Finnish death/doom metallers HANGING GARDEN reveal music video for new single “Eternal Trees of Turquoise”. Watch the video below, and keep a lookout for the band’s new album, “Isle of Bliss”, set for release on March 20th via Agonia Records.
On their ninth album “Isle of Bliss”, HANGING GARDEN takes a different approach to their signature somber melancholy: the new full-length presents perhaps a darker, more sinister rendition of the oftentimes dreamlike tones of the past releases. Synths and sweet and airy vocal layers – albeit still present – give more room for a heavier aesthetic in the drum and guitar work.
The album was recorded in various studios in southern Finland by the band, along with the drums recorded at Klaukkala’s renowned D-Studio by master Jarno Hänninen. Mixing and mastering was performed by none other than the legendary Jaime Gomez Arellano, known for his work with names such as Opeth, Moonspell, Ghost and many others. The album artwork was created by Kalle Pyyhtinen (Children of Bodom).
The album’s themes revolve around the spiritual aspects of life, death and the liminality in between. The landscapes shift from the introspection of one’s core self, travelling past dense forests and deathless isles – all the way to the vast and distant infinities of the dying stars and the vast and eternal voids spun between.
The band comments on the album: “This time we decided to take a more conscious step towards a more bare-bones composition on the new songs, supporting the perhaps darker and maybe even more ferocious side of our music. We happened to meet with Gomez during a live show of ours a few summers back, and he was an obvious choice for the sound we had in mind. And as we see it, he really delivered.”
“To complement the rawer sound, we also decided to make more use of Riikka’s capability to scream – a stark contrast to her aetheric cleans – and this can be witnessed in the death metal duets between her and Toni that can be found a-plenty along the tracks.”
SEATTLE, WA — Emerging from the rain-slicked streets of the Pacific Northwest, progressive metalcore outfit Oathbound has unleashed their most ambitious visual work to date with the premiere of the music video for their new song, “Insomniac.” Directed by Brandon Hartsock with CGI by Aryan Ratra, the video is a harrowing descent into the fragile psyche of a man losing his grip on reality due to chronic sleep deprivation.
The narrative expertly weaves modern metalcore intensity with the existential dread of Lovecraftian cosmic horror. The track serves as a visceral representation of anxiety-driven exhaustion, a theme the band members know intimately. This is the third music video taken from their full-length album Colors In Grey which was just released on March 6, 2026 via Eclipse Records.
“This video is deeply personal, born from our own battles with anxiety-driven insomnia,” says guitarist Taylor Harper. “We chose the Cthulhu mythos to represent that 3:00 AM dread—a cosmic, overwhelming weight that feels impossible to escape. We hope viewers struggling with their own ‘monsters’ feel seen. Filming on the Washington coast in December presented massive challenges. Between heavy flooding and hauling gear down steep trails, we battled unpredictable weather that swung from rain to blue skies. The highlight was watching Brandon and Brenton work waist-deep in frigid, sketchy surf. Brandon’s efficient workflow and quick thinking on set were fantastic, allowing us to capture the miserable, cold atmosphere essential for the video.”
This latest full-length from Oathbound, Colors In Grey, is exactly the kind of record the progressive metalcore scene needs right now. It’s a definitive statement that firmly entrenches the band in the upper echelon of the genre. More than a simple collection of songs, this is a rigorous, nine-track emotional excavation. The Seattle outfit has always possessed a gift for channeling raw human experience—confronting themes like trauma, addiction, and heartbreak head-on—but here they successfully forge those dark elements into a work of unexpected, profound catharsis. Released on March 6, 2026 via Eclipse Records, this album is an undeniable, critical pivot point for their career. The album’s thematic core lies in three defining pieces. “Searching for an Answer” is a brilliant, pointed piece of social commentary, diving headlong into the struggle for objective truth in a world rife with manipulation; the philosophical weight is palpable. This is followed by the technical force of “False Ideals,” which critiques herd mentality and blind faith with intricate, hard-hitting progressive arrangements. The emotional centerpiece arrives with “Insomniac.” This track strips away the armor, offering a raw, intimate portrayal of sleepless nights and racing thoughts, perfectly capturing the debilitating mental turmoil of unending exhaustion. These tracks alone prove Oathbound’s unique gift: blending weighty, universal themes with genuinely energetic compositions. The album was produced by Oathbound, and mixed/mastered by Aaron Chaprian (As I Lay Dying, Bleeding Through, Chimaira) at Iron Audio. Artwork for the album and singles was created by Aaron Varshay. Colors In Grey by Oathbound will be released on March 6, 2026 via Eclipse Records.
