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NO MALLCORE, NO METAL CORE, NO CORE, NO HIPSTERS.FREEDOM FOR UKRAINE
Connecticut, U.S.A. hardcore warriors HATEBREED have posted a video for "DECISIONS BECOME DESTINIES" , a track from the bands anticipated new release "FATAL PARADOX", due to be unleashed 11/6/2026 . via NUCLEAR BLAST RECORDS..
HATEBREED have posted a video for "THE CARRION CHOIR", a track from the bands anticipated new release "FATAL PARADOX", due to be unleashed 11/6/2026 . via NUCLEAR BLAST RECORDS..
HATEBREED unleashed "THE CONCRETE CONFESSIONAL", 5/13/2016 via NUCLEAR BLAST
FROM HATEBREED:
Our new single / video is out today!
We have a new single out today. Check out "The Carrion Choir"!
Our new studio album FATAL PARADOX will arrive on November 6.
Swedish atmospheric, post metal warriors CULT OF LUNA have posted a visualizer for "SADNESS WILL REIGN (FEATURING JOE DUPLANTIER)", a track from the bands anticipated new release "IN THE SHADOW OF YOUR SHADOW", due to be unleashed 11/6/2026 (more info T.B.A.).
CULT OF LUNA unleashed "THE RAGING RIVER" (EP), 2/5/2021 via RED CREEK.
CULT OF LUNA unleashed "A DAWN TO FEAR", 9/20/2019 via METAL BLADE RECORDS.
VIDEO BELOW: CULT OF LUNA: NEW TRACK"SADNESS WILL REIGN (FEATURING JOE DUPLANTIER)"(VIA YOU TUBE, COURTESY OF CULT OF LUNA):
German based industrial, metal warriors KNIFE have posted a video for "NIGHTMARE" , a track from the bands anticipated new release "INTO YOUR NIGHTMARE", due to be unleashed 12/18/2026 via NAPALM RECORDS.
KNIFE have posted a video for "SHADOWS", a track from the bands anticipated new release "INTO YOUR NIGHTMARE", due to be unleashed 12/18/2026 via NAPALM RECORDS.
KNIFE, via SPOTIFY, are streaming the bands anticipated new release "LIVE LEATHER HOUNDS",unleashed 8/23/2024 via NAPALM RECORDS.
KNIFE, via SPOTIFY, are streaming the bands anticipated new release "HEAVEN INTO DUST', unleashed 8/25/2023 via NAPALM RECORDS.
FROM NAPALM RECORDS:
German Speed Metallers KNIFE Announce New Album Into Your Nightmare, Out December 18, 2026!
“KNIFE are back with a vengeance. Once again, a raging tornado of pure Speed Metal is ascending from Hell. The first single, ‘Shadows’, is fast as a shark, ready to break your neck. Join the pack of Black Leather Hounds and celebrate the first onslaught of our new album, Into Your Nightmare.”
Speed metallers KNIFE share their next swath of destruction into the scene – the German band’s furious third album, Into Your Nightmare, releases December 18, 2026 via Napalm Records. Just in time for the holiday season, the four-piece celebrates the unholy trinity of speed metal, black metal, and scabious punk. Into Your Nightmare is heavier, wilder, and definitely more grim than previous releases, resuming KNIFE’s path authentically
VIDEO BELOW: KNIFE:NEW TRACK "NIGHTMARE" (VIA YOU TUBE, COURTESY OF NAPALM RECORDS):
Stockholm, Sweden based death, doom, depressive rock warriors KATATONIA have announced SPRING 2027 EUROPEAN TOUR DATES..
KATATONIA have posted a GUITAR PLAY THROUGH for "TEMPORAL"....
KATATONIA, via SPOTIFY, are streaming the bands anticipated new release "NIGHTMARES AS EXTENSIONS OF THE WAKING STATE", unleashed 6/6/2025 via NAPALM RECORDS.
Stockholm, Sweden based death, doom, depressive rock warriors KATATONIA have announced founding guitarist ANDERS NYSTROM has left the band.
KATATONIA have announced FALL 2025 EUROPEAN TOUR DATES with EVERGREY and KLOGR.
KATATONIA unleashed "SKY VOID OF STARS", 1/20/2023 via NAPALM RECORDS.
FROM KATATONIA:
WAKING STATE OF EUROPE 2027 TOUR JUST ANNOUNCED!
Joining will be special guests Bonnie Trash, with another guest still to be announced.
