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tAKiDA to Release Physical Version of “Boxroom Tour – Live At Tonhallen In Sundsvall”, Out November 28th

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tAKiDA, one of Sweden’s most successful rock bands, are adding their most recent live album, Boxroom Tour – Live At Tonhallen In Sundsvall, to their physical repertoire. Originally released in digital format earlier this year, the live recordings will be out in several exclusive physical formats on November 28, 2025 via Napalm Records. Recorded in 2024, the album unleashes the electrifying energy of their live semi-acoustic performances across 19 powerful tracks – dubbed the Boxroom versions.

Together with the announcement, tAKiDA unveil the first glimpse of what to expect on the album. “Sacred Spell” (off their most recent studio album, The Agony Flame, 2024) encapsulates the intimate atmosphere of the recorded show – a captivating look into the softer, yet strikingly powerful reimaginations that make up Boxroom Tour – Live At Tonhallen In Sundsvall. Enriched by lush strings and warm horn arrangements, all accompanied by soaring melodies and powerful vocals, this record shows what made tAKiDA such a dominant force in rock.

Since forming in 1999 and breaking out with their debut album, tAKiDA has ruled the Swedish rock scene with six platinum singles (including one of them 4x platinum), three platinum albums, and five #1 albums. Their success has also crossed borders: their most recent studio album, The Agony Flame (2024), marked their highest German chart entry yet (#8), while its lead single “The Loneliest Hour” hit #1 on the German Rock Airplay Charts. Boxroom Tour – Live At Tonhallen In Sundsvall takes the audience on a journey through tAKiDA’s successful discography, from introspective “Jaded” (originally released on their first album …Make You Breathe, 2006) to hits like “Curly Sue” (from Bury The Lies, 2007), “Master” (from Sju, 2019), and “You Learn” (from The Burning Heart, 2011), all the way to deeply emotional “Feel You Falling Away” (from Falling From Fame, 2021). The unique atmosphere of the Boxroom versions, enhanced by strings and soft choir, enhances beloved songs in a never-before-heard way.

Boxroom Tour – Live At Tonhallen In Sundsvall brings a new side of tAKiDA to our living rooms. Intimate, gentle, and effortlessly captivating, the Swedish rockers showcase what took them to the top of their home country’s rock scene and onto international stages alike.

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Boxroom Tour – Live At Tonhallen In Sundsvall tracklisting:

Jaded
As You Die
Better
Willow And Dead
Curly Sue
Your Blood Awaits You
Give Into Me
Never Alone Always Alone
Summer’s Gone
Evil eye
Sacred Spell
Untouchable Part 2
Master
Swallow
You Learn
What You Never Knew
Morning Sun
My Dove
Feel You Falling Away

tAKiDA are:
Robert Pettersson – Vocals
Tomas Wallin – Guitars
Mattias Larsson – Guitars
Chris Rehn – Piano
Anders Lundström – Bass
Kristoffer Söderström – Drums

tAKiDA online:
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NAPALM RECORDS

DEAD HEAT Unleash New Video for ‘The Order’

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West Coast crossover faction DEAD HEAT is pleased to unleash their latest video for “The Order” from their Process Of Elimination full-length.The premiere comes on the eve of the record’s official release Friday, October 10th on Metal Blade Records!

Produced by the band with Paul Fig (Deftones, Trivium, Jerry Cantrell), Process Of Elimination is DEAD HEAT‘s first album for Metal Blade. Across eleven heavy tracks, it sees the Oxnard, California-based band reaching a sonic and lyrical apex. The record follows the band’s critically adored, 2023 released Endless Torment EP and serves as a continuation and progression musically, while thematically it often touches on DEAD HEAT‘s disdain for the powers that be.

Stream DEAD HEAT‘s previously released single, “Perpetual Punishment” HERE and “By My Will” HERE.

