Mit „Illusion of Time“ wird am 5. September 2025 via M & O Music das neue Album der Metalcore-Band LETHERNAL UTOPIA erscheinen. Es ist nach einer EP das erste Album der Franzosen aus Toulouse.

LETHERNAL UTOPIA Line-Up:
Jay Balcou – Bass
Alex Bonnet – Drums
Sacha Guitteny – Guitars
Adrien Alvarez – Vocals, Guitars

LETHERNAL UTOPIA „Illusion of Time“ Tracklist
1. llusion Of Time
2. Glitch
3. We Are (Audio bei YouTube)
4. Samsara
5. Monsters
6. Echoes
7. Crossroads Of Time
8. One Last Breath
9. Apocalypse
10. Live To Die

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Die Melodic Power Metal-Band AEDAN SKY hat mit „A Kingdom to the Stars“ einen zweiten Track ihres kommenden Albums „The Universal Realm“ veröffentlicht. Es ist der erste Release des Space Metal Opera-Projekts von Sébastien Chabot (GALDERIA, KINGCROWN).

„The Universal Realm“ wurde von Simone Mularoni gemixt und gemastert und mit einem Cover-Artwork von Felipe Machado Franco ausgestattet. Release-Termin ist der 12. September 2025 via Rockshots Records. Vorab gibt es mit „Beyond the Vortex of Time“ ein Lyric-Video.

AEDAN SKY „The Universal Realm“ Tracklist
01. Opening
02. Call of the Universe
03. A Kingdom to the Stars (Audio als Stream)
04. Gate of Skies
05. Beyond the Vortex of Time (Lyric-Video bei YouTube)
06. From the Ashes to the Light
07. Land of Paradise
08. Interlude
09. Illumination
10. The Universal Realm

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Die Black Metal-Band ASH MAGICK hat einen Labeldeal bei Apocalyptic Witchcraft unterschrieben. Im Zuge dessen hat das türkische Duo aus Istanbul mit „Rituals of Anathematic East“ ein neues und drittes Album veröffentlicht.

„Dieses Album wurde von einer Pilgerreise nach Mardin inspiriert, einer Region, die von alter mesopotamischer Zauberei und syrischer Mystik geprägt ist. Jeder Track ist ein eigenständiger Ritus – ein zeremonielles Tor zu Geschichten über Flüche der Vorfahren, vergessene Beschwörungen und die verschleierte Magie des Ostens“, sagt die Band.

Mit „Beyond Dara’s Gates“ gibt es nun ein Lyric-Video.

Release-Termin für das Album war der 29. August 2025.

ASH MAGICK „Rituals of Anathematic East“ Tracklist
01 Intro – Ü�Ü�Ü�Ü�Ü� Ü�Ü�Ü�Ü�
02 The Kneeling Wretch
03 Beyond Dara’s Gates (Lyric-Video bei YouTube)
04 Sacred Flames of Anathema (Audio bei YouTube)
05 Baptistery
06 Interlude
07 Silent Ruin, None Evade
08 Day of Resurrection (Audio bei YouTube)
09 Outro – Ü�Ü�Ü� Ü�Ü�Ü�Ü�Ü�Ü�

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Das Alternative Metal-Solo-Projekt von SARAH HALTER hat mit „Agitation“ eine neue Single veröffentlicht. Davor hat die US-amerikanische Musikerin aus Pittsburgh neben einer Handvoll Singles auch die EP „The Doom That Binds Us“ veröffentlicht. Produziert wurde der Song, der sich mit emotionaler Unruhe und innerem Aufruhr beschäftigt, von Benjamin Hull.

SARAH HALTER „Agitation“ (Audio bei Bandcamp)

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The way it makes me feel, infection
It’s almost like a tongue on the back of my neck
I never had a choice, connection
I never had a chance to catch my breath
Nine Inch Nails return with a jolt of distorted electricity in their new video for “As Alive As You Need Me To Be.” Making its debut back in July, the track is pulled from the soundtrack album the band scored for Tron: Ares. Here, Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross plunge headlong into fever-dream abstraction, their presence refracted through monochrome static and crimson haze. The video is both a milestone—the first proper Nine Inch Nails video to feature Ross, and the first on-screen appearance of Reznor since 2013’s “Came Back Haunted.”

Directed by Maxime Quoilin, the film seethes with tension: hands clawing from the void, barren landscapes gnawed at by distortion, and images that crack apart like damaged tape. Shot by cinematographer Xiaolong G Liu, with edits from Quoilin and Aloïs Champougny, and augmented by @1080p.world’s VFX, the video burns like an analog transmission caught between channels, as if NIN themselves were struggling to break free from the interference.

Musically, “As Alive As You Need Me To Be” lunges forward on jagged synths, sharp percussion, and a pummeling low end that channels both retro-futuristic 1980s electro and the serrated edge of Nine Inch Nails’ trademark industrial rock. Reznor’s vocals are ferocious, breaking through distortion-pressed choruses while ghostly, vocoded layers underscore a descent where consciousness is downloaded and compressed digitally. Yet the track feels mechanical yet feverishly human, collapsing the distance between steel and skin. Lyrically, it is a plea for connection in the midst of suffocation: intimacy described as infection, desire consuming the space between two bodies until there is no doubt or escape. When Reznor cries, “Give me something to believe in / All these hands have got a hold of me,” the song becomes both a hymn and a confession.

Watch the video for “As Alive As You Need Me To Be” below:



Nine Inch Nails are currently in the midst of their **Peel It Back 2025 tour**, their first full-scale outing since 2022. The run has been hailed as a career-spanning triumph, with critics praising both its intensity and theatricality. Across the dates, Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross have unleashed a blistering 20-song setlist that threads together feral new material with fan favorites like “Wish,” “The Hand That Feeds,” “Closer,” “March of the Pigs,” David Bowie’s “I’m Afraid of Americans,” and the crushing closer “Hurt.” Despite the intensity, there have been flashes of levity: at their Philadelphia show, Reznor broke into laughter mid-set when Santa suddenly appeared, crowd-surfing across the pit—an image as absurd as it was unforgettable. With Boys Noize in support, the band is storming through arenas with a show that balances raw aggression, spectral beauty, and a love of their fans, old and new.

Upcoming Nine Inch Nails 2025 Tour Dates

September 5: Raleigh, NC – Lenovo Center (w/ Boys Noize)
September 6: Nashville, TN – Bridgestone Arena (w/ Boys Noize)
September 9: Duluth, GA – Gas South Arena (w/ Boys Noize)
September 10: Tampa, FL – Benchmark International Arena (w/ Boys Noize)
September 12: Houston, TX – Toyota Center (w/ Boys Noize)
September 13: Fort Worth, TX – Dickies Arena (w/ Boys Noize)
September 16: Phoenix, AZ – PHX Arena (w/ Boys Noize)
September 18: Los Angeles, CA – Kia Forum (Night 1) (w/ Boys Noize)
September 19: Los Angeles, CA – Kia Forum (Night 2) (w/ Boys Noize)

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Morrissey has announced that he is looking to sell off “all of his business interests” in The Smiths to any interested party or investor. The former Smiths frontman declared in a statement on his website that he’s been “burnt out by any and all connections” to his ex-bandmates and has “no choice” but to sever ties. In what he’s dubbing the “A Soul for Sale” offer, Morrissey says the deal would encompass everything from the band’s name and iconic artwork to his share of song rights and royalties.

