The circle is closing. Today, THE HALO EFFECT unveils the fifth and final song from their highly anticipated cover EP We Are Shadows, released today. Each member of the band selected a personal favorite and classic track to reinterpret, and this last choice comes from drummer Daniel Svensson.
Svensson’s pick is a heartfelt tribute to Gothenburg legends Broder Daniel – their 2003 alternative pop anthem ‘Shoreline’.
Needless to say, THE HALO EFFECT have made the song entirely their own, delivering a powerful and emotional rendition where frontman Mikael Stanne once again shines, seamlessly blending clean vocals with his unmistakable growls.
Reflecting on his choice, Daniel Svensson comments: “Broder Daniel were one of the bands that created the Gothenburg indie-pop scene in the late ’90s. There are several parallels to the ‘Gothenburg Sound’ — both scenes were driven by a strong DIY ethos and comradeship while gathering international attention.”
Swedish metal innovators IN FLAMES are returning to Europe in the summer of 2026 with one of their most extensive and diverse live runs to date. Stretching from mid-July to late August, the tour brings the band to more than twenty cities and many of the continent’s most iconic festivals. Scroll down for all confirmed dates.
Armed with their unmistakable blend of melody, aggression and atmosphere, IN FLAMES will headline a powerful mix of club shows, outdoor events and top-tier festivals — delivering a setlist celebrating their legacy while also pushing forward into new creative territory.
The tour will culminate in IN FLAMES‘ own hometown festival, GÖTEBORG BRINNER, which they will headline on top of a colorful, beautifully curated line-up consisting of AVATAR, DARK TRANQUILLITY, RAISED FIST, THROWN, NAPALM DEATH, GAEREA & MÚR.
Anders Fridén commented: “There’s nothing like festival season in Europe — the energy, the crowds, the atmosphere. We’ve been working hard behind the scenes and can’t wait to bring you something epic this summer. In addition to our festival appearances we have some intimate and special shows with some amazing support. Maybe there might even be new music then? You never know… See you soon!!”
IN FLAMES – EUROPEAN SUMMER TOUR 2026
15-Jul-26 – Poland – Gdansk, B90 /w Bleed From Within 16-Jul-26 – Poland – Wroclaw, A2 /w Bleed From Within 17-Jul-26 – Czech Republic – Vizovice, Masters of Rock 18-Jul-26 – Austria – Leoben, Area 53 Festival 19-Jul-26 – Slovakia – Bratislava, Majestic Music Club /w Bleed From Within 21-Jul-26 – Austria – Dornbirn, Conrad Sohm Outdoor /w Bleed From Within 23-Jul-26 – Italy – Bologna, Bonsai Garden /w Bleed From Within & Employed To Serve 24-Jul-26 – Slovenia – Tolmin, Tolminator 25-Jul-26 – Hungary – Budapest, Barba Negra /w Napalm Death, Bleed From Within, Unearth & Employed To Serve 26-Jul-26 – Turkey – Istanbul, Uniq Open Air /w Napalm Death & Employed To Serve 28-Jul-26 – Romania – Brasov, Rockstadt Extreme Fest 31-Jul-26 – Germany – Wacken, Wacken Open Air 01-Aug-26 – Germany – Loebnitz, Full Rewind Festival 02-Aug-26 – Germany – Saarbruecken, Garage /w Bleed From Within & Kittie 04-Aug-26 – France – Seignosse, Tube /w Gaerea & Employed To Serve 05-Aug-26 – Spain – Pamplona, Totem /w Gaerea & Employed To Serve 07-Aug-26 – Spain – Villena, Leyendas del Rock 08-Aug-26 – Spain – Sevilla, Custom /w Gaerea & Employed To Serve 09-Aug-26 – Portugal – Vagos, Vagos Metalfest 12-Aug-26 – Germany – Dinkelsbuehl, Summer Breeze 13-Aug-26 – Belgium – Seraing/Liege, OM /w Employed To Serve 14-Aug-26 – Switzerland – Cudrefin, Rock The Lakes 15-Aug-26 – Germany – Sulingen, Reload Festival 16-Aug-26 – Netherlands – Eindhoven, Dynamo Metalfest 17-Aug-26 – Denmark – Aarhus, Voxhall /w support TBC 19-Aug-26 – Norway – Bergen, USF Verftet – Hallen /w Gaerea 20-Aug-26 – Norway – Tønsberg, Foynhagen /w Gaerea 22-Aug-26 – Sweden – Gothenburg, Göteborg Brinner
Celldweller reimagines the timeless Christmas classic through the lens of Offworld, combining influences of alternative rock and shoegaze with orchestral strings and beautiful synths in new, bold, modern arrangements of these holiday classics. The result is a rendition that captures both the wonder and spirit of the season.
