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3 INCHES OF BLOOD to release “Long Live Heavy Metal” on March 27th, 2012

NYS Music Staff Jan 12, 2012

Traditionalist metal gods 3 INCHES OF BLOOD will release their highly anticipated 5th studio album, Long Live Heavy Metal , on March 27th via Century Media Records. Keeping true to their core and bringing their forthcoming album title to…

MATT SKIBA AND THE SEKRETS sign with Superball Music

NYS Music Staff Jan 12, 2012

Ahhh, the press release! Some are really exciting, and some meet with a chorus of crickets! Chirp, nothing. However, the one below is one of the more exciting ones I have seen in some time. Matt Skiba of Alkaline Trio, has put together one…

Metal/Hard Rock/Punk

ASKING ALEXANDRIA’s reckless and relentless is a fresh kick in the teeth

NYS Music Staff Jan 9, 2012

Compared to Stand up and Scream, Asking Alexandria's newest album, Reckless and Relentless is a fresh, new, kick in the teeth. The album starts off quiet with the intro to the first song, but picks up with a powerful breakdown, and…

Interviews

MUTANT SUICIDE SQUAD discusses influences, struggles

NYS Music Staff Jan 7, 2012

Buffalo based Mutant Suicide Squad is going to rip your head off! Not literally, but you catch the drift. This band in it’s early stages of development, has something to prove to all of you…and they surely will! Steeped in the Horror based…

Metal/Hard Rock/Punk

METHOS “Revelation” is skull crushing, aggressive

NYS Music Staff Jan 7, 2012

With a bunch of the sludgy melodic metal bands that I am asked to review, a common theme is coming to the surface. It is one that some bands have full awareness of, while others do not. It is called the “Mastodon Effect.” I define the…

HEAL THESE WOUNDS calls it quits; releases statement

NYS Music Staff Jan 6, 2012

Today via Facebook Heal These Wounds released a statement on their demise. Hey All, So we have been pretty vague with information regarding our future over the past few weeks. We thought it was time to shed some light on what we…

KING’S X announce spring tour to support CD/DVD package Live Love In London and latest studio…

NYS Music Staff Jan 6, 2012

Legendary rockers KING'S X will return to the North American tour circuit this spring for their first West Coast run in three years. Aptly named the "First Church of Rock and Roll" tour, KING'S X will spread their progressive fusion of hard…

Metal/Hard Rock/Punk

FEATURED BAND: Ayurveda

NYS Music Staff Jan 5, 2012

Ithaca, New York is easily one of the best places for creativity and musical diversity on the face of this planet. It is of no surprise that a band like Ayurveda has endured and succeeded in such an environment. The band is the pinnacle of…

News

NASTY HABIT releasing full length album this month, Tommy Ende discusses creation of latest music…

NYS Music Staff Jan 5, 2012

Tommy Ende is the front man for Nasty Habit, a sleaze metal band based out of Syracuse, NY. The band’s refreshing revival of the 80’s most decadent music, is something that a new fan base is eagerly latching onto. As someone that was in the…

News

Jon Lamanna of CRY TO THE BLIND discusses approach to their upcoming release, anticipation growing…

NYS Music Staff Jan 5, 2012

Jon Lamanna and his band Cry To The Blind, have been on a collision course with major success for quite some time now. The players that make up the sum of this highly talented band, have been successful veterans of the upstate scene for…

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