Genre-bending alt/goth/industrial legends Julien-K have just announced over 30 new tour dates, marking one of the busiest schedules in the band’s recent history.
Following national tours with The Union Underground and Spineshank, international treks alongside Lord of the Lost and Scarlet Riot, and special appearances with Strangelove and Stabbing Westward, Julien-K is now gearing up for a headlining West Coast run in support of the release of their new album, DRK|MODE.
And they’re not done yet—even more dates are expected to be announced soon, promising to close out 2025 with a powerful statement from one of the scene’s most enduring and innovative acts.
Tour dates are as follows:
STRANGELOVE | STABBING WESTWARD | JULIEN-K
08-15-25 ANAHEIM, CA – THE HOUSE OF BLUES 08-16-25 LOS ANGELES, CA – THE WILTERN
UNION UNDERGROUND | SPINESHANK | JULIEN-K
09-05-25 NEW ORLEANS, LA – SOUTHPORT HALL 09-06-25 BIRMINGHAM, AL – WORKPLAY 09-07-25 GREENVILLE, SC – RADIO ROOM 09-10-25 CLIFTON, NJ – DINGBATZ 09-11-25 SCRANTON, PA – THE RITZ THEATRE 09-12-25 READING, PA – REVERB 09-13-25 ROCHESTER, NY – MONTAGE MUSIC HALL 09-14-25 NORWALK, CT – DISTRICT MUSIC HALL 09-16-25 NORFOLK, VA – THE NORVA 09-18-25 LEESBURG, VA – TALLY HO THEATRE 09-21-25 BLOOMINGTON, IL – CASTLE THEATRE 09-23-25 SIOUX FALLS, SD – BIG’S BAR 09-26-25 WICHITA, KS – WAVE
JULIEN-K | FOR ALL THE EMPTINESS
10-08-25 SAN FRANCISCO, CA – DNA LOUNGE 10-10-25 PORTLAND, OR – COFFIN CLUB 10-11-25 SEATTLE, WA – EL CORAZON 10-12-25 SPOKANE, WA – THE RED ROOM 10-15-25 GLENDALE, AZ – THE 44 10-16-25 COSTA MESA, CA – THE WAYFARER 10-17-25 WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA – THE WHISKY A GO GO 10-18-25 REDLANDS, CA – J REILLY DISTILLERY 10-19-25 SAN DIEGO, CA – VOODOO ROOM @ HOUSE OF BLUES
LORD OF THE LOST | SKARLETT RIOT | JULIEN-K
10-30-25 WOLVERHAMPTON, UK – KK’S STEEL MILL 10-31-25 MANCHESTER, UK – O2 RITZ 11-02-25 GLASGOW, UK – GARAGE 11-04-25 BELFAST, IE – LIMELIGHT 11-05-25 DUBLIN, IE – ACADEMY 11-07-25 BRISTOL, UK – MARBLE FACTORY 11-08-25 LONDON, UK – ELECTRIC BALLROOM 11-09-25 SOUTH HAMPTON, UK – ENGINE ROOMS
Los Angeles extreme metal collective SIGLOS have released the official video for “Piel Fría”, the latest single from their acclaimed 2024 EP, ‘Renacer De Las Cenizas’.
The track arrives just weeks before the band’s hotly anticipated UK debut at Bloodstock Festival and an exclusive London date supporting industrial metal pioneers, Ministry.
“Piel Fría” dives deep into the duality of light and darkness experienced during an Ayahuasca ceremony, a personal and spiritual encounter that vocalist Pedro Sanchez recounts with unflinching intensity. “While there is love and light, it’s equally important to confront and understand your dark side,” he explains. “True healing takes courage, to face your inner demons without judgement, and to learn from them. In this particular ceremony, I connected with an entity I call the “Cold Ones”. They revealed they exist within us, drawn by our frequency, poor choices, and low-vibration actions.”
Directed with stark visual symbolism and steeped in spiritual tension, the video for “Piel Fría” continues the band’s lineage of dark, immersive storytelling. As with their previous releases, “El Paso De Mis Ancestros” and “Soga De Los Muertos”, Siglos demonstrate a bold commitment to fusing ritualistic themes with blackened sonic fury.
Founded by two-time Grammy-nominated guitarist Sin Quirin (ex-Ministry, Lords of Acid, American Head Charge), and vocalist Pedro Sanchez (Transtorno), Siglos combine black, doom, and industrial metal with a fierce infusion of Mexican and Spanish cultural identity. Their music balances brutality with introspection, creating a ritualistic atmosphere that has drawn praise from fans and peers alike. Guitarist Adrian Villanueva, bassist Juan Pina, and drummer Jorden Mitev round out the group’s commanding lineup.
