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  • MESAVERDE – slipper nytt single

    Lars Fremmerlid (bass), Jonas Lundekvam (vokal/keys), Henrik Schmidt (gitar) og Jørgen Apeness (trommer). Foto: Lars Fremmerlid Fra Casa Verde på Grefsen renner smeltevannet nedover Oslo og bringer med seg liv, håp og tonene fra MesaVerdes andre album! MesaVerdes nye single “Pickings for the Beast” er ute på alle strømmetjenester 12. mai 2023 på Apollon Records.…

  • UNEARTH – new album out

    UNEARTH new album “The Wretched; The Ruinous” out now! Releases official music video for “Dawn of the Militant” On album number eight, The Wretched; The Ruinous, UNEARTH not merely continues to amp-up their metal meets hardcore intensities, but they also exceed themselves with a record that incorporates elements of classic UNEARTH offerings dating back to 2004’s…

  • METAL MINE FESTIVAL – unveils lineup

    METAL MINE FESTIVAL closed line-up for 2023 edition! After a three-year break, Metal Mine Festival returns in a new version as an open air festival! During two days, 22 bands will perform! The festival will take place in Wałbrzych (Poland) on August 25-26, 2023 (event on Facebook). The organizers of the upcoming edition of Metal…

  • NEXORUM – new single and video

    Norway’s blackened death metallers NEXORUM unveil the official video for the new single “The Pestilential Wind”   New album “Tongue Of Thorns” out on May 19th 2023 via Non Serviam Records. Pre-orders available now! Today the blackened death metal machine based in Trondheim, Norway NEXORUM unveil the official video for their new single “The Pestilential Wind”. The…

  • VOYAGER – first track from upcoming album

    VOYAGER announce new album and release first track “Prince of Fire” Perth’s fearless, riff-laden, genre-bending band VOYAGER are back with their long-awaited eighth studio album ‘Fearless In Love’, scheduled for release on July 14th via Season Of Mist Pre-orders are now live HERE. In addition to the announcement of ‘Fearless in Love’, VOYAGER has released…

  • HERETOIR – new video

    Photo by Toni B. Gunner German post black metal outfit HERETOIR unveil the official video for ‘At Dusk’ German post black metal outfit HERETOIR unveil the new single ‘At Dusk’. Featuring Emily Highfield (SULDUSK) the song is taken from their upcoming mini-album “Wastelands” due on May 19th 2023 via AOP Records. “Today we are proud…

  • BOARGAZM – release frantic new album

    Intergalactic freedom fighters BOARGAZM release frantic new album Armagammon BOARGAZM is one of South Africa’s premiere hardcore metal acts, delivering hard, aggressive & groovy slices of top shelf metal theatrics. Today sees the release of Armagammon via Mongrel Records. Influenced by classic Nu & Modern Metal the new album plays strongly into Boargazm’s graphic comic…

  • DOOMTRIGGER – new EP out

    Stellenbosch based bruisers Doomtrigger release vicious new EP Dark Continuum Doomtrigger is a 4-piece metal phenomenon hailing from Stellenbosch, South Africa. Seemingly out of nowhere, the band came tearing out the gates with their debut offering, Enter the Cosmic, in April 2022. They did not waste any time to attack the live scene and played…

  • DEADLINE – release new album

    Wrighteous Mike (Drums), Judge Mental (Guitar), Jessy Switchblade (Vocals), Damian Dread (Bass) & The Skullprit (Guitar) ​ The pioneers of the ‘New Wave of South African Heavy Metal’ are back on Friday 5 May with their long-awaited 3rd album ‘Vitriol Inc’. Deadline openly bow down to the memory of 80’s Thrash Metal, Power Metal, Heavy Metal…

  • ATENA – slipper ny låt

    Foto: Anine Desire ATENA treffer blink med sin nye utgivelse “Poison Pure” – en metalcore-kraftpakke du ikke vil gå glipp av! Når du hører ATENAs nye singel blir du umiddelbart møtt av en herlig blanding av elektroniske, nostalgiske og lekne elementer. Det tar imidlertid ikke lang tid før signaturlyden til bandet slår deg i trynet…

  • ASMODEAN – nytt singleslipp

    Photo Credit: Stine Knudsen Idag,4. mai slipper Asmodean singelen “Sanguine”, en smakebit fra albumet “By a Thread” som kommer senere i år, via Rob Mules Records. Låta “Sanguine” er et progressivt beist som viser Asmodeans ambisiøse lydbilde. Med elementer fra band som Ghost og Mastodon viser “Sanguine” hvor Asmodean er på vei videre.

