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Welcome to Issue 5 of Plectrum Magazine – your loudest source for rock and metal, and the pulse of underground creativity. This autumn, Plectrum carries both memory and momentum. At the heart of this issue lies our tribute to Ozzy Osbourne – Birmingham’s son, heavy metal’s eternal voice. His passing leaves a silence impossible to fill, yet his spirit echoes through every riff, scream, and stage dive that defines the music we celebrate. For us, born in Birmingham too, this story carries more than history – it’s family. Surrounding that centrepiece, we spotlight a wave of artists keeping rock and metal fierce, unpredictable, and alive. No Drinks for Jimmy turn crossroads into catharsis, while That Darn Racket transform turbulence into anthems. Electric Bone Rattle freefall into riff-driven darkness, Reduction in…

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UNITED STATES, ROCHESTER That Darn Racket’s debut album Overwhelmingly Positive arrives like a straight-shot of real talk—hooky, heavy, and unmistakably human. Led by Peter Coffin (primary songwriter and vocalist) and produced by his brother Patrick Coffin (from the Billboard-charting bluegrass metal act Appalachian Anarchy), the record distills a lifetime of 90s-raised rock instincts into 14 compact bursts of melody and bite. The title’s irony is intentional. Across themes of pandemic fallout, relationship reckoning, reflection, and perseverance, the band asks what life really feels like in 2025—and answers with songs that don’t flinch. The title track mines the tension of pretending you’re fine while resentment festers; “From a Mile Away” confronts emotional abuse; “About Face” calls out empty promises; and “Moth… Or?” faces the fragile hope of loving someone grappling with…

BERLIN, GERMANY Berlin-based singer, songwriter, and composer Marcus Cetera has long worked at the edges of fragility and fury, collapse and control. His latest single, You No Me, released July 7, 2025, continues this uncompromising trajectory—music that doesn’t seek to please, but to bear witness. At the core of Cetera’s work is transformation: taking stories of trauma and survival and rendering them into sound. His 2025 releases draw directly from real-life accounts shared anonymously in psychotherapy, experiences he has access to as the husband of a therapist. These voices—fragmented, painful, resilient—become the invisible collaborators behind his songs. Each track begins not with the first note, but with silence, space, and the weight of the unsaid. You No Me channels these stories into a sonic landscape of roughedged guitars, felt piano,…

UNITED STATES, SAN DIEGO On July 30, 2025, San Diego’s Reduction in Force released “No ID”— a track that brings their opening trilogy of singles to a bold and cathartic close. Following the success of “We Run” (which gained traction on Spotify’s Release Radar) and “What’s Next” (featured on San Diego’s influential alternative station 91X), “No ID” ties the threads of hope, dreams, and identity into one unflinching statement: we are not defined by labels, and we are not here to shrink in the face of them. From the first punch of guitars and synths, “No ID” immediately establishes itself as a song that thrives on tension—sharp riffs spar with soaring synth textures while a pulsing rhythm drives the song forward. It’s both nostalgic and urgent, echoing the post-punk and…

UNITED STATES, CLEVELAND “Chagrin” is the sound of a songwriter trusting his instincts. On his second full-length LP, Cleveland artist Brian Teubl steps fully into a personal, hand-built approach—writing, recording, and producing every track himself—while welcoming a few carefully chosen voices to deepen the story. Released September 5, 2025, the album gathers songs shaped by nostalgia, isolation, nature, and love, threading them into a cohesive, quietly resonant whole. The project was made at home—the Bat-Cave studio in Northfield, Ohio—with a limited but intentional toolkit: acoustic guitar, bass, a microphone, and patience in the edit. That restraint gives “Chagrin” its character. There’s space between the chords, warmth in the room tone, and a sense of proximity that keeps the listener close. Rather than chase density or volume, Teubl favors clarity—of feeling,…

ENGLAND, BIRMINGHAM When the news broke on 22 July 2025 that Ozzy Osbourne had died aged 76, the world of rock and metal fell silent. For Birmingham, the silence was heavier. It wasn’t just the loss of a singer, or even of a pioneer—it was the loss of a son. From the terraced streets of Aston to the world’s biggest stages, Ozzy embodied the grit and unpredictability of this city. He turned Brum’s industrial clang into anthems, its working-class resilience into rebellion, and its shadows into the language of a new genre: heavy metal. In the weeks that followed his passing, Birmingham became a living shrine. Murals were transformed into vigils, pubs into sanctuaries, and landmarks into altars. TJPL News, born and based in the same city, walked those streets…

