London-based alternative progressive rock band Temples on Mars return with their new full-length album — a focused and cohesive collection that expands on the sound they’ve built across their previous releases. Following their self-titled debut and the darker, electronic-driven Parallels V.1, the band’s latest effort shows them at their most refined, exploring new textures while staying true to their core identity.
Recorded between studios in London and Los Angeles, the album features 10 tracks that balance heavy riffs, atmospheric electronics, and melodic hooks. “We’re always creating, so there wasn’t a single lightbulb moment,” says frontman James Donaldson. “This album just happens to be the 10 tracks that felt the most cohesive and represented a real step up from our last record.”
Several songs feature Josh Freese (Foo Fighters, A Perfect Circle, Nine Inch Nails) on drums, adding further depth to the record’s sound. Lyrically, the album explores themes of awareness, mortality, and reflection. “Be aware of what’s going on around you — at all levels,” the band notes. “Open your eyes, ask questions, appreciate the moment, and live.”
Tracks like “Sleepwalking into Extinction” and “Daydreamer” have already found success, both breaking into the Radioscope Top 40 Rock Charts in Donaldson’s native New Zealand, while third single “Smile” brings a darker edge to the album’s introspective tone.
Temples on Mars took a deliberate approach to shaping the album’s sound, tuning lower and leaning further into their electronic influences. “Each track was individually inspired,” the band explains. “We even left a few songs off that felt more suited to the next direction we’re heading.”
Production was handled by Darren Carikas and James Donaldson, with drums recorded in both London and Los Angeles. Paul Matthews co-produced and engineered the vocals, and Ted Jensen (Sterling Sound, Nashville) mastered the album.
Having performed at Download UK, Radar Festival, Euroblast, Planet Rock Winter’s End, and completed a headline tour of South Africa, Temples on Mars continue to grow their global following. This release captures a band in motion — heavier, sharper, and more purposeful than ever.
2002 formed Finnish industrial metal band Ruoska, will release their sixth studio album next February. Now they have released a new single Ihtiriekko from the upcoming album Kade. Both the single and the album are released worldwide through Inverse Records. The band’s more than three-year hiatus ends with a bang!
Ihtiriekko is perfectly in line with the band’s intense output, and the song’s story is not exactly cheerful either.
“Taken from Finnish folk tales, Ihtiriekko is a powerful and sad story about real-life tragedies that took place in the past, but which today’s listeners can also relate to. In times past, people have sought to explain difficult things through mythology and fantasy in order to find comfort in the midst of often miserable everyday life,” the band explains.
All the way from the demo stage of this powerful song, it was clear that it had to be finished.
“The final version came together quite painlessly. Ihtiriekko combines heavy sounds, electronic music, and classical elements. This is one of the latest and most significant songs that was worked on for the upcoming album.”
The band, which hails from Juva, Eastern Finland, and has already racked up nearly 25 million plays on Spotify alone, will also be heading out on an album release tour, which will be announced later.
Ruoska is: Patrik Mennander (Vocals) Samuli Rimmi (Guitar, Backing vocals) Miika Kokkola (Bass, Backing vocals) Teemu Karppinen (Drums)
SOLENCE (@solenceofficial) is creating some of the most adventurous music in contemporary music. Based out of Los Angeles and originally hailing from Sweden, they combine electronic music with trailblazing Swedish metal, adding in pop and hip-hop flavors along the way, in uplifting songs that possess a bold outlook on life. The result? A thrilling sound that’s the aural equivalent of riding on the steepest and most winding rollercoaster ever. It’s all evident on their new album ANGELS CALLING, released today (October 31) via Better Noise Music and featuring its latest single/video “Monsters In My Head.” The album is available HERE, listen to it HERE, and watch the video HERE.
“It’s the story of battling with your own thoughts and demons,” says singer Markus Videsäter of the album’s fifth single, “Monsters In My Head.” “The feeling of lying in bed at night and yet again the thoughts are spinning, your old mistakes getting played over and over again. This song also includes a new sound for us—country-inspired acoustic guitar, different tempo, and a chorus that’s impossible to get out of your head. It was super fun writing and working on!”
