Ant Deane – Drums | Andy Clarke – Vocals/Guitar | Adrien Crozet – Bass
Lisburn death doom trio The Crawling return with Live in Belfast MMXXIV, a stark, unfiltered document of the band at full weight. Captured at a packed hometown headline in Belfast’s Limelight 2 in November 2024, the record delivers their suffocating blend of death and doom exactly as performed, with no overdubs, no polish, and no compromise.
Formed in 2014, The Crawling have built a reputation for bleak, deliberate heaviness, appearing at Bloodstock, Inferno, Siege of Limerick, MetalDays and Incineration Festival, and sharing stages with Carcass, Winterfylleth, Gaerea, Abbath and Shores of Null. Following 2023’s All of This for Nothing, the new live album captures that same oppressive atmosphere in its rawest form.
“It suddenly hit me that The Crawling has been going ten years. Like most bands, the goal is to play live, and when you can’t reach everyone, the next best thing is to capture that energy. Live is where it all connects; the emotion, the sound, the experience. That night in Belfast brought it all together, a packed home crowd, the recording, the filming, everything. It’s our way of saying thanks to those who’ve supported us from day one, and of introducing ourselves to anyone new. To finally release a live album is a lifelong dream. And honestly, live albums are just fucking cool.” – Andy Clarke (vocals/guitar)
The eleven track set spans every era of the band’s catalogue, from “An Immaculate Deception” and “Bound to the Negative” to “Wolves and the Hideous White,” and stands as an honest reflection of their decade of work. A full concert film will follow on YouTube, with encore “Rancid Harmony” remaining exclusive to the CD and digital release.
Live in Belfast MMXXIV arrives 23 January 2026 through Grindscene Records on CD and digital, with exclusive bundles available now via Bandcamp.
On 30 November, at the beautiful Koncertsalen at DR Koncerthuset in Copenhagen, VOLA will play a special 10th-anniversary show to celebrate their debut album Inmazes. You can get tickets from HERE.
They are going back to where it all began. The band self-released the album in 2015 before being signed to Mascot Records, which later re-released it worldwide.
The album first brought the world’s attention to what the VOLA sound was —a musical journey into the mind in pursuit of happiness, set to a mix of 70’s progressive rock, modern-day electronica, industrial, and metal, topped off with clear, beautiful vocal lines. It’s a sound that the band have continued to push and experiment with, taking it to new levels of creativity and sonic heaviness.
At the time of release, Asger Mygind said, “Lyrically, Inmazes deals with entrapment. The album captures the feeling of being trapped in mental mazes, unable to fully experience happiness. How is this struggle visualised in your own mind, and how do your surroundings react to the behaviour caused by it. “The album featured the singles Gutter Moon, Stray the Skies, Starburn and Emily.
Many of the songs have remained live favourites and returning to the album, the band say, “Ten years later, we return to where it all began. On 30 November 2025, we’ll be performing Inmazes in full in the breathtaking Koncertsalen at DR Koncerthuset in København. Join us for an unforgettable evening.”
In the decade since the release of that stunning debut, they have gone on to release a further three studio albums: Applause of a Distant Crowd (2018), Witness (2021) and Friend of a Phantom (2024), along with the live record Live From The Pool (2022).
They have continued to sell out tours across Europe. They’ve wrapped up two US tours, with several venues upgraded due to overwhelming demand, and sold-out shows in New York, L.A. and Chicago. Their first tour of Canada resulted in sold-out shows in Toronto and Montreal, and they rounded out the continent with triumphant South American shows in Mexico, Brazil, and Chile. They will also be playing shows in Australia and Japan in February 2026.
VOLA are now truly global. Their strength has always been combining a multitude of ideas within a single song, packing it in with a grandiose power that can be as ferocious as it can be delicate, and witnessing this live, you live every second of it.
The Danish-Swedish quartet are Asger Mygind (vocals/guitar), Martin Werner (keys), Nicolai Mogensen (bass), and Adam Janzi (drums).
Torture Squad, one of the great Brazilian metal bands, releases this Monday, November 10th, ‘Magnum Chaos’, the eighth music video promoting their acclaimed album ‘Devilish’, released in September 2023 by the Italian label Time to Kill.
In this release, a trilogy with the last three tracks of the album, “Gaia”, “A Farewell to Mankind” and “The Last Journey”, the band expresses a plea for help from the planet to humanity.