UNITED STATES, SAN DIEGO La Motocyclette is Go Scarlet’s most immediate snapshot yet of who they are and why they play: four Millennial/Gen-X musicians from San Diego turning real-life pressure into cathartic, melody-first rock. Written from the vantage point of being “overwhelmed and stressed” by the weight of adult life— parenting, bills, commutes, obligations—the song reframes escape not as avoidance but as a brief, restorative dream: you fall asleep and, just for a moment, you’re a passenger on a roaring bike, arms around an unknown driver, wind in your face, free. That concept guides the performance. Heather Moonflower (lyrics, guitar, lead vocal) carries the narrative with a vocal that’s equal parts flint and warmth, while Tamara Monasterio (keyboards, backing vocal) paints the edges with analog character. Arlina Hoeschen (bass) locks…

Eoin Shannon’s original album Highs & Lows is a widescreen statement from the Cork, Ireland artist—an unfiltered blend of soul-rooted storytelling, blues grit, gospel lift, and indierock pulse. Across thirteen tracks, Shannon writes all lyrics, channeling spiritual reflection and lived emotion into songs that move between intimacy and grandeur, tenderness and storm. The album’s range is immediately clear in the tracklist: from the slow-burn ache of “Going Through Hell” and the yearning sway of “Fall Into Your Arms Again,” to the noir-blues of “Demon Lady” and the devotional pull of “The Closer You’re To God.” Elsewhere, “Happiness Has Come To Town” and “One Crazy Day” bring warmth and groove, while “Pull The Plug / Pull The Curtain” appears twice—first in its core version and again as a Zhoca/Romacoolguy mix that…

UNITED STATES, WASHINGTON, DC Released worldwide on July 12, 2025, “Storm Corrosion (Radio Edit)” introduces listeners to the sonic world of Solamente’s forthcoming third full-length album, Requiem: Grief in Five Stages, due October 31. The track is a slow-burning, cinematic statement that represents the first stage of grief—denial—and sets the emotional and musical foundation for what promises to be a 55-minute conceptual epic. The song begins with clean, intertwining guitar lines and fragile vocal melodies that create an almost meditative stillness. As the track progresses, tension builds through layered instrumentation and carefully constructed dynamics. By the time the chorus hits, “Storm Corrosion” transforms into a towering wall of sound— soaring, anguished, and cathartic—anchored by a pounding rhythm section and face-melting guitar work. It’s the kind of progression that feels inevitable…

ENGLAND, GUILDFORD On June 11th, 2025, under the light of a full moon, The Lunar Keys released their single “Dreams Are Never Spoken.” Hailing from Guildford, England, the quartet of self-described “anxious types” delivered a track that was not only the pinnacle of their recent live sets, but also one of their most personal and purposeful releases to date. At its core, “Dreams Are Never Spoken” is an anthem about courage — the courage to live one’s truth, to voice what lies hidden, and to confront the silent battles of the self. The band has described it as both a challenge and a comfort: a song for those who struggle to articulate their deepest desires and, in a poetic twist, an anthem for insomniacs who can never quite remember the…

UNITED STATES, BROOKLYN “Wired Shut,” released June 13, 2025, is Jackson Sadinsky’s most visceral statement to date—a collaboration with Shinigami that reimagines the turn-of-the-millennium emo/metalcore blueprint with a sharpened modern edge. The single carries the DNA of the artists Sadinsky grew up on—Linkin Park, Korn, Slipknot—while anchoring itself in the current moment through Shinigami’s ongoing evolution from emo-rap into a heavier, metal-forward voice. (At the time of release, Shinigami had 118,000 monthly listeners.) It’s a track built from memory and momentum, and it lands with the impact of a scene you thought you’d left behind roaring back in hi-definition. The personal thread runs deep. As Sadinsky tells it, the spark traces back to his senior year of high school when nothing,nowhere. toured North Carolina with Shinigami on the bill—a night…

ENGLAND, LONDON After turning heads with their debut single Bad Man, which racked up over 12,000 listeners in its first month on Spotify, London-based outfit Penny Rebels return with a track designed for the fast lane. Their sophomore release, Open Road (August 8, 2025), takes everything fans loved about their first offering—swagger, groove, and classic-meets-modern rock energy—and cranks it up a gear. Built on Hammond organ grit, blues-rock swagger, and a chorus built to be shouted back by crowds, Open Road is both a natural progression and a statement of intent. It’s a track that captures the freedom of chasing life on your own terms, wrapped in irresistible riffs and rhythms that beg to be played loud, windows down, engine roaring. “This one’s about chasing something real and not waiting…

