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ABSOLVA Release Stunning New Single + Video ‘Find My Identity’, Ft. Special Guest Ronnie Romero

Posted by tarjavirmakari on March 9, 2025
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Photo Credit: Stanislav Paulovic

Manchester, UK-based hard rock / melodic metal band ABSOLVA are thrilled to announce the release of a new single ‘Find My Identity‘, taken from their forthcoming album ‘Justice‘. 

The single is released 7th March 2025, together with a music video which can be viewed now HERE . Guest vocalist is Ronnie Romero, renowned for his work with Rainbow, Michael Schenker Group, Elegant Weapons & more.

‘Find My Identity‘ is taken from the forthcoming new Absolva album ‘Justice‘, set to be released on 16 May 2025, promising to be a remarkable addition to the band’s weaponry. The album features collaborations with additional guests; the legend Blaze Bayley (Iron Maiden frontman 1994-1999), powerhouse Stu Block formerly of Iced Earth & more recently Annihilator, and the formidable David Marcelis of Lord Volture & Thorium.

Absolva frontman Christopher Appleton says “This is a big milestone for Absolva. We wanted to create something that reflects the growth of the band but also catches the atmosphere of the classic western movie Tombstone. Regarding guest vocalists, we’ve toyed with the idea for several years but only wanted to do it when the time was right. That time is now.”

Ahead of the album release Absolva are on tour as follows:

Special guests with Ronnie Romero:
6 UK, Wolverhampton, KK’s Steel Mill
7 UK, Bradford, Nightrain
8 UK, Oldham, Whittles
9 UK, Newcastle, Trillians
10 UK, Edinburgh, Bannerman’s
11 UK, Stoke, Eleven
12 UK, London, Underworld
15 NL, Uden, De Pul
16 NL, Zoetermeer, Boerderij
17 DE, Cologne, Yard Club
18 DE, Dortmund, Piano
19 NL, Weert, De Bosuil

Absolva headline show:
22 FR, Nancy, Chez Paulette

Special guests with Phil Campbell & The Bastard Sons…
27 UK, Norwich, Waterfront
28 UK, Manchester, Rebellion
29 UK, Newcastle, The Grove
30 UK, Glasgow, Garage

Several more shows/festivals are booked for later in the year. Fans can stay updated on the latest news and tour information by visiting the band’s official website www.absolva.com & social media channels.

About Absolva: Absolva is a British hard rock / melodic metal band, formed in 2012 by Christopher Appleton (lead vocals, lead guitar). Known for their powerhouse performances and mesmerising lead guitars, the band has gained a loyal following worldwide, not least by a hungry attitude & commitment to touring. The band has been equally consistent with its recorded output; the upcoming studio release is their seventh & they also have two live albums to their name. Luke Appleton (guitar & backing vocals), Martin Mcnee (drums) and Karl Schramm (bass) complete the line-up.

THE VICE Release “A Great Unrest” EP with “From The Barricades” Music Video

Posted by tarjavirmakari on March 9, 2025
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Swedish dark metal act THE VICE has unleashed its brand new 5 track EP “A Great Unrest” via Noble Demon. To celebrate the release in a fitting manner, the band has released a music video for the track “From The Barricades”.

THE VICE about the song:
“Sometimes rock ‘n’ roll shouldn’t be more complicated than one middle finger and zero f*cks to give. And that’s what “From The Barricades” is all about.It’s punk song cast in our blackened mold of ferocious rock and die-hard metal, accelerating all the way until the very end. Nothing more, nothing less, but one hell of a ride..“

Listen to “A Great Unrest” HERE

Following the success of their latest full-length album, “Dead Canary Run” (2024, Noble Demon), THE VICE embarked on an exciting journey to create a series of EPs. The addition of Joel Öhman, a long-time collaborator, has transformed the band into a finely-tuned quartet, enriching their sound with fresh perspectives and innovative approaches.

The first offering from this new chapter, “A Great Unrest”, has this growth on full display, amplifying every inch of the foundation made of blackened metal, ambient pop and unbridled rock’n’roll. 

The five tracks – three new ones, a cover of “1 Sun” by Miley Cyrus and a rearranged version of “Welcome The Storm” from the latest album – were recorded in the fall of 2024 at Studio Underjord (Skraeckoedlan, Magna Carta Cartel, Haystack among others) in rural Sweden.

Fresh off of writing and recording a full album, this EP was the perfect way to musically break the “limitations” that can come when working to create a really unified piece of art.
And while it wasn’t exactly Fantomas-levels of diverse tracks, sound engineer and owner of the studio, Joona Hassinen really pulled his ‘A’ game giving it a coherent sound. “A Great Unrest” sounds a bit lighter, yet more harsh than “Dead Canary Run” with an electrified, distorted tension running throughout. 

