New Album Cross Me Twice Drops March 28th + U.S. Summer Tour Announced! 🎸
The countdown is officially on! Phoenix-based nu-metal powerhouse SICKSENSE is gearing up for the release of their highly anticipated debut full-length album, Cross Me Twice, arriving March 28th via Earache Records. As the final taste before the album’s drop, the band has just unveiled their electrifying new single, “Follow Me”, a track packed with raw emotion, crushing riffs, and anthemic melodies.
Co-vocalist Killer V shares the deep meaning behind the track:
“‘Follow Me’ is about two people being together at the wrong place at the wrong time in that point of their lives. It’s a story of realizing and acknowledging that they just aren’t meant to be together. It doesn’t mean they’re bad people, they just aren’t right for each other.
We’re all flawed, we’ve all done or said things we regret. Growth comes from learning from our mistakes, recognizing when we’re wrong, and moving forward.
I love that this is the final track on Cross Me Twice. It doesn’t leave on a positive or negative note—it leaves the future open with possibilities, just like our journey as a band.”
🔥 Cross Me Twice – Out March 28th!
💿 Tracklist: 1️⃣ Sellout 2️⃣ Wildfires 3️⃣ Throwback 4️⃣ Fever Dream 5️⃣ Invisible 6️⃣ On Repeat 7️⃣ Masquerade Parade 8️⃣ In This Carousel 9️⃣ Here Come All The Memories 🔟 Follow Me
From the creative minds of Vicky “Killer V” Psarakis (ex-The Agonist) and Rob The Ripper (Stuck Mojo), SICKSENSE is redefining nu-metal with a fresh, high-energy approach. Featuring Agent Phil (guitar), The Gothfather (bass), and Smokin’ J (drums), the band fuses nu-metal, metalcore, and electronic elements to create a genre-defying sound.
🎵 Listen to previous singles:Wildfires, On Repeat, Masquerade Parade, and In This Carousel.
Killer V on Cross Me Twice:
“Cross Me Twice takes listeners on an emotional rollercoaster. We’ve evolved from our traditional nu-metal roots by incorporating modern metal and electronic elements. The heavy parts got heavier, the soft parts got softer, and the catchy parts got catchier.
We faced challenges while making this album, parting ways with former members and bringing in new ones. Those struggles inspired the lyrics, making this our most personal and powerful record yet.
Working with producer Joey Doherty elevated the record’s sound to the next level, and we believe this will be one of the best-sounding albums of 2025. We poured our hearts into this, and we hope it resonates with our fans just as much as it does with us.”
🎸 SICKSENSE Joins THE UNION UNDERGROUND, SPINESHANK & ADEMA on U.S. Summer Tour
SICKSENSE will hit the road this summer for a massive U.S. tour alongside THE UNION UNDERGROUND, SPINESHANK, and ADEMA. Tickets are available now!
📅 SICKSENSE 2025 U.S. Tour Dates: 📍 July 10 – Austin, TX @ Come And Take It Live 📍 July 11 – Houston, TX @ Scout Bar 📍 July 12 – San Antonio, TX @ The Rock Box 📍 July 13 – Corpus Christi, TX @ House of Rock 📍 July 15 – Dallas, TX @ The Grenada Theater 📍 July 16 – Fayetteville, AR @ JJ’s Live 📍 July 19 – Mansfield, OH @ Inkcarceration Festival 📍 July 20 – Belvidere, IL @ The Apollo Theater AC 📍 July 22 – Joliet, IL @ The Forge 📍 July 24 – Moline, IL @ The Rust Belt 📍 July 25 – Green Bay, WI @ Epic Event Center 📍 July 26 – Turtle Creek, WI @ St. Croix Casino 📍 July 27 – Des Moines, IA @ Wooly’s 📍 July 29 – Lincoln, NE @ Bourbon Theatre 📍 July 31 – Denver, CO @ The Oriental Theater 📍 Aug 1 – Colorado Springs, CO @ Black Sheep 📍 Sept 18 – Louisville, KY @ Louder Than Life Festival
🤘 About SICKSENSE
SICKSENSE has rapidly risen to prominence, building a devoted fanbase—known as the “Deli-boos”—through their high-energy performances, engaging online presence, and genre-bending sound.
Following their EPs ‘Kings Today’ and ‘Fools Tomorrow’, the band has garnered praise from TankTheTech, Spotify’s Alternative Metal & New Nü playlists, and comparisons to Slipknot, Evanescence, and Limp Bizkit.
With Cross Me Twice, SICKSENSE is pushing nu-metal into the future, blending elements of metalcore, progressive metal, and power metal to create a modern sound that fans of both classic and contemporary metal will love.
Portland’s blackened death metal force DROUTH returns this spring with the highly anticipated release of their third full-length album, The Teeth of Time, arriving May 16th via Eternal Warfare Records. Following their critically acclaimed 2020 release Excerpts From a Dread Liturgy, the new record is an unrelenting storm of doom-laden intensity, existential dread, and sonic brutality.
A Manifestation of Torment and Chaos 🖤🔥
DROUTH comments on the upcoming release: “We are proud to present The Teeth of Time, a culmination of several years of blood, sweat, and pain. It is a nightmare made manifest, and we are both eager to share our creative work and grateful to the many people who helped make it possible.”
To mark the album’s announcement, the band has unveiled “False Grail,” a harrowing preview of the hellscape awaiting listeners within The Teeth of Time. First premiered at Invisible Oranges, the track delivers an ominous, suffocating atmosphere that perfectly sets the tone for the album.
Matt Solis on “False Grail”:
“‘False Grail’ was the last song we wrote before entering the studio. It came together relatively quickly based on ideas that Stikker brought in—he had it well fleshed out, but we expanded the closing doom section to really emphasize the dynamic shift in the song. We also knew we wanted string accompaniment, so we had Eva Vonne from Isenordal add mournful viola layers after tracking was completed.”
Matt Stikker on the Song’s Concept:
“Lyrically, the song is a nightmare reflecting the disconnect between the true and projected self, and the increasing tension between those poles that we all experience. The map is not the territory, but when the map prefigures and gradually dictates the territory, our agency is threatened forever.”
1️⃣ Hurl Your Thunderbolt Even Unto Death 2️⃣ False Grail 3️⃣ The Teeth of Time 4️⃣ Through a Glass, Darkly 5️⃣ Exult, Ye Flagellant
📸 Album artwork & credits: Jason DeSomer
About DROUTH 🖤
Formed in Portland in 2012, DROUTH (formerly known as Contempt) has carved a reputation in the extreme metal underground for their seamless blend of black metal, death metal, doom, and crust. Their 2014 debut EP Skinwalker put them on the map, followed by Vast, Loathsome (2015), full-lengths Knives, Labyrinths, Mirrors (2017) and Excerpts From a Dread Liturgy (2020).
Their latest offering, The Teeth of Time, was recorded and mixed by legendary engineer Billy Anderson (Neurosis, Cattle Decapitation) and mastered by Justin Weis (Agalloch, Hammers of Misfortune), resulting in 40 minutes of ferocious, melodic, and exploratory blackened death metal.
DROUTH is:
🎸 Matt Stikker – Guitar, vocals, lyrics 🥁 Patrick Fiorentino – Drums 🎸 John Edwards – Guitar, vocals 🎸 Matt Solis – Bass
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