Eternity’s End has released a video for “Sword In The Storm”, the second single taken from the new album “Titanblood” to be released on November 6 by Scarlet Records.
This song tells a story of Elric Of Melnibone and his cursed, blood drinking sword Stormbringer. “Sword In The Storm” starts with a blast beat riff reminiscent of symphonic black metal and features thrashy, high speed technical riffing and a quite symphonic arrangement throughout, building up to an epic, catchy chorus and guitar/keyboard solo duel section in the middle reminiscent of old Children Of Bodom.
video by Grasser Production
“Titanblood”:
Fourth studio-album for the masterful German power metal band led by virtuoso guitarist Christian Muenzner (former Obscura, Paradox, Necrophagist);
first record featuring the new singer and frontman Mike Livas (Silent Winter, Bloodorn);
produced, mixed and mastered by Hannes Grossmann at Mordor Sound Studios;
“Titanblood” tracklist: 1 The Gods Of Bal Sagoth 2 Sword In The Storm 3 Titanblood 4 Interstellar Transmission 5 In The Wake Of The Carrion King 6 Eternal Winter 7 Gates Of Eternity 8 The Abyss Watchers 9 Ravenheart 10 Rule The Night Total running time – 51:08
artwork by Dimitar Nikolov
“Titanblood” will captivate the listener through fast, aggressive and technical power metal songs with soaring lead vocals, big anthemic choruses, crazy solo duels and harmonies and riffs at times bordering on technical-thrash.
The new Eternity’s End album brings back some of the more progressive and symphonic elements found on the band’s first record and combining those with heavier influences.
While not being a proper concept album, every “Titanblood” song tells about dark fantasy stories inspired by writers like Robert E. Howard, Michael Moorcock and Edgar Allan Poe, and video games like “Dark Souls”.
Eternity’s End: Mike Livas – vocals Christian Muenzner – guitar Justin Hombach – guitar Jimmy Pitts – keyboards Linus Klausenitzer – bass Hannes Grossmann – drums
Swedish heavyweights thrown return with their brand new single ‘unwanted’, the latest track from their highly anticipated second album, UNWANTED, out 6th November via Arising Empire.
Built around massive riffs, punishing grooves and a chorus that burrows straight into your skull, ‘unwanted’ captures everything that has made thrown such a standout name within the new generation of heavy music. Relentless yet addictive, brutally direct yet impossible to shake, the track once again proves the band’s ability to deliver maximum impact without wasting a single second.
‘unwanted’ follows previously released singles ‘split’, ‘rehearsed’ and ‘critic’, offering another glimpse of an album that sees thrown sharpening the formula that has taken them from underground newcomers to one of the most talked-about names in contemporary heavy music.
Formed in Sweden in 2021, thrown have built their reputation on brutally concise songs, crushing production and an instinctive understanding of what makes heavy music connect. Their sound pulls together hardcore aggression, metalcore weight and nu metal groove, delivered with an intensity that translates just as powerfully from headphones to a packed room.
The scale of that connection is difficult to ignore. Their 2022 debut EP EXTENDED PAIN surpassed 50 million streams across its five tracks and spent almost a year in Spotify’s Global Metal Top 200. Their 2024 debut album EXCESSIVE GUILT pushed the band onto an even bigger international stage, while thrown have since passed 1.5 million monthly Spotify listeners and amassed well over 100 million streams worldwide.
Their rise has been equally rapid in the live arena. thrown have toured extensively across North America, Europe and Australia alongside Knocked Loose, Fit For A King, Counterparts, While She Sleeps and Wage War, steadily converting their streaming audience into an increasingly formidable live following.
That momentum has also been recognised by the wider heavy music community. thrown took home Best Breakthrough Live Artist at the Heavy Music Awards in 2024, before EXCESSIVE GUILT won Best Breakthrough Album at the 2025 awards.
At the centre of thrown are Marcus Lundqvist on vocals, Johan Liljeblad and Andreas Malm on guitars, and drummer and producer Buster Odeholm. Together, the Swedish four-piece have created something instantly identifiable: short, devastating songs, massive production, unforgettable hooks and a level of intensity that has made thrown impossible to ignore.
Now, with UNWANTED just weeks away, thrown are showing no signs of slowing down.
