Melbourne blackened nu-metal outfit MÉLANCOLIA share new single ‘SPIT!‘ featuring Christopher Mackertich of DREGG, off their sophomore album ‘random.access.misery‘ out Friday August 29 via Greyscale Records and Nuclear Blast. The band join Thy Art Is Murder on a regional tour of Australia starting this week.
‘SPIT!’is a shift in MÉLANCOLIA‘s established sound, expanding on the nu-metal-influenced direction the upcoming album promises. It’s the first track in their catalogue to feature clean singing and the first to include a guest feature. The new single adds another layer to the dark atmosphere they’re becoming known for and was written to be played live—specifically to cater for sing alongs, mosh pits and stage dives.
Leading single ‘ALL_IS_RUST‘ came before ‘SPIT!’and released as both a declaration of evolution and a warning: MÉLANCOLIA are not here to follow trends – they’re here to dismantle them.
MÉLANCOLIA’s forthcoming album random.access.misery melds metalcore, deathcore, industrial noise, blast beats and DJ scratching and blends into a hellish sonic cocktail. ‘ALL_IS_RUST‘ and ‘SPIT!‘ welcomes listeners to the band’s new sound and a genre the band have coined as “Blackened Nu Metal”.
‘SPIT!‘is streaming everywhere now. random.access.miserywill be out everywhere via Greyscale Records and Nuclear Blast on Friday August 29.
Picked as one of four “brilliant new metal bands you need to hear” by Metal Hammer in April, the band are primed and ready and unleash their defining new album this August; “We are bringing a fresh sound to an otherwise stale scene, you will not hear what we are doing from anyone else. We are setting the trend as we set the bar for modern heavy music. Love us or hate us, you will fucking remember us.”
Momentum is at an all time high for the band, having toured Australia three times over off the back of ‘HissThroughRottenTeeth‘ and breaking into Europe and the UK twice on tours with SUFFOCATION (US) and INGESTED (UK). The band will join THY ART IS MURDER on a regional lap of Australia this June and July and will debut some of their new music for the very first time.
[photo: Andreas Mattsson – Perspective by Mattsson]
August 29, 2025 will see Swedish metal vikings MÅNEGARM release their much-awaited new studio album, entitled Edsvuren, via Napalm Records. Following a previously-released first video single, “Hör mitt kall”, today, the trio is premiering a music video for the epic album opening track “I skogsfruns famn”!
””I skogsfruns famn” is our second single from the new album “Edsvuren (sworn) and this video is probably the coolest and rawest Månegarm video to date (made by awesome Svartna Film),“the band comments.
”The song is a really groovy and epic track and the lyrics are based on a local story that is said to have taken place just a few miles from where we live. The music is written together with Tobias Rydsheim from Wormwood and it features Erik’s daughter Lea Grawsiö Lindström on vocals once more. Hold on tight folks, this one is something really special!“
Known for weaving Norse mythology, ancient rites, and folkloric wisdom into an unrelenting metal tapestry, MÅNEGARM celebrate their 30-year career with the release of their most evocative album to date. As one of the leading bands in the genre, they once again bring their inimitable style and the blood oath of viking, black and folk metal back together for an unforgettable and diverse sonic journey. Pensive and dreamy atmospheric monsters meet songs for a proper mead binge – this mixture has brought the band a loyal international fan base and highly acclaimed appearances at prestigious festivals such as Ragnarök and Summer Breeze Open Air.
On their forthcoming studio offering, Edsvuren, MÅNEGARM offer necessary authenticity with the use of traditional Nordic instruments. Guest vocalists Ellinor Videfors and Lea Grawsiö Lindström, who have also supported the band on previous albums, once again provide the perfect contrast between harshness and beauty. On title track “Edsvuren”, singer Liv Hope Lenard joins the wolf pack for the first time and provides one of the album’s most breathtaking highlights. On violin, the acoustic master Martin Björklund is back again, especially shining on pieces like “Rodhins hav”. Edsvuren was recorded and mixed by Pelle Saether at Studio Underground, and was mastered by Sverker Widgren at Wing Studios. The epic cover artwork was created by Kris Verwimp.
Melding raw aggression, ancient beauty and hypnotic black metal influences, Norse mythology, rites and folkloric wisdom in a relentless frenzy of orchestral finesse – on the battlefield of Viking Metal, only Swedish legends MÅNEGARM can emerge victorious with their thunderous anthems. With over 30 years of battle-tested heritage, MÅNEGARM continue to assert themselves as torchbearers of the genre with Edsvuren!
