Finland’s Frozen Factory have shared the music video for “Can’t Fight The Spiral”(Live in the Studio), taken from their album Apocalypse Inc., available now via Wormholedeath.
Shot and tracked in the band’s rehearsal studio, “Can’t Fight The Spiral” explores one of the most universal human truths, that our time is finite and accelerating. Drawing on the image of a decaying orbit, Frozen Factory weave together cosmic scale and deeply personal mortality into something that asks not how do we escape the inevitable, but what do we leave behind before we reach it. Heavy, honest, and ultimately hopeful.
Apocalypse Inc. follows the band’s 2022 album Of Pearls & Perils, which earned radio play across Europe, including Germany’s SWR1. The record marks Frozen Factory’s first release in partnership with Wormholedeath, and features contributions from Silentium vocalist Riina Rinkinen.
Frozen Factory is Stephen Baker (vocals), Tomi Hassinen (bass), Marianne Heikkinen (drums), Johnny Koivumäki (rhythm guitar), and Zsolt Szilagyi (lead guitar). Drawing from influences ranging from Pink Floyd and Iron Maiden to Depeche Mode, the band have built a reputation for technically accomplished, atmospherically rich heavy rock since forming in Finland in 2018.
On April 10th internationally, Aesthetic Death is proud to present GOATPSALM‘s new opus “Beneath” on CD format.
The first single “Heart Of Damballah Wedo” is now streaming HERE.
It has been a full decade since the last full length, the highly acclaimed “Downstream” – a decade plighted by personal issues, creative block and…..just life.
Whilst, at times, it seemed that a new GOATPSALM album might never arrive. Through sheer stubborn determination it is here – and is more than worth the wait.
The band have constantly evolved – moving from the industrial electroambient of “Sonic Desterilization of Light” (2012), the blackened chaos of “Erset La Tari” (2012), or the funeral ambient doom leanings of “Downstream” (2016).
“Beneath” is no exception, crafting their strongest material to date within an obscure ritual trance. Forging an album that is built from their past but evolves into new sounds – falling somewhere within sounds of ethnic, ritual, trance-like doom metal.
But, be certain, GOATPSALM have a unique sound and approach – servants to nobody.
Embrace the ritual.
Tracklist:
1- Veve Of Smoke And Rum 2- Heart Of Damballah Wedo 3- Spit Soil 4- Kalbas Whispers Of Death 5- Exequies
Swedish melodic rock force THE DEVIL WEARS NADA proudly announces the release of their explosive new single and lyric video, “Brat With A Baseball Bat,” alongside details of their highly anticipated sophomore album, ‘In Lust We Thrust’, arriving on CD and limited-edition colored vinyl via Eönian Records on Friday, July 3, 2026. Pre-orders will launch in late spring at www.eonianrecords.com.
“Brat With A Baseball Bat” delivers a high-voltage blast of arena-sized hooks and unapologetic swagger. Fueled by the anthemic grandeur of Europe and the bombastic punch of KISS, the track captures the spirit of classic ’80s hard rock and glam metal while sharpening it with a modern, razor-edged production.
Driven by soaring melodies, muscular riffs, and relentless momentum, the single explores themes of confrontation, redemption, and the fine line between vengeance and empowerment. It channels the raw emotional surge of reclaiming control in the wake of betrayal, culminating in a chorus designed to ignite stages and resonate long after the final note fades. Bold, fearless, and impossible to ignore, “Brat With A Baseball Bat” stands as a defining statement of intent.
Ludvig Alfvén, drummer and founder, “I’ve always loved the tension between beauty and chaos. This song lives right in that space; big melodies, sharp edges, and a heartbeat that feels like it might explode at any second. That’s THE DEVIL WEARS NADA in its purest form.”
Scandinavia has long been a breeding ground for world-class melodic rock and AOR, and from Falköping, Sweden, THE DEVIL WEARS NADA emerges as a formidable new torchbearer of that tradition. Rooted in the golden era of melodic hard rock, from the mid-1980s through the early 1990s, the band fuses nostalgic grandeur with a dramatic, contemporary edge. Drawing theatrical inspiration from icons such as Alice Cooper, Ghost, and Lordi, they seamlessly merge arena-ready Scandinavian melodies with horror aesthetics and vintage hard rock energy.