Morrissey’s message – posted September 3rd on the Morrissey Central site – finds the singer venting that he’s had “enough of malicious associations” with guitarist Johnny Marr, drummer Mike Joyce, and the late bassist Andy Rourke. “With my entire life I have paid my rightful dues to these songs and these images,” Morrissey wrote, adding that he now wants to “live disassociated from those who wish me nothing but ill will and destruction.” adding that “The songs are me – they are no one else – but they bring with them business communications that go to excessive lengths to create as much dread and spite year after year.” He then signs off by imploring “serious investors” to make their inquiry email — eaves7760@gmail.com.

Everything Must Go: What’s Included in the Sale
In his announcement, Morrissey rattled off a comprehensive list of assets he’s willing to part with — essentially, his portion of the Smiths’ entire legacy. According to the singer, the for-sale package includes his share of:

The Smiths’ name (as created by Morrissey)

All The Smiths artwork (as created by Morrissey)

The band’s merchandising rights

All Smiths songs (lyrics and music)

All synchronization/licensing rights

The Smiths’ master recordings

All publishing contractual rights

No asking price was given, but the 64-year-old vocalist signaled that any offer would be entertained in hopes of a clean break.

But there’s an immediate complication: Morrissey only ever owned about half of The Smiths to begin with. Guitarist Johnny Marr holds the legal rights to the other 50% of the band’s music and brand. In fact, Marr registered “The Smiths” as a trademark in 2024 after discovering it hadn’t been filed, later offering Morrissey joint ownership of it — but only if Morrissey signed the necessary paperwork. That leaves any prospective buyer with, at best, Morrissey’s half-interest, raising questions about how much practical control or value the deal would provide.

The Smiths’ messy legal history is long established. Drummer Mike Joyce successfully sued Morrissey and Marr in the 1990s over royalties, with a judge memorably labeling Morrissey “devious, truculent and unreliable.” Joyce has just published a memoir, The Drums, revisiting his side of the story — another reminder that the band’s legacy has generated as much courtroom drama as it has musical reverence.

The timing of Morrissey’s offer comes as he continues to spar publicly with Johnny Marr over The Smiths’ legacy. Last year, Morrissey claimed that promoter AEG had extended a “lucrative offer” for a Smiths reunion tour — an offer Morrissey says he accepted, only for Marr to reject it. Marr, for his part, has said he turned down a huge payday to re-form the group, citing irreconcilable differences with his former bandmate.

More recently, Morrissey accused Marr of blocking a planned greatest-hits compilation called Smiths Rule OK!, along with a 40th anniversary box set of the band’s debut LP and a reissue of “Hand in Glove.” Morrissey claimed Warner Records had been on board until Marr nixed the cover artwork he submitted. Marr’s side countered that he simply declined another compilation because there were already too many in existence.

With his stake now officially on the block, Morrissey looks determined to sever ties once and for all — even if it means auctioning off half of The Smiths. Whether anyone is willing to gamble on such a fractured partnership is another matter, especially when the obvious question hangs in the air: what if Marr himself offered to buy out Morrissey’s share, and would Moz even sell to him?

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Joel Gibb, the visionary behind The Hidden Cameras, returns with his seventh studio album “BRONTO”...

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Nine Inch Nails have released the official music video for “As Alive As You Need...

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The face in the mirror is a stranger, carved by cruel light into angles of shame and doubt. The skin seems to ripple with flaws that no one else can see, yet they burn like brands across the mind. To live inside such a gaze is to endure a relentless storm of judgment, a tribunal without mercy. But each day brings a small rebellion: a breath held steady, a step taken forward, a whisper that the body is not the enemy. Through patience and pain, the fragile hope grows, that self and flesh may one day reconcile.

Beneath the glare of circuitry, where machines breathe their own heavy gospel, Seattle’s God Tongue exhume a furious hymn with Panic. The track is a blunt force ritual, pulling its blood from EBM’s steel-jawed pressure, acid’s writhing phosphor, and the stripped pulse of minimal wave beats. From the opening bar, the air tightens, as if the room itself is contracting under the weight of synths wired to rupture.

Camille’s voice claws through the song: half-chant, half-cry, skirting the cadence of sprechstimme. It is a human tether lashed to Isku Katerwol’s serrated electronics, the OB6 and Drum Trax spitting voltage like sparks against stone. The bassline stomps without apology, a boot through glass, while echoes rumble in subterranean chambers, collapsing on themselves like buildings felled in dream logic. The song feels, at times, like a medieval ritual,  churning like a dark synth reflection of the Virgin Prunes’ “Pagan Love Song.”

Panic is more than the mechanics of assault, however. It is confession pressed into rhythm: the ache of seeing a warped body in the mirror, the daily siege of self-doubt. Every verse feels like a hand pressed hard against the chest, measuring the slow drum of survival. Midway through, the track tears open into a massive bridge, a hammering sequence that vaults the song from claustrophobic dread into something close to deliverance.

Panic feels like a duel in the Coliseum where, just as the dust settles, a new adversary enters the arena. Each surge of bass is another gauntlet thrown down; each synth stab is a reminder that doubt is like the heads of a hydra: when one is severed, another grows.  Here, the battle is laid bare: the fight against one’s reflection.

The track doubles as a love song, though one marked with bruises. Camille sings as if to a partner, or perhaps to the fractured self, and the language quivers with that double exposure: both plea and embrace, both collapse and renewal. The heart is not steady, but it still beats, bound to rhythms larger than its own.

Listen to Panic below and order the single here.

Panic by God Tongue

Released as the second single from their debut album Liminal, out September 3rd, 2025, Panic captures the raw collision that first bound Camille and Isku together.

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  Lord of the Lost maintains a prodigious pace with today’s release of “Raveyard,” a new single that sees the German dark rock band collaborating with Finnish rapper and songwriter Käärijä. Produced by Chris Harms with Corvin Bahn and Benjamin Mundigler, and mixed by Bengt Jaeschke, the track was recorded “At our little home studios and all around the world [..]

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Something for the hardcore fans of Kraftwerk. Out soon are two archival live broadcast titles...

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The new Norwegian project from Tarjei Krogh and Ismael Henriksen, Concrete Nocturne, released the digital single ‘Ghosts’ in late July.

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As summer ends, Berlin is set to host a phenomenal synth to kick off the Fall season. On September 12 and 13, 2025, the city will host the inaugural edition of Lieber Tot, a two-day festival dedicated to synth and minimal wave, staged at ÆDEN on the banks of the Landwehr Canal.

Behind the festival are seasoned names from the capital’s nocturnal landscape: Else Edelstahl, mastermind of the 1920s-inspired event Bohème Sauvage; Paura Diamante, musician, DJ, and producer with roots in Eisengrau and Queer Summer Splash; as well as DJs and promoters Testbild and Sharleen Voyage, both known for Eisengrau and Letzte Welle.

Positioned as a platform outside the usual mainstream circuits, Lieber Tot assembles a cast of international artists whose work cuts through the mechanics of retro and contemporary electronic culture. For the first time, Berlin will see its own dedicated festival for the ever-expanding world of synth and minimal wave…a glaring absence in a city otherwise defined by its electronic heritage.

