Nightrage are back once again, delivering one of their best albums, in their 23 years of existence, without stopping creating uncompromising music for their devoted fan base.
“Remains of a Dead World” is the 10th album of the band and this time the band returned to where everything had started, since Nightrage was born in Greece in 2000.
With the great help of their past bandmate and now producer, sound engineer, Fotis Benardo (Rotting Christ, Septicflesh, Sakis Tolis, Nightfall, On Thorns I lay, Suicidal Angels) at his Devasoundz studio in Athens Greece, and with his great producing skills, “Remains Of A Dead World” is a mixture of all the things that makes Nightrage a beast of integrity, they prove to be one of the last remaining true masters of the melodic death metal genre, fully unstoppable riffing, and great hooks with bigger than life guitar melodies with brutal vocals that represents the honesty and pure musical delivery, that comes straight from the heart.
The album has been mastered by a great friend of the band George Nerantzis (Abbath, Dark Funeral, Pain of Salvation, Sakis Tolis) and his great skills gave the album a huge sound with clarity, power and analog flavor.
Songs like “Euphoria within Chaos” and the title track “Remains of a Dead World” showcase and deliver massive riffs and ethereal melodies, the new singer Konstantinos Togas really fits with the new material and proves to be one of the best singers to front Nightrage with his intense performance, combining brutality and melodicism on his amazing vocals.
“A Throne Of Melancholy” and “Persevere Through Adversity” it’s big arena rock type of songs with huge choruses, that gives you great hooks and melodies, feelings that can stay forever in your mind, where “Nocturnal Thorns” and “Dark Light” it’s definitely a journey into more mystical and eerie musical stories, that are interesting and showcase a more progressive and dark side of the band.
Marios Iliopoulos and Magnus Söderman, have once again managed to create such great songs, working together for the fourth time as a sweet songwriting team, their chemistry is unparalleled and this album is proof of great songwriting and team effort.
George Stamoglou and Francisco Escalona bring the low-end section of the band with dynamic precision, and a heavy dose of energy to head bang till whiplash.
The album concept once again talks about the tragedy of our actions against the world and ourselves, now we can clearly see the consequences of our actions, and what’s left is only the remains of a sad and miserable cosmos, a dead world that we’ve blindly created for ourselves. Are we able to learn from our past mistakes and tragedies?
The various songs on the album also touch other subjects thematically. Like we should never stop learning and become better, learning from our life experiences. The fact that we are part of a dystopian world system under a technologically developed world we have seen the birth of a new kind of global ruler. About the inner struggle for personal and spiritual freedom that many people face without even knowing it most of the time. How people are nowadays, fighting their own ego all the time, and doing the worst things possible to each other under the name of fake friendship. Also the fact that no matter how many times we are down, we need always to find the inner power to stand up and face our fears and live our life for what it is, with courage and patience, with no darker corners and no agendas. Fight the loneliness of the soul, find the light at the end of the tunnel!
The new album “Remains of a Dead World” is released May 31, via Despotz Records.
RIAA Gold-certified and 3x Grammy Award-nominated rock mainstays NOTHING MORE have announced their headlining “CarnalTour2024” produced by Live Nation. Earlier this week, NOTHING MORE wrapped up their co-headlining spring tour with Wage War which sold out various shows. The late summer “Carnal” tour will kick off in the U.S. on August 31 in Columbia, MO and stretch to September 24 in Cleveland, OH. It will feature direct support from rock outfit Set It Off along with special guests, alt-metal vanguards/Better Noise Music labelmates From Ashes To New and rock outfit Post Profit.
Artist pre-sales and VIP meet and greet upgrades begin today at Noon (ET). General onsale begins Thursday, May 23 at 10 AM local time via NOTHING MORE’s website HERE.
“If the tour we just finished is any indication of what’s to come, this is going to be the best NOTHING MORE tour yet,” says NOTHING MORE frontman JONNY HAWKINS. “The CARNAL TOUR will be a chain reaction of energetic release across the U.S. We’re bringing out Set It Off, From Ashes To New, and our good friends Post Profit. Don’t miss this one. Your future self will thank you.”
