Charlotte Wessels shared the new single ‘Backup Plan’ featuring Asger Mygind from VOLA, part of her recently released deluxe edition of ‘The Obsession’ to celebrate its 1 year anniversary, out with Napalm Records! Catch her live in Europe next year as support for the Epica/Amaranthe “Arcane Dimensions Tour”!
Swedish powerhouse Bloodbound unleashed their second single ‘As Empires Fall’ from upcoming album ‘Fields Of Swords’, set for release with Napalm Records next month!
Adept is really back now with their comeback album ‘Blood Covenant’ being out since last Friday via Napalm Records, alongside an official video for the title track!
Ukrainian blackened death metal force 1914 unleashed their new single ‘1914 (The Siege of Przemyśl)’, another punishing track from their upcoming new album ‘Viribus Unitis’, out in November via Napalm Records!
This Friday, doom unit Frayle are releasing their new album ‘Heretics & Lullabies’ with Napalm Records and in anticipation they just shared the new doom anthem ‘Boo’ with a matching music video!
Rising British heavy metal band Tailgunner signed with Napalm Records and are going to release their next album with their new label, produced by the legendary K.K. Downing!
Aephanemer unleashed the new video single ‘Le Cimetière Marin’, another track from their upcoming album ‘Utopie’, set for release at the end of October through Napalm Records!
Catch them after on tour through Europe in November, including a stop at our very own Asgaard Gentbrugge venue in Belgium!
Alter Bridge shared first single/video ‘Silent Divide’ from their upcoming self-titled album, set for release in January 2026 via Napalm Records and announced the “What Lies Within U.S. tour” dates that will come right after their extensive Europe tour in early 2026!
French melodic death metal powerhouse Aephanemer strikes again with their upcoming 4th studio album ‘Utopie’, out at the end of October via Napalm Records and shared the opening single ‘La Règle du Jeu’! Catch them live in Europe with Valhalore, Dark Oath and Waldgeflüster in November, including a stop at our very own venue Asgaard!
Swedish blackened viking metal trio Månegarm are unleashing their much-awaited studio album ‘Edsvuren’ with Napalm Records this Friday and shared the single ‘En blodvittneskrans’ in anticipation!
The French band Aephanemer dropped by On The Rocks in Helsinki to turn the heat up and make a pretty much crammed venue go wild to their symphonic/melodic death metal tunes! Support came from locals Numento.
Jinjer is on tour through Europe this summer, and we attended their show in Lille, France. Warm up act was the French band Hypno5e!
During the pandemic, Charlotte Wessels wrote 1 song per month, resulting in her ‘Tales from Six Feet Under’ releases. And now she was bringing that music live in a series of Dutch club shows! Support came from Blackbriar.
Ne Obliviscaris and Persefone on tour in Europe, supported by openers Asymmetric Universe, providing us with an evening of the finest progressive metal out there! We caught them at their stop in Belgium, at Trix in Antwerp!
After last year’s cancellation, Nervosa came back to Finland on their small “Northern Tour” about a month ago, and set the house on fire with the help of local support Satan’s Fall at On The Rocks in Helsinki!
US power metal legendary band Kamelot came, saw and conquered all of our hearts at Vanha Ylioppilastalo in Helsinki, with the help of Myrath, Eleine and League of Distortion back at the end of March!
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!
Nem Agency brought Kamelot along with Myrath, Eleine and League of Distortion back to Tampere. The show was not as crowed as maybe expected, but a lot of fun with excellent music of all 4 bands!
Kamelot is on tour in Europe with their “Awaken the World” cycle, in the good company of Myrath, Eleine and League of Distortion! We caught up with them at their stop at Le Splendid in Lille, France.
Katatonia and Sólstafir, two masters of melancholy and doom on a co-headline tour through Europe, supported by the American SOM, which we caught at their stop at Trix in Antwerp, Belgium!
Windrose’s latest album ‘Warfront’ may have been carved from living rock last year already, but these heroic dwarves are ready to storm the Prison stage at Alcatraz today.
Gloryhammer returns to their goofy fantasy world once again to defeat the evil wizard Zargothrax on ‘Return to the Kingdom of Fife’, which takes all the elements of power metal. There’s fast guitars, power chords, harmonies, high screams and lots, lots of fantasy. Out on Napalm Records.
Thulcandra’s fourth album ‘Hail The Abyss’ offers a whole new set of blackened melodies. The Bavarian act has ripened the quality of their song-craft, displaying furious tempos and a melodic approach to black/death metal. Out on Napalm Records.
With the release date on April 7, 2023, Powerwolf was just in time for the Christian Holiday Easter to release their new album ‘Interludium’ on Napalm Records. On this album we will find 6 new tracks and 4 rare tracks that were previously released, but only on certain limited edition versions of the album or only in certain regions. A classic Powerwolf sound with little details for you to find in the songs.
Angus McSix has come to conquer all the power metal and fantasy hearts in the world with the debut album ‘Angus McSix and The Sword of Power’, out since today via Napalm Records! And wow, I can assure you, if you’ve only heard the first two singles available before the album came out, you are in for so much more.
Nanowar of Steel’s new record ‘Dislike to False Metal’ brings parody metal to a whole new level with quality, yet hilarious songs that at times almost sound more than the bands they’re emulating. Released via Napalm Records.
There are so many emotions going through the songs from The New Roses, and most of it is determined by the first guitar note that you hear. Maybe that’s why this album is called ‘Sweet Poison’; because the same memory can make you smile, tear up, or both at the same time. That’s what makes me exited every time this band releases a new album; You know you’re going to be in for something that makes you get a smile on your face. Released via Napalm Records!
“Into Sorrow Evermore” truly reflects the sonic aspects of these talented musicians which seems a perfect combination of atmosphere and grim black metal. Imperium Dekadenz has become true masters of their craft in capturing the quintessence of atmospheric black metal where each track showcases different styles of melodic and atmospheric black metal. Out on January 20 via Napalm Records.
“The Choral Tomb” is a bombardment of oceanic maelstrom the music is vastly spacious and filled with emotion-packed clean vocals, therefore, allowing much diversity by applying elements from sludge doom, droning atmosphere, and arpeggio guitars. Ahab conveys its own trademarks which they proclaim as a Nautical funeral doom institution. Out today via Napalm Records!
Candlmass’ 13th record “Sweet Evil Sun” delivers plenty of emotive melodies and crushing riffs that will appease the demons inside your head, The songs in the album evokes the inner spirit of the Swedish doom metal masters this is a heavy bombardment of powerful riffs. Out on November 18 via Napalm Records!
