RELEASE YEAR: 2023 BAND URL: https://unearthofficial.com/ When the official Century Media Records release calls the Boston, Massachusetts quintet Unearth “nothing short of standard-bearers and keepers of the faith for American metalcore” it’s not just a suave public relations rhetoric. As metal was largely losing its raison d’etre at the dawn of the XX Century, Unearth…
Steve Harris og British Lion spiller konsert i Bergen kvelden før Iron Maiden inntar Koengen! Support: DarkTribe Billetter i salg nå: https://www.ticketmaster.no/event/712447 Noen velger å tråkke på bremsen når man har et utall verdensturneer og albumutgivelser bak seg. Andre gjør det stikk motsatte. Iron Maiden-bassist, Steve Harris, er en av de som…
Norwegian metallic hardcore four-piece group SPLIT//BITE will release their debut EP “404 ends” on June 9th via Loyal Blood Records. SPLIT // BITE is a fresh new four-piece group from Bergen, Norway, yet all members have a vast experience in other projects from the local hardcore and metal scene. The band’s debut EP “404 ends” shows a…
TRONDHEIM ROCKS ER TILBAKE! Med en knallsterk headliner ønsker vi publikum tilbake på E.C.Dahls Arena. Billetter: https://www.ticketmaster.no/artist/trondheim-rocks-billetter/991254 Event og mer info: https://www.trondheimstage.no/no/konserter+og+billetter/trondheim+rocks+2023+ Etter fire års stillhet skrur vi volumet til elleve! På plakaten11.juni: Motley Crue (US) Def Leppard (UK) Airbourne (AU) TNT (NO) Europe (SE) D-A-D (DK) The Dogs (NO) Nestor (SE) — Mötley Crüe…
RELEASE YEAR: 2023 BAND URL: https://enforced.bandcamp.com/ When I reviewed At The Walls²⁰¹⁹ (5/6), the debut album from the Virginian thrash crossover metallers I called it a mix of co-precipitated aluminium salts of naphthenic and palmitic San Francisco Bay Area thrash acids with crossover hardcore petrol of Cro-Mags, Biohazard and Hatebreed for the most volitile devastation…
RELEASE YEAR: 2023 BAND URL: https://strangehorizon.bandcamp.com/album/skur-14 The previous album titled Beyond the Strange Horizon by this fabulous Norwegian outfit impressed this scribe greatly, and their lively, exciting, and organic mixture of heavy metal, stoner rock, and doom metal worked like a wicked charm and had instant appeal to these ears. This upcoming LP of theirs, Skur…
29.05 Oslo – Revolver LUCIFERSÅS CHILD (GR) + NERVOCHAOS (BR )// REVOLVER Death Metal Mania CC: 250 kr + avgift Doors: 20:00 ID: 20 Tickets – https://revolveroslo.ticketco.events/no/nb/e/luciferss_child_gr__nervochaos_bra__revolver LUCIFER’S CHILD was formed in 2013 in Athens (Greece) by guitarist George Emmanuel (ex-Rotting Christ, ex-Chaostar, Necromantia) and bassist Stathis Ridis (ex-Nightfall). The duo quickly expanded into a…
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Introduce your band, and describe your latest release: Hey, I’m James Moore, vocalist and guitarist from Nightbird Casino. We’re a four-piece post-punk inspired alternative rock band currently based in southern Oregon. Our last release “Radio Anxiety” just dropped on 4/20. What’s the hardest part about being a band in this day and age? In short,…
The Trolls from the Danish dark forests are here to set ablaze your weekend TROLD release debut album “Der var engang…” today Beware the bunch of trolls from the dark north, as they are set loose today. Deep in the caves of the woods, they’ll party all night long to their own tunes of flutes,…
RELEASE YEAR: 2023 BAND URL: https://lepercolonydm.bandcamp.com/ The mighty death metal warrior Roger “Rogga” Johansson (bass, guitars) whose musical contributions to the genre run for four lines on Encyclopedia Metallum, is back with another slab of classic extremity, here infused with substantial amount of doom, thrash, groove and even traditional metal, joined by Marc Grewe (vocals)…
Well known for their wide appeal and their entertainingly theatrical, and hugely accessible stage antics, VULTURE INDUSTRIES recently celebrated their 20 years of existence with a special anniversary show in Bergen, Norway. Knowing that only a relative handful of their fans would be able to witness the show first-hand, the band made sure that their…
The short and concise Following, which is a 2-track single by the harbinger of melancholy known as Picture Ann, is out now and available via all the usual digital music stores. Sliding back and forth between the calm and the disquieting, the title track and ‘Guilt (Part III)’ explore how the gap that often exists…
RELEASE YEAR: 2023 BAND URL: https://dsadeath.bandcamp.com/ It’s a good feeling to be able to rest from a genre, in this case melodeath, and take in some good old classic death metal in the vein of the first two Paradise Lost albums, early Hypocrisy, Immolation and Death, with a few surprising twists courtesy of the Canadian…
RELEASE YEAR: 2023 BAND URL: https://necropanther.bandcamp.com/ Yet another melodic death metal release on my plate, the Coloradan quartet featuring Paul Anop (guitars, vocals), Joe Johnson (guitars), Marcus Corich (bass), Haakon Sjoegren (drums), is actually quite a genre hopper on their 4th (after the eponymous²⁰¹⁶, “Eyes Of Blue Light”²⁰¹⁸ and “The Doomed City”²⁰¹⁹ with a couple…
Photo: Jacob Holm-Lupo With SOLSTEIN’s self-titled debut full-length album due out on the 7th July, Is it Jazz? Records have today released a single that gives fans a taste of what they can expect from multi-instrumentalist Jacob Holm-Lupo’s new project. Titled “Hamada”, the track features SOLSTEIN’s core lineup of Stian Larsen (MARTE EBERSON, SMITH KOMMA…
VOIVOD launch first single/video off 40th Anniversary album “Morgöth Tales” with the song “Nuage Fractal (2023 Version)” Release pre-orders have started Two time JUNO Award winners for Metal/Hard Music Album of the year and Canadian sci-fi metal innovators, VOIVOD, are celebrating 40 eventful years of existence in 2023 and therefore have announced a special anniversary studio album…
Gåte Return To Their Full-Scale Soundscape And Presents The Epic Meeting Between Norway’s Two Most Iconic Female Metal And Rock Vocalists With The Double-Single “Svarteboka” After a successful venture into an acoustic soundscape with their critically acclaimed album Nord, Gåte now return to the full-blown folk-rock they are known for. The return to their full-scale…
RELEASE YEAR: 2023 BAND URL: https://www.facebook.com/MikeTrampOfficial/ Renowned Danish guitarist/vocalist Mike Tramp recently released this wicked 12-track offering via Frontiers Records, and as the title of the record signifies, this one is rather special in that it sees Tramp interpreting (or rather re-imagining, I suppose) the songs of glam metal outfit White Lion, i. e. his former…
Photo: David Pear Ten years ago The Dead Daisies burst onto the music scene with a mission to gather some of the finest musicians in the world and simply put, play some good old fashioned, no bullshit Rock’N’Roll!! After a decade of recording and touring the planet, there have been some incredible one-offs and special highlights…