: Thanks for voting DEMOCRAT as MAGA got their ass kicked.
Here in NEW YORK, we stay blue with KATHY HOCHUL as Governor. Texas went blue (democrat)..
The U.S.A midterms has seen their first black and female governor, first Muslim Senator , first gay senator in many states.
Now the Democrats and democratic Socialists have to get a Presidential candidate.
FROM ALT PARK SERVICE:
FIRST PARAGRAPH ON THE FRONT PAGE OF TODAY'S ATLANTA JOURNAL CONSTITUTION: In 1860, an enslaved man named Sheppard Peek was listed among the possessions of William Peek, a white man in Crawfordville. His value was placed at $1,400. On another surviving document, Sheppard signed his name with an X. More than a century and a half later, Sheppard’s great-great-granddaughter, Keisha Lance Bottoms, is Georgia’s governor-elect.
FROM A MIGHTY GIRL:
Deb Haaland was elected governor of New Mexico tonight, becoming the first Native American woman ever elected governor of any state in American history. Not the first in New Mexico, and not the first in the Southwest -- the first in 250 years of American governors. Haaland is a 35th-generation New Mexican and a citizen of the Laguna Pueblo, whose people have lived on the land that is now New Mexico since long before there was a United States -- and who will now, for the first time, see one of their own lead the state.
She defeated Republican Gregg Hull by double digits. New Mexico made history of a second kind tonight, too: it became the first state ever to elect two women of color to its highest offices, with Stephanie Garcia Richard, the former public lands commissioner, as Haaland’s lieutenant governor. Haaland will also be the state’s third woman governor in a row.
Haaland has spent her career being the first. In 2018 she and Sharice Davids of Kansas became the first two Native American women ever elected to Congress, and in 2021 she became the first Native American Cabinet secretary in the nation's history, confirmed to lead the Interior Department -- the same agency that for generations carried out the removal and forced assimilation of Native children.
"A voice like mine has never been a Cabinet secretary or at the head of the Department of Interior," she wrote at the time. "Growing up in my mother's Pueblo household made me fierce. I'll be fierce for all of us."
As secretary Haaland opened a first-of-its-kind federal investigation into the abuse of Native children at government-run boarding schools, forcing a reckoning with a history the country had spent a century avoiding -- one that had reached her own family, when her grandmother was taken as a child to one of those schools.
She raised her daughter as a single mother, relied on food stamps, and built a small salsa business to make ends meet. "I'm the only candidate who has been a single mom," she told voters during the campaign. "I'm the only candidate who worked across the aisle in Congress and got bills signed into law."
Haaland celebrated on Tuesday night before hundreds of supporters at a hotel on Laguna Pueblo land west of Albuquerque. “New Mexico’s brightest days are ahead of us,” she told the crowd, “because I believe in a New Mexico that works for all New Mexicans.” Of the generations of Native Americans who never lived to see a night like this one, she has said simply: “It is our time.”
FROM REPRESENTITIVE ADAM KINZINGER:
Friends, what a night! My goodness. I’m still blown away over the complete whoopin’ that the GOP took all across the country. They got spanked in Senate races. Hammered in House races. Gutted in governors races. And lit up in legislative races.
Folks, I am so proud of you. Of us. Americans sent the clearest message imaginable to Donald Trump and MAGA:
GOOD RIDDANCE.
Let’s celebrate the first, and certainly not the last, blow to Trump’s power. In fact, the late Senator Lindsey Graham predicted this moment 10 years ago:
"If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed...and we will deserve it." (Sen. Lindsey Graham on May 3, 2016)
It might be called poetic justice that his sister just lost his South Carolina Senate seat. It will be the first time since 1960 that a Republican has not held that seat.
But history was made all over the map. Keisha Lance Bottoms in Georgia will the country’s first Black, female governor. Chris Pappas in New Hampshire will be the country’s first openly gay male U.S. senator. Juliana Stratton won in Illinois, making her and Tammy Duckworth the first two women of color to represent the same state in the Senate. And it was even the first time a Pope has voted in a U.S. election!
The good news will keep rolling in throughout today and tomorrow. There’s more than I could ever fit in one piece.
But there’s one thing I do know: it’s time to save our democracy!
And it starts with accountability. Democrats will have the solemn responsibility to investigate the mind-blowing corruption of the Trump administration. There’s no telling how deep it goes and there will be more than any one committee can handle.
And then comes the media. Let’s be honest, legacy media has failed spectacularly at holding Donald Trump accountable the last 18 months. That’s why independent media has absolutely thrived.