Expect a theatre of excess and underground bravado, fusing cabaret menace with queer counterculture and nightclub delirium! On Saturday, Berlin drag icon Antina Christ will summon her notorious “Spook House”, joined by Christina Corpse, Prince Gabriel, and Sasha Kills.

ÆDEN will be divided across two floors, featuring a sprawling garden space that will shape the setting for concerts, club nights, and performance works. Running from 7 pm until late on both nights, Lieber Tot is poised to close a conspicuous gap in Berlin’s festival landscape, where synth and minimal wave finally receive their own home.

Live Performances from:

Staatseinde (Utrecht) delivers an electrifying live assault: synthesizers throb, vocals tease, and genres collide—their set ricochets from Wave to EBM, NDW, to punk, with fearless detours in between. Imagine Kraftwerk wired on amphetamines shaking hands with the Sex Pistols tripping on acid, and you’re somewhere close.

Artificial Renaissance by Wave Tension Records

From the ancient catacombs of Athens, musician Eddie Dark (Athens)  rises as an enigmatic figure: part phantom, part raconteur. caught between a grindhouse cry and a synth-pop frequency.

S.T.D by Eddie Dark

Night in Athens (London) is the solo dark‑synth project of Greek artist Tina Boleti, born in East London during the 2020 lockdown. Rooted in the DIY punk scene, her sound blends coldwave, darkwave, EBM, and minimal synth. Her debut Metropolis arrived in 2021; The critically acclaimed LP Wasted Reflektions followed in 2024.

I Search For A Sign by Night in Athens

Tango Mangalore (Athens) is the one-man project of a sole sailor that focuses on the obscure and bizarre folklore around the world of The Sea.

𝑟𝑒-𝑉𝑎𝑀𝑝 by Tango Mangalore

Stahlnetz (Wuppertal) are a Wuppertal‑based minimal‑electro and synth‑pop duo, founded by Jochen Rausch and Detlev Cremer. Their debut LP Wir sind glücklich (1982), produced by Conny Plank, featured the NDW classic Vor all den Jahren. After a long hiatus, they returned in 2024 with renewed live activity and new material.

Zinnsoldaten by Stahlnetz

Classically trained and based in Paris, Madmoizel (Paris) blends neo‑classical, post‑punk, new‑wave, and electronic music. As composer, performer, and producer, she layers electribes, synths, and vocals into theatrical, dynamic shows.

All of you by MADMOIZEL

Berlin‑based duo Infant Sanchos , comprised of Leona Aber and Mono Max, forge confrontational synth‑punk and wave‑noir with razor‑sharp beats and abrasive electronics. Their 2019 s/t and 2022’s Schäume trace a path of DIY experimentalism: industrial therapy in sound for the post‑depression generation.

Den Bach Herunter by Infant Sanchos

She Can’t Afford Mascara (Copenhagen) is the darkwave/EBM solo project of Pakistani-Danish artist Adam Shazard, rooted in Berlin and Copenhagen’s queer underground. Forged from stolen cosmetics and gothic urgency, the 2022 album Cemetery Gangbang merges new-beat goth, EBM drama, and Pakistani musical heritage into a lurid, theatrical maelstrom.

Cemetary Gangbang by She Can’t Afford Mascara

Verrottet (Bochum)

Verrottet is a solo EBM/Death Wave project from Germany’s Ruhr region, founded in 2022 by Peter Panik. Released in 2023 via the cult label Ván Records, its uncompromising sound channels a fascination with death, horror, and decay, drawing influence from old-school EBM, Cold Wave, and Black Metal traditions.

Dead Of Tomorrow by Verrottet & King Dude

After the concerts, both evenings will continue with club nights featuring top DJs from the international and local synth and minimal wave underground.

DJs:

Graftak (Club Solitaire/Antwerp)
Locus Solus (Bunker Bal/Paris)
Mat Zwart (Waveteef/Antwerp)
Polina Y (Mutant Transmissions/Bruges)
M & Ringo (Shockwave/Leipzig)
Bianca & Tom (Stanze Fredde/Turin)
Paura Diamante (Eisengrau/Berlin)
Testbild (Eisengrau & Letzte Welle/Berlin)
Sharleen Voyage (Eisengrau/Berlin)

Tickets and more info can be found here.

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  Shoegaze and post-rock project SoftSun has announced its sophomore album, titled Eternal Sunrise, offering an organic blend of Pia Isaksen’s melodic bass compositions and ethereal vocals, balanced by Gary Arce’s cinematic guitar soundscapes. Joined for this record by drummer/producer Robert Garson [..]

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  Crippling Alcoholism has released a music video for “Ladies’ Night,” serving as the fourth single from the New England gothic/noise rock outfit’s soon-to-be-released album. Released on September 2, the video features footage submitted to the band by fans, making for a frenetic and disjointed narrative that mirrors [..]

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  Six years since the release of her acclaimed Phantoms album, Azam Ali has at last revealed the first taste of her forthcoming studio effort on COP International. The celebrated electronic artist and vocalist calls “To Pieces” the most visceral and raw track of the Synesthesia album, calling it “a meditation on betrayal [..]

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Nero Kane’s new single As an Angel’s Voice comes veiled in a haunting short film by Samantha Stella, a chamber of symbols and relics that presses time into a loop. Black-and-white images stagger between ruin and reverie: an abandoned house, its walls breathing with the absence of human warmth; a woman clutching a photograph as though it might burn through her hands. The air feels suspended, as though the players are neither alive nor dead, but drifting somewhere in between, caught in a constant series of beginnings without any progress. There is a hush in the frame, a silence heavy with ritual.

The music, bringing to mind Dead Can Dance, Nick Cave, and Joszef Van Wissem, carries the same solemn procession. Kane’s thundering voice, sepulchral yet tender, glides across skeletal guitar lines, tracing the kind of chill that evokes Nico’s tragic poems.

“As if Bela Tarr and Sergei Parajanov found themselves with Alejandro Jodorowsky in the American desert,” Stella remarks; and indeed, the images wander like pilgrims into a cinema of hallucination. Each gesture carries the gravity of ritual, the suggestion of a liturgy assembled from lost devotion.

“A desert of the soul. The Love we were never given, a flutter of wings, the fall into the End. The Eternal,” says Kane, his words landing like epitaphs, spare and absolute, carved into rose-coloured granite.

The video for As an Angel’s Voice is less story than séance as it bends reality into allegory. Kane and Stella appear as imprisoned souls, recalling the overturned roles of life and death in The Others. They move as if embalmed by memory, their gestures thick with finality. Strange, dreamlike, nightmarish…the images circle, binding the song into eternity. Their faces pale as relics, they drift through corridors of grief, caught in cycles that echo the ceaseless circling of liturgy itself. The desert, both American and inward, becomes less geography than metaphysical sentence.

Watch “As an Angel’s Voice” below:

For the Love, the Death and the Poetry, Kane’s fourth studio album due 26 September via Subsound Records, promises a folk liturgy where psychomagic mysticism crosses desolate landscapes. Here, the single foreshadows that journey: a dirge paced like a funeral for what never came to pass, the intimation of eternity dressed in dust and light.

Kane and Stella’s union is more than collaboration; it is communion, staged across Europe, the UK, Los Angeles; inside churches, museums, festivals where the air itself seems to consecrate their sound. Their stage has hosted devotions beside the likes of Zola Jesus, Darkher, Marissa Nadler, each night folding myth and mortality into performance.

