DALTON Unleash New Single & Video ‘Playing With Fire’ from Upcoming Album

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Sweden’s melodic rock veterans Dalton unleash today their new single and official video, “Playing With Fire”, taken from the upcoming studio album, “Rock Will Never Die”, set for release on December 11, 2026, via Frontiers Music Srl.

The band commented: “Some fires are meant to burn. There’s a fine line between passion and danger. And sometimes, crossing that line is exactly what makes life worth living. The song captures the thrill of taking chances, following your instincts and refusing to play it safe. Driven by powerful guitars, soaring melodies and the unmistakable spirit of classic AOR, “Playing with Fire” delivers everything that makes melodic rock timeless – energy, emotion and hooks that refuse to let go.”

“But this is more than just another rock anthem. It’s about that irresistible spark. The moment when you know you’re getting too close to the flames, yet something keeps pulling you in”, they added. “It’s about keeping the fire alive. Turn it up. Feel the heat.”

Pre-Order “Rock Will Never Die” HERE

“Rock Will Never Die” is the highly anticipated return of Dalton, breaking a twelve year absence from the marketplace. It’s the record that perfectly captures the timeless sound that has defined the band for decades.

Vocalist Bosse Lindmark stated: “We were perfectly happy with our place in the AOR history books, but our fans wanted more – much more. When Frontiers came to us with the opportunity to make a new album, it was flattering but also challenging. We had to ask ourselves some tough questions: can we still do it? Do we still have the chops? The answer became “Rock Will Never Die”. We wanted to make something that feels relevant today while still being unmistakably Dalton.”

“This is classic Dalton with heavier guitars – a tougher, more in-your-face sound, but still with the melodies and hooks that have always been such an important part of who we are. Bringing Moltas into the band gave us a huge injection of energy and passion, and the whole band is firing on all eight”, he added. “Forty years after we released ‘Can’t Stop Loving You Now’, I can’t think of a better way to celebrate than with a new Dalton album.”

With the addition of new guitarist Moltas Åhs, the band brings fresh energy to their classic Scandinavian melodic rock style, while Bosse Lindmark’s raspy vocals continue to deliver the emotive power and signature tone that fans have come to love.

Supported the veteran members Anders Lindmark on bass, Mats “Dalton” Dahlberg on drums, and Ola Lindström on keyboards, the album features soaring choruses, driving riffs, and unforgettable melodies, proving that the spirit of Dalton is as vibrant and unrelenting as ever.

“Rock Will Never Die” is both a celebration of the band’s legacy and a bold statement that true rock never fades.

“Rock Will Never Die” Tracklist:

1.    Rock Will Never Die
2.    Playing With Fire  
3.    I Wanna Know  
4.    Save A Bullet  
5.    Waiting  
6.    White Lies  
7.    You  
8.    You’re Not My Lover  
9.    Letting Go
10.    Way Back Home  
11.    I Have A Dream  

DALTON are:
Bosse Lindmark – vocals
Moltas Åhs – guitars
Mats (Dalton) Dahlberg – drums
Anders (Kebbe) Lindmark – bass
Ola Lindström – keyboards

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SPURV Announce New Album “Kelolågen” + Share Explosive First Single ‘Kelogadd’

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Emerging from Norway’s expansive post-rock landscape, SPURV announce their fourth album, “Kelolågen”, set for release on February 5, 2027 via Pelagic Records. Alongside the announcement, the six-piece unveils the album’s first single, “Kelogadd”, a dark, noisy post-punk track driven by bass and electronic percussion, with breathy vocals and a heavily processed field recording of a waterfall in an old-growth forest in northern Norway.

“Kelogadd” is out now on all major streaming platforms – listen HERE

Across fifteen years, SPURV have developed a distinctive sound drawing from classical composition, folk, post-punk, noise, electronic music and the heavier edges of metal. Through interlocking guitars, dynamic percussion, orchestral arrangements and carefully layered textures, the band explores music as a means of accessing our relationship with nature.

