Chicago industrial post-punk collective Black Cross Hotel, featuring members of The Atlas Moth and Stabbing Westward, will release their new album Songs for Switches on October 31 via Someoddpilot Records. The band has unveiled the video for the album's lead single,...
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By now, you’ve probably heard about people claiming that Avenged Sevenfold’s latest album Hail To The King shares some similarities to the works of Metallica, Megadeth, and Guns N’ Roses in the same sense that the drummer from Nirvana shares some...Follow Us
Black Cross Hotel (The Atlas Moth / Stabbing Westward) announce new album; unveil “The House God Doesn’t Visit”
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