Their debut album, Postalgia,on Eönian Records, earned global acclaim for its signature blend of cinematic flair, soaring vocal lines, and hook-laden choruses. Initially released under the name Adecence in an ultra-limited pressing of just 100 CDs, the album quickly became a coveted collector’s item. Reintroduced and remastered under THE DEVIL WEARS NADA, featured two new studio recordings, a high-octane cover of “1989” by fellow Swedish rockers Nestor, and expanded deluxe packaging; the release became one of Eönian Records’ best-selling titles.
With upcoming album ‘In Lust We Thrust’, THE DEVIL WEARS NADA hope to shatter expectations and raise their creative bar to towering new heights. Fans of Nestor, Da Vinci, 220 Volt, and FM will recognize the soaring hooks, polished harmonies, and arena-sized ambition that define classic Scandinavian melodic rock. Yet this is far more than a nostalgic revival, it’s a bold reawakening.
Brimming with explosive choruses, cinematic atmosphere, and razor-sharp modern production, ‘In Lust We Thrust’ plans to deliver a revitalized, high-impact vision of the genre, poised to captivate longtime ’80s hard rock and glam metal loyalists and ignite a new generation of melodic rock devotees alike.
Guitarist Henrik Westergren describes the band’s sound, “Take the raw pulse of the ’70s, ’80s hard rock and glam metal, and mix it with our fascination for the macabre and the dramatic, that’s where THE DEVIL WEARS NADA lives.” “It’s Ludvig’s songwriting sensibility mixed with our collective love for the bizarre and dramatic,” Westergren adds. “It creates something that’s both familiar and unsettling; in the best way possible.”
He concludes: “If you’re reading this, thank you, for taking the time to listen, and hopefully for supporting this album built from blood, sweat, and countless hours of passion. Let’s keep the spirit of melodic rock alive and loud. THE DEVIL WEARS NADA is just getting started.”
‘In Lust We Thrust’ album track list: 96.2 FM Postalgia Radio Brat With a Baseball Bat Last Forever Misery Is You In Lust We Thrust Elephant In the Room Victoria (Featuring Evan Stanley) Dead & Breakfast Shotgun Wedding Wednesday Ms. Black Widow
The Devil Wears Nada is: Ludvig Alfvén on Drums, Keyboards, & Backing Vocals Linus Johansson on Lead Vocals, Backing Vocals Henrik Westergren on Lead Guitars, Keyboards, & Backing Vocals Fredrik Svensson Carlström on Bass
Following on from the release of their earlier single ‘Ease Up’ late last year, THE ASTRONAUTS gear up for their loved up, fuzzed up new single ‘More Than Friends‘, out now on Flip Flop Records, with a new album to follow later in ’26.
“‘More Than Friends’ is a song about falling deeply into someone—moving beyond the innocent phase and into something more intense and consuming. It captures that overwhelming moment when emotions hit you all at once, bringing both panic and ecstasy. At its core, it’s a song about young love—the excitement, the uncertainty, and the courage it takes to push past your fears and go after something that truly matters to you. It’s about finding the confidence within yourself to take that leap.”
The Astronauts are Benjamin Fox and Gordon Cooper, American musicians collaborating transatlantically between Detroit and Ireland. In addition to their work as The Astronauts, Fox and Cooper also compose and record under the name Irish Lights, an ambient instrumental project inspired by the timeless beauty and solitude of Ireland’s lighthouses.
Beyond their own music, the duo operates Sleeping in Space LLC, a boutique Detroit-based label dedicated to releasing independent and forward-thinking music.
WHITECHAPEL are happy to announce their return to European shores in January 2027. The trek features them, Sylosis, 200 Stab Wounds and Tribal Gaze.