Tracklist:

  1. A Great Unrest
  2. From The Barricades
  3. Tropic Of Coal
  4. 1 Sun
  5. Welcome The Storm feat Linn (Z Edit)

“A Great Unrest” is out now on Noble Demon and available for purchase at THIS LOCATION

The Vice are:
Rickard – Vocals & Guitars
Charlie – Bass
Petter – Drums
Joel Öhman – Guitar

For more info visit:
https://www.facebook.com/TheViceOfficial/
https://www.instagram.com/theviceofficial/
https://theviceonline.bandcamp.com/
https://linktr.ee/nobledemon

ELUVEITIE Release Brand New Single And Video ‘Awen’

Posted by tarjavirmakari on March 9, 2025
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As the release of ELUVEITIE’s new album ÀNV approaches the band release today their uplifting new single ‘Awen‘. The track sees the bands more traditional instrumentation at the forefront, shining a spot light on the Celtic roots buried within ELUVEITIE’s core.
The new album Ànv, will be released on April 25th, 2025 via Nuclear Blast Records. After the headliner tour was a great success, ELUVEITIE returns to the stage in October 2025, together with ARCH ENEMY, AMORPHIS and GATECREEPER. All dates are listed below. 

ELUVEITIE frontman Chrigel Glanzmann comments: “AWEN is musically perhaps one of the album’s catchiest songs… sticking our necks out on pretty modern metal music, at the same time with a chorus coming in with that very traditional, mystically melancholic, solemn kind of ‘grandeur’, much like older Eluveitie songs such as OF FIRE, WIND & WISDOM, SLANIA’S SONG or ALESIA. Lyrically it time-travels some fairly bold lines off that several thousand years old mythological text ANV is based on, into the modern age and makes them speak directly to us and our modern civilizations! We’re really happy with and proud of it and we hope you’ll like it as much as we do!”    

Stream ‘Awen’ here: https://eluveitie.bfan.link/awen

Pre-order/Pre-save Ànv here: https://eluveitie.bfan.link/anv

EUROPEAN BLOOD DYNASTY 2025 TOUR 
ARCH ENEMY 
W/ SPECIAL GUESTS AMORPHIS / ELUVEITIE & GATECREEPER
10.10.2025 Schleyerhalle, Stuttgart
11.10.2025 Jahrhunderthalle, Frankfurt am Maiz
12.10.2025 Zenith, Munich
14.10.2025 Barba Negra, Budapest
15.10.2025 Gasometer, Vienna
17.10.2025 Columbiahalle, Berlin
18.10.2025 Sportovni Hala Fortuna, Prague
19.10.2025 PreZero Arena Gliwice, Gliwice
21.10.2025 The Hall, Zurich
22.10.2025 Alcatraz, Milan
23.10.2025 Radiant Bellevue, Lyon
25.10.2025 Vistalegre, Madrid
27.10.2025 Zenith, Paris
28.10.2025 AFAS Live, Amsterdam
30.10.2025 Civic Hall, Wolverhampton
31.10.2025 O2 Apollo, Manchester
01.11.2025 Eventim Apollo, London
03.11.2025 Rockhal, Esch sur Alzette
04.11.2025 Ancienne Belgique, Brussels
05.11.2025 Haus Auensee, Leipzig
07.11.2025 Partille Arena, Gothenburg
08.11.2025 Annexet, Stockholm
10.11.2025 Ice Hall, Helsinki
12.11.2025 Sentrum Scene, Oslo
13.11.2025 Poolen, Copenhagen
14.11.2025 Swiss Life Hall, Hannover
15.11.2025 Mitsubishi Electric Hall, Duesseldorf

BENEDICTION Release Video for New Single ‘Crawling Over Corpses’

Posted by tarjavirmakari on March 9, 2025
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British death metal legends, BENEDICTION, have released yet another single from their upcoming new studio album, Ravage Of Empires, which is due to be released on April 4, 2025, via Nuclear Blast Records.

‘Crawling Over Corpses‘ is a ferocious up-tempo banger, which transports the band’s old school roots into the here and now while destroying everything that stands in its way. Dave Ingram’s primal growls have never sounded more vicious, and the rhythm section fires on all cylinders with a barrage of riffs and massive breakdowns. Alongside the single, another fiercely entertaining music video has been released, which you can watch below.

Ravage Of Empires is available for pre-order on CD, LP and as digital album. 