Recorded and produced by Maycon Roberto Avelino, of Starchip Video, the video is released on the same day that Brazil hosts COP30, in Belém do Pará. COP30 is the main annual UN conference on climate change and will take place between November 10th and 21st. The combination of releasing a song that shares the same ideals as a UN conference, warning humanity about the need to care for the planet, seems obvious and perfect for Torture Squad.
The instrumental and acoustic track “Gaia” is the introduction to the trilogy, featuring AI-generated images and shocking, realistic information about the planet’s deterioration, with text by António Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations.
Regarding the production, drummer Amilcar Christófaro comments:
“The video has a counterpoint of beautiful images such as the first photo of planet Earth seen from the Moon, the so-called ‘Earthrise’, taken by astronaut William Anders, from the American Apollo 8 mission, on December 24, 1968. As well as images of the four vital elements of life, Earth, Air, Fire and Water, generated by AI and meticulously chosen by Maycon Avelino and myself. The concept is to show the beautiful side of the Earth and what we are losing if we continue without giving due attention to the planet.”
“A Farewell to Mankind” has lyrics by bassist Castor, and harmonies created by vocalist Mayara Puertas. The video features footage captured at Torture Squad’s iconic show in September, as the opening act for Sepultura’s farewell tour, ‘Celebrating Life Through Death’, at Espaço Unimed in São Paulo. The show included a performance by cosplayer Slovakia, in an iconic portrayal of Lilith.
Completing the trilogy, “The Last Journey” is the final track from the album ‘Devilish’, and the music video features vocalist and composer Mayara Puertas in a captivating piano performance in front of the band, recorded at Dissenso Studio in São Paulo.
Mayara Puertas commented:
“We wrote the album ‘Devilish’ amidst one of the most chaotic governmental periods in our country. The Latin expression ‘Magnum Chaos’ means exactly that: a great chaos. We had Bolsonaro becoming president with a campaign that promised to end environmental oversight, not demarcate any indigenous land, and arm the population. It was natural for us to protest against all of this through our music; it was urgent to bring reflections in defense of the environment and the preservation of indigenous memory and territory. Some people may think we are ‘always harping on the same issues,’ but we have something to say! Art will always be a tool of protest.”
The release of ‘A Magnum Chaos’ in parallel with COP30 reinforces the connection between art and the global debate about the future of the planet, expanding the reach of environmental discourse within Brazilian metal. While world leaders gather in Belém to discuss environmental policies and sustainability goals, Torture Squad transforms sound and image into a manifesto for ecological awareness.
Torture Squad continues to promote their recent album ‘Devilish’, available on digital platforms and in physical format.
Torture Squad is seen by extreme music fans as one of the most visceral and powerful metal bands active today. With nearly three decades of experience, including excellent live performances at the most important metal festivals in the world, the Brazilian group has gathered legions of fans playing throughout the country, Latin America, and Europe – breaking the record after performing at Wacken Open Air 2025, becoming one of the only Brazilian bands to play four times at the festival.
In their second album with the new lineup, Mayara Puertas (Vocals), Rene Simionato (Guitar), Castor (Bass), and Amilcar Christófaro (Drums) maturely transcend the sound of extreme metal, incorporating progressive metal, influences from Brazilian music, and symphonic elements.
The album also pays homage to Brazilian heroes with the participation of Andreas Kisser (Sepultura) on the track “Buried Alive,” and a tribute to Rickson Gracie, the resilient Jiu-Jitsu fighter considered one of the sport’s greatest legends, the subject of the track “Warrior,” which also became a single featuring singer Leather Leone from Chastain, as well as Alex Nasser on Arabic percussion in “Hell is Coming.”
The band also mobilized several musicians linked to indigenous causes to collaborate on the song “Uatumã” – Suzane Hecate (Miasthenia), Victor Rodrigues (Tribal Scream), and João Luiz (Golpe de Estado) – making an appeal for the preservation of the Amazon in a song that flows powerfully with the words of indigenous leader Raoni Metuktire and tribal rhythms. The band released seven high-production music videos to promote the album: “Hell is coming”, “Flukeman”, “Warrior”, “Sanctuary”, “Thoth”, “Mabus” e “Find My Way”
As a first taste, the band released the first single, titled “Mabus,” accompanied by a lyric video made by Wanderley Perna. ‘Devilish’ was recorded and mixed by Diego Rocha at Bay Area Studios, and mastered by Martin Furia, guitarist of Destruction and famous for working with the bands The Damnnation, Invisible Control, and Eskrota.
