Crescent City Heavy Metal — Manifest The Power Of The High

Listen to our brand new album "Part Of Me" thats OUT NOW!

TYPICALLY, WHEN ONE THINKS OF A “VICTIM,” THEY THINK OF SOMEONE SUBJECTED TO A HEINOUS CRIME OR MARKED INJUSTICE. HOWEVER—TO A POINT—WE’RE ALL VICTIMS; VICTIMS TO OUR OWN ACTIONS AND THEIR REPERCUSSIONS. VICTIMS TO OUR THOUGHTS AND THE INSTINCTS THAT DRIVE OUR BRAIN—THAT DOUBLE EDGED FIGHT OR FLIGHT RESPONSE THAT CAN TAKE OUR OWN CATECHOLAMINES AND NEUROCHEMICAL IMBALANCES AND TURN THEM AGAINST US. THAT TYPE OF VICTIM IS THE SORT THAT SERVES AS THE NAMESAKE FOR ILLINOIS-BASED METALCORE ACT, VCTMS. BORN AT THE TURN OF THE DECADE, THE GROUP HAVE EARNED A REPUTATION FOR THEIR NU-METAL, HARDCORE AND HIP-HOP INFUSED STYLE OF METALCORE AND CONTAGIOUSLY CATCHY YET DEVASTATINGLY DEPRESSIVE WALLOP THAT IT PACKS. VCTMS HAVE BECOME AN INTERNATIONALLY KNOWN POWERHOUSE IN THE METAL UNDERGROUND. EVOLVING THEIR SOUND WITH A RENEWED FOCUS ON INCORPORATING ENERGETIC AND FRENETIC NU-METAL INFLUENCE AND STARTING THE WRITING PROCESS FOR THEIR DEBUT FULL-LENGTH ALBUM, VOL II: INSIDE THE MIND—WHICH WAS RELEASED IN MARCH OF 2017 TO CRITICAL ACCLAIM. SINCE THE RELEASE OF VOL II, VCTMS HAVE REFUSED TO SLOW DOWN IN THE SLIGHTEST. TOURING ALONGSIDE TRAITORS, FILTH, AND FALSIFIER WHILE ALSO SERVING AS LOCAL SUPPORT FOR BANDS FROM VEIL OF MAYA AND EMMURE TO PEIRCE THE VEIL, VCTMS DOES EVERYTHING WITH THE UTMOST INTENSITY—AN INTENSITY REFLECTED IN THEIR NEWEST FULL-LENGTH RECORD, VOL III: HALFWAY HAPPY, AND IS SURE TO MANIFEST IN VOLUME IV, WRITING FOR WHICH IS ALREADY UNDERWAY. SINCE THEIR INCEPTION, VCTMS HAVE TAKEN OVER THE EARS AND HEARTS OF HEAVY MUSIC LOVERS WITH CATCHY GROOVES, CRUSHING BREAKDOWNS, EMOTIONAL, HONEST AND RELATABLE LYRICS PAIRED WITH OVERWHELMINGLY POPULAR, UNIQUE MERCHANDISE AND A WORK ETHIC YET TO BE MATCHED. VCTMS ARE A BAND BENT ON IMPROVING THEMSELVES AND THEIR SOUND WITH EACH RELEASE AND SIMPLY CANNOT BE STOPPED. NO LABEL, NO BOOKING, AND NO MANAGEMENT, THE D.I.Y GROUP'S NEWEST RELEASE VOL III HALFWAY HAPPY CHARTED ON BILLBOARD FOR THE WEEK OF SEP 15TH, 2018, BAD LUCK SEASON IS HERE BELIEVE IT. #25 HEATSEEKERS || #22 HARD ROCK ALBUM SALES

“Never grow old. Never die…” Forged in a furnace of experience, experimentation and existential crisis, Moodring is an entity orbiting a lone, core ambition: to create music with no ceiling. “Our band name is effectively a disclaimer,” reveals frontman Hunter Young, “Moodring is not easily defined; our sound can and will change, morph and evolve, even across the course of a single song. Our identity is genre-fluid.” A deep blue cocktail of shoegaze and grunge, rock and metal, Showmetherealyou is the zenith of many years of trial and error, angst and anguish, at last oscillating in perfect harmony with a collectively unfettered passion and drive. Originally self-released in early 2021, the Showmetherealyou EP will be reissued August 4th, 2021 via Moodring’s new label home UNFD. Its original tracklist is further bolstered by brand new cut, ‘Empty Me Out’. A thundering attack of discordant guitars over pulsing grooves, built around a soaring chorus refrain, which is somehow equal parts melancholy and triumph, ‘Empty Me Out’ showcases a nastier, darker dimension of the band, as Hunter et al further find their feet, and their fangs.

TANZEN is a progressive/altmetal band from Chicago, IL. The band mixes the rhythmic principles of band's like Meshuggah, and blends them with the emotions and melodic nature of bands like Deftones. "Sometimes, bands with progressive/djent leanings manage to create that perfect unison between heavy and gentle. And none in recent times have achieved it with more expertise than TANZEN." - Everything is Noise "The music instantly reminds one of acts like Monuments and Tesseract, without ever becoming just another clone version of the former. It's quite evident that TANZEN are aiming to create their own niche sonic identity." - ItDjentsTV In addition to their own individual success, they have jumped on any and every show to help get the music into the hands of anyone that would listen. Having supported TesseracT, The Contortionist, Make Them Suffer, Spite, Erra, Fit For an Autopsy, Veil of Maya, Born of Osiris, The Summer Slaughter Tour and venturing out of genre to open for Twenty One Pilots and Wale at the UIC pavilion, TANZEN plans on shattering genre boundaries and blending in wherever people are willing to listen. TANZEN dares to ask the listener 'What Are the Rules?' while the band throws the rules out the window and lets the music do the talking.