MYSTHICON’s New Album “Biesń” Out Now

Posted by tarjavirmakari on September 24, 2025
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MYSTHICON is a band founded in 2015 by former Lux Occulta guitarist G’Ames, who invited musicians from the bands Vader, Batushka, Hate, Kalt Vindur and other musicians such as Tomasz Gilewski and guest Jerzy “U.Reck” Głód (Lux Occuta) to collaborate on the recording of their first album.

G’Ames comments new album “Bieśń“: “The album contains 6 tracks. It is a fusion of classic black metal with elements of progressive music and doom metal. In terms of sound, it is a combination of a traditional approach to black metal while maintaining a classic style and a modern look at music production. The album ends with a cover of “Creation” from the first demo of the legendary Lux Occulta performed in a completely new arrangement. The album features several guests playing unusual instruments for black metal, namely the hurdy-gurdy and the double bass, which fuel the phenomenal atmosphere of the entire release.“

Music for album “Bieśń” was mixed and mastered by Adrian Mięsowicz at Tribe Five Studio (Karpathian Relict, KSU). Cover artwork was done by Michał “Xaay” Loranc (God Dethroned, Kamelot, Karl Sanders, Nile, Turbo). The photo session was done by Tomasz Gilewski and Łukasz Zajdel, while the logo was designed by Primeval Era Rising (Graveland, Vader). The album features several guests: Jacek Głód (acoustic guitar), Marcin Chatys (double bass) and Wojciech Miller (hurdy-gurdy).

Album was released yesterday – September 23, 2025 on digital format (stream here), CD (buy CD) and at a later date on vinyl.

“Bieśń” at popular streaming platforms

TRACKLIST:

  1. Shapes
  2. Unbearable Silence
  3. We Are The Worms
  4. Na Naszej Krwi
  5. The Storyteller
  6. Creation (Lux Occulta cover)

LINE-UP:
Grzegorz “G’Ames” Kapłon – guitar
Szymon Hadała – guitar
Mateusz “Bacchus” Zawada – bass
Andrzej Czujko – drums
Tharthaq – keyboard
Adrian Mięsowicz – vocal

More information: Facebook | Bandcamp | Youtube

STELLAR CIRCUITS Reveal Second Single + Video ‘Corridor’ from Sophomore Album

Posted by tarjavirmakari on September 23, 2025
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Prog-Alt-Metal upstarts STELLAR CIRCUITS have debuted the 2nd single, ‘Corridor,’ from their sophomore album, Phantom :: Phoenix, that’s out November 14th via Nuclear Blast Records. The anthemic new track adds rocket fuel to the band’s upward trajectory with mesmerizing vocals and hooking riffs; another highlight from their game-changing new record.

Commenting on the upcoming album, vocalist Ben Beddick says:

“With ‘Corridor,’ it seemed like we uncovered a side of the band that we haven’t really explored before. It felt like we tapped into a lighter, more uplifting part of our sound and that was exciting to discover. 

The song has a very nostalgic vibe and seems to stem from influences that we haven’t been able to express in previous albums. It feels very removed from our darker and heavier side but we also feel like it only adds to the breadth of music that we’re able to create.”

Stream ‘Corridor’: https://sc.bfan.link/corridor

Pre-order Phantom :: Phoenix: https://sc.bfan.link/phantom-phoenix

STELLAR CIRCUITS’ follow up to 2023’s acclaimed record Sight To Sound, is a cathartic work of art that explores the trials and tribulations of life and death and the process of healing and perseverance in the face of agony.

Beddick says of the album: 

“When we were writing this record, one of the things that kept coming up was the idea of death and rebirth through fire. This idea of killing off the old and dead parts of ourselves in order to give birth to something new and maybe even a truer version of who we all are. Every time we write an album, we go into the process with the idea of getting uncomfortable and exposing a more vulnerable part of ourselves. There also seems to be a constant theme of dealing with loss when we’re in the middle of writing.

Everybody went through different periods of loss and grief during this process and I think that it shows through in the subject matter and the sounds that came out of it. We always want to push ourselves to a new place and build on the foundation that we’ve created over the last few years of being in this band. I think that we’ve been able to achieve that with Phantom :: Phoenix. It’s a representation of that cycle and I hope it can act as a catalyst for growth to those who listen.”

