Belgian/Thai black metal entity YHWHare back with Khatha, a short but punishing five-track EP that breathes life into previously unrecorded compositions, confronting human cruelty, societal injustice, and the darker corners of myth and the mind. With Khatha, YHWH deliver a raw, uncompromising statement, reinforcing their place as one of modern extreme metal’s most intense and thought-provoking forces.
Khatha will be released digitally on 12 December 2025 via Wormholedeath.
Check out the EP teaser here:
Tracklist: 01 – Hell on Earth (The Root of All Evil) 02 – Murderer of Illusions 03 – Deathrash 04 – Night Terror 05 – Krasue
Formed in 2024, YHWH is a Belgian/Thai black metal band. All music is composed by Schem HaMephorash and her sister C. Bones, with S.M. Goat Ritual joining in June. Following their debut EP Tetragrammaton (April 2025, Wormholedeath), the band now unleashes the second chapter: Khatha. Prepare for the doom.
”Worst Is Yet to Come”is a heavy rock track. The title song of the full-length album, coming out in January 2026, hits you like a Volvo 850. Groovy riffing with melancholic touches nods to bands like Opeth, Sentenced & Kingston Wall. It’s a story about setting your targets and refusing to live by someone else’s expectations. While the upcoming album also has gentler vibes, this one is “Balls to the wall”!
“Stop fooling around, take control, and get the job done — because the worst is yet to come. Depressure: born in Joensuu, reborn in Poland — melancholic-rock audio massage since 2006.” the band hype up.
–FI3FC2552603 –Composition & Lyrics: Antti Heikura –Production: Depressure –Arrangements: Depressure –Mixing and Mastering: Kuba Malinowski, Lunar Sounds Studio
Depressure. Heavy moods and aching emotions. From melancholic yearning to modern heavy rock, it drills into your brain like a Makita 666. Born in Joensuu, Finland, 2006. Two demos, a few shows, then a decade of silence. In early 2018, Depressure was dragged out of the grave, and the first album was composed and recorded by Antti Heikura. “September” came out on February 19th, 2020.
A new lineup took shape in Antti’s new home country, Poland. Gigs in Gdańsk, more sweat, more drilling. In autumn ‘24, recording of the next album began. “Worst is Yet to Come” is set to release in January 2026 and the band is ready to freeze audiences with their northern rock.
Depressure: Antti Heikura – Vocals & Guitar Paweł Kempa – Guitar Tomasz Kacmajor – Drums Konrad Piątkowski – Bass
RABBIT CULT, who recently signed a significant co-management deal with Arc Flame Entertainment and Till Dawn They Count, are releasing new music. The Finnish bunny duo calls for the brave to join their Row Zero.
”Do you dare to stomp where the silence kills?” metal bunnies Salla and Marianne ask.
Row Zero, combining heavy kantele riffs, cheeky beats, sassy lyrics and rabbits stomping in their flower dresses, comes straight from the metal bunnies’ heart. The song’s lyric video showcases the atmosphere in Hellsinki Metal Festival last summer and has now been released in YouTube.
The new song can be heard live already next week, as the bunny metal duo warms up the stage for Turmion Kätilöt in Ääniwalli, Helsinki. In January, Rabbit Cult will be touring Finland in support of Omnium Gatherum.
–Composed & lyrics by Saku Rekonen –Cover art by All4band Design
The band comments: ” “Linguicide” is the first taste of our upcoming EP “Lost in Translation.” With its catchy groove and memorable guitar melody, it is arguably the most “commercial” track from the EP, yet it contains a great blend of all the elements that make our music what it is. Musically, the song is the oldest one on the EP, with the first demo going as far back as February 2020. Lyrically, the song went through two or three rewrites before finding its final form. Some of the discarded ideas have since been used in songs meant for future releases. As a product of our times, “Linguicide” deals with cancel culture and the death of independent thought, whether through self-censorship or outside pressure.”
Lost in Translation Track list:
Tomb Service
Linguicide
The Performer
Uticensis
Comatose Waltz
Cover art by All4band Design
Krateros is an emerging metal band from Helsinki, Finland, founded in 2023 and led by vocalist/guitarist and main songwriter Saku Rekonen. The band’s music combines influences from old-school thrash metal bands such as Annihilator, Exodus, and Megadeth with more contemporary acts like Trivium, Machine Head, and Stam1na — all the while being filtered through a progressive lens.