As long as winds will blow – Falkenbach Cover (Wooden Box + Deluxe Vinyl Edition Bonus Track)
Flight of Icarus – Iron Maiden Cover (Wooden Box + Deluxe Vinyl Edition Bonus Track)
Hear my call – English version of Hör mitt kall (Wooden Box + Deluxe Vinyl Edition Bonus Track)
Ulvhjärtat – Exclusive piano Version (Wooden Box + Deluxe Vinyl Edition Bonus Track)
MÅNEGARM live: 07/26/25 – HMN Festival – Heimburg/DE 08/02/25 – Wacken Festival – Wacken/DE 08/29/25 – Manegarm Open Air – Norrtälje/SWE 12/13/25 – Heavy Metal X´Mass – Mexico City/MEX
MÅNEGARM is: Erik Grawsiö – Vocals & Bass Markus Andé – Guitars Jakob Hallegren – Drums
In a union as unexpected as a teapot on a Marshall stack, classic rock royalty and Sunset Strip legends have come together for a high-seas sonic adventure.
Just try and get your head around this. On four strings, Bob Daisley—the thunderous bassist behind Ozzy Osbourne’s Blizzard of Ozz. On six strings, Mick Box, the eternal guitar maestro of Uriah Heep. At front and back, vocalist Marq Torien and drummer Fred Achingof the glam-leaning, groove-heavy BulletBoys. And powerless to resist their hard rock temptations, the Doobie Brothers’ anthem “Takin’ It to the Streets,” stripped naked and then reimagined in full yacht metal regalia.
The title track to the Doobies’ sixth album in 1976, “Takin’ It To The Streets” was both composed and sung by the band’s newly-acquired frontman Michael McDonald, and swiftly became one of their biggest hits yet, a number 13 Billboard smash. Years later, that same magazine elected it the Doobie Brothers’ third greatest song, and of course, it’s been a yacht rock staple since before there was even a yacht to rock it on.
Well, now it’s on course to become a metal staple too, as the BulletBoys– no strangers to turning up the heat on classic tunes – bring their characteristic Sunset Strip swagger and vocal bravado to the mix, crafting a version that glides as smoothly as a speedboat in Monaco but hits like a bottle of Jack at soundcheck. And with Daisley and Box on the deck alongside them, you know that soundcheck is gonna be loud.
Produced in Los Angeles with a mix of analogue warmth and digital bite, this yacht metal version of “Takin’ It to the Streets” is more than a cover—it’s a seafaring reinvention, custom-built for late-night drives, dive-bar jukeboxes, and yes, possibly the top deck of a very dubious cruise liner.
The track drops today on all streaming platforms, while Yacht Metal itself – a limited-edition vinyl compilation positively overflowing with like-minded reinventions – is sailing closer every day.
So polish your deck shoes, crank up the stereo, and prepare to set sail on the smoothest, loudest voyage you didn’t know you needed.
Belgian post-doom quartet Hemelbestormer have just revealed a new single titled ‘Tinia’ from their upcoming album The Radiant Veil. The new full length will be out on 25th July through Pelagic Records.
Drummer Frederik Cosemans describes The Radiant Veil as “a journey through our solar system as perceived by the Etruscan civilization. Each track bears the name of a planet in the old Etruscan language, starting with the Sun (Usil) and ending with Saturn (Satre).”
For fans of: ISIS, Neurosis, The Ruins of Beverast, Year of No Light
Hemelbestormer has been a commanding entity in the heavy music scene for over ten years, with their idiosyncratic take on the merger of post-rock, doomgaze, and black metal. Made up of veterans from the Belgian hardcore and metal community, the four-piece from Hasselt create intricate sonic journeys through space and time built over punishing riffs and spine-chilling climaxes. With their fourth full-length album, The Radiant Veil, Hemelbestormer take their songwriting and production to new heights, honouring their name as trailblazers on the intersection of dark and light, the crushingly heavy and the hauntingly beautiful.
Having appeared at many of Europe’s finest music festivals – from Roadburn festival to Dunk! festival to Graspop Metal Meeting – Hemelbestormer feel right at home on stages with a wide variety of heavy and experimental acts. The road combining ethereal post-rock with seething black metal has been travelled by many groups, but with Hemelbestormer, that winding path has taken a different turn. Facing away from shoegaze or indie rock influences, the band finds a more sophisticated way of incorporating unsettling melodies, blast beats, and lo-fi synthesizers to emulate the dark void of space and eerie cold light of stars.
