French doom metal purveyors NORNES are proud to announce the release of their long-awaited debut full-length album, “Thou Hast Done Nothing“, slated for release on November 28, 2025 via Sleeping Church Records. In anticipation of the album, the band has unveiled an evocative album teaser, offering a first glimpse into the grief-laden soundscape that awaits. Watch it here:
Since forming in 2017, NORNES have put the French doom underground on notice with their crushing and melancholic fusion of doom and death metal. From the brooding weight of their 2018 debut EP “Vanity” to the introspective depths of 2020’s “Threads” (Sleeping Church Records), the band has continually evolved while staying true to the sorrowful essence of the genre.
With “Thou Hast Done Nothing“, NORNES take a bold step forward. Recorded at Heldscalla Studio and mastered at Drudenhaus, the album features five sprawling, grief-soaked tracks that delve into existential despair and emotional desolation. It is a slow-burning descent into melancholy, echoing a world teetering on collapse.
Tracklist:
Never Ending Failure
A Rose to The Sword
Our Love of Absurd
Perceptions in Grey
Oneness
“Thou Hast Done Nothing” – a release that resonates with sorrow, power, and unrelenting atmosphere – drops November 28 via Sleeping Church Records. Stay tuned for more news and sounds in the weeks to come.
NORNES is: Rom – guitars/vocals Adrien – guitars/vocals Noé – Drums Ju – bass/vocals
Milan-based death metal band ABBINORMAL are set to unleash their long-awaited third album, “Italia’s Gore Talent”, on December 5th, 2025 via Ad Noctem Records. Recorded at the renowned Toxic Basement Studios and completed in March, this new chapter promises to be the band’s most ferocious and unhinged work to date.
Described by the band as “a grotesque and ferocious critique of the spectacle of violence and social distress — a true showcase of sonic madness in pure Abbinormal style”, “Italia’s Gore Talent” offers a visceral soundtrack to modern decay.
Visually, the album continues the collaboration with visionary artist Davide Scianca, whose disturbing and decadent imagery perfectly mirrors the band’s uncompromising musical identity.
Today ABBINORMAL unleash the video for their first single “Hippopotamus”.
Band’s frontman Eric states: “‘Hippopotamus’ is the track that we chose to represent Abbinormal’s new studio album!
A song that embodies all the hallmarks of our sound: extreme speed, groove, attitude, and that cutting irony that has always distinguished us. We chose this song as our first single because it best represents what we define as “Hellcore”: a mix of ferocity and originality that leaves no escape. Of course, there will be much more on the album: more experimentation than ever before and a sound that fully embraces the metal universe. Let the march of the most dangerous animal on the planet accompany you on this new, crazy, and visionary journey”.
Formed in 1996 and reborn in 2017, ABBINORMAL has built a reputation for blending grindcore, death, and thrash metal with a provocative and chaotic edge. After the explosive debut “1996” (2019) and the brutal “Grind Hotel” (2023), the new album “Italia’s Gore Talent” takes their sound to an even more extreme level.
ABBINORMAL has shared the stage with international acts such as Gutalax, Crowbar, Left To Die, Terrorhammer, Hideous Divinity, Exilia, The Modern Age Slavery, Schizo, Hour Of Penance, Node, and Genus Ordinis Dei, cementing their place in the extreme metal scene.
“Italia’s Gore Talent” is more than just an album — it is a grotesque carnival of chaos, critique, and catharsis.
Polish legendary VADER have announced their European tour with KATAKLYSM (and Blood Red Throne) kicking off on February 18th in Paris. See all the tour dates below.
Piotr ‘Peter’ Wiwczarek shared: “VADERMANIAX !!! We are so excited to announce a huge Kataklysm, Vader, Blood Red Throne tour in Europe in February/March 2026 !!! A VERY special live set will be prepared for this massive trip. More details soon….”