“So I cross my heart and I hope to die I have never given up and I won’t start now Taste so sweet but I won’t back down Show you all who’s the monster now” –“Monsters In My Head”
SOLENCE—frontman Markus Videsäter alongside guitarist David Strääf, keyboardist Johan Swärd, and drummer David “Viking” Vikingsson—return on ANGELS CALLING with fresh visuals, a new look, and a retrofitted sound that combines the best of their past with a look into the future for both the group and the genre. “Our music is all about living in the moment and not taking anything for granted, and listening to angels that follow their every move,” Markus points out. “Our music is about making the most of life, relationships, and passion before heaven calls us home.”
Four singles have previously been released to get fans warmed up for today’s release of ANGELS CALLING:
· “Angels Calling” (September 8): Listen HERE and watch the video HERE. · “Wish You The Worst” (August 15): Listen HERE and watch the video HERE. · “Dead_Alive” (June 27): Listen HERE and the watch the lyric video HERE. · “Where Were You..?” (May 13): Listen HERE and watch the lyric video HERE.
All the songs and videos released so far have amassed over 280k views and over 3.5 million streams.
In an early album review, Moshly.com called ANGELS CALLING “…easily Solence’s best work yet.” And about “Dead_Alive,” Glassefactory.com praised, “Using a plethora of sonic elements such as heavy drums, powerful guitar solos and a subtle, yet highly effective bassline to accompany the highly thoughtful lyrics, SOLENCE takes us on a one of a kind journey through their soundscapes.”
Lauded as one of Pandora’s “Rising Rock Artists To Watch In 2023,” SOLENCE have, to date, garnered over 378 million cumulative streams with as many as 862k monthly Spotify listeners and over 100 million video views since their formation in 2012. The band started by releasing heavy renditions of well-known pop hits from the likes of Imagine Dragons, Fall Out Boy, Ed Sheeran, Britney Spears, and Queen before breaking out with their 2019 debut album BROTHERS. It was quickly followed by their sophomore album, DIRECTION, which saw them achieve their first Active Rock radio charting with “Animal In Me” which became SiriusXM Octane’s most-played track in 2020. Octane’s Sr. Director, Music Programming Vincent Usuriello described SOLENCE’s sound as “a dynamic fusion of rock, metal, and pop elements, with powerful vocals, electrifying guitar riffs, and infectious melodies, creating an immersive sonic experience.” In 2021, SOLENCE released their third album, DEAFENING, which showed their range of inspirations from music to anime, gaming, sci-fi, and even philosophy and soon followed with their fourth album HOPE IS A CULT in 2023. Amidst writing new material for SOLENCE, Videsäter and Strääf have lent their songwriting skills to pop acts including Jason Derulo and Bebe Rexha.
SOLENCE will hit the road later this year for a European tour opening for NOTHING MORE, which launches November 7 in Finland, along with Catch Your Breath and Ankor. General tickets are available now on their official website.
Check out SOLENCE’s tour with Nothing More at any of the following stops:
Fri 11/7 Tampere, Finland Tavara-Asema Sat 11/8 Lahti, Finland XXL Mössö 2025 Mon 11/10 Stockholm, Sweden Fryshuset Arenan Tue 11/11 Oslo, Norway Vulkan Arena Wed 11/12 Copenhagen, Denmark Amager Bio Fri 11/14 Hamburg, Germany Große Freiheit 36 Sat 11/15 Berlin, Germany Astra Kulturhaus Sun 11/16 Warsaw, Poland Progresja Tue 11/18 Prague, Czeck Republic Archa+ Wed 11/19 Vienna, Austria Arena Fri 11/21 Munich, Germany Backstage Sat 11/22 Stuttgart, Germany LKA Longhorn Sun 11/23 Zurich, Switzerland Komplex 457 Tue 11/25 Tilburg, Netherlands O13 Wed 11/26 Paris, France Elysee Montmarte Fri 11/28 Frankfurt, Germany Batschkapp Sat 11/29 Cologne, Germany Essigfabrik Sun 11/30 Antwerp, Belgium Trix Tue 12/2 Glasgow, Scotland SWG3 Thu 12/4 Manchester, U.K. O2 Ritz Fri 12/5 London, U.K. O2 Forum Kentish Town Sat 12/6 Bristol, U.K. O2 Academy
THE FUNERAL PORTRAIT (@tfp_devotion) keep excitingly building on their success as their “Dark Thoughts” single is now in the top 10 (#8) of the Mediabase’s Active Rock radio chart. Now comes the news that THE FUNERAL PORTRAIT will release their first-ever live album, LIVE FROM SUFFOCATE CITY via Better Noise Music on January 16, 2026. It will be available as a CD/Blu-ray combo and on vinyl in their signature green and purple. Pre-orders are available now HERE. Today (October 31), the emo-rooted Atlanta-based band have rolled out a live version and live video of their breakout single “Voodoo Doll.” Listen to it HERE and view the video HERE.
