Spiritworld returns with metallic hardcore, Lovecraftian horror and Wild West lore with a first new single in years ‘Western Stars & The Apocalypse’, out via Century Media and including an animated video fitting the act’s well-established universe!
They only recently wrapped up their massive European co-headlining tour with In Flames, now Arch Enemy have announced to be back in Fall of 2025 for their “Blood Dynasty” headline tour with special guests Amorphis and Eluveitie, and openers Gatecreeper! Tickets are available right now!
Avantgarde metal trio Imperial Triumphant released the new single/video ‘Hotel Sphinx’, a track from their upcoming 6th full-length ‘Goldstar’, set for release in 2025 via Century Media Records!
Rising Estonian metalcore quartet Pridian released their second single ‘idoldust, another track from their upcoming full-length album set to be released in 2025 via their new home Century Media Records!
Swedish metal legends Arch Enemy unveiled their latest single ‘Liars & Thieves’, another track from their upcoming album ‘Blood Dynasty’, set for release in 2025 via Century Media Records. Catch them on their current “Rising from the North” Europe tour with In Flames and Soilwork!
Swedish blackened thrash metal force Sarcator unleashed their latest single ‘Swarming Angels & Flies’, the title track of their upcoming album, set for release early 2025 via Century Media Records!
Finnish masters of melancholy Swallow The Sun unveiled yet another single of their upcoming album ‘Shining’ last week with ‘MelancHoly’! Mark October 18th in your calendar for the official release of the album via Century Media Records!
Deathcore ensemble Distant unleashed the single & video ‘Fleshweaver’ a brand-new track from their upcoming “Tsukuyomi: The Origin” release, an expanded and revitalized version of their debut EP, set for release in November via Century Media Records! Before they embark on their North-American tour with Fit For An Autopsy, Bodysnatcher, Sylosis and Judiciary, make sure you catch hem live this weekend still at the handful of shows they play like this Friday as headliner of Helsinki Techfest!
Love Is Noise announced debut album ‘To live in a different way’ to be released in February 2025 via Century Media and shared another track with ‘take.one.minute’!
Swedish goth metal maestros Tribulation revealed more info about the upcoming album ‘Sub Rosa in Æternum’, set for release in November via Century Media Records, and unveiled the third single ‘Hungry Waters’!
Tribulation’s sixth studio album “Sub Rosa in Æternum” is memorably catchy and equally haunting and perfectly fits in the gothic metal canon. Out via Century Media Records since November 1st, and comes recommended to fans of Moonspell and Type O Negative, or even more gothic rock/electro affiliated acts like Sisters of Mercy or Depeche Mode!
Swallow The Sun’s ninth studio album “Shining” mixes all the elements and ingredients of their recent works together, displaying the shifting tides of heaviness and a melodramatic style of gothic doom into again a milestone of excellence for the Finns, out tomorrow via Century Media Records.
Denver based death metal quartet Blood Incantation takes a porgy direction on its third studio album “Absolute Elsewhere” to convey a rewarding listening experience that can easily be nominated for the best death metal album of the year.
The third full length album “Never, Neverland” from Portland, Oregon based gothic metal Unto Others packs sixteen powerful tracks, showing that they’re back at full force and ready to take on the world, out today via Century Media Records!
In a year full of prominent black metal releases ‘Reaperdawn’ is one of the contenders for the best of 2024, this is yet another triumphant return from guitarist Sebastian Ramstedt who gives us a sense of his creative genius. Out on Century Media Records.
Pioneers of melodic death metal Dark Tranquillity returned with the long-awaited album ‘Endtime Signals’ offer excellent musical performance and creativity. Out via Century Media Records since last week Friday August 16th!
With their second album ‘Hollywood Suicide’, GHØSTKID brings metalcore with melodic parts and a modern, experimental twist. Get ready for a lot of scream vocals and low tuned, heavy guitars! Out on Century Media Records, catch them play their new music live all over Europe festivals like today at Tuska in Helsinki, Finland!
The fifth installment “Unextinct” from the Italian technical brutal death metal outfit Hideous Divinity delivers plenty of powerful brutality and atmosphere. Hideous Divinity managed to imbue the songs with themes extracted from cinematic art, out via Century Media Records, and comes highly recommended for fans of Vader, Fleshgod Apocalypse, and Hour of Penance.
Sweden’s Necrophobic returns with a staggering new album, “In Twilight Grey”. The songs here sound heavier, rawer, and more sinister, making them deliver one of their best studio albums of their career. Out via Century Media Records since last Friday!
Skeletal Remains fifth album “Fragments of The Ageless” proves the Californian quartet has turned itself into a proverbial institution for old school death metal. Out via Century Media Records tomorrow, March 8th.
While being at Helsinki Techfest for their very first show outside Estonia, we met up with the metal band Pridian to talk about an excellent 2024 with some bucketlist shows, but also the major news that they are signed to the Century Media Records roster for their upcoming album!
Earlier this year, we talked with vocalist Lina from Predatory Void about how things came together both as a band and for the debut album, and what she hoped to accomplish with the album.
A chat with Jukka from Omnium Gatherum about their recent US tour, how they got their new EP ‘Slasher’ together with the first track featuring their new guitarist and a cover of the famous 80s song ‘Maniac’, a hint at new music that is in the works and upcoming festival shows and European tour with Paradise Lost, Primordial and Harakiri For The Sky.
A talk with Niilo and Ville of Insomnium about their new album ‘Anno 1696’, how the short story it’s based on was specially written by Niilo for the album, how much they love putting together special editions and a kind of whole experience for their fans and how they got Johanna Kurkela and Sakis Tolis to join them on some tracks!
Read the conversation we had with vocalist/guitarist Levy from the Belgian black metal outfit Wiegedood about their latest album!
Watch the chat we had with Markus Vanhala about the new Insomnium EP ‘Argent Moon’, the upcoming new work of Omnium Gatherum and his new black metal project I Am The Night!
An old chat with Olly and Mike from Monuments we dug up from our archives because it was just too much fun to keep it from you!
We had some questions about the new Napalm Death record and singer Barnye Greenway indulged us.
A video interview with Vreth of Finntroll about their upcoming album “Vredesvävd”, the first one in 7 years!
‘Zoom’ into our online video interview with Avatar’s Johannes Eckerström where we look back at Avatar Country and glimpse into Hunter Gatherer