Listen to Colors In Grey on digital formats & get it on CD via Eclipse Records at this location.
Cover art Credit: Aaron Varshay
About Oathbound: Hailing from Seattle, WA, Oathbound channels the unfiltered emotion of the human condition into progressive metalcore. Exploring themes of heartbreak and trauma, the band aims to show that even in life’s darkest moments, there is a life still worth living.
Oathbound on Tour (get tickets here) 3/20 – Seattle, WA – Substation 3/21 – Portland, OR – Hawthorne Hideaway 3/22 – Eureka, CA – Siren’s Song Tavern 3/23 – Albany, CA – Ivy Room 3/25 – Los Angeles, CA – Coyote Studios 3/26 – San Clemente, CA – Stuft Pizza 3/27 – Scottsdale, AZ – Pho Cao 3/28 – Reno, NV – Alturas 3/29 – Eugene, OR – John Henry’s
Oathbound lineup CJ Brunke (vocals), Taylor Harper (guitar), Viktor Schultz (guitar), Steve Schwarz (bass), Travis Morlan (drums)
Following the announcement of their third full-length album “The Third Nail”, due out on April 3rd, 2026 via Adirondack Black Mass, Italian black metal force MALAURIU unleash a new single: “Abuse Myself I Wanna Die”, a reinterpretation of the notorious track by GG Allin.
With this cover, the band pays tribute to one of the most extreme and controversial figures of the underground scene, reshaping the song through their own sonic identity. In MALAURIU’s version, the nihilistic urgency of the original is transformed into a darker and more abrasive form, where black metal ferocity intertwines with the raw, primitive spirit of punk, offering another glimpse into the direct and visceral approach that also defines the band’s upcoming album.
The record represents a bold evolution for the band, merging the raw intensity of black metal with a punk-infused aggression, while showcasing meticulous attention to detail in a warm, organic production that brings out the full depth of the compositions.
Recorded between Italy and the UK from 2024 to 2025, “The Third Nail” is the result of over a decade of dedication to the rawest and most primitive essence of black metal. The album features eight original tracks alongside a ferocious cover of GG Allin, which further highlights the band’s punk attitude and includes guest appearances by Dr. Heathen Scum (Mentors, USA) and Diego Do’Urden (Mystifier).
The album’s artwork draws on Sicilian traditions where the sacred and the profane collide, from blood-stained processions to brutal reenactments of the Crucifixion, creating a ritualistic atmosphere where faith is intertwined with horror, gore, and the occult.
Mixing was handled by Carlo Altobelli at Toxic Basement Studio (Italy), a recognized figure in extreme underground production, while mastering was completed at Necromorbus Studio (Sweden), famed for work with acts like Mayhem, Watain, Funeral Mist, and Shining.
Now based in London, UK, with a solid live lineup, MALAURIU will bring “The Third Nail” to stages across Europe in 2026, delivering a live experience that amplifies the album’s dark intensity and ritualistic energy.
Tracklist:
1 Rising From The Cemetery 2 Empowerment Rites 3 Death Celebration 4 Hell Mouth 5 Satanic Witch 6 The Curse of All Flesh 7 Purple Ceremony 8 Monotheistic Filth 9 Abuse Myself, I Wanna Die (GG Allin cover)
Founded in 2013 by Schizoid, MALAURIU emerged from Sicily as a project deeply rooted in folklore, mysticism, and the occult. Over the years, the band evolved from a pure black metal project into a constantly shifting entity, exploring dark ambient, ritual, noise, and punk, while maintaining a consistent spiritual intensity.
Sicily’s dark, evocative landscapes – ancient temples, legends of monsters, and sites connected to Aleister Crowley’s Abbey of Thelema – have profoundly influenced the band’s vision. With over 20 releases in the past decade, MALAURIU has steadily built a reputation for uncompromising music, blending extreme aggression with atmospheric depth, offering listeners a journey into the darker corners of the mind and soul.
