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Shardik Media @shardikmedia.bsky.social · 20h

The Schizophonics. 📷: Wayne Edwards. More photos at FFR, flyingfiddlesticks.com/2025/10/14/p... #MuddyRoots #MRMF #livemusic #musicfestivals #rock #Schizophonics #punk #folk #heavymetal

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Shardik Media @shardikmedia.bsky.social · 20h

Titans of Siren. 📷: Wayne Edwards. More photos at FFR, flyingfiddlesticks.com/2025/10/04/p... #MuddyRoots #MRMF #livemusic #musicfestivals #rock #TitansOfSiren #punk #folk #heavymetal

Photo Gallery: Titans Of Siren at Muddy Roots (2025)

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Shardik Media @shardikmedia.bsky.social · 1d

Graveripper steps up to the edge with their newest album, From Welkin To Tundra. Review at FFR, flyingfiddlesticks.com/2025/10/13/g... #heavymetal #metal #rock #hardrock #thrash #blackenedthrash #Graveripper #WiseBloodRecords #Indianapolis #blackmetal

Graveripper, From Welkin To Tundra (Wise Blood 2025)

Graveripper steps up to the edge with their newest album, From Welkin To Tundra. Stalking the seedy streets of Indianapolis, thrash mongers Graveripper crashed into the heavy music world in 2019. T…

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Shardik Media @shardikmedia.bsky.social · 2d

The third full length album from Ontario stoner prog band The Isosceles Project is Bear The Torch. Review at FFR, flyingfiddlesticks.com/2025/10/12/t... #heavymetal #metal #rock #hardrock #TheIsoscelesProject #Canada #Hamilton #instrumentalrock #prog #heavyprog #instrumentalmetal #progressivemetal

The Isosceles Project, Bear The Torch (2025)

The third full length album from Ontario stoner prog band The Isosceles Project is Bear The Torch. Author of two previous long-players, Oblivion’s Candle (2009) and Bridges (2012), The Isosceles Pr…

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Shardik Media @shardikmedia.bsky.social · 4d

Noogy. 📷: Wayne Edwards. More photos at FFR, flyingfiddlesticks.com/2025/10/05/p... #MuddyRoots #MRMF #livemusic #musicfestivals #rock #Noogy #punk #folk

Photo Gallery: Noogy at Muddy Roots (2025)

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Shardik Media @shardikmedia.bsky.social · 4d

Sweet’s 1986 concert at the Marquee Club in London gets a new release from Metalville. Review at FFR, flyingfiddlesticks.com/2025/10/10/s... #heavymetal #rock #hardrock #Sweet #TheSweet #MetalvilleRecords #LiveAtTheMarquee

Sweet, Live At The Marquee (Metalville 2025)

Sweet’s 1986 concert at the Marquee Club in London gets a new release from Metalville. Metalville Records continues with its series of re-releases of long out of print Sweet albums. This newest one…

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Shardik Media @shardikmedia.bsky.social · 5d

Immortal Lee County Killers. 📷: Wayne Edwards. More photos at FFR, flyingfiddlesticks.com/2025/10/01/p... #MuddyRoots #MRMF #livemusic #musicfestivals #ILCK #rock #ImmortalLeeCountyKillers #punk #folk

Photo Gallery: Immortal Lee County Killers at Muddy Roots (2025)

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Shardik Media @shardikmedia.bsky.social · 5d

Heavy Hell 6, The Final Act. 📷: Wayne Edwards. Notes on the festival and a few more photos at FFR, flyingfiddlesticks.com/2025/10/08/h... #HeavyHell #HeavyHell6 #blackmetal #deathmetal #heavymetal #BlackCircleMusicBar #livemusic #musicfestivals #Nunslaughter

Shardik Media @shardikmedia.bsky.social · 5d

Thrash legends Dark Angel release their first full-length studio album in over three decades, Extinction Level Event. Review at FFR, flyingfiddlesticks.com/2025/10/09/d... #heavymetal #rock #hardrock #DarkAngel #ExtinctionLevelEvent #ReversedRecords #thrash #thrashmetal #California

Dark Angel, Extinction Level Event (Reversed 2025)

Thrash legends Dark Angel release their first full-length studio album in over three decades, Extinction Level Event. I am a huge fan of Dark Angel, and I have listened to their seminal albums an u…