Tracklist: 1. critic 2. don’t be fooled 3. unwanted 4. rehearsed 5. doing great 6. type of way 7. off 8. split 9. hard times 10. bare minimum 11. subpar
Catch the band live:
31.10.2026 I Core Fest 2026 I Göppingen, Germany 27.11.2026 I Fållan I Johanneshov, Sweden 29.11.2026 I Grosse Freiheit 36 I Hamburg, Germany 30.11.2026 I Huxleys Neue Welt I Berlin, Germany 01.12.2026 I Gasometer I Wien, Austria 03.12.2026 I TonHalle München I München, Germany 04.12.2026 I Schlachthof Wiesbaden I Wiesbaden, Germany 05.12.2026 I Palladium Köln I Köln, Germany 06.12.2026 I Élysée Montmartre I Paris, France 08.12.2026 I Poppodium 013 I Tilburg, Netherlands 09.12.2026 I Trix I Antwerpen, Belgium
DIETH are proud to announce their signing with Fireflash Records, which marks the beginning of a new chapter for the band. “This feels like the right home for us, as they share our vision of where we can take the band. We’ve poured our heart and soul into this new music, and I honestly couldn’t be more excited about what we have in store. New line-up, new music, new album – this is just the beginning”, says vocalist and guitarist Guilherme Miranda.
Alongside the new record deal, the band have unveiled their new line-up, welcoming Swedish bassist Tobias Cristiansson, who is known for his work with GRAVE, NECROPHOBIC and, formerly, DISMEMBER. The new line-up comes as DIETH prepare to launch the next era of the band with new music, a new video, and their second studio album. “It’s a pleasure to welcome my longtime friend Tobias to DIETH. His history speaks for itself, and he fits perfectly with what we’re building. I’m beyond happy and honoured to have him with us for this new chapter.”
The first taste of what is to come will be the single ‘Pound of Flesh‘, one of the band’s most brutal tracks to date, which will introduce this new chapter of DIETH. The song will be released alongside a video on 16 October. Guilherme Miranda comments: ‘“Pound of Flesh” is brutal, and that’s exactly what I wanted this song to be. Musically and lyrically, it’s one of my favourite things we’ve done. I’m very excited because it’s a new chapter for DIETH. I really can’t wait for you guys to hear and see what we’ve been working on!”
French cinematic metal visionaries Hypno5e return with ‘Trame Noire’, the haunting title track from their forthcoming seventh album Trame Noire, set for release on 6th November via Pelagic Records.
Directed by Hypno5e mastermind Emmanuel Jessua, the evocative new video mirrors the album’s exploration of memory, loss, dreams and the ghosts of the past, bringing its nocturnal world vividly to life.
On the new single and video, the band comment: “With ‘Trame Noire’, the title track of our new album, I wanted to extend into images the themes that run through my music: memory, loss, dreams and the ghosts of the past.
“I directed the video myself, working with models, collages, drawings and various forms of superimposition. The journey through these shifting spaces, and the apparitions that inhabit them, are fragments of the character’s memories, condemned to wander through this world. He is confronted with the traces of what he has lived through, but also with his own image, which returns like another ghost.
“Memory becomes a material that repeats, distorts and endlessly resurfaces. A cycle from which there is no escape, like an intimate curse, where the past always finds its way back into the present.”
Since 2003, Hypno5e forged a singular path through progressive heavy music, combining crushing riffs with avant-garde experimentation, post-rock, immersive samples and Latin American influences to create their own distinctive brand of cinematic metal. Across six acclaimed albums, they have built a world that is as atmospheric and disorientating as it is heavy. Now, with Trame Noire, they enter their next chapter.
Named after the French term for ‘dark infrastructure’, urban architecture designed to preserve the darkness of night for nocturnal species, Trame Noire unfolds over the course of a single night. Its protagonist is forced to confront buried trauma as every insect, flap of a wing and shift in temperature triggers fragments of long forgotten memories.
The album arrives alongside a celebration of Hypno5e’s more than two decades of existence, a complete 13LP discography box set, featuring Trame Noire alongside Sheol (2023), A Distant Dark Source (2019), Alba (2018), Shores of the Abstract Line (2016), Acid Mist Tomorrow (2012) and debut album Des Deux L’une Est L’autre (2007), which will appear on vinyl for the first time.
Album opener ‘Lost Fires’ rises from lonely keys to a section driven by Jessua’s lush vocals, followed by hulking guitars. ‘Falmer’ offers some of the sweetest and hardest moments of Hypno5e’s career: a hypnotic detour evokes the prime of Pink Floyd, then crashes into a metallic thunder that sounds like Gojira gone black metal. ‘Molecular Angel’ channels old-school prog, drums clamouring beneath gorgeous singing and ambient instruments, and ‘Bare Bones’ is a guitar-powered attack, incorporating wild leads and hammering thuds. The 10-minute title track is a suitably dynamic finale, but it remains consistent in its utter, bittersweet beauty.
Trame Noire was approached quite differently to their previous work, opting for a more organic sound. The band limited their use of samples to reflect the lyrics’ focus on one voice and one character. Plus, they used a warmer, looser style of production: less traditionally tech-metal, more inspired by the masterpieces of 70s psychedelic rock.
