Young Medicine announced they have officially signed a new multi-album deal with FiXT, marking a new chapter for the genre-mixing band and their relationship with the label.
The partnership kicks off with the re-release of “Immolator,” a high-energy collision of hard rock, metalcore, and alternative metal that pairs retro-inspired synthesizers with heavy guitars, rapid-fire rhythms, and a passionate vocal performance that erupts into explosive screams. With its combination of nostalgic electronics and modern heaviness, “Immolator” finds Young Medicine pushing their signature fusion of sound into even more aggressive territory while setting the stage for a new era of releases with FiXT.
Rising synthwave rockers Young Medicine pull the best from diverse genres to build a carefully constructed music identity that defies simple categorization. Thumping double-bass beats and crunchy guitar riffs hammer out hard-hitting rhythms while chorus lines partner with sparkling retro synth tones for a stunning mix of audio ideas. If synthwave and metal got together and started a boy band, the result might sound something like Young Medicine, who have put themselves on the map as pioneers for a new era by bringing rockstar swagger to the retrowave movement.
When speaking on the themes of their new single, vocalist Andreas Bjulver said that “‘Hurt Me’ is about seeking out toxic relationships and destructive situations just to feel something, even when you know they’re hurting you. The song dives into that vicious cycle of craving pain when feeling nothing seems worse. It features our Justine Jones from Employed To Serve, who adds another layer of visceral desperation to the track with heir piercing shrieks“.
This new singles comes ahead of the bands co-headline UK & EU tour with Employed To Serve this November/December.
Andreas added “Everything rots, and so does Europe and UK when we hit road for our co-headline tour with Employed To Serve in November and December, with support from our Danish friends in Cold Culture“.
Catch them at the following dates with support from Cold Culture. Tickets available at cabalcult.com/shows
06.11 Patterns, Brighton UK 07.11 Reading Rising, Reading UK * 07.11 Damnation Fest, Manchester UK + 08.11 University SU, Newcastle UK 09.11 Classic Grand, Glasgow UK 10.11 Beta, Nottingham UK 11.11 Thekla, Bristol UK 12.11 The Junction, Plymouth UK 13.11 The Underworld, London UK 14.11 Bibelot, Dordrecht NL 15.11 Hall of Fame, Tilburg NL 17.11 Ratinger Hof, Düsseldorf DE 18.11 Bei Chez Heinz, Hannover DE 19.11 Sputnik Café, Muenster DE 20.11 Monkeys, Hamburg DE 21.11 Loppen, Copenhagen DK 22.11 Kollektivet Livet, Stockholm SE 24.11 John Dee, Oslo NOR 25.11 Monument, Gothenburg SE 27.11 Badehaus Berlin, Berlin DE 28.11 Groovestation, Dresden DE 29.11 Viper Room, Vienna AT 30.11 Feierwerk, Munich DE 01.12 Sunset, Martigny CH 03.12 Trix Club, Antwerp BE 04.12 Backstage By The Mill, Paris FR 05.12 O totem, Lyon FR *ETS only +Cabal only
CABAL has through the years proved themselves as one of the heaviest and most uncompromising metal acts hailing from Copenhagen, Denmark. The bands sound is visceral and destructive and aims to bring forth absolute chaos by drawing inspiration from everything from crushing death metal, contemporary metallic hardcore and metalcore to unnerving soundscapes and dark electronic music.
Since the release of their first album in 2018 the band toured most of the planet, from Europe and NorthAmerica to Japan and Australia, as well as renowned festivals like, Roskilde Festival, Copenhell, SummerSlaughter, Brutal Assault and many more, and they have no intention of slowing down. All of the above combined with features from some of the modern metal scenes most prominent names like; Matt Heafy from TRIVIUM, Jamie Hails from POLARIS and Joe Bad from FIT FOR AN AUTOPSY, the band has shown the world that Denmark has something to offer when it comes to bone crushing heaviness.
