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THE DAMN TRUTH Release ‘Be Somebody’ Single And Music Video

Posted by tarjavirmakari on October 31, 2025

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Celebrated Montreal four-piece rock band the Damn Truth are pleased to announce their new single “Be Somebody” released by Spectra Musique on Thursday October 30th.The single is accompanied with an official music video that can be viewed on YouTube HERE. The song is also available to stream on Spotify.

The new single dovetails The Damn Truth’s November UK tour with special guests Nashville-based Southern blues rockers Parker Barrow. The tour kicks off on Wednesday November12th at Norwich Waterfront Studio. Tickets for all shows are available from The Gig Cartel.

“Be Somebody” was the first song we wrote for our current album ‘The Damn Truth,’ and the last one we recorded,” says the Damn Truth’s guitarist Tom Shemer. “When the final mix came through the speakers, our producer, Bob Rock, leaned back and said, ‘F***, this is good!’ We all felt it. There was this electric moment in the studio. Pure euphoria!”

Continues Shemer, “Listening to that mix, knowing the record was done, I felt this wave of pride and nostalgia hit me. It took me back to those late nights writing, digging into parts of myself I hadn’t touched before. Be Somebody is the first track on our album, but it’s really a reflection of who we are, and what we became when we made this record.”

The Damn Truth released their critically acclaimed breakout album Now or Nowhere in 2021. Produced by the legendary Grammy Award winning Bob Rock (Motley Crue, Metallica, Bon Jovi). The band continued their relationship with Bob Rock on their self-titled 2025 self-titled album The Damn Truth which features the new single, “Be Somebody.”

Order the 2025 album on vinyl and CD HERE and on digital HERE.

The Damn Truth are Lee-la Baum (vocals, guitar), Tom Shemer (lead guitar), PY Letellier (bass) and Dave Traina (drums). They have toured the UK multiple times and performed at summer festivals including Steelhouse, Winterstorm and Planet Rockstock.

Their current album is the culmination of 12 years of hard work and constant touring. The Damn Truth are a perpetual and unstoppable rock and roll machine.

Fuelled by two Top 40 singles on the Canadian Active Rock Charts (“Love Outta Luck,” and “I Just Gotta Let You Know”), the album marks a new chapter in their trajectory with Bob Rock.

Bob has pushed the band in all areas of playing, writing, and refining The Damn Truth signature sound, most evident in the revelatory power of Lee-la Baum’s vocals on the mystic, almost Zeppelin-vibed “The Willow;” the full on bittersweet romance of “Better This Way;” the social conscience of “The Dying Dove;” the cautionary “If Don’t Make It Home;” and the hell yeah rabble rousing “All Night Long.”

The Damn Truth have added some extra lanes on their rock and roll highway as they explore new musical territory, however, the destination remains the same; organic loud rock experienced best in a crowded concert hall dripping in sweat.

The Damn Truth are regular staples on the UK’s biggest classic rock radio station Planet Rock. They first came to prominence on Planet Rock with the title track single from their 2021 album This Is Who We Are Now which was also played on BBC Radio 2’s Rock Show.

The band also received airplay on Planet Rock with tracks from their latest album with the standout singles “I Just Gotta Let You Know,” “Love Outta Luck,” “Better This Way,” “All Night Long,” and, most recently, “Addicted.”

The Damn Truth have toured extensively throughout Europe and North America. They have opened tours for Z.Z. Top, The Sheepdogs, Glenn Hughes, Styx, and Rival Sons. In 2025, they performed on the Legends of Rock Cruise alongside Alice Cooper, Styx, and others; and were the band who participated in the jam finale at the end of the cruise with the members of Blackberry Smoke, Jason Bonham’s band, and other rock royalty.

