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On the 3rd of December 2018, six years to the day after the apocalypse, Svartidauði will unleash their long awaited sophomore full length “Revelations of the Red Sword” upon the ashes of civilization. In the meantime, the band has released another single, this time “Wolves Of A Red Sun”. You can listen to it below. [...]

Archspire are now premiering a play-through video for the song “Involuntary Doppelgänger”. The track has been taken from the full-length, ‘Relentless Mutation’, which was released via Season of Mist on March 23rd, 2018. Archspire comment: “We wanted to film a new guitar play-through, now that we’ve had some time at home to ourselves between tours, [...]

Rammstein announced that they will tour across Europe on the summer of 2019! The German titans have been teasing something all week. Many people reported seeing their logo beamed on to buildings all over Europe. Now it’s been finally revealed exactly what they were teasing about. May 27, 2019 DE Gelsenkirchen Veltins-Arena May 28, 2019 [...]

Slipknot has released the official music video for a new song called “All Out Life”. The track, which was premiered earlier today on “Zane Lowe’s World Record” on Beats 1 on Apple Music, will appear on the band’s upcoming follow-up to 2014’s “.5: The Gray Chapter” album, due next year via Roadrunner. The clip, which [...]

Distorted Harmony, one of Israel’s leading Progressive Metal bands has released a new live video showcasing the song “Room 11”. You can watch it below. Formed in 2010 by Composer/Producer/Keyboardist Yoav Efron and Drummer Yogev Gabay, Distorted Harmony is a modern take on classic progressive metal. The band released 3 studio albums, “Utopia” (2012), “Chain Reaction” (2014), and “A [...]

A few months ago, Helsinki-based heavy metal quartet Oceanhoarse announced a sudden and unfortunate line-up change. Singer Tommy Tuovinen had to step down from his frontman duties due to a severe case of hearing loss. After getting over the initial shock, Oceanhoarse – launched at the beginning of the year, playing shows praised by fans [...]

Dark Essence Records have inked a deal with the Norwegian doom/psych trio Superlynx and are set to release what will be the band’s sophomore full-length album in the early part of 2019. If you were to ask Superlynx about musical influences their answer would be something pretty much along the lines of “the sum of [...]

Last September 22nd symphonic metal pioneers Haggard visited Hellraiser in Leipzig, supported by Sound Storm and Unshine. Punctually at 20:00, Finnish Unshine were the first band to take the stage. They are promoting the new album “Astrala” released early this year via Rockshots Records, so almost the entire setlist was based on this last release. [...]

SWR Barroselas Metalfest, one of the oldest, most respected and contested festivals dedicated to extreme sonorities in the old continent, will return to Vila de Barroselas, Viana do Castelo, on April 26, 27 and 28, 2019. The first round of confirmations for the 22nd edition of the event includes fifteen proposals of undeniable quality. Fifteen [...]

One of the most influential bands in the progressive metal scene is without a doubt, Canadian Voivod. During their 35th Anniversary tour they finally made it to the city of Porto for an unforgettable gig. Supporting Voivod came Nightrage, a melodic death metal group originally from Greece, but is now located in Sweden. With a [...]

It was another cold wet night in London, just perfect to get cosy and surrounded by the warmth of strangers at a concert. The Pineapple Thief provided just the opportunity by having the final date of their 2018 tour at the O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire, in what the band had previously described as their biggest [...]

Bad Moon Born unleash official music video for “Witch Trials”. Following the release of “Alive?”, the band’s first single taken from their sophomore, self-titled EP, Bad Moon Born are launching a music video in support of their second single “Witch Trials”. The track has already been added to Spotify’s New Noise (292k followers) and Riffs [...]

French dark-rock/post-punk act Varsovie have released a brand new music video of the song “Killing Anna”. “Killing Anna” is taken from the band’s third album entitled “Coups Et Blessures”, recorded at Drudenhaus Studio, Bretagne and released in May 2018 via Sundust Records. You can watch it below. The video was done in the spirit of [...]

The landscape of black metal is morphing into something else entirely. As it happens with all artistic movements and their respective subdivisions, experimentation as a statement of healthy aversion to the status quo has proved itself to be inevitable in inducing the magic of conceptual and artistic evolution. Both Batushka and Gaerea are fine examples [...]