News Posts

The wait is almost over: Swedish extreme metal titans Arch Enemy will be unleashing their 12th studio album ‘Blood Dynasty’ next month via Century Media Records! But for those who can’t wait, last week they shared the ultimate single and video ‘Paper Tiger’!

Metalcore icons Caliban announced their new album ‘Back From Hell’ set for release in April via Century Media Records and shared a video for the title track featuring Jonny McBee from The Browning! Catch them on their headlining tour this spring with In Hearts Wake, Cabal and Assemble The Chariots or this summer at festivals like Alcatraz!

Electric Callboy is taking you “up and down”… their new single ‘Elevator Operator’ is out right now via Century Media Records! Catch them live on their many shows at summer festivals like Hellfest, Tuska or Lokerse Feesten, and of course their world tour starting at the end of this year!

Estonian metal band on the rise Pridian releases their third single on Century Media Records with ‘Out For Blood’, teasing their upcoming album that is set for a spring release this year!

Avantgarde metal trio Imperial Triumphant are releasing their new album ‘Goldstar’ in March via Century Media Records and shared the video single ‘Lexington Delirium’ featuring Tomas Haake!

Italian metal legends Lacuna Coil are going on full force with the release of their latest single ‘Gravity’ last week, the 5th single from their upcoming album ‘Sleepless Empire’, out next month via Century Media Records!

Dutch futuristic metallers Cryptosis announced their return with a mighty sophomore album entitled ‘Celestial Death’, set for release in March via Century Media Records and launched the new single/video ‘Reign Of Infinite’!

Country metallers Spiritworld announced their 3rd album ‘Heldorado’ to be out in March via Century Media Records and shared the new single and video ‘Abilene Grime’!

Love Is Noise blast into 2025, bringing the ‘Sunshine’ with their latest single and video, another track coming from the debut album set for release via Century Media Records in February!

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!

Album Reviews

Distant’s latest release ‘Tsukuyomi: The Origin’ is the brutal answer to all who say deathcore has gone soft, where they completely redid the songs from an old EP, brought in some new songs and a bunch of great guests! Released in November 2024 via Century Media Records!

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!