“I had the pleasure of meeting the guys in Nothing More at a show of theirs in Nashville recently, and they are just the kindest guys,” says SET IT OFF vocalist CODY CARSON. “But on top of that, what impresses me is their relentless work ethic and their incredible talent on stage. We hit it off right away, and we are very excited to hit the road with them! The whole tour package is extremely talented and really cares about their live show so these cities are in for a hell of a night!”
“It’s been a long time coming and we’re excited to finally be hitting the road with our labelmates in Nothing More,” states FROM ASHES TO NEW vocalist DANNY CASE. “The whole lineup is huge and we’re looking forward to sharing the stage with them and Set It Off as well.”
NOTHING MORE “CARNAL TOUR 2024” DATES
8/31 Columbia, MO – The Blue Note 9/3 Little Rock, AR – The Hall # 9/5 San Antonio, TX – Boeing Center at Tech Port # 9/6 Houston, TX – Bayou Music Center # 9/7 Dallas, TX – South Side Ballroom # 9/9 Atlanta, GA – Tabernacle # 9/10 Nashville, TN – Marathon Music Works # 9/13 Myrtle Beach, SC – House of Blues # 9/14 Lake Buena Vista, FL – House of Blues # 9/15 St. Petersburg, FL – Jannus Live # 9/17 Asheville, NC – Orange Peel # 9/19 Silver Spring, MD – The Fillmore # 9/20 Richmond, VA – Virginia Credit Union Live 9/23 Buffalo, NY – Buffalo RiverWorks # 9/24 Cleveland, OH – Agora Theatre #
#with Set It Off, From Ashes To New and Post Profit *no Set It Off or From Ashes To New
ADDITIONAL 2024 TOUR & FESTIVAL DATES
7/23 Johnston, PA – 1st Summit Arena at Cambria County War Memorial # 7/25 Gilford, NH – BankNH Pavilion # 7/26 Bangor, ME – Maine Savings Amphitheater # 9/21 Camden, NJ – MMRBQ 2024 ^ 9/26 Saint Paul, MN – 93X Family Reunion 9/27 Milwaukee, WI – 102.9 The Hog’s HOG Havoc 9/27 Louisville, KY – Louder Than Life ^ 10/13 Sacramento, CA – Aftershock Festival ^ 10/17 Colorado Springs, CO – Sunset Amphitheater # 10/19 Park City, KS – Hartman Arena # 10/20 Saint Charles, MO – The Family Arena # 10/22 Pikeville, KY – Appalachian Wireless Arena # 10/23 Wheeling, WV – Wesbanco Arena # 10/25 Allentown, PA – PPL Center # 10/26 Uncasville, CT – Mohegan Sun Arena #
#with Godsmack and Flat Black ^festival date
Since their emergence in 2003, NOTHING MORE have continuously topped the Active Rock radio charts including nine #1 singles and over a half dozen Top 10 singles including their latest single “IF IT DOESN’T HURT” which is currently in the Top 5 at #4. The band—JonnyHawkins (vocals), MarkVollelunga (guitar), Daniel Oliver (bass), and Ben Anderson (drums)—will release their fifth album CARNAL on June 28 via Better Noise Music. CARNAL features the quartet’s most focused, adventurous, and intense music to date and was recorded with Grammy-nominated producer WZRD BLD (Disturbed, Motionless In White, A Day To Remember) with mixing and mastering completed by Zakk Cervini (Limp Bizkit, MGK, Bring Me The Horizon). NOTHING MORE have shared two additional tracks from CARNAL over the past few months including the pulverizing “HOUSE ON SAND (feat. Eric V of I Prevail)” and “ANGEL SONG (feat. David Draiman of Disturbed)” which alongside “IF IT DOESN’T HURT” have combined received 12.5 million global streams and 1.7 million video views to date. Pre-order CARNAL now via digital download, CD, vinyl, and cassette tape at https://nothingmore.ffm.to/carnal.
Following their headlining “Carnal” tour, NOTHING MORE will appear on stage at several rock festivals across the U.S. including Louder Than Life, Aftershock, 93X Family Reunion, MMR*B*Q 2024 and more. They were recently announced as direct support for rock legends Godsmack from October 17 – 26. See full dates and find ticket information at nothingmore.net.
Many moons ago, Anciients were crowned the guiding lights of progressive metal. The Canadians were already firing on all cylinders during a headlining tour of Europe when they won a JUNO Award for Metal/Hard Music Album of the Year in 2016.