18.02. 🇫🇷 FR Paris @ La Machine Du Moulin Rouge 20.02. 🇬🇧UK Wolverhampton @ KK’s Steel Mill 21.02. 🇬🇧UK Glasgow @ Slay 22.02. 🇬🇧UK Manchester @ Academy 2 23.02. 🇬🇧UK London @ O2 Academy Islington 25.02. 🇫🇷FR Rennes @ L’Etage 26.02. 🇫🇷FR Toulouse @ Le Bikini 27.02. 🇪🇸ES Madrid @ Sala Mon 28.02. 🇪🇸ES Pamplona @ Sala Totem 01.03. 🇪🇸ES Barcelona @ Razzmatazz 2 03.03.🇨🇭CH Geneve @ L’Usine 04.03. 🇮🇹IT Milan @ Legend Club 05.03. 🇸🇮SI Ljubljana @ Kino Siska 06.03. 🇨🇿CZ Brno @ Fleda 07.03. 🇸🇰SK Kosice @ Colloseum 08.03. 🇭🇺HU Budapest @ Barba Negra Blue Stage 10.03. 🇦🇹AT Vienna @ Simmcity 11.03. 🇩🇪DE Munich @ Backstage Werk 12.03. 🇩🇪DE Heidelberg @ Halle 02 13.03. 🇩🇪DE Memmingen @ Kaminwerk 14.03.🇨🇭CH Pratteln @ Z7 15.03. 🇩🇪DE Trier @ Forum 17.03. 🇧🇪BE Antwerp @ Trix 18.03. 🇩🇪DE Hamburg @ Markthalle 19.03. 🇩🇰DK Copenhagen @ Pumpehuset 20.03. 🇩🇪DE Berlin @ Festsaal Kreuzberg 21.03. 🇩🇪DE Leipzig @ Hellraiser 22.03. 🇩🇪DE Bochum @ Zeche 24.03. 🇩🇪DE Frankfurt @ Batschkapp 25.03. 🇩🇪 DE Braunschweig @ Westand 26.03. 🇳🇱NL Leiden @ Gebr. De Nobel 27.03. 🇩🇪DE Bamberg @ Brose Arena
Just recently VADER celebrated the 25th Anniversary of their classic “Litany” album, which originally came out on Metal Blade Records in 2000 with a special vinyl reissue edition. The original 11 tracks / 31 minutes of “Litany” were newly re-mastered for vinyl by Wojtek Wieslawski / Hertz Recording Studio and the LP also includes a 16-page booklet with new liner-notes by band leader, guitarist and vocalist Peter Wiwczarek.
Vader’s Peter Wiwczarek commented in the liner notes as follows about “Litany”: “‘Litany’ was definitely our fastest and most brutal album ever recorded…This year the album celebrates its quarter-century and we want to remind you of the power of these brutal riffs. The album returns to the stages in full form. Many of the songs haven’t been played since the 2000-2001 promotional tour. Some of them have never been played. I invite you to the world of ‘Litany’! Remember…you enter here at your own risk!”
Five years after the much-lauded 12th studio album Solitude In Madness, VADER return with 3 brand-new tracks once again produced by Scott Atkins at Grindstone Studio, UK. Featuring excellent artwork by Marcelo Vasco (Slayer, Testament, Dark Funeral), this EP marks the first recording as a quintet with guitarist Mauser returning to the group and new drummer Michael alongside vocalist/guitarist Peter, bassist Hal and third guitarist Spider.
Humanihility offers scorching new songs that prove to be vicious, thrash-laden anthems perfectly blending old-school thrash with VADER’s unique straight-forward fury and neckbreaking tempos. Each of the songs was created by a different band member, giving them a more personal style.
The only physical edition will be a limited 12” (red vinyl, 700 copies). Artwork was created by Marcelo Vasco Arts.
Humanihility Tracklist
Genocide Designed
Rampage
Unbending (Mystic Festival Anthem 2025)
In case you missed, also watch the music video for the latest single “Unbending’ (which was the official anthem of Poland’s renowned Mystic Festival this year), created by Robert Gasperowicz:
Power, epicness, and roots deeply grounded in Nordic Death Metal at its finest — BÖLTHORN are back to shake the metal scene with their brand new single “Primeval Hunt”, available on October 31st, 2025 via Wanikiya Record.
On the same day, the official music video for the track will be released on YouTube.
With this song, the band officially joins the Wanikiya Record roster, marking the beginning of a new and exciting chapter that anticipates their upcoming full-length album, due for release in 2026.
“Primeval Hunt” has been chosen as the manifesto of this new era: a track that embodies the essence of the upcoming concept album, narrating the eternal conflict within mankind — suspended between primal instinct and evolution, between the choice of being prey or hunter. There is no definitive answer, only the weight of ancient legacies that still shape our decisions today.
Bölthorn, whose name draws inspiration from Norse mythology, were formed in 2015 as a Death Metal project by Ironcross (guitar/composer), joined by Rob (guitar) and Drake (vocals). From the very beginning, the trio crafted a powerful, massive, and melodic sound, quickly turning the initial idea into a full-fledged band.
In 2018, they released their debut album “Across the Human Path” through Broken Bones Records, recorded at AUDIOCORE Studio in Fontevivo (PR). After the pandemic, the band reached stability with Stefano (guitar), Beppe (bass), and Emiliano (drums).
In the summer of 2025, Jessica (former guitarist of Injury) officially joined the lineup, replacing Stefano and solidifying the current formation.
Today, Bölthorn are working on their second album, an ambitious concept set for release in 2026, with “Primeval Hunt” serving as both a prelude and a statement of intent.
With their epic and crushing sound, Bölthorn reaffirm their identity and open a new chapter in their career under the banner of Wanikiya Record/Promotion.
Super Glue Anxiety‘s new single Desert Blues is, as its name implies, desert blues. The story tells the desert nomad, who is fiercely in love with the oasis princess. However, the princess will never come to date. Nomad does not allow to slow down the celebration, but continues the evening with his camels. Crew sits around the campfire, the coconut drink circulates from one person to another and each tells funny stories in turn. The atmosphere is awesome and they sing together Desert Blues.
