The wait is over: German modern metal force Venues have unleashed ‘Duality’, the very first taste of their upcoming album cycle and the beginning of an audacious new era. Set against the backdrop of a dystopian world where the last living tree becomes a symbol of survival, ‘Duality’ introduces the narrative, sound, and aesthetic vision that will define the band’s most ambitious chapter yet.
Fusing pulsating synths, cinematic soundscapes, and crushing riffs, ‘Duality’ is the blueprint of Venues 2026 – futuristic, emotional, and unapologetically unique. Vocalist Lela Gruber delivers a breathtaking performance, shifting seamlessly between vulnerability and ferocity, while Robin Baumann’s visceral shouts slice through the chaos with surgical precision. Together, they embody the dual nature of the record: hope and despair, beauty and destruction, fragility and power.
“This time, we wanted to connect everything – sound, story, look, emotion,” says Lela. “’Duality’ is the first step into that world.”
‘Duality’ marks the start of a carefully crafted rollout where each new single unveils another chapter of the story – a cinematic universe told through music videos, visuals, and sound that blend seamlessly into one immersive experience. With their upcoming album due in summer 2026, Venues are not only reinventing themselves but pushing the boundaries of what heavy music can be.
Venues are not just a band. They are a movement. And ‘Duality’ is where it all begins
Vancouver’s alt-metal titans The Veer Union return stronger than ever with their brand-new single ‘Sunk Your Teeth In’, kicking off the pre-order campaign for their upcoming full-length Reinvention (20th February via Arising Empire).
Known for blending punishing riffs with soaring, emotionally charged hooks, the band once again delivers a track that feels both massive and unforgettable — a storm of melody, aggression, and raw intensity. Following a string of successful singles including ‘My Empire’, ‘Sea of Fear’, and ‘Caught in the Crossfire’, the new track sets the tone for what promises to be the band’s most powerful chapter yet.
The band made an instant impact with their breakout hit ‘Seasons’, which cracked the Top 10 on Active Rock Radio in both the U.S. and Canada. From there, they built an impressive career defined by perseverance, creativity, and constant evolution, selling over 150,000 albums, amassing more than 200 million streams worldwide, and landing 12 singles in the Billboard Rock Top 40. Their 2018 album Decade II delivered four Billboard-charting singles, including the standout ‘Living Not Alive’, which peaked at #21 and surpassed 20 million streams. Viral success followed in 2019 with their reimagining of Halsey’s ‘Nightmare’ on Covers Collection Vol. 1, which hit #25 on Billboard and racked up more than 10 million streams, while the Quarantine Collaborations project in 2021 continued their momentum with three Billboard-charting singles and over 9 million streams in its first three weeks. 2022’s Manifestations solidified their staying power with over 16 million streams and a successful North American tour, while Covers Collection Vol. 2 (2023) and Welcome to Dystopia (2024) reinforced their creative range and critical acclaim.
The Veer Union are preparing to unleash Reinvention, a record that not only reflects their journey but pushes their sound into bold new territory.
Finnish symphonic death metallers KARU unveil their second single, “Alone In The Forest,” taken from the forthcoming concept album “Perdition”. Following the intense and cinematic power of “Shadow War,” this new track offers a deeply emotional journey through themes of loss, isolation, and survival amid the spirits of a mythical Japanese wilderness.
Balancing brutal death metal ferocity with majestic orchestral passages and melancholic melodies, “Alone In The Forest” highlights the essence of KARU’s sound where aggression and beauty coexist in perfect harmony. The song’s evolving dynamics from towering riffs and guttural vocals to ethereal melodic sections capture the spiritual and emotional struggle at the heart of the album’s storyline.
Produced, mixed, and mastered by Niko Hienonen, the track showcases the band’s refined compositional depth, strengthened by the intricate guitar work of Kalle Pöyskö and Toni Tieaho (Crystalic, ex-Mors Principium Est). Visually complemented by artwork from Driope Project, the single continues the narrative thread leading to the album’s climactic title track, “Perdition”.
KARU’s music channels both the unforgiving nature of the North and the mysticism of feudal Japan, merging cold precision with cinematic emotion. The result is a sound as vast and powerful as the landscapes that inspired it.
For fans of: Wintersun, Nightwish, Children of Bodom
Track Listing: 1. Shores of Mist and Blood 2. Shadow War 3. Alone in the Forest 4. Embers in the Skies 5. Trail of Fire 6. Path of the Unforgiven 7. Perdition
Karu Line Up: Niko Hienonen – Vocals, Production, Orchestrations Kalle Pöyskö – Guitars Toni Tieaho (ex-Mors Principium Est, Crystalic) – Guitars
As The Light Leftis an album forged in both chaos and catharsis. With an unrelenting blend of nu-metal grit, cinematic darkness, and raw vulnerability, Daedric pushes their sound further than ever before—channeling pain, nostalgia, and primal fury.
