphia, PA – Underground Arts Sunday, September 25 – Pittsburgh, PA – Mr. Smalls Tuesday, September 27 – Atlanta, GA – The Masquerade Wednesday, September 28 – Greensboro, NC – The Blind Tiger Thursday, September 29 – Richmond, VA – Canal Club Friday, September 30 – Horseheads, NY – The L Sunday, October 1 – Cleveland, OH – Beachland Ballroom Monday, October 2 – New York, NY – Gramercy Theatre About Miss May I: Levi Benton – VocalsB.J. Stead – Lead GuitarJustin Aufdemkampe – GuitarRyan Neff – Bass/VocalsJerod Boyd – Drums  The men of MISS MAY I were high school students when they picked up the New Wave Of American Heavy Metal torch set ablaze by bands like Killswitch Engage, Lamb Of God, and All That Remains. Arguably the most prolific group in the Warped Tour-era of the vibrant metalcore scene, the Ohio boys cranked out a breathtaking six albums from 2009 to 2017, some of them just a year apart. They delivered unforgettable performances on global tours, including runs with Five Finger Death Punch, Pierce The Veil, Asking Alexandria, August Burns Red, and Gwar. A generation of fans who connected to the band’s blend of pummeling chaos, irrefutable breakdowns, and singalong choruses cherish MISS MAY I. The band perfected its style from early outbursts through recent works like Rise of the Lion (2014) and Deathless (2015). “Shadows Inside” (23 million streams on Spotify alone), “Hey Mister,” “I.H.E.,” “Forgive and Forget,” “Relentless Chaos,” and other MMI staples became anthems. MISS MAY I and their fans grew up together, a shared bond reflected by the music itself, equally inviting to longtime devotees and newcomers alike. Relatable real-life concerns present themselves in the collaborative lyrics and music across ten songs which wring hope from self-doubt and turmoil. Levi Benton, B.J. Stead, Justin Aufdemkampe, Ryan Neff, and Jerod Boyd don’t shy away from arresting confessionals about depression and hopelessness in their heaviest, darkest, angriest songs. But a spirit of hope and a newly broadened worldview inform the album as well, with urgent vigor. Revolver Magazine included the band’s debut in a 2021 article titled “10 Essential Metalcore Albums from 2009: The Year Everything Changed,” alongside classics from Architects and We Came As Romans. As early as 2010, Alternative Press (who later put MISS MAY I on the cover) praised their “mix of catchy, Swedish-style riffs and mosh pit-ready breakdowns.” AP singled out Benton’s “convincingly enraged roar,” bassist Ryan Neff’s clean vocals, and the “blazing two-guitar team” of B.J. Stead and Justin Aufdenkampe, whose riffage was worthy of Arch Enemy or In Flames. Rounded out by drummer Jerod Boyd, MISS MAY I even kept the same lineup together for more than a decade. Metal Hammer saluted Shadows Inside for “how easily this band can sway from ambient melodic metalcore to balls-out passages of guttural darkness.” Curse of Existence is proof of the band’s continued relevance and future longevity, delivering on the promise held by each album before it. MISS MAY I celebrates over a decade of savage metalcore and soaring melody, revitalized and poised for another insurgent renaissance. They remain armed with unmistakable power, road-hardened experience, a steadily building catalog, and an unrelenting spirit, supported by a diehard community.   MISS MAY I online: Smart URL: https://bfan.link/unconquered FB: https://www.facebook.com/missmayi Twitter: https://twitter.com/missmayiband IG: https://www.instagram.com/missmayiband

Until next week!

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