SCOTLAND, GLASGOW With False Horizons, Glasgow-based project Nanashi step out of the shadows with a debut single that already feels like a statement of intent. Slow-burning and cinematic, the track layers haunting guitar lines, ambient textures, and minimal electronic elements into a soundscape that is at once intimate and vast. It is not a song that chases immediacy; instead, it rewards patience, unfolding gradually like a horizon that never quite comes into reach. Thematically, False Horizons explores the illusion of progress — the unreachable ideals we convince ourselves are within grasp, only to find they dissolve as we approach. The song embodies that tension, where melancholic guitars meet shimmering synths, and the boundary between comfort and unease blurs. Nanashi, meaning “nameless” in Japanese, is more than a band name —…

GERMANY, LEIPZIG “Honey” is the kind of song that feels familiar on first listen—not because you’ve heard it before, but because it arrives like a memory you’ve been trying to place. Built from gentle piano, acoustic textures, and heartfelt vocals, Sarah Wendlandt’s new single is a quiet study in restraint and resonance. It tells a bittersweet story: a man enchanted by someone who feels like honey—golden, comforting, unforgettable —and the ache that follows when she inevitably slips away. The core image does the heavy lifting: sweetness as solace, sweetness as longing, sweetness as the taste you can’t quite forget. What sets “Honey” apart is the life it lived before the studio. The song has grown over years of performances where audiences picked up the refrain and sang it back—an organic…

UNITED STATES, ALPHARETTA Composer-pianist Michael Goldberg has always walked a different path— and with Dorian’s Dance (Midnight Metal Remix), he proves that innovation doesn’t care about age, convention, or even genre boundaries. Dark, melodic, and architecturally complex, this remix threads 19th-century harmonic language into a framework of gothic-prog and cinematic metal, creating a sound that feels both ancient and urgently modern. The track begins with Goldberg’s piano—a motif steeped in the Dorian mode, giving the piece its name—before plunging headlong into baritone guitar riffs and tightly locked double-kick patterns. Rhythmic shifts between 4/4 and 7/8 time signatures give the piece a restless momentum, while Peter Voronov’s serrated violin adds an almost operatic sharpness to the upper register. At the foundation, the rhythm section delivers with precision: Rich Gray and Fabio…

UNITED STATES, PHOENIX “Parasite” finds Jane N’ The Jungle doing what they do best: saying the quiet part out loud at full volume. The Phoenix, AZ band—fronted by powerhouse vocalist Jordan White and co-founder/guitarist Brian Dellis—channels the adrenaline of modern hard rock into a focused statement about the growing influence of AI and the uneasy ways it can shape human behavior. Produced by Cameron Mizell (Machine Gun Kelly, Avril Lavigne, Jelly Roll), the single delivers a tight, muscular sound that matches its theme: relentless, immediate, and unafraid to bite. Formed in 2013, Jane N’ The Jungle built their identity the long way—garage rehearsals, local rooms, then bigger stages—refining a style that blends 90s alternative grit, punk urgency, and a clear metal edge. That DNA is all over “Parasite.” Dellis’s razor-cut…

SCOTLAND, UK VARIOUS “Final Round” arrives with the confidence of a band who have done the miles and learned how to land the punch. The new single from Arcade Fortress—released August 8, 2025—builds directly on the momentum of their recent, well-received track “Bannockburn,” and it does so without hedging its bets. This is straight-up, high-energy British rock: anthemic melodies, face-melting guitars, and choruses shaped to carry in small rooms and stick around long after last orders. Arcade Fortress describe their sound as a blend of alternative rock punch and sharp lyrical hooks, and “Final Round” bears that out. You can hear the through-line from ’80s metal, ’90s grunge, Britpop, and early-2000s pop-punk in the guitar architecture and arrangement choices, but the song never collapses into nostalgia. Instead, it converts those…