PRE-ORDER/PRE-SAVE RAVAGE OF EMPIRES: https://benediction.bfan.link/ravage-of-empires

STREAM ‘CRAWLING OVER CORPSES’: https://benediction.bfan.link/crawling-over-corpses

Catch BENEDICTION live on their European release tour in April 2025 with guests Jungle Rot and Master. All confirmed live dates below.

TALES OF THE TRIPLE DEATH…
BENEDICTION
W/ JUNGLE ROT & MASTER
04.04.25     DE     Hamburg     Kultur Palast
05.04.25     DE     Bad Oeynhausen     Druckerei
06.04.25     NL     Sittard     Volt
07.04.25     BE     Kortrijk     DVG
08.04.25     LU     Esch-Belval     Rockhal
09.04.25     DE     Mannheim     7er Club
10.04.25     DE     Obertraubling     Event Hall Airport
11.04.25     DE     Geiselwind     Eventzentrum Strohofer
12.04.25     AT     Salzburg     Rockhouse
13.04.25     DE     Jena     F-Haus
15.04.25     DE     Berlin     Lido
16.04.25     DE     Essen     Turock
17.04.25     CH     Aarau     KIFF

More confirmed dates for 2025:                 
21.05.25     US     Brooklyn, NY     The Meadows
22.05.25     US     Baltimore, MD     Maryland Deathfest
21.06.25     PT     Beja     Nada Fest
25.06.25     CZ     Spalene Porici     Basinfirefest
26.-27.07.25     ES     Cangas De Morrazo     Kanekas Metalfest
30.07-02.08.25     DE     Wacken     Wacken Festival
01.08.25     DE     Loebnitz     Full Rewind Fest

CREMATORY Release ‘Welt Aus Glas’ Video Single from Upcoming Studio Album

Posted by tarjavirmakari on March 9, 2025
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[photo: Ingo Spörl]

May 2nd will see iconic dark metal pioneers CREMATORY release their much-awaited, new studio album, “Destination”, via ROAR. Coming on CD, colored 2-LP Vinyl (incl. 4 bonus-Tracks), 3-CD Earbook (feat. the regular album, 4-track bonus CD, album on instrumental versions + a 48-page booklet), an exclusive 18-CD bundle (new album, exclusive remix album + all 16 previous albums) and in digital formats, the album pre-sale is now available at https://crematory.rpm.link/destialbumpr 

Following a previously-released, first single, the epic album title track, today, CREMATORY are premiering a music video for their latest single “Welt Aus Glas” (German for “world of glass”). The band says, it’s “an electronic, danceable EBM song in the style of our electro hit “Shadowmaker” or “Tick Tack”, combined with fat guitars and driving drums. A song that gets stuck in your head and that you can sing along to after just one listen. Once again a brilliant club hit ala CREMATORY hitfabrik, just like the band has been known for decades.”

“Welt Aus Glas” is out now and available for streaming via https://crematory.rpm.link/weltausglasPR

In the more than three decades of their existence, CREMATORY have seen trends come and go, while always staying true to their trademarks, they belong to one of Germany’s most distinctive gothic metal pioneers to date. Following their latest studio offering, “Inglorious Darkness” (2022), CREMATORY will now return with their 17th studio album, “Destination”, that sees the iconic band reach new and even higher levels than ever before! Literally combining all the strengths and phases of the gothic metal pioneers, going back to their melodic death metal roots in places, diving deep into the gothic realm again but also surprising listeners, “Destination” will mark a triumphant return to the past combined with the strengths of the present.

“The new studio album ‘Destination’ is an ingenious mix of the 90s gothic metal times like ‘Illusions’, combined with hard melodic death metal hymns like ‘Act Seven’ and modern electronic songs with German lyrics in the style of ‘Revolution’. More is not possible“, drummer Markus Jüllich recently said and added: ”With ‘Destination’ the new standard of the modern melodic gothic metal era is determined! The previous album “Inglorious Darkness” was the start of Felix singing all the songs on his own again and now we’ve managed a perfect precision landing with “Destination”!”

CREMATORY sound highly motivated, they are upping the ante and definitely still have a lot to say even after 34 years of a successful band history! In support of “Destination”, CREMATORY will embark on an album release tour kicking off on May 1st, find all upcoming dates listed below!