The album’s title refers to a phenomenon that has no direct English equivalent. A kelolåg is a pine that has stood for centuries, died on its feet, twisted silver-grey and finally fallen, to spend hundreds more years becoming soil. Most Norwegians have never needed the word either, as old-growth forest makes up only around 1% of Norway’s forest. On their fourth album, SPURV give the fallen tree a voice – and, for the first time, a singer. Founder Gustav Jørgen Pedersen, who partly started the band so he would never have to sing in one, now does.


Kelo is a loanword from Sámi for these dry, barkless trees; låg means something that has fallen and lies on the ground. “Language practices sustain words that are meaningful for a language community,” says Gustav Jørgen Pedersen. “Without old-growth forests, there is no need for a term like kelolåg.“

Tracklist:

01. Visne til liv
02. Soldyrker
03. Kelogadd
04. Navnløs
05. Sammenkveilingen
06. Uendelig uendelig

Following the exploration of peatlands on “Myra” (2018) and glaciers on “Brefjære” (2023), SPURV now turn their attention to the old-growth forest. The album’s six tracks follow the life cycle of a kelo tree, from its growth towards the light to its eventual fall and slow return to the soil. The concept first came to Pedersen when he encountered kelo trees in Muddus National Park in northern Sweden, sparking a search for them across the North.

Musically, “Kelolågen” is SPURV’s most concise record to date, trading lengthy build-ups and preludes for greater density and immediacy while retaining the band’s signature melodies and orchestral arrangements. It also marks a new chapter, with two of the main tracks featuring vocals. “In a way, I started the band so I wouldn’t have to sing in a band,” says Pedersen. “Recording the vocals was a big step but turned out to be surprisingly fulfilling.”

With more members contributing to the songwriting and arrangements than ever before, “Kelolågen” expands SPURV’s sonic palette. Guitarist Eirik Ørevik Aadland co-wrote large parts of the album, including much of its prog-tinged riffing, while trombonist Simen Eifring penned the string arrangements. The result is the band’s most varied record yet, with more layers, colours and even a pump organ woven into its sound.

Rather than portraying the forest as a lost paradise, “Kelolågen” celebrates its complexity and vitality, ending in defiance rather than despair. “People need to know about the old-growth forest and about kelo trees,” says Pedersen, “and we must stop destroying them.” For SPURV, the forest also represents a place to imagine alternative ways of organising society.

The album was recorded and mixed by Jørgen Smådal Larsen at Paradiso Studio in Oslo, capturing a raw, dense and organic sound. Mastering was handled by Cult of Luna’s Magnus Lindberg, with cover art by Sten Ove Toft and photography by Birte Magnussen.

“Kelolågen” will be coming out on February 5 via Pelagic Records and is available for pre-order HERE

Line-up:
Gustav Jørgen Pedersen: vocals, guitars, pump organ, glockenspiel, field recordings
Eirik Ørevik Aadland: guitars, glockenspiel, synths
Herman Otterlei: guitars
Hans-Jakob Jeremiassen: bass
Simon Ljung: drums
Simen Eifring: trombone

Brage Sæbø: violin
Emilie Haagenrud: violin
Einar Bauge: viola
Marek Bieńkuński: cello

Links:
https://www.instagram.com/spurvband/
https://www.facebook.com/Spurvinnen/
https://spurv.bandcamp.com
https://pelagic-records.com/artist/spurv/

LAUDARE Unleash First Single ‘Fireflies’ from Upcoming Album

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Progressive post-metallers LAUDARE have released “Fireflies”, the first single off their upcoming full-length album “I Am the Wood I Burn to Warm My Bones”, which is set for release on February 5 via Moment of Collapse Records.

Combining melancholic soundscapes, emotional intensity and intricate musical arrangements, “Fireflies” explores the process of reconnecting with one’s inner child. Moving seamlessly between moments of fragility and overwhelming emotional force,the track offers permission to be loud, to feel sadness, and to embrace anger without shame. With a deeply human sense of vulnerability at its core, LAUDARE turn introspection into an empowering journey of self-acceptance and healing.

