Elettra Storm will release the new album “Evertale” on October 24 through Scarlet Records.
Elettra Storm took the power metal scene by… storm with the flawless 2024’s debut album “Powerlords”. Now they made a huge step forward, though, and the sound of “Evertale” is even more defined and cohesive.
Every band’s member had the chance to get the spotlight with his own style and personality, and the songs are more technical: some carry a proggy flavor, some other bring on the table the fury of speed power metal – but all of them are direct and catchy at the same time, with soaring melodies that will linger in the brain since the first spin and another stellar performance by charismatic frontwoman Crystal Emiliani.
Lyrically-wise, “Evertale” is a chest of wonders – like Micheal Ende’s “Neverending Story”, this record is a thrilling celebration of storytelling: each song tells its own story indeed, and the listener will find the drama of war, the desire for revenge, the journey of a hero, the mysteries of the ancient ones and much more.
Mixed and mastered by Simone Mularoni at Domination Studio (with vocals tracking by Skystrings Production & drums tracking by Artesonika Studio), and graced by a stunning illustration by Sheila Franco, “Evertale” will be released in the following formats: digipack CD – vinyl LP: 300 transparent red – digital.
“Evertale” tracklist:
1 Endgame 2 The Secrets Of The Universe 3 Hero Among Heroes 4 Blue Phoenix 5 Ride The Rainbow 6 Master Of Fairytales 7 One Last Ray Of Light 8 Judgment Time 9 If The Stars Could Cry
Total running time – 44:59
FFO: Stratovarius, Rhapsody Of Fire, DragonForce, Battle Beast, Frozen Crown
Elettra Storm are: Crystal Emiliani – vocals Francis D. Mary – guitar, vocals Matteo Antoni – guitar Davide Sportiello – keyboards, bass Matteo Norbedo – drums
Photo credit: Matthias Heilmeier – All visual copyrights belong to the respective owners
German old school death metallers CEMETERY have released their intense music video for ‘Grief, Anger And Despair’, taken from the band’s upcoming “Thoughts On Life… And Death” 50-minute concept album.
Front man Dani Zizek reveals: “‘Grief, Anger And Despair‘ is probably the most aggressive track on the album. I wrote it during a time when I was reflecting on state power, injustice, and the loss of control. What happens when justice no longer serves the truth, but political interests? When people who resist simply disappear? I wanted to put that helplessness into sound.
Musically, it’s four and a half minutes of pure rage – frantic drumming, razor-sharp riffs, no breathing space. The video, created by Matthias Heilmeier, captures that exact atmosphere. He managed to translate the bleak and oppressive mood of the song into raw and powerful images – intense, dark, and absolutely uncompromising.”
🎥 🎬 ⚙️ Composition & production: Cemetery
“Thoughts On Life… And Death” TRACKS: 📺 01. Thoughts On Life 02:54 02. Among The Dead 04:24 📺 03. Grief, Anger And Despair 04:23 04. Physical Fear 06:01 05. Nothingness 02:16 06. Lock The Doors To Your Mind 06:00 07. Believe 05:56 08. Truth “A” 06:34 09. Thoughts On Death 11:13
total: 49:41 min.
🎨 Artwork by Silvio Fiorese
With one foot in the realm of death!
The thrilling story is told from the point of view of a protagonist. Let’s just call him “Jim” and as is usual for a concept album, some musical elements are repeated in different variations … [ … learn more here ]
LINE-UP: Dani Zizek • Guitars, Vocals Markus Heilmeier • Guitars Stefan Hendel • Bass Tobias Kasper • Drums
Catalan black metal insurgents Burghâshunveil the lyric video for “El Xarlatà”, the first venom-laced excerpt from their upcoming EP, La tríada dels idiotes, set for release on 29 August 2025.
With “El Xarlatà” the band delivers a blasphemous barrage of raw black metal that confronts Abrahamic delusion head-on, fusing hallucinatory violence with desert-born dread. Sung entirely in Catalan and driven by rusted analog production, the track is a ritualistic act of sonic desecration.