Unfortunately, keeping their avalanche of momentum rocking and rolling proved to be no easy feat. For too long, Anciients seemed to lie dormant, hidden amongst the shadows. But now, after eight years of hermetic silence, the band have returned from the wilderness with a new lineup and their highly-anticipated third album, which now stands as their heaviest, headiest and most heartfelt offering.
“The hiatus is over”, says Anciients’ frontman Kenny Cook. “We missed out on a huge block after the last record. But with the new album and new members, we’re ready to hit it hard”.
Tracklist 1. Forbidden Sanctuary (8:16) 2. Despoiled (5:19) 3. Is It Your God (7:07) 4. Melt the Crown (7:08) [LISTEN] 5. Cloak of the Vast and Black (6:20) 6. Celestial Tyrant (5:52) 7.Beyond Our Minds (4:12) 8. The Torch (4:13) 9. Candescence (4:10) 10. In the Absence of Wisom (6:35)
Beyond the Reach of the Sun comes out August 30, 2024 on Season of Mist.
Listen to the mind-blowing lead single “Melt the Crown”.
For those foolish enough to forget, Beyond the Reach of the Sun will serve as a reminder that Anciients can still rule with an iron fist. The album tells the story of a society that’s enslaved by forces from another dimension. “Melt the Crown” is plenty punishing in its own right. Mike Hannay drums with the crushing speed of a meteor. Only now he’s backed by the titanic grooves of new bassist Rory O’Brien, who comes courtesy of fellow Canadian progressives Bushwhacker.
“We lost our bass player literally a month before we were going in to record and were kind of up shit’s creek”, says Kenny Cook, Anciient’s vocalist and lead axe man. “We got lucky and Rory saved our asses at the last minute”.
An unexpected lineup shuffle was far from the only obstacle that stood in Anciient’s path toward album number three. Of course, the global pandemic didn’t help, but Beyond the Reach of the Sun had turned into a Herculean climb well before COVID-19 kept the band from performing outside Canada for two-plus years. Cook’s wife nearly passed away from heart complications after giving birth to their first child.
“She’s happy and healthy now”, he assures, “but I wasn’t at the stage where I could be out on tour for half a year, especially with a new child. Dealing with family issues was the main priority. It was a bit of a road”.
Such a serious amount of pressure would weigh on anyone. But Cook fell into deeper doubts when trying to carry the bulk of the songwriting and lyric duties in relative isolation after he and his family left Vancouver for small-town Columbia-Shuswap. You can hear those phantom pains bleeding into “Melt the Crown”. “Feel the weight of the world”, Cook growls amidst sludgy distortion. But at its core, Beyond the Reach of the Sun is about perseverance. “Melt the Crown” marks the point in the tracklist where a cosmic entity guides society to a source of ancient knowledge that frees them from their oppressors.
“The overall theme of this record is about overcoming adversity in order to seek enlightenment”, Cook says.
Beyond the Reach of the Sun also led Anciients to discover fresh springs of inspiration. The band concentrated on making these songs more dynamic while also allowing them more room to breath. “Melt the Crown” opens with plaintive acoustic fingerpicking. Justin Hagberg, who plays in Ritual Dictates as well as the recently reunited 3 Inches of Blood, soon accompanies with a keyboard melody that shines as crisp as light off a summer lake before shimmering into stardust. “Spirits awakening to cast you out”, Cook sings, clean and booming with reverb, like dawn rising above a snow-capped mountain range.
One thing has always been crystal clear though: Anciients can shred. Fans who’ve waited on bended knee for more guitar heroics will not be disappointed, either. New member Brock MacInnes brings the same rhythmic crunch that he’s given to Dead Quiet. Just listen to the way his riffs on “Melt the Crown” chip and chisel before laying down the hammer with a headbanging chug. “Beyond the Reach of the Sun has a lot more of our rock side”, Cook says. “We tried to add more dynamics to the music and give the songs more room to breathe”.
Of course, Cook knows his own way around the neck of a Gibson Les Paul. On “Melt the Crown”, Anciients fire up not one, not two, but three guitar solos. Each one comes with its own special flavor. They start off by leading us through a field of filigreed folk, then turn back toward Allman Brothers’ blues, before leaping into a psychedelic reverie that’s like opening the door to your mind’s eye.