For the Love, the Death and the Poetry was curated by Matt Bordin (Squadra Omega), producer of Tales of Faith and Lunacy (Nasoni Records Berlin/BloodRock, 2020) and Of Knowledge and Revelation (Subsound Records, 2022).

The video for As An Angel’s Voice will be screened at the MAIIIM Centre for Contemporary Arts in Genoa at the beginning of October 2025,  in conjunction with the anthological exhibition of Samantha Stella.

Listen to As An Angel’s Voice below. The vinyl is available in a limited edition in matte white and black. The CD and digital formats contain the track Unto Thee Oh Lord, not featured on the vinyl. You can pre-order For The Love, The Death and the Poetry here and here.

For the Love, the Death and the Poetry by Nero Kane

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Nero Kane’s new single As an Angel’s Voice comes veiled in a haunting short film by Samantha Stella, a chamber of symbols and relics that presses time into a loop. Black-and-white images stagger between ruin and reverie: an abandoned house, its walls breathing with the absence of human warmth; a woman clutching a photograph as though it might burn through her hands. The air feels suspended, as though the players are neither alive nor dead, but drifting somewhere in between, caught in a constant series of beginnings without any progress. There is a hush in the frame, a silence heavy with ritual.

The music, bringing to mind Dead Can Dance, Nick Cave, and Joszef Van Wissem, carries the same solemn procession. Kane’s thundering voice, sepulchral yet tender, glides across skeletal guitar lines, tracing the kind of chill that evokes Nico’s tragic poems.

“As if Bela Tarr and Sergei Parajanov found themselves with Alejandro Jodorowsky in the American desert,” Stella remarks; and indeed, the images wander like pilgrims into a cinema of hallucination. Each gesture carries the gravity of ritual, the suggestion of a liturgy assembled from lost devotion.

“A desert of the soul. The Love we were never given, a flutter of wings, the fall into the End. The Eternal,” says Kane, his words landing like epitaphs, spare and absolute, carved into rose-coloured granite.

The video for As an Angel’s Voice is less story than séance as it bends reality into allegory. Kane and Stella appear as imprisoned souls, recalling the overturned roles of life and death in The Others. They move as if embalmed by memory, their gestures thick with finality. Strange, dreamlike, nightmarish…the images circle, binding the song into eternity. Their faces pale as relics, they drift through corridors of grief, caught in cycles that echo the ceaseless circling of liturgy itself. The desert, both American and inward, becomes less geography than metaphysical sentence.

Watch “As an Angel’s Voice” below:

For the Love, the Death and the Poetry, Kane’s fourth studio album due 26 September via Subsound Records, promises a folk liturgy where psychomagic mysticism crosses desolate landscapes. Here, the single foreshadows that journey: a dirge paced like a funeral for what never came to pass, the intimation of eternity dressed in dust and light.

Kane and Stella’s union is more than collaboration; it is communion, staged across Europe, the UK, Los Angeles; inside churches, museums, festivals where the air itself seems to consecrate their sound. Their stage has hosted devotions beside the likes of Zola Jesus, Darkher, Marissa Nadler, each night folding myth and mortality into performance.

For the Love, the Death and the Poetry was curated by Matt Bordin (Squadra Omega), producer of Tales of Faith and Lunacy (Nasoni Records Berlin/BloodRock, 2020) and Of Knowledge and Revelation (Subsound Records, 2022).

The video for As An Angel’s Voice will be screened at the MAIIIM Centre for Contemporary Arts in Genoa at the beginning of October 2025,  in conjunction with the anthological exhibition of Samantha Stella.

Listen to As An Angel’s Voice below. The vinyl is available in a limited edition in matte white and black. The CD and digital formats contain the track Unto Thee Oh Lord, not featured on the vinyl. You can pre-order For The Love, The Death and the Poetry here and here.

For the Love, the Death and the Poetry by Nero Kane

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Mit "Occult Pleasures" haben The Devil & The Universe den Titeltrack ihres kommenden Albums ausgekoppelt. Mehr Infos und das Feature mit Alex Svenson (Then Comes Silence) im Stream hier!

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Xenoblut – schon der Name klingt nach kalter Fremdartigkeit und pulsierendem Blutstrom, nach einer Kraft, die irgendwo zwischen Techno-Club, Kathedrale und Schmelzofen lebt. Hinter dem Projekt steckt...

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Die Black ’n‘ Rollers VALLETTA stellen mit „Cold Death“ einen neuen Song vor:

Der Song ist auf der kommenden EP „Bitter Lucid Truth“ zu hören, die am 24. Oktober 2025 via Lifeforce Records veröffentlicht wird.

„Bitter Lucid Truth“ enststand  in Zusammenarbeit mit Al Jacob im Warrior Sound Studio in Chapel Hill, N.C., das Mastering ist von Matt Tuttle.

VALLETTA „Bitter Lucid Truth“ Tracklist & Cover
1. Blood and Jesus
2. Cold Death (Video bei YouTube)
3. Aggressor
4. Doing Well
5. Spitting the Word

 

VALETTA Line-Up

Justin Valletta – Drums
Cody Rogers – Bass
Keenan Carroll – Guitar / Lead Vocals
Will Goodyear – Guitar / Backing Vocals

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Nach elf Jahren bringt die deutsche Speed Metal-Band WARRANT ein neues Album raus: „The Speed Of Metal“ erscheint am 10. Oktober 2025 via Massacre Records.

Die erste Single ist „Falling Down“:

 

„The Speed Of Metal“ wurde aufgenommen und gemischt von Martin Buchwalter im Gernhart Studio, das Mastering ist von Michael Schwabe, das Cover-Artwork von Gyula Havancsak.

Neben neuem Material enthält „The Speed Of Metal“ den Track „It’s Up to You“, der ursprünglich 1988 geschrieben wurde, sowie „Windy City“, eine SWEET-Coverversion.

 

WARRANT (D) “The Speed Of Metal” Tracklist & Cover

1.    Blood Moon Prelude
2.    Cut Into Pieces
3.    Demons
4.    Falling Down (Video bei YouTube)
5.    Windy City
6.    Cry Out
7.    Salvation
8.    Regain the Fire
9.    It’s Up to You
10. Scream for Metal

WARRANT Konzerttermine 2025
20.09.2025 DE Schwerin – Bus Stop
26.09.2025 DE Emden – Live Music Center
27.09.2025 DE Essen – Zeche Carl
10.10.2025 BE Charleroi – MC Apache
11.10.2025 BE Deinze – Elpee
17.10.2025 DE Bad Friedrichshall – Lemmys
18.10.2025 DE Passau – Zauberberg
24.10.2025 DE Mannheim – 7er Club
25.10.2025 DE Düsseldorf – Ratinger Hof
12.12.2025 GR Athen – Athens Extreme

SPEED INVASION ’26 TOUR:  KNIFE & WARRANT
10.01.2026 PT Mangualde – Mangualde Metal Fest
21..03.2026 DE Duesseldorf – Musikzimmer (DDT)
27.03.2026 DE Oldenburg – MTS
28.03.2026 DE Essen – Don’t Panic (Matinee)
29.03.2026 DE Kassel – Goldgrube
30.03.2026 DE Bamberg – Live Club
31.03.2026 DE Frankfurt – Ponyhof
01.04.2026 DE Stuttgart – Schwarzer Keiler
02.04.2026 DE Burglengenfeld – VAZ
03.04.2026 CZ Uherské – HradištÄ� Club
04.04.2026 DE Leipzig – Bandhaus Keller

WARRANT Line-up: 

Jörg Juraschek – Gesang & Bass
Michael Dietz – Gitarre
Adrian Weiss – Gitarre
Marius Lamm – Schlagzeug

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Die Death Metal-Band NEW WORLD DEPRESSION veröffentlicht am 19. September 2025 ihr neues Album „Abysmal Void“ via Testimony Records. Das siebte Studioalbum der Band entstand Anfang 2025 im Soundloge Studio, Produzent war Jörg Uken.