2025 saw the release of the bands 4th studio album; Everything Rots. Everything Rots is the most focused and ferocious CABAL has ever sounded, while still expanding on the sound that fans expect from the band.Ear piercing electronic parts and unsettling soundscapes fuse together with bone-rattling riffs and uncompromising breakdowns to create a sonic attack on the senses that’s sure to please and surprise any fan of extreme heaviness. Just like instrumentals the lyrics are dark and direct as they detail the cyclicalnature of depression, addiction and trauma, as they work through and detail deeply scarring lifeexperiences and invite the listernes inside a dark world were everything everything rots and falls apartagain and again and again.
Norwegian pop/folk outfit Kalandra are now releasing the second new single ‘Lost in the Dark’, which is taken from the much anticipated third studio album The Other Side. The new album is set for 13th November via By Norse Music.
The song finds its origin in Kalandra’s early days as ‘Lost in the Dark’ was written and composed by Helen Morrisson, a dear university friend of the band, who is based on the Isle of Man. Those particularly invested in Kalandra lore may already know that Helen was once part of Kalandra herself, contributing as a songwriter, backing vocalist and pianist.
Katrine explains: “Timelines change, and life inevitably takes us down different paths, but the friendship and the deep love for music that reaches the soul has always remained. We are therefore incredibly honoured to bring ‘Lost in the Dark’ back to the surface and give this song a new life.
“The song is about self-discovery, and the sometimes relentless search for who we are and where we belong. Yet the journey can be paradoxical: in searching so deeply for ourselves, we can sometimes end up feeling more lost than found”
On the album, the band explores the mysterious imagery of the subconscious where memories, fears, and imagination quietly intertwine. Thematically following a series of vivid and recurring dreams over the past few years. Katrine, together with bandmate Jogeir Daae Mæland, began exploring the world of dream analysis. Keeping a notebook by the bed, they started writing down fragments of dreams the moment they woke. Those scattered images, emotions, and subconscious narratives, became the foundation for a new collection of songs.
Track-list: 1. In the Shadows 2. Animal 3. Lost in the Dark 4. Let Me Be Open 5. Chasing Dreams 6. A Ship Has Left the Shore 7. Beauty & the Beast 8. Descend the Stars 9. The Other Side 10. Melanchoholic
Kalandra have recently announced their biggest headliner tour in Europe to date, with special guest singer-songwriter Finnegan Tui from New Zealand. The 2027 tour starts on 26th February in Cologne (DE) and ends 27th March in Amsterdam (NL). A full list of confirmed dates can be found below.
Kalandra 2027 EU/UK tour w/ Finnegan Tui 26.02.2027 Gebaeude 9, Cologne 27.02.2027 Backstage, Munich 28.02.2027 Im Wizemann Club, Stuttgart 02.03.2027 Trinity, Bristol 03.03.2027 Rescue Rooms, Nottingham 04.03.2027 Slay, Glasgow 05.03.2027 Manchester Academy 2, Manchester 06.03.2027 Islington Assembly Hall, London 07.03.2027 Botanique, Belgium 09.03.2027 Moritzbastei, Leipzig 10.03.2027 Szene Wien, Vienna 11.03.2027 A38, Budapest 12.03.2027 Hype Park, Krakow 13.03.2027 Niebo, Warsaw 14.03.2027 FRANNZ Club, Berlin 16.03.2027 Kollektivet Livet, Stockholm 18.03.2027 Monument, Gothenburg 19.03.2027 Hotel Cecil, Copenhagen 20.03.2027 Logo, Hamburg 21.03.2027 Rock Café, Czech Republic 23.03.2027 Dynamo, Zurich 24.03.2027 Legend Club, Milano 25.03.2027 Rayonne, Lyon 26.03.2027 Machine du Moulin Rouge, Paris 27.03.2027 Paradiso, Amsterdam
The dream world has inspired many great works of art over the centuries. The phantasmagorical terrain inhabited by Lewis Carroll, Salvador Dali and David Lynch is where we now find Scandinavian alt-prog-folk artisans Kalandra, whose elegant blend of Nordic pop savvy and dark atmospheric rock has been a developing sensation for 15 years. Formed while the core members were studying at Paul McCartney‘s Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts, their remarkably assured 2020 debut album The Line – over 54 million streams and counting – was followed by 2022’s immersive video game soundtrack Kingdom Two Crowns: Norse Lands. In 2024, their captivatingly majestic A Frame Of Mind album powerfully affirmed Kalandra‘s ascendancy – as did their sold-out headline show at Oslo’s 1300-capacity Rockefeller venue earlier this year. Their proven genius for weaving ethereal melodies into raw and eerie musical landscapes makes them a perfect fit for a concept album about dreaming, as we are presented with on The Other Side.