“‘Melt the Crown’ was the first song completed during the pre-production sessions for Beyond the Reach of the Sun“, Anciients says. “It was the only song we kept from a batch of ideas that we had accumulated over the years, and it served as a formative building block that we used to base the direction of the new material moving forward. It covers almost all of the basis of the sounds we enjoy creating. We hope everyone who listens can find something in there to connect with”.
It’s been a rough handful of years for British Columbia-based extremity-laced progressive rockers, Anciients. When the quartet unleashed their Voice of the Void album in 2016, the world appeared to be their oyster and things seemed ripe for the picking. They were coming off the success of their Heart of Oak debut from 2013, its ascendancy due in large part to a collective uptick in interest for involved, forward-thinking music. The public had moved beyond toe-dipping and tire-kicking, and were instead doing headfirst dives into exploring the likes of Opeth, Mastodon, Baroness, The Ocean, Intronaut and others who originally hailed from the extreme music underground, but had since grown, matured and scrubbed behind their ears to include heaping and healthy chunks from the outskirts of their record collections and influence pools.
The Band That Auto-Correct Loves to Fuck With™ shared stages with everyone from High on Fire and Goatwhore to Boris and Lamb of God, were in the midst of a European tour when they discovered they were JUNO Award (Canadian Grammy equivalent) winners in the heavy metal/hard rock category. The world was ready to accept Anciients into its welcoming arms. Anciients was gearing up to employ takeover methods, specifically their brand of thunderous rhythms and labyrinthine riffing bolstered by a road warrior mentality. And then, the momentum petered out and the band seemingly fell off the face of the earth.
Today, Anciients are ready and poised to resume their spirited quest for heavy metal paramountcy. There’s no doubt the band is back and with a stunning and beautiful collection of ten songs on offer in the form of new and third album, Beyond the Reach of the Sun, they are positioning to reestablish themselves as a dominant force for those who love windmilling their tresses around thoughtful tempo changes, complex harmonic layers and driving power chord shifting. But what the hell happened and where did they disappear to?
“Basically,” explains guitarist/vocalist Kenny Cook, “right before Voice of the Void was recorded, my wife had our first kid. She ended up having heart complications and almost passed away from it. We recorded the last record and once it came out, I was kind of just focusing on her, dealing with her health issues and keeping that in check. I wasn’t at the stage where I could be gone for half a year, especially with a new kid. Long story short, she’s happy and healthy now, but dealing with family issues was the main priority. It was a bit of a road.”
Adding to that bit of Anciients camp turmoil, guitarist/co-vocalist/co-founding member, Chris Dyck and the band parted ways in January of 2017. This left a gaping lineup hole at an inopportune juncture in the band’s timeline. Not only did Cook have to deal with the absence of his long-term song and lyric writing partner, but Dyck was also someone he had been splitting vocal duties with since the pair formed the band in 2009. And then, while helping his wife with her recovery, raising their new born and “because we wanted to raise our son in a small town environment,” the Cook family uprooted to Columbia-Shuswap four hours east of the Vancouver area, where drummer Mike Hannay, Brock MacInnes (Dyck’s replacement) and brand spanking new bassist Rory O’Brien still reside.
“We knew Brock from other bands he’d been in and we knew he’d be a great fit,” explains Cook. “He actually filled in for Chris on a tour we did back in 2015. As far as the vocals, I just found myself picking up the slack on both ends. It felt somewhat natural, it was definitely different. Doing the lyrics myself for the first time was somewhat daunting, but it was also something done out of necessity. But even when Chris was in the band I handled 80-90% of the vocals anyway, so it didn’t change all that much.”
