This week, symphonic metal titans EPICA will finally kick off the Epic Apocalypse Tour 2023, a European co-headline tour with APOCALYPTICA, that will take them to 21 countries over the course of the next 3 months.
Just in time for the first show in Vilnius (the band’s first ever performance in Lithuania), they have released a new live video for ‘Rivers’, an atmospheric ballad off their latest full-length release Omega. Filmed in Santiago de Chile during the band’s Latin American Tour in 2022 by Panda Productions, the new live video is available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcLGgfyOmZE
On February 24th 2023, Finnish metal melancholists INSOMNIUM will release their ninth full-length, Anno 1696, via Century Media Records. The third single and music video for ‘The Witch Hunter’ is available now.
Teaming up for what promises to be an unforgettable jaunt of epic proportions, GRAMMY® Award-nominated French heavy metal luminaries Gojira will join forces with iconic GRAMMY® Award-winning heavy rock band Mastodon for a massive co-headline tour across North America in 2023. “The Mega-Monsters Tour” finds these two juggernauts taking over arenas and amphitheaters throughout the Spring and Summer, alternating closing sets each night.
The clock is ticking… on February 10th, Swedish modern metal visionaries IN FLAMES will release their fourteenth studio album Foregone – the new masterpiece from a band whose artistry and influence on modern metal is undeniable.
Today, IN FLAMES release the fifth single from Foregone – ‘Meet Your Maker‘ is a pulsating track with a hypnotizing power and furious anger. Like a raw nerve exposed, the song speaks of the desperation and frustration brought on by the chaotic dystopia of post-pandemic society.
LOVEBITES, one of Japan’s most important names in heavy metal, return from hiatus with a new member and their new single ‘The Spirit Lives On’. The track is the second to be taken from their fourth studio album, Judgement Day, due for release 24th February 2023 via JPU Records.
SABATON have been awarded the ‘Englighter of the Year Award 2022 (Årets Folkbildare 2022)’ by The Swedish Skeptics Association (Vetenskap och Folkbildning), making them the first ever rock band to receive this prestigious accolade.
The ‘Enlightener of the Year Award’ is an annual title that began in 1987. It is traditionally presented to academics, authors, journalists and media outlets that go above and beyond what is expected in order to educate people.
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