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Overstreet Knox Announce Debut Album and Share Melt My Skin Video

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4 days ago

November 12, 2026

Overstreet Knox press photo by Max Boeger

Overstreet Knox. Photo by Max Boeger.

Dallas rock band Overstreet Knox have announced their debut album, and the new Melt My Skin video shows the head banging side of a record the four piece say they bled for.

Dallas-based rock band Overstreet Knox announced today their debut album, Is It Good For The Company?, due for release on January 29, 2027. Accompanying the announcement is the music video for their second single, “Melt My Skin.”

“Melt My Skin” blends dynamic riffs and passionate vocals, capturing the urge to escape aching, overwhelming feelings of jealousy. The band shares, “Melt My Skin is a showcase of the head-banging side of the album.”

About the upcoming album, they added, “We bled for this, and the album is our entire effort put into words and instruments. The way the four of us came together is something really special.”

“Melt My Skin” is the second single from the group, following their guitar-driven, infectious debut single, “Breathe,” which channels universally familiar pangs of loss and longing into surging, soaring tides of timeless heartache with a welcome twist of accountability. Glide Magazine praised “Breathe” for proving “that a four-piece band can sound bigger than the sum of its parts,” while The SpitJam Collective declared it “sure to be a hit.”

Overstreet Knox is Griffin Vail (Vocals), Jack Lambeth (Drums), Jack Poncy (Guitar), and Luke Hill (Bass).

Impressed by their home demos, quadruple Grammy-winning producer Tre Nagella (Ed Sheeran, Lady Gaga) took a chance on Overstreet Knox and took them under his wing at his Luminous Sound studio in Dallas. “It was our first time ever in a recording studio!” said Griffin. “Tre’s expertise and vision was invaluable, and he was like a guiding parent throughout.”

Traversing Soundgarden and Led Zeppelin-esque riffs, the upstart strut of Stone Temple Pilots, and Griffin’s emotive, multigenre vocals, Is it Good for The Company? seamlessly straddles moods, tempos, and timbres, its binding throughline being the sheer sincerity behind every beat, note, and word. The album is fist-pumping, danceable, and poignantly introspective, sometimes all at once.

“We’re sitting in these corporate jobs and feeling a bit meaningless in the grand scheme of things,” said Griffin. “And we want to pursue this music thing. So, the title Is it Good For The Company? is an ironic play – that’s the golden question you get asked all the time.”

Is It Good For The Company? Tracklist: Melt My Skin, Breathe, Jukebox Jenny, Rainstorm, Eye of the Storm, Societal Improvements, The Serpent, Computer, Crawl!, Foreign Feeling, What is This End, Chapel on the Hill Part 1, Chapel on the Hill Part 2, Prague Rock

About Overstreet Knox: Just two years since forming, Dallas rock band Overstreet Knox has recorded an accomplished, ultra-authentic album with a Grammy-winning producer, sold out headline shows, and even broken a venue’s attendance record. In an era of AI, AutoTune, and algorithms, they’re a bastion of visceral, 100% human rock ‘n roll: writing songs collectively in the home they share, channeling hugely resonant 20-something experiences, and giving absolutely everything on stage.

EMPATH, Built From Volbeat, Rising And Anti-Ritual Members, Drop Their Self-Titled Debut Album

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16 hours ago

November 14, 2026

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EMPATH's four members in a black and white portrait against a dark background

Copenhagen has a new heavy rock band with serious pedigree. EMPATH, formed by members of Volbeat, Rising and Anti-Ritual, have released their self-titled debut album today, November 13th, on Indisciplinarian — a dark and dreamy take on heavy rock built on atmosphere, melody and crushing dynamics.

EMPATH is the sound of a new, dark and dreamy heavy rock band from Copenhagen, Denmark — one that revolves around atmosphere, presence and empathy. The constellation may be new, but the four members carry solid experience from bands such as Volbeat, Rising and Anti-Ritual.

In a digital and efficiency-driven age, where humanity is increasingly giving way to mechanical coldness, EMPATH — as the name suggests — is about presence, empathy and humanity. This ethos runs like a common thread through the band’s self-titled debut album, released today, November 13th, 2026, on LP, CD, cassette and digital formats via Indisciplinarian.

Across nine songs, EMPATH blends elements of progressive metal, doom, sludge and post-rock into a sound that is as dreamy and melodic as it is heavy and riff-driven. The music was recorded live with producer Lasse Ballade (Halshug, Slægt, Eyes) at Ballade Studios in Copenhagen, with vocals tracked at Grapehouse Studios by Morten Grønnegaard. Ballade also handled mix and mastering, while the artwork was created by illustrator Jon Gotlev (Nohr).

The album was first introduced by the single “Waves,” followed by “Vessel,” both pointing toward the band’s balance of melodic clarity and dense, riff-driven weight. EMPATH plays its debut show on December 11th at Hotel Cecil in Copenhagen.

EMPATH Track Listing

1. In Absence
2. Waves
3. Vessel
4. In Formation
5. In Bloom
6. In Thought
7. In Dissent
8. In Memory
9. In Return

Before forming EMPATH, guitarist/vocalist Morten Grønnegaard played with Volbeat on the albums Outlaw Gentlemen & Shady Ladies and Seal the Deal & Let’s Boogie. Bassist Christian Qvortrup played in the epic doom metal band Rising, while drummer Jakob Krogholt toured and recorded with Anti-Ritual.