Powered by HM-2 pedals and a Lovecraft-ian use of retro synths, The Radiant Veil is driven by an old-school mentality that appears both learned and sincere. Produced by main songwriter Filip Dupont alongside drummer Frederik Cosemans, the eerie space noises coalesce like a celestial respiration between the bouts of metallic riffing and tremolo-picked riffs.
Album opener ‘Usil’ is a compositional masterpiece from start to finish, combining seismic riffing with ice-cold guitar leads, as if Russian Circles had been formed in a small Norwegian fishing village in the early 90s. Meticulously building up to a double kick-driven finale, the band carefully lays the groundwork for the following hour of transformative music.
Hemelbestormer is a sight to behold on stage, and with The Radiant Veil, they penetrate deeper than ever into the farthest reaches of their sonic space ethos. Once more, the Belgians capture the cavernous expanse between the cold lights of the universe, but also our power as humans to explore it, proving their mastery as storytellers in sight and sound.
Tracklisting:
Side A 1. Usil 2. Turms (feat. Philip Jamieson of Caspian) 3. Turan 4. Tiur 5. Cel 6. Laran 7. Tinia 8. Satre
Line-up: Filip Dupont – Guitars, Keys, Vocals Koen Swerts – Bass Jo Driesmans – Guitars Frederik Cosemans – Drums
The fast-rising rootsy British troubadour Connor Selby presents his new album, The Truth Comes Out Eventually, using it as an emotional release valve. It will be released on 29 August via Provogue. To celebrate he has revealed the video for the title track, you can watch it HERE.
Authentic, roots-based voices have penetrated the mainstream in recent years, from the soulful yearns of early Leon Bridges, the groove of Gary Clark Jr., the booming voice of Jacob Banks, the raw and haunting delivery of Ray LaMontagne or the earthy tones of Rag ‘n Bone Man – those voices cut through, and they stand out, they make you take notice because they don’t sound like everyone else.
Selby’s voice echoes these trailblazers, enveloping his music with an emotional integrity. He delves deep into his soul, all the way down into his core and the feeling of belonging. “The songs are about my feelings of being in the world and not really feeling like I belong,” he explains.
Life can often throw you around, leaving you mentally and emotionally battered and bruised, and not all of us know how we deal with these situations. Selby, like many others, has found it difficult to verbalise these feelings and emotions, so this is his way of expressing himself – his emotional communication. “I honestly don’t know why I find songwriting the only way to get these emotions out. It’s just the way it is. Music is the way I’ve always been able to express myself,” he reflects.
The young multi-award-winning musician has collaborated with Mark Knofler; he has supported The Who at Wembley Stadium and shared the stage at London’s Hyde Park Festival alongside the likes of Pearl Jam and Stereophonics. He has toured with powerhouse singer Beth Hart, including a performance at the iconic London Palladium. His glittering tour CV has included shows with Robert Cray, Joanne Shaw Taylor, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Betty LaVette, and P.P. Arnold.
Unfazed by the big stages, it’s something that he just takes into his unhurried stride, “A stage is a stage. I just shut my eyes when I’m playing, and it’s like you’re just playing another gig. That’s kind of how I wrap my head around.”
When he talks about where his place is in this world and where he belongs, this is where he belongs – evoking a calm and assured confidence with his emotive storytelling dancing along his fretboard as he’s lost in his thoughts.
When you wear your heart on your sleeve and can only live by openness and honesty, you’ll likely get burnt in relationships and life. Sometimes, he feels like an outsider, looking in on the world. “I’ve always felt that feeling of not necessarily being able to live up to people’s expectations,” he opens up. This has become a hurdle that he has had to overcome throughout his life.
This is reflected in the title track. “This song is about the feeling of not knowing or not being able to be the person that others expect of you and the despair and confusion this brings trying to navigate a world where you feel like you’re playing to a different set of rules as everyone else,” he reveals.
Selby almost stands alone in the world of contemporary music, outside the parameters of the genres he touches upon – no one is making the king of music he is; no one really sounds like he does. This all plays into his sense of identity and belonging.
