March 2024 in Review

Time for our recollection of everything that happened in March of 2024!

Biggest Stories
– Billy Talent and PUP Announced for Iceberg Alley Performance Tent 2024
– The Order of the Precious Blood Announce 2024 Atlantic Canadian Tour
– Today is the Last Day for the 2024 RPM Challenge

New LPs
– Count Cromulent – Monorail
– Personal Space Invaders – Random Noises, A.I. Choices
– Securitron – Post-Apocalyptic Eras

New EPs
– Corsica – Waves
– Ratpiss – Four Humors

New Singles
– Elder Caius – “Super Destroyer”
– Jaded Truth – “Living a Dream”
– The Order of the Precious Blood – “Cheaper But Will Do”
– Sarra Cenia – “Good News”

New Demos
– JRNL – Demo 3
– Monroe – Repeating Perfect Movements
– The Ram Has Touched the Wall – In the Arms of Death
– Sour Gut – Demo ’24

New Music Videos
– Jaded Truth – “Living a Dream”

Album Announcements
– Jigger Reveals Tracklist for Upcoming LP

New Merch
– Guntmold Release Cassette Copies of Blackened Infection
– Sheavy Announce Vinyl Reissue of 2002 LP Synchronized

Album Reviews
– Glitterglue – Friends Club [by James Titford]
– Needle Crafts – Frow’d Up [by James Titford]

The Scrolls of Akhenaten
– The Scrolls of Akhenaten: March 15th, 2024
– The Scrolls of Akhenaten: March 22nd, 2024
– The Scrolls of Akhenaten: March 29th, 2024

Albums Archived
– 6000apez – The Consequential Mudhole [Demo / Hardcore Punk]
– The Beer Patrice – Dead on the Ship [Live LP / Punk]
– Blender – D03s 1t Bl3nd? [Demo / Cybergrind]
– Clocked In – Clocked In / Year of the Rat Split [Split / Hardcore]
– Coward – King Rat [Demo / Pop Punk]
– Coward – Split [Split / Pop Punk]
– Evan Watton – RPM 2021 [LP / Progressive Metal]
– Kick Gut – Kick Gut / Don’t Split [Split / Garage Punk]
– Kick Gut – The Peter Album [LP / Garage Punk]
– Kristopher Crane – Piss Drunx Theme [Single / Hard Rock]
– Make Mean Everything – Gamma Rays [EP / Progressive Rock]
– Make Mean Everything – Make Mean Everything [EP / Progressive Rock]
– Moss Heather – Summer Flu [Single / Garage Punk]
– Of Wilds – A Ghost at the Strid [EP / Progressive Rock]
– Personal Space Invaders – Eat Your Meat [LP / Experimental Rock]
– Ratpiss – Four Humors [EP / Powerviolence]
– Sarra Cenia – Good News [Single / Stoner Rock]
– Solar Tongue – Consideration [EP / Drone Metal]
– Sons of an Eastern Moon – Borealis [EP / Folk Metal]
– The Strangled – Never Forget [LP / Skate Punk]

~ Akhenaten

February 2024 in Review

With January 2024 out of the way let’s revisit all of the happenings from February 2024. March and April 2024 will be coming soon!

Biggest Stories
– Nameless Friends to Play The Rockhouse on February 27th, 2024
– RPM Challenge 2024 Starts Today

New LPs Released
– Bodydouble – Lullabies for an Anxious Mind

New EPs Released
– Floorwalker – Floorwalker
– The Lurk – The Lurk
– Metaphora – Metaphora

New Singles Released
– Blitzgeek – “Flux”
– Killer9000 – “My Least Favourite Things”

New Live Albums Released
– Mistwalker – Basement Dwellers

New Demos Released
– Disciplinary Action – R.N.C. Demo
– QLOI – The Tuvaq Demos

New Music Videos Released
– Disposition – “Crisis Averted”

Album Announcements
– Guntmold – Untitled New LP
– Jigger Reveals Artwork for Upcoming New LP
– Ratpiss – Four Humors
– Securitron – Post-Apocalyptic Eras

Reviews
– C.A.R.E. – Creating a Righteous Energy [by Akhenaten]
– Carnage – Free at Last [by Akhenaten]
– Falter – Salt in the Soil [by Akhenaten]

New Merch
– Heavy Metal Karaoke Reveal New T-Shirts and Tote Bags

We also released Episode 63 of the Heavy NFLD Official Podcast, New Metal from Newfoundland IV, in which I recount some of the newer releases that have dropped from Newfoundland and Labrador bands in the past few months.

