Swedish death metal stalwarts Imperishable announced the release of their second album ‘Swallow the World’ via Hammerheart Records in April and unleashed the first single and video ‘Bells’!
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News Posts
Australia’s rising force Valhalore is right now touring with Hammerfall in their own country, and shared the music video and track ‘Horizon’, the first new track since their recent signing with ROAR!
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Finnish legends Wolfheart is looking back at an amazing 2024 with a live footage music video for the track ‘Burning Sky’, out via Reigning Phoenix Music!
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Finnish melodic death metallers Admire the Grim are set to release their debut album ‘Resist’ via Inverse Records at the end of this month and shared the 3rd single ‘No Limits’ in anticipation of the full album being out!
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Dutch melodic death metal act Nephylim released first single and video ‘Inner Paradigm’ from their upcoming album ‘Circuition’, set for release in March!
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Last week, Eluveitie released their brand-new song ‘Premonition’ with a captivating video via Nuclear Blast, a track in their signature style that is a taste from their upcoming album! Catch them on several tours through Europe starting from January 2025 on!
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Swedish melodeath supergroup The Halo Effect unleashed ‘Cruel Perception’, yet another single and video from the upcoming album ‘March Of The Unheard’, set for release early 2025 via Nuclear Blast!
Finnish melodic death metal band Dimman released their 3rd single and video ‘The Acrimony’ from the upcoming 2nd album ‘Consciousness’, set for release in February 2025 via Inverse Records!
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Finnish melodic death metal outfit Voidfallen have dropped their new single ‘Branding of Souls’, a heavy-hitting track from their upcoming new album ‘The Rituals of Resilience’, set for an early 2025 release via Noble Demon!
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Finnish melodic death metal band Defiled Serenity is set to release their debut album ‘Within the Slumber of the Mind’ in February 2025 via Inverse Records and shared a second single and video with ‘Exiled to Infinity’!
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Album Reviews
Wairua is the spirit of a person. Like when you die, it’s the spirit, or wairua, that leaves the body. To me, it feels like we are a spirit, and we get to go on a journey through this EP
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With “Worship” Hypocrisy managed to craft one of it’s best albums that combines the classic trademarks of these Swedish pioneers.
On ‘Torn Arteries’ Carcass takes us on a tour de force cycle of their musical evolution from old school death metal grindcore to technical melodeath.
“Deconsecrate” is a kind of album that will make you remember the good old days from the early nineties when there were abundant bands that played the aggressive style of melodic death metal.
Marianas Rest seeks to expand and critique melancholic melodic death metal on their sophomore album.
With just under 20 minutes of music on this EP, I’m sad it’s already over. This is just the first EP that Aeon of Awareness is releasing, so keep an eye out for their releases in the future.
3 songs which gives a sense of what has been and what could have been with Bodom After Midnight. A worthy addition to Alexi Laiho’s repertoire and career. May the Wildchild rest/shred in peace.
A beautiful short EP that numbs the pain of waiting for Wolfheart’s sixth full-length album.
The debut album of promising and up-and-coming Finnish melodeath outfit I Am Your God shows us what the future of Finnish metal could look like!
Finnish melodic death metal new comers Slow Fall deliver an impressive and diverse slab of melodeath on their debut full-length!
Photo Reports
“Descending into madness EU/UK Tour 2024” is Orbit Culture’s first European headliner tour ever and we caught them at their impressive stop in Antwerp, Belgium, with support from Defects!
Skálmold turned DVG Club in Kortrijk, Belgium into a punk rock party with viking metal, supported by Seven Spires & Atavistia!
Tuhdimmat Tahdit brought Brymir’s glorious fish-metal to Hönö Baari in Tampere, Finland to make our weekend good!
Avatar dropped by the legendary Helsinki venue Tavastia on their “The Great Metal Circus 2024” tour, bringing their visual spectacle and theatrics properly to Finland. With them they brought the US metallers of Æther Realm, really blowing up the night!
A selection of Rachel’s best captures of 2023, with pictures from bands like Mudvayne, Nonpoint, Drowning Pool, From Ashes To New, Shinedown, Fozzy, Butcher Babies, Sumy Cyco, Black Stone Cherry and Saliva!