Stream the single HERE

With “I Am the Wood I Burn to Warm My Bones”, LAUDARE continue to carve out their own musical territory, weaving post-rock, progressive rock, metal, folk and classical influences into a sound that refuses to settle into a single genre. Built around three voices, guitar, bass and cello, the band balance delicate, intimate passages with bold, expansive arrangements, allowing melody to intertwine and evolve rather than follow familiar structures. The result is music that feels fragile yet forceful, with a bittersweet melancholy running through its shifting dynamics and layered textures.

On their new album LAUDARE turn inward, exploring the contradictions of being alive with unflinching honesty and poetic depth. Moving between emancipation and self-doubt, the search for meaning and the fear of finally finding it, the album traces the fragile, often painful process of becoming oneself – only to lose one’s footing and begin again.

Introspection lies at the heart of these songs. Grief becomes a force for healing, failure a necessary condition for growth, and the self both creator and creature, capable of nurturing its own existence while consuming itself in the process. The title track captures this tension with striking clarity: burning to feel alive can be both sustaining and destructive. Even in its darkest moments, the album leaves room for renewal.

True to LAUDARE’s poetic approach, these themes unfold through a musical language that resists easy categorisation, drawing from post-rock, progressive rock, metal, folk and classical traditions. Fragile and forceful, melancholic yet searching – “I Am the Wood I Burn to Warm My Bones” is an intimate meditation on healing, self-discovery and the difficult freedom of learning to live without illusions.

Tracklist:
01. A Dreamer Drowned…
02. Of Plea and Purpose
03. Of Hands and Hunger
04. I Am the Wood I Burn to Warm My Bones
05. Glistening, Still
06. In the Canyon of Echoes
07. Lightspeed
08. Godspeed
09. Fireflies
10. …In Dreams of Flesh

The album will be out February 5, 2027, via Moment of Collapse Records and is available for
pre-order HERE

Line-up:
Marie-Luise Thurm – Main Vocals, Bass
Almut Voigt – Cello, Piano, Vocals
Daniel Kaltofen – Guitar, Piano, Vocals, Production

For more info visit:
https://www.instagram.com/laudare
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POSTHEROIC Sign with Scarlet Records, Debut Album Coming in Springtime 2027

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POSTHEROIC has signed a multi-album deal with Scarlet Records and is currently putting the final touches to the debut album to be released in springtime 2027.

The prog power metal brainchild of Matt Corry – voice and frontman of the acclaimed English power metallers Fellowship – and Chilean multi-instrumentalist, composer and producer Francisco Pérez (keyboard player for US power metal band Judicator and guitarist for Chilean power metal band Steelrage), POSTHEROIC also features Fraser Edwards (Ascension, Fraser Edwards) on lead guitar and Ollie Bernstein (Illusion Force) on bass.

«POSTHEROIC is a project that has existed in my soul for nearly a decade. It’s joyous, scathing, political and personal all at once, proggy and weird in all the right places but with a core sound that I owe entirely to the guys in Fellowship and all our fans. It’s about growth and evolution and chasing life too hard. It’s about making dangerous musical choices and having fun with them; just as everything I write is secretly about hope, so too is this. It is definitively, unabashedly me.

POSTHEROIC was originally conceived as a solo record, and while it’s under my creative direction and ownership this would simply not have been possible without Francisco. Were it not for his contributions, I don’t think I’d be anywhere near as proud of it as I am. I’ve never enjoyed making something as much as I’ve enjoyed making this record.»

(Matt Corry)

«When Matt approached me to help him with his solo record I didn’t know what I was getting into. And, oh boy, was I in for a treat! Working with Matt on POSTHEROIC has been a joy from beginning to end, from pre-production, to composition to recording. It’s been a great challenge to get out of my comfort zone and at the same time go back to some old roots that I had forgotten as time has passed. I hope you will all enjoy this album as much as we enjoyed making it.»

