Human Within is a powerful new force emerging from Australia’s metal scene, born as a passion project from guitarist Ben Thomas (Dragonsclaw, Night Legion) alongside drummer Aaron Thomas and commanding vocalist Adam Denlinger (MaYaN, Area 51). Blending melodic intensity with crushing riffs, the band channels years of collective experience into a sound that is both technically sharp and emotionally resonant.
Their debut EP, Behind The Mask, marks a bold first statement fusing intricate guitar work, crushing rhythms, and soaring vocal dynamics into a cohesive and immersive listening experience. With a focus on depth, energy, and a modern metal style, Human Within arrive fully formed, setting the stage for a striking new chapter in heavy music.
Ben Thomas adds:
This release is a personal one for me, it reflects a part of my early musical life, fused with new influences and life experience.
The Human Within EP “Behind The Mask” is available now on all digital platforms!
Tracklisting:
Diary of Pain Behind The Mask Leverage Save Me Face The Fear
To close out another successful edition of Rock am Ring, Iron Maiden—performing as one of the headliners alongside Sabaton and The Offspring—put on another electrifying show on their current Run For Your Lives World Tour. From the tour’s title track to “The Trooper” and “Fear of the Dark,” none of their biggest classics were missing. You can find the full setlist and striking photo impressions of their magnificent performance at the Nürburgring below.
Setlist From June 7, 2026, at Rock am Ring
Please note: The setlist may vary from show to show.
Swedish melodic rock force THE DEVIL WEARS NADA have released their new single ‘Victoria’, out now on Eonian Records. In conjunction with the single are details of their highly anticipated sophomore album, ‘In Lust We Thrust’, arriving on CD and limited-edition coloured vinyl via Eönian Records on Friday, July 10, 2026.
The Devil Wears Nada brings you new single “Victoria“. Have you ever wondered how KISS’s “Animalize” would have sounded if it was written and produced in 2026? Look no further, this track features the legendary Paul Stanley’s son, Evan playing a monstrous guitar solo.
“Victoria” serves as the next glimpse into the band’s upcoming album ‘In Lust We Thrust‘, set for release on July 10th – a record that promises bigger hooks, bigger emotions, and an even more expansive sound. With this release, The Devil Wears Nada continue to establish themselves as a rising force in melodic rock, blending nostalgia with a fresh and modern identity. — For fans of: Roxette, 80s pop-rock, melodic rock, cinematic power ballads
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, the album 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.”
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
‘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
Polish atmospheric black/doom metal project Divine Sovereign returns with the lyric video for “Pledge,” a track taken from the forthcoming album Autaxia Chronicles: A House Divided.
Following the debut “Autaxia Chronicles: Dawn of the New Age”, the new record continues the unfolding narrative of Autaxia—a world shaped by conflict, belief, and the slow erosion of power. Where independence once marked a turning point, it now gives way to decline. The inhabitants’ psionic abilities begin to fade, pushing their rulers toward increasingly extreme measures.
“Pledge”captures a pivotal moment in the story. One of the central anti-heroes, the Archpriest, performs a forbidden ritual to summon the ancient gods long abandoned by his people. His aim is clear: immortality at any cost. What follows is an act of devotion turned violent, as he prepares to sacrifice his own kind in pursuit of power.
The track reflects the wider themes of A House Divided, in which faith shifts from a unifying force to a catalyst for fracture and internal conflict. The album explores how belief systems—historically and within the narrative—can shape societies, but also break them apart.
Musically, Divine Sovereign continues to develop its identity through a blend of atmospheric black metal and epic doom. Expansive compositions, layered textures, and a strong narrative focus drive the project forward, drawing influence from acts such as Ethereal Shroud, Panopticon, Gallowbraid, and Atlantean Kodex.
Divine Sovereign is a Polish atmospheric black/epic doom metal solo project founded in 2023. The project tells the ongoing story of Autaxia, a planet where an advanced species discovers the ruins of a once-great civilization. Autaxia Chronicles: Dawn of a New Age was released in 2025 via Wormholedeath.
South of England collective reveal two striking visual accompaniments—including a hand-animated music video—ahead of full-length release on 31st July 2026.
Atmospheric metal collective Cairiss have officially broken a decade-long hiatus to announce their highly anticipated debut full-length album, Wilderness, releasing on 31st July 2026.
To mark their re-emergence, the band has delivered two powerful visual introductions to the album’s core themes. This includes the official music video for lead single “Nervosa”—a bleak, cinematic portrayal of psychological isolation, featuring stark black-and-white performance footage interwoven with unsettling imagery of water and binding rope—alongside a stunning, completely hand-animated music video by vocalist Freya Brown for the track “Wildfire”.