Stream the band’s previously released single, ‘I See Your Spirit,’ here: https://sc.bfan.link/i-see-your-spirit

WATAIN Release ‘Death Transmission’ Statement

Posted by tarjavirmakari on September 23, 2025
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Notorious black metal collective WATAIN has issued the following statement:

Ladies and gentlemen, followers, allies and supporters,
this is a solemn transmission from the Temple of Watain.
 
We hereby announce that in III years’ time – upon our 30th anniversary –
Watain’s eighth and final full-length album will be released.
 
The album will mark the closure of a thirty-year-long magical Work, the last crossroad of Watain, after which the band will cease to exist. The ending of a triad of decades during which we have shared our sacred path through this strange world with you, our loyal audience, on a steady course towards the beckoning darkness of The End.
 
Over the course of the next three years, the reasons for this will be spoken of and accounted for.

But for now we just want to say this:
 
Have our songs and our art not always dealt with finitude and mortality, with DEATH and the beyond? Now it is time to claim our own conclusion, and shape it as we have shaped our stage and our songs, in the fires of will. Instead of being consumed by the jaws of time, or broken upon the wheel of circumstance, we choose to let Watain return, unbowed and undefeated, back into the primordial chaos that once gave it life.
 
And so we stand on the threshold to our final chapter, and III years of Work remain. III liminal years in the borderlands between the living and the dead, during which new music will be written and shared, concerts will take place, and other things, that will be revealed in due time, will emanate, with the certainty of DEATH, from the Temple of Watain.
 
Take this message not as a farewell, but as the first note of a sacrificial requiem, as well as your invitation to partake in shaping these last years into something beyond compare.
 
Praise be to the Devilgod by whom our path is blessed,
and upon whose altar we now place this our humble offering.
 
To the DEATH and far beyond!

Watain
Uppsala, September 20th 2025

MALEVOLENCE Announce Headline Shows in Spain And Portugal for 2026

Posted by tarjavirmakari on September 23, 2025
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Before embarking on their upcoming EU & UK headline tour this October, Steel City Kings MALEVOLENCE have announced six new shows in Spain and Portugal for May and June next year. The tickets for this 2026 Iberia headline tour will be available on Monday, September 22nd at 10 AM CET.

The band commented:
“Spain and Portugal have always been good to us since the early days and we’re extremely grateful for that! We don’t get to play for you often enough, so we’ll be back this October to rip our biggest headline shows yet. Can’t wait to see you all there! – Malev”

All confirmed dates for MALEVOLENCE’s “It’s All The Spain To You” Tour 2026:

27.05.26 – ES – Vitoria – Jimmy Jazz
28.05.26 – ES – Madrid – Copérnico
29.05.26 – ES – A Coruña – Playa Club
30.10.26 – PT – Lisbon – LAV Sala 2
01.06.26 – ES – Seville – Sala Custom
02.06.26 – ES – Barcelona – Razzmatazz Room 2

Tickets for the Spanish dates available here: https://www.resurrectionfest.es/route/malevolence-tour-2026/
Tickets for the Portuguese date available here: https://ticketline.sapo.pt/

OTHER MALEVOLENCE LIVE DATES:

MALEVOLENCE HEADLINE UK & EU TOUR 2025

w/ SPEED, DYING WISH & PSYCHO FRAME

27.10. – FR – Toulouse – Bikini Club
28.10. – FR – Paris – Elysee Montmartre
30.10. – DE – Munich – Backstage
31.10. – DE – Leipzig – Felsenkeller
01.11. – DE – Berlin – Huxleys
02.11. – DE – Hamburg – Gruenspan
04.11. – NL – Tilburg – 013
05.11. – DE – Cologne – Live Music Hall
06.11. – BE – Ghent – Vooruit
08.11. – UK – Manchester – O2 Victoria Warehouse
09.11. – UK – London – O2 Academy Brixton

Tickets here: https://mlvltd.com

PARADISE LOST Release Monolithic New Album “Ascension” with ‘Lay A Wreath Upon The World’ Lyric Video

Posted by tarjavirmakari on September 23, 2025
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Icons of melancholic doom and gothic metal, PARADISE LOST have released their long awaited 17th album, Ascension, today with Nuclear Blast Records.