My independent journalism has steadfastly held this administration accountable, calling balls and strikes over their incompetence, corruption, and cruelty.
And what do I have to show for it? Over the last 18 months I’ve been threatened, taunted, investigated, and sued by MAGA. But it didn’t stop me from coming to you with the truth every single day.
But I refused to back down.
I refused to be silenced.
Just like you all refused to look away from what was happening in America.
Now, I am doubling down on the future of my independent journalism and asking you to join me.
Paid subscribers are the reason I can do this work full time and spread this message far and wide. So, if you support my work and want to super charge accountability of Trump and MAGA, become a paid subscriber on my Substack today at www.adamkinzinger.com
It’s been an incredibly dark 18 months, but now the rays of hope are shining through again. Our country sent an undeniable message to the cruel authoritarians that we have had enough.
Democracy prevailed last night. Now let’s go restore its foundations, hold the corrupt accountable, and build a brighter future for this country we love so much.
- Adam
PS - Paid subscribers also keep the majority of my work free for those who can't afford it.
FROM FORMER USA PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: onight, the American people sent a clear message — they want a politics that brings people together rather than divides them, and leaders who offer concrete solutions to the challenges they face.
These results were only possible because outstanding candidates stepped forward in every region of the country — including in areas once considered long shots. They came from different backgrounds and represented a range of political perspectives, but were united by shared values, a belief in public service, and a commitment to putting the people of their districts and states first.
We also owe a debt of gratitude to the thousands of election officials and volunteers from both parties who helped ensure a smooth election and carried out one of the most essential functions of our democracy.
While this administration has another two years in office, our job now is to roll up our sleeves, make changes wherever we have the power to do so, prevent further damage, and lay the groundwork for the future
New York City, New York, U.S.A. based industrial metal warriors PRONG have posted a static video for "NEW COMMISSION" , a track from the bands anticipated new self titled release, due to be unleashed 11/6/2026 via NAPALM RECORDS
PRONG have posted a video for "FEAR THE SUN", a track from the bands anticipated new self titled release, due to be unleashed 11/6/2026 via NAPALM RECORDS
PRONG have announced NOVEMBER 2026 EUROPEAN TOUR DATES..
PRONG have posted a video for "THE BANNER", a track from the bands anticipated new self titled release, due to be unleashed 11/6/2026 via NAPALM RECORDS.
PRONG, vua SPOTIFY, are streaming the bands anticipated new release "STATE OF EMERGENCY", unleashed 10/6/2023 via SPV ENTERTAINMENT.
PRONG have posted "BREAKING POINT", a stand alone single, unleashed 1/11/2023 via NAPALM RECORDS.
PRONG unleashed "ZERO DAYS", 7/28/2017 via STEAMHAMMER.
VIDEO BELOW:PRONG: NEW TRACK "NEW COMMISSION"(VIA YOU TUBE, COURTESY OF NAPALM RECORDS):
Portugal based black metal warriors CHANTS have posted "VERITAS", a track from the bands anticipated debut release "ECHOES", due to be unleashed 11/20/2026 via EVERLASTING SPEW RECORDS.
VIDEO BELOW: CHANTS: NEW TRACK "VERITAS" (VIA YOU TUBE, COURTESY OF EVERLASTING SPEW RECORDS):
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ITP RATING SYSTEM FOR EXTREME METAL CD REVIEWS:
A feature entitled ITP BLAST BACK REVIEWS: A RE RATE of reviews (that year) to see if I over or under rated certain releases. Just the rating, and there's no guarantee that all ratings will change. All ITP REVIEWS are on a BELL CURVE in comparison to previous (band/artist) releases and whatever else is released that year in said genre.
ITP EXTREME METAL RELEASE REVIEW RATING SYSTEM:
***** (5 stars)=Awesome, a classic, timeless, unholy
**** 1/2 (4 and half stars)=amazing, perhaps this bands best
**** (4 stars)=very good, well worth the purchase
*** 1/2 (3 1/2 stars)=Good, standard fare, for fans and not new converts
*** (3 stars)=Good, but flawed, no progression here
** 1/2 (2 1/2 stars)=Bordering on mediocrity, band is overrated
** (two stars)=somewhere between mediocre and SUKETH
* 1/2 (1 1/2 stars)= SUKETH (this release SUCKS)
* (one star)=Awful, this CD can only be used as a beer coaster or a Frisbee.
? (No stars)=this band and release blow goats.
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