La tríada dels idiotes marks Burghâsh’s first official release under their new moniker—an evolution of Burgûli, the misanthropic force active since 2012. This transition is no reinvention, but a radical intensification: a spiritual autopsy forged in hatred, sharpened by dissonance, and unflinching in its ideological stance.
Following chillingly dark recent single “Walking Wounded” – a track Revolver named one of the best tracks of its release week and “exquisitely funereal” – Cleveland, Ohio doom metal dealers FRAYLE are pleased to reveals details about their upcoming third full length album, entitled Heretics & Lullabies, out in October 10, 2025 via Napalm Records.
FRAYLE has been lauded as one of the fastest-rising, most haunting currently active modern doom metal outfits of late, infusing their sound with eclectic elements and now reinventing their trademark spectral sonic profile. Merging the heaviness of occult-driven doom and blackgaze with frontwoman Gwyn Strang’s distinctively eerie vocal stylings and the crushing guitars of Sean Bilovecky, the band has fully realized their “lullabies of chaos” musical vision with Heretics & Lullabies.
Alongside today’s album announcement, FRAYLE has launched a brand-new cover of Lana Del Rey favorite “Summertime Sadness”. Embers of the original slowly burn through the band’s ethereal, shadowy sonic rework of the hit song, providing a fitting closer to the summer season as autumn looms near.
FRAYLE says about the “Summertime Sadness” cover: “We’ve always been fans of songwriting with notes of melancholy, no matter what the genre. Hearing ‘Summertime Sadness’ for the first time was special. Everything seemed to fall into place for us with little resistance on this song. It was the first rough mix we got back from our producer. He added the pause before the breath leading into the first chorus and upon hearing it, we knew we had something special.”
Following head-turning performances at international festivals such as Damnation, Desertfest, Soul Crusher, Gloomnar, Post Fest and Inkcarceration, FRAYLE vows to enrapture audiences everywhere with Heretics & Lullabies. Recorded by FRAYLE and produced, mixed and mastered by Aaron Chaparian at Iron Audio (Bleeding Through, Harms Way), Heretics & Lullabies is a must-listen for any fan of doom, post-metal or atmosphere-heavy alt-rock, but also a pristinely phantomic journey for any heavy music fan as it maintains its accessible edge throughout.
The album kicks off with first single “Walking Wounded”, a whispering wall-of-sound that crushes with spine-tingling stacks of harmony. The deeply punishing atmosphere continues into second track “Summertime Sadness”, an entirely reworked doom-laden cover of the Lana Del Rey hit. Airy anthem “Boo” injects mid-tempo flavor and multifaceted vocal balance into the album as crushing weight lands alongside each hook, with bending guitar tone and dark, sparkling atmosphere swirling amid pounding percussion. Mid-album cuts such as “Demons” and “Glass Blown Heart” flirt with threateningly macabre lyrical poetry and otherworldly melody, while glacially-paced anthems “Souvenirs Of Your Betrayal” – described as a deeply personal look at the depths of despair after a painful deception – and “Run” double down on the aggressive, suffocatingly beautiful ambience and Gwyn Strang’s shimmering, beckoning vocal timbre. Hair-raising “Hymn For The Living” and standout single “Heretic” inject heavy rock edge and arena-ready drums into the mix, before the album concludes with droning melodic masterpiece “Only Just Once” – an unforgettable closer to this colossal modern doom compendium.
Heretics and hypocrites beware – Heretics & Lullabies will perpetually etch itself into the darkest corners of your psyche, taking deeper hold with each spin.
Heretics & Lullabies track listing: 1. Walking Wounded 2. Summertime Sadness 3. Boo 4. Demons 5. Souvenirs Of Your Betrayal 6. Glass Blown Heart 7. Hymn For The Living 8. Run 9. Heretic 10. Only Just Once
FRAYLE just kicked off their European headline tour – featuring several festival stops at the likes of Brutal Assault, Bloodstock, Summer Breeze and more – yesterday in Katowice, Poland. See below for a full listing of where you can catch FRAYLE on the road!