Of the record’s lead single, “Perpetual Punishment,” Stereogum accurately championed, “great music for headbutting all your best friends.” Elsewhere, Decibel Magazine notes, “Process… leans deep into the snarl and gnarl of their previous work to produce a vicious, bloodthirsty thrash record that is more Demolition Hammer, Kreator, or Sodom than it is crossover like D.R.I. or Crumbsuckers.” Rock Hard Germany writes, “After a short acoustic intro at the beginning of ‘Perpetual Punishment,’ DEAD HEAT open their third album with the sensitivity of an orbital sander. The Californian five-piece’s crossover hardcore thrash is beautifully raucous, its raw style repeatedly reminiscent of their Texan colleagues Power Trip.” Mystification ‘Zine hails a “harder, meaner and louder” era of DEAD HEAT while Fuze confirms, “The songs are raw and uncompromising, yet catchy and instantly recognizable. DEAD HEAT manages to combine heaviness and hooks in such a way that their tracks not only work in the mosh pit but also stick in the mind.” Adds Transcended Music, “If you’re into riffs, Process Of Elimination is pure riff city.“

Comments vocalist Chris Ramos on today’s single, “‘The Order’ is about knowing your place in line when it comes to things. Just because you’re given something, doesn’t mean you always earn it and when it comes to that, real recognizes real. Some people all they do is leech off others and use them just to benefit themselves and break away later. Always know there’s an order to things and if you don’t follow you don’t need to be around.”

Find all pre-orders at: metalblade.com/deadheat

Process Of Elimination Track Listing:
01. Perpetual Punishment
02. Annihilation Nation
03. Hidebound
04. The Order
05. Enemy
06. Seventh Gate
07. DH Stomp
08. Solace Denied
09. By My Will
10. Process of Elimination
11. Hatred Bestowed

DEAD HEAT Live w/ 200 Stab Wounds, No Cure, Bastardane:
11/03/2025 HQ – Denver, CO
11/04/2025 Complex – Salt Lake City, UT
11/05/2025 Eagle Aerie Hall – Las Vegas, NV
11/07/2025 The Ritz – San Jose, CA
11/08/2025 Goldfields – Sacramento, CA
11/09/2025 1720 – Los Angeles, CA
11/10/2025 The Rosetta Room – Mesa, AZ
11/12/2025 Soggie Doggy – Lubbock, TX **
11/13/2025 The Wave – Wichita, KS **
11/15/2025 The Stache – Grand Rapids, MI **
** No Bastardane

DEAD HEAT:
Justin Ton – rhythm guitar
Ricky Garcia – lead guitar
Chris Ramos – vocals
Yogie Rodriguez – drums
Vincent Amador – bass/ rhythm guitar
Lorence Chanch Meraz – bass

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ILDARUNI Launch Final Single ‘Zurvan Akrane’ from Upcoming Album

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Check out Ildaruni’s 3rd single “Zurvan Akrane”, taken from the forthcoming album “Divinum Sanguinem”. The new album will be out on the 7th of November, 2025, via Black Lion Records.

Ildaruni stands as a force of unrelenting and immersive black metal, channeling an atmosphere that is both ferocious and transcendental. Its music captures intensity through towering soundscapes, layered with precision and aggression, while their lyrical vision delves into the arcane mysteries of worlds long past. With a sharpened focus and a blazing presence, Ildaruni are set to ignite the scene once again with their long-awaited, commanding black metal invocations.

Pre-order the album at https://lnk.to/Ildaruni-DivinumSanguinem

Ildaruni’s new album marks a powerful evolution, moving away from their pagan/folk roots to fully embrace raw, atmospheric black metal. Inspired by ancient mysticism and lore, the record weaves dark, immersive soundscapes featuring melodic chanting, authentic choir, and grand orchestral arrangements.

A New Era Is Unveiled…

Ancient darkened rites and forgotten mythos converge, awakening a slumbering force from the gilded shrine. The trumpets of damnation shall sound seven times, summoning from the void the god of covenants. With spite and thirst, the fire-born shall raise the sulfur dagger profane to scald and shed the blood, presaging new woeful revelation.

Nine ominous initiations that are set to transform you into the storm of nomos and burning gnosis. A work of mystical upheaval, a sermon to the bestower of creed who will guide through the ghastly pathways to the ladders of Apothanaitismos!

Thy alone is his wreath! The spewed sacred blood is the essence of divine mysteries, pulverized and accursed, is the hollowed memory that hierophants passed on, is the forbidden knowledge, erased and incinerated, yet alive in ashes! A ritual of divine bloodletting is about to unfold, and you are invited to revel in its might.