“‘Voodoo Doll’ is about the pain of watching someone you love disappear into addiction, that helplessness of trying to save them when they don’t want to be saved,” says frontman Lee Jennings. “Performing it live at the first Suffocate City Town Hall hit differently; you could feel every word echo back from the crowd. This live video that’s taken from our Blu-ray captures that raw emotion exactly how it felt that night.”
On LIVE FROM SUFFOCATE CITY, fans are invited to step inside the chaos and catharsis of THE FUNERAL PORTRAIT’s first-ever Suffocate City Town Hall Meeting, captured live from their sold-out hometown show at The Masquerade in Atlanta, GA earlier this year. The exclusive Blu-ray documents the band’s legendary performance in front of a packed house of diehard fans. It’s a thrilling night of raw emotion, high-energy theatrics, and fan-favorite anthems including their two #1 singles on Billboard’s Mainstream Rock Airplay and Mediabase’s Active Rock radio charts: “Holy Water” (featuring Ivan Moody of Five Finger Death Punch) and “Suffocate City” (featuring Spencer Charnas of Ice Nine Kills).
“November 17th at The Masquerade was more than just a show–it was a celebration of everything we’ve built with our Coffin Crew,” proclaims Jennings. “To have it captured in full for the Blu-ray, CD, and vinyl means fans everywhere can step inside that moment. We can’t wait for the world to feel what we felt that night.”
Fans were already treated to an early glimpse of the live album with the August 22 release of the four-track DARK THOUGHTS EP. In addition to the live track, three other versions of “Dark Thoughts” are featured: the original version, a version featuring vocals by Danny Worsnop of Asking Alexandria, and a new remix of the song. The EP can be streamed and downloaded HERE, along with two videos: “Dark Thoughts (Beyond The Abyss Remix)” HERE and “Dark Thoughts (Live From Suffocate City)” HERE (which has over 34k views).
The GREETINGS FROM SUFFOCATE CITY album was originally released September 13, 2024. It consists of 14 tracks of theatrical, dramatic, unapologetic, full-throated flair with guest appearances from Bert McCracken of The Used, Spencer Charnas of Ice Nine Kills, Danny Worsnop of Asking Alexandria, and Amanda Lyberg of Eva Under Fire.
The deluxe edition, GREETINGS FROM SUFFOCATE CITY – FROM BEYOND THE ABYSS: DELUXE EDITION, was released June 13 via Better Noise Music, with digital, CD, and vinyl copies available HERE. It contains 24 songs including tracks from the CASSANOVA EP and the FROM BEYOND THE ABYSS EP, as well as “Holy Water” feat. Ivan Moody of Five Finger Death Punch, “Hearse for Two” feat. Lilith Czar and three brand new songs: “Skinny Lies,” “Evergreen,” and “Lost Boy.” The vinyl and CD two-disc deluxe packages feature 21 tracks, one of which is exclusive to the physical formats (“Friends Like These”).
The album campaign for GREETINGS FROM SUFFOCATE CITY began in August 2022 with the release of “Voodoo Doll” when they were an opening band in 300-400 person venues (or smaller). Now they’re drawing the biggest crowds at major festivals including Warped Tour and Louder Than Life, touring all year with bands like Ice Nine Kills, The Used, Underoath, In This Moment, and now they’ll head overseas for their first-ever European tour this fall with The Rasmus, launching November 11.Tickets for their upcoming shows—including two hometown shows in Atlanta, GA to kick off the new year—are available on the band’s official website.
Here’s the track listing for the LIVE FROM SUFFOCATE CITY in all formats:
Tour dates for THE FUNERAL PORTRAIT—Lee Jennings (Vocals), Cody Weissinger (Guitar), Caleb Freihaut (Guitar/Auxiliary), Robert Weston (Bass), and Homer Umbanhowar— (Drums)—can be found HERE.