Then, that whole COVID-19 thing you probably heard about once or twice hit in 2020 and put another restraining bolt on Anciients’ activity, especially touring as the Canadians found themselves dealing with stricter travel restrictions and mandates than many other countries; most notably, not being able to cross the border for almost two years. Once the dust settled, Cook had to adjust to being the lone vocalist and how that impacted the material he was writing while navigating being creative with distance between Anciients’ members for the first time. Not a biggie, as in-person writing sessions are more of a rarity these days, but because of the time elapsed since Voices of the Void, things/interests/influences changed and the band ended up scrapping half of an album’s worth of material and starting fresh. When they put their heads down at the end of 2021 with the focus being Beyond the Reach of the Sun, what was revealed a year later was more streamlined and slithery, more chest-thumpingly direct, more epic and triumphant sounding. Riffs come in explosive layered packets. Leads, harmonies and melodies are more on par with wind-tussled mountain tops instead of sweaty bar shows and the band moves with finely honed, martial accuracy as conducted by Hannay’s rocket-in-the-pocket staccato swing and accents.
Songs like “The Torch” blaze with the shirtless glisten of ‘70s stadium rock power. “Cloak of the Vast and Black” swirls and whirls with a combination of hardcore intensity, grunge groove and expansive six-string parries. “In the Absence of Wisdom” is a hurricane-sized maelstrom of classic and prog rock elevated to grandiosity by a return to their growling sludge/death early years as the song/album concludes. The album’s first single, “Melt the Crown” mixes cues from legendary fellow hosers Rush and Harlequin, turn-of-the-millennium post-metal and the most psychedelic corners of the Rise Above Records roster.
“The new record has a lot more of our rock side,” Cook offers, “and leans towards those elements of our sound and personalities, whereas Voice of the Void was pretty crushing all the way through. With the new material we’ve tried to add more dynamics to the music and give the songs more room to breathe.”
Album opener “Forbidden Sanctuary” is the soundtrack to exploration, of new worlds and sonic arrangement as sine-wave guitars pull from vintage Mercyful Fate covens and Krautrock communes with synths opening up novel textural avenues, as they do on the ethereal wispiness and space rock/sci-fi soundscapes of the instrumental “Candescence.” Beyond the Reach of the Sun sees synths and keyboards making their first appearance on an Anciients record and were played by producer/mixer Jesse Gander and Justin Hagberg at the former’s Rain City Recorders studio. In addition to augmenting the album with his skill on the black and whites, Hagberg — a member of the recently reunited 3 Inches of Blood — also helped Anciients navigate a significant last-minute hurdle, one that threatened to pull the reins back on their comeback roar.
“We lost our bass player literally a month before we were going in to record and were kind of up shit’s creek. Justin also plays in a band called Ritual Dictates with Rory and is the one who brought his name up.”
O’Brien, a former member of Vancouver’s Bushwhacker, was absolutely interested when approached by Anciients.
“We got lucky and he saved our asses at the last minute.”
Cook stepped up to the challenge of being the sole lyricist to drape Beyond the Reach of the Sun in deeply personal expressions of the inner turmoil, fear and isolation he’d experienced in himself and saw in others over the past few years. There were moments where he didn’t know whether loved ones were going to pull through and what life was going to look like were tragedy come to pass. Mental health and people living life without being able to see any light at the end of the tunnel became a very prevalent theme to tracks like “Despoiled” and “Beyond Our Minds.” And while the line that became the album’s title is taken from a David Attenborough-narrated Planet Earth documentary, it speaks more to the coming and going of despondency when one doesn’t know how dark the darkness is going to get, as in “Is It Your God,” which pulls from the manifestation of grief and how it can shatter belief systems.
“That one is a little more personal to me and my situation,” Cook says somberly. “I had a good friend of mine from when I was younger pass away from cancer. His mother was super-religious and there were ideas taken from her questioning how could something like that happen to her when she had such a strong faith.”
The title and themes of stripped away hope and piled on anguish and tumult were parlayed into the album’s spectacular cover art. Created by Adam Burke (Nightjar Illustrations), the drawing is part-pulp novel cover, part-Franzetta landscape, part-sci-fi movie poster and all a vast illustration one can easily lose themselves in while the record spins in the background.
“We gave him the concept and basic outline of how we wanted the cover to look and he took it to a whole new dimension. It turned out pretty wild!”
With all being said and done, Anciients have returned! They stand ready to ascend the prog metal ladder and get back to doing what they do best with a weighty and dense, but wholly accessible, album. It’s a collection of ten songs that possesses the ability to have those furiously banging heads also tapping into their power of self-reflection and contemplation to ponder the finality of existence, the value of life and their place in the universe.
