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This split LP is a vinyl release featuring two hardcore/metalcore bands from Las Vegas. It appears from the photos that both bands also share some members. One of the first things you’ll notice about this 12” is the provocative cover art and exquisite packaging. Liner notes are printed on a full 12” booklet with glossy printing. It’s very similar to the booklets that have traditionally come inside CD packaging, except this is like 4 times the size. I don’t know if this is becoming a trend in vinyl packaging, but I’ve never seen anything quite this extensive.… Continued →

Zane Vickery has been trickling out new songs from his forthcoming behemoth of an album, Interloper. These songs have seen Vickery shift toward an incredibly personal and vulnerable approach, watching him wrestle with concept of belonging through a lens of faith, grief, his near-death experience, and the rejuvenated outlook on life which has followed. That certainly doesn’t mean the entirety of the record is bleak by any stretch, and “Hydrangea” is a perfect example of this. It’s addressed to Vickery’s wife and it’s a confession of longsuffering and mutual endurance through life’s challenges.… Continued →

As you’ve undoubtedly already read elsewhere, and seen all over the chrindie corner of the internet, Michael Knott died earlier this week. Much has been written about the man, the music, the iconic artist, so I don’t intend to re-tread any of that ground here. This is a Song of the Day post after all. Nonetheless it does seem fitting to use this week’s SOTD column to feature more of Knott’s work. He wrote and recorded so many incredible albums from the 1980s through the 2020s that it’s hard to pick a “best” or even a “favorite.”… Continued →

The world of Christian music has lost a true icon. Michael Knott was confirmed dead yesterday, March 12th. Knott was a true pioneer in independent Christian music, leading a plethora of bands, dabbling in multiple genres, engaging prolific solo work, in addition to being a visual artist. Starting in the 1980s, Knott joined existing band Lifesavors, a Southern California power pop/new wave band, but later took leadership of the band. Initially Knott continued the new wave direction, but things took a darker shade in 1987 when he rebranded the outfit LifeSavers Underground and released one of the most influential album our scene ever produced, Shaded Pain.… Continued →

Rock & Metal

• Cool Hand Luke – If You Keep [Single]
• Heliograph – THEREALTHING [Single]
• Lightworker – Burn Scar [Single]
• Meadows – Heavy Eyes [Single]
• Thousand Foot Krutch, Red – I Get Wicked – Reignited [Single]
• Too Bad Eugene – Battle Scars

Pop & Alternative

• Asher Postman – Home, Alright? [Single]
• Fulton Lee – Temperature [Single]
• Mat Kearney – Palisades [Single]
• Mōzi – walk away [Single]
• Working Hour – What Are You Waiting For? [Single]

Electronic & EDM

• Pembers – belief [Single]

Folk & Singer/Songwriter

• John Ward – Don’t You Know [Single]
• Jon Foreman, Joy Oladokun – In Bloom [Single]

Worship & CCM

• BEACH W, Embleton – Perfect Friend [Single]
• Darla Baltazar – Sweeter [Single]
• Ellie Holcomb – Where Can I Go – Psalm 139 [Single]
• Grace Graber – Breakthrough [Single]
• Jason Gray, A New Heaven and A New Earth – Awestruck (On My Way Home) [Single]
• Jimmy Clifton – You said [Single]
• Jonathan Allen Wright – Call Me Down [Single]
• Josh Garrels – Watchman [Single]
• K.

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While much of the music we cover here has its origins–or at least its influence–in the music scenes that developed in the 80s and 90s, there was independent Christian music long before that. I won’t get on that soapbox once again, as I’ve written about it multiple times elsewhere. All I’ll add for now is that there was some incredible and influential faith-oriented music in the 1970s. One such act was Louisville-based quartet Kristyl. The band only released one album, 1975’s eponymous full-length, and then disappeared.… Continued →

Rock & Metal

• CRYWLFCRY – Pursuit of Happiness [Single]
• Demon Hunter – Worlds Apart [Single]
• Mourning Eve – The Noise [Single]
• Pipe Bomb – Stomp [EP]

Pop & Alternative

• CHPTRS – Feels Like Home [Single]
• The Gray Havens – Anywhere [Single]
• Judah & the Lion – Great Decisions [Single]
• Lauren Preuss – Dreaming Of [Single]
• Matthew Parker, Sam Bowman – Weatherboy [Single]
• Lecrae, for KING & COUNTRY – I Still Believe [Single]
• Owl City – Car Trouble [Single]

Electronic & EDM

• Edu Linares – You Like This [Single]
• JOSHUA LAZER – Praise His Name [Single]
• Kingdom Squad, TRTLE – Pressure [Single]
• Man Cub – Still A Light (Instrumental) [Single]
• Pembers – anywhere with you [Single]
• Roberto Rosso, God’s Nation, dawnpatrol – WHAT YOU’VE DONE (Edit) [Single]

Folk & Singer/Songwriter

• Benjamin Krogh – Faltering [Single]
• Faith Ling – Look Around [Single]
• Our Atlantic Roots – Cornwall My Home [Single]
• Wilder Adkins – Birthday Cards [Single]

Worship & CCM

• Branan Murphy – Life is Hard.