Pre-order your “Destination” now on: https://crematory.rpm.link/destialbumpr

Album Tracklist:

  1. Destination
  2. The Future is a lonely place
  3. Welt aus Glas
  4. My Girlfriend´s Girlfriend
  5. After Isolation
  6. My own private God
  7. Days without sun
  8. Deep in the silence
  9. Banished forever
  10. Ashes of Despair
  11. Toxic Touch
  12. Das letzte Ticket

Bonus-Tracks (Earbook, 2-LP Vinyl):

  1. Tote Blumen
  2. Fail of misery
  3. Days without Sun – Centhron Dark Mix
  4. Welt aus Glas – Centhron Glas Mix

CREMATORY Live:
May 1, 2025 – DE – Kaiserslautern
May 2, 2025 – DE – Leipzig
May 3, 2025 – DE – Stuttgart
May 4, 2025 – DE – Mannheim
May 9, 2025 – DE – Regensburg
May 11, 2025 – DE – Munich
May 16, 2025 – DE – Erfurt
May 17, 2025 – DE – Zwickau
May 29, 2025 – DE – Oberhausen
May 30, 2025 – DE – Potsdam
May 31, 2025 – DE – Coesfeld

CREMATORY are:
Felix Stass – Vocals
Rolf Munkes – Guitar
Oliver Revilo – Bass
Katrin Jüllich – Keyboards, Samples
Markus Jüllich – Drums, Programming

For More Info Visit:
Homepage | https://www.crematory.de
Facebook | https://www.facebook.com/crematory.de
Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/crematory.de
YouTube | https://www.youtube.com/@crematory-de

PUTRID OFFAL Unleash ‘Boning Hall’ Single + Video from Upcoming Album

Posted by tarjavirmakari on March 9, 2025
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Following the announcement of their blistering new album, “Obliterated Life”, legendary French death-grinders PUTRID OFFAL have unleashed their latest single “Boning Hall”.

Stream at: https://ffm.to/putrid-offal-boning-hall

The band commented:

“When you are the surgeon of the Napoleonic army, your country hospital can quickly host an accumulation of bodies, limbs and organs. Here’s the sticky atmosphere of ‘Boning Hall’, the second single of ‘Obliterated Life’. Let the scalpel penetrate your flesh! Stay Putrid”.

“Obliterated Life” is set for release on April 11th 2025 via Time To Kill Records. Prepare for an onslaught of sonic butchery!

Following their critically acclaimed 2020 album “Sicknesses Obsessions”, which delved into the origins of pathology and the story of Vesalius, PUTRID OFFAL now take their visceral storytelling to the brutal world of 18th-century war medicine. “Obliterated Life” explores the grim reality of battlefield surgery through the lens of Dominique-Jean Larrey (1766–1842), a pioneering military surgeon who revolutionised battlefield medicine. Amidst the carnage of war, Larrey worked relentlessly on the frontlines, amputating limbs, extracting bullets, and suturing bowels in an environment drenched in blood and the stench of septic flesh. This harrowing narrative sets the stage for a merciless auditory experience.

Tracklist:

1 – The Sweet Fragrance
2 – Boning Hall
3 – Life Consumed
4 – Meat Stall
5 – Entrails Emancipation
6 – Privilege Of Pain
7 – Darkness Awaits
8 – Sanguis In Oris
9 – Mass Murder
10 – Agony Prevails
11 – Messy Flesh
12 – Ribcage Blues
13 – The Black Veil

Preorders:

  • https://timetokillrecords.com/collections/putrid-offal-obliterated-life
  • https://putridoffal.bandcamp.com/album/obliterated-life

Extirpated from the crepitating bowels of the surging death/grind scene of the early nineties, France’s PUTRID OFFAL became a cult act with their first platter of splatter, released in 1991 by Wimp Records (LP) and Adipocere Records (CD). However, the band gradually dissolved in formaldehyde by the middle of the decade.

But that is not dead which sleeps, and the beast came alive again 25 years later, delivering a renewed vision of their art with the release of their proper debut album, “Mature Necropsy”, in 2015. This was followed by countless European tours and appearances at festivals, including their iconic 2017 performance at the world-famous Hellfest, captured live for a bonus DVD accompanying their second full-length, “Sicknesses Obsessions” (2020). Another trail of devastation across Europe soon followed.

PUTRID OFFAL deliver old-school death grind deeply inspired by the early works of Carcass (“Reek of Putrefaction”, “Symphonies of Sickness”, “Necroticism”) and the initial death metal phase of Napalm Death (“Harmony Corruption”, “Utopia Banished”). With these ingredients, the band has crafted a solid and unmistakable foundation for their sound.

With “Obliterated Life”, PUTRID OFFAL add their own distinct touch, shaped by over three decades of studio work and artistic evolution. This new album represents the pinnacle of their career: a sonic butchery, powerful, filthy and brutal. Everything is in place to wound, crush and leave a lasting impact.

Line-up:

Franck Peiffer – Vocals
Frédéric Houriez – Bass
Laye Louhenapessy – Drums
Philippe Reinhalter – Guitars

https://www.instagram.com/putrid.offal
https://www.facebook.com/putridoffal
https://putridoffal.bandcamp.com/

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