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While She Sleeps Announces Massive North American Tour For 2025

Metalcore mainstay While She Sleeps is hopping across the pond to tour across North America in 2025. The UK-based act announced that they’re performing from coast to coast in April with support from Bury Tomorrow and Vended. The band notes, “We’re excited to be coming back to the USA and bringing a bunch of friends with us. We’ve been touring with Bury Tomorrow since 2010, so it’s going to be special being on the other side of the world together.” They continue, “After sadly having our last USA headline run cut short on the West Coast by the dreaded 2020… Read more »

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20 Best Alternative, Metal, and Indie Albums Released In 2024

As the year comes to a close, and we bid “farewell” (and maybe “fuck you”) to 2024, it’s the perfect time to look back and celebrate the albums that shaped the soundtrack of the last 12 months. From deeply personal indie projects to genre-defining heavy hitters, 2024 was filled with groundbreaking releases that reminded us of the power of music and, more importantly, of the alternative community. With so much incredible work to choose from, narrowing down our favorites was a daunting task. This year, the quality and variety of music made it impossible to rank our picks—every album brought… Read more »

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Stain The Canvas Share Deeply Personal “Seal My Soul” Music Video

Following the release of “Limbo” and their “Unholy” cover, Italian metalcore act Stain The Canvas are back with a brand-new single and music video for “Seal My Soul,” via InVogue Records. This track uniquely dives into a deeply personal mental health topic that impacted the band directly. Lorenzo Accattoli, the band’s guitarist and songwriter, shares, “Luckily, I never had to deal with heavy depression so there would be no reason to write a song like this. But when they told me our old friend, KT, took his life, I really felt something inexplicable in my guts, and I spent weeks wondering how he… Read more »

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Dreamwake Makes UNFD Debut With Nostalgia-Inducing “Heatwave”

UNFD has another dazzling act on their stacked roster with the recent signing of New Haven metalcore/synthwave artist Dreamwake. The rising quartet made their label debut with single, “Heatwave,” which features a unique blend of saxophone action, heavy riffs, soaring pop-punk vocals, and raw screams. The band says, “‘Heatwave’ is about that feeling of nostalgia when you look back on life and realize things will never be the same. It’s about those moments when you’re stuck in the same place but everything around you feels different, and you can’t help but long for how things used to be.” Dreamwake shares, “The… Read more »

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Counterparts Announce Winter Headline Tour

Canadian metalcore outfit Counterparts has announced a headline tour taking place next winter. The Heaven Let Them Die North American Tour will feature support from Pain Of Truth, Malevolence, and Foreign Hands. This announcement comes after the band’s surprise release of their new six-song EP, Heaven Let Them Die, via Pure Noise Records last week. Physical copies of the EP, along with a new merch line, are available to purchase here. Pain Of Truth is still riding from the high of their 2023 release Not Through Blood and supporting the likes of A Day To Remember, Kublai Khan TX, Four… Read more »

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Paleface Swiss Releases Intense New Track “My Blood On Your Hands”

Ahead of the release of their upcoming album Cursed, due out on January 3, 2025, Switzerland metalcore outfit Paleface Swiss just released a new music video for “My Blood On Your Hands.” The track is preceded by September’s release, “Hatred.” Frontman Marc “Zelli” Zellweger shares, “Have you ever been lying in bed, unable to fall asleep because you’re haunted by the same problems you’re too afraid to confront? You replay different scenarios in your mind, but just as you’re about to reach a resolution, you find yourself back at the beginning.” He adds, “It keeps spiraling, growing worse and worse until you reach… Read more »

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Killswitch Engage Announce Spring 2025 Headline Tour

Metalcore icons Killswitch Engage have announced a headlining tour spanning North America in the winter and spring of 2025. This is the band’s first North American tour since late 2022. They will be joined by Kublai Khan TX, Fit For A King and Frozen Soul. “Excited is an understatement for the way that I feel about this tour,” says vocalist Jesse Leach. He adds, “We will be playing a solid amount of new songs, as well as old. That alone makes me very stoked. I feel like the band is firing on all cylinders and the timing for this tour… Read more »

The Penguin Episode 3 to 5 Discussion + more with Fabian Angel of Stratejacket!

This week on Metalcore Nerds, Sean is joined by Fabian Angel of Stratejacket to chat about the trailer for Creature Commandos, what they’ve currently been watching and Episodes 3-5 of The Penguin! Catch Metalcore Nerds live Mondays @ 7pmEST on idobi Howl! Follow @MetalcoreNerds on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram & Tiktok! Follow the Metalcore Nerds Playlist here Support Metalcore Nerds by buying Merch here

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Melrose Avenue Unleash Updated “Fool And The Beggar” via Hopeless Records

After inking a deal with Hopeless Records earlier this month, Australian metalcore darlings Melrose Avenue has unleashed a larger-than-life remix of their single “Fool And The Beggar.” Ahead of the remix’s release, Melrose Avenue—composed of powerhouse vocalist and songwriter Vlado Saric, guitarist Mitchell Black, drummer Jed McIntosh, and guitarist and supporting vocalist Shawn ‘Red Curl’ Mayer—chatted with idobi Radio while attending the Hopeless Records 30th Anniversary celebration at the Punk Rock Museum in Las Vegas, NV. There, they reflected on their journey leading up to this latest release and what fans can expect from the band’s future under the new… Read more »

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Knocked Loose Announce European Headline Tour

The Kentucky-based metalcore phenom known as Knocked Loose continues their global domination as they announce a headline tour hitting the UK and Europe in 2025. The tour will be celebrating the release of You Won’t Go Before You’re Supposed To, and it will be the band’s first time across the pond since the album was released. Along with the announcement, the band shared this on social media, “We are bringing YWGBYST overseas for the first time since its release.” They add, “These are the biggest shows we’ve ever played in these countries. We’ll see you there.” Support for the tour… Read more »