THE DAMN TRUTH NOVEMBER UK TOUR 2025

WITH SPECIAL GUESTS PARKER BARROW

TICKETS AVAILABLE FROM THEGIGCARTEL.COM

NORWICH WATERFRONT STUDIO
WEDNESDAY 12 NOVEMBER 2025
Tickets: thegigcartel.com
https://waterfrontnorwich.webflow.io

LEEK FOXLOWE ARTS
THURSDAY 13 NOVEMBER 2025
Tickets: thegigcartel.com
https://foxloweartscentre.org.uk

MANCHESTER ACADEMY
FRIDAY 14 NOVEMBER 2025
Tickets: thegigcartel.com
http://www.manchesteracademy.net

SHEFFIELD CORPORATION
SATURDAY 15 NOVEMBER 2025
Tickets: thegigcartel.com
https://corporation.org.uk

GALASHIELS, MAC ARTS
SUNDAY 16 NOVEMBER 2025
Tickets: thegigcartel.com
http://www.macarts.scot

GLASGOW, ORAN MOR
MONDAY 17 NOVEMBER 2025
Tickets: thegigcartel.com
https://oran-mor.co.uk

NEWCASTLE CLUNY
TUESDAY 18 NOVEMBER 2025
Tickets: thegigcartel.com
https://thecluny.com

LEEDS BRUDENELL
WEDNESDAY 19 NOVEMBER 2025
Tickets: thegigcartel.com
http://www.brudenellsocialclub.co.uk

BEDFORD ESQUIRES
THURSDAY 20 NOVEMBER 2025
Tickets: thegigcartel.com
http://www.bedfordesquires.co.uk

LONDON UNDERWORLD
FRIDAY 21 NOVEMBER 2025
Tickets: thegigcartel.com
http://www.theunderworldcamden.co.uk

BRIDGWATER COBBLESTONES
SATURDAY 22 NOVEMBER 2025
Tickets: thegigcartel.com
http://www.thecobblestones.co.uk

CARDIFF GLOBE
SUNDAY 23 NOVEMBER 2025
Tickets: thegigcartel.com
http://www.globecardiff.co.uk

SAMAEL Release New Single And Video ‘Black Matter Manifesto’

Posted by tarjavirmakari on October 30, 2025

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Curtains up for SAMAEL: Eight long years after the release of their latest full-length album, Hegemony (2017), the Swiss eccentrics finally return in grand splendor. The new single, “Black Matter Manifesto”, mixed by Sky van Hoff (Lindemann, Sleep Token), is a journey through the different facets of SAMAEL’s music, from explosive rhythms to ultra-heavy passages, and it aims to become a benchmark in dark extreme music.

Showcasing their blend of black metal and industrial sounds, “Black Matter Manifesto” is an orgy of riffs and urgent, emphasizing the extreme metal icons’ unique position even in the most sinister of musical realms…

Formed in 1987, SAMAEL are among the most influential forces in extreme metal, reshaping the genre with classics like Worship Him (1990) and Passage (1996). Blending black, industrial and symphonic metal into their own signature sound, the band continues to push boundaries with dark precision and apocalyptic grandeur, remaining as relevant as ever almost 40 years since their founding. “Black Matter Manifesto” is raw, commanding, and unmistakably SAMAEL.

Vorph about “Black Matter Manifesto”:
“Opposites in life have long been a recurring theme in the band’s lyrics, which finally find resolution in the song ”Black Matter Manifesto.“ The quest for harmony ends where darkness reigns.”

SAMAEL LIVE
07.11.25 GR – Athens / Gazarte
08.11.25 GR – Thessaloniki / Eightball Club

28.03.26 DE – Hirschaid / Braincrusher Fest
04.04.26 NO – Oslo / Inferno Festival

SAMAEL are:
Vorph – Guitars, Vocals
Xy – Drum programming, Keyboards, Samples and Percussion
Drop – Guitars
Ales – Bass

SAMAEL online:
FACEBOOK
INSTAGRAM
HOMEPAGE
NAPALM RECORDS

DANHEIM Streams New Album “Heimferd” Ahead of Release

Posted by tarjavirmakari on October 30, 2025

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With more than 1 billion streams and features in the History Channel TV show Vikings, Danheim has become a cornerstone for Nordic folk, Viking and World music alongside Heilung and Wardruna. On his upcoming ninth album and first since signing with Season of Mist, producer Reidar Schaefer Olsen is continuing to evolve the Nordic sound by journeying home.

“One of the key elements of Danheim’s work is the feeling that you are stepping into the past”, Hotel Hobbies writes in an early review of Heimferd. “As with much of his music, a hypnotic, pulsating rhythm is our guide and around it strings, horns and woodwind weave a special tapestry of melody”.

Heimferd comes out tomorrow, Friday, October 31, 2025, but you can hear all 13 revelatory tracks today by listening to the full album stream on the Season of Mist YouTube channel.