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Shardik Media @shardikmedia.bsky.social · 14d

Bolt Swallower. 📷: Wayne Edwards. More photos at FFR, flyingfiddlesticks.com/2025/09/30/p... #MuddyRoots #MRMF #livemusic #musicfestivals #BoltSwallower #rock #experimentalmetal #heavymetal #punk #grind #hardcore

Photo Gallery: Bolt Swallower at Muddy Roots (2025)

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Shardik Media @shardikmedia.bsky.social · 15d

Counterrevolutionary metal band Dirkschneider And The Old Gang release their first full-length record, Babylon. Review at FFR, flyingfiddlesticks.com/2025/09/29/d... @csquaredmm2.bsky.social #heavymetal #metal #rock #hardrock #Germany #DATOG #DirkschneiderAndTheOldGang #tradmetal #traditionalmetal

Dirkschneider And The Old Gang, Babylon (Reigning Phoenix 2025)

Counterrevolutionary metal band Dirkschneider And The Old Gang release their first full-length record, Babylon. Dirkschneider And The Old Gang – DATOG – was originally launched a few years back for…

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Shardik Media @shardikmedia.bsky.social · 16d

Thlurm. 📷: Wayne Edwards. More photos at FFR, flyingfiddlesticks.com/2025/09/28/p... #MuddyRoots #MRMF #livemusic #musicfestivals #Thlurm #rock #experimentalmetal #heavymetal #punk #grind #grindviolence

Photo Gallery: Thlurm at Muddy Roots (2025)

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Lasse Marhaug @lassemarhaug.bsky.social · Jul 14

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Shardik Media @shardikmedia.bsky.social · 20d

Cosmic Reaper dredges up some fresh North Carolina gloom for their latest album, Bleed The Wicked, Drown The Damned. Review at FFR, flyingfiddlesticks.com/2025/09/24/c... #heavymetal #metal #rock #hardrock #CosmicReaper #NorthCarolina #stoner #stonermetal #doom #stonerdoom #desertrock #sludge

Cosmic Reaper, Bleed The Wicked, Drown The Damned (Heavy Psych Sounds 2025)

Cosmic Reaper dredges up some fresh North Carolina gloom for their latest album, Bleed The Wicked, Drown The Damned. From Charlotte, Cosmic Reaper coalesced from the mist in 2017. After an early EP…

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Shardik Media @shardikmedia.bsky.social · 21d

Groovy doom band Warcoe will crack your speakers with their new album, Upon Tall Thrones. Review at FFR, flyingfiddlesticks.com/2025/09/23/w... @ripplemusic.bsky.social #heavymetal #metal #rock #hardrock #RippleMusic #Warcoe #Italy #stoner #stonermetal #doom #stonerdoom #desertrock

Warcoe, Upon Tall Thrones (Ripple 2025)

Groovy doom band Warcoe will crack your speakers with their new album, Upon Tall Thrones. Warcoe started out five years ago in Persaro. A doom band that revels in the honorific at confluence with t…

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Shardik Media @shardikmedia.bsky.social · 22d

Halifax gothic metal band Paradise Lost release their seventeenth album, Ascension. Review at FFR, flyingfiddlesticks.com/2025/09/22/p... #heavymetal #metal #rock #hardrock #ParadiseLost #NuclearBlastRecords #doom #doommetal #melodicdoom #gothicmetal #gothic

Paradise Lost, Ascension (Nuclear Blast 2025)

Halifax gothic metal band Paradise Lost release their seventeenth album, Ascension. Paradise Lost was create thirty-five years ago. Pioneers of gothic metal and icons in the heavy music field, Para…

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Shardik Media @shardikmedia.bsky.social · 23d

The Koffin Kats in the Big Tent. 📷: Wayne Edwards. More photos at FFR, flyingfiddlesticks.com/2025/09/20/p... #MuddyRoots #MRMF #livemusic #musicfestivals #TheKoffinKats #KoffinKats #rockabilly #rock

Photo Gallery: The Koffin Kats at Muddy Roots (2025)

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 25d

If you have information you can share about the VA, reach out to our reporter @vernalcoleman.bsky.social directly at [email protected] or on Signal at vcoleman91.99 👇

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I’m a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter based in Chicago who writes about, among other things, law enforcement and veterans’ issues.