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Easycore/pop-punk/Rock band PROTECT YOUR HEART are back and in a really big way. They just dropped a brand new song titled “GHOSTS” with HIGHSOCIETY and released it via FIXT. Check out the song on all digital networks including bandcamp right here. Give these guys a listen and check out the official visualizer video right below this post.… Continued →

A pop-punk band that many consider to be critically underrated, are back with a collection of songs and the first of which will be “Writer’s Block” and drops for pre-order on 3/9. These new songs were all recorded at the world renown studio, The Blasting Room with Bill Stevenson. These are going to be some of the best punk rock songs you’ve never heard. Change that perception and give Shorthanded a listen (and follow) today. Check out the band’s 2023 EP that’s up on all digital networks right now.… Continued →

The brand new 14 track Too Bad Eugene full length titled “Battle Scars”, is out on Friday. This isn’t really a review, more of just a quotable summary 😉 This sonic masterpiece finds the band at their absolute best playing songs that are slightly out of the box for TBE and tackling themes that keep them a few steps ahead of fellow punk rockers who seem more obsessed with just relationship drama and political retread. The sounds on this record are crisp, clear, and full of that thick bass feel that keeps a fullness in sound.… Continued →

Cool Hand Luke’s brand new song “If You Keep” is out now on all digital networks and streaming sites. Go check it out and make sure to add it to your playlists.… Continued →

Join Newselph and Illect Recordings for a free listening party to celebrate If It Ain’t Broke, Remix It (vinyl & digital). Come along to listen to the music with the artist and chat about the making of the album. If It Ain’t Broke, Don’t Fix It features an incredibly lengthy list of collaborations including K.I.N.E.T.I.C., Sareem Poems, Sivion, Rel McCoy, Ozay Moore and many others. Follow the link below to RSVP: https://illect.bandcamp.com/merch/if-it-aint-broke-remix-it-listening-party… Continued →

Despite a central theme of the Christian faith being the betrayal, desertion, and execution Jesus endured and the consequent call for us to lay down our lives in similar fashion, the reality is that, to some degree, it’s still okay to be a Christian in the Western world. It’s easy to piecemeal select verses into a textbook suburban life. But what about when a conviction costs you your job? What about when committing to a church means you drop all your hobbies? What about when things like marriage, retirement, a long life, or owning property are off the table?… Continued →

Chaotic, and heavy, this one man project known as “Pipe Bomb”, just dropped the explosive (no pun intended) debut many of us have been waiting for. The 6 song ep titled “Stomp” is out now on all digital networks and streaming sites. It’s tough to describe this project and it’s one of those things you just have to listen to and draw your own conclusions. It can’t be summarized into a nifty little “review” that as they are, can be quite subjective. This is heavy and chaotic and if you listen, any traits of a typical “one man band” kind of sentiment will wear off quite quick.… Continued →

Demon Hunter drop a surprise new music bomb on us in the form of a song called “Worlds Apart” and it absolutely rips! Check out the lyric video for this NEW song, below. What better way to ring in the month of March than with DEMON HUNTER!… Continued →

While German metal band Chryztyne may have formed in 1990, their sound is pure 80s! Traditional heavy metal with touches of glam/melodic metal abound in their material. The band formed in Karlsruhe in SW Germany in 1990, and released a 5-song demo cassette in 1992. Shortly thereafter, they signed with Pila Music, one of the larger Christian music labels from their home country. Their one and only full-length Tales of Paradise released in 1993 on the label, and featured 11 tracks of pure 80s metal. This, of course, proves the rule that although heavy metal had gone by the wayside–in the wake of grunge and alternative rock–in the United States, it was alive and well in other parts of the world, particularly in Europe.… Continued →

Texas-based indie rocker Daniel Markham is set to release a new full-length on April 5th, entitled Just Like a Dream. It will be released independently of a record label, as is his standard fare. The new material will add a heavy dose of power pop to his twangy alternative rock sound. He’s also released a super-fun new video for the lead single “Big Star,” a title which is surely a nod to the power pop greats themselves.… Continued →

Rock & Metal

• Avery Pkwy – The Narrow Road [Single]
• Behold the Beloved – Toxic Lullabies [Single]
• Eonia – Passing
• Jesus Wannabeez – Kiss The Son (Psalm 2) [Single]
• Meadows – What Is Truth [Single]
• Nate Parrish – Bad Excuse [Single]
• Real Face – 222 [EP]
• XREDLINEX – Ward of the State [Single]
• The Rocky Valentines – Sing The Song [Single]
• Spoken – Sleeper [Single]

Pop & Alternative

• Aryn Michelle – Sovereign [Single]
• Fulton Lee – Run [Single]
• Nightbirde – You Get What You Give [Single]
• The Rocket Summer – Don’t Be Yourself [Single]
• Sajan Nauriyal – I NEED U!