The album opens with “The Other Terror,” fueled by a mental breakdown and relentless guitar riffs keeping the chaos sharp and direct. With unnerving screams and a tempo that mirrors the energy of fan-favorite “Nirn,” it sets the tone for an album that refuses to hold back. “Sand Tiger” stomps onto the scene like a nu-metal time capsule from the early 2000s, gritty, groovy, and scratched to hell. Inspired by the Cave of Wonders from Aladdin and built from a Linkin Park-esque synth loop, the track fuses live and electronic drums with existential lyrical weight.
Then there’s “Callous”, a song that almost didn’t survive. The track was set to be delivered to the mixing engineer when the band collectively decided to tear it apart and rebuild it from the ground up. What emerged was a modern, emotionally devastating anthem about betrayal and self-inflicted retribution. It’s Daedric at their most emotionally and sonically unpredictable. “Night Mother”, is the song that truly marks the start of the album’s creation and all the turbulence that came with it to become a cornerstone of the album’s tone: brooding, cinematic, and deeply human.
Throughout As The Light Left, Daedric strips away polish in favor of pain, letting raw emotion bleed through genre-bending production and ferocious vocals. It’s not an album of easy answers or tidy resolutions. It’s the sound of collapse and creation, of dancing on the edge of the fire, torn between fury and fragility. Born from breakdowns, creative tension, and fearless reinvention, As The Light Left is both a cathartic purge and a statement of artistic intent: Daedric refined, but still untamed “The Other Terror” which premiered at Revolver Mag yesterday is a late addition that became the perfect album opener. The single was built around an electrifying riff from Dylan and a raw, unfiltered vocal performance from vocalist Kristyn Hope. Unlike Daedric’s usual layered, cinematic approach, this track was designed to be straightforward and feral, hitting hard with primal energy. Lyrically, it captures the feeling of facing fear from multiple directions, inspired by a 9/11 excerpt. It reflects raw frustration, anger, and the chaos of internal battles. The chorus itself was born from a mental breakdown, featuring unprocessed, unpolished screams that heighten the song’s intensity. Daedric’s Kristyn Hope explains,“I don’t think I’ve ever thought to just have a f***** scream at the beginning of a chorus, but I was like, you know what? Yeah.”
With its high-energy, danceable tempo and stripped-down aggression, “The Other Terror” kicks off the album like a gut punch, setting the tone for what’s to come. “I think it’s nice, upbeat, dancy, it makes you go, ‘Oh s**, here we go.’” Kristyn further explains.
Daedric is an alternative rock and metal project led by vocalist and artist, Kristyn Hope, alongside producers, Clay Schroeder and Geoff Rockwell.
Daedric draws inspiration from an eclectic array of sources including the open world role-playing game series, The Elder Scrolls, from which the Daedric name is derived. The musical soundscape can best be described as “all killer, no filler” (according to Metal Epidemic) with a dance of hypnotic synths, elaborate grooves, and intensely dynamic vocals.
Kristyn launched the Daedric project in 2021 through a partnership with electronic rock label FiXT. With the debut full-length album, Mortal, and a May 2025 tour supporting TesseracT under Daedric’s belt, the project has solidified its hold on the line between rock and metal, with promises to tighten its grip on listeners’ ears. The band continues forward with a new album slated for release in late 2025.
Daedric has collaborated with labelmates Celldweller, Fight The Fade, Andromida, Void Chapter, and Highsociety for a gamut of well received singles that have also pulled in more fans from across the world. After dropping a variety of singles, music videos, and collaborations Daedric has amassed nearly 500K followers across all platforms, scored interviews in Outburn’s issue #112, mentions on Louder Sound, Punk Rocker, Metal Hammer, Metal Injection Spotify’s official “Women Of Metal” playlist, and recognition from Cristina of Lacuna Coil in a Spotify Women of Metal roundtable discussion between Lacuna Coil, Spiritbox, and Halestorm. They’ve also gained notoriety as Daedric’s track “Abandon,” a collaborative effort with Andromida, found its way into the spotlight when Ubisoft chose it for inclusion in a promotional trailer for Rainbow Six Siege.
SEETHING AKIRA have released their cover of Faithless’ ‘Insomnia‘, out now.
The band comments: “Faithless’ Insomnia is one of the most iconic electronic tracks of all time. With our cover, we set out to honour that legacy while reimagining it through the raw intensity and high-octane chaos that defines Seething Akira. The result is a powerful collision of nostalgia and modern aggression.”
