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Christian Death Announce 2026 U.S. West Coast Tour

Posted on November 5, 2026

After almost 50 years, Christian Death are still frightening the very fabric of society. The founding fathers of American goth rock are bringing this year’s Baby Bats Parade tour west of the Rocky Mountains this November. The tour starts with a very special appearance at Darker Waves Festival, followed by dates underneath the blood moon in Nevada, Oregon, Washington and California.

Mawiza Premiere IÑ MONGELETEW

Posted on November 4, 2026

With their hearts and minds still soaring after sharing the stage with heavy metal legends Sepultura, Mawiza are excited to premiere IÑ MONGELETEW (Those Who Give Us Life). In the spirit of “Kaiowas”, the first-ever acoustic EP from the modern day Mapuche groove metal warriors honors their ancestral roots. It includes three re-imagined songs from the band’s 2025 Pulsar-nominated album ÜL, as well as two new original songs in “Wüzapiwken” (Divided Heart) and “Mür” (Dual), which features Mira Ceti (Heilung) and Anne Olsen (Danefae).

Saor Announce First-Ever Latin American Tour

Posted on November 2, 2026

Today, Saor, the pioneer of Caledonian black metal, is announcing their first-ever Latin American tour. In February of 2027, Andy Marshall and his touring band will play a special set of songs from 2013’s Roots and 2014’s Aura for fans in Chile, Brazil, Argentina, Colombia and Mexico.

Anciients Announce New Member Justin Hagberg

Posted on October 19, 2026

Riding high off their first tour of Europe and the United Kingdom in more than a decade, the two-time Canadian Grammy winners Anciients are excited to announce their newest member, Justin Hagberg.

DANHEIM Release New Single “Urblod”

Posted on October 12, 2026

DANHEIM, the Nordic folk and ambient project of Copenhagen-based producer Reidar Schæfer Olsen, have released “Urblod” via Season of Mist. The single follows Heimferd, the project’s first album for the label, and turns back toward the explicit mythological storytelling of Danheim’s earlier work. Stream “Urblod”: https://orcd.co/danheimurblod “Urblod” is a ritualistic chant dedicated to the Jötnar and the primordial beings of Norse mythology, the ancient powers associated with the world before and beyond the ordered realm of the gods. It draws on figures including Ymir, Bergelmir, Þrúðgelmir, Bölþorn, Bestla and Hræsvelgr, and evokes an older, untamed layer of the mythology: creation, ancestry, wilderness, and the forces from which both gods and giants ultimately emerge. The track sits within Danheim’s established language of percussion, chant and ambient texture, here pointed at the cosmology that predates the gods themselves. “Urblod” arrives on the heels of Heimferd, released on October 31st, 2025 via Season of Mist on CD, vinyl and digital. Thirteen tracks long and Danheim’s first full-length in four years, the album continues the project’s template of pounding percussion set against minimalist, ambient passages, but is not built around a fixed mythological narrative. Olsen has described it as mood- and instinct-driven, a personal journey home to ancestry rather than a retelling of saga. Danheim says: “I wanted this track to feel like a chant reaching back beyond the gods, toward the oldest beings in Norse mythology. The Jötnar are not simply monsters or enemies of the gods: they represent something much older -primordial forces, and the untamed world from which everything else emerges.”