Albums Archived
The Beer Patrice – Can’t Talk to Fish [Single / Punk]
The Beer Patrice – Who are the Beer Patrice? [LP / Punk]
Breaker – Breaker [EP / Pop Punk]
Breaker – Do It Yourself [EP / Pop Punk]
Death Ray – Murder Mouth [Single / Sludge Metal]
Fennway – Demo 2015 [Demo / Melodic Hardcore]
Fennway – Julianne [Single / Melodic Hardcore]
Hot x Proxy – Fake It [Single / Hard Rock]
Hot x Proxy – Mean to Me [Single / Hard Rock]
Hot x Proxy – The Operator [Single / Hard Rock]
Hot x Proxy – Tonite [Single / Hard Rock]
Mistwalker – Basement Dwellers [Live EP / Black N’ Roll]
Not Friends – Demo 2012 [Demo / Hardcore Punk]
Not Friends – Stowaway [EP / Hardcore Punk]
Securitron – Post-Apocalyptic Eras [LP / Thrash Metal]
The Strangled – Dead Music [EP / Punk]
The Strangled – Disconnected [Single / Punk]
The Strangled – Straight to Ghost [EP / Punk]
Twerp – Just a Little [EP / Grunge]

~ Akhenaten

January 2024 in Review

This year has been crazy in a lot of ways, mostly in terms of my own life getting in the way of trying to maintain regular updates on this blog, but still we soldier forth! The slow march of time won’t stop me from catching up on all the stuff I missed, so here’s the in review segment for January of 2024.

Biggest Stories
– Andrew Grimes Joins Disposition
– John N. Roach Parts Ways with Sons of an Eastern Moon

New LPs Released
– Neko Suicide – Alien Abduction Techniques
– Todd What? – Todd What? [Remaster]

New EPs Released
– Guntmold – Blackened Infection
– WXO – Stardust: Coda

New Singles Released
– Killer9000 – Buck/Hog/Elk
– Lil Dirtbag – Kenopsia (Wasted On U)
– Nemophilist – The Forest Was Silent and Clear

New Demos Released
– Bloody Wallop – Demo
– Brandon Monkey Fingers – Raw Shitty Punk Demo 2023
– Casualty – Demo
– Glass Jaw – Eat Shit
– JRNL – Demo One
– JRNL – Demo 2

New Compilations
– Feral Cat Records – Fogtown United, Vol. 1

Album Announcements
– The Hellfire Club – Volume III
– Nuthouse – Prosperity

Album Reviews
– Despertá – Despertá [by Akhenaten]
– Jaded Truth – Bitter [by Akhenaten]
– Knarl – Bad Luck [by Akhenaten]
– Lil Dirtbag – It’s Been Too Real [by Akhenaten]
– Mistwalker – Oceanic Heritage [by James Titford]
– The Skeats – The Skeats IV [by Akhenaten]
– Wiremouth – EP2 [by Akhenaten]

Other Stories
– Triton Reveal New Logo

New Merch
– Guntmold Reveals New Patches

We also released Episode 62 of the Heavy NFLD Official Podcast in which we recount some of the best heavy music to come out of Newfoundland and Labrador throughout 2023.