Nun hat die Band auch den Track „Marching On Our Gracves“ geteilt.

Die Münsterländer stellen mit einem Video zu „The Vault“ vor einigen Wochen einen ersten Song vor. „Abysmal Void“ folgt auf  „Interment Of Sins“ (erschienen 2023).

NEW WORLD DEPRESSION „Abysmal Void“ Cover

 
NEW WORLD DEPRESSION Line-up:
Sascha „Hütte“ Twardon – vocals
Julian Schulz – guitar
Ritchie Bellis – guitar
Stefan „Sig“ Plüth – drums
Sascha Müller – bass

NEW WORLD DEPRESSION Konzerttermine 2025
31 May 2025 Solingen (DE) Cobra, Doomed to Death Festival
20 JUN 2025 Słupsk (DE) Motor Rock Pub
21 JUN 2025 Chojnice (PL) Chojnickie Centrum Kultury, InterTony Festival
12 JUL 2025 Schwerin (DE) Club Zenit +Benediction
12 JUL 2025 Saarbrücken (DE) Garage +Benediction
20 SEP 2025 Villingen (DE) Klosterhof, Black Forest Fest VIII

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Der Podcast „Fuck you very, very much! Die größten Beefs im Musikbiz“ von ARD Kultur geht in die dritte Staffel. Musikerin Jennifer Weist und Musikjournalist Markus Kavka erzählen ab 4. September in sechs neuen Folgen von legendären Streitfällen quer durch Genres und Jahrzehnte.

Folgenübersicht 3. Staffel:

Folge 1: Drake vs. Kendrick Lamar, 04. September

Folge 2: Heino vs. Jan Delay, 11. September

Folge 3: RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS vs. MIKE PATTON/FAITH NO MORE, 18. September

Folge 4: Britney Spears vs Christina Aguilera, 25. September

Folge 5: LIMP BIZKIT vs. SLIPKNOT, 02. Oktober

Folge 6: Nicki Minaj vs Cardi B, 09. Oktober

Jeden Donnerstag gibt’s eine neue Episode (à ca. 50 Minuten) in der  ARD AUDIOTHEK ( https://1.ard.de/FYVVM ), auf ardkultur.de und überall, wo es Podcasts gibt. In der Mediathek sind außerdem die Staffeln 1 und 2 abrufbar.

 

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Mit "Raveyard" haben Lord Of The Lost die erste Single von "Opvs Noir Vol. 2" ausgekoppelt. Mehr Infos und das Musikvideo zum Feature mit ESC-Mitbewerber Käärijä hier!

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Das Kulturzentrum BACKSTAGE MÜNCHEN ist mit seinen drei Indoor-Hallen und einer überdachten Open-Air-Bühne nicht zuletzt für Rock- und Metalheads ein beliebtes Anlaufziel in der bayerischen Landeshauptstadt.

Welche Bands und Künstler:innen sich für September und Oktober 2025 angekündigt haben, haben wir im Folgenden zusammengefasst.

Tickets für die jeweiligen Shows gibt es u.a. über die offizielle Homepage der Location.

Backstage München – Konzerte im September 2025

04.09.2025 – KING 810, BANKS ARCADE, ACCVSED (Halle)
05.09.2025 – DIE KRUPPS, SCHATTENMANN (Halle)
06.09.2025 – CANCER BATS, DON’T TRY, CANINE, FACING THE SWARM THOUGHT (Halle)
06.09.2025 – HAGGARD (Werk)
07.09.2025 – ANIMA SOUND SYSTEM (Club)
08.09.2025 – PORTAL, IMPETUOUS RITUAL (Halle)
10.09.2025 – ATHEIST, ORIGIN, GORGATRON, DEATH RATTLE, INFESTED ANGEL (Halle)
10.09.2025 – PRIMAL FEAR, ELEINE (Werk)
13.09.2025 – AMPEX, EXISTENT (Club)
13.09.2025 – SLIME (Werk)
14.09.2025 – AGATHA IS DEAD! (Club)
15.09.2025 – THE SOAP GIRLS (Club)
18.09.2025 – CHAOSBAY, SENNA, THE DJINGERBREAD EXPERIENCE (Club)
19.09.2025 – ARBEITSGRUPPE LOBOTOMIE, SEEKERS ARE LOVERS, DAS NEUE ELEND (Club)
19.09.2025 – STORM SEEKER, WALDKAUZ (Halle)
20.09.2025 – MALM, THE CROMPTONS, UNARMORED, KHAZADOOM (Club)
21.09.2025 – DER WEG EINER FREIHEIT, HERETOIR (Halle)
22.09.2025 – THE DARK, SEVEN BLOOD, MAVIS (Club)
24.09.2025 – NIGHT VERSES, DVNE (Halle)
25.09.2025 – OCEANS, DELIVER THE GALAXY (Club)
26.09.2025 – DEAD BOB, SUDDENLY THE GOAT (Club)
26.09.2025 – VANDEN PLAS, IVANHOE, WOLFEN RELOADED (Halle)
26.09.2025 – DARK TRANQUILLITY, SOEN, EQUILIBRIUM, IOTUNN (Werk)
27.09.2025 – TSS (Club)
27.09.2025 – BLEED FROM WITHIN, AFTER THE BURIAL, GREAT AMERICAN GHOST (Werk)
28.09.2025 – STILLBIRTH, DEHUMANIZING ITATRAIN WORSHIP, PHRYMERIAL, EMBRACE YOUR PUNISHMENT (Club)
29.09.2025 – WITCH CLUB SATAN (Club)
30.09.2025 – LORDI, NULL POSITIV, BLOOD WHITE (Werk)