Line-up: Schizoid – Guitars R.M. – Vocals
Session musicians: Black Doom – Bass Frozen – Drums Felis Catus – Keyboards/Samples Marbas – Keyboards G.T. – Guitar solos on tracks 2, 5 and 9
Very special guest: Diego DoUrden (Mystifier/Evoked) – Vocals on track 9 Dr. Heathen Scum (Mentors) – Vocals on track 9
“Abuse Myself, I Wanna Die” originally recorded by GG Allin Recorded between Sicily and the UK 2024/2025 Mixed by Carlo Altobelli at Toxic Basement Studio (Italy) Mastered by Tore Stjerna at Necromorbus Studio (Sweden)
French post-rock collective HANRY have announced their debut album What Came From Silence, arriving 29th May via Pelagic Records. Marking a defining moment in the band’s evolution, the record captures HANRY at their most expansive and self assured, a sweeping, cinematic body of work where delicate restraint gradually gives way to towering crescendos and luminous emotional release. Alongside the announcement, the band have unveiled the album’s first single, ‘Aurora’, offering the first glimpse into their carefully sculpted world.
“’Aurora’ is HANRY’s first single from the album and the spark that ignited the band’s story,” the band explain. “Originally composed around ten years ago by Anthony Leliard at the inception of the project, the track was later reshaped and arranged collectively for our debut album What Came From Silence. Dark and tense, ‘Aurora’ moves through contrasting periods, from heavy, shadowed moments to brighter, more radiant passages. The piece builds and recedes in hypnotic waves before culminating in a massive, liberating explosion that carries the listener toward new horizons.”
Formed in 2022, HANRY have quickly developed a reputation for expansive compositions that balance atmosphere with weight. Built around patience, texture and carefully controlled crescendos, their music moves fluidly between fragile ambient passages and towering, emotionally charged climaxes.
Written during a particularly long winter in Brittany, debut album What Came From Silence carries an atmosphere of tension and introspection across its eight immersive tracks.
Across the record, HANRY lean further into the contrast that defines their sound. Clean guitar tones shimmer before dissolving into waves of saturated distortion. Ambient passages slowly evolve into powerful, widescreen moments. Even at their most delicate, there is motion, subtle pulses and shifting textures that push the music forward. When the band unleashes its full force, the sound remains articulate; each instrument retains its identity within the surge.
“Since the beginning of HANRY, cinematic imagery has been at the core of our artistic vision,” the band say. “We often compose from mental images, landscapes or scenes that could almost belong to a film. We wanted the album to feel like a continuous experience, something listeners can fully immerse themselves in and interpret in their own way.”
Initially composed by the core trio of Anthony Leliard (bass/guitar), Marc Mifune (keys) and Jean-Anaël Aubaux (J.A) (guitar), the album was then further developed with the full band in their own studio. With J.A. and drummer ClémentChampigny both working as sound engineers, HANRY produced and mixed the record themselves at DiscoCasino Studio, ensuring complete control over its identity. It was mastered by Chab at Chab Mastering.
‘Phantom Rush’, the closing track on the album features a stunning collaboration with pianist Mariposa, adding an additional layer of depth and emotional intensity to the record.
Artwork was created by French artist Aloïs Lecerf, who describes the piece as reflecting the same tension between stillness and eruption that runs through the record itself.
“It’s balanced between restraint and release. The cover evokes a presence that gradually emerges , something calm, dense, almost motionless, that eventually becomes vast and luminous. It seeks to capture that moment when silence begins to crack. Within a grainy, incandescent landscape, an immobile silhouette slowly fractures, allowing light to emerge.”
The album arrives at a pivotal moment for the band. A recent performance at the renowned Trans Musicales in Rennes was broadcast nationally to thousands, while a live session with KEXP signals growing international momentum.
With What Came From Silence, HANRY deliver a record that feels both expansive and deeply personal, a carefully constructed journey where silence, texture and atmosphere carry as much weight as the crescendos themselves.
What Came From Silence track list:
1. Noise Drowns Out 2. Aurora 3. Dustwake 4. Her Crown, Her Empire 5. Remains 6. Time’s Collapsing 7. Dead Waves 8. Phantom Rush
Catch the band live at Pelagic Fest in August, with more live dates to be announced soon.
CITOVITZ AND FIREFLIES OF FEBRUARY have released the official lyric video for “The Demon Was Once an Angel” — the fifth and final track from the “My Revenge” EP, released on Andrzej Citowicz’s 50th birthday, February 10th, 2026. With this release, the EP’s lyric video cycle is complete: five songs documented, five chapters closed, five truths placed permanently on record.
THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE FALLEN
The song was written by Shereen Citowicz — the same lyricist behind “My Revenge”, the EP’s title track. Where that song burns with defiance, “The Demon Was Once an Angel” asks a harder, quieter question: not how did we survive, but what did surviving cost us? “Demons weren’t born demons. They were angels who fell. Good things that got broken. Innocent souls who learned the world doesn’t reward innocence. My wife Shereen wrote these words about transformation we never asked for. About how pain changes you into something different — not necessarily worse, just harder, less trusting, more guarded.”
The song’s central thesis — that the fallen were once innocent — carries enormous compassion within what could easily become a statement of despair. Shereen’s words refuse to judge the changed. They seek instead to remember what was there before the breaking. To acknowledge that the hardness people carry was once softness that the world refused to protect.
Watch the lyric video here:
MEMORY AS SALVATION
The lyric video presents the song’s most profound insight plainly: if you have become something harder, something more guarded, something the world might call a demon — you were likely an angel once. And that memory, however faint, is not defeat. It is a thread. It is what keeps a person from losing themselves entirely.
“If you’ve become a demon, maybe you were an angel once. And remembering where you came from — that’s what keeps you from being completely lost.” This is grief literature written as rock music. It is the kind of truth that doesn’t announce itself loudly but settles slowly — in the chest, in the memory, in the quiet moments when a person sits with what they have become and tries to find the version of themselves that existed before the damage.
Musically, “The Demon Was Once an Angel” draws from the tradition established by Winger and Kip Winger — technical without being cold, intricate without losing emotion. It is rock that thinks as it feels, that constructs carefully even as it speaks from an unguarded place.
Bassist Patryk Szymański — Andrzej’s collaborator of over a decade, a brother in every meaningful sense of the word — delivers bass work that does more than anchor the rhythm. It speaks. It carries its own narrative thread through the song, responding to and deepening the lyrical content rather than simply supporting it.
“Patryk’s bass doesn’t just support — it speaks its own truth. When you’ve been creating with someone for over ten years, there’s a musical intelligence that develops between you that can’t be faked. On this track especially, he understood exactly what these words needed.”
THE END OF MY REVENGE: FIVE SONGS FOR FIFTY YEARS
The “My Revenge” EP was conceived as a statement of survival — five tracks for fifty years of living, released as a 50th birthday declaration. Each song carries a different dimension of that survival: defiance, brotherhood, the theft of time, grief transformed into dignity, and now — the memory of innocence in the face of everything that has hardened.
The five tracks span two lyricists and one sustained emotional vision: Andrzej wrote “You’re Not My Friend — You’re My Brother, My Friend,” “Time Is a Thief,” and “I Am a Gentleman Tempered by Grief.” Shereen wrote “My Revenge” and “The Demon Was Once an Angel.” Together, they form a complete arc — not a tidy resolution, but an honest accounting.
“This is the final song from ‘My Revenge.’ Five songs for fifty years. Five pieces of survival turned into sound. Thank you for walking this journey with us. From the first song to this last one. You made my revenge complete.”
THE LYRIC VIDEO SERIES: WORDS MADE VISIBLE
The decision to document each track from “My Revenge” with its own lyric video reflects a consistent artistic philosophy: words this personal deserve to be seen, not just heard. Lyrics that emerge from lived experience — from grief, from loss, from the long work of remaining human — carry meaning that the ear alone cannot always hold. The lyric video format allows listeners to sit with the words, return to specific lines, and find themselves in the text. With this final release, that documentation is complete. Every word Shereen and Andrzej put into this EP now has a visual home. The record is permanent.
STREAM & WATCH
YouTube lyric video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPa5Fn9MQek The complete “My Revenge” EP is available on Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, YouTube Music, and all major streaming platforms.
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About Andrzej Citowicz: Andrzej Citowicz is an acclaimed Polish guitarist and songwriter currently based in Cairo, Egypt. As a former recording artist for DownBoys Records, he has built a reputation for emotionally resonant songwriting and distinctive guitar work. His music combines classic rock influences with contemporary production, creating a sound that bridges generational and cultural gaps while maintaining artistic authenticity. His YouTube channel has garnered over 70,000 views from an international audience.
Italian thrash/death metallers EXTINCTION have revealed full details for their new album “The Horned God,” due out March 27, 2026 via Punishment 18 Records. The band unveiled the final tracklist and the official cover artwork, created by Sheila Franco (Celtic Hills, Selvans, Hell in the Club, Cadaveric Crematorium, Eternal Tragedy, Rawfoil).
01. Divine Adoration 02. The Horned God 03. Jukai 04. Llorona 05. Wendigo 06. Human Dolls 07. The Ruling Plague 08. Mania 09. Pan
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