Albums Archived
– Aaiesieux – A.C.U. Volume 1: How to Kill an Idea [LP / Harsh Noise]
– Aaiesieux – A.C.U. Volume 2: Hubris, as Shown by the Audience [LP / Harsh Noise]
– Aaiesieux – The Monster Mash Vol. 1 [Compilation / Harsh Noise]
– Bad Plan – EP 2016 [EP / Hardcore Punk]
– Guntmold – Blackened Infection [EP / Blackened Thrash Metal]
– Guntmold – Munging [Single / Blackened Thrash Metal]
– Icefog – Firharbour [EP / Dark Ambient]
– Lithops – ((BendeR)) [LP / Dungeon Synth]
– Neko Suicide – Neko Suicide Suicide Neko [LP / Harsh Noise]
– Nemophilist – The Forest was Silent and Clear [Single / Dark Ambient]
– Nemophilist – The Nightlight Man [EP / Dark Ambient]
– Outta the Basement – Outta the Basement [LP / Hard Rock]
– Pretty Little Flowers – 11:39 – 2:20 [Single / Drone]
– Pretty Little Flowers – A Tribute to Hoedh [Single / Drone]
– Pretty Little Flowers – Betrayal in August [Single / Drone]
– Pretty Little Flowers – Litani Til Satan [Single / Black Metal]
– Pretty Little Flowers – Pretty Little Flowers [Single / Drone]
– Pretty Little Flowers – Truly Alone [Single / Drone]
– Pretty Little Flowers – Wits End [Single / Drone]
– Scary Haunted Castles – Those Damn Castles are Scary [Single / Dungeon Synth]
– That Night a Forest Grew – Demo [Demo / Metalcore]
– Wet Cheeze Delirium – Live at Bar None – November 10th, 1999 [Live LP / Noise / Experimental]
– Wretched Invention – Wretched Souls [EP / Groove Metal]

December 2023 in Review

Coming in to end the year there was a bunch of cool stuff that happened in December of 2023. Check out all the local happenings below!

Biggest Stories
– Bankrobber Calls It Quits
– Nfrared Announce Upcoming 2024 Show Dates
– Triskelyon Resigns to Moribund Records in Two-Album Deal

New LPs Released
– Falter – Salt in the Soil
– Nfrared – Under the Stairs
– The Skeats – Skeats IV

New EPs Released
– A Body Without Organs – Broken Terminal III: Milk Blood
– compareyourself – Mary and the Misanthropic Buzzard
– Lil Dirtbag – It’s Been Too Real
– Mistwalker – War on Christmas

New Singles Released
– Artach – Black Metal Drummer Boy
– Bonewing – Assorted New Singles
– Disposition – Decomposed
– Jaded Truth – Samsquanch
– Nemophilist – Failure, Goodbyes. Isolation
– Sought – Samqwan

Album Announcements
– Bog Rot – Untitled New EP

Reviews
– Bog Rot – Sex, Drugs, Bog N’ Roll [by Akhenaten]
– The Crevice – 11th Hour / Valley of Flies [by Akhenaten]
– Foundation Chain – Sanrio-Core [by Akhenaten]
– Skreeched In – Skreeched In [by Akhenaten]
– Sons of an Eastern Moon – Borealis [by Akhenaten]
– Triskelyon – Artificial Insanity [by Akhenaten]

New Merch
– Mir Reveals New Shirts

Watch
– Mistwalker – Live @ The Rockhouse – August 19th, 2023

We also released our 61st episode of the Heavy NFLD Official Podcast, which is the fourth installment of our holiday-themed Merry Fucking Solstice series. Listen to it at the Bandcamp link below!

Albums Archived
– Amer Ali – Pathogen [Remastered] [Single / Hard Rock]
– Ashen – Demo [Demo / Black Metal]
– The Crevice – 11th Hour / Valley of Flies [EP / Stoner Metal]
– Elder Caius – Alien Space Bats / From Below [Single / Progressive Rock]
– Elder Caius – Kailash, When It Rises [Single / Progressive Rock]
– Mistwalker – War on Christmas [EP / Black N’ Roll]
– Ninth Quarter – Below Knee [EP / Metalcore]
– Pouch Dweller – Goes to the Movies [EP / Dungeon Synth]
– Phil Gallant – Demos [Demo / Sludge Metal]
– The Skeats – Torch [Single / Hard Rock]
– Sought – Samqwan [Single / Black Metal]
– Triskelyon – Artificial Insanity [LP / Power Metal]
– Vomit Denial – Demo ’23 [Demo / Hardcore]
– Vomit Denial – Vein! [Demo / Hardcore]
– Winterhearth – Winter Punks [Single / Blackened Death Metal]

~ Akhenaten

November 2023 in Review

Now we come to November, yet another busy month for the Newfoundland and Labrador alternative music scene.