Backstage München – Konzerte im Oktober 2025

01.10.2025 – POINTS OF CONCEPTION (Club)
02.10.2025 – ZERRE, SWEEPING DEATH (Club)
02.10.2025 – LEFT TO DIE (Halle)
03.10.2025 – HELDMASCHINE (Halle)
03.10.2025 – WIND ROSE, ORDEN OGAN, ANGUS MCSIX (TonHalle)
03.10.2025 – APRIL ART, LEAGUE OF DISTORTION (Werk)
04.10.2025 – L.A. WITCH (Club)
04.10.2025 – TANKSCAPDA (Werk)
04.10.2025 – 100 KILO HERZ, SWALLOW’S ROSE (Halle)
05.10.2025 – PROJECT PITCHFORK (Werk)
06.10.2025 – LACRIMOSA, [SOON] (Halle)
07.10.2025 – ERIC STECKEL (Club)
07.10.2025 – NASTY, MISSING LINK, DAGGER THREAT, DOGBITE (Halle)
08.10.2025 – THE BOSSHOSS (Werk)
08.10.2025 – FUN LOVIN‘ CRIMINALS, TOMAS DONCKER (Halle)
09.10.2025 – INTERVALS, THE INTERSPHERE (Club)
09.10.2025 – RAUHBEIN (Halle)
10.10.2025 – ERIK COHEN (Club)
10.10.2025 – KEEP IT LOW FESTIVAL
11.10.2025 – KEEP IT LOW FESTIVAL
12.10.2025 – DARKEST HOUR, BLEEDING THROUGH, SHAI HULUD, DENIAL OF LIFE (Halle)
12.10.2025 – REIS AGAINST THE SPÜLMACHINE (Club)
13.10.2025 – WOLFHEART, BEFORE THE DAWN, SUOTANA, FULL HOUSE BREW CREW (Halle)
13.10.2025 – CARL VERHEYEN BAND (Club)
13.10.2025 – ATREYU, ZERO 9:36 (Werk)
14.10.2025 – TEMPLETON PEK, AVALANCHE, ESTRELLA DRIVE (Club)
14.10.2025 – THE DARKNESS, DEA MATRONA (Werk) ***ausverkauft***
15.10.2025 – WUCAN (Halle)
16.10.2025 – JOYCE MANOR (Werk)
16.10.2025 – AS DECEMBER FALLS, REDHOOK (Halle)
17.10.2025 – HOT WATER MUSIC, MODERN LIFE IS WAR, STRIKE ANYWHERE, A WILHELM SCREAM, MAKE WAR (Werk)
17.10.2025 – DEAD PHOENIX, LEYKA, MAY THE TEMPEST (Club)
17.10.2025 – FEUERSCHWANZ, LORD OF THE LOST, THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON (Zenith)
19.10.2025 – GERTENA (Club)
20.10.2025 – DEAD POSEY, PROSPECTIVE, COLD CULTURE (Club)
22.10.2025 – H.E.A.T., FORMOSA, MIDNIGHT DANGER (Halle)
23.10.2025 – MAN WITH A MISSION (Werk)
23.10.2025 – BLUTHUND, GRELL (Club)
24.10.2025 – BLOODSUCKING ZOMBIES FROM OUTER SPACE (Halle)
24.10.2025 – ALL FOR METAL, GRAILKNIGHTS (Werk)
24.10.2025 – VITA, KITANA (Club)
25.10.2025 – LUSTFINGER, DOLL CIRCUS (Club)
25.10.2025 – Girls Got Rhythm – Female Tribute Night (Halle)
26.10.2025 – BLOODRED HOURGLASS, LUNA KILLS (Halle)
26.10.2025 – LACUNA COIL, NONPOINT (Werk)
27.10.2025 – SUNN O))) (Werk)
27.10.2025 – THORNHILL, OCEAN GROVE, BLOOM (Halle)
27.10.2025 – PLANET OF ZEUS (Club)
28.10.2025 – PARADISE LOST, MESSA, LACRIMAS PROFUNDERE (Werk)
28.10.2025 – SARI SCHORR (Club)
28.10.2025 – RONNIE ROMERO & GUS G., LAST TEMPTATION (Halle)
29.10.2025 – ORBIT CULTURE, GAEREA, ATLAS (Werk)
29.10.2025 – AD INFINITUM, SEVEN SPIRES, TULIP (Halle)
29.10.2025 – ROME, UTOPIAE (Club)
30.10.2025 – RUINS OF PERCEPTION, TO OBEY A TYRANT, SERVED COLD (Club)
30.10.2025 – MALEVOLENCE, SPEED, DYING WISH, PSYCHO FRAME (Werk)
30.10.2025 – LEFTOVERS (Halle)
31.10.2025 – MONO INC. (Werk) ***ausverkauft***
31.10.2025 – Smells Like… Halloween 2025 Party

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Die Hell Nights von The Other sind längst Kult – in diesem Jahr tragen Rod Usher und Co ihr Halloween-Festival auf fünf Bühnen und bringen Wednesday 13, Blitzkid und Calabrese mit! Alle Termine hier.

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Mit „The Devil’s Masquerade“ wird am 12. September 2025 via Massacre Records das neue Album der Heavy Metal-Band HELSTAR erscheinen. Es ist das elfte Album der Band rund um Sänger James Rivera (SEVEN WITCHES) und Gitarrist Larry Barragan, welcher das Album in den Hombre Malo Studios aufgenommen und gemixt hat. Für das Mastering zeichnete Robert Colwell verantwortlich. Den Titeltrack „The Devil’s Masquerade“ kann man nun vorab als Stream hören.

Textlich taucht das Album in Geschichten über Vampirismus, dämonische Besessenheit und den Untergang der Menschheit ein – inspiriert von Kult-Horrorfilmen und -serien wie „Annabelle“, „Midnight Mass“, „The Exorcist: Pope“ und klassischen „Twilight Zone“-Episoden. Vorab gibt es den Track „Seek Out Your Sins“ zu hören.

Live erleben kann man die Band im Winter 2025 – auch in Deutschland sind drei Konzerte geplant: München, Oberhausen sowie Stuttgart stehen auf dem Tourplan (Termine s. unten).

HELSTAR „The Devil’s Masquerade“ Tracklist
1. Avernus
2. The Devil’s Masquerade (Audio bei YouTube)
3. Stygian Miracles
4. Carcass For A King
5. The Staff Of Truth
6. Seek Out Your Sins (Audio bei YouTube)
7. The Haunting Mirror
8. The Black Wall
9. Suerte De Muleta
10. I Am The Way

HELSTAR Tourdaten 2025

28.11.2025   Greece, Thessaloniki, Eightball
29.11.2025   Greece, Athens, An Club
30.11.2025   Greece, Agrinio, Metal Union
03.12.2025   Slovenia, Medvode, Klub Jedro
04.12.2025   Italy, Torino, El Barrio
06.12.2025   Germany, Oberhausen, Helvete
07.12.2025   Belgium, Diest, Hell
08.12.2025   Germany, München, Backstage
09.12.2025   Germany, Stuttgart, Schwarzer Keiler
11.12.2025   Spain, Madrid, Sala Silikona
12.12.2025   Spain, Valencia, Sala Zulu
13.12.2025   Spain, Barcelona, Sala Lennon’s
14.12.2025   Spain, Portugalete, Sala Groove

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Die Post Hardcore-Band DRAMATIST stellt ihre Single „Fat White Families“ mit einem Clip bei YouTube vor.

Es handelt sich dabei um den ersten Vorboten des Debütalbums „Wasting Words“. Erscheinen wird selbigen am 23. Januar 2026 via DevilDuck Records. Die Produktion übernahmen Gregor Hennig und Kurt Ebelhäuser.

DRAMATIST Line-up 2025
Marco Van Gete
Oskar Brozek
Moritz Vandreier
Roman Pelz
Johann Dallmeyer

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Wie immer haben wir beim M'era Luna Festival auch dieses Jahr diverse Artists zum Interview geladen. Heute präsentieren wir Euch unser Gespräch mit Manntra!

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Mit einem weiteren Musikvideo melden sich SYNESTIA zurück: „Premonitions“ kann man sich bei YouTube ansehen.

Darüber hinaus steht „The Mourning Star“ es Clip bereit und enthält einen Gastbeiträg von Blake Mullins (DISEMBODIED TYRANT). Selbiger zeichnet auch für die Produktion der Single verantwortlich.

