News Posts

Lamb of God recently shared their latest new single ‘Parasocial Christ’, out with Century Media Records! See them live next year on their Spring 2026 North American tour or at one of the many European summer festivals they’ve been invited to like Wacken, Alcatraz, Dynamo Metalfest and more!

Worm signed to Century Media Records for the release of their new album ‘Necropalace’ in February 2026 and revealed the short film for the title track, taking us back to the obscure symphonic black metal tapes from the 90s and horror from the same era!

As Everything Unfolds released a video for the brand-new single ‘What You Wanted’, featuring Dani Winter-Bates of Bury Tomorrow, and dealing with addiction, out with Century Media Records!

Texas brutal death metal outfit Stabbing announce new album ‘Eon of Obscenity’ to be out in January 2026 via Century Media Records and unleash video single ‘Inhuman Torture Chamber’ as a first devastating taste of the pummeling that is to come!

Black metal icons Mayhem are releasing their seventh full-length ‘Liturgy of Death’ in February 2026 with Century Media Records and unveiled a first single with ‘Weep For Nothing’!

Electric Callboy kicked off their “Tanzneid World Tour” yesterday, but not before they unleashed the video and single of the same name, out with Century Media Records! Get dancing!

Blackened thrash bastards Hellripper return with a brand-new single ‘Kinchyle (Goatkraft And Granite)’, out now with their new label Century Media Records and announce new European tourdates for 2026, bringing along Schizophrenia and Sarcator!

Gaerea unleashed ‘Hellbound’, a second single since signing to Century Media Records, and part of their just announced upcoming album ‘Loss’, set for release in March 2026! Catch them live in Europe as special guests to their label mates Orbit Culture, a tour you won’t want to miss out on!

Technical metallers Coroner have released their new studio album ‘Dissonance Theory’ via Century Media Records last Friday and launched a lyric video for the track ‘Consequence’ to celebrate! See them live next summer at already confirmed Europe festivals Brutal Assault and Alcatraz Festival!

Lamb of God return with their new single ‘Sepsis’ and announce to have signed to Century Media Records! Catch them live in the summer of 2026 on the European festival circuit with already confirmed events like Wacken, Alcatraz and Dynamo just to name a few!

Photo Reports

Orbit Culture

On the European leg of the “Death Above Life world tour”, Orbit Culture made a stop at Trix in Belgium with their special guests Gaerea and openers Atlas. We were there!

Dark Tranquillity

About a month ago, The Dark Tranquillity “Endtime Signals European Tour 2025” stopped in Lille, France with special guests Moonspell and Hiraes. We were there and saw it was good, together with a roaring crowd!

Blind Channel with support from Lastout and Costee filled up Tampere’s Nokia Arena pretty well on 27th of April for the one Finnish tour date this spring. An event by Extra Large Music and Warner Music Live, adding a massive arena show to wrap things up before they moved on to the USA.

Orbit Culture

“Descending into madness EU/UK Tour 2024” is Orbit Culture’s first European headliner tour ever and we caught them at their impressive stop in Antwerp, Belgium, with support from Defects!

Without question, the biggest deathcore band in the world, Lorna Shore made their stop at Jäähalli, the biggest venue in Helsinki, bringing their biggest stage production yet to a sold out crowd on their “The Pain Remains EU Tour”, and with them they had Rivers of Nihil, Ingested and Distant, resulting in massive pits from start to finish!

A night of post-punk with the Finnish Grave Pleasures celebrating the release of ‘Plagueboys’ and oppressive industrial metal from Dome Runner at Korjaamo in Helsinki!

Unearth is touring through the US, presenting their recently released album on the “The Wretched; The Ruinous album release tour”, and we caught them and Upon A Burning Body at their stop in Seattle last weekend!

Electric Callboy came to set a huge 2-day party in Helsinki and even though it was a Monday night, the energy went through the roof. With support from the lovely people of Future Palace, it was a night to remember.

Leprous always stand for an exceptional live show and musical experience. Add to that Monuments and Kalandra, and we were in for a fantastic night at Helsinki’s Vanha Ylioppilastalo!

Swallow the Sun

The co-headline tour of Swallow the Sun and Draconian dropped by Het Entrepot in Bruges with warm-up act Shores of Null to deliver us a healthy dose of doom and gloom!

Interviews

After nearly three decades, Finland’s melodic death metal veterans Omnium Gatherum are still burning bright. We sat down with vocalist Jukka Pelkonen to talk about their new tenth album “May the Bridges We Burn Light the Way” (out on Century Media Records since last Friday, November 7th), a record of raw emotion, street-level storytelling, and the stubborn spirit that keeps the band moving forward.