FRAYLE 2025 PERFORMANCE DATES: European Tour: Aug 6 – Fortress Josefov, CZ – Brutal Assault Aug 8 – Kortrijk, BE – Alcatraz Aug 10 – Derbyshire, UK – Bloodstock Aug 11 – Cologne, DE – Helios37 Aug 12 – Frankfurt, DE – Frankfurt Am Main Aug 13 – Dinkelsbuhl, DE – Summer Breeze Aug 16 – Hamburg, DE – Turmzimmer Aug 27 – Haarlem, NL – Patronaat
USA Dates: Oct 11 – Jackson, TN – Tennessee Metal Devastation Festival
FRAYLE is: Gwyn Strang: Vocals Sean Bilovecky: Guitar
“Throne Of Ecstasy” is the latest single from long-running German black/thrash legion DESASTER. The track comes off the band’s tenth studio album, Kill All Idols, set for release on August 22nd on Metal Blade Records.
DESASTER has been churning out their unique and unholy conjurings of extreme metal since 1989. With a four-year gap elapsing since the band’s critically-lauded Churches Without Saints full-length, fans have had to be patient again but will find the results more than worth the wait.
In an early review, Powermetal.de calls the record, “a real beast,” that, “clearly demonstrates who the king of black thrash is: DESASTER!” Deaf Forever concurs, “DESASTER are the most reliable black thrash metal band of all, not only here, but worldwide…The framework is always [guitarist] Infernal’s signature riffs, which embody the fusion of thrash and black metal, while Sataniac’s vocals occasionally incorporate death metal and, despite all their brutality, are maximally varied… I can’t imagine a metal world without DESASTER.” Adds Fuze, “While the band took a brief hiatus in their early years, a band that has uncompromisingly played its way through the depths of the metal underground for more than 35 years undoubtedly deserves institutional status. With…Kill All Idols, DESASTER underscores this claim once again, delivering a work that celebrates both tradition and evolution.”
Elaborates founding guitarist Infernal on “Throne Of Ecstasy,” “The song is a traditional DESASTER black/thrash song, which immediately encourages headbanging and fist-raising in the middle part. The riffs were created spontaneously in the rehearsal room during one of the legendary sessions with lots of (of course legal) stimulants and only had to be arranged a little. It was an easy birth! The songs that emerged from jams are usually our best.”
Stream previously released track, “Towards Oblivion,” HERE.
Kill All Idols was tracked in the band’s rehearsal room together with their live mixer Jan “Janosch” Gensheimer and mixed and mastered by Greg Wilkinson of Autopsy at his own Earhammer Studio in Oakland, California. Infernal notes, “Greg managed to give our sound a new guise. The collaboration with him was absolutely perfect and we have rarely been so satisfied after an album production.”
Kill All Idols Track Listing: 01. Great Repulsive Force 02. Emanation of the Profane 03. Towards Oblivion 04. Kill the Idol 05. Ash Cloud Ritual 06. Fathomless Victory 07. Throne of Ecstasy 08. They Are the Law 09. Stellar Remnant 10. Idols’ End (Outro)
DESASTER Live: 8/29/2025 Running Free Festival – Dryanovo, BG 8/30/2025 Hellhammer Festival – Srbobran, RS 110/17/2025 Centrale Rock Pub – Erba, IT 10/18/2025 Defrag – Rome, IT 10/03/2025 TV Eye – Ridgewood, NY 10/04/2025 Metal Threat Festival – Lombard, IL 11/14/2025 JUZ Klosterhof – Villingen-Schwenningen, DE
Had Green Carnation never returned from hiatus during the mid-2000s, the Norwegian band would’ve been remembered for completing one of the most ambitious individual epics in metal’s archives. But with their upcoming new album, the progressive metal auteurs are setting sail on a three-part journey that’s two decades in the making. A Dark Poem, Part I: The Shores of Melancholia is the first in a trilogy of albums that promises to take new and lifelong fans to the highest tops and darkest of inner rooms.
