In many ways, Opeth’s Blackwater Park can be considered as their answer to The Beatles’ Revolver, both uncompromising and experimental, but equally commercially viable and unfuckwithable masterpieces. Twenty-five years on, Blackwater Park remains a breath-taking piece of work, dense with extraordinary melodic moments, spine-tingling atmospherics and agile but crushing heaviness. It is also arguably still the most cherished album in the Swedish metallers illustrious catalogue as a rising progressive influence kicked open prog’s ornate doors, fed death metal through the cosmic kaleidoscope and introduced a generation of music nerds to a world of limitless musical possibilities.
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WINTERFYLLETH Signs with Napalm Records + Announces New Album, “The Unyielding Season”
Napalm Records is proud to announce the signing of the UK’s black metal legends, WINTERFYLLETH. To celebrate this new partnership, the band unveils a new album, The Unyielding Season, set for release on March 27, 2026. Making a stand, WINTERFYLLETH’s ninth album is a social commentary wrapped in meticulously crafted poetry and prose. Where the preceding album, The Imperious Horizon (2024), described an ominous, malevolent force, lurking in the distance, The Unyielding Season now explores said threat becoming a reality. The raging wildfire to its predecessor’s calculating, icy cold, WINTERFYLLETH’s first offering for their new record label is a reflection and a rebellion against the turmoils tearing individuals apart. It is a cry against the unsustainable weight of fear and pressure being pushed into the world, by the agents of an unresting, and unyielding force for evil.
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Papa Roach Release New Single ‘Wake Up Calling’
Papa Roach release a powerful new single “Wake Up Calling,” out today via New Noize Records / ADA – Listen HERE. The track, following in the footsteps of “Scars” and “Leave A Light On (Talk Away The Dark)” shows the more melodic, emotionally vulnerable side of their songwriting, but still retains the intensity and honesty that have defined their career for over two decades.
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HEXVESSEL announce European Tour Dates 2026
HEXVESSEL, the renowned Finnish psych-folk and occult doom band, announce a European tour to present their new album “Nocturne“, a work steeped in pagan and animist spirit, where nature and the unseen converge. For this series of concerts, HEXVESSEL join forces with French pioneers of occult rock, ALUK TODOLO, who have recently released “Lux”, an album on which light and telluric energy intertwine.
HEXVESSEL comment: “I am proud to finally announce a tour to celebrate the release of ‘Nocturne’ and in such a perfect company”, singer and songwriter Mat “Kvohst” McNerney writes. “We are ready to illuminate your night!”
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Heavy Metal Giants POWERWOLF Release Live Version Of “1589” + Video
POWERWOLF light a literal pyre with the fourth single off their monumental upcoming live album, Wildlive (Live at Olympiahalle), out February 13, 2026 via Napalm Records. “1589”, originally released on their #1 album Wake Up The Wicked (2024), is one of many highlights of the live album’s captured performance, brought to life by a blazing stage production and spectacular pyrotechnics. The accompanying live video of the characteristically catchy hymn has us all witness the spectacle that transcends beyond a concert. Filmed in Munich during their impressive sold-out show at Olympiahalle as part of the stunning Wolfsnächte Tour in 2024, POWERWOLF prove once more that they are an unmatched force!
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ALESTORM, ICE NINE KILLS, GAEREA AND BLACK OAK COUNTY ANNOUNCED FOR COPENHELL 2026
The COPENHELL 2026 festival poster is close to being complete with the announcement of four new bands delivering everything from wild pirate parties and crushing metalcore to bleak black metal and melodic hard rock.
COPENHELL is nearing a full lineup for 2026 with the addition of ALESTORM, ICE NINE KILLS, GAEREA and BLACK OAK COUNTY to this year’s music schedule. The final remaining slots on the festival poster will be filled during the spring.
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