GUNS N’ ROSES /PUBLIC ENEMY DAHLS ARENA TRONDHEIM 2/7 – 2025 Billetter: https://www.ticketmaster.no/event/1872689845 Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/965151355434131?locale=nb_NO Guns N’ Roses legger ut på en massiv turné i 2025, og 2. juli 2025 besøker de Trondheim for første gang! Med seg til Dahls Arena denne sommerkvelden har de den amerikanske hiphopgruppa Public Enemy. Guns N’ Roses er et…
EKSKLUSIVT EARLYBIRD-TILBUD TIL TONS OF ROCK 2026 Tons of Rock har nettopp avsluttet en fantastisk festival. I 2025 og 2024 var det 150 000 besøkende og billetter ble utsolgt rekordtidlig. Allerede nå kan du sikre deg 4-dagers festivalpass til 2026 festivalen! Tons of Rock feirer årets suksess med å tilby de første Earlybird- billettene til…
RELEASE YEAR: 2025BAND URL: https://apollonrecords.no/products/lorentzen-leave-nobody-behind-cd Apollon Records were kind enough to hand me a copy of Leave Nobody Behind, which was composed and crafted by the talented Eivind Lorentzen (ex-Gentle Knife, Oldenborre, and Synsbedragerne), and the idea behind the album and lyrics seemed a rather interesting and intriguing one on paper. Floating somewhere between atmospheric prog,…
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Up from the ashes comes a most unwelcome specter of the past, namely a 10-track compilation containing re-mixed and re-mastered songs dating from 2008-2010 by the now-defunct ambient/post-rock entity known as Sagntid, which was released on June 26. Consisting of the entire debut album titled The Slipstream World of Sagntid and three additional compositions lifted from…
Photo credit: Tobias Sutter It’s official. A new Karnivool chapter begins. “Drone” is the first new piece of music from the band in four years and it’s out now. LISTEN/STREAM “DRONE” HERE As with everything Karnivool does, “Drone” is very much worth the wait. Lifted from the larger body of work that can finally be seen on…
HIGH-FLYING BRIT GROOVE METALLERS FALL OF SATURN UNLEASH NEW SINGLE From the heart of London, FALL OF SATURN deliver colossal riffs, commanding vocals, and razor-sharp dynamics. Now, the UK heavyweights are back with their most immersive track yet. Their new single and video, Pray or Prey. Watch the video, here and listen to the band…
Photo Credit: Vidar Jensen New album LEAVE NOBODY BEHIND by LORENTZEN was released on APOLLON RECORDS on May 30th – An Evocative Fusion of Minimalist Prog and Classical Elegance interspersed with Rainer Maria Rilke’s poetry. Drawing inspiration from visionaries such as Arvo Pärt, Pēteris Vasks, Steve Reich, Fripp/ King Crimson, Nils Frahm and Nik Bärtsch, Leave Nobody Behind…
Det svenske bandet Avatar er ute med nye låten «Captain Goat» – åpner for både Iron Maiden og Metallica Avatar (Johannes Eckerström, vokal – Jonas Jarlsby, gitar, Tim Öhrström, gitar, Henrik Sandelin, bass, John Alfredsson, trommer) fortsetter reisen mot å bli et av sveriges mest internasjonalt suksessrike metalband. Den nye singelen og tilhørende video på…
RELEASE YEAR: 2024 BAND URL: https://sepulchralcurse.bandcamp.com/ After my glowing review of Sepulchral Curse’s debut, Only Ashes Remain²⁰²⁰, I anticipated even greater things to come from these Finnish blackened death metallers on their follow up and, sure enough, Abhorrent Dimensions²⁰²³, released on CD on October 27th 2 years ago however, hear me out, on limited edition…
RELEASE YEAR: 2025BAND URL: https://www.francisrossi.com/ Francis Rossi of Status Quo fame recently released this seventeen-track compilation of various demo versions and alternate takes – many of which relate to his work with and songwriting contribution to the aforementioned Quo – and it is a rather intriguing album in many respects. Some of the ideas presented on…
RELEASE YEAR: 2024BAND URL: https://wingless.bandcamp.com/ While Nonconform²⁰²¹ (via Selfmadegod Records) was a very good album from this Polish death metal ensemble, my review was hopeful of the follow up to take more risks in order to distinguish Wingless from Behemoths, Azaraths and Vaders of my native land on one hand, and from the way Malevent…
RELEASE YEAR: 2024 BAND URL: https://www.suidakra.com/ Appearances can be deceiving and many a war has been founded on such deception. Take the name for the band: Suidakra, even typecast weirdly as SuidAkrA. Is that like a fancy name for suicide, such as harakiri (male) or seppuku (female) shame/honor self-killing? Or is it a name of…
Dev Gohil has interviewed Harald from the Norwegian brutal thrash metallers Imabalance – and who makes this site possible – for his Black Metal Legends series on YouTube. While the focus of the interview was the early days of Stigma Diabolicum and Thorns, they also got to talk a bit about Imbalance, how things are,…
ORCHID SYMMETRY – FEROCIOUS TRIO ARE READY FOR LAUNCH WITH THEIR EXPLOSIVE NEW EP & SINGLE! Live-wired alternative trio, ORCHID SYMMETRY, are poised to step up with their evocative new self-titled EP, which lands everywhere on Friday 5th September. The band have now revealed their mesmerising new video and single, Like The Sun, out now.…
Foto: Anine Desire Red Steel slipper sin mest eksplosive singel til nå: “Don’t Wanna Be Rite Here” En dansbar rockelåt med disco-beats, catchy synthgitarer og et brutalt metal breakdown – “Don’t Wanna Be Rite Here”. Med utgivelsen fra idag, 20. juni leverer Red Steel sin mest kompromissløse og nyskapende singel hittil. Låten kombinerer danse-energi og…
Southern Discomfort metal festival, Caledonien Hall – Kristiansand. 10 og 11 oktober 2025 Ytterlige tre band er klare for relanseringen av festivalen i oktober! – og det blir både grindcore, doom og nekrometal! For den uinnvidde er altså BEATEN TO DEATH et to ganger spellemannspris-nominert Oslobasert grindcoreband! Deres sjuende album ventes i løpet av vinteren og kanskje får…
Credit: Lina Glasir JINJER – Ukraine’s Genre-Breaking Titans – Add More Dates to 2026 ‘European Duél’ Tour! For the first time in over six years, JINJER are returning to headline stages across Europe in early 2026. Armed with their most dynamic album to date, Duél, and following years of successful tours and global festival domination, this longawaited…
Two years after the release of their debut album “Legend Of The Bleeding Heart”, Golem Dance Cult are back with 13 new songs in which heavy guitar riffs flirt with groovy bass and dark glam vocals. This time the Franco-Australian got some guitar help from Dick Dens (The Irradiates) on “Caveat Emptor” and “God Is…
HEAVY PSYCH DESERT ROCK FROM LONDON, UK “Where fire meets folklore and sorrow turns to sound.” Sleeping Mountain is a London-based trio blending stoner rock, heavy psych, doom and desert grooves into emotionally charged, trance-inducing songs. Their debut album channels folklore, mysticism, and inner struggles into a ritualistic experience that resonates with listeners on a…