UNITED STATES, SEAFORD NY “Game On (Bring It On)” is not hypothetical or on the horizon—it’s here, and it hits with the urgency of a challenge accepted. Written and produced by Jesse Kinch and released on July 18, 2025, the single arrives as a live performance track, capturing the electricity of a band in full stride while keeping the focus squarely on Kinch’s unflinching vocal delivery. From its first downbeat, the song sounds like movement: big guitars, an engine-room rhythm section, and a lyric that refuses to blink. If you’ve followed Kinch’s story, you’ll hear the conviction; if you haven’t, the song tells you everything you need to know. Kinch frames the track as a mindset rather than a slogan. Lines like “Send your baddest—give me all that you got…

AUSTRALIA, MELBOURNE With the release of their single Into the Void on 6 June 2025, Melbourne-based band Razor Burn have carved their name deeper into the modern rock landscape. The track is a thunderous showcase of everything that defines the group: heavy riffs, soaring vocals, and a relentless intensity that takes listeners straight into the raw realities of life. From its opening moments, Into the Void bristles with urgency. Huge, crashing guitars dominate the soundscape, channelling the spirit of ’90s alternative giants while layering in the band’s own modern aggression. Influenced by acts like Foo Fighters and Rise Against, Razor Burn strike a careful balance between ferocity and melody, ensuring the single hits hard without losing its anthemic drive. Lyrically, the song cuts deep into grim truths of human existence,…

UNITED STATES, LONG ISLAND “Pretty Pills,” released 08 Aug 2025, is heavy on the heart.’s latest razor-edged confession—three and a half minutes (and an outro that feels twice as long) of melodic turmoil, serrated guitars, and unflinching honesty. The Long Island, NY band has been building a reputation for songs that bridge heartbreak and hope; here, they step forward with a single that stares self-destruction and emotional dependency in the eye and refuses to flinch. It’s a track that doesn’t tidy up its mess—because the mess is the point. The music is the alchemy. Formed in 2021 by vocalist Nikki Wilmes and guitarist Costas Themistocleous, and completed in 2022 with drummer Nick Kolokathis and bassist Andrew Nicolae, heavy on the heart. honed their identity on a simple premise: say the…

GERMANY, MÜNSTER Cost of Greed” is the most overtly political statement yet from Blood and Bones, the fiercely independent melodic metalcore project founded in Münster, Germany by Nico Ehlers (ex-Decaying Days). It’s a track that doesn’t mince words or soften edges; instead it tears straight into the machinery of profit-driven warfare with serrated riffs, pummeling drums, and a vocal performance that blurs the line between human and machine. Fronting the project is Alice “Luna” Smith, a striking AI persona whose voice sits at the center of the song’s impact—an intentionally unsettling conduit for rage, lament, and refusal. From the opening bars, “Cost of Greed” establishes a blackened metalcore palette: tremolo-picked guitars cut through dense low end, while blast-adjacent drum passages give way to half-time drops and hook-anchored refrains. The contrast…

CANADA, TORONTO “Invisible” introduces Tropigloom, the indie/shoegaze project of Toronto musician Andrew Roy, with a statement steeped in memory, aftermath, and fragile momentum. Roy frames the song around a stark premise: the yearning to be untouched by life’s difficulties—and the way suppressing them can intensify the hurt. That tension sharpened in the wake of a near-death experience, a moment he describes as erasing old baggage and leaving life “eerily familiar, but profoundly altered.” The result is a piece that looks directly at the past without the fog of repression and translates that clear-eyed reckoning into sound. As a first glimpse of the four-song EP Everything Now But In Reverse (due November 9, 2025), “Invisible” leans into the somber and introspective, yet makes room for lift and light. The arrangement bears…

GREECE, KALAMOS Released 19 July 2025, “chronicles” is the latest original single from Diamadis, a 32-year-old composer based in Kalamos, Greece. Built entirely alone— from first idea to final mix—the track is a statement of intent from an artist who has long composed “mentally,” and who, in the past year, felt “something very powerful” push that inner music into practice. The result is an instrumental that prizes clarity and feeling over spectacle: a piece meant for close listening, but just as comfortable filling a room with quiet, purposeful momentum. Diamadis describes the mood that launched the work as daydreaming—not the drifting kind, but a focused, positive reflection on what we call life. While there are no cited artist influences, the music’s language is firmly cinematic: themes appear like landmarks on…