The band’s first EP, “Lost in Translation,” released through Inverse Records, is a response to a perceived lack of riffs that seems to plague the metal scene of the 2020s.
Blossoms Fall are a female-fronted metalcore band from Albuquerque, New Mexico (USA), and they own the sweet spot of our sonic zone like a massive tsunami that would crash on our shores! The band just dropped an emotional new music video and single entitled “Luna” which happens to feature Wasted Potency on guest vocals. The music video was directed by Luis Escalara of Adelphia Studios. This is the first single & music video taken from their upcoming EP album La Alma which will be released on February 6, 2026 via Eclipse Records. The album was produced and mixed by Matthew Torres (Lights on the Coast, Cloudtrails, Wasted Potency) at Nightscape Recordings, and mastered by Kevin Thrasher (Escape the Fate, Machine Gun Kelly, Blink 182, Avril Lavigne) at Thrasher Productions.
“This song is in the middle of the EP and is full of emotion” says guitarist Matt Torres. “Foxes are very symbolic of spiritual guidance through turmoil in many different cultures and the idea was to encapsulate that ideal. This video is a metaphor for chasing your dreams and not stopping until you’ve made them a reality. The fox manifests a goal and chases it endlessly until it has been achieved. It represents our naturally devious nature that spoils the garden, in a sense. To inspire hope, the message is that we can change our outlook on life and find purity and happiness just by chasing the things that make you happy and bring peace and light. Sometimes that can take longer than expected but never giving up is key. This will be a clear theme throughout the EP and in visuals altogether.”
The new album La Almaby Blossoms Fall is metalcore, but so much more than the current genre classification would indicate. Genre is a moniker, a nickname if you will, and in terms of La Alma, we could thrust a slew of “warriors” into the ring for this fight, like hyper pop, emo core, or modern metalcore with a trance vibe. We could claim that Blossoms Fall create music that resembles a good thriller soundtrack in that they lead our emotions one way, and then they twist us into unexpected contexts, causing glorious disequilibrium and life changing interpretations of our own emotional and psychological landscapes. In other words, this album is a blast of beautiful chaos leading us to the edge of the cliff yet giving us wings…to the lip of the abyss armed with a blazing torch and a backbone of granite. Musically, the first thing we might notice is that drums are absolute thunder, produced to be a force in the forefront and earning its position with monster fills even in the verses. The guitar work is heavy with maximum crunch, like a fiery blast from the jaws of the dragon, the bass a “wall of pound” and the vocals cleverly patterned with textured growls and melodic tapestries. We are also given flashes of ethereal keys and tasty syncopation, demonstrating the band’s ability to not only show force but to add a flavor profile unique, devasting, and addictive as hell.
La Alma was produced and mixed by Matthew Torres (Lights on the Coast, Cloudtrails, and Wasted Potency), mastered by Kevin Thrasher (MGK, Blink 182, Escape the Fate, and Iann Dior). The album art was designed by Luis Escalara of Adelphia Studios, and it is scheduled for release on February 6, 2026.
Hard-rock and metal powerhouse Steve Gordon MIA officially impacts U.S. commercial rock and metal radio today with his explosive new single “BROKEN” (feat. Ray West of Spread Eagle). The track is the #6 most added song at metal radio and lands on the metal radio chart at #34 its first week.
Driven by Gordon’s massive riffs, haunting atmosphere, and West’s electrifying vocal firepower, BROKEN fuses the emotional weight of classic metal with the precision and punch of modern production. It follows Gordon’s prior charting single “We Go To War” (feat. Ray West), which also reached #18 with strong national airplay.
Importantly, the collaboration between Steve Gordon MIA and Ray West is not a band, but part of Gordon’s solo vision. Ray West has lent his voice to both “We Go To War” and “BROKEN” as a featured vocalist, while the upcoming Steve Gordon MIA album, arriving December 2025, will also showcase a mix of instrumental hard rock/metal tracks and songs featuring other well-known singers across the heavy music spectrum. This approach emphasizes Gordon’s role as a guitarist, songwriter, and producer curating a diverse and powerful project.
The single continues Gordon’s creative partnership with Ray West, best known as the frontman of NYC hard rockers Spread Eagle. Together, they deliver another explosive performance that blends modern heavy metal intensity with the raw, emotional edge of classic hard rock.
