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(news – new single) FALLSTAR DROP NEW SINGLE, ANNOUNCE NEW ALBUM!

Fallstar’s sixth studio album sees the band coming into their own, understanding the qualities of their previous records and how they relate to the band’s identity; all culminating in the control and authority displayed on Sacred Mirrors.

Most artists won’t admit that they set out to intentionally replicate a previous album, but Fallstar readily acknowledges it’s exactly what they meant to do with Sacred Mirrors. “We found formulas and voices that really work for us and we’re gonna refine that. Sunbreather set the standard for what we are as a band and we wanted to make that record again, but even better.” The songs are diverse, but the record as a whole is the most cohesive project the band has ever completed. “Picking singles was miserable because there are no clear winners. All the songs can stand on their own.”

Sacred Mirrors was written before the band’s most current Facedown album Sunbreather was even released, but recording for the album wasn’t begun until the winter of 2021. Musically, the goal for Sacred Mirrors was to hone the structure and style created on Sunbreather; lyrically the message is straightforward: “Self reflection is the sacred mirror.”

Sacred Mirrors will be released on July 14, 2023. The first single “Doomsayer” is out now.Listen: 
Spotify
Apple Music
Amazon

Pre-Orders will be launching next month and include some amazing looking, very limited colored vinyl.  Keep an eye out for that.  

(news – new single) Chicago’s THE BELLWETHER SYNDICATE summon courage & resolve on ‘We All Rise’ single!

It is release day for ‘We All Rise’ by Chicago-based alternative post-punk outfit THE BELLWETHER SYNDICATE, the third single from their ‘Vestige & Vigil’ album, slated for release on April 28 via Sett Records (North America) and Nexilis Records / Schubert Music Europe (rest of world). A tale of hope and struggle, of audacity, inner grit and rage for what could be…

Formed by WILLIAM FAITH (of seminal goth acts Christian Death, Mephisto Walz and Shadow Project and co-founder of Faith & The Muse) and SARAH ROSE FAITH a.k.a. SCARY LADY SARAH (one of the scene’s most eminent DJs and club promoters and host of Nocturna, the longest-running goth event in North America), they are joined in The Bellwether Syndicate by PHILLY PEROXIDE, STEVYN GREY and COREY GREY. Faith notes, “’We All Rise’ is both an acknowledgement of and a call to the inner courage we all possess, which gives us the resolve and the strength to go against the prevailing system and try to build the world that lives in all of our hearts and minds”. 

Order the single  https://withkoji.com/@thebellwethersyndicate
Bandcamp  https://thebellwethersyndicate.bandcamp.com
Spotify  https://open.spotify.com/track/1ug1LGlsqtHnoNypxiF4v0
‘Beacons’  https://youtu.be/CRNdc-XJIMI
‘Dystopian Mirror’ (Official video)  https://youtu.be/c2MPiPgEHs4
‘Dystopian Mirror’ (Performance video)  https://youtu.be/XKTBCvkpNdc
‘Dystopian Mirror’ (Lyrics video)  https://youtu.be/IlpWwZ3jlbM
Spotify  https://open.spotify.com/artist/3B9I7zOlLeuj02Pft3B2nN
Tour tickets (with Clan of Xymox)  http://bit.ly/3lYoNYZ

(news – punk rock) Versus The World released new single from the forthcoming new album!

‘Roadsick/Roadsick’, the first single from Versus The World‘s new album, is released today. The Californian post-punk band released their last album in 2015. The track ‘Homesick/Roadsick’ is directly linked to the new single:

‘Roadsick/Roadsick is a bridge between the last record and where we’re headed as a band. I’m happy to have shared this moment with Sean, Flip, Tony and Pat during the recording process. Meeting Cameron Webb and having him as our producer only made it better,’ says vocalist Donald Spence, hinting that the album was produced by famed producer Cameron Webb (Motorhead, Sum 41, Megadeath and more).

Versus The World is made up of members of Lagwagon and Good Riddance, among others – musically, however, the band moves outside the ‘norm’ of skate and pop punk and features influences of emo and post.

About Versus The World:
A post-punk unit from Santa Barbara, California featuring members of Lagwagon and Good Riddance, Versus the World issued their eponymous debut album in 2005 on Kung Fu Records. Drawing from their dense pedigree the band blends elements of pop-punk, melodic post-hardcore and troubadour style vocals by founding front man Donald Spence. Versus the World has toured extensively world wide on subsequent releases Drink.Sing.Live.Love(2012) and Homesick/Roadsick(2015) in support of bands such as No Use for a Name, The Ataris, Lagwagon and MxPx. In 2021 the band teamed up with producer Cameron Webb (Motörhead, Megadeth) to make The Bastards Live Forever which is due out in May2023 on SBÄM Records.