GERMANY, HAMBURG “Mjölnir,” released July 13, 2025, is the most direct statement yet from Hamburg’s industrial-metal project Nordstahl—a single forged around bone-crushing riffs and a simple, unsettling idea: silence in the face of injustice becomes complicity. The track’s title isn’t window dressing; it’s ethos. “Mjölnir” asks when we will stop waiting for someone else to act and instead let the hammer speak for ourselves. Nordstahl position their work with a stark motto—industrial metal forged by machine, commanded by man—and the method behind that phrase is as demanding as the music sounds. The project is a one-person operation that writes every lyric and steers every creative decision while forcing AI tools through hundreds of failed iterations until the result feels authentically mechanical and authentically enraged. Style prompts are rewritten, sections are…

ENGLAND, LONDON No Drinks For Jimmy’s new single “Year of Me (The Brunswick Song)” lands like a decision made at full volume: stop fading into the background and step into a year that’s unapologetically yours. The track fires on driving guitars, punchy drums, and an ear-locking hook, pairing the early2000s pop-punk edge the band loves with a modern, uplifting spirit. Through its narrator, the song tells a story of someone at a life crossroads, choosing risk, motion, and self-reclamation over inertia—an anthem of reinvention that wears its heart on its sleeve. Formed in 1998 out of the vibrant Baltimore/DC rock scene and based in Columbia, MD, the quartet—Dan Wilson (bass), Doug Wilson (drums), Kurt Lobdell (vocals), and Joe Chichetti (guitar)—built its reputation the old-school way: gritty live shows, big choruses,…

FRANCE, L'ISLE-ADAM Released 18 July 2025, Noctæra’s debut album Legacy of Marble arrives as the product of a year-long creative immersion— written, produced, and finalized by the French independent artist in L’Isle-Adam. It’s a record fashioned with “deep passion and relentless dedication,” the artist notes, and you can hear that devotion in the way each piece has been refined through “so many variations” and “countless hours of listening and fine-tuning.” The result is not a template-driven release but a body of work that refuses to squeeze itself into a mold: personal, dream-drawn, and built for open-minded listeners who gravitate to intimate songs and layered meanings. Stylistically, Legacy of Marble is deliberately hybrid. Noctæra’s core signatures—indie folk, medieval inflections, electro, and flashes of metal—are not pasted side-by-side; they are woven. Acoustic…

UNITED STATES, LOS ANGELES Released 11 July 2025 via Compact Egg Machine, Elbows Don’t Have Eyes is the first album from The Stolen Moans, a DIY trio rooted in Los Angeles with ties to Dublin. It’s a sharp, high-drama collision of songcraft and sonic sabotage: 13 tracks (11 songs plus two instrumentals) that lunge from hook-forward pop turns to serrated punk, metal-tinged noise, and synth-lit atmosphere without ever losing the thread. The band’s core—Vivian (lead vocals, bass synth), Chane (guitars, backing vocals), and Eric (drums, backing vocals)—builds something defiantly their own from salvaged parts: fuzz pedals, chant-ready choruses, and a restless, theatrical energy that refuses to sit still. The record’s world is specific and unapologetic. Across its runtime, the Moans take aim at workplace misogyny, sketch up anarchist art manifestos…

AUSTRIA, VIENNA Darkness marks the latest chapter in the career of Austrian musician Rupert Träxler, an artist who thrives on independence and complete creative control. Hailing from Vienna, Träxler is not only the performer but also the producer, recording engineer, mixer, and mastering hand behind this release. The result is a single that feels uncompromising in both vision and execution—an unflinching statement of individuality within the modern metal landscape. At its core, Darkness is a study in contrasts: brutal screaming vocals collide with soaring choir arrangements, shifting rhythms build tension before collapsing into cathartic release, and delicate melodic lines stand against walls of heavy distortion. This duality is not incidental; it is the very essence of the track. Lyrically, Träxler draws on the eternal dialogue between light and shadow, offering…

SCOTLAND, GLASGOW On 18 July 2025, Glasgow-based musician and doctor Dr. Alejandro Estrada released his new single, W/L (Waiting List), under the banner of the ESTRADA Music Project. The track is more than just a piece of music—it is a seven-minute artistic statement that shines a light on one of the most pressing issues facing healthcare systems today: the devastating impact of long hospital waiting lists. What sets W/L (Waiting List) apart is its seamless blend of art and lived reality. Estrada integrates not only layers of alternative rock, shoegaze textures, and experimental synths, but also incorporates interviews with healthcare workers, doctors, nurses, and maintenance staff. Their voices, layered into the soundscape, transform the track into a multi-dimensional narrative. It’s both musical composition and social commentary, one that confronts listeners…

