Pelagic Records has announced its first wave of artists for Pelagic Fest 2026 with post-metal legends The Ocean in their new formation, an ultra-rare performance by The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble, full album performances by EF, Spurv and Lost In Kiev, exciting debut appearances by bands like Predatory Void, Preyrs and so much more!
Amsterdam’s hardcore legends Vitamin X are back with their seventh album ‘Ride The Apocalypse’ in March 2026 via Svart Records and shared a first track with ‘Chop Chop Chop’!
Dutch symphonic metal band Epinikion flows with the current in their second single ‘Lessons in Life (Are for Free)’, out now everywhere!
Dutch melodic death metal outfit Nox Aeterna unleashed their take on the Boney M classic ‘Ma Baker’!
Dutch progressive metal pioneers Textures returned with ‘At the Edge of Winter’, featuring Charlotte Wessels and the second single from their upcoming new album ‘Genotype’, set for release in January 2026 on Kscope, right before they go on an extensive European tour as special guests for Jinjer!
Dutch concept driven death metal band Black Rabbit is releasing a new EP ‘Warren Of Necrosis’ in December and unveiled the single ‘Initium Finis’ with an official music video as a teaser!
European hardcore heavyweights Born From Pain are delivering yet another kick in the teeth with their latest single ‘My War’, the second taste of their upcoming EP ‘Siege Mentality’, out in a couple of weeks!
Blackbriar released a piano parlour version of their recent track ‘The Fosilized Widow’, from their latest record ‘A Thousand Little Deaths’, out with Nuclear Blast! Catch them live in Europe traveling all over the place for the rest of the month!
Dutch punk band Antillectual shared their first ever song in their native language with ‘Voorrang Voor Rechts’, calling out the rather frightening shift to the extreme right in politics and morals all over the world, part of their upcoming exclusively Dutch project ‘Antillectueel’ coming out next month!
Dutch hardcore veterans Born From Pain returned recently with the new track and video ‘Siege Mentality’, first single and title track from their upcoming EP!
Schemer Heer is the new dungeon synth project by Maurice de Jong, well known for one of his other projects: Gnaw Their Tongues.
‘Teufelsgeist’, the new record by Urfaust is another unique approach to the black metal genre.
25 years after their sophomore classic ‘Solar Lovers’ Dutch death doom masters of melancholy, Celestial Season, induct us into their gloomy arts with ‘Secret Teachings’.
One man project Golden Ashes brings a second sonic blasting with ‘In The Lugubrious Silence Of Eternal Night’.
Rock power trio RRRags delivers an album filled with vintage rockers that’ll get you going and dancing throughout the summer times. Good vibes on this one!
‘Bloem’ is saturated with compelling melodies that will make you instantly fall in adoration with Fluisteraars’ atmospheric black metal sound.
A continuation of Wederganger, Dutch undeath metallers ‘Bezwering’ cast their first spell ‘Aan de wormen overgeleverd’ .
Dutch psychedelic rockers Dool search for heaven on earth on their sophomore album ‘Summerland’.
Raw Skull Recordz made Altar’s first demo ‘And God Created Satan For His Mistakes’ available on vinyl for the first time!
This is a solid treat from the Satanic Dutch quartet who have reshaped the formula and made some necessarily changes.