“Totally! We’re going to take as many of the opportunities that come to us. The hiatus is over and I think with the new members and everyone being on the same page we’re ready to get out there as soon as possible. We missed out on a huge block after the last record, so we’ve got to make up for lost time. Now that everyone is happy and healthy, we plan to hit it hard.”
Cleveland death metallers NOXIS have revealed “Emanations of the Sick” as the second new track taken from the forthcoming debut album “Violence Inherent In The System”. The song is now premiering at Toilet Ov Hell: stream it HERE.
The new full-length is slated for release on June 28th, 2024 via Rotted Life (US) and Dawnbreed Records (Europe).
The first single “Skullcrushing Defilement” is streaming atTHIS LOCATION.
Tracklist:
01. Skullcrushing Defilement 02. Blasphemous Mausoleum for the Wicked 03. Paths of Visceral Fears 04. Abstemious, Pious Writ of Life 05. Torpid Consumption 06. Excursion 07. Horns Echo over Chorazim 08. Violence Inherent In The System 09. Tense and Forlorn 10. Emanations of the Sick 11. Surfin’ Blood Futile (physical edition bonus track)
By and large, the underground is a constantly thriving realm that is always spitting out new talent on such a scale that is simply magnificent to gaze upon. When one name pops up to gain the attention of the masses, there’s a litany of others that are birthed out of the void that may become of note the future.
For many, the darkness of the underground is all they’ll ever know while some rise above it to become a massive name in their own right. Others, however, are able to gain quite the following but still find themselves absolutely thriving in the darkness of obscurity.
As one of those notorious creations, Ohio’s NOXIS has been wreaking havoc in those very shadows for a few years now, but it’s with the forthcoming album, “Violence Inherent in the System”, nothing short of staggering in every standard.
Convulsing death metal of the most sadistic sort, this is the sort of absurdity that comes for the very light of creation. Nothing is left to chance as the brand of death metal with which NOXIS wields with terrifying efficiency no matter how they go about it as the whole of the eleven tracks that adorn “Violence Inherent in the System” showcases time after time just how far this act has already come in hardly no time at all.
Where in previous works like “Expanse of Hellish Black Mire” we saw NOXIS take confident steps forward, every given moment of this creation is a tedious labor that craves only the flesh of its victims and to peel apart the souls of those caught in its clutches. As infectious as it is intense from beginning to end, this is a creation that fits perfectly within the deep crevices of the underground where only the strong survive, climb, and thrive!
Nothing can keep NOXIS from pursuing its blood-drenched destiny, not even a wild change in tone and approach that we see in the album’s finale. As far as we should be concerned, “Violence Inherent in the System” is the magnificently victorious offensive that sees NOXIS not just coming out on top, but coated in the blood of the weak as a titanic figure rises amongst the carnage.
This is but of the first assaults that NOXIS will unleash upon the masses with “Violence Inherent in the System”, and what a sight it is.
Line-up:
Ray Conde – Vocals Dylan Cruz – Guitars and Vocals David Kirsch – Bass Joe Lowrie – Drums
Polish black death metal band DISLOYAL has released a lyric video for their latest single, “Betrayed Faith.” This track offers a glimpse into their forthcoming album, “Divine Miasmata,” set to be released on July 12th. Watch the video below and prepare for the full album release!
“Betrayed Faith” This one is dedicated to all the infant and adolescent victims of a sexual abuse fromthe hands of all the Christian churches or other religious organizations and their priests and activists.
DISLOYAL will return this summer with their fifth full-length album, Divine Miasmata.
Marking the band’s natural progression, Divine Miasmata is a proposal that simply cannot be ignored. This is easily the band’s most complex, catchy, atmospheric, groovy, and dark record to date. Combining hard-labor musical craftsmanship with top-notch artistic finesse, this release will surely become a bright star on the firmament of Polish death metal.
The main cover artwork is by NaphulaArt, adding a visually stunning dimension to the release.
Tracklist
Divine Mismata
Silent Revolution
The Black Pope
1347-1352
Stella Peccatorum
Betrayed Faith
Religion Of Warfare
Ravens Of Starvation
The Ascension Of Abaddon
Divine Miasmata was recorded at Monroe Sound Studio and engineered, mixed and mastered by Arkadiusz “Aro” Jablonski. The album was produced by Arkadiusz “Aro” Jablonski and DISLOYAL. All music on the album was written by Artyom Serdyuk, except Intro, composed by Konstantin Kolesnikov. Lyrics were written by Wojciech Mytnik. The album track “Ravens Of Starvation” is based on a poem by Diana Suhova.