INFERNO METAL FESTIVAL 2026 is proud to announce the next round of bands to join the already stacked lineup! The festival now welcomes Tormentor, Firespawn, Mork, Carnivore A.D., Møl, Nihilvm, Abhorration, Ruun, Arachno, Gaddavír, Feversea, Homselvareg, Hermit Dreams, and Senti.
Inferno will once again take place across several venues in Oslo (NO) during Easter from April 2 – 5! Tickets and passes can be found HERE.
The current lineup is now as follows with more TBA:
Mayhem Deicide Enslaved Old Man’s Child The Kovenant Kanonenfieber Tormentor Samael Primordial Incantation Auðn Whoredom Rife Múr Funeral Mork Firespawn Darvaza Carnivore A.D. Møl Nite Perchta Morax Hierophant Myr Nihilvm Sovereign Abhorration Forsmán Automaton Ruun Arachno Cavern Deep Blodknoke Gaddavír Hevn III Feversea Homselvareg Hermit Dreams Voidspire Senti
+more TBA!
The iconic Inferno Metal Festival started in 2001 and is the longest running metal festival in Norway and one of the most important extreme metal festivals in the world. We are very proud of this position and we will continue fronting Norwegian metal and bringing bands from all over the world to Norway. Inferno Metal Festival is being held four days at Rockefeller Music Halls’ two stages Rockefeller and John Dee as well as many smaller clubs around Oslo. The festival takes place during Easter in Norway when not a lot of other stuff is happening in Oslo. The festival are usually sold out and more than fifty percent of the audience are from outside of Norway. The ticket sales are from all over the world including China, Australia, Chile, Japan, Taiwan, Canada, USA, Columbia, Argentina and many more.
Royal Hunt has released the official lyric video for their new single “Ride into the Sunset”, a cinematic and emotionally charged track taken from the band’s recently released EP “Behind the Curtain”. Originally written as the intended finale for Dystopia, Pt. 2, the song follows a disillusioned character yearning to break free and disappear beyond the horizon, echoing the dramatic closures of classic Western tales. After nearly two years on the shelf, “Ride into the Sunset” now claims its rightful spotlight through a visually striking lyric video that amplifies its themes of escape, resolve and reflection.
Founded in 1989 by keyboardist André Andersen, Royal Hunt is a powerhouse of progressive and symphonic metal, blending the timeless energy of classic rock with intricate, modern arrangements. With over 1.8 million albums sold and extensive tours across the globe, the band continues to shape the sound of European melodic metal.
Royal Hunt continues to make their mark on the global metal scene. Recent highlights include headlining Leyendas del Rock Festival (Spain), Jailbreak Festival (Denmark), Posada Rock (Romania), Epic Festival (Denmark) and their highly successful Japanese tour in 2025.
Band: André Andersen – keyboards, DC Cooper – vocals, Andreas Passmark – bass, Jonas Larsen – guitars, Andreas HABO Johansson – drums
From the ashes of Crown, rises a dark new wave of industrial rock. On Your Inland Empire, the duo of Stéphane Azam and David Husser take the heavy electronics that they first donned on Crown’s last album a step further into a dark night of the soul.
Today, Your Inland Empire are releasing “Edge of Perfection” as the third advanced single off their upcoming debut album. With cutting riffs and breakneck beats, the song blurs the thin line between total destruction and pure bliss.
Your Inland Empire’ self-titled debut album comes out this Friday, November 14, 2025 on Season of Mist.Pre-order & Pre-save: https://orcd.co/yourinlandempireyie
In 2021, Crown’s The End of All Things revealed a striking metamorphosis. The album shifted the duo of Stéphane Azam and David Husser away from their sludge-laden origins into a cinematic fusion of industrial rock, post-metal atmosphere and darkwave sensibility. Its balance of bleakness and accessibility was praised for expanding Crown’s sonic vocabulary, yet the record ultimately stood as both culmination and chrysalis: the closing of one chapter and the quiet emergence of another.
That emergence is now complete. Your Inland Empire opens a new frontier with their upcoming self-titled debut album. A descendant of the same lineage that begot Godflesh, Nine Inch Nails and Neurosis, “Edge of Perfection” walks the tight rope between pain and control. Swept up in the rush of intoxication that can be found in darkness and chaos, the band’s latest single confronts the wreckage of addiction and emotional dependency.
“This song is for the lost, the broken, the ones who became ghosts through this society”, says Azam. “A blade gleaming in the night, where darkness has become the only refuge, where destruction is no longer a threat but a way to survive”.
