ORBIT CULTURE – release audio-visual treat

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ORBIT CULTURE – release audio-visual treat

photo by Niklas Karlsson

After releasing three cinematic performance videos Sweden’s ORBIT CULTURE have another special audio-visual treat up their sleeves: an elaborate visualizer created by the 3D wizards at Crystal Spotlight for their new single, “Nerve”, that is taking you straight to another dark dimension:

The band comments: “With ‘Nerve,’ we’re leaning back towards the older ORBIT CULTURE sound, blending in cleaner choruses and a twist at the end. This track has been with us for years—we just didn’t know what to do with it, especially since the verses felt a bit uncharacteristic for us. But that’s exactly what we ended up loving about it. Visually, the song felt too ‘larger-than-life’ for a standard performance video. After years of bouncing ideas with Miles Skarin at Crystal Spotlight, we knew this was the perfect track to bring into a fully realized 3D world.”
 
“Nerve” is the fourth single taken from “Death Above Life”, that is scheduled for a release on October 3rd, 2025. ”The album represents change, a new beginning,” says guitarist, vocalist and songwriter Niklas Karlsson. “It brings up a lot of good and bad emotions but it’s a big change for the better. It feels like a rebirth.”

ORBIT CULTURE – Death Above Life
03.10.2025
Century Media / Sony Music

The track listing for “Death Above Life” reads as follows:
1. Inferna
2. Bloodhound
3. Inside The Waves
4. The Tales Of War
5. Hydra
6. Nerve
7. Death Above Life
8. The Storm
9. Neural Collapse
10. The Path I Walk
 
“Death Above Life” comes in various formats and is up for preorder with the first variant already sold out:
Ltd. CD Digipak
Gatefold black 2LP
Ltd. Gatefold greenish ReVinyl 2LP (600x) via cmdistro.de & selected Indie retailers, Orbit Culture & MerchCare
Ltd. Gatefold transp. red 2LP (500x) via Levykuappa Äx (FIN), HMV (UK) & in France
Ltd. Gatefold neon yellow-black marbled 2LP (500x) via EMP
Ltd. Gatefold Sparkle Starlight 2LP (500x) via Orbit Culture & MerchCare – SOLD OUT
Ltd. Gatefold transp. light blue-black marbled 2LP (500x) via Orbit Culture live on EU tour
Gatefold fruit punch 2LP (US version)
Ltd. Gatefold transp. coke bottle green 2LP (US version) (1000x) via all US Indie retailers
Ltd. Gatefold white 2LP (US version) (300x) via Revolver Magazine
Ltd. Gatefold metallic golden 2LP (US version) (500x) via centurymedia.store, Orbit Culture & Night Shift Merch
Ltd. Gatefold black-grey marble 2LP (US version) (500x) via Orbit Culture & Night Shift Merch
Standard CD Jewelcase (Japan)
Digital Album
Pre-order Death Above Life here: https://orbitcultureband.lnk.to/DeathAboveLife-Album

atch ORBIT CULTURE on their “Death Above Life”-tour withGaerea and Atlas in support:

21.10.25 (DE) Hamburg – Markthalle
22.10.25 (DE) Berlin – Columbia Theater
24.10.25 (PL) Warsaw – Proxima
25.10.25 (PL) Krakow – Kwadrat
26.10.25 (DE) Dresden – Parkhotel
27.10.25 (CZ) Prague – ROXY
28.10.25 (AT) Vienna – Simm City
29.10.25 (DE) Munich – Backstage Werk
31.10.25 (CH) Zürich – Komplex 457
01.11.25 (DE) Frankfurt – Batschkapp
02.11.25 (DE) Cologne – Carlswerk Victoria
04.11.25 (BE) Antwerp – Trix
05.11.25 (FR) Lille – Splendid
06.11.25 (FR) Paris – Bataclan
08.11.25 (UK) Manchester – Damnation Festival
10.11.25 (UK) Newcastle – NX
11.11.25 (UK) Glasgow – SWG3
12.11.25 (UK) Leeds – Stylus
14.11.25 (UK) Wolverhampton – KK Steel Mill
15.11.25 (UK) Bristol – Electric Bristol
16.11.25 (UK) London – Electric Ballroom
19.11.25 (NL) Eindhoven – Effenaar
21.11.25 (SE) Malmö – Slagthuset
22.11.25 (SE) Gothenburg – Film Studios
24.11.25 (FIN) Helsinki – House Of Culture
26.11.25 (SE) Stockholm – Fallan
27.11.25 (NO) Oslo – Rockefeller
28.11.25 (SE) Karlstad – Nöjesfabriken
29.11.25 (DK) Copenhagen – Pumpehuset
30.11.25 (DK) Copenhagen – Pumpehuset

The band is also playing Japan for the first time:
13.10.25 (J) Loud Park Japan

ORBIT CULTURE have already released the following songs and videos taken from “Death Above Life”:
“Hydra”: https://youtu.be/Kx3vRmXip5I
“Death Above Life”: https://youtu.be/4Z5KP0qRS3M
“The Tales of War”: https://youtu.be/Y5SpGQMoaUU

Hailing from the small town of Eksjö, Sweden (located between the revered metal cities of Gothenburg and Stockholm), the quartet (guitarist and vocalist Niklas Karlsson, guitarist Richard Hansson, bassist Fredrik Lennartsson and drummer Christopher Wallerstedt) have grown into a global force, melding together riffs that are equal parts thrash, death metal and industrial with arresting hooks and a layered atmosphere that invites comparison to Gojira, Metallica and Static-X while carving out something that is uniquely their own.
 
ORBIT CULTURE’s 2023 album, “Descent” and its subsequent EP release, “The Forgotten” topped many year-end lists in 2023 including Metal Hammer who described the album as: “a formidable entwining of modern metal’s most effective and exciting strands into an impressive milestone.” Exhaustive worldwide touring and a steady stream of crowd-pummeling festival slots across the globe have set the stage for something much larger.
 
ORBIT CULTURE is a band poised. They are the sound of metal in the most modern sense.
 
ORBIT CULTURE online:
https://deathabovelife.com/
https://www.orbitculture.com/

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