(Francisco Pérez)

RED LIGHT ACID TEST’s New Single ‘Relapse’ Out Now

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“Addiction can take many faces. Relapse is about the erosion of trust and how difficult it is to change behaviour. The more times you apologise and say you’ll change, the less weight those words hold.”

“You might climb out,
Wash yourself clean,
But the stains still show”

Red Light Acid Test released new single ‘Relapse‘ on 5th November, new album ‘Frayed’ is out now.

Following several critically acclaimed singles, Red Light Acid Test have released their highly anticipated debut album ‘Frayed’.

Order ‘Frayed’ album: https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/redlightacidtest/frayed

“With ‘Frayed’, the four piece alternative rock outfit delivers a welcome reminder that music can be abrasive, unpredictable, and downright addictive without begging for mainstream approval. Their sound occupies that wonderfully uncomfortable territory where jagged guitars collide with dark melodies and rhythms seem determined to make their own rules. It is the kind of musical mischief that makes you want to turn the volume up and give your neighbours a fresh reason to hate you.”
Jammerzine

Red Light Acid Test came together in London 2019 to create hard, alternative rock music that is distinctively warped from the mainstream. Their choppy rhythms, staggered guitars and dark, melodic vocals make for an intense listening experience.

The four piece have been compared to Queens of the Stone Age, Killing Joke, Mark Lanegan, Idles, Helmet, Sonic Youth, Muse, all the while keeping at the forefront their own unique sound. They have released singles since 2020, all receiving wide acclaim and plays on radio stations across the UK and Ireland, incl. BBC Introducing, Kerrang, Total Rock, Scotland Rocks, MMH and many more.

Red Light Acid Test are known for their energetic and pulling-no-punches live shows, having played in bars and clubs across Southeast England incl. Hard Rock Hell, Hoxton Festival, Camden Rocks etc, and continue to build a reputation as one of the most exciting bands in alternative rock.
Ones to watch in the coming years.

Order ‘Frayed’ here: https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/redlightacidtest/frayed

Recorded by Ian Davenport the Mercury Prize nominated producer (Gaz Coombes, Slowdive, Band of Skulls).

Jammerzine: “LITTLE DEATH’ arrives with its teeth already sharpened, throwing choppy rhythms, staggered guitars and dark melodic vocals into the blender and somehow coming out sounding considerably more coherent than your average band attempting to be weird for the sake of being weird.“

Soaplife Magazine: SKIN ON SKIN” is dark, provocative and deliberately uncomfortable.

Get Some Magazine: SKIN ON SKIN” is bluesy, dirty, ridiculously catchy, and just sleazy enough to make you want to turn it up a little louder than you probably should. “SKIN ON SKIN” is masterful grunge rock.

Keep It Rock: STOOGE had a bit of everything and a lot of what we look for – grunginess, hard rock, gothic vibes and a sprinkling of punk in there.

RED LIGHT ACID TEST are:
Laurence McCron – Vocals & Guitar
Oli Suchanek – Guitar
Nick Emery – Bass
Tom Eustace – Drums & berocca shaker

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TROPE Release New Double Album “DYAD”, Out Today

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Canadian-Australian alternative progressive rock band TROPE explores progressive rock and alternative rock across an ambitious double album, out today.

Order here: https://tropeband.bandcamp.com/album/dyad-double-album

The concept is straightforward: two records, two different ways to say the same thing. Love is the foundation. And sometimes it hurts like a motherfucker.

Three years in the making, DYAD was largely written by guitarist, producer, and multi-instrumentalist Moonhead and vocalist Diana Studenberg.

Side A features seven tracks of progressive rock, taking listeners through a broad range of dynamics and moods – from lighter, melodic, and atmospheric passages to heavier, darker arrangements. Studenberg’s vocals are equally varied, shifting between delicate and expressive performances, with shades of Kate Bush and Tori Amos, alongside heavier influences drawn from Alice in Chains, Metallica, and Pantera.

