Swedish melodeath act Frantic Amber signed with Fireflash Records and announced a new single to be unleashed upon the world on April 21st!

Majesties’ debut album “Vast Reaches Unclaimed” conveys the perfect sound of the Gothenburg melodic death metal, a stepping stone for the U.S. trio that has found its niche and inspiration from bands like In Flames, Gates of Ishtar and The Moaning. This is a highly recommended album for fans of melodic death metal, released via 20 Buck Spin.

Melodeath act Rise To Fall announced their upcoming new album ‘The Fifth Dimension’ to be released in June via Noble Demon and shared a first single with ‘Intruder’, featuring no one less than Björn “Speed” Strid from Soilwork!

US melodic death/doom metal outfit Fires In The Distance shared their new single ‘Idiopathic Despair’, a track from their upcoming album ‘Air Not Meant For Us’, set for release at the end of next month via Prosthetic Records!

Insomnium came, saw and conquered at their ‘Anno 1696’ release shows at a sold out Tavastia, and so did The Abbey with their captivating doom music!

At the end of February, Insomnium released their new album ‘Anno 1696’ and celebrated in style with 2 completely sold out shows at the legendary Helsinki rock club Tavastia, with support from the new doom collective The Abbey!

Kamelot

Kamelot is on tour in Europe with their “Awaken the World” cycle, in the good company of Myrath, Eleine and League of Distortion! We caught up with them at their stop at Le Splendid in Lille, France.

A chat with Jaakko and Niko from Marianas Rest about their new album ‘Auer’, set for release via Napalm Records on March 24, and how they’ve tried some new things with their music without losing the band’s soul, by having the courage to follow where the songs were taking them, bringing in clean vocals and a guest vocalist for the first time.

Avatar

Avatar’s ‘Dance Devil Dance’ 2023 tour brought the circus back to Tilburg’s 013 Poppodium, supported by Veil of Maya and Kassogtha.

To celebrate the release of their new album ‘Triumphs’ via Prosthetic Records last Friday, Foretoken shared a visualizer for the track ‘His Riastrad’!