“‘Broken’ is about having that craving or addiction you can’t live without,” says Gordon. “ It consumes you. If you can’t have it, it drives you insane. It controls your thoughts and makes you do things you’ll regret just to satisfy that hunger.”
Ray West adds, “ When the thing that comforts your addictive brain suddenly betrays you, you’re left broken. You can either lay down and die — or fight back and take control of your life. And sometimes taking control leads to an act of violence.”
Recently, Gordon’s instrumental single “Pharaoh Lives” gained radio exposure and charted internationally entering at #8 in Germany’s Instrumental Rock charts alongside heavyweights like Metallica at (#1), Megadeth, Testament, and Slayer. That same day, the track debuted at #1 in Los Angeles on the Best of Hard Rock/Metal charts by Bad Wolf Records. The achievement highlights not only U.S. momentum but also growing global traction.
About Steve Gordon
A veteran musician, Steve Gordon has played guitar on dozens of Gold and Platinum records across genres, collaborating with icons such as Rob Thomas, Rod Stewart, Celine Dion, Phil Collins, Bon Jovi, Frank Sinatra, Wu-Tang Clan, Brian Howe (Bad Company), James Ingram, Natalie Cole, Betty Wright, Phyllis Hyman, Rita Marley, Crew to Crew (Motley Crüe/2 Live Crew), Inner Circle, and Tito Jackson.
As a mixer and producer, his credits also include projects with Regina Belle, Aretha Franklin, Prince, Natalie Cole, Donell Jones, Tony Braxton, Najee, David Sanborn, Kirk Whalum, Howard Hewitt (Shalamar), Matt Kramer (Saigon Kick) and Morgan Wallen—where he mixed half of Wallen’s Stand Alone (10th Anniversary Deluxe Edition), which reached the Top 15 on Billboard’s Top Country Albums Chart. Gordon mixed Donell Jones’ albums Forever (#8 Billboard R&B/Hip-Hop Albums) and Lyrics (#20 Billboard R&B/Hip-Hop Albums), including the singles “Forever” (#14 R&B Singles) and “Love Like This” (Top 5 R&B Singles).
Gordon is also a Grammy-nominated engineer for Betty Wright & The Roots’ song titled “Surrender” and was personally asked by Regina Belle to remix all her #1 hits—including “A Whole New World,” “Baby Come to Me,” and “Make It Like It Was.”
Through the 1980s and 1990s, Gordon became a highly sought-after ghost session guitarist, frequently flown to New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago just days before a record release to repair and replace guitar parts for major record company releases. Often called in when artwork and album covers were already finalized and ready for immediate distribution worldwide, record executives and A&R departments trusted him to make the subtle but crucial changes that elevated tracks to their final, polished versions.
One of the most notable examples was when Gordon was called by manager Doc McGhee and producer Barry Mraz to step in on “Heart of America”—a song written by Bon Jovi for Farm Aid—where he replaced Richie Sambora’s guitar parts due to untold circumstances. He also contributed guitar work to Rob Thomas’ early band Tabitha’s Secret (the precursor to Matchbox Twenty) and played guitar on two songs on the Wu-Tang Clan album Iron Flag.
Because of his consistent ability to rescue and transform songs just days or hours before a release, Steve Gordon was often referred to as the “SECRET WEAPON”—the guitarist who could elevate a track to Top 40 Billboard chart success with his parts and additions. His behind-the-scenes work helped many artists achieve recognition that pushed them to icon status.
As Gordon was fully aware in his role as a ghost guitarist for some of rock and pop’s most iconic artists, he knew his name would not appear in the liner notes. However, his contributions were still formally recognized after release through lifetime royalties paid by AIE for all his ghosting sessions, cementing his status as an essential but often unseen contributor to many top charting records still played worldwide on radio every day worldwide.
In addition to his recording and session work, Gordon has placed about 27 songs in major films and soundtracks, including “The Little Things” starring Denzel Washington, “80 For Brady” starring Jane Fonda, Sally Field, Rita Moreno, Lily Tomlin, and NFL legend Tom Brady, and “Mafia Mama” starring Toni Collette and Monica Bellucci. His work also extends to Disney movies & soundtracks, as well as placements across Netflix, HBO, and Paramount, showcasing his versatility and wide-reaching impact.
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