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AS I LAY DYING Unveils Ominous New Metalcore Anthem “Whitewashed Tomb” + Music Video


Grammy-nominated metalcore pioneers AS I LAY DYING recently sparked a career-defining return to the scene, driven by the release of their upcoming eighth full-length studio album, Through Storms Ahead, out November 15, 2024 via Napalm Records. Poised to be one of the most highly-anticipated metal comebacks in years, the audacious new album features the critically-acclaimed new tracks “Burden”“The Cave We Fear To Enter”, and the recently revealed “We Are The Dead” featuring guest vocalists Alex Terrible (Slaughter to Prevail) and Tom Barber (Chelsea Grin, Darko),

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NOTHING MORE ANNOUNCED AS SUPPORT FOR DISTURBED’S “THE SICKNESS 25TH ANNIVERSARY TOUR”


3X Grammy-nominated active rock heavyweights NOTHING MORE have been announced as support for the second leg of multi-platinum hard rock mainstays Disturbed’s 2025 “The Sickness 25th Anniversary Tour.” The tour celebrates the anniversary of the iconic band’s 5x Platinum-certified debut album The Sickness which Metal Hammer named as one of the “Best Metal Albums of 2000.” NOTHING MORE will join Disturbed and Grammy-nominated rock singer-songwriter Chris Daughtry across the U.S. from March 29 to May 17. See full dates below. 

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BLIND CHANNEL announce documentary and hiatus


After releasing their infamous boyband cover ‘EVERYBODY (BLOODBROS BACK)’ on all official streaming platforms in September, the metal outfit BLIND CHANNEL will be having their own documentary titled Blind Channel: After Dark Side on 16th December, 2024. The series, named after their success single ‘Dark Side’, will feature never-seen material, following BLIND CHANNEL’s journey towards world conquest. Through five different episodes, the documentary will reveal the rigours of touring life and record-making, all while pursuing international success. The series will be released on Yle Areena (Yle’s VOD-platform) and will be available for 6 months worldwide (until June 16th, 2025).

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Hellsinki Metal Festival – Winter Edition 2024 Announcement


The Hellsinki Metal Festival, which sold out on its second day in August, is also expanding into a winter event. Hellsinki Metal Festival – Winter Edition 2024 roars on December 14 at Helsinki’s Kaapelitehdas, and the performers of the first indoor festival will be Dark Funeral, one of the best in Swedish black metal, Belphegor, Austria’s gift to lovers of blackened death metal, and domestic experts in the field Kyy and Omnivortex.

Kaapelitehdas was not chosen as the venue for the event by chance – metal has been celebrated in the same place during the years of the Finnish Metal Expo fair, and Hellsinki Metal Festival promoter Toni Törrönen also remembers those events fondly.

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TRIBULATION release new single and video for ‘Murder in Red


Sweden’s goth metal maestros TRIBULATION recently announced the release of their forthcoming 6th studio album Sub Rosa in Æternum, due 1st November via Century Media Records. The first long player after their award-winning album Where the Gloom Becomes Sound in 2021 they’ve also dropped a cinematic music video for the record’s fourth single, ‘Murder in Red’.

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German Symphonic Metal Icons XANDRIA Announce New EP, “Universal Tales” + Official Video for First Single “No Time To Live Forever” Out Now


German symphonic metal icons XANDRIA are about to chart new paths with their epic upcoming nine-track EP, Universal Tales, out on November 22, 2024 via Napalm Records! This EP follows the success of their latest top 10 charting album (German charts), The Wonders Still Awaiting (2023), which introduced an impressive new line up featuring the fantastic Ambre Vourvahis, who stuns audiences with her vocal talent that blends elements of rock grit, operatic highs and even growls.

This fresh sounding masterpiece highlights XANDRIA‘s reinvention by elevating their trademarks to a new level, setting the bar for modern symphonic metal while presenting four brand new majestic songs that showcase the band’s refined versatility and impressive intensity.

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