“In naming their magnum opus, they are not simply describing a mood; they are staking a claim to a lineage, positioning their work not within the modern parlance of depression, but in the grand, romantic tradition of creative sorrow”, Atmosfear Entertainment wrote in an extensive preview. “The romantic poets despaired over the state of the world as they saw it; Green Carnation despairs over a world whose reality has become unstable, contested, and weaponized”.
Today, Green Carnation are premiering the title track from the opening chapter of A Dark Poem with Metal Injection. While glistening with timeless melodies, “The Shores of Melancholia” is clouded by sinking hopes for the present state of our world.
“Melancholia is a place that’s suited Green Carnation from the very beginning”, says the band’s vocalist Kjetil Nordhus. “But it’s especially fitting for the first part of A Dark Poem, because this album is about losing faith in what we’ve come to believe about the world”.
Watch the captivating video for “The Shores of Melancholia” via Metal Injection.
A Dark Poem, Part I: The Shores of Melancholia comes out September 5, 2025.
Green Carnation will premiere all of The Shores of Melancholia live for the first time later this year at ProgPower USA.
Can’t wait to hear Green Carnation’s grand and gloomy new opus? RSVP for the band’s upcoming Bandcamp Listening Party and hear all of their new album two weeks before it comes out!
A Dark Poem, Part I: The Shores of Melancholia Bandcamp Listening Party
Wednesday, August 20 @ 1:30 pm Eastern Time – RSVP
Whether blazing a trail through symphonic doom, hard rock or acoustic plucking, Green Carnation have always sought to climb the highest mountains. With its soaring-yet-somber chorus, “The Shores of Melancholia” reaches newfound peaks of sublime heaviness. Though the first inkling of A Dark Poem stems back to the band’s earliest yesteryears. It was founding member and Emperor’s former bassist Tchort who first set upon the idea for an album trilogy shortly after completing the masterful long-form storytelling that is Light of Day, Day of Darkness.
“Since getting back together in 2016, we like to pursue things that are extremely ambitious”, Nordhus says. “The trilogy felt like it might be just out of our reach, which made us want to see if we could do it”.
Tracklist: 1. As Silence Took You (7:12) 2. In Your Paradise (7:04) [WATCH] 3. Me My Enemy (7:17) 4. The Slave That You Are (Featuring Grutle Kjellson of Enslaved) (6:16) 5. The Shores of Melancholia (5:38) [WATCH] 6. Too Close to the Flame (9:16)
The opening chapter of A Dark Poem pulls a page from across Green Carnation’s storied 25-year discography. Of the six tales that sweep through The Shores of Melancholia, the darkest and stormiest track claws all the way back to the band’s budding days in extreme metal thanks to the blackened howls of Enslaved’s Grutle Kjellson. But the album’s title track directly references the trilogy’s main muse. “Ophelia / Too human, too soft for this life“, Nordhus cries with impassioned cleans for Shakespeare’s tragic heroine. Just as gentle keys wash over the delicate acoustic strumming beneath the song’s verses, the video cuts between a hopeful couple who are fighting to stay afloat amidst dark undercurrents.
“Losing faith in the world around you can lead to this feeling of inner dystopia”, Nordhus says. “You’re standing on a precipice and all that’s there is this vast cloud. It’s a melancholic feeling that can completely overwhelm you”.
Green Carnation’s view from The Shores of Melancholia is no palatial retreat. Majestic leads scale above the title track like a city skyline that’s engulfed in flames. “Come witness the death of a dream and the birth of the upper class“. With one last brace from shore, the title track pulls the band out to sea by a steady tide of double bass and crashing cymbals. “One final breath / Under scarlet clouds“, belts Nordhus as they come face-to-face with the great unknown.