Zuvor veröffentlichte die Symphonic Deathcore-Band mit „The Poetic Edda“ (2024) eine gemeinsame EP mit Mullins Hauptprojekt.

SYNESTIA Line-up 2025
Ryan Vail
Sam Melchior
Grant Robinson
Byron London

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“Darkness” is the thirteenth album by the German phenomenon Mono Inc. Led by the charismatic...

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SAMMY HAGAR hat mit „Sammy Hagar & The Best of All Worlds Band – The Residency“ ein neues Live-Album angekündigt. Die Tracks wurden 2025 in Las Vegas im Dolby Live im Park MGM aufgenommen. Release-Termin ist der 10. Oktober 2025. Vorab gibt es den Track „Summer Nights“ zu hören.

SAMMY HAGAR Line-Up:
Sammy Hagar (vocals)
Michael Anthony (bass, vocals)
Joe Satriani (guitar)
Kenny Aronoff (drums)
Rai Thistlethwayte (keyboards, vocals, guitar)

SAMMY HAGAR „Sammy Hagar & The Best of All Worlds Band – The Residency“ Tracklist
1. Encore, Thank You, Goodnight. (Live)
2. Top Of The World (Live)
3. [PHYSICAL ONLY] Panama (Live)
4. Summer Nights (Live) (Audio als Stream)
5. There’s Only One Way To Rock (Live)
6. Humans Being (Live)
7. Right Now (Live)
8. 5150 (Live)
9. Poundcake (Live)
10. Ain’t Talkin‘ ‚Bout Love (Live)
11. Eagles Fly (Live)
12. Best of Both Worlds (Live)
13. Why Can’t This Be Love (Live)
14. Rock Candy (Live)
15. Mas Tequila (Live)
16. Heavy Metal (Live)
17. I Can’t Drive 55 (Live)
18. Love Walks In (Live)
18. [DIGITAL ONLY] When It’s Love (Live)

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Die Melodic Death Metal-Band BLOODRED HOURGLASS meldet sich nach „Royally Done“ mit einer weiteren neuen Single zurück: „Chasing Shadows„. Der Song wird ebenso auf dem neuen Album „We Should Be Buried Like This“ enthalten sein. 

Auch „The Crown Is Permanent“ ist als Musikvideo verfügbar.

Den Clip „We Should Be Buried Like This“ gibt’s ebenfalls bei YouTube zu sehen.

Es sind die ersten neuen Tracks seit dem Album „How’s The Heart?“ (2023). Produziert wurden die Stücke von Saku Moilanen, Mix und Mastering übernahm Rami Nykänen. Release-Termin ist der 3. Oktober 2025.

BLOODRED HOURGLASS „We Should Be Buried Like This“ Tracklist
1. The Crown Is Permanent (Video bei YouTube)2. We Should Be Buried Like This (Video bei YouTube)3. Royally Done4. Chasing Shadows (Video bei YouTube)5. Dance Of The Dandelions6. God Has Favourites7. Mirage8. Frail9. Shun The Limelight10. Vividus

Bonus: Live With St. Michel Strings1. Waves Of Black2. Times We Had3. Valkyrie4. Leaves5. My Prime Of Kneel6. Until We Meet Again7. The End We Start From8. Fragile

BLOODRED HOURGLASS Tourdaten 2025
19.07.2025 FI Laukaa, John Smith Rock Festival25.07.2025 FI Vaasa, Kaaos Festival01.08.2025 FI Pori, Porispere02.08.2025 FI Tampere, Saarihelvetti09.08.2025 FI Imatra, Patruunafest16.08.2025 FI Mikkeli, Dinosaurock23.08.2025 FI Joensuu, Unholy Summerfest09.10.2025 DE Berlin, Cassiopeia10.10.2025 CZ Zlin, Masters Of Rock Café11.10.2025 HU Budapest, Analog Music Hall13.10.2025 AT Vienna, Chelsea14.10.2025 DE Leipzig, Hellraiser15.10.2025 DE Hamburg, Bahnhof Pauli16.10.2025 DK Esbjerg, Tobakken18.10.2025 DE Frankfurt, Nachtleben19.10.2025 DE Cologne, Helios 3720.10.2025 FR Paris, Backstage by the Mill22.10.2025 DE Dortmund, FZW23.10.2025 NL Leiden, Nobel24.10.2025 DE Lindau, Club Vaudeville25.10.2025 CH Winterthur, Gaswerk26.10.2025 DE Munich, Backstage27.10.2025 DE Stuttgart, Im Wizemann31.10.2025 FI Jyväskylä, Lutakko01.11.2025 FI Lahti, Finlandia-klubi06.11.2025 FI Helsinki, Tavastia07.11.2025 FI Oulu, Tullisali08.11.2025 FI Kuopio, Sawohouse13.11.2025 FI Tampere, Tavara-asema14.11.2025 FI Rauma, Brummi15.11.2025 FI Seinäjoki, Rytmikorjaamo21.11.2025 FI Kouvola, House of Rock22.11.2025 FI Turku, Logomo Teatro

Fotogalerie: BLOODRED HOURGLASS – Backstage Werk, München – 01.02.2025

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Die britische Hard Rock-Band PARADISE SINS hat mit „Bad Bad Bad“ eine neue Single mitsamt Video-Clip veröffentlicht. Der Song folgt auf die 2024er-Debüt-EP „Desires“ nach.

PARADISE SINS Line-Up:
Zack Morris – drums
Dav Fokti – bass
Luis Riley Morrison – vocals
Dan James – guitars
Conor Frampton – guitars

PARADISE SINS „Bad Bad Bad“ (Video bei YouTube)

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Die Psychedelic Rock-Band GIÖBIA hat nach „Fractal Haze“ mit „1976“ einen zweiten Track ihres kommenden Albums „X-ÆON“ veröffentlicht.

„‚1976‘ entstand aus der widersprüchlichen Energie des Youth Proletariat Festivals im Parco Lambro in Mailand. Die Spannung zwischen gemeinsamen Träumen und inneren Konflikten hat uns inspiriert. Mit diesem Song wollten wir einem vergessenen Teil der Vergangenheit unserer Stadt und unserer selbst eine Stimme geben“, sagt die Band.

Es ist das sechste Album der Italiener und wird am 17. Oktober 2025 via Heavy Psych Sounds Records erscheinen.

GIÖBIA Line-Up:
Stefano ‘Bazu’ Basurto – Guitar / Vocals
Paolo ‘Detrji’ Basurto – Bass
Melissa Crema – Organs / Synthesizer
Pietro D’Ambrosio – Drums

GIÖBIA „X-ÆON“ Tracklist
1. Voodoo Experience
2. Fractal Haze (Audio bei YouTube)
3. The Death of The Crows
4. 1976 (Audio bei YouTube)
5. Vers les Terres-Rouges (La Mort de la Terre)
6. Les Ferromagnétaux (La Mort de la Terre)
7. L’Eau Fugitive (La Mort de la Terre)
8. Dans la Nuit Éternelle (La Mort de la Terre)

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Mit „All Is Far Away“ wird am 19. September 2025 das neue Album der Blackgaze / Post Black Metal-Band ÆL-FIERLEN erscheinen. Es ist das erste Release der Engländer rund um Gitarrist Rob Melville, der auch die Produktion über hatte, und Sängerin Steph Moffatt.