Determining the theme before writing began, the band started ‘dream journalling’: jotting down their nocturnal visions and working them into songs. “It’s been very helpful to write down my dreams,” affirms singer Katrine. “It definitely affected how I wrote lyrics. I would love to do this again, have some sort of loose concept, it brings the record together.“
“Knowing the theme was dreaming was helpful to me musically too,” adds guitarist Florian. “We could have these dreamy effects in there. I feel most of the songs have nightmarish or dreamy parts, one way or another. There are still a lot of different themes here though, there’s folklore, current events, introspective stuff, life and death… Everything can fit into dreams lyrically speaking, it’s just life, it’s all-encompassing.”
Kalandra have long since settled into their own versatile musical identity, embracing effective contrasts between shimmering joy and aching melancholy, sounding atavistically ancient but stylishly contemporary, otherworldly but firmly rooted in woodland soil. Kalandra‘s open-minded, open-hearted signature sound may take in several reference points, but it remains impervious to easy categorisation. Freely cited inspirations on The Other Side‘s heavy guitar quotient include Alice In Chains and Bring Me The Horizon, while neoclassical legends Dead Can Dance, Norwegian electro-alt-rockers Pyke and Oslo ‘doomgaze’ unit Leonov also made their mark on Kalandra‘s creative psyche. Even so, this is a band that will always obey their own singular muse:
“To me it’s about trying to write something I haven’t heard before,” says Florian. “That’s not to say it hasn’t been done! But if I haven’t heard it before, then it piques my interest.“
Australian/Finnish progressive dark metal masters THE ETERNAL celebrate the release of their new, critically-acclaimed studio album Obscured Horizons via Reigning Phoenix Music, further refining the band’s distinctive musical vision. Coinciding with the album’s arrival, the band has unveiled an official music video for “Harmony Breaks,” a deeply introspective track that explores the fragile line between inner balance and fragmentation, reality and illusion.
Speaking about the song, Mark Kelson (guitars/vocals) comments: “Harmony Breaks is about that internal fracture point, when the balance you’ve been holding onto finally gives way and you’re forced to confront truths you’ve been avoiding. It explores the tension between reality and illusion, where the mind becomes a space of conflict, shaped by past burdens and unresolved thoughts. The idea of chasing ghosts reflects being trapped in what’s already gone, while still searching for clarity or an ‘elusive cure’ that never quite arrives. Even as everything feels like it’s drifting and dissolving, there’s an underlying pull toward understanding, capturing what it means to exist in that fragile space between coherence and fragmentation.”
Following the widespread acclaim of their 2024 full-length Skinwalker and the evocative companion EP Celestial, THE ETERNAL return with Obscured Horizons today, an album that stands as both culmination and evolution.
Where Skinwalker was hailed for its emotional weight, cinematic scope and seamless fusion of melancholic atmosphere with crushing heaviness, and Celestial further expanded the band’s sonic palette with its introspective depth and dynamic intensity, Obscured Horizons pushes even further into uncharted territory. The album refines THE ETERNAL‘s signature blend of doom-laden textures, progressive sophistication and haunting melodic resonance, while embracing a broader, more expansive sound that feels both intimate and monumental.
