For the past two decades the energetic performances of SAMA award winning blues/rock guitarist/singer Albert Frost has captured audiences worldwide. Today sees the release of his new single I’m still here, a high energy rock song about surviving life in music, keeping the spirit alive by giving it all. “It’s a celebration of the passion…
Monstroid is the passion project of 4 friends from Cape Town, born out of a deeply shared appreciation for writing, making, and sharing tectonic plate-shifting music. From the rumbling depths emerges a melodic molten soundscape. From the skies a flaming fireball of fuzz. Monstroid resides where these forces collide. For lovers of growling guitars, distorted…
Over a decade ago, Johannesburg’s Truth and Its Burden immersed itself in a thriving metal scene. The idea was simple enough: delivering a message of hope and positivity out of the ashes of friction, adversity and dreams reshaped and redrawn. Those same ideals that initially bore life still resonate today, especially with the current situation…
Todays sees the release of The Ladder, the new album from South African progressive instrumental trinity Albinobeach. This is the bands second second full-length release after the improvisational, ensemble-driven Cacophonic (2015). Writing and recording for the album began in 2015-16, with the band’s founding members Ian Finch (guitars), Kalin Pashaliev (bass guitar) and Garrick Van…
Anny Whyte is a South African singer/songwriter who grew up in a musically gifted family. She started playing the piano at the age of 7. Being surrounded by musical talent within her family Anny learned to play the guitar at the age of 11 and has been writing her own original songs since she was…
HopePunk Records is excited to announce the release of A New World, the debut album from transcontinental hard rockers HeadFury, a 3-piece with its roots in Johannesburg, South Africa. Their sound is a mix of infectious riffs, punchy drums and emotional melodic soundscapes that will get your mind thinking and your head bouncing. Wayne and…
Black Hole Mass is the pummelling new EP from Helsinki based psychedelic blackened doom trio DÖ. The album which is the first release with the new guitarist Teröid, has a theme of dark cosmic mass that praises the almighty astral forces with three rituals performed by the astral death cult. All hymns were written together,…
Rosy Finch are incredibly happy to announce they will be re-pressing their highly acclaimed second album Scarlet in a new colour vinyl with some special gifts included with pre-orders. The Spanish trio released the album in March on Dutch label Lay Bare Recordings just before the world went into lockdown as guitarist and vocalist Mireia…
The Devil’s Cattle is the highly anticipated, full-length album release from South African rock and rollers Ruff Majik, and the first with their new label Mongrel Records. The album is a 13-song firecracker filtered through the colorfully twisted lens of lead vocalist, guitarist, and songwriter Johni Holiday and the first to feature producer, multi-instrumentalist, and…
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