Category: Music
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A Secret Revealed have unveiled Disheartened, the first single from their upcoming fourth full-length, The Ruin I Summoned Forth, with Der Weg einer Freiheit vocalist Nikita Kamprad joining the Würzburg post-metal quintet on the track. Due out on October 16 through Lifeforce Records, the eight-track album continues the band’s heavy and atmospheric approach while bringing…
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The collaboration between Chilean metal band Pronoias and Finnish vocalist Nitte Valo began with a walk through a forest and, rather unexpectedly, a little help from the band’s audience. The result is We Are The Same, a new single featuring Valo that was released on August 5 and performed live that same day in Helsinki.…
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There are plenty of ways to make a heavy metal video about war, but Crimson Day have gone straight to the source material for War Machine, combining the track’s old-school heavy metal influence with authentic World War II footage of aerial combat between Allied and Axis forces. Taken from the Finnish band’s album Dark Dimension,…
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Before Kharon became the album released last year, its songs existed in a much rougher form. The Medea Project have now gone back to those early demos, rehearsal recordings and writing sessions for Kharon: Forbearance. Those recordings capture a more brutal and cavernous incarnation of the material, preserving the sound of the band while the…
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Ten tracks, one Finnish groove metal band and enough doom influence to make things considerably slower and nastier than the genre description might initially suggest. Helsinki trio Ill Geared released their debut full-length, To Dust, on August 7, bringing together groove, doom, faster bursts of aggression and a healthy dose of old-school metal attitude. Formed…
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More than three decades after it was first conceived, a song written during early-’90s Gotthard sessions has finally found its way onto a record. Howling At The Moon, originally written by Jgor Gianola and the late Steve Lee, has been rediscovered and reworked by CoreLeoni for their upcoming album Generection. Led by Gotthard founding member…
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Listening to an album sung entirely in a band’s native tongue is a unique experience. After all, a lot of what I get from music is based as much on the words I am hearing as the sounds themselves. Now, when that involves black metal, as a lot of you know, without a lyric sheet…
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Black metal has never had much interest in offering easy answers. At its best, it shines a harsh light on humanity’s darkest instincts, and that’s exactly the path Détresse continue to follow with their second album, Misères, due for release on October 9 through Vendetta Records. Born from a collaboration between musicians in Austria and…
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Epic doom has never been about chasing trends, and Sweden’s Void Moon have spent more than a decade proving exactly that. The band return on August 28 with The Runes That Bind, a new three-track EP arriving through Obelisk Polaris Productions. Founded by bassist Peter Svensson, Void Moon have built a steady presence within the…
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Moving to a new country can reshape more than just everyday life. For UK post-metal band Thrakian, it has become the foundation of their debut album, The Way. Originally formed by musicians from Bulgaria and now based in Wales, the quartet channel themes of identity, displacement and resilience into a sound that combines post-metal with…