Biggest Stories
– Da Slyme Wins Music NL Loud Artist of the Year Award
– Mistwalker Goes on Indefinite Hiatus
– Sapient Reveals New Logo
– Sea Shanty Studios Now Offering Patch Services

New LPs Released
– Despertá – Despertá
– Needle Crafts – Frow’d Up
– Zack St. John’s – Prince of Fogtown

New EPs Released
– Mistwalker – Pumpkinsmasher
– Nuclear Casket – Irascible
– Wiremouth – EP2

New Singles Released
– Nemophilist – Put Me on a Ship That is Sinking
– The Skeats – Twitch

New Demos Released
– Bazooka – Demo 2022
– Life Jolt – Floor Demo ’23

New Lives Released
– Defense Force – Live Like Death

New Music Videos Released
– The Order of the Precious Blood – “X You Out”

Album Announcements
– The Skeats Announce Release Date for The Skeats IV

New Merch
– Artach Reveal New Logo Shirts
– Everose Reveal New Patches
– Fog Coffin Reveals New Stickers
– Guntmold Reveal New Stickers
– Heavy Metal Karaoke Reveal New Stickers and Pins
– Ratpiss Has New Patches

Reviews
– Category VI – Firecry [by Akhenaten]
– Count Cromulent – Thrillhouse [by Akhenaten]
– Glitterglue – Friends Club [by Akhenaten]
– The Order of the Precious Blood – I No Longer Wish for Salvation [by Akhenaten]

We also released the 60th episode of the Heavy NFLD Official Podcast in which we take a journey through the surprisingly vibrant grunge revivalist movement in Newfoundland. You can listen to it on Bandcamp and YouTube.

Albums Archived
– Amer Ali – Chasing the Sunrise [Hard Rock / Single]
– Amer Ali – Face in the Clouds [Hard Rock / Single]
– Amer Ali – Flying Bee [Hard Rock / Single]
– Amer Ali – Forever [Hard Rock / Single]
– Amer Ali – Never Say I Don’t Care [Hard Rock / Single]
– Arrested Development – Arrested Development Demos [Hardcore Punk / Demo]
– Artach – Hell on Halloween [Black Metal / Single]
– Bazooka – Demo 2022 [Beatdown / Demo]
– Chimp Apparatus – Beermobile [Rough Mix] [Hardcore Punk / Single]
– Chimp Apparatus – James, Give Me Your Skateboard… [Remix] [Hardcore Punk / Single]
– Defense Force – Live Like Death [Garage Punk / Live EP]
– Jaded Truth – Bitter [Grunge / EP]
– Knarl – Demo 2022 [Hardcore / Demo]
– Nemophilist – 62.8084 N 92.0853 W [Dark Ambient / Single]
– Nuclear Casket – Acrimony [Dungeon Synth / EP]
– Nuclear Casket – Irascible [Dungeon Synth / EP]
– Wiremouth – EP2 [Hardcore / EP]

~ Akhenaten

October 2023 in Review

As with every month this year, October was pretty dang busy. The scene has been popping off with new releases and new bands throughout 2023, and I for one am all here for it.

Biggest Stories
– Guntmold Featured in Absolute Underground

New EPs Released
– Bog Rot – Sex, Drugs, Bog N’ Roll
– Shit Dildo – Odes to the Fecal Phallus

New Singles Released
– Amer Ali – Forever
– Amer Ali – Never Say I Don’t Care
– Artach – Hell on Halloween
– Needle Crafts – Worried Sick
– Nemophilist – Tragedy and Loss Never Known
– Nfrared – Innocent Criminal
– The Skeats – Fine Wine
– The Skeats – Torch

New Demos Released
– Cortex Strikes Back – Cortex Strikes Back
– Vehement Slaughter – Demo

New Music Videos Released
– Artach – “Hell on Halloween”

