Cheers for the support! Yeah, we can't wait to get it out to people.

Really proud to finally share this one, streaming links below 👇

Can't wait for people to hear this new one 🖤

Sing Stone, Speak Fire ‘The emergency cords have been removed from the carriages for some time.’

With my Welsh Horror PhD postponed until next year due to lack of funding, I'm returning to my fiction after a (painfully) long break.

Here's the last story I published, an eldritch ecohorror for @grantamag.bsky.social

granta.com/sing-stone-s...

“An unlikely combo of samba and shred – it shouldn’t work but it kinda does”: March 2026 Guitar World Editors’ Picks Collaborative instrumental greatness from six-string aces new (Jack Gardiner and Matteo Mancuso) and old (SatchVai), bossa nova guitar bliss from Mei Semones, sublime slide work from Duane Betts, swas...

We're really excited to see our latest single on Guitar World's Editors' Picks playlist 🖤

"Infernal Star I is a barreling rager that channels the majestic blood and thunder of Mastodon and adds a serrated edge of post-hardcore."

www.guitarworld.com/artists/musi...

@apfrecords.bsky.social

🔥SOUTH WALES TOUR DATE CONFIRMED 🔥

Another awesome lineup added to our June album launch tour, with @rootzerobanduk.bsky.social , THE RIVER, and AT WAR WITH THE SUN 🖤

📅 Fri 26 June
📍 Newport, McCann's Rock N Ale Bar
🎟️ £7 adv: www.tickettailor.com/events/drown...

Thanks to KNOTFEST for adding 'Infernal Star I' to their new music playlist 🙏✨

Listen here: knotfest.lnk.to/PulseOfTheMa...

@knotfestofficial.bsky.social

Another Urzah show in Hitchin next weekend, get involved 🤘

Pile “Born At Night” // Amps In The Room YouTube video by Amps In The Room

Started a live in-studio series with friends. I am so happy these are, and I love our scrappy little team. Make stuff with your friends.

First up the brilliant PILE, one of the best bands doing it

🔥 PORTSMOUTH tickets now live 🔥

Tickets for the Portsmouth leg of our June tour are now available: www.wedgewood-rooms.co.uk/events/2026-...

📅 Weds 10th June
📍 Edge of the Wedge, Southsea
🎟️ £10

On tour this June!

💥NEW SHOW ANNOUNCEMENT 💥

We're excited to announce we'll be in Kent this summer, with BOREHEAD and KALOPSIA. See you there!

📍 Poco Loco, Chatham
📅 Fri 12th June (8pm)
🎟️ £5 Adv (£7 OTD)

Tickets: www.ticketsource.co.uk/livemusiceve...

Any folks I know want a free ticket to Mastiff & Beyond Extinction at the Black Heart tomorrow? In-laws are visiting this weekend so can't make it 🫠LMK if so and I can transfer it via dice fm. Don't want any money for it - call it my good deed for the week 🖤

New Music Friday – March 6th, 2026 - Boolin Tunes Welcome to New Music Friday, where we round-up all of the week’s releases from metalcore, hardcore, alternative and indie.

Thanks @boolintunes.bsky.social for the review of our new single:

"In a master stroke, they turn the track’s rock’n’roll chorus lick into a sweeping lead line, making for a soaring instrumental outro to contrast all the heavy grit that’s been mulched before it."

boolintunes.com/news/new-mus...

A Tranquil Void, by Urzah 8 track album

Happy Bandcamp Friday!

Preorder for 'A Tranquil Void', our new album out on 5th June, is now live on Bandcamp: urzahband.bandcamp.com/album/a-tran...

✨Limited edition 'Supernova' vinyl variant and tee bundles available✨

UK progressivesludge metal band Urzah announce new album »A Tranquil Void« on APF Records and share first single »Infernal Star I«! Bristol, UK based progressive sludge metal band Urzah is gearing up to release their second full-length album, »A Tranquil Void«, which will see the light on June 5th, 2026 through APF Records. Listen...

Hope you guys are enjoying the single 'Infernal Star I' we dropped yesterday 🤘

Check out more from behind the scenes of our upcoming album over at Doomed Nation:
doomed-nation.com/uk-progressi...

Really excited about this lineup for our album launch, it's going to be an awesome night

Cheers, can't believe it's out there finally!

Really proud to finally announce Urzah's new LP 'A Tranquil Void' and lead single 'Infernal Star I'. Get involved: lnkfi.re/teVrV8bO

⚔️BAY DAYS '26 HEADLINER & FULL LINEUP ANNOUNCED⚔️

We can't wait to join this stacked summer lineup. See you then!

📅 Sat 1st August, 12-8pm
📍 Radio City Social, Chelmsford
🎟️ £49.50

Tics on sale now: www.eventbrite.com/e/bay-days-f...

@radiocitysocial.bsky.social
@intheabyssmetal.bsky.social

👀

🔥 NOTTINGHAM! 🔥

We're travelling up to headline this monster show with Scaleraker and Defector on 20th March.

We'll be playing brand new cuts from our second album arriving in a few months time.

📍 Tap & Tumbler, Nottingham
📅 Fri 20th March
🎟️ FREE entry

See you at the front ⚔️🫡

Had a lovely chat with Glasgow doomgaze band Cwfen about finding success when they least expected it, bidding against celebs over rare gear, and how a Game Boy and Nirvana tab book changed their lives forever

Guitar World feature here: www.guitarworld.com/artists/guit...

@forthelost.bsky.social

'Seven Wars Old', a compilation of heavy & atmospheric bands raising money for the Palestinian Children's Relief Fund, is out tomorrow for Bandcamp Friday.

We're proud to be a part of it along with many friends in the UK scene. Please support if you can:
hungercompuk.bandcamp.com

We can't wait to join this stacked line-up for💥BAY DAYS Festival 2026💥

📍 Radio City, Chelmsford
📅 Sat 1st August
🎟️ Tics on sale from Eventbrite - discounted early-bird tics still available 🤘
www.eventbrite.com/e/bay-days-f...

@radiocitysocial.bsky.social

It's a privilege to contribute a track to this worthy cause, a compilation of heavy underground UK bands in aid of the Palestinian Children's Relief Fund.

Available on Bandcamp on 6th February

hungercompuk.bandcamp.com

This Bristol stoner/doom all-dayer is going to be class 🤘

Back up to Manchester with Urzah in less than two weeks, should be a blinder!

“My friend told me I couldn’t even play a 6-string bass – so I had to learn it to prove him wrong!” Meet 7-string bass wizard Dylan Desmond, whose accidental two-handed tapping powers doom’s most adve... Inspired by Michael Hedges, the Bell Witch doom merchant splits his signal between guitar and bass amps, and fills up the entire frequency spectrum. He reveals the surprise influences that inspired hi...

I had an inspiring chat with Dylan Desmond of Bell Witch for Bassplayer magazine about his complicated rig, creative process and the stunning Stygian Bough Volume II LP.

Full interview: www.guitarworld.com/artists/bass...

A Working-Class Writer Is Something to Be Despite initiatives purporting to promote working-class writing, the publishing industry remains woefully out of touch with the needs, pressures, and dreams of life outside bourgeois Britain. Is anoth...

Despite initiatives purporting to promote working-class writing, the publishing industry remains woefully out of touch with the needs, pressures, and dreams of life outside bourgeois Britain. Is another working-class literature possible?