“A Dark Poem was a challenge to ourselves”, the band reflects. “We think it will stand as a milestone in our career”.
The video for “In Your Paradise” was directed and edited by Rikard Amodei.
Additional video credits Tor Sellevold Solbakken – Camera and color grading Stian Foss – Editing Spencer Frost – Underwater Camera Walter Cortes – Camera Alexander De Senger – Grip Stian Urdalen Jonson – Grip Devin Michael Jonson – Grip Bjornar Eidet Skutlaberg – Lights Joakim Stien – Lights Ruben Lervåg – Set sound Lars Gunnar Liestøl – Still photos
Green Carnation would like to especially thank Cultiva and Kilden Performing Arts Centre, along with Mike Moen and the crew at LX Design.
Rebirth doesn’t occur overnight, nor can it exist in a vacuum.
Norway’s Green Carnation know all about starting over and working hard to achieve their shared goals, while overcoming adversity.
A Dark Poem, Part I: The Shores of Melancholia is Green Carnation’s latest album, the first in a trilogy that is sure to please longtime fans of the band’s epic, landmark release, Light of Day, Day of Darkness. The Shores of Melancholia feels of two worlds; a level of immediacy combined with this insistent feeling that, yes, something substantial is indeed brewing within Green Carnation’s creative minds.
“I think it is right to say we are returning to a long-form storytelling like Light of Day, Day of Darkness,” begins Green Carnation’s vocalist Kjetil Nordhus, “…but just done in a totally different way. It is not feasible to try and copy ourselves by doing another hour-long song or anything. It has already been done. But on the levels of epic-ness and storytelling I feel that A Dark Poem certainly has those elements, within a three-album frame.”
The Shores of Melancholia is an album that’s sure to please both longtime fans of Green Carnation, as well as those new to the fold. The album opens up with two back-to-back bangers that incorporate the catchy rock arrangements that helped define the band’s Blessing in Disguise era. “As Silence Took You” and “In Your Paradise” are melodic, with strong hooks and choruses that welcome listeners to Green Carnation’s newfound heaviness.
The band’s bassist and songwriter, Stein Roger, explains, “A Dark Poem is a collection of songs that explore feelings of alienation in existential questions and down to the very inner self. The first part of the trilogy throws the listener into these questions from the first song. We hope to keep the audience trapped in there with us until the last second of the third album. The albums do vary in style, but always with the same basis. If we manage to keep the audience trapped within each album, we will manage to keep the audience trapped throughout the trilogy, which would be a great achievement.”
“Me My Enemy” starts out slow, anchoring a spacey, almost jazz fusion groove from drummer Jonathan Alejandro Perez with a bass line from Roger that’s impossible to deny. This song features some of the album’s most notably memorable lyrics, as well, as Nordhus delivers what’s perhaps the album’s definitive vocal performance. This song’s dark melancholy is juxtaposed against “The Slave That You Are,” an aggressive throwback to Green Carnation’s underground past that features guests vocals from Enslaved’s Grutle Kjellson.
Elsewhere, the album’s title track feels mysterious and moody, a song with a vibe that matches the evocative cover art from former Dark Tranquility guitarist Niklas Sundin. “The Shores of Melancholia” retains a chorus that’s striking and dynamic, thanks to the subtle keyboard playing of Kenneth Silden. Finally, “Too Close to the Flame” brings the album to a fittingly grand finale, clocking in at nearly 10 minutes, with some of the album’s most progressive arrangements. At the same time, however, the song breezes by with a natural sense of song craft that’s sure to make Green Carnation fans want to replay their journey to The Shores of Melancholia from the very beginning.
It isn’t as if Green Carnation need a lot of assistance retaining attention from their audience, of course, as evidenced by their triumphant appearance at the 2016 ProgPower Festival. This was a reunion born from tough times, a temporary hiatus that occurred in 2007 after a troublesome U.S. tour in support of their Acoustic Verses album.