We sat down with Orbit Culture’s Niklas to talk about their upcoming album ‘Death Above Life’ (out now with Century Media Records), their journey from support slots to headliners, and why this new era feels like a true rebirth. Catch them live on tour with Gaerea and Atlas in Europe next month or at summer festivals in 2026 like the already confirmed Alcatraz Festival!

While being at Helsinki Techfest for their very first show outside Estonia, we met up with the metal band Pridian to talk about an excellent 2024 with some bucketlist shows, but also the major news that they are signed to the Century Media Records roster for their upcoming album!

Earlier this year, we talked with vocalist Lina from Predatory Void about how things came together both as a band and for the debut album, and what she hoped to accomplish with the album.

A chat with Jukka from Omnium Gatherum about their recent US tour, how they got their new EP ‘Slasher’ together with the first track featuring their new guitarist and a cover of the famous 80s song ‘Maniac’, a hint at new music that is in the works and upcoming festival shows and European tour with Paradise Lost, Primordial and Harakiri For The Sky.

A talk with Niilo and Ville of Insomnium about their new album ‘Anno 1696’, how the short story it’s based on was specially written by Niilo for the album, how much they love putting together special editions and a kind of whole experience for their fans and how they got Johanna Kurkela and Sakis Tolis to join them on some tracks!

Read the conversation we had with vocalist/guitarist Levy from the Belgian black metal outfit Wiegedood about their latest album!

Watch the chat we had with Markus Vanhala about the new Insomnium EP ‘Argent Moon’, the upcoming new work of Omnium Gatherum and his new black metal project I Am The Night!

An old chat with Olly and Mike from Monuments we dug up from our archives because it was just too much fun to keep it from you!

We had some questions about the new Napalm Death record and singer Barnye Greenway indulged us.

Album Reviews

“Dissonance Theory” is incredibly dynamic where the songs are packed with grooves and technical riffing steeped in the aesthetics of Coroner’s sonic formula. This is a great comeback album from one of Switzerland’s best acts. Out since October 17th via Century Media Records! Catch them in the summer of 2026 at European festivals like Alcatraz Festival!

From underdogs to deathcore giants, Lorna Shore have done it again. Their new album ‘I Feel The Everblack Festering Within Me’ is an absolute monster, packed with filthy breakdowns, blackened atmospheres, and a bunch of epic, nearly 10-minute journeys that push the genre’s limits. We dove deep into this beast for our full review and for now, it’s already a strong contender for album of the year 2025, out with Century Media Records tomorrow September 12!

Heaven Shall Burn has succeeded again with their 10th album ‘Heimat’. They have earned the title godfathers of metalcore and they show it yet again with this release. Out via Century Media Records.

Distant’s latest release ‘Tsukuyomi: The Origin’ is the brutal answer to all who say deathcore has gone soft, where they completely redid the songs from an old EP, brought in some new songs and a bunch of great guests! Released in November 2024 via Century Media Records!

Tribulation’s sixth studio album “Sub Rosa in Æternum” is memorably catchy and equally haunting and perfectly fits in the gothic metal canon. Out via Century Media Records since November 1st, and comes recommended to fans of Moonspell and Type O Negative, or even more gothic rock/electro affiliated acts like Sisters of Mercy or Depeche Mode!

Swallow The Sun’s ninth studio album “Shining” mixes all the elements and ingredients of their recent works together, displaying the shifting tides of heaviness and a melodramatic style of gothic doom into again a milestone of excellence for the Finns, out tomorrow via Century Media Records.

Denver based death metal quartet Blood Incantation takes a porgy direction on its third studio album “Absolute Elsewhere” to convey a rewarding listening experience that can easily be nominated for the best death metal album of the year.

The third full length album “Never, Neverland” from Portland, Oregon based gothic metal Unto Others packs sixteen powerful tracks, showing that they’re back at full force and ready to take on the world, out today via Century Media Records!

In a year full of prominent black metal releases ‘Reaperdawn’ is one of the contenders for the best of 2024, this is yet another triumphant return from guitarist Sebastian Ramstedt who gives us a sense of his creative genius. Out on Century Media Records.

Pioneers of melodic death metal Dark Tranquillity returned with the long-awaited album ‘Endtime Signals’ offer excellent musical performance and creativity. Out via Century Media Records since last week Friday August 16th!