Siglos will make their UK festival debut at Bloodstock Open Air on Sunday, 10th August 2025, performing on the Sophie Lancaster Stage, followed by an exclusive London show supporting Ministry at Electric Brixton on Monday, 11th August. These appearances mark a significant milestone in the band’s evolution from cult favourites to international contenders.
With two EPs, a growing catalogue of acclaimed videos, and endorsements from metal icons including Gary Holt, David Ellefson, and Todd La Torre, Siglos are poised to leave a lasting mark on the global extreme metal scene. “Piel Fría” is not just a song, it’s a confrontation of self, and a gateway to the band’s uncompromising vision.
Bloodstock Open Air Festival – 10th August, Sophie Stage Electric Brixton, London – 11th August supporting Ministry
Sin Quirin guitars Pedro Sanchez vocals Adrian Villanueva guitars Juan Pina bass Jorden Mitev drums
Melbourne rock outfit The Vendettas unleash their most powerful and dynamic work to date on 18th August with the release of their brand-new album ‘Who’s Who In The Zoo’ out on Golden Robot Records.
Recorded over two years at Cavern Sound Studios and ColourSound Studios, the album is a testament to the band’s relentless drive, creative evolution, and raw energy. Known for their stadium-sized sound and unapologetic attitude, the group pushes their musical boundaries without losing their signature punch.
‘Who’s Who In The Zoo’ opens fire with “Jealous and Evil”, a quirky track that not only sets the groove for what’s to come, but also displays that the band has taken things to the next level in the studio for album IV. Another highlight is “Lovesick Man” a snarling, rebellious anthem that demands to be played loud and proud — a true middle finger to societal norms.
In stark contrast, the sweeping ballads “Out in the Rain” and “Fly on the Wall” showcase the band’s emotional depth and storytelling prowess, earning their place as standout tracks. From the relentless riffage of “Head On Collision” to the anthemic rally cry of “Raise the Weary”, ‘Who’s Who In The Zoo’ is a record proves that The Vendettas are as versatile as they are powerful.
“This album is the truest expression what we feel we sound like, in a packed dive bar, with the speakers rattling” says the band. “We wanted to push the boundaries both musically and sonically, and create something we’ve never done or heard before, rather than trying to sound like something, or mimic someone else — and we think we’ve done that.”
Fans of classic rock grit and modern edge will find plenty to sink their teeth into. The album ‘Who’s Who In The Zoo’ is available to preorder on all platforms via Golden Robot Records.
Exactly one year after the release of the latest neànder album “III”, which was celebrated by fans and critics alike, the instrumental rockers announce their own mini-festival. KRATER FEST will take place December 5 at Hafenklang, Hamburg and December 6 at Neue Zukunft, Berlin. In addition to neànder, Praise The Plague and All The Ghosts will be performing on both evenings.
“You might have to imagine neànder a bit like Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Prong, Mogwai, Black Sabbath, Faith No More and Venom playing a session together“, is how music journalist Torsten Groß (Radio Eins, Rolling Stone) describes the band and their current album ”III”, which was released via Through Love Records.
Praise The Plague released their latest album “Suffocating In The Current Of Time” on Lifeforce Records in 2024. After numerous shows with bands such as Wolves In The Throne Room and Gaerea, the Berlin band will return to Hamburg and Berlin in December after a long live break to be part of the first Krater Fest. Atmospheric Black Metal for fans of Les Hommes Tomber, Der Weg Einer Freiheit or The Great Old Ones.
All The Ghosts have just recorded their debut album with Australian producer Damian Press and will be performing at Krater Fest for the first time in the band constellation they have now found. If you like The Cult, early Radiohead, Placebo or Jesus & Mary Chain, you’ll get the picture.
“The idea is to organize an annual home game in different cities, where on the one hand neànder play a special show, on the other hand selected friends, musical guests and inspiring acts are invited and play in clubs we love,” says the band about Krater Fest.
Advance ticket sales are now open at all sales outlets, tickets in the cheaper bundle offer are available in the band’s own store at:https://neander.merchcowboy.com/
French black metal vanguard SETH are unveiling a radical reinterpretation of Serge Gainsbourg’s infamous 1968 ode to Brigitte Bardot. Originally steeped in orchestral melancholy and sensual decadence, Seth’s cover of “Initials B.B.” emerges as a ceremonial descent through the fractured heart of post-Christian France—a realm haunted by divine absence, erotic delirium and the relics of fallen gods.