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Shardik Media @shardikmedia.bsky.social · 25d

Chicago progressive dark metal band Novembers Doom release their dozenth album, Major Arcana. Review at FFR, flyingfiddlesticks.com/2025/09/19/n... #heavymetal #metal #rock #hardrock #ProphecyProductions #NovembersDoom #doom #doommetal #darkmetal #Chicago

Novembers Doom, Major Arcana (Prophecy 2025)

Chicago progressive dark metal band Novembers Doom release their dozenth album, Major Arcana. Novembers Doom was founded in Chicago in 1989. They are known as a death/doom band, while they deploy t…

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Shardik Media @shardikmedia.bsky.social · 26d

Muddy Roots was great again this year with The Koffin Kats, Slim Jim Phantom, Voodoo Glow Skulls, Hans Condor, and dozens more. 📷: Wayne Edwards. Notes on the weekend at FFR, flyingfiddlesticks.com/2025/09/17/b... #MuddyRoots #MRMF #SlimJimPhantom #HansCondor #TheKoffinKats #VoodooGlowSkulls

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Shardik Media @shardikmedia.bsky.social · 26d

Scorpion Milk hatches a multitude of horrors on their debut album, Slime Of The Times. Review at FFR, flyingfiddlesticks.com/2025/09/18/s... #heavymetal #rock #metal #hardrock #punk #ScorpionMilk #PeacevilleRecords #postpunk #gothic #gothicmetal #apocalypticpotpunk #anarchopunk

Scorpion Milk, Slime Of The Times (Peaceville 2025)

Scorpion Milk hatches a multitude of horrors on their debut album, Slime Of The Times. The mastermind of Scorpion Milk is Mat McNerney. We read that, “Joining Mat on Slime of the Times is a whole h…

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Shardik Media @shardikmedia.bsky.social · 27d

Paris-based rock clangers Mule Jenny are back with a new album, Take Enough Leeway. Review at FFR, flyingfiddlesticks.com/2025/09/16/m... #heavymetal #rock #metal #hardrock #punk #MuleJenny #ViciousCircleRecords #noise #prog #postpunk #experimentalrock

Mule Jenny, Take Enough Leeway (Vicious Circle 2025)

Paris-based rock clangers Mule Jenny are back with a new album, Take Enough Leeway. Formed in 2020, Mule Jenny is a three-piece rock group that pushes the notion of category to near its limit. Thei…

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Shardik Media @shardikmedia.bsky.social · 29d

Veilcaste at Black Circle Music Bar, August 2025. 📷: Wayne Edwards. More photos at FFR, flyingfiddlesticks.com/2025/09/15/p... #heavymetal #rock #hardrock #doom #sludge #livemusic #Veilcaste #BlackCircleMusicBar

Photo Gallery: Veilcaste at Black Circle Music Bar (2025)

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Shardik Media @shardikmedia.bsky.social · Sep 14

Theatrical horror metal band Raven Black bring their dark carnival to you with Black Sonata, their latest album. Review at FFR, flyingfiddlesticks.com/2025/09/14/r... @tagpublicitypr.bsky.social #metal #heavymetal #rock #hardrock #gothic #gothicrock #popmetal #RavenBlack #darkcarnival #darkmetal

Raven Black, Black Sonata (WURMgroup 2025)

Theatrical horror metal band Raven Black bring their dark carnival to you with Black Sonata, their latest album. Originally from Los Angeles and now (last I heard) haunting the northern lake people…

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Shardik Media @shardikmedia.bsky.social · Sep 12

Polka punks The Dreadnoughts have a new album on the way, Polka Pit. Review at FFR, flyingfiddlesticks.com/2025/09/12/t... @punkertonrecords.bsky.social #heavymetal #rock #metal #hardrock #punk #TheDreadnoughts #PunkertonRecords #folkpunk #polka #folk #Canada

The Dreadnoughts, Polka Pit (Punkerton 2025)

Polka punks The Dreadnoughts have a new album on the way, Polka Pit. The Dreadnoughts formed in 2006 in Western Canada’s premiere city, Vancouver. The band’s first album, Legends Never Die, came ou…

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