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Anciients Win Western Canadian Music Award
Posted on October 6, 2025After much soul searching through the Canadian wilderness, last month, Anciients kicked off their first U.S. tour in eight years behind their latest JUNO Award-winning album. Upon returning home from a hard-hitting run through the American West, Southeast and ProgPower USA, the heavy, heady and heartfelt Canucks were greeted with some shiny new hardware. During the annual BreakOut West music festival and conference, The Western Canadian Music Alliance awarded the band Metal & Hard Music Artist of the Year in honor of their latest prog metal opus Beyond the Reach of the Sun.
Hear Hooded Menace’s New Album A Day Early
Posted on October 2, 2025For more than two decades, Hooded Menace have stood as the pillar between two realms of underground metal. The Finnish band are still transfixed by classic horror on their monumental new album. But Lachrymose Monuments of Obscuration only goes to show that these stewards of death-doom remain far from stuck in their ways.
Defeated Sanity Release Punishing Drum Playthrough
Posted on October 1, 2025Having dedicated this year to leveling Europe and Latin America behind the sheer brutality of the band’s latest Billboard-busting offering, Defeated Sanity are capping off 2025 with their first U.S. tour for Chronicles of Lunacy.
1349 Announce Winter Mass
Posted on September 30, 2025No one carries the torch for Norwegian black metal with the same fire as 1349.
DANHEIM Releases New Single “Stormdans” From the Upcoming Album Heimferd
Posted on September 29, 2025CRIPPLED BLACK PHOENIX Announce European ‘Sceaduhelm’ Tour in 2026
Posted on September 25, 2025CRIPPLED BLACK PHOENIX is set to embark on its Sceaduhelm Tour 2026, bringing the sweeping, melancholic landscapes of its catalogue to venues across Europe. This new leg represents a commitment to live theatre as integral to the band’s identity, a commitment borne from years of evolving performance and atmospheric intensity.
EIHWAR Evoke a Spiritual Realm with New Single “Hugrheim”
Posted on September 24, 2025ENTHRONED Release “Raviasamin,” Lead Single From Forthcoming Album Ashspawn
Posted on September 23, 2025Stoned Jesus Premiere Songs to Sun
Posted on September 18, 2025YOUR INLAND EMPIRE Release Haunting New Single “There Is No Me”
Posted on September 17, 2025CARACH ANGREN Release New Single: “The Resurrection of Kariba”
Posted on September 16, 2025Hooded Menace Cover Duran Duran
Posted on September 15, 2025SAVAGE LANDS Release Full Live Concert Video From Hellfest 2024
Posted on September 15, 2025DER WEG EINER FREIHEIT Stream Full Album Innern
Posted on September 11, 2025Stoned Jesus Show How They Reached New High on “Low”
Posted on September 10, 2025While they’ve blazed through folk, prog, pop and alternative rock following their first sip of doom metal, after 15 years, Stoned Jesus are still reaching new creative peaks. On the latest single from the band’s mind-melting new album Songs to Sun, the heavy progressive rockers rose above personal lows by doing something they’ve never done before: blast beats and harsh vocals.
Garmarna Winners of The John Lennon Songwriting Contest
Posted on September 9, 2025For the past three decades, Garmarna have won equal praise from metal heads and folk lovers. On their seventh and most recent album, the Swedes continued to weave traditional medieval tales with rock, pop, dance and other modern-day inventions, alongside executive producer Christopher Juul from Season of Mist labelmates Heilung. In 2021, Förbundet was nominated for Folk Album of the Year by the Grammis. Now, four years later, its opening song is taking home a different award.
PONTE DEL DIAVOLO Release Official Live Video for “Covenant” from Roadburn Festival 2025
Posted on September 8, 2025Green Carnation Premiere Grand and Gloomy New Album
Posted on September 4, 2025While they quickly amassed a cult following behind one of the most ambitious epics in metal history, for the past 35 years, there was one tale – or three, to be exact – that continued to elude Green Carnation. That is, until now. With The Shores of Melancholia, the long-accomplished prog metal journeymen are finally setting sail on an epic album trilogy that will take fans to the highest peaks and darkest inner rooms.