Seth’s latest album La France des Maudits is out now on Season of Mist.
“Initials B.B.” emerges as a new chapter in Seth’s ongoing rite of desecration. Falling on Bastille Day and the first anniversary of the French black metal institution’s latest album, the song deepens the image that the band have been conjuring of a France scorched by desire and spiritual collapse. As the republic recalls its hour of uprising, the band conjure another insurrection: one of shadows and silhouettes, where sound and image bleed together in an unholy communion.
As with the iconoclastic cosmology of La France des Maudits, Seth reimagine Brigette Bardot. In their blackened visage, she is as a mythic seductress, a corrupted Marianne veiled in red, muse to apostasy and forbidden glamour. Where Gainsbourg once sighed, the band now roars, threading the actresses memory into the album’s scarlet lineage of insurgent saints, diabolical poets and cast-out lovers.
The video for “Initials B.B.” was created by Pierre Reynard (@pierrereynard)
Cover Art by Andy Julia
Tracklist: 1. Paris des Maléfices (5:09) 2. Et Que Vive le Diable ! (5:35) 3. La Destruction des Reliques (5:51) 4. Dans le Cœur un Poignard (5:30) 5. Marianne (2:59) 6. Ivre du Sang des Saints (5:37) 7. Insurrection (7:33) 8. Le Vin du Condamné (8:06) 9. Initials B.B. (Bonus Track) (3:49) Full runtime: 46:22
In the solemn shadows of a lyrically resurrected Paris, where the whispers of revolution still haunt the cobblestones and the phantom caress of the guillotine’s blade lingers in the air, stands a band – not merely of musicians, but of modern Marats, Robespierres in leather and lace, anointed with the spirit of insurrection. SETH, the harbingers of a dark yet fervidly awaited dawn, are poised once more to unleash a tempest upon the sanctified silence of the contemporary music scene with their newest auditory uprising, La France des Maudits.
The history of black metal formation SETH and Season of Mist spans back to the early days of the French metal scene. The band’s debut Les Blessures de L’Ame (1998) was one of the first releases on the label. This album is now regarded as a cornerstone in French black metal, pioneering the usage of their native tongue on a black metal record.
The release of Les Blessures de L’Ame quickly gained international attention and SETH built a solid fanbase. The French blasphemers signed a two-release deal with Osmose Productions and participated on the MAYHEM cult tribute album Originators of the Northern Darkness alongside IMMORTAL and BEHEMOTH. The second full-length The Excellence came out in 2000 and featured a contribution from none other than Fenriz (DARKTHRONE), who wrote the lyrics for the song Let Me Be The Salt In Your Wound.
Shortly after, the group recorded their third album Divine-X (2002) at the Excess Studios in Rotterdam (EPICA, AFTER FOREVER, SINISTER). This record demonstrated the ability of the band to mix gloomy and violent atmospheres and received extensive coverage from the international metal press at the time.
Returning to the Netherlands to record the fourth album Era-Decay (2004), two new members joined the ranks of SETH: vocalist Black Messiah and guitarist Cyriex. Afterwards, the band was invited to play at the prestigious Inferno festival in Norway in 2005.
A long hiatus followed, until the band returned in 2011 to play an exclusive show in Germany with the German cult act BETHLEHEM. The band re-joined the ranks of Season of Mist, eventually releasing The Howling Spirit (2013) and embarking on a European tour with PESTILENCE. Several appearances at major festivals followed, including Hellfest and Graspop Metal Meeting, concluded by a Canadian headliner tour with new vocalist Saint Vincent (BLACKLODGE).
Celebrating the 20th anniversary of Les Blessures de L’Ame in 2018, SETH exclusively performed the entire album at festivals in Switzerland, Canada (Messe de Morts) and Belgium (Thronefest). The French label Les Acteurs de l’Ombre productions released a live recording of these shows, called 20 ans de Blasphème. The band’s new line-up features members of LOUDBLAST, ARKHON INFAUSTUS and MELTED SPACE.
In the twilight year of 2021, within Paris’ shadow-ridden crypt, Studio Sainte Marthe, an album was birthed from SETH‘s tumultuous revelation, christened, La Morsure du Christ. Earning plaudits of wonder, it was no mere collection of hymns, but a solitary harbinger of deconstruction, a cataclysm of unseen proportions. Inspiration seeped from Notre-Dame de Paris—her skeletal frame ablaze in a 2019’s firestorm—an emblem of decaying faith for a godforsaken era. As heavy as the iron heart of a guillotine, La Morsure du Christ echoed through the chambers of 2021, reigning supreme in a multitude of international & French metal charts, as well as its inclusion on premier streaming platform playlists. Bold symphonies interwoven with razor-sharp lyricism and a sophisticated conceptual resonance that dared to envision black metal through a revolutionary lens.