Album Announcements
– Grole Announces New Album

New Merch
– Fog Coffin Reveals New Pins

Watch
– The Dank Basement – Full Show – August 17th, 2023
– Defense Force – Live Set @ The Dank Basement – August 17th, 2023
– Dendron – Live Set @ The Rockhouse – August 19th, 2023
– Everose – Live Set @ The Rockhouse – August 18th, 2023
– InfectDead – Live Set @ The Rockhouse – August 18th, 2023
– Jaded Truth – Live Set @ The Rockhouse – August 19th, 2023
– Kaspam Cult – Live Set @ Gower Street United Church – August 19th, 2023
– Mistwalker – Live Set @ The Dank Basement – August 17th, 2023
– Mistwalker – Live Set @ The Rockhouse – August 18th, 2023
– Obelisk – Live Set @ The Corner Pocket – August 16th, 2023
– October Wasp – Live Set @ The Corner Pocket – August 16th, 2023
– Shit Dildo – Live Set @ The Dank Basement – August 17th, 2023
– The Mill – Live Set @ The Corner Pocket – August 16th, 2023
– The Skeats – Live Set @ The Rockhouse – August 19th, 2023
– Wretched Fiend – Live Set @ The Dank Basement – August 17th, 2023

We also released the 59th episode of the Heavy NFLD Official Podcast, the fourth installment of Heavy Halloween, in which we play a series of Halloween and horror-themed metal and punk tracks. You can listen to it on Bandcamp and YouTube.

Albums Archived
– Mistwalker – Pumpkinsmasher [EP / Black N’ Roll]
– Mistwalker – Under the Fallen Sky: 10 Years in the Mist [LP / Black Metal]
– The Order of the Precious Blood – I No Longer Wish for Salvation [EP / Experimental Hardcore]

~ Akhenaten

September 2023 in Review

As usual life has gotten the best of me, and keeping up with these month in review segments has proven to be difficult. Yet, we maintain the structure. Here’s all the cool stuff that happened in September 2023. October and November review segments will follow suit throughout the week.

Biggest Stories
– Pale Ache Announce Fall Tour Including Multiple Dates in Corner Brook and St. John’s
– Precious Blood and Da Slyme Nominated for Music NL Loud Artist of the Year
– Richard Noseworthy Parts Ways with Disposition

New LPs Released
– Neko Suicide – St. George’s, Hell 3:00 AM
– Triskelyon – Artificial Insanity

New EPs Released
– Glitterglue – Friends Club
– Jaded Truth – Bitter

New Singles Released
– Elder Caius – Alien Space Bats / From Below
– Guntmold – Munging
– Jaded Truth – Bottom of the Bottle
– Rot – Rupture / Delight

New Demos Released
– Aeria – The Deadman Collection
– Disciplinary Action – Floor Demo ’23
– Doberman – Shed Demo ’23
– Paranoia – Paranoia

New Music Videos Released
– Jaded Truth – “Bottom of the Bottle”

Album Announcements
– Guntmold Announce New EP Blackened Infection
– Riproar Reveal New Logo, Working on New Music
– The Skeats Reveal Album Art for Upcoming New LP

We also released the 58th episode of the Heavy NFLD Official Podcast in which we recapped all the bands that played at the very first installment of Heavy NFLD Fest. This episode was released on September 30th and features cover art created by Airline Bourbon. You can listen to this episode on Bandcamp and YouTube.

Albums Archived
– Dirt Stache – Bitter IV: Smoke Break [Single / Post Hardcore]
– Dirt Stache – Indecisive [Single / Post Hardcore]
– Dirt Stache – Playing God [Single / Post Hardcore]
– Dirt Stache – Salutations [Single / Post Hardcore]
– Dirt Stache – Twelve Days of Xmas: As Told by Dirt Stache [Single / Post Hardcore]

~ Akhenaten

August 2023 in Review

Almost caught up! Check out all the cool stuff that happened in the local scene in August!

