Bombs of Hades - Phantom Bell (Black + Etched side) - VINYL LP

Since the of his critically acclaimed debut full length, 2023's Come Around and Love Me, Jalen's career has undergone a meteoric trajectory. The track InchIf You Don't Want My LoveInch went viral, garnering 253 million streams to date. Jalen has appeared on a bevy of first-rate television programs-notably, Graham Norton, Late Night with Steven Colbert and Later with Jools Holland. He opened for Thee Sacred Souls on their national US tour, as well as Olivia Dean on her 2023 UK tour, and has sold out countless club dates across the globe as a headliner. Now, in 2026, with the embers of his debut still burning brightly, Jalen prepares to drop his eagerly awaited sophomore album, Doctrine of Love.The hard work and relentless touring behind his debut has fortified his craft. His message InchThe doctrine of love holds that every thought and action should be guided first by compassion for others, because love is the highest measure of human worth.Inch The tracks on the forthcoming album are born from this creed. With his deep knowledge and love of classic soul, Jalen delivers authenticity in abundance. Doctrine of Love blends pop sensibility and soulful melodies with raw grit and groove, expanding on the orchestral arrangements of Come Around and Love Me with flourishes of horns and gospel-kissed background vocals, creating a highly stylish exercise in modern soul artistry.

Peste was recorded in Italy (where Hierophant is headquartered) at MV Multimedia Studio. This 10-song album is the follow-up to 2013's acclaimed Great Mother Holy Monster, which was called Inch... a searing brand of no-hold's-barred dark hardcore that's characterized by bleak, unrelenting guitars and harsh, incomprehensible vocalsInch by Big Cheese Magazine. It was hard to fathom Hierophant harnessing the potential to create a record heavier and more malicious than Great Mother Holy Monster, an already pummeling whiplash of American D-beat-inflected metallic hardcore. Lo and behold Peste manages just that as a superior, succinctly crushing assault, it's tendencies largely erring on the side of European death metal. Hierophant spell out the desolation and desperation leveled by a war amid the id, ego and super-ego, all torturous, violent imagery and morbid, damning assertions that make it a pleasantly grim nightmare to suffer through.

Though it's at first blush less than star-studded in the international sense when taking in account the long, historical view of opera recordings, there is Ettore Bastianini and Boris Christoff to contend with, and Italian casting of Italian opera was in fairly fine mettle in the 1960s. Giuseppe Verdi certainly had his struggles with Don Carlo, but the opera, his longest when performed at full length, tells a powerful story of personal and political conflict, and there's much glorious music to enjoy in this superb performance, preserved in excellent sound, conducted by Mario Rossi in 1961.