This week in new music

Fri 10th Jun, 2011 in Local News

The Strokes’ have The End Has No End; The Smashing Pumpkins’ wrote The End Is The Beginning Is The End Status Quo and Nine Inch Nails both told us about the Beginning of the End and now The Living End’s new single reminds us that The Ending Is Just The Beginning Repeating. The song was co-written with The Hold Steady’s Craig Finn – “a hell of a lyricist “ according to Chris Cheney.

Kasabian’s new single is Switchblade Smile, a song that seems tailor made to soundtrack the fight scene in some unnamed Guy Richie film. The new album is due for release in September, but we’re just hanging out to hear Velociraptor! – a song described by singer Tom Meighan as ‘mega punk fucking aggression’.

In the 2008 Fred Durst and Wes Borland released a joint statement to declare that they “were more disgusted and bored with the state of heavy popular music than we were with each other. Regardless of where our separate paths have taken us, we recognize there is a powerful and unique energy with this particular group of people we have not found anywhere else. This is why Limp Bizkit is back.” The announcement didn’t usher in the apocalypse as many had feared, but later this month the first album from the original lineup since 2000’s ‘classic’ Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water will be released. Take a listen to the title track Gold Cobra and see if you can hear the approach of four horses of doom in the mix.

For heavier music that’s not fronted by a red hated fool, you can download In Waves the title track from Trivium’s new album, which drops August 9t.h, for free.

And if that’s not enough metal for you – try Kairos the title track of Sepultura’s twelfth studio album.