Smoke Signals and Heavy NFLD Fest Win at Music NL Awards 2025

The 2025 Music NL Awards have wrapped up and the winners of this year’s awards have been announced. As has been the case for the past few years the Music NL Awards have begun to include a Loud Artist of the Year Award. The recipient this year was St. John’s hardcore band Smoke Signals.

Our very own Heavy NFLD Fest also won the Event of the Year Award, and we want to say thank you to everyone who made that possible, whether it be the people who are on our team, the bands who played, both local and touring, the venues, the sound techs, the vendors, the artists, and everyone who attended.

~ Akhenaten

Neko Suicide Releases New LP ‘God Made Flesh’

St. George’s noise / industrial artist Neko Suicide has released a new record. Entitled God Made Flesh, the new album was released on Friday, July 25th, 2025. The album features 14 tracks, including 2 previously released singles entitled “Veins, Arteries, Intestines, Sex” and “Machinery, Powered by Flesh”, both released earlier in July 2025.

You can listen to God Made Flesh through our Bandcamp embed below.

~ Akhenaten

Dahlia Announce Debut EP ‘Like the Flower’

St. John’s post-hardcore / emo band Dahlia are set to release their first EP, Like the Flower, due out Thursday, November 20th, 2025 on all streaming services. The EP was announced on Thursday, November 13th, 2025 via the band’s Instagram account. The EP was recorded and mixed by Liam Ryan and Jacob Cherwick.

The band will be holding an EP release show at the Peter Easton Pub on Friday, November 21st, 2025 where they will be joined by Shep.

~ Akhenaten

Three Days Grace, Finger Eleven, Royal Tusk to Perform at Mary Brown’s Centre in May 2026

Ontarian post-grunge / alternative metal band Three Days Grace will be hitting Newfoundland and Labrador next year for a show at the Mary Brown’s Centre in St. John’s. The show is part of the band’s upcoming Alienation Tour which will run from February to November of 2026. The band will be joined by fellow Ontarian post-grungers Finger Eleven and Edmonton hard rockers Royal Tusk. The show will be taking place on Monday, May 11th, 2026.

Tickets are on sale now and can be purchased at the Mary Brown’s Centre website at the following link:

https://mbcentre.ca/

~ Akhenaten

Deathexecution Releases Demo Compilation ‘The Blackstar Demo’

Deathexecution is a new black metal project from Corner Brook, Newfoundland, consisting of sole member Thanatos. The project released its first offering, a compilation of demos entitled The Blackstar Demo, on September 11th, 2025. The demo contains 8 tracks, 3 of which are covers of songs from the essential black metal band Mayhem.

You can listen to The Blackstar Demo through our Bandcamp embed below.

~ Akhenaten

Watch: Cruel Void – First Show @ The Underpass – 10/18/2025

Corner Brook hardcore band Cruel Void played their first show last month and the whole thing was caught on camera. The show took place in Corner Brook at The Underpass on October 18th, 2025, alongside Dirt Stache, Vantage, and Andrew Tobin.

You can watch the whole live performance through our YouTube embed below via the Corner Brook Punk Shows channel on YouTube.

~ Akhenaten

Rabot Releases Debut Demo ‘Rabot – Rabot’

Rabot is a new math rock / alternative rock / noise rock band from St. John’s featuring Ritche Perez on vocals and guitars, Shauna Taylor on bass, and Tony Tucker on drums. The band released their first demo, entitled Rabot – Rabot, through Bandcamp on Wednesday, November 5th, 2025. It contains two tracks.

You can listen to this first demo from Rabot through our Bandcamp embed below.

~ Akhenaten

Pig’s Litter Releases New Single ‘Questions for Heaven’

St. John’s noise artist Pig’s Litter has released a new single. Entitled Questions for Heaven, the single contains one track, entitled “Just Killin’ Time with Mr. God”. The new single was released on Tuesday, November 4th, 2025.

You can listen to this new track from Pig’s Litter through our Bandcamp embed below.

~ Akhenaten

Watch: GNDN Films – Propagandhi – Live @ The Rockhouse – September 25th, 2025

Winnipeg, Manitoba progressive punk band Propagandhi performed live at The Rockhouse in St. John’s earlier this autumn on September 25th, 2025. The entire performance was filmed by GNDN Films and has been uploaded to their YouTube channel. GNDN has been filming live shows in St. John’s for quite a while at this point and has over 200 live sets up on their channel. There is hours upon hours of footage up there for those who wish to peruse Newfoundland’s underground punk scene.

You can watch the full Propagandhi performance through our YouTube embed below.

~ Akhenaten

Milltown Records Releases ‘Halloween Compilation’ Album

Corner Brook based record label and artist platform Milltown Records has released a new compilation album featuring artists from Corner Brook and elsewhere on the West Coast of Newfoundland on Halloween Compilation. The album features ten tracks by ten different artists that span a variety of genres. The heaviest on the record is of course the new hardcore band Life Crisis who are featured on the compilation with their demo track “Drink the Kool-Aid”.

You can listen to the Life Crisis track along with the rest of the Halloween Compilation through our YouTube embed below. The album is also available on other streaming services.

~ Akhenaten