Biggest Stories
– Deadbolt to Play The Rockhouse and First Light CPAC on September 8th and 9th
– The Deck Renamed to Pavlov’s Electric Verandah

New LPs
– First Frost – It’s Dangerous to Go Alone
– Mistwalker – Under the Fallen Sky: 10 Years in the Mist

New EPs
– 6000apez – Farmlife
– Sons of an Eastern Moon – Borealis

New Singles
– Cerebral Palsy – Contamination at Risk
– Jaded Truth – The Shake-Up
– Nerve Shack – Ash
– Nerve Shack – Forever in Your Lie
– Nfrared – Betrayed for the Better
– Qyn – “Ideologue”

New Music Videos
– Jaded Truth – “The Shake-Up”
– Nerve Shack – “Forever in Your Lie”

Album Announcements
– Jaded Truth – Bitter
– Nocturnal Prayer – Disciples of the Moonlight Worship [Split w/ Funeral Fullmoon]

~ Akhenaten

July 2023 in Review

July was also a busy month! Tons of new music has been released as well as announced. Check it out below!

Biggest Stories
– Artach Reveal New Logo
– Brutal Youth Return to The Rock for Two Shows in August
– Madison Strip Calls it Quits
– Precious Blood Announce 2023 Maritimes Tour

New EPs
– Carnage – Free At Last
– Cerebral Palsy – Seas of Bloody Mist

New Singles
– Drop Your Trust – “Think for Yourself”

New Demos
– Glitterglue – Shed Demo ’23
– Malpractice – We Don’t Go to Church
– Nerve Shack – Sheep Kill

New Live Albums
– Malpractice – Live June ’89

Album Announcements
– Artach – Untitled New LP
– Triskelyon – Artificial Insanity

New Merch
– Metaphora Reveal New T-Shirts

Albums Archived
– Mistwalker – Oceanic Heritage [LP / Black Metal]

~ Akhenaten

June 2023 in Review

Biggest Stories
– Black Dog (HFX) to Play at First Light CPAC on July 15th
– Friends Hold Raffle for Sheavy Frontman Steve Hennessey’s Recovering Following Cancer Diagnosis
– Memorial Show for Will Hapgood to Happen at Bowring Park Amphitheatre July 9th
– Mistwalker and Obelisk Announce 2023 Maritimes Tour
– Night Demon and Ammo to Perform at the Bella Vista Events Venue on August 25th
– Winterhearth and Precious Blood to Perform at Merciless Metal Festival 2023

New LPs
– Beeraucracy + Catshit – Beereaucracy / Catshit Split
– Brutal Youth – Rebuilding Year
– Mistwalker – Oceanic Heritage
– Neko Suicide – Midtown
– Zackary Anderson – Graveyard Filled with Snow

New EPs
– Knarl – Bad Luck
– Lithops – ((BendeR))
– Of Wilds – A Ghost at the Strid
– Precious Blood – I No Longer Wish for Salvation
– Smoke Signals – Send Me Flowers While I’m Still Here

New Singles
– Cerebral Palsy – “Artillery, Fire!”
– Cerebral Palsy – “Blood Boiled Human Organs in Rehab”
– Cerebral Palsy – “Cerebral Palsy”
– Cerebral Palsy – “Convulsions”
– Choplicker – “Brigandine”
– Disposition – “Slow Haze”
– Homesick N’ Wanderlust – “When I Grow Up”
– Precious Blood – “Suffer and Die”
– So Violento – “Elegia Moderna”

New Demos
– Vomit Denial – Demo ’23

Album Announcements
– Mistwalker – Oceanic Heritage
– Precious Blood – Suffer and Die
– Smoke Signals – Untitled New EP
– Triskelyon – Untitled New LP

Merch
– The Skeats Reveal New Hats
– Winterhearth Reveal New Riverbed Empire Diamond Patches

Watch
– Glitterglue – Live 04/15/2023

Album Reviews
– Bonginator – The Intergalactic Gorebong of Deathpot [by Abraxas]

Albums Archived
– C.A.R.E. – Creating a Righteous Energy [Crossover / LP]
– Mistwalker – Beaumont-Hamel [Black Metal / Single]
– Mistwalker – Oceanic Heritage [Black Metal / LP]
– Zackary Anderson – Graveyard Filled with Snow [Noise / LP]

~ Akhenaten