  • ENFORCED – new album out

    Photo Credit: Jacky Flav Enforced launches video for “War Remains”; releases new album worldwide! Enforced has released their third full-length, War Remains, via Century Media Records. For a preview of this record, the new video for the title track (directed by Dan Wagner) can be seen at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pkre9jDmHBM Vocalist Knox Colby states: “The song ‘War…

  • PICTURE ANN RELEASES “A CARELESS AND SOLITARY ROAD”

    The latest slice of lo-fi post-rock by the intriguing Picture Ann is out now. Entitled A Careless and Solitary Road and consisting of two darkly seductive and emotive compositions that came about thanks to a bout of insomnia in late March, these tracks revolve around the notion of actually being or simply feeling permanently alone.…

  • ORSAK:OSLO – new album out

    Swedish/Norwegian post-rock and dark psych collective ORSAK:OSLO have released their new album “In Irons” on Vinter Records. Stream it in full now! “A great post-rock band will clearly stand out as being something truly unique and Orsak:Oslo fit the bill.” – Everything Is Noise “Five instrumental pieces that embrace a musical landscape that vibrates the air…

  • SPOONMAN – new album out

    New album Silent Psalm out on Rob Mules Records 28th of April!  Silent Psalm is a well-directed and strong album where thoughts have gone to the random and unfair. Be it war, death, political decisions or the environment. Here you have songs that cries and songs that shouts. With a title track that goes to those…

  • BLACK METAL: and other horror stories

    Written by Argentinian author Nicolás Francis, the book tells how a group of British filmmakers travel to Norway to film a mockumentary about Black Metal and church burning. Thanks to a local contact, they arrive at some ancient ruins; a site where over a thousand years ago, Christians and pagans hid something far worse than…

  • COVEN – spiller i Oslo i juli

    lørdag 08. juli | 20:00 | 375,- | id: 20 BLÅ Oslo Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1844453575923819/ Billetter: https://www.ticketmaster.no/event/coven-billetter/716697 Grunnleggerne av okkult rocken kommer til Oslo!!Mildt sagt legendariske og mystiske COVEN med ypperste prestinnen Jinx Dawson i spissen kommer til BLÅ  08.juli. Som et av de første og største banda som blandet rock og okkultisme står Coven fjellstøtt i…

  • HELL OVER HAMMABURG 2024 – 1st headliner and bands announced

    HELL OVER HAMMABURG 1. & 2. March 2024, D – Hamburg – Markthalle   1st HEADLINER und more bands confirmed!   ETERNAL CHAMPION (USA) Our 1st headliner! After four years of absence, the American epic-metal-institution returns to Germany, will overwhelm you with riffs as sharp as swords and beats as brutal as hammer blows –…

  • MALABARI – set to release debut EP

    There is a storm brewing – Trondheim based MALABARI are releasing their debut EP – WELCOME TO MALABARI on April 28th Freshly established eclectic hard rockers have already made some waves after the release of debut single “Spellbound” on March 24th. The band has already marked themselves locally in Trondheim as the 2022 TM:Live champions!…

  • DEATHCOLLECTOR – stream new single

    Credit: Damian John DeathCollector – Featuring members of Bolt Thrower, Memoriam, Ashen Crown, and more – stream new single ‘Mental Hedonist’ New album Death’s Toll to be released 23rd June via Prosthetic Records British / Irish death metal group DeathCollector have released their vicious new single ‘Mental Hedonist’, from their forthcoming debut album, Death’s Toll, to…