Suitable sized, Finland’s most spontaneous and individual little big Metal event Dark River Festival takes place 8.-10.8.2024 in Kotka Finland. Exodus, Mokoma, Mushroomhead, Gaerea, Bloodred Hourglass, Warmen, Carach Angren, Marianas Rest, Kaunis Kuolematon and Havukruunu are now joined by top names like Katatonia, Mnemic, Before The Dawn, Kiuas, Omnivortex, Atlases, I Am Your God and Domination Black.
Celebrating their twenties, in addition to the event itself are also two bands who released their debut albums in 2004: melodic progmetal group Manitou, led by Markus Vanhala (Insomnium/Omnium Gatherum), and Danish modern metal cult band Mnemic, who are making a comeback with their original line-up!
Year after year breaking it’s own attendance records and fascinating with wide variety of metal genres, the festival again invites all the headbangers to the woods of Honkala for a summer’s end celebration like no other. Festival’s development & moderate growth continues, but we are not planning to lose any of that Heartwarming Atmosphere Dark River is known for. Welcome to The Most Exciting and Customer Friendly Metal Festival of ’24!
86% of customer research participants would highly or most likely recommend the event for their friends or associates. 79% of same personnel are most definitely or most likely attending the festival also next year.
Year after year Dark River Festival is praised for it’s warm atmosphere, idyllic location, interesting line-up of bands and customer friendly facilities. “Riverit” is already a must-go yearly tradition for thousands of Metalheads!
Dark River Festival 2024’s line-up has been built with Blood and Sweat, so We Metal enthusiasts could offer best possible line-up for You Metal enthusiasts. Dark River Festival is especially community event, and it means everything to Us to serve You as good as any way possible with the resources of a little festival.
Next summer Honkala will feature the most famous grief bearer of atmospheric metal Katatonia, the Bay Area Thrash Metal legend Exodus, the Cleveland-based alternative metal mask patrol Mushroomhead, the futuristic djent metal cult band Mnemic returning to the stages with it’s original line-up, Finland’s album chart phenomenom Dutch black metal band Carach Angren, Children Of Bodom-keyboardist Janne Wirman’s Warmen who made a spectacular comeback, Finnish thrash legends Mokoma, Tuomas Saukkonen’s melodic death metal masterpiece Before The Dawn, surmacore-mainiacs Rytmihäiriö, the hottest name in domestic melodeath right now Bloodred Hourglass, Gaerea, violently shaking the traditions of black metal and the supercharged heavy metal powerhouse Kiuas.
Also delivering the goods next August: first ever Dark River Festival -performers Manitou and Domination Black, the melodic death metal group Marianas Rest that achieved critical and chart success with their fourth album last spring, the melancholic doom metal fan favorite Kaunis Kuolematon, right-wing values persistently favoring bourgeois-core quartet Bob Malmstörm trampling on the rights of the poor for almost fifteen years, the hottest cult band in pagan black metal Havukruunu, the melodic death metal comet bringing nuclear winter in the middle of summer Suotana, melodic doom metal masters Hanging Garden, extreme metal colossus Assemble The Chariots, symphonic death metal mayhem Brymir, professors for perfect combination of technicality and atmosphere Atlases, last summer’s Wacken Metal Battle -winner Omivortex and I Am Your God, wreaking havoc in the footsteps of domestic melodeath legends.
SATURDAY 10.8. Katatonia (SE) Mnemic (DK) Bloodred Hourglass (FI) Before The Dawn (FI) Mushroomhead (US) Kaunis Kuolematon (FI) Brymir (FI) Bob Malmström (FI) Atlases (FI) I Am Your God (FI)
To ensure cozy and intimate atmosphere, the amount of tickets is strictly limited. Don’t sleep on this.
Kimmo Kuusniemi’s ASA unveil the long-overdue release of "Collective Failure" + first music video for title-track! Check it out and stay tuned for more news! Click image to watch the video
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