New York hardcore veterans Agnostic Front have joined forces with Run-DMC legend Darryl "DMC" McDaniels on a new song titled "Matter of Life & Death." The track is the latest single from Agnostic Front's upcoming album, Echoes in Eternity, set for release on November 7th. The song features the band's longtime vocalist Roger Miret trading verses with the hip-hop icon over a heavy guitar riff from founding member Vinnie Stigma.
"It's kind of the oldest song from the album process. It's kind of one of the ones I started first," Parker told Zane Lowe of "Dracula" on Apple Music 1. "That's, like, an example of one of the ones that started in this really raw, minimal way, and then just sort of, like, slowly expanded into this sort of, like, pop."
Sarah McLachlan's singing voice is one of the wonders of the pop music world. It has alternately belted out and whispered hit songs ("Adia," "Building a Mystery") as well as the most devastating Disney song of all time (Randy Newman's "When She Loved Me" from "Toy Story 2") and is a pristine musical instrument. It can elegantly vault octaves, scoop notes without a croaky glottal fry and crack words into multi-note, velvety yodels. It can be breathy and ethereal or a searing flamethrower - and she transforms into an angelic chorus of one when she tracks layers of her own harmonies.
With each subsequent tour, PUP and Jeff Rosenstock's respective scopes continue to grow. Between well-received albums and increasingly dedicated fanbases, both acts have been able to fill bigger venues just about every time they embark on a new run (and deservingly so, might we add). Fortunately, they've also managed to successfully scale their high-energy stage show with each jump, retaining a sense of intimacy even as the crowds grow more expansive.
The tour kicks off November 13 in Portland, Oregon, and will snake its way through major U.S. cities like Los Angeles, Chicago, Atlanta, and New York before concluding in Miami Beach on December 15.
Gene Hoglan expressed excitement for the upcoming tour, stating, 'Thirty years of Symbolic and 35 years of Spiritual Healing! Two vastly different yet very important eras of Death. Both albums are going to be a blast to represent.'
During the extended encore section, My Chemical Romance performed a cover of the Smashing Pumpkins' 'Bullet with Butterfly Wings' in San Francisco, captivating fans with a thrilling rendition.
Larsson describes her new album Midnight Sun as a cohesive record powered by a dream team of collaborators, emphasizing a spontaneous workflow that captures her current energy.
"In similar fashion to Preacher's Daughter, I wrote what essentially became the beginning and end of the story without realizing it. What were originally just little vignettes of emotion I was feeling at the time ultimately became the tentpoles for a larger narrative."
Howerdel expressed his current writing process, stating, 'I'm in a not-sleeping-much and self-discovery mode. When I'm writing music, I've been full night-terror...'. This captures his intense creative phase.
