The Ottawa, Ontario hard rock band Animal Confession plans to invade your ears and penetrate your brains in 2012 with their debut album. Comprised of Andrew Gharib (vocals, guitar) and Patrick Quesnel (bass), Animal Confession's music combines the gritty toughness of Deftones, with the moodiness of Smashing Pumpkins and The Cure. Properly targeted music may [...]

"Driven by our obsessions" Caotico impressed the hell out of me with their first single last year (featuring the ever-cool Tove Styrke). Now they're back with their second single. It's quite different... more of a haunting electronic track than the sleazy funk of Brains Out . It definitely shows a new (more thoughtful, downtempo) side to the band. And I find it absolutely riveting. This is a band that I'm really excited about. They definitely seem very Swedish. The Scandinavian melancholy is in full effect here. I don't think there's been a track like this [...]
"We're happy to introduce Hans Bouffmyhre's next big track, The Confession. Hans assures us that this has been doing some serious damage in his sets over the past few months. With a catchy synthline and a pounding beat, this one destroys the dancefloor. We welcome the superb production talent of Mark Broom back on Sleaze for this one. He has provided 2 different versions of his remix and it's hard to pick a favourite! The final remix is an acid techno banger by the mysterious Glasgow alias, Floom."
Australia's new metalcore flagship Confession will support fellow Australians Parkway Drive, The Ghost Inside, and Miss May I on their upcoming European tour in April 2012. Confession's new album and Lifeforce Records debut "The Long Way Home" is also due to be released in Europe on February 6th, 2012. A music video for the title track is available... Read More/Discuss on Metal Underground.com

For the third consecutive year, we managed to get some serious dirt out of Treasure Island Music Festival attendees and performers through our foolproof scheme: Ferris Wheel Confessions . This year, Audyssey pitched in to help select the best contestants, and in addition, we took a few spins with members of Geographer and Weekend after their sets. Enjoy this snappy collection of some of our favorite, most hilarious moments on the wheel. We've got [...]

George Clooney is featured in the latest edition of Rolling Stone: Confessions Of A Dirty Mind . Not only is he incredibly rich and famous, his charm does not go unnoticed and neither does his humor! Good ole George gets up close and personal in a candid interview about love, sex, politics and life as he knows it. From adolescence to manhood, relationships to government policy, and life outside the spotlight, Clooney is his own celebrity now and anything goes. He's just an ordinary guy: He is not [...]

Howdy Metalheads! Here is the albums that dropped this week just for your ears! So pick them up and support your scene! Animals As Leaders - Weightless (Prosthetic) Autumn - Cold Comfort (Metal Blade) As I Lay Dying - Decas (Metal Blade) Beneath Oblivion - From Man To Dust (Mylene Sheath) Brainstorm - On The Spur Of The Moment (AFM) Confession - The Long Way Home (Mediaskare) Dark Forest - Dawn Of Infinity (Cruz del Sur) Disturbed - The Lost Children (Reprise) [...]
New releases from Animals as Leaders, As I Lay Dying, Beneath Oblivion, Leviathan, Whitechapel and My Dying Bride highlight this week's packed slate of new releases. Let's take a look at what's in store for listeners after the jump. A Plea For Purging – The Life And Death Of A Plea For Purging (Facedown) Pretty [...]

Hey Treasure Island Music Festivalgoers ! If you want to take part in an annual Treasure Island fest tradition and score a free ride the Ferris wheel at this weekend's festival, you should audition to participate in our "Ferris Wheel Confessions" at TIMF 2011. Every year, we take some lucky festivalgoers up in the Ferris wheel for free, and ask them some questions to confess about the music and musicians they love. That not clear enough? Check out last year's confessions below: To participate, head [...]
Episode One of our brand new series! Each episode will feature a different store and addict. Brought to you by iKeepsIt100.com and LPZ Media. Filmed and Edited by Kevin Lopez and Anthony Sylvester for LPZ Media. www.LPZmedia.com Special thanks to the A-Life fam,007 and Jesse! And shouts to Skyzoo for being our first addict to confess! www.iKeepsIt100.com
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im a little late on this one, but you know the old saying. anyway, talked about these guys and gal before from the great white north known as one hundred dollars . their new record is entitled songs of man , came back out in may on outside music . my main issue with their last record, or at least that last one i listened to, forest of tears, was simone schmidt's delivery, but she seems to have toned it down a notch on this one. she has a lovely voice, and coupled with the music, it [...]

It happened somewhere between Bangkok and Kuala Lumpur. I became the type of frequent traveller I used to love to hate. You know the type. They arrive in new cities and descend upon the shopping scene like vultures, treating stores like museums -- a gateway into the culture and heritage of the locals. For a traveller like myself, one who prefers to do as the locals do, my turnaround may have been inevitable. As my Malaysian friend Neo explained while we drove by a conglomeration of malls in suburban KL, shopping is what so many people in [...]

Ritual Confession / Spirit House is the debut single from London act Fear Of Men . Previously featured here for far more ethereal offerings, the quartet return, in cahoots with the Italian Beach Babes label, offering a jangly, phlegmatic lo-fi indie sound. If this blog wrote such sentences, REM meets Veronica Falls might be appropriate here. Ritual Confession / Spirit House by FEAR OF MEN
Metalcore act Confession has posted the title-track online from its forthcoming new album. The track, titled "The Long Way Home," is available for streaming below while the album itself will see a digital US release on September 27th with a November 8th physical release set to follow both through through Mediaskare. Read More/Discuss on Metal Underground.com
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Every year, The Bay Bridged heads to the Treasure Island Music Festival with two goals in mind: catching some great music, and helping attendees unburden themselves of embarrassing musical secrets through "Ferris Wheel Confessions." High above last year's Treasure Island festivities, we probed the minds of a number of you, as well as performers like The Sea and Cake , Surfer Blood and Phosphorescent . Enjoy the entertaining fruits of those music-focused therapy sessions above. Also, the results of yesterday's pre-TIMF confessions query , answering the [...]
Fear of Men's excellent 'Ritual Confession' track gets the video treatment, and it's a summery set of overlays and cult-like fire.

Yeah, so pretty late to Fear of Men, it took an email off Jess from the band to really kick me into listening yesterday and I've been hooked ever since. Kinda good timing, as their debut single will be released this monday. "Ritual Confession" is one very special track that pulls you in with an addictive, nostalgia-inducing sound that's hard to deny and a voice that reminds me of the Vivian Girls is immediately more pleasant with it's lack of shrill over-theatrics. It's b-side, "Spirit House", is delightfully more of the same and it's lyric hook of "You're just a [...]