WALES, LLANDUDNO “Lowerclass Madness” plants The Spitting Pips’ flag squarely where they’ve always intended it to fly: with the bands, fans, and grafters who keep the dream alive. The Llandudno, Wales five-piece—Zack (vocals), Silver (guitar), Dav (guitar), Bobby (bass), and James (drums)—call their sound “Acid Soul Rock ’n’ Roll,” and the new single backs that claim with bristling guitars, a pulse built for crowded rooms, and a lyric that chooses grit over self-pity. It’s a dedication, explicitly, “to all the working class bands,” and implicitly to anyone who’s ever looked at a stacked deck and stepped up anyway. At its core, “Lowerclass Madness” is about drive—“having nothing but wanting to make it in life,” as the band frame it. The song doesn’t wallow; it swings. Riffs lock in, drums push…

ENGLAND, NOTTINGHAM There are comebacks—and then there are resurrections. With the release of “Hero” on 11 July 2025, Nottingham-based band WhoDaresWins have carved out something both deeply personal and powerfully universal: a melodic rock anthem with a timeless sound and a cinematic story to match. Written and produced alongside awardwinning songwriter Tom Tikka, and accompanied by a music video filmed on location at Mini Hollywood in Almería, Spain—where Clint Eastwood once strode through the Spaghetti Westerns—the single is a declaration that the band are back, stronger than ever, and carrying unfinished business into the future. At the center of “Hero” are two old friends: Will Jack and John Haddrell, creative partners who first fronted a successful rock band together more than twenty-five years ago. A chance meeting rekindled their collaboration,…

AUSTRALIA, MELBOURNE When Melbourne-based duo Razor Burn dropped their original single “Avow” on March 20, 2025, they weren’t just releasing a song—they were planting a flag in Australia’s rock landscape. Recorded, produced, and polished entirely by themselves, the track embodies the band’s DIY spirit and burning desire to reach audiences far beyond their home city. Formed by Luke and Ethan, Razor Burn draw from the raw energy of melodic punk rock while channeling the urgency of 90s grunge and alternative rock. The result is a sound that feels both familiar and refreshing: big riffs, booming vocals, and choruses that demand to be shouted back from the crowd. “Avow” captures this essence perfectly. At its core, it’s a statement of intent—an anthem that declares the band’s presence and ambition with unapologetic…

AUSTRALIA, HOBART “See You Around,” released 31 July 2025, arrived as the first glimpse of Verticoli’s forthcoming third album, Silverlinings. Premiering exclusively via The AU Review, the track signalled a measured, melody-first turn from the Hobart three-piece—still heavy where it counts, but with a widescreen sense of space that lets the song’s narrative breathe. It’s a story about timing as much as feeling: two people pulled in different directions, not for lack of affection, but because life has its own calendar. Vocalist/guitarist reflections frame the song at the Marion Bay Falls Festival, a setting that anchors both the lyric and the atmosphere. That detail matters: Verticoli note that two songs on Silverlinings draw inspiration from the festival, and you can hear it—the salt in the air, the soft roar of…

NANASHI ↓ "FALSE HORIZONS" ↓ With False Horizons, Glasgow-based project Nanashi step out of the shadows with a debut single that already feels like a statement of intent. Slow-burning and cinematic, the track layers haunting guitar lines, ambient textures, and minimal electronic elements into a soundscape that is at once intimate and vast. It is not a song that chases immediacy; instead, it rewards patience, unfolding gradually like a horizon that never quite comes into reach. Thematically, False Horizons explores the illusion of progress — the unreachable ideals we convince ourselves are within grasp, only to find they dissolve as we approach. ↓ READ MORE ↓ PENNY REBELS ↓ "OPEN ROAD" ↓ After turning heads with their debut single Bad Man, which racked up over 12,000 listeners in its first…

ITALY, TREVISO Released 1 June 2023, Venetian veterans King Size returned with their long-awaited fourth album, a self-titled set that captures both the raw edge of their early years and the bittersweet reflection of a band two decades into their journey. With only 200 limited edition copies pressed, the record has already become a cult keepsake for those who know how fiercely King Size has guarded its independence, artistry, and love of rock ’n’ roll. At ten tracks and just under 30 minutes, King Size wastes no time in making its case. The opener, “Rolla,” kicks the doors wide with a guitar line steeped in classic Chuck Berry swagger, before bursting into a chorus that fuses punk urgency with pop-rock gloss. “Sick People Are The Most Dangerous People” follows with…