Seething Akira are a band built on the foundations of connection, sharing something special with a stranger and forming a bond that lasts a lifetime. Taking the most gloriously crushing parts of metalcore and joyfully triumphant elements of EDM and smashing them together with lashings of British grit, determination and cheek, they craft a uniquely vibrant experience. Delivering as many breakdowns that could cut diamonds as techno breaks that wouldn’t sound out of place in the clubs of Berlin, they strive to unite two worlds with more in common than many think.
Inspired by the swell of the pit as much as the heat of the dancefloor, movement is encouraged, but so is critical thought. Though the band’s music straddles the shoulders of the community proudly, it is when they are on stage together that it truly comes to life. They’ve shared their hopeful philosophy with everyone from Don Broco and Ingested to Skindred, Killswitch Engage and Sleep Token, as well as decimating stages at Download, Bloodstock and Victorious. And each performance they been a part of has been viewed as a blessing, a chance to change someone’s perspective with the euphoria they have forged. There is no barrier between the band and the crowd, they are one in these moments
Seething Akira: When did waking up with air in our lungs and blood in our veins stop being all we needed to know that life is wonderful? At the end of everything, you won’t be thinking of the things you bought or the number of followers you had. You’ll be looking at the places you saw, the things you felt and the people you were with. That’s what this should all be about. It’s all this has ever been about. We just need a bit of reminding every now and then.
The future is more uncertain than it has ever been, but what we can control is the things that we stand for. As beautifully human as they are, they are wonderfully otherworldly; SeethingAkira know who they are and what they believe now more than ever. Of what it means to make the most of our time and endeavour to make every moment one to remember. They want to be a flag in the ground for everybody else who feels the same. So, are you coming along for the ride?
SEETHING AKIRA live: 1st, 2nd Nov – Rabidfest, Oxford 2026 1st – 3rd May – Teddy Rocks Festival, Dorset 2nd May – Kin’ellfest, Mansfield 24th July – Hammerdown Open Air Festival, Horsham 29th, 30th Aug – Tuckstock, Tap N Tumbler, Nottingham
On 24th October, when they start their run of UK shows with Bobbie Dazzle, SILVEROLLER release their new single, ‘Trouble Follows Me (Live in ’25)’.
This track is a searing rocker that captures the very essence of the band, showcasing their flair and fabulousness alongside that live feel and groove. With more new music coming in ’26, the buzz is growing exponentially in the Silveroller camp!
“Trouble Follows Me, our tongue in cheek moment of truth, sometimes it does feel like no matter how fast, how far we run, how much peace we try and seek, trouble some how arrives at our door.”
We wanted to get some new music out to everyone who’s been following us, and we recorded a lot of our shows on tour earlier in the year, mainly for ourselves so we could hear how we’re sounding live. One of the constant questions we had gotten from fans was “when will we have some new music!?”. There’s some good news for anyone who wants new music from Silveroller. We’re currently in the writing process for a new record! There’s a lot of work going into the songs. We’re starting to discuss studios and we’re getting ready to make our first Full length album some time early next year.
Before then though, we wanted to release a live single, or two, of songs that will be on that record. We didn’t want the people who have been asking for new music to have to wait for the “studio versions” to be ready for you to hear them, so here is ‘Trouble Follows Me – Live’, unfiltered, raw, passionate and as it came from us onstage. We hope you dig it, thank you for waiting so patiently for new music, there’s more on the way.
With love, Silveroller”
Silveroller head out on tour in October with Bobbie Dazzle for 3 shows, then finish up supporting REEF at Liverpool: “Thrilled to be heading out on the road in October! We’re out with two incredible artists.
Bobbie Dazzle… what can we say!? Absolutely amazing, we’ve tried to align schedules in the past, to play shows together, and haven’t been able to make it work so we’re buzzing to get this run of dates down. It’s going to be one hell of a stylish tour! We’re stoked to return to London, and to be playing in a venue on the iconic Denmark Street is gonna be a thrill. We’ve only played in Wales a couple of times, and we’re really excited to get back. Manchester we’ve done once before when we played with DeWolff last year, it was an amazing show last time, I’m sure it will be this time as well.
Then we’re rounding off the run with Reef, in Liverpool o2 Academy, a home town show for a couple of the boys! Me and Joe saw Reef open for The Black Crowes when we were in pre production for ‘At Dawn’, they blew our head off so getting the invite to open is amazing.
We made a decision to come off the road for a bit and concentrate on writing new material for our next record, so we’re looking forward to getting some new material onstage! We’re really excited to get out on the road!” Rev.JH
Supporting Bobbie Dazzle: 24th Oct The Lower Third, London 29th Oct Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff 30th Oct The Lodge at the Deaf Institute, Manchester Supporting Reef: 31st Oct O2 Academy, Liverpool
2026 28th – 31st May, Call Of The Wild Festival, Lincolnshire 18th – 20th June, Love Rocks Festival, Dorset
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