We can all only be who we are. Once you’re happy with yourself, you can be happy with life. But you need to find yourself first. “You can try and fake it, but the truth will come out eventually,” he reflects. “So you might as well make peace with it. That’s the story of the song. I’m particularly proud of this one, and it’s one of my most personal songs.”
The heart-fluttering groove of the album opener and his first single,Someone, sees Selby in full bandleader mode. You’re drawn in when he sings, “When there’s someone you can speak your mind without a care when there is someone that really cares about you.”
This, alongside I Am Who I Am, represents the mental battles that he often feels engaged in. He really spreads his wings on the goosebump-inducing beauty of the folky ballads Amelia and Songbird. “Mental health is a big part of the album’s songwriting,” he continues. “Either my mental health or someone else’s.”
These experiences cannot help but permeate his music, some written over the last twelve months and some old songs given a reinvigorating lease of life. With every release, we’re learning a little more of Selby. On The Truth Comes Out Eventually, he truly explores all facets of his musicality—Is he a ballroom big band leader? Is he a smouldering guitar hero? Or is he a delicate, folky troubadour? In truth, he is all of these things and more.
Track Listing 1. Someone 2. All Out of Luck 3. The Truth Comes Out Eventually 4. (I Am) Who I Am 5. I Won’t Be Hard To Find 6. I’ll Never Learn 7. Amelia 8. It Hurts To be In Love 9. What Else Is There To Say 10. Songbird
2025 Connor Selby Shows – Tickets are available fromHERE.
11 Jul – Burton Agnes Jazz and Blues Festival 20 Jul – Westival, Aldershot 27 Jul – Brezoi Open Air Festival, Romania 30 Jul – New Haven Club, Oxford 01 Aug – Northern Kin Festival 02 Aug – Cousley Woodstock, Tunbridge Wells 20 Aug – Hangar Farm, Southhampton 21 Aug – Eel Pie Club, Twickenem 29 Aug – Blues in Hell, Norway 12 Sep – The Old Riverport Blues, St Ives, Cambridgeshire 17 Sep – The Witham, Barnard Castle 18 Sep – Kings Place 2, London 19 Sep – John Peel Centre, Stowmarket 21 Sep – The Forum, Tunbridge Wells 24 Sep – Voodoo Rooms, Edinburgh 25 Sep – Hallé St Peter’s, Manchester 26 Sep – Metronome, Nottingham 27 Sep – Beacon Hall, Bristol 28 Sep – Guildhall, Axminster
Swedish vocalist Robin Red (Degreed) is pleased share his new single and official visualizer, “Don’t Leave Me (Summer Version)”, out now via Frontiers Music Srl.
The track is a special version of the first Robin Red single, “Don’t Leave Me (With A Broken Heart)”, originally released in 2021.
“Get ready to hear a completely different side of me. This is a lot of fun and perfect for your summer vacation”, Robin commented.
Robin Red is Swedish singer Robin Eriksson’s alter ego. Robin is known for being one of the founding members of melodic hard rockers Degreed. Since then, he has toured all over Europe in support of seven well received studio albums from the band. Additionally, Robin also participated in the Swedish version of American Idol in 2008, finishing in the Top 10.
In 2021, Robin released his first solo album under the name Robin Red. He teamed up with Dave Dalone (H.E.A.T), as producer, guitarist and co-songwriter, to record the album.
“It’s always been a dream for me to be able to do this. Releasing my own album with the style of music that I love the most. Singing for the pure love of it. This is a dream come true for sure”, said Robin.
Now, in 2025, Robin is doing his first live show ever under the name Robin Red. Together with the boys from Wildness, he will perform at Kopparbergs Festivalen in his hometown, Kopparberg, Sweden, on August 8th. Robin’s son Lennon will also join in for a couple of songs.
To celebrate the first show ever, Robin’s releasing three unreleased songs this summer. Following the release of “Don’t Leave Me (Summer Version)”, fans can expect two more songs to drop in the upcoming months.
Line Up: Robin Red – Lead vocals, backing vocals & bass. Dave Dalone – Guitars, synthesizers, backing vocals and percussion. Mats Eriksson – Drums Erik Modin – Percussion Joan Eriksson – Grand Piano, background vocals Jona Tee – Organ Petra Eriksson – Background vocals
Kimmo Kuusniemi’s ASA unveil the long-overdue release of "Collective Failure" + first music video for title-track! Check it out and stay tuned for more news! Click image to watch the video
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