Get ready for a song that marries industrial metal with horror movie. This is SUICIDE PUPPETS first single release with Josh Balz (Motionless in White) as their producer. Death Note is a song about a serial killer musician who kills one member of the crowd at each venue his band plays at and the rest of the band members are unaware of his activities. This song features Frank Dormani who is an award winning film composer doing the orchestral parts. The song was recorded, mixed and mastered at Legacy Recording in Wilkes-Barre Pennsylvania.

Death Note drops TODAY 3/31/2023. Watch here:

 

SUICIDE PUPPETS is a nationally touring five piece metal band hailing from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania and have been touring regionally since the bands beginning in 2007. Blasting their audience to bloody bits of sonic shrapnel, the Suicide Puppets, feature Twisty Suicide on vocals, Jonny Suicide on bass and backup vocals, Steven Suicide on lead guitar, Donnie Von Gailinger on rhythm guitar, and Veritas Suicide on drums. 
 They have shared the stage with Wednesday 13, The 69 Eyes, Sumo Psycho, Napalm Death, Dope, Combiechrist, OTEP, Mushroomhead, a US tour with Soulfly and many more. 
 Suicide Puppets have won two consecutive best metal band awards at the Central Pennsylvania Music Awards (2020,2021).

DIRTBAG Endorsed Artist ANOXIA has released a new music video for the single EARTHBOUND, featuring Corey James of CARBONSTONE.

CHECK OUT THE VIDEO HERE:

DIRTBAG Endorsed Artists ETERNAL FREQUENCY have won the Unsigned Artist Talent Search, and will perform at the 2023 BLUE RIDGE ROCK FEST this September. 

Since Blue Ridge Rock Festival was founded, providing opportunity to Unsigned Bands has always been a priority. In 2023 that tradition continues as they welcomed the first of several unsigned Talent Search Winners receiving paid slots on this year's Lineup! First up - ETERNAL FREQUENCY: The multi-award winning five piece female fronted all original hard rock band hailing from Central Pennsylvania. This unsigned, independent national recording act follows in the footsteps of acts such as Spiritbox, Halestorm, Evanescence and others. Blending influences of Metalcore, Hard Rock and Industrial, Eternal Frequency brings a new energy that is also dominated by vocalist, songwriter, and frontwoman, Emelle.

As far as accomplishments go they've had the pleasure of performing at some of the biggest rock festivals in the country as well as sharing the stage with established artists such as KORN, Shinedown, Five Finger Death Punch, Ice Nine Kills, Of Mice & Men, and Motionless in White. EF had the pleasure to honor Halestorm (Inductees) with their rendition of "Familiar Taste of Poison" at the 2020 Central Pennsylvania Music Hall of Fame Awards.

BLLUE RIDGE ROCK FEST will take place September 7-10, 2023 at the VIRGINIA INTERNATIONAL RACEWAY in Alton, VA.

Tickets, camping, and payment plans available now.

Dead Animal Assembly Plant I am so intrigued, that if I were a cat, I would probably be on that assembly line- dead from curiosity. The hook in the opening song and title track Old Fashion Hellfire was opposite of what my brain expected to hear. This was a much-needed relief, because like momma always used to say, too much of the same crap makes for a dull soup. Ask any modern pop artist in the world. This Portland-based 5-piece is a balls-deep industrial metal band of butchers. Compromised of Z Wager, The Professional, Guitar Demon, Buzzard, and The Prophet, this crew is prepared to slice and dice you like a warm dish of sweetbreads. The song Rise With Me has a beautiful marching and anthem-like opening riff at 0:21. It is a beautiful piece of bloody pig snout ready to be served to the masses. Its driving guitars, sonically glued together with the fat bass guitar, deliver a well-balanced performance, sharing the stage with some percussive and ambient synths as well as soulful drums. This is their single, and I am stoked to hear more. A little further down the assembly line comes a song titled Be The Decay. To my used and abused ear holes, Be The Decay has a similar tonality and mix as Rise With Me. This feeling leads me to believe that maybe the same human mixed these two songs. This of course was after one of the butchers told me that two humans had their filthy little engineering hands on it. The song Six Feet Lower gave me the throw back low and slow Marilyn Manson feeling- something out of the “Smells Like Children” record. Dead Animal Assembly Plant has now officially taken me back to my first rock and metal records in the early 90s. Definitely bonus points there. I love the effort that was put in to this record from a musical standpoint as well as the ability to take the listener on a journey aspect- well done in that regard. What I truly feel it lacks, and most importantly of all, is a great mix. I would like to see the time and effort that Dead Animal Assembly Plant put into this full length LP get put into an EP of some sort. Imagine the LP effort and energy put into 4 songs. I’d like to see the band really dig in to the process of recording; perhaps some more organic instrument experimentation. But I digress- every independent artist is recording on a budget so I won’t dig in too much. I completely, personally understand that struggle. When you buy “Old Fashion Hellfire, you aren’t just getting some songs written by a band you’ve never heard of. You are getting a new and intriguing experience. I would recommend this record to those that listen to Rammstein, Marilyn Manson, or a more industrial Rob Zombie. I hope to the dead animal gods that this band puts out this much creativity and energy in their live show. I wish I could go see these guys once a month. I would. Purchase the record “Old Fashion Hellfire”