Forging the sound of electronic-rock for over 20 years, Celldweller has inspired tens of millions of listeners across a global community of fans, content creators, and brands with 750,000,000+ streams and hundreds of placements in major Films, TV shows, and Video Games. Celldweller’s discography includes the self-titled Celldweller album in 2003, Wish Upon A Blackstar in 2012, End of an Empire in 2015, and Offworld in 2017, with his 5th studio album Satellites released in 2022.Klayton, the multifaceted producer behind Celldweller and owner/founder of the independent record label FiXT, has garnered an intense cult following across his projects Celldweller, Scandroid, Circle of Dust, and FreqGen.
Klayton is also respected and sought after in the media industry with his music appearing in hundreds of major Film / TV & Video Games, such as Westworld, Suicide Squad, Jack Reacher, Deadpool, Lucy, John Wick, Robocop, Pacific Rim, Killer Instinct Season 3, Now You See Me, Dead Rising 3, Call of Duty: Elite, Assassin’s Creed, UFC, and more.
Danish alt-metal visionaries MØL return with ‘Young’, the second single from their eagerly awaited new albumDreamcrush, due on 30th January 2026 via Nuclear Blast Records. Now available on all streaming platforms, ‘Young’ follows lead single ‘Garland‘.
Where ‘Garland’ ascended into majestic shoegaze territory, its shimmering guitars and brooding baritone vocals hinting at an impending rupture of blackened force, ‘Young’ wastes no time. It erupts in classic MØL fashion with searing fury from its very first moments, before plunging listeners into the band’s signature haze of glittering guitar lines, towering crescendos and cathartic melodicism that blurs the line between beauty and brutality
Guitarist Nicolai Busse comments on the new single: “’Young’ is a song that has travelled through time. The chorus is one of the first pieces of music that I wrote for MØL back in 2012 at a time when I was living outside Denmark. I have returned to it a number of times throughout the years, but I was never able to make it right. So it was only when revisiting it for this record that it finally clicked in my head and I was able to write the rest of the music. The song for me represents a time in my life second guessing myself, trying to stand on my own.”
A wholenew world of inventive, insidious and infectious metalcore awaits in 2026, with Melbourne’s The Gloom In The Corner — Mikey Arthur (vocals), Jesse Abdurazak (guitar), Paul Musolino (bass) and Joshua Clinch (drums) — today announcing their third full-length album Royal Discordance, due out on Friday 27 February via SharpTone Records.
Wielding 12 songs set to scintillate the senses and lure you deeper than ever into The Gloom In The Corner‘s universe of cinema-core, today’s announcement of Royal Discordance is also heralded by a new single Angel’s Wrath Whiskey; a theatrical barn-burner that opens with breakneck beats, swirling synths and a flurry of guitars, ultimately building into an anthemic chorus while also advancing the band’s ever-expanding conceptual universe.
“Angel’s Wrath Whiskey lives up to its namesake,” the band shares of their new single. “The first four shots are great, but too much of it will have you breaking down as hard as the end of the song.”
A record that could readily soundtrack an Anime epic, a Netflix smash series, or a sprawling open-world game, Royal Discordance is certainly not your average metalcore album. An action-packed opus hell-bent on sharp narratives and astonishing sonic dexterity, Royal Discordance journeys between an all-out onslaught (previous single Assassination Run) through to cinematic-yet-sinister brutality on Nope (Hollow Point Elysium), grinning chaotic frenzy on You Didn’t Like Me Then (You Won’t Like Me Now), and a double closing sucker punch via the two-track suite Love 1: A Quaver Through the Pale and Love 2: A Walk Amongst The Poppy Fields.
Insatiably showcasing their relentless pursuit for sonic evolution, and recorded in 2024 with producer Jonathan Delese in Nashville, Tennessee, Royal Discordance also ushers in some of Gloom‘s most universal songs to date, all while remaining true to their chaotic core in the process. Whether channeling My Chemical Romance and positivity or penning pit-splitting breakdowns, The Gloom In The Corner balance their tumultuous creative DNA with an album primed for multiple revisits; and one that devoutly treads new ground.
“This album is a concoction of chaos and revelry,” the band shares of Royal Discordance, “a battle of light versus darkness, much like the story and themes covered in the record. If you really thought we were going to do Trinity for a second time, guess again.”