Even the artwork – painted by Emmanuel’s father, co-lyricist and frequent collaborator Thierry Jessua – is a raw, unrefined sketch, more human than what was seen on past covers. “This time I wanted to discover another language,”Emmanuel commented. “Every album should tell its story differently. I never want Hypno5e to become predictable.”
All this evolution also reflects the fact that Trame Noire was the first album to be made from start to finish with Hypno5e’s current lineup, rounded out by co-guitarist Jonathan Maurois, bassist Charles Villanueva and drummer Pierre Rettien.
“The new lineup brings different atmospheres,”Emmanuel continues. “It doesn’t mean that Hypno5e is going to be this way forever now, but I think there was a more direct and free way of composing. Everybody had more of a say on the decisions and the structures we put on the album.”
Trame Noire is another bold statement in a career defined by non-conformity. Shorter, warmer and presented in a totally different way to previous works, it ensures that Hypno5e remain one of one, even after more than two decades.
Hypno5e are: Emmanuel Jessua (guitar, vocals) Jonathan Maurois (guitars) Pierre Rettien (drums) Charles Villanueva (bass)
Wormholedeath is proud to announce the signing of 1THIRTY8, the hard rock/metal project of Australian guitarist and songwriter Karl Szulik, for the release of the debut album A Reckless Game,due on November 13, 2026
To mark the signing and offer a first taste of the album, 1THIRTY8 has released the first single, “In Vain,” accompanied by an official music video.
1THIRTY8 started as a side project created to combine hard-hitting metal with sweet melodies that can both energise and soothe. The project gave 1THIRTY8 the opportunity to experiment with songwriting ideas that did not fit with Karl Szulik’s other bands and projects, including Divine Ascension, Living Through Mirrors and UNKNWN. The aim was to create songs that are accessible and relatable while still offering interesting melodies, lyrics, time signatures and layers that reward repeated listens.
Recording from studios on opposite sides of the world initially presented a significant challenge, particularly when it came to conveying ideas and capturing the essence of each track while maintaining consistency across the album. With the professionalism and expertise of Emo and James, however, 1THIRTY8 was able to bring the original vision to life.
Each song on A Reckless Game tells its own story, with lyrics built around common situations and experiences that people encounter in their everyday lives. The songs explore feelings of frustration, relief and sadness, while Simone of Domination Studio’s production brings these ideas together into a polished, cohesive listening experience. Having long admired Simone’s work with DGM, 1THIRTY8 found that his vision and creative expertise transformed the initial ideas into the finished sound heard on the album.
As an old-school music fan, 1THIRTY8 also places great importance on the complete album experience, including its visual presentation. Quality artwork was therefore an essential part of the release. The goal was to create something unique yet simple, centred around the idea of someone doing something reckless. Jonathan brought this concept to life through a series of images spanning the album cover, booklet and CD, creating a visual identity that complements the music.
Although A Reckless Game can be heavy, soft, hard-hitting, soaring or occasionally a little strange, 1THIRTY8 hopes the album maintains a groove that gets under the listener’s skin, moves the body and rocks the mind.
1THIRTY8 on signing with Wormholedeath: “I am excited to announce the signing of 1THIRTY8’s debut album ‘A Reckless Game’ with Wormholedeath. Carlo and the team were extremely supportive and showed a genuine interest in the music I had written and produced on A Reckless Game when I sent it to them for review. It was quite humbling to read the kind words they sent back to me after listening to the album. I am eager to work with them on this release and hope we can give all the fans of progressive music something to rock out to and enjoy.”
Tracklist: 1 In Vain 2 Suffer Silence 3 Frustration Divide 4 Aligned Again 5 Inside A Mind 6 Chaos Control 7 Where Confusion Lies 8 Paper Is Not A Colour 9 Still Breathing 10 Delusional Sin
1THIRTY8 is Karl Szulik – Guitars, Bass & Keys
Guest musicians: Vocals – Emo Alaeddin Drums – James Knoerl
XENOS A.D. have added a fifth date to the second leg of their ‘Oppressor Over Europe Tour,’ which kicks off on October 31st in Palermo. The Sicilian band will perform on November 15th at the Cart & Horses, the birthplace of Iron Maiden and a legendary venue for the UK metal scene, supported by the British band Fracture Point and the Cypriot band Ka’aper.”
Here are the dates announced so far for the “Oppressor Over Europe Tour”:
31.10.2026: Into the Crypt Fest (I);
14.11.2026: Thrashchester Fest (UK);
15.11.2026: Cart & Horses (UK);
09.01.2027: Freak Out Fest (CH);
16.01.2027: Pandemonium Over Lugano (CH).
Further dates will be announced soon.
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