ÆL-FIERLEN Line-Up:
Stephanie Moffatt: Vocals
Rob Melville: Guitar & Voclas
‘Ob’ O’Brien: Bass
Ginger: Drums

ÆL-FIERLEN „All Is Far Away“ Tracklist
01. To Sleep Eternal (Video bei YouTube)
02. Pulrose
03. Eðe (Video bei YouTube)
04. Ællmiht

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Die Heavy Metal / Hard Rock-Band SLAVE KEEPER hat mit dem Video-Clip zu „Jak Feniks“ eine erste Single ihres kommenden Albums „Podwójna gra“ veröffentlicht. Es ist nach „Ślad“ (2022) das zweite Album der Polen und wird im Oktober 2025 erscheinen.

Das neue Album, welches abermals von Łukasz Suszko im Wesoła 24 Studio produziert wurde, sei eine musikalische Reise durch die menschliche Psyche, auf der die Urkräfte des Guten und des Bösen in einem zeitlosen inneren Konflikt aufeinandertreffen, der den Zustand des Menschen bestimmt. Das Cover-Artwork stammt von Piotr Szafraniec (u.a. für WARDRUM tätig).

SLAVE KEEPER Line-Up
Marta Biernacka – vocals
Piotr MieÄ�ko – guitar
Piotr Jakubowicz – guitar
Jakub Orłowski – bass
Piotr Szalak – drums

SLAVE KEEPER „Jak Feniks“ (Video bei YouTube)

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Die Trap / Nu Metal-Band SWARM6IX hat Anfang 2024 einen Labeldeal bei Out Of Line Music unterschrieben. Jetzt legt die Gruppe nach den Singles „TOX(sick)“,  „Blood $oda“ – ein Song über Drogenmissbrauch -, dem Song „$ocial Violence“ – mit KUBRICK – sowie dem Song „Ride n Die“ – mit J Hurley (HACKTIVIST) – mit der Single „MOON$HINE MIXTAPE“ nach.

Die Stücke folgen auf den Release der Single „LIP$TICK“ mitsamt Video-Clip.

„Letztendlich ist es die Erkenntnis, dass jemand nicht der ist, für den er sich ausgibt. „LIP$TICK“ steht für die Vertuschung der Unvollkommenheiten und Lügen, die Menschen verbergen, um sich als bessere Person darzustellen, bis ihr wahres Ich zum Vorschein kommt. Die Verräter, die Manipulatoren, die Narzissten und die Betrüger“, erklärt die Band.

SWARM6IX sind Gitarrist Daniel Sloane, Sänger Ben Fordham, Bassist Owen Morris und Drummer James Lane.

SWARM6IX „LIP$TICK“ (Video bei YouTube)

SWARM6IX „Blood $oda“ (Video bei YouTube)

SWARM6IX „$ocial Violence“ (Audio als Stream)

SWARM6IX „Ride n Die“ (Audio als Stream)

SWARM6IX „MOON$HINE MIXTAPE“ (Audio als Stream)

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Es wird kalt in Rom – und das liegt diesmal nicht an einem spontanen Wintereinbruch oder Papstbesuch, sondern an 'Vacua'. Die italienische Black-Metal-Formation schiebt am 7. November...

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Die gute Nachricht zuerst: Am 19. September ist die Welt wieder ein bisschen schmutziger, lauter und gleichzeitig bunter, denn die Black Lips melden sich mit ihrem neuen...

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Manchmal fallen Veröffentlichungen wie reife Mangos vom Baum – süß, saftig und voller Sonne. Genau so ein Leckerbissen ist schon am 29. August 2025 erschienen:...

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Wenn man dachte, „Das Ich“ wären nach all den Jahren zwischen Krankheit, Politik und Szenelegende endgültig in den Tiefen der Gruft verschwunden, dann hat man die Rechnung...

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Es ist offiziell: Am 3. Oktober 2025 gibt’s keine goldene Herbstromantik, sondern eine rabenschwarze Abrissbirne aus der Ukraine (mittlerweile mit Stützpunkt in Polen). ’Orbstruct’ bringen über Paragon...

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Das Duo END OF TRANSMISSION sorgte bereits mit seinem Erstlings-Debütwerk für ein echtes Aufhorchen. Und auch live überzeugten Sänger Jens "Schubi" Schubert und Sven Schröder (Instruments/Programming) bei unterschiedlichsten Auftritten. Hervorgehoben seien hier die Shows beim NCN Festival (bereitrs 2 Mal!) und als Support von KLANGSTABIL in Erfurt genannt. Der Erfolg und positive Zuspruch spornte natürlich sehr an und nun verkünden sie, dass man sich bei den finalen Arbeiten zu einem zweiten Studioalbum befindet. Es wird  den Titel "Fragile Times" tragen. In konkreter Planung dieser Veröffentlichung sind physische Tonträger mit Produktion und Vertrieb in Eigenregie. Vorbestellungen werden sehr gern angenommen.

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Das schwedische Label PROGRESS PRODUCTIONS ist stolz darauf, ein brandneues Band-Signing präsentieren zu dürfen: THE SOUND OF VEIL SOCIETY bildet eine perfekte Mischung aus Elektro und Popmusik. Die Melodien und Soundscapes zusammen mit einer umwerfenden Gesangsperformance bilden etwas ganz Besonderes. Die Debütsingle "The River" ist jetzt digital verfügbar.
Torny Gottberg/Progress Productions: Als ich das erste Mal mit dem Material dieser Band konfrontiert wurde, war ich verblüfft. Es ist lange her, dass ich direkt das Gefühl hatte "DAS ist etwas, was ich einfach machen MUSS", ich hatte sogar das gleiche Gefühl wie damals, als ich zum ersten Mal ein anderes schwedisches Duo hörte, das "Ways to dance" spielte und das wir später über 10 Jahre zu einer der größeren Bands in der heutigen Szene aufbauten.

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Unser Musiktipp: Ihre Songs sind kraftvoll, intensiv und tanzbar. Ihr Sound ist elektronisch und treibend. Ihre Liveshow ist eine spektakuläre Mischung aus starken Beats, Kostümen, Make-up, Emotionen, Live-Schlagzeug (Stephen Sundberg) und natürlich Aceys einzigartiger Stimme, die stark an Alison Moyet oder Annie Lennox erinnert.​ Stilistisch ist das Projekt im Synthpop mit Dark Wave, Electro-Pop und Rock-Anleihen angesiedelt.
Bereits unmittelbar nach ihrem ersten Live-Auftritt Anfang 2024 bekamen sie mehrere Angebote von Plattenfirmen und Bookingagenturen. Sie entschieden sich schließlich zur Zusammenarbeit mit Infacted Recordings und EPICENTRE Booking.
Jetzt am 07. März 2025 haben KY (sprich englisch K.Y. ) aus Berlin ihr Debütalbum "Dark Chapters" veröffentlicht und das hat es gehörig in sich!

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Nach den Herausforderungen der Corona-Zeit, welche die Inspiration für das gefühlvolle und hochgelobte Album "End Less Dreams" war, hat sich die Band jetzt auf einen Weg der Erneuerung begeben: Nach zweimaligem Umzug stand Torul jetzt ein hochmodernes, privates Musikstudio zur Verfügung. Dieses kreative Refugium hat ihre Leidenschaft fürs Schreiben und Produzieren neu entfacht. Das Ergebnis ist das Album "Superposition" mit zehn sorgfältig ausgewählte Songs.

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