Side B takes a different approach. Its alternative rock foundation gives the songs a more direct approach and features Moonhead on lead vocals across several tracks. Together, the two sides explore influences including ‘80s New Wave, Toto, QOTSA, ’90s Seattle, and more.
“Not every answer to a question has to be complex. Side B explores simplicity in delivery and basic structure. We are both huge fans of pop music and understand the challenge and talent it takes to write a really good song and deliver it with levity. Side B shows us sharing stories without complexity, sometimes a simple hug and an affirmation is all you need,” says Moonhead.

The album was largely created by the pair themselves. Moonhead produced and engineered the album, performing all guitars, bass, and piano, as well as handling mixing and mastering. Studenberg co-wrote lyrics and melodies with Moonhead and engineered her own vocals.

Drums were recorded by wunderkind Instagram find Max Botco, with Gavin Harrison (Porcupine Tree) performing on “Here’s to the Lonely” and Gunnar Olsen (Puscifer) playing on the band’s cover of the Stranglers’ “Golden Brown.”
“I’ve had a haunting obsession with Golden Brown, and this reimagining is taking back some control from a tumultuous childhood. It was the soundtrack to those times.” Says Moonhead.
“The recording process was also quite obscure, opting for small laptop setups globally instead of a traditional studio. “It was a result of need basically, we didn’t have the funds or ability to use expensive studios so we had to make do,” laments Moonhead.

Five singles have already been released. The complete album is now available worldwide, with one exception: Spotify. Rather than releasing the full record at once, Trope will make one track available each month, completing the album on the platform over the course of a year.

DYAD has already attracted international attention, earning a place on Loudwire’s 2026 list of the most anticipated progressive rock and progressive metal albums, alongside coverage from The Prog Mind (US) and Rock’n’Roll Reporter (Germany). The band’s song “Sigil” was also recently accepted for Grammy consideration, including Song of the Year.

With DYAD, Trope gives both sides of its musical identity room to breathe, delivering a double album that moves between expansive progressive rock and more direct alternative rock without asking listeners to choose between them. It’s a substantial body of work, created largely by two people over three years.

ALBUM DETAILS
Artist: Trope
Album: DYAD
Format: Double album / 17 tracks
Side A: 7 tracks – Progressive Rock
Side B: 10 tracks – Alternative Rock
Release date: November 6, 2026
Available: Worldwide digital platforms (excluding Spotify, where tracks will be released monthly over the following year)
Recording locations: London, Ontario; Montreal; Toronto; Bulgaria; Mexico.

Trope is an alternative progressive rock band. Their debut album charted at #1 on rock radio in Bulgaria where they were invited to perform live on Breakfast Television. The album was engineered by Mike Fraser, mixed by David Bottrill and mastered by Ted Jensen.

Trope have opened up for Sevendust at Summerfest, toured all across North America and Europe supporting bands including HAKEN, The Pineapple Thief feat Gavin Harrison, Soen, Kings X and Symphony X. They have headlined several festivals in Eastern Europe and have shared stages while based in LA with Mike Mangan, Nuno Bettencourt, Randy Cooke and opened up for comedians Bryan Callen, Iliza Shlesinger and Harland Williams.

Their upcoming double album DYAD was in Loudwire’s ‘Top 11 Prog Rock and Prog Metal Most Anticipated Albums of 2026’ and drops November 6, 2026. Trope have welcomed Nic Ross on drums and Andrew Taylor on bass in late 2026 with extensive touring expected in 2027 and beyond.

Buy DYAD at:
Bandcamp: https://tropeband.bandcamp.com/album/dyad-double-album
Merch Store: https://www.tropemerch.com

CONNECT WITH TROPE:
https://www.tropetheband.com
https://www.instagram.com/tropeband
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