  • JAG PANZER – new video and lyrics video

    Photo Credit: Randall Fishburn Jr. (https://www.randalljrphotography.com/) L-R: Mark Briody (guitars), John Tetley (bass), Harry Conklin (vocals), Ken Rodarte (guitars), Rikard Stjernquist (drums) JAG PANZER – launch second digital single from upcoming album »The Hallowed«; ‘Stronger Than You Know’ lyric video streaming on YouTube »The Hallowed« (out June 23rd, 2023 via Atomic Fire Records)— Pre-order now: https://jagpanzer.afr.link/thehallowedPR…

  • TRANSCENDING OBSCURITY FEST – first edition approaching

    The first international TRANSCENDING OBSCURITY FEST is coming! TRANSCENDING OBSCURITY Fest 2023 May 5-6, 2023 @ Czech republic, Prague – Futurum Music Club (https://futurum.musicbar.cz) FB event: https://fb.me/e/2kVdUf8hu Presale: https://smsticket.cz/vstupenky/32896-transcending-obscurity-fest-futurum-music-bar-praha In just three weeks, on 5 and 6 May 2023, the first international TRANSCENDING OBSCURITY Fest will take place in Prague’s Futurum club. This event, whose…

  • LA THEORIE DES CORDES – new album out

    April 21st sees the release of “4U 9525”, the third album by LA THEORIE DES CORDES.This entity had been dormant since 2015. It was during the process of creating “4U 9525”, that Mathieu TORRES and Stéphanie ARTAUD, saw as obvious that the 9 pieces that make up this set offered a rebirth to La théorie…

  • TYGERS OF PAN TANG: new single and video

    Photo by Steve Christie TYGERS OF PAN TANG: new single and video “Back For Good” out now After all the good signs shown in the previously released two digital singles, TYGERS OF PAN TANG now release a third song from the new and upcoming album “Bloodlines”. “Back For Good” is the chosen track. When Jack Meille wrote the…

  • TONS OF ROCK 2023 – bandet ditt kan spille der

    Drømmen om å få spille på TONS OF ROCK for 100 000 publikummere kan bli virkelig for et norsk band!  21.-24. juni samles fans og publikum fra hele verden i Oslo for å se og oppleve over 50 band på Ekeberg og TONS OF ROCK.    Programmet er for lengst blitt berømmet for bredden og toppsjiktet…

  • MER presents SOUNDGARDEN homage with “Superunknown Redux” Kickstarter

    Magnetic Eye Records presents new Redux Series installment “Superunknown Redux” and  companion volume “Best of Soundgarden Redux” via Kickstarter Magnetic Eye Records have announced the next installment in their acclaimed Redux Series of cover versions honouring legendary rock classics with a pair of double albums paying tribute to grunge gods SOUNDGARDEN in the form of “Superunknown…

  • STEFANO PANUNZI – new album feat. Jakko M. Jakszyk, Pat Mastelotto

    ‘Pages from the Sea‘ is the new album by Stefano Panunzi, out April 21, 2023 on CD and digital via SP Music and distributed by Burning Shed.   In the Roman musician’s new work, the reference that most frequently comes is the David Sylvian of the ’90s: sweetness, refinement and melancholy intertwine with keyboard carpets, dreamy guitars…

  • DORTHIA COTTRELL – new album out

    Across both her solo work and as the vocalist of renowned doom band Windhand, DORTHIA COTTRELL envisions her music as both a document of love and a reconciliation with death. Her new album Death Folk Country is released today on Relapse Records. On her new album, Cottrell wards off death through creation – the most…

  • MAKTKAMP – releases their second album

    MAKTKAMP continue their relentless stride as they release their second album, Caps Lock Woke Rock, just a year after their debut album ‘I Affekt’. Caps Lock Woke Rock is a hardrock/metal album which is full of melodic guitar licks and energy, with a scream vocal spitting criticism in North Norwegian tongue. The album was released…

  • SØSTRE – self-titled album out

    Founded in 2018, Søstre are an experimental black ’n’ roll band out of Bergen, Norway, the birth place to such acclaimed artists as Enslaved, Immortal, Borknagar, etc… With a vast experience spanning a multitude of genres, the band represents a constant dedication towards creative development and improvement.  Offering an audio-visual assault laced with ritualistic undercurrents,…