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Brittish legends Carcass have mysteriously revealed that their new album will be out on August 7th 2020. Leaving no other information, we should expect an update soon. Last December, Carcass released their first new song since 2013, “Under the Scalpel Blade”, you can check it below, in case you missed it. [bandcamp width=100% height=120 track=1603170796 size=large [...]

So, in Strasbourg on February 9, 2020, during their tour with Leprous we took Fredrik Bergersen-Klemp and guitarist Simen Hundere Ruud aside to ask them about their past, future and of course we challenged them to do a little a-cappella-session. Maraton are a Norwegian prog rock band that combine their music with influences from various [...]

The Japanese quintet returns to Europe less than two years after their previous tour for a series of hard-hitting shows very much focused on the present. Even though Dir En Grey promised to come back after their late 2018 tour, few would expect to see them in Europe again so soon. To be fair, their [...]

Alcest + Birds in Row + Kaelan Mikla – 12.02.2020 –  Täubchenthal On February 12th, the public that went to Täubchenthal, in Leipzig, attended a concert with three bands of very diverse styles. At first, one could consider that three different bands might turn off people’s interest in the event, but the exact opposite happened. And whoever went to [...]

Recently signed cathartic black metal outfit GAEREA are now releasing a brand new guitar play-through in celebration of their new Olivia Guitars endorsement. The video can now be viewed below and is also available via the official Season of Mist YouTube channel here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NARIxUQkAh4 GAEREA are about to release their brand new album via Season [...]

Danish thrash/power concept masters, MANTICORA are announcing the release of their 9th full-length album, which will be named “To Live To Kill To Live”. The album, which is the 2nd part of their grand concept (a 334 page horror/thriller novel and a double concept album, written upon the novel) is set to be released on [...]

Norwegian progressive metal act GREEN CARNATION are now revealing the album details for 'Leaves of Yesteryear'. The new record is the first release by the band in 14 years and will be out on May 8th, via Season of Mist. [...]

Icelandic black metal band HELFRÓ are now premiering the first song of their self titled debut album, which will be released on Season of Mist Underground Activists on April 24. [...]

Singer-songwriter Olli Helenius makes an outstanding comeback to his Hard Rock roots. Ocean Dark’s debut single “Die For Me” out this Friday. Olli Helenius, a man with a long career as a singer-songwriter and as a professional musician, makes a powerful comeback mixing rock music with a taste of metal. A decade ago he gained attention [...]

Just recently, Italian heavy metallers SHOCKIN’ HEAD – feat. members of historical bands CHUPACABRAS, R.A.V.E.D, ESTREMO PONENTE – released a re-interpreted cover video for MUSE‘s ‘Hysteria’, in metal version. Now the video has gotten the premiering also on Blank TV, yet you can watch below. Comments the band’s guitarist Zac Vanders: “When you have been [...]

It’s been 14 long years until Wolfheart / Before the Dawn mastermind Tuomas Saukkonen returns with his hotly anticipated, sophomore solo-album under the flag of DAWN OF SOLACE. January 24th 2020 saw the Death and Gothic Doom Metal icon release his brand new album, “Waves”, on Noble Demon. “Waves” will be taking the listener on [...]

Dir En Grey kicked off their 2020 European last Saturday the 25th in Russia. The ever-evolving Japanese 5-piece return to Europe just 15 months after their last show in the Old Continent, for a total of 10 shows across six countries. Dir En Grey’s last European tour was a complicated affair. Kicking off a few [...]

Last year the PROGNOSIS festival made its mark by hiring mostly first-class prog bands such as Leprous, Vola or TesseracT as well as providing a lot of additional happenings such as clinics of singing, drumming, composing etc. with Devin Townsend, Baard Kolstad of Leprous, Giancarlo Erra among others. This year’s edition will be held in [...]

Norwegian Black Metal veterans CREST OF DARKNESS have revealed a new video by Stig Kenneth Limmesand for the title track from their ninth full-length album “The God Of Flesh”. The video can be seen below. CREST OF DARKNESS founder Ingar Amlien has this to say about the new video: Stig Kenneth Limmesand has done a [...]