Nordhus asserts, “since coming back in 2016, the extremely positive feedback from fans, record buyers, concert audiences, music writers, reviewers and the metal community in general has been very motivating for us, first to continue after 2017, and then to sign the very ambitious record deal with Season of Mist, which includes the trilogy project.” He continues, “I think, with A Dark Poem, we are doing something that will be a milestone in our career – challenging for ourselves, challenging for our fans, just the way Green Carnation has always been.”
Those fans have always possessed a profoundly emotional connection to Green Carnation, one that feels frank, unique and dedicated. The collective grief associated with the aforementioned Light of Day, Day of Darkness today almost feels like a legacy of sorts – cathartic energy that continues to connect listeners to the music of Green Carnation.
Kjetil and Stein Roger seem to be in agreement with this observation, admitting, “the very strong emotional connection is most certainly a connection we do feel when releasing new music, at every live show, and in the time in between. With Light of Day, Day of Darkness being an album that connected so strongly to so many people, there has never been a time where the band’s legacy has separated with this, and – in different forms – we have continued to explore many of the same themes as in that album, although maybe not that specific.”
The Shores of Melancholia and this idea of a multi-album series is one that’s been kicking around within the Green Carnation camp for years. There was even talk, at one point, of the band releasing a concept release titled The Rise and Fall of Mankind. Nordhus is quick to distinguish this first entry in ADark Poem as dedication for the future, however, saying, “I think it is fair to say that the idea of a trilogy was born then, yes, but The Rise and Fall of Mankind never materialized. Although there might have existed themes and ideas at the time with The Rise and Fall of Mankind in mind, A Dark Poem is composed with 100 percent focus on writing new material that fit together as a monumental piece of music in three parts.”
The vocalist continues to discuss the timeline for this new album’s songwriting roadmap, informing us that, “it began before ‘The World Without a View’ [single], AND The Leaves of Yesteryear to be totally honest. When signing the new deal with Season of Mist in 2017, we had the trilogy project in mind, and it was part of the reason that we did sign a five-album deal with the label at the time. We knew that we needed time to do the trilogy project and planned to release one album plus re-launching The Acoustic Verses in the process, to give us enough time.”
If 2020’s Leaves of Yesteryear was the resounding call for Green Carnation’s aforementioned rebirth, then The Shores of Melancholia is the album where, from the point of view of both Kjetil and Stein Roger, the band lay it all out on the proverbial table. And that includes returning to the live stage.
“I can promise you that the ambitions are sky high musically,” reply both men. “With this trilogy we have put in an extreme amount of work over a very long period of time, and we are confident that this will be a milestone in Green Carnation’s career.” They go on to admit that, “what happens live is not only up to us. But by being a very active band with releasing not less than three albums in 2025 and 2026, we are certainly hoping to be a band that many people want to see live, and that concert and festival promoters want to book. We are already working extremely hard on The Shores of Melancholia live set, so we will be ready!”
Current line-up Kjetil Nordhus – Vocals Tchort – Guitar Bjørn Harstad – Guitar Stein Roger Sordal – Bass Endre Kirkesola – Keyboards Jonathan Alejandro Perez – Drums
Recording line-up Kjetil Nordhus – Vocals Bjørn Harstad – Guitar, Effects Stein Roger Sordal – Bass, Guitars, Keyboards Endre Kirkesola – Keyboards, Synthesizers, Organs, Effects Jonathan Alejandro Perez – Drums
Guest Musicians Ingrid Ose – Flute on “In Your Paradise” & “Me My Enemy”. Grutle Kjellson (Enslaved) – Harsh Vocals on “The Slave That You Are”. Henning Seldal – Percussion on “Too Close to the Flame”.
Production Credits Recorded at DUB Studio in Kristiansand, Norway Produced by Endre Kirkesola, Stein Roger Sordal & Kjetil Nordhus. Sound Engineering by Endre Kirkesola. Mixed by Endre Kirkesola & Bjørn Harstad Mastered by Lawrence Mackrory
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