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Lightworker return with their first new song in several years. The song is titled “First Light” and it’ll be appearing on the band’s new album “How The Beautiful Decay” which is out April 19th on Solid State Records. Imagine a Howard Jones led Killswitch Engage crossing paths with For Today, Phinehas, and Bleeding Through but even more spectacular. This band shows real promise and potential and I can’t wait to hear what album number 2 sounds like. Check out the music video for the song right here at IVM, below.… Continued →

HolyName just posted a pic of studio work and the caption “Bright Sadness” HolyName 2024 is gonna be so rad. Thank you all for being patient with us. Stay Tuned. -TG”. Who’s amped for new music from HolyName? I can’t wait for this!… Continued →

Too Bad Eugene released their latest new song titled “Divorce Story” a couple weeks back that we neglected to post about (I’ve been busy sorry :(. This song is not autobiographical, it’s meant more as a play off of their song “Wedding Story” off their year 2000 debut “At Any Rate”. Check out this epic pop-punk, classic Too Bad Eugene song below this post. The band’s new album “Battle Scars” drops on March 8th via People of Punk Rock Records!!… Continued →

The Rocky Valentines which is the project led by Charles Martin who happens to be an accomplished musician and songwriter by his own right, is releasing his much anticipated debut record titled “Erase” on March 29th through Tooth & Nail Records and Velvet Blue Music. Oh and his father just happens to be Jason Martin of Starflyer 59. Pre-order this album in a few different options right here.… Continued →

Nate Parrish returns with first new song since 2022. The song is titled “Bad Excuse” and it just released on Friday via his new label home, Fair Vaux. Check out the lyric video below right here on Indie Vision Music and make sure to stream the heck out of this song, I mean really do it. “Bad Excuse” is hecka fun (fka ‘Hella’) and if this is any indication of what’s to come in 2024 from one of my favorite punk rock artists, then we are all in for a real treat.… Continued →

A brand new hardcore band on the scene called XREDLINEX, are back with the 2nd track off their upcoming 7″ release “Tongue Tied”, this one titled “Ward of The State”. Check the song out below and comment with your thoughts. It’s a fair mix of both old and new with all that righteous anger and fists through the wall adrenaline that hardcore is famous for. This is a killer track by a killer band so give these guys a listen.… Continued →

Check out this brand new track from Spoken titled “Sleeper” that features none other than Ryan Clark of Demon Hunter fame. The song is now available on all digital networks and streaming sites. Check out the song below.… Continued →

Caustic Eminence was a raw, fast, hardcore punk band from Marion, IN. The band formed when they met as students at Indiana Wesleyan University. They released 2 demo cassettes before issuing the fabulous Another Day, Another Dollar 7″ through Cling Recordings in 1996. Not much else is known about the band other than their recorded output. Their take on punk was fast and furious, raw and lo-fi, contrary to the gamut of pop-punk bands that were popular at the time, which were moving towards more sophisticated sounds and production techniques.… Continued →

Rock & Metal

• Chives McAlister – Table For Two [Single]
• The Grave Denial – Reverie [Single]
• Leah – The Glory and the Fallen
• Make Sure – Infinite Rail [Single]

Pop & Alternative

• Apollo LTD – A Day In The Life [Single]
• Fulton Lee – Take Me Where You Go [Single]
• Gabrielle Grace – Both Ways [Single]
• Mat Kearney – Good Thing Going On [Single]
• Mōzi – the score [Single]
• Stephanie Marie – You Caught Me [Single]
• SVRCINA – Love Me or Let Me Down [Single]
• Sydney Jones – IF I GOT U [Single]

Electronic & EDM

• DJ Kirk – Everybody Turn It Up [Single]
• JOSHUA LAZER – As I Walk [Single]
• Roberto Rosso, HAGEN – Good News [Single]
• TRTLE – Love Me [Single]

Folk & Singer/Songwriter

• Drew Holcomb, Ellie Holcomb – Brick by Brick [EP]
• Skye Peterson – If You’d Let Me [Single]

Worship & CCM

• Alabaster Co.

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I had fully intended to cover something punk today, when I began listening to some old traditional Gospel for a project at work (I’m an associate pastor at a diverse, inner-city church). I was reminded of a Gospel song I first heard in the early 1990s when I was a member of a Gospel choir at my college. Yes, little ol’ white boy me, metalhead/punk rocker. In fact at one point in time I had a 4-inch mohawk while I was in this Gospel choir, but I digress.… Continued →

Impending Doom just confirmed to appear at Audiofeed this year! The announcement couldn’t come at a better time, as it is clear that heavy music is going to be featured prominently at the fest. For more information, check out the festival website: https://audiofeedfestival.com. While there, be sure to check out their social media links, which are updated more frequently than the website.… Continued →

Unwed Sailor announce the release of a new album. Entitled “Underwater Over There”, the album is available to pre-order! You can pre-order the album now on at the band’s official online store (https://unwedsailorstore.com), and on their Bandcamp page (https://unwedsailor.bandcamp.com/album/underwater-over-there). Be sure to watch the video for the first single “Final Feather” on Youtube, and you can also stream “Final Feather” on the streaming service of your choice.… Continued →