–Pre-order & Pre-save: https://orcd.co/danheimheimferd
–Pre-save on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/prerelease/5jx5D2KXJEaIyXKSYgiyR1

Heimferd is guided not by a mythological narrative but by intuition. Over the course of his ninth album, Danheim navigates the storm-born energy of “Stormdans” to the expansive calm of “Yggradsil II” and suspended longing of the title track. The songs are made from raw percussive strength and sparse electronic atmosphere, forming a landscape that feels both ancient and immediate. For Olsen, it marks a return to something familiar yet unreachable.

“I’ve always felt that home isn’t something you just arrive at–you have to move through something first. Memory, distance, or perhaps some form of struggle”, Olsen told Glide Magazine. “Heimferd isn’t about a perfect return; it’s about what shapes you on the way. Home means something more if you’ve had to long for it or fight your way back to it. So yes, the journey itself is just as important as the destination, or maybe even more”.

Tracklist:

Agermark (3:25)
Brenhin Llwyd (3:01)
Haukadalur (4:52)
Heimferd (4:12) [WATCH]
Heljar Skuggar (3:26)
Jǫtunsvärd (3:28)
Kominn Dagr (2:28)
Rúnmyrkr (3:29)
Stormdans (3:35) [LISTEN]
Valvejen (3:08)
Vindfari (3:20)
Hafvindr (1:06)
Yggdrasil II (3:38) [LISTEN]
Full runtime: 43:08

DANHEIM is a Nordic folk/Viking inspired project from the Copenhagen-based Danish producer Reidar Schæfer Olsen, a man with 10 years of experience in electronic and ambient music – focusing on Nordic Folk and Viking age inspired music with a certain Nordic authenticity or mood. Danheim’s music is often composed of ideas and stories based on the darker side of the Viking period, inspired or consisting of Nordic Mythology, old Danish folklore, and a vivid imagination.

Danheim hit 1 billion streams across streaming platforms in 2022, has 585.000 subscribers on YouTube, with music featured in multiple seasons of the popular TV show Vikings.

Early information: Singer-songwriter Reidar Schæfer Olsen, (born in 1985, Brøndby, Denmark), transitioned to focus on music in the early 2000s and has been composing music almost continuously ever since, alongside doing radio shows and starting the indie label Fimbul Records.

With a passion for songwriting running through his veins from an early age, Reidar Olsen’s Viking-inspired music and dark melodies have broadened the Nordic folk genre and inspired millions of listeners around the world, bringing them back in time with a blend of his imagination and creativity.

“A deep connection to his Danish roots and heritage fueled his interest in the Nordic Folk/Viking genre, prompting the creation of Danheim and his indie label Fimbul Records.”

Ǽttartrú, a self-made Scandinavian belief system that reconnects oneself with their ancestors.

Line-up:
Reidar Schæfer Olsen – All Instruments & Production

Production Credits:
Recorded, Mixed & Mastered by Reidar Schæfer Olsen in his home studio.

Cover Art:
Reidar Schæfer Olsen

Photography:
Reidar Schæfer Olsen

EPOIMÓRIRÒMIOPE Release New Lyric Video for ‘Cenere’

Posted by tarjavirmakari on October 30, 2025

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Italian alternative rock trio epoimóriròmiope have unveiled the lyric video for their darkly poetic single “cenere”, taken from the album ricordi di un tempo mai esistito, out now via Epictronic Worldwide.

There’s no saving what was never meant to last. In “cenere”, epoimoriromiope conjure a world where love suffocates, bleeds, and devours itself—again and again.

A whispered plea. A gasp for air inside a spiraling connection, where the boundary between ecstasy and damage blurs.

This is the sound of two souls colliding, fracturing—laughing while they break.
Of blood as oxygen. Of eyes like venom. Of everything turning to ash.

Previous Singles and Videos: vertigine: Stream– Watch, coma: Stream – Watch

With ricordi di un tempo mai esistito, epoimóriròmiope invite listeners into their world of raw emotion, fragile beauty, and haunting intensity.