A selection of Jonna’s best captures of 2023, with pictures from bands Butcher Babies, Electric Callboy, Ghost, Glenn Hughes, Gojira, In Flames, Lorna Shore, The Hu, Ville Valo, Chamber of Unlight, Asagraum, Monuments, Sodom, Batushka, Blind Guardian, and Apocalyptica!
A selection of Vaim’s best captures of 2023, after a long and grueling process of elimination, with pictures from bands like Battle Beast, Gaerea, Trollheim’s Grott, Avslut, Der Weg einer Freiheit, Amenra, Igorrr, Aesthetic Perfection, HIDE, SKYND, Ice Nine Kills, Utuk Xul, Rancid, Sick Of It All, Stratovarius, Testament, Michael Monroe, Volbeat, Hellacopters, Pensées Nocturnes, Amorphis, Biohazard, Killswitch Engage, Converge, Agnostic Front, Taake, Public Image Ltd, A.A. Williams, Butcher Babies, Clutch, Finntroll, Electric Callboy, Ghost, Gojira, Imperial Triumphant, Lorna shore, The Hu and Urne!
A selection of 30 photos that Helder likes a lot from one of his most productive year considering covering concerts, including captures of Fear Factory, Atreyu, Jinjer, Rolo Tomassi, Stone, The Kooks, Pixies, Wunderhorse, Yours Truly, You Me at Six, Lake Malice, Bloodywood, Epica, Avatar, The 69 Eyes, Nova Twins, Cam Cole, Sabaton, The Lumineers, Grailknights, All For Metal, The Baboon Show, Combichrist, Megaherz, The BossHoss, Cancer Bats, Kvelertak, Fixation, Ignea, and Butcher Babies.
Besides starting the new year properly looking to the future, this month we’re also still looking back at all the awesomeness that 2023 brought us. One of those awsome things was the already 3rd edition of the by Bloodred Hourglass curated festival Black Box Mikkeli. They were able to bring a killer line-up again on the 2nd day of their event with besides a fantastic show by themselves, Insomnium, Gaerea, Balance Breach, I Am Your God and Lastout!
Our Benelux and France head of accreditation and most active photographer in that region, Tom VM, made his own selection of favorite pictures he took in 2023, including some new stuff that wasn’t shared on our site before with Biohazard, Bleed From Within, Brutal Sphincter, Brutus, Electric Callboy, Michael Schenker Group, Sepultura, Arion, Blackrain, Overdrivers, Avatar, Winery Dogs, Charlotte Wessels, Devin Townsend, Dream Theater, Extreme, Ghost, Michael Angelo Batio, Arch Enemy, Doodseskader, Halestorm, I Prevail, Powerwolf and SKYND!
Interviews
A chat with Björn Gelotte about In Flames’ amazing year in 2022, their new album ‘Foregone’ and how everyone seem to link it to a different stage of their sound with the way they put the mixing and production together this time around. We also touch on his personal writing process and how incredible it is to him to be able to have their music transcend into other forms of art like the upcoming graphic novel!
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Watch the chat we had with vocalist Jarkko from the Finnish melodeath outfit Bloodred Hourglass about their upcoming new album ‘Your Highness’!
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!
Watch the interview with Lukas Kerk from the new German melodeath band Hiraes about their debut album ‘Solitary’, the dangers of pyrotechnics and their excitement for the future of the band.
A chat with the remaining members of Bodom After Midnight about their EP ‘Paint the Sky with Blood’, working with Alexi Laiho and the possible future.
A chat with the Finnish melodic metal outfit Evil Drive about their new album ‘Demons Within’ and working on new material!
Watch the chat we had with Mors Subita about their new album “Extinction Era” and what they did different this time around.
Watch the interview with the guys of myGRAIN in which we dive deeper into some of the tracks of their new album ‘V’ and how recording without a keyboardist was like.
We caught up with the guys of myGRAIN at SaariHelvetti to have a relaxed chat about their comeback and upcoming album “V”. Check it out!
‘Zoom’ into our online video interview with Avatar’s Johannes Eckerström where we look back at Avatar Country and glimpse into Hunter Gatherer
