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TRIBULATION Announce new album “Where the Gloom Becomes Sound” and European Tour


Sweden’s TRIBULATION return in the spotlight with a much anticipated new album entitled “Where the Gloom Becomes Sound”, to be released via Century Media Records (Worldwide excluding North America) and Metal Blade Records (In North America) in January 2021.

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REVIEW: OCEANS OF SLUMBER – ‘Oceans Of Slumber’ (album)


REVIEW: Oceans Of Slumber – ‘Oceans Of Slumber’ by Carina Lawrence / Dark Art Conspiracy

US prog metallers OCEANS OF SLUMBER are unleashing their fourth self-titled album on September 4th 2020 via Century Media Records. The band have undergone quite a transformation with new members that coincided with the new album bringing a new refreshed and redefined sound in what is their most aspiring and sonically charged release yet. Lyrically the album explores some dark and heavy relatable themes such as grief, depression and general angst of people who have been wronged.

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CHILDREN OF BODOM’S Jaska Raatikainen joins MERCURY CIRCLE


Founding member and drummer of extreme metal icons CHILDREN OF BODOMJaska Raatikainen, has announced to join MERCURY CIRCLE, the brand new project by by Iconcrash’s and Swallow the Sun’s Jaani Peuhu.


Being around with CHILDREN OF BODOM for remarkable twenty six years and touring the globe ever since, the band’s enthralling mix of melodic hooks and instrumental acrobatics have solidified them as one of the leading voices of music’s new generation. It has been hard for 
Jaska Raatikainen to make any strict musical future plans since quitting COB in 2019, but all of this changed when he heard the demos by Peuhu.

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The Ocean launches video for new single “Oligocene”


On September 25th, The Ocean will release their 8th full-length, Phanerozoic II: Mesozoic | Cenozoic, via Metal Blade Records (CD / digital) and the band’s own Pelagic Records (vinyl). In 2018, The Ocean released Phanerozoic I: Palaeozoic – the first half of a sprawling but superbly cohesive paleontology concept album. Now, the group is ready to release the eagerly-awaited concluding parts of the Phanerozoic journey. 

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NAPALM DEATH launch new single/video “Amoral” from upcoming album “Throes of Joy in the Jaws of Defeatism”


UK Grindcore pioneers NAPALM DEATH will be releasing their new studio album “Throes of Joy in the Jaws of Defeatism” on September 18th, 2020 via Century Media Records.

In advance of the album’s release, a new single is being launched. Check out the song “Amoral” in a video clip created by Michael Panduro (http://www.michaelpanduro.com) here: https://youtu.be/T5ChaOiPZGo 

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OCEANS OF SLUMBER release fourth single and video for “To the Sea (A Tolling of the Bells)”


Shortly before US prog metal outfit OCEANS OF SLUMBER are going to release their self-titled new opus on September 4th, 2020, they share another glimpse of their new masterpiece with the release of “To The Sea (A Tolling of the Bells)”. 

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