Over the years, The Gloom In The Corner have engineered a space for total sensory immersion via a series of releases, spanning their 2016 debut album Fear Me, through to their Homecoming EP (2017), Flesh & Bones (2019), Ultima Pluvia EP (2020) and their 2022 album Trinity, with the latter commanding a 5/5 star album review from New Noise Magazine, praising it as “a real stunner and a benchmark for metalcore going forward”. Translating their rich sonic universe into a live setting, The Gloom In The Corner have dazzled stages around the globe, spanning Australia, Europe and North America, along with aligning a horde of elite collaborators including Fit For A King‘s Ryan Kirby, Fit For An Autopsy‘s Joe Badolato, Cane Hill‘s Elijah Witt and many more.
The Gloom In The Corner are currently on the road in Europe supporting Swedish metalcore greats Aviana, and will also perform in 2026 as part of the entirely sold out inagural Hellbound Cruise along with Parkway Drive, Polaris, Northlane and more.
Scottish metal titans Bleed From Within are thrilled to announce their very first North American headline run:‘The Zenith Tour’.The 27-date trek will kick off on April 2nd (Worcester, MA) and run all the way through to May 7th (New York, NY), with stops in Montreal, Chicago, LA, and Dallas. Joining the band as special guests are UK metal powerhouse SYLOSIS, along with GREAT AMERICAN GHOST and LIFE CYCLES.
Bleed From Within stated: “The time has finally come! Ever since our first show in the US back in 2023, we knew we had to get over there and headline; the atmosphere was electric. Now, Zenith has given us the perfect platform and we are very proud to announce our very first North American headline tour! The tour lasts for 5 weeks and covers a lot of ground. We cannot wait to bring this show to you all.
Support comes from our very close friends in Sylosis, one of the finest UK metal bands to ever do it. We are also bringing our brothers in Great American Ghost with us once more (they opened the European leg of this tour) and Life Cycles, one of our favourite up & coming bands in the US.
Being from a small town in Scotland, this kind of tour is a dream come true. Made even more special by the incredible package that we’ve been able to put together here. Do not miss these shows!
See you in 2026 – Ali, Davie, Goonzi, Kennedy, Steven”
Confirmed dates for BLEED FROM WITHIN‘s ‘The Zenith Tour‘ are with SYLOSIS, GREAT AMERICAN GHOSTS, and LIFE CYCLES are: 04.02.2026 U.S. Worcester, MA @ The Palladium (upstairs) 04.03.2026 CAN Montreal, QC @ Theatre Beanfield 04.04.2026 CAN Toronto, ON @ Opera House 04.06.2026 U.S. Philadelphia, PA @ Theatre Of The Living 04.07.2026 U.S. Lakewood, OH @ The Roxy 04.08.2026 U.S. Millvale, PA @ Mr. Small’s 04.10.2026 U.S. Detroit, MI @ St. Andrew’s Hall 04.11.2026 U.S. Grand Rapids, MI @ Elevation 04.12.2026 U.S. Chicago, IL @ House Of Blues 04.14.2026 U.S. Minneapolis, MN @ Varsity Theater 04.15.2026 U.S. Lincoln, NE @ Bourbon Theatre 04.17.2026 U.S. Englewood, CO @ Gothic Theatre 04.19.2026 U.S. Boise, ID @ Shrine Social Club 04.20.2026 U.S. Seattle, WA @ The Crocodile 04.21.2026 U.S. Portland, OR @ Hawthorne Theatre 04.22.2026 U.S. Roseville, CA @ Goldfield Trading Post 04.24.2026 U.S. Los Angeles, CA @ The Regent Theatre 04.25.2026 U.S. Pomona, CA @ The Glass House 04.26.2026 U.S. Phoenix, AZ @ Crescent Ballroom 04.28.2026 U.S. Austin, TX @ Come And Take It Live 04.29.2026 U.S. Dallas, TX @ Granada Theater 05.01.2026 U.S. Tampa, FL @ The Orpheum 05.02.2026 U.S. Atlanta, GA @ The Masquerade (Hell) 05.03.2026 U.S. Greensboro, NC @ Hangar 1819 05.05.2026 U.S. Richmond, VA @ Canal Club 05.06.2026 U.S. Baltimore, MD @ Nevermore Hall 05.07.2026 U.S. New York, NY @ Gramercy Theatre
WORLDWIDE DATES ‘THE DYING SUN TOUR’ 2026 03.01.2026 UK Edinburgh @ The Liquid Room* 03.05.2026 IE Dublin @ The Academy 03.06.2026 UK Liverpool @ o2 Academy 03.07.2026 UK Leeds @ Stylus 03.08.2026 UK Nottingham @ Rescue Rooms 03.10.2026 UK. Norwich @ Epic Studios 03.12.2026 UK Bristol @ Electric Bristol 03.13.2026 UK Southampton @ The 1865 03.14.2026 UK Birmingham @ o2 Institute *no DISEMBODIED TYRANT or BAES
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