Comments WHITECHAPEL‘s guitarist Alex Wade. “We are excited to announce the ‘Burn Forever European Tour 2027’. This will mark a long over due full European headline run featuring some of the sickest names in modern metal. The mainland Europe dates we will be headlining while all of the UK dates we will be co-headlining with Sylosis with them closing. We look forward to seeing everyone out there, new fans and old, don’t miss it!“
‘Burn Forever European Tour 2027’ WHITECHAPEL SYLOSIS 200 STAB WOUNDS TRIBAL GAZE 1/22/2027 – Hellraiser – Leipzig, Germany 1/23/2027 – Batschkapp – Frankfurt am Main, Germany 1/24/2027 – Trix – Antwerp, Belgium 1/26/2027 – The Academy – Dublin, Ireland * 1/28/2027 – SWG3 Galvanizers – Glasgow, Scotland * 1/29/2027 – Electric Ballroom – London, England * 1/30/2027 – Manchester Academy 2 – Manchester, England * 1/31/2027 – O2 Academy – Bristol, England * 2/01/2027 – XOYO – Birmingham, England * 2/03/2027 – Trabendo – Paris, France 2/05/2027 – Sala Lab/Wagon – Madrid, Spain 2/06/2027 – Razzmatazz 2 – Barcelona, Spain 2/07/2027 – Rayonne – Lyon, France 2/09/2027 – Magazzini Generali – Milan, Italy 2/10/2027 – Z7 Konzertfabrik – Pratteln, Switzerland 2/12/2027 – Live Music Hall – Cologne, Germany 2/13/2027 – Große Freiheit 36 – Hamburg, Germany 2/14/2027 – Tivoli Vredenburg – Ronda – Utrecht, Netherlands 2/16/2027 – Roxy – Prague, Czech Republic 2/17/2027 – Arena – Vienna, Austria 2/19/2027 – Backstage – Munich, Germany 2/20/2027 – Metropol – Berlin, Germany 2/21/2027 – Amager Bio – Copenhagen, Denmark 2/23/2027 – Rockefeller – Oslo, Norway 2/24/2027 – Fallan – Stockholm, Sweden 2/26/2027 – Tavara-asema – Tampere, Finland 2/27/2027 – Aeeniwalli – Helsinki, Finland 2/28/2027 – Helitehas – Tallinn, Estonia 3/01/2027 – Spelet – Riga, Latvia 3/02/2027 – Progresja – Warsaw, Poland *Please note the UK dates are co-headline with SYLOSIS
Previously announced US Dates: WHITECHAPEL w/ Slaughter to Prevail, Atilla March 21 – Nashville, TN @ The Pinnacle March 22 – St. Louis, MO @ The Pageant March 23 – Kansas City, MO @ The Midland Theatre March 25 – Denver, CO @ Fillmore Auditorium March 27 – Salt Lake City, UT @ The Complex March 28 – Garden City, ID @ Revolution Concert House March 29 – Seattle, WA @ Paramount Theatre March 30 – Portland, OR @ Roseland Theater **Off-date w/ @ideclarewarband @miserywhip.pdx and @eartheaterofficial April 1 – Sacramento, CA @ Channel 24 April 2 – Los Angeles, CA @ Hollywood Palladium April 3 – San Diego, CA @ SOMA **Off-date w/ @carnifex and @rev3rent_ April 4 – Las Vegas, NV @ Brooklyn Bowl April 6 – Tulsa, OK @ Tulsa Theater April 8 – Atlanta, GA @ Coca-Cola Roxy April 9 – Norfolk, VA @ The NorVa **Off-date w/ @interarmamusic and @ugabugaband April 10 – Philadelphia, PA @ Franklin Music Hall April 11 – Silver Spring, MD @ The Fillmore April 12 – Pittsburgh, PA @ Roxian Theatre April 14 – New York, NY @ Hammerstein Ballroom April 15 – Worcester, MA @ The Palladium April 16 – Hampton, NH @ Wally’s **Off-date w/ @bloodtithema and @iron.gate.metal April 17 – Montreal, QC @ L’Olympia April 18 – Toronto, ON @ History April 20 – Chicago, IL @ Byline Bank Aragon Ballroom April 21 – Waukee, IA @ Vibrant Music Hall April 22 – Maplewood, MN @ Myth Live -End Tour- May 10 – Daytona Beach, FL @ Welcome to Rockville * May 14 – Columbus, OH @ Sonic Temple * * Festival performance Headline dates w/ @entheosofficial @trache0tomy and @mauleddc May 11 – Destin, FL @ Club LA May 12 – Memphis, TN @ Minglewood Hall May 13 – Louisville, KY @ Headliners Music Hall
WHITECHAPEL are launching the tour announcement with a brand new video for the song “Nothing is Coming for Any of Us“, check it out here:
WHITECHAPEL‘s Hymns In Dissonance finds the band reinventing themselves, going darker, deeper, and heavier than ever before. Revolver lauded “a blistering attack of ground-fissuring blasts, terror-thrashed guitar melodies and guts-hucking mosh sections.” Metal Injection concurred noting, “it’s heavy as shit, it’s unrelenting, and it will destroy you.” MetalSucks championed, “one of WHITECHAPEL’s heaviest offerings since the glory days of The Somatic Defilement and This Is Exile,” adding, “It captures that same raw energy and mouth-frothing rage in a way that… hasn’t been seen for quite some time, but with a new and improved modern twist borne of the nearly twenty years of experience they have accumulated since then,” while Blabbermouth hailed the band’s “…white-knuckle, weaponized deathcore with brains, brawn, and a point to prove. Hold on to your helmets.”