Rooted deeply in the soil that once drank deeply of royal and commoner blood alike during the tumultuous fervour of the French Revolution, SETH presents their latest opus – a black metal gospel according to the damned and the outcast. An intricate tapestry of shadows and defiance emerges from the darkness of history’s recesses, swirling with the mists of apocalyptic visions and the ashes of fallen angels. La France des Maudits is a declaration of war, a call to arms for the souls still smouldering beneath the veneer of a world too long gripped in the cold hands of a moribund orthodoxy.
With the fractured bones of dead gods beneath their boots, SETH voyages through the forbidden and the occult, tracing the lines of ancient prophecies and the decadent whispers of La Grande Catin Écarlate, the scarlet woman of the apocalypse. Their songs, from Paris des Maléfices to Insurrection, resonate with the echoes of a Paris besieged not by armies, but by souls clamouring for liberation – a city where each stone tells a tale of defiance, where every shadow harbours the spirit of revolt.
Lyrically, La France des Maudits is dripping with the wine of condemned men and the blood of saints, narrating the epic saga of rebellion from the ashes of a fallen Notre-Dame. This is not the Paris of light, but of enlightening darkness, where the façades of grandeur crumble to reveal the raw flesh of true humanity, writhing in its eternal struggle against divine oppression. Here, in the very heart of darkness, SETH finds its muse among the cacophony of broken chains and shattered dogmas.
Prepare to march beneath the banner unfurled by SETH, in the grand tradition of those unyielding souls who once stormed the Bastille and dared to dream of a world remade. La France des Maudits beckons – not to the gallows, but to glory.
Lineup: Heimoth – Keyboards, Guitars (Sinsaenum) Alsvid – Drums (ex-Enthroned, Ad Patres) EsX – Bass (Arkhon Infaustus, ex-Merrimack) Saint Vincent – Vocals (Black Lodge) Pierre Le Pape – Keyboards (Melted Space) Drakhian – Guitars (ex-Loudblast, Griffar)
Recording Studio: Sainte Marthe Studio
Production Credits: Mixed, produced & mastered by Francis Caste
Rising from the mists of Avalon and the shadows of “Witch County,” Ghosts of Atlantis return with a powerful new single, “Melkin’s Tale,” dropping July 25th as a self-release — accompanied by an official video on August 1st and followed by a main stage performance at Bloodstock Open Air Festival on August 10th.
Crafted with brutal elegance, “Melkin’s Tale” marks the beginning of a bold new chapter for the band — diving deep into Arthurian legend to uncover the cryptic tale of Melkin and the final resting place of King Arthur. Produced by Colin Parks and mixed/mastered by Ronnie Bjornström , the track offers a cinematic blend of myth, melody, and metallic force that defies genre boundaries.
Drawing from symphonic death, melodic black metal, nu metal, and thrash, Ghosts of Atlantis appeal to fans of In Flames, Dimmu Borgir, Amorphis, Parkway Drive, Machine Head , and even Metallica . Their sound is a vicious storm of aggression and grandeur — forged in shadows, sharpened on stages, and now unleashed worldwide.
With members tied to Dani Filth’s Devilment and a resume that includes tours with Fear Factory and appearances alongside Avatar, Belphegor, Hate, Batushka , and Butcher Babies , the band has proven its power both live and in the studio.
Beyond the stage, their music has reached film audiences through contributions to Netflix’s Witch and Lionsgate’s action thriller One Ranger , establishing Ghosts of Atlantis as a sonic force in both the music and cinematic worlds.
“Melkin’s Tale” is not just a song — it’s an invocation. A myth reborn in metal.
This summer, the whisper becomes a roar. Ghosts of Atlantis are coming. Prepare for impact.
Single Release Date: July 25, 2025 Music Video Release Date: August 1, 2025 Bloodstock Open Air Main Stage Performance: August 10, 2025 Produced by: Colin Parks Mixed & Mastered by: Ronnie Bjornström
“This mythically inspired record brims with deathly symphonic assaults, and choruses to rival Dimmu Borgir’s best sing along moments, a rollercoaster ride of brutal extravagance” – Metal Hammer
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