With The Rasmus: 11/11 Hamburg, DE – Markthalle 11/12 Berlin, DE – Metropol 11/13 Warsaw, PL – Stodola 11/14 Brno, CZ – Sono Centrum 11/15 Budapest, HU – Barba Negra 11/16 Vienna, AT – Simm City 11/17 Munich, DE – Technikum 11/18 Milan, IT – Alcatraz 11/20 Zurich, CH – Komplex 457 11/21 Karlsruhe, DE – Substage 11/22 Saarbrucken, DE – Garage 11/23 Frankfurt, DE – Batschkapp 11/25 Cologne, DE – Live Music Hall 11/26 Utrecht, NL – Tivoli 11/27 Antwerp, BE – Trix 11/28 Paris, FR – La Cigale 11/30 Glasgow, GB – SWG3 Galvanizers 12/1 Manchester, GB – O2 Ritz 12/2 Cardiff, GB – Great Hall 12/4 London, GB – O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire 12/5 Southampton, GB – 1865 12/6 Nottingham, GB – Rock City 2026: Fri 1/16 Atlanta, GA The Masquerade Sat 1/17 Atlanta, GA The Masquerade
The second studio album by the Finnish melodic death metal band Bloody Moon, entitled Lost & Damned, was released on 31 October 2025 via Inverse Records. The band also released their fourth music video. This time, it’s for the track ‘Rage Metal’, and it’s available below.
The band comments: ” “Lost & Damned” is the result of long and determined work, and musically the most ambitious body of work we’ve created so far. We wanted to build an album that would be more than just the sum of its parts—not merely a collection of songs, but something greater and more meaningful.
The themes of the songs were inspired by real life, human relationships, and personal experiences. We aimed to channel all the emotions we dealt with directly into the songs—raw and unfiltered. Both heavy and beautiful topics walk hand in hand on the album, painting a picture of an individual’s experience of the world.
Recording took about a month in total, though it was done in several separate sessions. We started with the drums and wrapped things up with background choirs and shouts. The songs are guitar-driven, but we gave the catchy choruses more room to shine than ever before.”
German metal outfit Unprocessed have unveiled ‘Head in the Clouds’ featuring guest vocals from Jason Butler of Fever333. The single is released ahead of their new album Angel, released on Halloween 2025 (31st October).
Unprocessed comment on the single “Jason from Fever333 absolutely astonished us with his input on ‘Head in the Clouds’ and what he did is open a whole new universe for Unprocessed. With his rap-like flows and one of the strongest choruses we’ve ever worked with, the song takes an almost nu-metal direction. Combined with one of Manu‘s iconic main riffs, this track one of our favourites on the album. Lyrically, this song follows the idea of being overwhelmed with today’s world, forced to shine and to keep the show going, no matter how you feel. We’re proud of this collaboration and are honoured to be able to work with one of the best frontmen in the scene.”
Jason adds: “Simply put. There are plenty of folks making music out there. Plenty of folks with obvious talent in the guitar oriented spaces. But this track made me feel something the moment I heard a mere clip of it which is why I told Manuel even if they don’t use it, I needed to contribute to it somehow.”
In Germany, the band will embark on an album release week tour of key record stores to celebrate Angel, culminating in a hometown release party in Wiesbaden, at the venue where it all began for the band. All events and details can be found below.
The signing event at Rough Trade Berlin will also see the presentation of the wine collaboration with Schottwein, a local winery close to where Unprocessed are from. There will be a wine tasting of two new wines – an Unprocessed Angel Riesling, and an Unprocessed ‘Deadrosé’ Spatburgunder Rosé wine.