The record earned the #2 position on Billboard’s Current Hard Rock Albums chart, #3 on Independent Label Current Albums chart, #4 on the Current Rock Albums chart and #7 on the Digital Albums chart upon its first week of release.
Hymns In Dissonance is available now on CD, vinyl, and digital formats.
Watch WHITECHAPEL‘s previously release videos for “Prisoner 666” HERE, “Hymns In Dissonance” HERE, “A Visceral Retch” HERE, and “Hate Cult Ritual” HERE.
WHITECHAPEL: Phil Bozeman – vocals Ben Savage – lead guitar Alex Wade – rhythm guitar Zach Householder – guitar Gabe Crisp – bass Brandon Zackey – drums
After more than a decade at the forefront of modern metal, internationally acclaimed vocalist Alissa White-Gluz is entering a powerful new chapter with the launch of her new band, BLUE MEDUSA.
Known for her commanding voice, unmistakable stage presence, and trailblazing role in extreme metal, White-Gluz has built a career defined by momentum and reinvention. Widely recognized as one of the longest-serving female death metal vocalists, she has spent two decades performing on the world’s biggest stages and earning a reputation as one of the genre’s most electrifying frontwomen.
White-Gluz was at the forefront of Arch Enemy’s most successful years in the band’s history, expanding their global audience and performing on the world’s biggest metal stages. Across multiple bands, collaborations and projects throughout her career, White-Gluz has consistently helped push heavy music into new territory. Now, with BLUE MEDUSA, White-Gluz sets her sights on pushing that legacy even further.
Fans can expect the same signature ferocity, theatrical energy and vocal firepower that have defined White-Gluz’s career, now unleashed in a fresh, expansive and electrifying setting.
“Blue Medusa is the next evolution of everything I’ve been building toward for years,” says White-Gluz. “It’s my creative melting pot. Everything fans enjoy about the energy, intensity, and performance they’ve always experienced on stage with me over the past two decades is still here, even stronger. That is me, that is who I am and who I’ve always been. And now it’s amplified and unleashed in a fully sovereign artistic vision. Our music has blazing guitar solos, crushing riffs, brutal vocals, fast and aggressive drums, thoughtful melodies and most importantly (to me), really cogitative lyrics.”
Known for pairing ferocious vocals with thoughtful and introspective lyricism, White-Gluz’s writing channels catharsis, resilience, philosophy and intellectual and emotional depth.
BLUE MEDUSA consists of a trio of world-class musicians; White-Gluz has guitarists Alyssa Day and Dani Sophia at her sides. “The musical chemistry I feel with these women is really bringing me back to life. It is so refreshing and exciting,” says White-Gluz of her fellow gorgons. On stage, on drums and bass, White-Gluz hints that two women at the top of their musical game will be joining her; Delaney Jaster and Alicia Vigil respectively.
“I specifically chose to share this news on International Women’s Day because building stronger platforms for women in heavy music is something I care deeply about. I am brewing up a lot of ideas right now, my brain is in full creative flow. I’ve been carving my own path in this genre for a long time, and I want to help pave the way for the next generation of women who love metal as much as I do. Medusa turned people to stone… I want to pave the road in sapphire.”
With new music coming very soon and live performances already lining up with the band’s live debuts at Louder Than Life and Aftershock festivals, BLUE MEDUSA is taking off like lightning and marks the beginning of an exciting new era for metal fans.
Kimmo Kuusniemi’s ASA unveil the long-overdue release of "Collective Failure" + first music video for title-track! Check it out and stay tuned for more news! Click image to watch the video
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