Holy Roar Records

We are hugely happy to announce that we will be working with Monolith on their forthcoming EP 'I, Misanthrope' which will be released in March on 7" and download. Preorders will go up early February.

Fans of Meshuggah, Acacia Strain, Brutality Will Prevail, American Me, Desolated, Bury Your Dead and anything technical and heavy should be all over this!

Download 'Cold Lesson' for free right now. Share it, put it on your blog, tweet, tumble, facebook, or whatever it is you do this week.


....another new band to be announced next week.

Yeah, I waited until the end of the year! Shocking! No real order apart from numbers 1 and 2.



1. Com Truise - Galactic Melt

2. Harms Way - Isolation

3. Cold Cave - Cherish...

4. Weekend Nachos - Worthless

5. Liturgy - Aesthethica

6. Clams Casino - ep/instrumentals (bit of a cheat!)

7.Touche Amore - Parting the sea...

8. Rustie - Glass Swords

9. Khann - Erode

10. M83 - Hurry Up...

11. Three Trapped Tigers - Route One...

12. Tombs - Path of Totality

13. Trap Them - Darker Handcraft

Honourable mentions - When Saints Go Machine, I Declare War, The Horrors, Fit For An Autopsy, Basement.


Best Demos - Nibiru, Final Rage, Iron Mind Collective, Mutilation Rites, Real Talk, Ladder Devils

Splits - Masakari/Alpinist, Despise You/Agoraphobic Nosebleed

I'm not fully buying into this 'mixtape' thing that has arisen this year (it's an excuse for an artist to circumnavigate criticism - "Oh, it's not my debut album, it's only my mixtape!") - but I did, like everyone else seemingly, enjoy the A$SAP Rocky one and the first The Weeknd one. And bits of the Terius Nash one.

The brand new albums from Last Witness and Crocus are now up for preorder in our store. You can pick both up in low-price bundles with shirts and hoodies too! Both available on vinyl and cd....

Check out promo videos of new tracks from both bands below....

Last Witness - The Void (Official Video) from Last Witness on Vimeo.

Brontide return with a 2 song 12" vinyl - the brand new lilting, looped, epic, dancey monster that is 'Coloured Tongues', backed with the first ever proper recording of live set-favourite 'MFBT'.

All vinyl orders come with a digital download. Preorder your copy in our store now! Or as a low-priced bundle with a shirt!

Just 300 copies in total pressed, all on translucent vinyl.

THIS IS PREORDER WITH A MID/LATE FEBRUARY RELEASE DATE. DIGITAL AVAILABLE FEBRUARY 13TH.

The new split from Norwich heavy weights Jackals and your new favourite band- Sheffield's Grazes. Up for preorder now.

3 tracks from each available on translucent green /200 and translucent purple /300.
(Jackals side features a sick Minor Threat cover)

Some of the best hardcore punk the UK has to offer.

Thanks to Ed for the description.

PREORDER - RELEASE DATE JAN 16TH. INSTANT DOWNLOAD

Also up now (and shipping) are new Holy Roar sweaters and a new Slabdragger shirt!

We are seriously, massively, smashing-our-heads-against-walls levels of happy to announce that we are the only label in the world to be releasing the new WILL HAVEN album 'Voir Dire' on vinyl, with retooled artwork by Jamie McDonald/Bear Face. Stream the whole record on our website now. Basically if you like detuned, epic hardcore or metal with the sickest vocals then you need this record in your life. It's a fucking beast. And Chris Fehn of Slipknot is their bassist now!

This is available for preorder right now on our store with free instant download (no waiting!) in the following variations (500 pressed in total) -

100 on Transparent red with black haze vinyl

150 on Red/orange sunset vinyl

250 on Yellow glitter vinyl

Press on this record already - 5k live review, sold out Islington Academy show, 4/5 Big Cheese album review, 8/10 Rock Sound review, 4/5 Terrorizer review...the list goes on.

Having first seen Will Haven when i was 14 years old, supporting Deftones, I can honestly say this is an honour. Will Haven opened the door for me to so much hardcore and weirder types of metal. Without them I doubt i would be releasing some of the records I do on Holy Roar and nor would some of the bands you like sound the way they do without them! I urge you to check this out if you are unfamiliar! Props to Bieler Bros. for being so awesome to work with on this release.