PARADISE LOST’s first album in 5 years, following 2020’s acclaimed Obsidian, was produced by the band’s revered guitarist Gregor Mackintosh and mixed/mastered by Lawrence Mackrory and is adorned with artwork by renowned British artist George Frederic Watts’ classic painting The Court of Death (1870-1902). Their latest, critically lauded masterpiece is evidence of a band still at the height of their prime 35+ years into a groundbreaking career. Soaked in misery and grief, Ascension soars with song’s like ‘Tyrants Serenade,’ ‘Serpent on the Cross’ and ‘Silence Like The Grave,’ that take listeners on an unforgettable journey through morose despair forged in soundscape of massive riffs and searing solos.

Commenting on the record’s release, vocalist Nick Holmes states:

“It took us nearly 40 years to get here but we’re still tuning our instruments to the key of despair! Please enjoy!”  

Today, PARADISE LOST has revealed a lyric video for their next highlighted track, ‘Lay A Wreath Upon The World.’

Adding about the song, Holmes says:

“Lay a wreath upon the world serves as a harbinger of the impending tempest, where humanity will eventually obliterate all that it has created.“

Purchase/Stream Ascension: https://paradiselost.bfan.link/ascension

PARADISE LOST will embark on the first leg of the “Ascension of Europe” tour this fall. Tickets are available at https://paradiselost.co.uk/tour-dates/.

The band has also recently announced a handful of intimate signing sessions and a record release show in Leeds, UK. Tickets are available now at https://tix.to/Ascension.

Sep 20 – Sheffield, UK @ Bear Tree (4PM BST) – Signing Session
Sep 21 – Birmingham, UK @ HMV (2PM BST) – Signing Session
Sep 22 – Leeds, UK @ Brudenell Social Club (7PM BST) – Record Release Show
Sep 24 – London, UK @ Rough Trade East (12PM BST) – Signing Session

PARADISE LOST Tour Dates:

Oct 09 – Manchester, UK – New Century Hall
Oct 10 – Wolverhampton, UK – KK’s Steel Mill
Oct 11 – Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK – Newcastle University
Oct 12 – Glasgow, UK – Glasgow Garage
Oct 14 – Nottingham, UK – Rescue Rooms
Oct 15 – Bristol, UK – Electric
Oct 16 – Southampton, UK – The 1865
Oct 17 – London, UK – Islington Assembly Hall
Oct 19 – Oignies, FR – Tyrant Fest 2025
Oct 20 – Paris, FR – Élysée Montmartre
Oct 21 – Lyon, FR – La Rayonne
Oct 23 – Köln, DE – Live Music Hall
Oct 24 – Esch-Sur-Alzette, LU – Rockhal
Oct 25 – Dornbirn, AT – Conrad Sohm
Oct 26 – Padova, IT – Hall
Oct 28 – Munich, DE – Backstage Werk
Oct 29 – Prague, CZ – Palc Akropolis
Oct 30 – Zagreb, HR – Boogaloo Zagreb
Oct 31 – Vienna, AT – Simm City
Nov 01 – Budapest, HU – Dürer Kert
Nov 03 – Geneva, CH – PTR/L’Usine
Nov 04 – Nürnberg, DE – Z-Bau Biergarten
Nov 05 – Utrecht, NL – Pandora
Nov 06 – Antwerpen, BE – Trix Hall
Dec 13 – Bradford, UK – Bradford Live

BIG ASS TRUCK I.E. Hitch Their Hardcore Rig to Nuclear Blast Records

Posted by tarjavirmakari on September 23, 2025
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The Inland Empire, a lovely area just east of Los Angeles and Orange Counties in Southern California known as much for its great weather and beautiful deserts as its devastating wildfires and  threatening faultlines, is now the epicenter for one of hardcore music’s biggest breakouts, BIG ASS TRUCK I.E.