At its core, Obscured Horizons is an exploration of disillusionment, fractured identity and the struggle to reclaim clarity in a world saturated with distortion. The album moves through states of emotional collapse, liminal transition and existential unrest, confronting deception, both external and internal, before emerging into renewal and self-awareness. Rather than surrendering to decay, Obscured Horizons charts a defiant ascent, refusing numbness, rejecting illusion and ultimately reclaiming light from the shadows that threaten to eclipse it.
With Mark Kelson (vocals/guitars) and Richie Poate (guitars) in Melbourne, alongside Niclas Etelävuori (bass; ex-Amorphis/Flat Earth) and Jan Rechberger (drums; Amorphis) in Helsinki, THE ETERNAL remain a truly international collaboration, unified across continents yet bound by a singular artistic vision.
Their sound continues to resonate with listeners drawn to the emotional gravity of dark metal while carving a path distinctly their own. As they enter a new creative chapter with their gaze fixed firmly on the unseen, Obscured Horizons represents a bold statement from a band continuing to evolve while remaining true to its artistic identity.
Order your copy of this must-have gem, one that belongs into every well-sorted dark metal record collection, now at: https://theeternal.rpm.link/horizonsPR
Obscured Horizons Tracklist:
Lament For The Hollow
Existing To Expire
Colours Fade
Harmony Breaks
I’ve Seen The Dream
Liminality
Obscured Horizons
Yesterday’s Gone
Awaken
THE ETERNAL Australian Live Dates, with AMORPHIS: September 23, 2026 The Croxton Bandroom, Thornbury, VIC September 24, 2026 The Triffid, Newstead, QLD September 25, 2026 Liberty Hall, Moore Park, NSW September 26, 2026 The Basement, Belconnen, ACT
THE ETERNAL is: Mark Kelson / Guitar & Vocals Richie Poate / Guitar Niclas Etelävuori / Bass Jan Rechberger / Drums & Percussion
Gothenburg’s hidden gem Grayscale Season have released ‘Yarusenai (Ghost)’, the second single from their forthcoming album The Weight of Things We Cannot Touch, out on 20th November 2026.
Yarusenai is a Japanese word for the intense sadness, disappointment or anger you feel when you know exactly what is wrong and have no way at all to fix it. The new single ‘Yarusenai (Ghost)’ is the centre of the album and the source of its title:
“Close your eyes And try to feel the weight of things you cannot touch I know it hurts so much, the grief we try to clutch.”
It sits with the idea that feelings do not disappear, that they attach themselves to objects and places and get passed on, and its own answer is an instruction it cannot follow: “It’s done, let it go.” The clean intro came first, and the main riff is its vocal hook, tremolo picked. But there is more buried underneath this track than anywhere else on the record, including a piano and, somewhere in the background, a bird.
On the song, vocalist and bassist Adam Dahlman comments: “Yarusenai is a Japanese word for the feeling of intense sadness, disappointment or anger when you know exactly what’s wrong and have no way at all to fix it. That’s the human experience, and it scares and intrigues me in equal measure. I hope there are ghosts. I hope there are feelings that remain, emotions that can be passed on.”
Pre-order The Weight of Things We Cannot Touchhere
Grayscale Season have never sounded much like their hometown. Formed in Gothenburg in 2012 and independent throughout, the four-piece pair crushing low-tuned riffs with a fragile falsetto, because that is what it sounds like when someone performs strength while falling apart underneath it. They have toured the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Germany, France, Belgium and the Netherlands, and played Helltown Festival in 2024. Press comparisons have run to Loathe, Deftones, Humanity’s Last Breath and The Acacia Strain. The Weight of Things We Cannot Touch is their most direct record and their least resolved.
The album takes its name from a Japanese word. Yarusenai describes the sadness or anger you feel when you know exactly what is wrong and have no way at all to fix it, and Grayscale Season have built an entire record out of that condition. Across eleven tracks the narrator sees precisely what is wrong with him and stays in the wrong room anyway, conforms anyway, says the thing too late anyway. The album keeps looking for somewhere outside itself to put the grief, first in contempt for other people and then in the ground. Neither works. Only the closing track names something reachable, and what it grieves is not the loss of that thing but the years spent looking past it.
