Dead Girls Academy Rock The Hard Rock In New Music Video

Sin City hard rockers Dead Girls Academy light up their hometown with the latest music video from their new album Doves In Glass Houses, “Agonize”.

The third single from their sophomore album, directed by Michael Imperioli (Carnifex, Motionless In White, Upon A Burning Body), features the band performing at the Hard Rock Café on the Las Vegas Strip. “We literally shut down the Hard Rock Café on the Las Vegas Strip,” frontman Michael Orlando said about the video. “Scott had the vision of using a movie projector on my face and body, projecting occultist type images throughout. I’m known for publicly airing my dirty laundry through my lyrics, but with this song I really wanted to take those bottled up feelings from a toxic relationship and get them off my chest, once and for all.”

Watch the video below.

On the visual imagery behind the video, Orlando adds, “I wanted to venture back into my goth roots and create something close to my heart. I used to be bullied nonstop about the way I dressed and the makeup I wore. It was a constant battle! There were so many industry people and fellow artists that gave me a hard time about my stage name, ‘Michael Vampire,’ and the fact I tried to keep a mystique about myself. Nowadays, things have drastically changed for the better. You have artists like Yungblud, Palaye Royale, Ghostemane and even Machine Gun Kelly wearing makeup proudly! I felt it was time to bring back the old me with a 2020 twist and I am very thankful I did. I finally feel like myself again!”

Doves In Glass Houses is available now on Mission Two Entertainment (Brave The Cold, Don’t Sleep, Insight).

Don’t Sleep’s Debut Full-Length Ain’t Groundbreaking, But It Is Fun

If you thought that the debut album from Don’t Sleep, a band made up of vets in the hardcore and punk rock scenes, would be bad, then you’re a damn fool.

The members of melodic hardcore supergroup Don’t Sleep may have started playing with each other in 2017, but on their debut album Turn The Tide, it sounds like they’ve been together for over 30 years. Their times with The Commercials, Junction, Admiral, Dag Nasty, DYS, Down By Law and ALL have shaped them into one fine hardcore playing machine. Bassist Garrett Rothman, guitarists Tom McGrath and Tony Bavaria, drummer Jim Bedorf, and frontman Dave Smalley work off each other well, and their debut full-length Turn The Tide proves that to a “T”.

Clocking in at a crisp half hour, Turn The Tide goes by quick, hitting you with killer track after killer track. While none of the 12 songs are groundbreaking, they do bring you a high-octane experience that will make you salivate for more. Simply put, Turn The Tide fucking rocks.

The opening title track barely gives you time to react once the guitar buzzing stops, assaulting you with a full-blown beatdown of old school hardcore with classic punk rock. And it goes by really fast, clocking in at 75 seconds long. “We Remain” kicks all sorts of ass and radiates huge 7 Seconds energy.

But the biggest shocks on the record is “The Wreckage”, a nearly five-minute long track which tricks you into thinking it’s a reggae track before the three-minute marks goes into Foo Fighters territory and then it goes all out during the final 30 seconds, speeding up and picking up in intensity to give it a flashy end. And the closing song “December” which goes into acoustic pop-punk territory, kinda like Neck Deep’s “A Part Of Me”. You read that right. Bet you weren’t expecting that, and neither was I.

Overall, Turn The Tide is great. It’s not a game changer, but it is time well spent having a blast.

Don’t Sleep Get Retro In Their New Video “We Remain”

Hardcore supergroup Don’t Sleep have unveiled a music video featuring 80’s nostalgia.

The music video for their new single “We Remain” is chock full of DeLoreans, satisfying any Back To The Future fan. Check out the video below.

Inspired by Back To The Future, Don’t Sleep cruise around the city with an army of DeLoreans.

“All sci-fi rebels, freaks and geeks, saddle up because this is one of the catchiest songs on the whole album!” vocalist Dave Smalley promises in a press release. “This song is directly about rebellion and the things we face as a society. As the lyrics call out the ‘rebel scum outside your door,’ this song addresses the things that are dragging you down – sometimes it’s the quiet confrontation in your mind, or it is all the craziness in the world. I cannot wait to be singing this live and sticking the mic out for everyone to join in. For now, we can all sing along in our personal DeLorean!”

The track comes from their upcoming debut album Turn The Tide which drops September 4 via Mission Two Entertainment (Cro-Mags, Dead Girls Academy, Insight).

Dead Girls Academy Sign With Mission Two Entertainment

The Academy is back in session.

Hollywood rockers Dead Girls Academy announced that they have signed with hardcore punk label Mission Two Entertainment (Cro-Mags, Don’t Sleep, Insight). The group, who used to be signed to Mission Two founder Tony Brummel’s old label Victory Records, will be releasing their second album titled Doves In Glass Houses later this fall.

Frontman Michael Orlando spoke about the signing, “In the middle of this pandemic, I got the most amazing phone call. The first thing I heard was ‘The world needs rock ‘n’ roll now more than ever!’ I could not agree more, and that voice was (Mission Two Entertainment founder) Tony Brummel. It had been a long time since we talked and we’ve been on the same wavelength about the state of music since we first met. Tony brought the world some of my favorite bands like Taking Back Sunday, Thursday and Hatebreed. I knew I needed to follow my gut and sign with his new label Mission Two Entertainment!”

DGA are celebrating the news by dropping a music video for their track “This Is War”. The video is available now to watch on Mission Two’s YouTube channel. The single came out back in April.