Words by Nic Angeles
Polyphia are “not only the biggest, not only the best, but now also the horniest Christian rock metal band of all time.” With their newly released music video, the prog-rock instrumental quartet welcome you to a paradise of strippers, Tide Pods, fire, and more.
Watch the trippy visual for their new song “Look But Don’t Touch” (featuring Lewis Grant) below:
This comes just as Polyphia kick off their Look But Don’t Touch tour in the US, which runs through this whole month ‘til May 5th.
In 2018, Polyphia released their most recent record, New Levels New Devils, via Equal Vision Records. The band’s recent New Levels New Devils Tour made it to Asia with a stop in the Philippines, with ex-Megadeth axeman Marty Friedman, brought to us by Full Blast Entertainment. Watch out for PULP Magazine’s coverage of this gig in our upcoming issue!
Words by Nic Angeles | Photo by Megan Thompson
Oh, Weatherly have given fan-favorite tracks from their debut album Lips Like Oxygen a new treatment in their newly released EP.
“We wanted to do something a little different than just transfer the songs to acoustic guitar, so we got creative,” says frontman Blake Roses, who also described the EP as a “combination of different genres that we love.”
Currently signed under Hopeless Records, the band from Rockwall, Texas released Lips Like Oxygen in July 2018. This follows their 2017 EP Make You Bright.
Lips Like Oxygen Reimagined is out now. Get it here.
Lips Like Oxygen Reimagined Track Listing:
1. You Were The Letdown (Chasing California)
2. Without My Ring (I Think I Want You)
3. We’re Doing Fine (Dark of the Night)
Words by Nic Angeles
Southern California’s Movements have released music video for “Full Circle,” taken from their debut full-length album, Feel Something. Like the band’s previous videos, the new clip has been directed by Max Moore.
“We wrote this song about dealing with depression,” vocalist Patrick Miranda shares with BrooklynVegan where the video premiered. The singer opens up about struggling with depression and wanting to create a song to depict “the ups and downs of living with a mental illness.”
“The process is never linear,” he adds. “You can have a handful of good days, feel on top of the world, and suddenly come crashing down into a deep pit. Eventually, you work your way out, but that cycle will always repeat.”
Carrying other cuts like “Daylily,” “Deadly Dull,” “Colorblind,” and more, Feel Something was released in 2017 through Fearless Records. Pick it up here.
Video Courtesy of Her Name in Blood Official Youtube Page
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The second full-length to come from Dan Campbell’s Aaron West and The Roaring Twenties is coming out this summer.
Coming five years since the debut release We Don’t Have Each Other (2014), Routine Maintenance continues to follow the story of Aaron, a persona created by Campbell, wandering the country in search of purpose, direction, and redemption after suffering a series of devastating losses.
Along with this album announcement is the release of the first single off the album, “Runnin’ Toward The Light.”
The forthcoming album’s relatability is perhaps inspired by major life changes for Campbell—his band The Wonder Years released their biggest record yet, and along with that came some personal news that sees the frontman entering the world of fatherhood.
Since the inception of Aaron West and The Roaring Twenties in 2013, Campbell has added many layers to the Aaron West universe, as the music continues to reflect authentic human experience, just as “Just Sign The Papers,” “Wildflower Honey,” “God & The Billboards,” has done.
Routine Maintenance Track Listing:
1. Lead Paint & Salt Air
2. Just Sign the Papers
3. Bloodied Up in a Bar Fight
4. Bury Me Anywhere Else
5. Rosa & Reseda
6. Wildflower Honey
7. Runnin’ Toward the Light
8. God & the Billboards
9. Winter Coats
10. Routine Maintenance
Pre-order Routine Maintenance here
Words by Nic Angeles | Photo by Joriel Bataan
PULP SUMMER SLAM XVII act Whitechapel have released their new album.
The Valley, referencing a part of Hardin Valley (west of Knoxville, Tennessee) where frontman Phil Bozeman grew up, carries tracks like “Brimstone,” “Third Depth,” “When a Demon Defiles a Witch,” and “Hickory Creek,” and is the band’s seventh studio album.
Dark, sinister, and grisly, The Valley comes about three years since 2016’s Mark of the Blade, and sees frontman Phil Bozeman being “upfront in his lyrics in the past about hardships he endured in his life as a child,” according to guitarist Alex Wade.
The new Whitechapel record is out through Metal Blade Records, and you can get it here
The Valley Track Listing:
01. When A Demon Defiles A Witch
02. Forgiveness Is Weakness
03. Brimstone
04. Hickory Creek
05. Black Bear
06. We Are One
07. The Other Side
08. Third Depth
09. Lovelace
10. Doom Woods
Words by Nic Angeles | Photo by Joriel Bataan
Fans have gotten excited over “Numb Without You,” they’ve memorized “My Best Habit,” and they’ve felt fragile over “Broken Parts.” Now, The Maine’s new album, You Are Ok, is out in its entirety and all the new music is now out for the entire 8123 Community to make their own.
It was right at the beginning of 2019 when The Maine announced a new album and a new era, also dropping the first single, “Numb Without You.” You Are Ok is the seventh full-length album to come from the independent emo crew, following 2017’s Lovely Little Lonely.
“This is us in out most ambitious form to date. This is us at breakneck speed. This is us in a television show starring Mandy Moore. This is us, for the first time, fully realizing a vision that we had from conception to finished product. All hype aside, this is us making music, putting everything into it, and holding our heads up higher than we ever havebefore,” writes vocalist John O’Callaghan in an Instagram post in January following the album announcement, describing what album number 7 is all about for the band.
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Before you dive into the new album, here is a spoken word poem by John O’Callaghan telling you YOU ARE OK. And if you aren’t right now, you will be soon.
Get You Are Ok here
You Are Ok Track Listing:
01.’Slip The Noose’
02. ‘My Best Habit’
03. ‘Numb Without You’
04. ‘I Feel It All Over’
05. ‘Heaven, We’re Already Here’
06. ‘Forevermore’
07. ‘Tears Won’t Cry (Shinju)’
08. ‘One Sunset’
09. ‘Broken Parts’
10. ‘Flowers On The Grave’
Please wait for further announcements. Thank you!