Critically acclaimed guitarist and singer Orianthi will release her new single “Dark Days Are Gone” on Thursday October 16th. The new single is accompanied with an official music video that can be seen on YouTube HERE. This is the fifth single taken from her critically acclaimed studio album Some Kind Of Feeling. Released by Woodward Avenue Records, the album is available on CD, vinyl, and digital HERE.
Orianthi produced three songs from the new album including “First Time Blues,” “Ghost,” and “Bad For Each Other.” The remaining seven songs on the album, including the new single “Dark Days Are Gone,” are produced by Kevin “The Caveman” Shirley (Black Country Communion, Beth Hart, Joe Bonamassa).
Seems nothing can ever be written about the multi-talented veteran artist without mentioning her collaborations with Alice Cooper, Dave Stewart and Richie Sambora, and the fact that Michael Jackson hired her for his London performances the year of his untimely death.
Her success as an artist in her own right, started with her Top 20 Billboard pop hit “According to You” and gold-selling Geffen album Believe (2009). While playing with legends over the years, she’s continued to build her discography with numerous albums on different labels.
Her prolific streak of stylistically diverse singles released by Woodward Avenue Records – “First Time Blues” featuring Joe Bonamassa, “Ghost,” “Some Kind of Feeling,” and “Attention,” launches a fresh, adventurous new phase of her solo career, an era of exciting creativity and powerhouse rock and roll.
With every new single, Orianthi reminds us that she’s at the top of her game in every way, finding fresh, vulnerable yet attitude-filled musical stories to tell, and allowing us to experience the guitar chops that have made her a modern-day rock icon.
Jonathan Widran breaks down Orianthi’s new single “Dark Days Are Gone”
Fully living up to its emotion evoking title, Orianthi’s Woodward Avenue debut Some Kind of Feeling is seriously the edgy, blues-rock gift that keeps on giving. With the release of the speedy thumping, kick-ass, kiss-off funk rocker “Dark Days Are Gone,” the otherworldly Australian singer, songwriter and electric guitar virtuosa has released five powerhouse singles from the ten-track album – including her recent acclaimed track “Attention,” which achieved crossover love from country rock fans and tastemakers.
While it made sense with every other song to introduce it with Ori’s all-star rock associations and previous successes as a solo artist, “Dark Days are Gone” is produced by legendary fellow Aussie Kevin Shirley. It’s another showcase for Ori’s attitude-filled songwriting, exciting vocals, and sizzling guitar playing. The song thrives and grooves on the propulsive rhythms of bassist Justin Andres and drummer Jimmy Paxson. If your ears can isolate their vibe for a few seconds, you’ll hear it too – a hypnotic groove reminiscent of Golden Earring mid-70’s driving gem “Radar Love.”
Capturing the energetic determination of a woman about to tell a man she’s done with his BS and moving on, the intro to “Dark Days are Gone” is bouncy and buoyant and draws us into Ori’s guitar fire immediately before she relates the background of the relationship and shares how over time the darker reality of this lover is revealed. She gave him enough chances and after an intoxicating pre-chorus buildup, she’s ready to unleash her fire, with her crackling guitar harmony lines blazing.
It’s one of Ori’s trademark irresistibly emotional hooks, and one we can all relate to at some point or another: “Don’t’ leave the light on when you leave/Baby, lock the door, throw away the keys.” Leading up to the mention of the title, she drops the big bomb “’Cause my heart, it ain’t your home” and mentions, like oh yeah, by the way she’s found someone else (quickly, we presume) who loves her and “won’t make me feel alone.” Decades ago, Gloria Gaynor said she will survive, but Orianthi’s got a cleverer spin on how intensely things have changed right there in the title “Dark Days Are Gone.”
Then the radar loving groove peps in to drive Ori’s defiant second verse where she declares she’d rather be alone and flame throws another incisive line about how much he’ll regret his foolishness which led her to break free “One day, you’re gonna wake up and wish I was in your bed.” But really, as on every Ori track, we’re listening patiently as she shares her feelings and gets back to the killer chorus because of what we know is coming – a burning, almost adjective defying guitar solo where she showcases her chops not merely to share her surreal talents but as catharsis from the emotionally complex ordeal that inspires the song.
The rhythm section explodes in a boisterous rain of musical lava behind Ori’s relentless have-to- hear-it-to-believe-it outburst. What a blast, literally! It’s not always sunny in Ori’s musical world and she often shares songs about messed up relationships – but we know we’ll feel something like the heat of the sun when she regales us with that incredible solo action! – Jonathan Widran
“Dark Days Are Gone” – Production Credits
Orianthi – Guitar, lead and background vocals Justin Andres – Bass, Nick Maybury – Guitar Ed Roth – Keyboards, Jimmy Paxson – Drums Jade MacRae – Background Vocals Music and lyrics by Orianthi Panagaris Produced and mixed by Kevin “The Caveman” Shirley
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