Event details:
EMP Store – Leipzig, Germany Monday 3rd November 5pm-6pm Meet and greet and signing Brühl 10, 04109 Leipzig
Rough Trade – Berlin, Germany Tuesday 4th November 5-7pm Meet and greet, album signing, wine tasting Karl-Marx-Straße 101, 12043 Berlin No ticket required but you must RSVP: https://ffm.live/unprocessed-angel-events
Album Release Party (Hometown, DE) Kreativfabrik – Wiesbaden, Germany Thursday 6th November – 7pm – Close Murnaustraße 2, 65189 Wiesbaden Tickets limited to 100: https://ffm.live/unprocessed-angel-events
Track-list: 1. 111 2. Sleeping with Ghosts 3. Beyond Heaven’s Gate 4. Sacrifice Me 5. Snowlover 6. Terrestrial 7. Your Dress 8. Where I Left My Soul 9. Solara feat. Zelli from Paleface Swiss 10. First Tongue 11. Perfume 12. Head in the Clouds feat. Jason AalonButler from Fever 333 13. Dark, Silent and Complete
Unprocessed have also been announced as main support to Jinjer on their 2026 EU/UK headline tour, with Textures opening. Catch them on the following dates:
23.01.26 DE – Cologne / Palladium 24.01.26 NL – Tilburg / O13 25.01.26 BE – Brussels / AB Brussels 27.01.26 UK – Glasgow / SWG3 28.01.26 IE – Dublin / Olympia 29.01.26 UK – Manchester / O2 Ritz 30.01.26 UK – Birmingham / O2 Birmingham Institute 31.01.26 UK – London / O2 Kentish Town Forum 02.02.26 FR – Paris / Olympia 03.02.26 FR – Lyon / Transbordeur 04.02.26 FR – Toulouse / Bikini 07.02.26 ES – Madrid / Wagon 08.02.26 ES – Bilbao / Santana 27 11.02.26 CH – Zurich / X-tra 12.02.26 DE – Stuttgart / LKA 13.02.26 DE – Wiesbaden / Schlachthof 14.02.26 DE – Munich / Tonhalle 16.02.26 HU – Budapest / Barba Negra 17.02.26 AT – Vienna / Gasometer 19.02.26 CZ – Prague / Sasazu 20.02.26 DE – Leipzig / Felsenkeller 21.02.26 DE – Berlin / Astra 22.02.26 PL – Warsaw / Progresja 24.02.26 FI – Helsinki / Kulttuuritalo 25.02.26 FI – Tampere / Tavara Asema 27.02.26 SE – Stockholm / Fållan 28.02.26 NO – Oslo / Sentrum Scene 01.03.26 DK – Copenhagen / Amager Bio 02.03.26 DE – Hamburg / Grosse Freiheit 36
Unprocessed is composed of Manuel Gardner Fernandes (vocals, guitar), David Levy (bass, synths), Christoph Schultz (guitar), and Leon Pfeifer (drums). Their upcoming album Angel marks another bold step in the band’s creative evolution. Expanding their sonic palette with heavier textures and emotive and intimate lyricism that highlights their poppier side. Angel features high-profile guest appearances from Zelli of Paleface Swiss and Jason Aalon Butler of Letlive and Fever 333. These collaborations add new layers of urgency and intensity to a record that explores themes of conflict, duality, and inner transformation.
The band speaks more about the themes of Angel: “This album is more than just a record by four boys from Germany – it’s a light shone upon the unknown, like memories from the afterlife. We explored the concept of “Angel” in various ways: becoming an angel through real-life actions, hearing angels serenade, a fallen angel telling his story and becoming the Antichrist, or seeing someone as an angel through glorification. This concept inspired both the music and the lyrics. While we’re leaning more into a polished metalcore sound, the record still maintains the essence of what makes Unprocessed unique. It features some of the craziest guitar, bass, and drum work we’ve ever showcased as a band. At the same time, we believe it’s more accessible to the broader metal and metalcore audience, with our strongest and catchiest hooks and melodies to date.”
The band’s previous album, …and everything in between (2023), received widespread acclaim for its complex arrangements and specifically heavy compositions. The record launched a major touring cycle which saw the band complete headline shows with many sold out across North America, and Europe, as well as performing their largest shows in China, and venturing into Japan, Thailand, Singapore and Australia for the first time. They also appeared at prominent festivals such as Download (UK), Graspop Metal Meeting (Belgium), Mystic Festival (Poland) and Resurrection Festival (Spain).
In the past two years, Unprocessed have supported major heavy acts including In Flames, TesseracT, August Burns Red, Spiritbox, and Polyphia. Their collaborative work with Polyphia guitarists Tim Henson and Scott LePage on …and everything in between highlighted the potential Unprocessed continues to exhibit amongst the scene’s most exciting guitar focused acts.
Central to Unprocessed’s identity is guitarist and vocalist Manuel Gardner Fernandes, whose playing has garnered international attention across online platforms and beyond. His partnership with Ibanez, including a signature model, and his ongoing guitar clinics around the world, reflect his growing status as one of the leading voices in modern metal guitar.
Unprocessed continue to push their sound forward with each release. Angel presents their most focused and dynamic material to date, offering a deeper look into the extremes of human experience without losing the technical foundations that first set them apart.
Unprocessed are: Manuel Gardner Fernandes – Vocals, Guitars Christoph Schultz – Guitars David John Levy – Bass & Keys Leon Pfeifer – Drums
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