The Nika Riots – Norwegian Metallic Hardcore Unit Share New Video For “Like Swans” Via NoEcho Olso-based metallic hardcore five-piece group The Nika Riots have recently shared a lyric video for a brand new song off their first full-length album “Derelict”, which is set for release on April 29th via Mas-Kina Recordings. Titled “Like Swans”, this new…
RELEASE YEAR: 2022BAND URL: https://lordsofform.bandcamp.com/album/flying-chromium-society What we have here is an incredibly diverse and musically eclectic space rock opus that conjures up a uniquely surreal atmosphere. Masterminded by the talented Niall Hone (ex-Hawkwind) and backed by a stellar cast of musicians, the song arrangements are never anything but inspired, and just the sheer quality of…
photo credit: Anders Plassgard Gothenburg’s Finest Export of Darkness EVERGREY Announce New Album, A Heartless Portrait (The Orphean Testament), out May 20, 2022 via Napalm Records Pre-Order Starts NOW Soaring First Single “Save Us” + Official Music Video Out Now. Watch below A new era of EVERGREY: A Heartless Portrait (The Orphean Testament) is…
Photo: Jørn Veberg Nordjevel Unleash A Force Of Darkness With Their New Single “Within the Eyes” – And Announces Album In 2022. Listen to the single here: https://orcd.co/withintheeyes Through distinctive vocals set to brutal instrumentals, Nordjevel leads the listeners into an empire of infernal rage filled with an obscure, barbaric darkness. Within the eyes is the…
Following the triumphant success of their debut album ‘Fear the Destroyer’ in 2021, Norwegian Black Metal band Black/Cell continue to channel their powerful sound that pays homage to Norse mythology. Not one for the faint-hearted, their latest single ‘Bloodless Gods’ features their signature raucous riffs, guttural vocals, and explosive instrumentation, making for a listening experience…
RELEASE YEAR: 2022 BAND URL: https://laughingstock1.bandcamp.com/album/zero-acts-3-4-2 The Norwegian prog rock/art rock outfit Laughing Stock is an interesting one and these skilled musicians have released some deeply atmospheric and intriguing records in the past, so naturally, I was looking forward to this one, which is a continuation of the “Zero, Acts 1 & 2” LP from last…
Legendary NWOBHM band TYGERS OF PAN TANG release today the official video for the title track of their new EP, “A New Heartbeat”. The video, directed by the band’s drummer Craig Ellis, was made in Covid-19 pandemics time, with a working method and a concept reflecting exactly that. “By the time the World had persevered…
MESHUGGAH Drop first single ‘The Abysmal Eye’ from their forthcoming new full-length “Immutable”, set for release on April 1st, 2022, via Atomic Fire Album pre-order starts now HERE! Mavericks. Pioneers. Unique. Immutable. ‘The Abysmal Eye’ is the first taster single of Swedish extreme tech-metal pioneers Meshuggah! The song is taken from their upcoming ninth studio manifest, “Immutable”, released worldwide…
On the heels of their critically acclaimed debut album, “Remains to be Seen” (released via Wormholedeath Records), PERFECT NME are back with their latest offering – the brand new single “The Perfect Enemy”.True to form, the bands latest effort delivers a solid punch of metal incorporating strong musicianship and riffs interspersed with melodic elements and…
Due to the ongoing pandemic, HELLOWEEN and HAMMERFALL are unfortunately forced to postpone again parts of the UNITED FORCES Tour 2022. Even though the situation seems to be partly easing, after consulting all European promoters they came to the conclusion that the still existing restrictions of individual countries and regions make it impossible to play…
Photographer – Willem van den Heever Lucy Kruger & The Lost Boys release ‘Amsterdam’ the 2nd single from upcoming LP Teen Tapes (for performing your own stunts) Amsterdam is the second single from Lucy Kruger & The Lost Boys upcoming album Teen Tapes (for performing your own stunts) and tells the story of an evening…
RELEASE YEAR: 2021 BAND URL: https://professortiptop.bandcamp.com/album/lanes-of-time The amazing Norwegian prog rockers Professor Tip Top are one of the greatest outfits this country has ever produced, and their latest album entitled “Lanes of Time”, which was released in late 2021, most definitely deserves a brief mention on these hallowed pages of ours. Eclectic and atmospheric prog rock…
UROSupport: LIMBOLANDGood Omens25. februar 2022C.C. NOK 170 https://www.facebook.com/events/996123787654050 Fredag 25. februar blir det konsert med URO på Good Omens. LIMBOLAND stiller som support. URO:Trondheimsbandet Uro kombinerer tradisjonell trøkk med moderne melodier, og er nå tilbake for fullt! Debutkonserten deres i 2020 ble møtt med gode omtaler, men over de to siste årene har det meste…
Post-rock/shoegaze duo First Draft roll out a sensitive and conscious sonic identity driven by a bassist and a drummer-vocalist. The project is about the paralysis you can feel facing environmental issues and social concerns of the modern world. They translate this feeling into cathartic soundscapes and deep-rooted, powerful vocals, that craft an artistic universe paradoxically…
RELEASE YEAR: 2022 BAND URL: https://amorphis.net/ The two previous Amorphis albums: “Queen Of Time”²⁰¹⁸ and “Under The Red Cloud”²⁰¹⁵ were both very good to match the craft of the past from “Skyforger”²⁰⁰⁹, “Silent Waters”²⁰⁰⁷, “Tuonela”¹⁹⁹⁹, “Elegy”¹⁹⁹⁶, and, by many regarded as their magnum opus, “Tales From The Thousand Lakes”¹⁹⁹⁴ (to name but a few positions…
Photographer – Jacqui Van Staaden South Africa’s premier punk rockers FUZIGISH drop their powerful new single Believer today. Celebrating their 25th Anniversary as a band the track is taken from their upcoming self-titled, 6th studio album which releases on Mongrel Records on 29th April 2022. A heavy guitar groove & an equally fat horn line,…
Swedish melodic death metal act DIE WITH FEAR release their first single “To The Wolves”, accompanied by a lyric video. They have also just announced the completion of the bands debut album. The band has finally found their sound and style that they have worked on for over 10 years under the name Dienamic. The album…
RELEASE YEAR: 2022BAND URL: https://www.facebook.com/laluprog/ An incredibly diverse and intriguing mixture of prog rock and prog metal that somehow manages to pay homage to some of the legendary outfits from the 70s and simultaneously sound current and have a modern sheen to their eclectic style is what we have here, and “Paint the Sky” by…
RELEASE YEAR: 2021 BAND URL: http://www.skepticism.fi/ Although Skepticism is somewhat of an ancient funeral doom metal authority, one of the pioneers of the genre, I, for one, found the seemingly universally regarded as a masterpiece debut “Stormcrowfleet”¹⁹⁹⁵ (very reminiscent of the first two My Dying Bride albums) a boring literally sleep-inducing experience and the latter…
RELEASE YEAR: 2022BAND URL: https://www.facebook.com/weserberglandband/ The experimental Norwegian outfit Weserbergland released their third album today (February 11), and as with their previous offerings, this new LP falls somewhere between art rock, avantgarde music, and 70s experimental prog rock, which is to say that this is something different and totally out of the ordinary. Consisting of…