On the sound of the record, vocalist Eddie Lejhagen comments: “I don’t think we really had a specific reference for how the album would sound. Melancholy is probably what I wanted the album to have a lot of, and I think we managed to pull that off. As for the screamed vocals, Deafheaven is probably a major inspiration – the desperation in it, but melancholic at the same time.”
The Weight of Things We Cannot Touch was produced by George Lever (Loathe, Sleep Token), who worked with the band remotely while they recorded everything themselves, a first for them. The album was mixed by Buster Odeholm (Humanity’s Last Breath, Bring Me The Horizon) and mastered by Seth Munson (Teddy Swims), with additional top line production and piano by Aurora Karme Nord.
Tracklisting: 01. Strung Up 02. soulmogged 03. Yarusenai (Ghost) 04. Infinite cc 05. Exit 06. Second Breath 07. mov 08. Square Terror 09. Heart&Ache 10. HER 11. I Know What You Are
Grayscale Season are: Adam Dahlman – Bass, clean vocals Richard Sörensen – Guitar Eddie Lejhagen – Harsh vocals Johan Carlbom – Drums
Finnish metal band Hav Norn released their second album ‘Laniena Animarum’ on September 18th 2026. Music video is also done for the first album track ‘Tears Flow Down To Endless Streams Of Sadness’.
The man behind Hav Norn, Sami Kokko comments: “The new album is officially out now. It’s basically a collection of separate moments and atmospheres, a mix of older tracks that went through some massive overhauls, along with a couple of brand new ones. It’s definitely not a concept album, but the overall vibe and tone pretty accurately mirror how I feel about the world and where our shared future is heading right now.
The music video for the opening track nails the core of the album by highlighting the symbiosis between the beautiful, the ugly, and the things we strictly need just to survive. That contrast shows up pretty clearly across the visuals, the lyrics, and the music itself, where raw intensity meets delicate melody. In the video, misty forests, which mean so much to us humans and dark industrial spaces set the stage for a tug of war between grief and hope, surrounded by glowing red signals of the end times. How does it all turn out in the end?
I’ve got new music ready to go, too. Turns out the next release is gonna be something a bit different, but still wrapped up in that same kind of Hav Norn package.”
An absolute sense of freedom, a relentless drive for new melodies, and a push toward the extremes, this is where Hav Norn’s uncompromising metal takes root. While deeply anchored in the metal soil, the core idea is complete genre fluidity. The music is born without rigid boundaries, unforced, and entirely on its own terms.
The story of Hav Norn began in 2025 in Jyväskylä, Finland, when a seasoned musician returned to life after two decades of silence. Raised in the 1970s, his background in bands and sound engineering once led to total burnout, driving everything music-related out of his life for far too long. When the time finally felt right for a comeback, years of pent-up creativity burst open into an unstoppable flow of sound.
Hav Norn is a one-man vision and execution: songwriting, lyrics, arrangements, every single instrument, vocals, mixing, and mastering are all handled by one individual. Working this way grants total creative freedom with zero compromise. Ideas, stories, rhythms, and moods overflow, with any single element serving as the spark for a new track. The creative process is light and adventurous, anything can be tested, but nothing is forced.
Musically and lyrically, Hav Norn spans a vast spectrum. The themes range from love and beauty to the conflicts, destruction, and world weariness born from human stupidity. It isn’t a sermon, but a deeply personal need to channel out the friction of existence, offering listeners a space to feel something real and intense.
Creating new material at a rapid pace, Hav Norn released the eight-track debut album Halcyon in 2025. The July 2026 single “All Around The World” opens the door to the next chapter, proving that the endless hunt for melody, rhythm, and a strong message is running stronger than ever. And it doesn’t stop here.
Track list: 01. Tears Flow Down To Endless Streams Of Sadness 02. All The World Around 03. Hush Now Sleep 04. Ember 05. Tomorrow Is a Dream 06. Finalize Your Position 07. Yesterday And Tomorrow
Composed, lyrics, mixed & mastered by Sami Kokko Album cover by Sami Kokko
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