Over the last year, the five-piece wrecking crew has slayed the scene faster than the Green Goblin big rig from “Maximum Overdrive.” Armed with only a demo and a couple of singles, BIG ASS TRUCK I.E. have managed to dominate the pit with their reckless brand of cataclysmic hardcore at shows with TERROR, COMEBACK KID and STICK TO YOUR GUNS and performances at Welcome To Rockville, LDB Fest, Sound & Fury, Warped Tour and Inkcarceration to name a few.

Today, Nuclear Blast Records is proud to announce the signing of the Truck, who’ve just dropped a rampaging new track/video called ‘BACK-WHEEL STOMP.’

Commenting on the signing and single the band states:

“We’re super stoked to be on Nuclear Blast! They’re such a legendary label that a lot of our influences have been a part of so it’s also a wild full circle moment for all of us to be involved like this! ‘BACK-WHEEL STOMP’ is one of our heaviest songs we’ve made and it’s just the beginning of what we’re ready to unleash with Nuclear Blast.”

Label Manager and Head of A&R for Nuclear Blast America, Tommy Jones, adds:

“Whatcha gonna do when THE TRUCK runs wild on you?!?”

BIG ASS TRUCK I.E. are currently on tour, performing at Louder Than Life Festival today, followed by headline dates, appearances at New England Metal & Hardcore Festival, Riot Fest and Furnace Fest and a tour with CHIODOS and HAWTHORNE HEIGHTS in November.

Stream ‘BACK-WHEEL STOMP’: https://bigassmftruck.bfan.link/backwheel-stomp

BIG ASS TRUCK I.E. NORTH AMERICAN TOUR DATES:

Sep 18 – Louisville, KY – Louder Than Life
Sep 19 – Chicago, IL – Riot Fest
Sep 20 – Worcester, MA – New England Metal Fest
Sep 22 – Ottawa, ON – Overflow
Sep 24 – Cleveland, OH – Foundry
Sep 25 – Detroit, MI – Sanctuary
Sep 26 – Indianapolis, IN – Hoosier Dome
Sep 28 – Nashville, TN – The End
Sep 30 – Augusta, GA – Grantski Records
Oct 1 – Columbia, SC – New Brookland Tavern
Oct 2 – Atlanta, GA – Culture Shock
Oct 4 – Birmingham, AL – Furnace Fest

w/CHIODOS & HAWTHORNE HEIGHTS:

Nov 6 – Grand Rapids, MI – GLC Live at 20 Monroe
Nov 7 – Louisville, KY – Mercury Ballroom
Nov 8 – Chattanooga, TN – The Signal
Nov 10 – Fayetteville, AR – Ozark Music Hall
Nov 11 – Memphis, TN – Minglewood Hall
Nov 12 – Huntsville, AL – Mars Music Hall
Nov 13 – Tampa, FL – The Ritz Ybor
Nov 16 – Orlando, FL – Warped Tour
Nov 17 – Atlanta, GA – Tabernacle
Nov 18 – Myrtle Beach, SC – House of Blues
Nov 19 – Virginia Beach, VA – The Dome
Nov 21 – Baltimore, MD – Nevermore Hall
Nov 22 – Bethlehem, PA – Wind Creek Event Center
Nov 23 – Montclair, NJ – The Wellmont Theater
Nov 25 – Boston, MA – Citizens House of Blues
Nov 26 – Wallingford, CT – The Dome @ Toyota Oakdale Theater
Nov 29 – Albany, NY – Empire Live
Nov 30 – Buffalo, NY – Electric City
Dec 1 – Cleveland, OH – House of Blues
Dec 2 – Columbus, OH – KEMBA LIve!
Dec 3 – Cincinnati, OH – Bogart’s
Dec 6 – Milwaukee, WI – The Rave
Dec 7 – West Des Moines, IA – Val Air Ballroom
Dec 10 – Oklahoma City, OK – The Criterion
Dec 11 – Corpus Christi, TX – Concrete St. Amphit
Dec 12 – Austin, TX – Emo’s
Dec 14 – Albuquerque, NM – Revel
Dec 16 – Tucson, AZ – Rialto Theatre
Dec 18 – Las Vegas, NV – Brooklyn Bowl
Dec 20 – Riverside, CA – Riverside Auditorium