Stream ricordi di un tempo mai esistito: orcd.co/rdtme

About:

Emerging in 2021 from Bologna, Italy, epoimóriròmiope fuses Metalcore, EDM, and Alternative Rock into a genre-defying sound. Originally a one-man project, it has evolved in both style and lineup—from the dark trap influences of Vincoli (2021) to the electronic experiments of kabukimono (2023). Singles from these albums remain on YouTube but have been withdrawn from streaming platforms to mark a fresh start with the definitive lineup and sound.

Lyrically, the project has shifted from social observations to exploring the darkest corners of the human soul. The latest album, “ricordi di un tempo mai esistito”, delves into separation, loss, regret, anger, anxiety, and reflections on death and life’s fleeting nature. Its first single, “vertigine”, captures the dizzying weight of absence and memory, offering atmospheric, raw alt-rock where love, identity, and time seem to unravel.

epoimóriròmiope is:
Erik Storari – Vocals, Guitar, Composition, Production
Sara Fioravanti – Bass
Giulio Barranca – Drums

epoimóriròmiope online:
http://www.youtube.com/@epoimoriromiope
http://www.instagram.com/epmm_official
http://www.tiktok.com/@epoimoriromiope

Till Dawn They Count & Arc Flame Entertainment Announce Co-Management Partnership for Finnish RABBIT CULT

Posted by tarjavirmakari on October 30, 2025

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The Finnish bunny metal duo Rabbit Cult have signed a major co-management deal: from this day, Rabbit Cult is represented by Till Dawn They Count together with Arc Flame Entertainment. The co-management deal combines two very experienced management teams (who stand behind names such as Nightwish, Beast In Black and Poets of the Fall), and they both have a shared vision for growing the international presence of Rabbit Cult.

“For our cult, this is groundbreaking! We’ve already been scheming with Mike Lynch for several years, plotting the bunny-apocalypse. Now Toni has joined forces with our devoted manager, to expand our bunny metal dominion”, Salla and Marianne of Rabbit Cult state.

Toni Peiju, the CEO of Till Dawn They Count comments on the new companionship:

“Till Dawn They Count is very proud to start a co-management for Rabbit Cult together with Mike Lynch of Arc Flame Entertainment. Rabbit Cult is extremely talented and an exceptional combination of pop and metal culture. We are very happy to be a part of their journey.”

Mike Lynch, who has been with Rabbit Cult for a while now, says:

“Good management is all about building a strong team around the artist. Working with Toni Peiju combines vast artist management experiences, an expanding knowledge base and international network — all focused on taking Rabbit Cult to the next level.”

Rabbit Cult is delivering new music to their fans already next week. The bunny metal duo will also be performing live in Finland in the upcoming months, supporting Turmion Kätilöt in November and Omnium Gatherum in January.

Upcoming shows:
14.11.2025 Ääniwalli, Helsinki, FI*
16.1.2026 Kantakrouvi, Oulu, FI**
17.1.2026 Olympia, Tampere, FI**
23.1.2026 Lutakko, Jyväskylä, FI**
24.1.2026 Tavastia, Helsinki, FI**

*supporting Turmion Kätilöt
**supporting Omnium Gatherum

Rabbit Cult online: FACEBOOK | INSTAGRAM | LINKTREE

TORCH US Release New Single ‘I Am Eternal’

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Finnish melodic death metal band Torch Us releases new EP “To Non-Existence” on November 27th. Now released second single “I Am Eternal” from the EP picks up the pace, a crushing blend of fast riffs, relentless drumming, and furious energy. This track dives even deeper into raw aggression and rhythmic hooks. With old-school vibes at its core, the song speaks to both classic metal fans and the new wave of heavy music listeners.

Listen to “I Am Eternal” on streaming services (Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer, Tidal, Amazon etc.): https://push.fm/fl/torchus-iameternal

–QZZ7S2589868
–Composition: Ville Oksanen
–Lyrics: Mikko Nurmi

Torch Us is a four-piece metal band from Turku, Finland, founded in 2022. The band blends raw aggression with melodic darkness in a way that leaves a mark on the listener. Their sound moves along the boundary surface of melodic death metal and groove-heavy riffs, flavored with everything that feels old-school, raw, and unapologetically intense.

Torch Us:
Kim Orden: Bass
Janne Kodisoja: Drums
Ville Oksanen: Guitar
Mikko Nurmi: Vocals

https://torchusband.com/
https://www.facebook.com/torchus
https://www.instagram.com/torchusband/