Cairiss first redefined the boundaries of the underground scene with their landmark 2014 demo “Disgraced”—a single track that went on to amass over 2 million streams. Ten years in the making, Wilderness is less of a standard comeback and more of a total reclamation of their sonic identity. The record bridges a ten-year gap between survival and integration, mapping the dissociative fragmentation of the self following life-altering trauma.
Musically, Cairiss sit precisely where black metal’s cold intensity meets the immersive haze of shoegaze. Their sound is a study in majestic contrast: tectonic, blackened guitar fury and harsh vocals plunge into a maelstrom of noise, only to be seamlessly offset by orchestral harmonies, major-chord shifts, and ethereal choral arrangements. The result shifts the genre away from traditional themes and toward the crystalline, ’80s arthouse aesthetic of the iconic 4AD label, echoing the raw intensity of Oathbreaker and the atmospheric despair of Unrequited.
Meticulously recorded over several years at the band’s own ELM Studio, Wilderness was mixed and mastered by guitarist Ethan Bishop. The production intentionally prioritises natural acoustic character and raw emotional authenticity over sterile digital precision, creating a listening experience that feels simultaneously expansive and claustrophobic.
Freya Brown – Vocals, Lyrics, Art Lydia Williams – Vocals Martin Williams – Vocals, Guitar, Songwriting Ethan Bishop – Guitar, Songwriting, Mixing, Mastering Alex Taylor – Bass Connor Frapwell – Drums
Darkness is a very popular topic in all its aspects in metal music. In their new single “Ignite”, Insania.11 narrate of a dystopian apocalyptic but not impossible future where the sky has been irremediably darkened by a thermonuclear catastrophe that contaminated everything.
The presumptuous and confident Sun worshippers wrongly assumed they can harness its energy through science and make it “splendere in una fossa” (shine in a pit).
The planet is now a vast blaze, and the atmosphere is saturated with smoke and ash.
The processions of emaciated survivors proceed at martial pace, worn out and consumed by a toxic desert, forced to feed enormous ritual bonfires to tear a darkness that has become eternal.
The voice desperately cries out in grief, “Brucia! Brucia il mondo!” (Burns! The world burns!) with a piercing and cutting scream as acidic as the undrinkable waters. As the drums pound at super fast speed like a countdown to extinction, the guitar strings paint a boiling, volatile landscape through odd, dissonant, and suffocating riffs.
The obsessive cult of hydrocarbons and consumption here becomes the symbol of a system founded on greed and predation, in a disturbing parallel between modern “black gold” and the ancient Cult of the Sun later absorbed by Christianity: idolatry leads only to destruction; history teaches us, but mankind refuses to learn.
In “Ignite“, it’s not just metal that’s blackened but also the Earth’s atmosphere now blackened by ash, while death metal takes on its most radical meaning: the death of the planet, extinction on its knees before a huge bonfire fueled by our greed.
“Ignite” is the second single and seventh installment from “Il mondo aldilà“, a concept album that explores the liminal worlds on the edge between life and non-life. The album will be available in physical copies on all platforms from June 26th.
Watch the video of “Ignite” here:
Insania.11 arose from the ashes of Insania, a thrash(core) band active between 1989 and 1997 of which traces remain in a demo and some rough recordings. The project took shape in 2008 as a studio entity led by Samaang, culminating in the 2010 EP “I Diari di Samaang: lo Stato Larvale.”
After an attempted reunion with part of the original lineup, the project consolidated around the core of Samaang and Ethrum, resulting in “Di Sangue e di Luce” (2017), a work well received by the specialized press despite limited distribution.
After a journey complicated by negative experiences and delays, “L’Orrore” was released in 2019.
The writing of the following material began in 2019 and was affected by the pandemic isolation, which expanded the creative process into a broad and structured work. Alongside the composition, a unified concept took shape and vocal techniques were refined thanks to Scream Studios. Furthermore, the completion of the arrangements and recordings the project reached its final form with the support of Marco Allemandi, who handled the mixing and mastering at his studio, Triora Records.
THE ROCK ALCHEMIST – Italian Rock Band from Turin with a strong sonic identity that blends modern rock with progressive, hard, alternative, and pop elements!
Kimmo Kuusniemi’s SARCOFAGUS return with a Historic 2010 Concert Video Premiere on YouTube! Click image to watch the video
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