YOUR INLAND EMPIRE are the renegade torchbearers who forged their legacy as Crown. Ready to ink a new chapter under Season of Mist – a voyage from legacy to evolution, an eternal metamorphosis. Baptized in the crucible of raw sound and industrial angst, Your Inland Empire transmutes the heritage into a daring quest beyond sonic realms once deemed unconquerable.
‘The End of All Things’, Crown’s last album under the moniker was an unexpected twist of what the band is capable of. Dark and moody, bleak and sublime, airy and crushing, mesmerizing and engrossing, bold yet unerring, danceable and suffocating – it was all of this at the same time. Fragile hook lines dancing above the bleak abyss they so magnificently assembled.
From the mechanized heart of Crown, Stéphane Azam and David Husser incubated a revolution, their vision crystallizing amidst rippling waves of eight-string guitars and a digital pulse – the lifeblood of their emerging beast. What began as Azam’s vision, a coalition with Zatokrev’s Frederyk Rotter, evolved with Husser’s induction – a synthesis of production prowess and visionary audacity that propelled Crown’s ‘Natron’ into uncharted territories.
Stéphane recounts, the steel in his voice betraying a relentless surge of creativity and rebellion. Crown was but the cocoon, a chrysalis composed of binary beats and distorted riffs from where Your Inland Empire would emerge, unfurling wings inked with passion and driven by the relentless heartbeats of bass drums galvanizing a new dawn.
It is no surprise that David Husser, one half of Your Inland Empire has a vast selection of experience under his belt. Working as a studio engineer, producer and musician across the globe with class acts such as Alan Wilder of Depeche Mode or Genesis’ original lead singer Peter Gabriel – David brought all that experience to meticulously construct a unique sonic palette. With industrial-drone collective Y Front, who in the 90s toured with Rammstein, Husser gathered the live experience needed to hone his craft to absolute perfection.
Paul Kendall (Mute Records, Nine Inch Nails, Nick Cave), an industry-titan who closely worked with David, explained: “a distorting diamond… we have collaborated on several projects, and I have been amazed by his ability to teach an old dog new tricks. He is simply the best recording engineer I have ever met.”
Stéphane Azam, Your Inland Empire’s other half, is its founding father all the way back in its Crown days. Having worked as live sound engineer for French blackgaze pioneers Alcest and the legendary black metal artist Abbath, Azam brings to Your Inland Empire another side of the music spectrum. With a wide ability to deliver both the most soothing vocals and bottomless shrieks, Azam is the perfect complement to Husser’s dark and brooding soundscapes. The two have been working together for years, and their chemistry is palpable on Your Inland Empire’s debut album.
Creatively, Azam composes every step of the way – crafting songs with a meticulous fury. From structure to guitar licks, basslines to vocal passages – Azam has a vision, and Your Inland Empire is his outlet. Being not only the producer & engineer, Husser crafts Azam’s wildest ideas into refined sonic textures. Together, they’ve crafted the perfect recipe of pure auditory experimentation, intricate songwriting, emotive lyricism and astonishing artistry – constantly pushing boundaries in a multitude of musical styles.
With David Husser (Guitars, Programming, Production) in command of the studio’s helm, and Stéphane Azam (Vocals, Guitars, Composition) orchestrating the chaos into harmony, flanked by Nicolas Uhlen’s (Drums) rhythmic prowess and Marc Strebler’s (Bass) stringed sorcery, the empire is poised for its coronation.
The alchemy of Your Inland Empire is not unlike the world’s relentless cycle – at once introspective yet ever looking outward, “It might be a bit more introspective and then it’s more about internal conflicts…”. This duality breathes life into their music, “The tracks are quite bright, nonetheless, even though the lyrics are really very dark.” It’s introspective – the shadow of our human instincts, our constant inner struggles. An album that is equally as personal for Azam as it is relatable.
A forecast for their impending album resonates with the echoes of an empire’s intimate fears and tenebrous hopes. The intricate fabric of Your Inland Empire waivers, promising a symphony drenched in the sweat of toil and the tears of artistic triumph. The orchestra of creation bellows, addressing the collective’s core, intricately showcasing their unique craftsmanship and unyielding drive.
Line-up David Husser — Guitars, Programming, Production, Experimentation Stephane Azam — Vocals, Guitars, Songwriting, Experimentation Nicolas Uhlen — Drums Marc Strebler — Bass Guitar
Production Credits Recorded & mixed by David Husser at La Grange Studio, France. Mastered by Jaime Gomez Arellano at Orgone Studio, Porto, Portugal.
Cover Art Design & layout by Jeffrey V. Daniels.
Photography Band photos taken by Jennifer Brachet.
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