Track list
1 Mithras Alone is My Wreath
2 The Ascension of Kosmokrator
3 Of Nomos and Flaming Flint Stone
4 Forged with Glaive and Blood
5 Zurvan Akrane
6 Arcane Sermon
7 Immersion into Empyrean
8 Scorching Pathways to Samachi
9 Divinum Sanguinem

Album cover artwork by Khaos Diktator Design
Album layout design by Heresie Studio
Sigils by Anatiummi Arts
Logo by Christophe Szpajdel

Members
Narek Avedyan – Vocals
Robert Meliksetyan – Guitars, acoustic guitars
Mark Erskine – Guitars
Artak Karapetyan – Bass
Arthur Poghosyan – Drums, dap

Follow Ildaruni:
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Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ildaruni/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ildaruni3870

ELETTRA STORM Release New Video ‘Hero Among Heroes’

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photo by Alessio Pallante/Skystrings Production

Elettra Storm has released a video for “Hero Among Heroes”, third single taken from the new album “Evertale” to be released on October 24 by Scarlet Records.

This song pays homage to the ’80s melodic metal, but it’s still a contemporary power metal song with its addictive vocal lines, groovy drums patterns and intertwined guitar and keytar solo. Everyone of us has his/her personal hero, and many times it’s the person right next to you. Life itself is the biggest adventure: there are monsters, treasures, battles that must be fought, secrets that need to be revealed, and it’s priceless to share it all with someone you truly love and respect.

video by Alessio Pallante/Skystrings Production

“Evertale”:

sophomore album for the Italian power metal rising force after the successful debut “Powerlords”;
mixed and mastered by Simone Mularoni at Domination Studio (Wind Rose, Vision Divine, Twilight Force); vocals tracking by Skystrings Production; drums tracking by Artesonika Studio;
cover & artwork by Sheila Franco (Hell In The Club);
FFO: Stratovarius, Rhapsody Of Fire, DragonForce, Battle Beast, Frozen Crown;

“Evertale” tracklist:
1 Endgame
2 The Secrets Of The Universe
3 Hero Among Heroes
4 Blue Phoenix
5 Ride The Rainbow
6 Master Of Fairytales
7 One Last Ray Of Light
8 Judgment Time
9 If The Stars Could Cry

Total running time – 44:59

Elettra Storm took the power metal scene by… storm with the flawless 2024’s debut album “Powerlords”. Now they made a huge step forward, though, and the sound of “Evertale” is even more defined and cohesive.

Every band’s member had the chance to get the spotlight with his own style and personality, and the songs are more technical: some carry a proggy flavor, some other bring on the table the fury of speed power metal – but all of them are direct and catchy at the same time, with soaring melodies that will linger in the brain since the first spin and another stellar performance by charismatic frontwoman Crystal Emiliani.

Lyrically-wise, “Evertale” is a chest of wonders – like Micheal Ende’s “Neverending Story”, this record is a thrilling celebration of storytelling: each song tells its own story indeed, and the listener will find the drama of war, the desire for revenge, the journey of a hero, the mysteries of the ancient ones and much more.

Elettra Storm:
Crystal Emiliani – vocals
Francis D. Mary – guitar, vocals
Matteo Antoni – guitar
Davide Sportiello – keyboards, bass
Matteo Norbedo – drums

GATECREEPER Unleash Chaos in New Video for ‘Mistaken For Dead’

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Arizona death metal squad GATECREEPER has debuted a new music video for their frenzied track ‘Mistaken For Dead,’ featured on their latest album, Dark Superstition, available now from Nuclear Blast Records.

The video arrives just ahead of GATECREEPER’s European tour with ARCH ENEMY, AMORPHIS and ELUVEITIE that will be followed by a run with THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER in Mexico and South America to cap off the year. Tickets are on sale now at https://gatecreeper.com/.

GATECREEPER‘s sprawling third full-length album and label debut for Nuclear Blast, Dark Superstition moves swiftly from one brutal soundscape to the next, each sonic structure evoking its own emotion and landscape. Purchase and stream Dark Superstition at https://gatecreeper.bfan.link/dark-superstition.

GATECREEPER Tour Dates:

W/ARCH ENEMY, AMORPHIS & ELUVEITIE

Oct 10 – Stuttgart, DE – Schleyerhalle
Oct 11 – Frankfurt, DE – Jahrhunderhalle
Oct 12 – Munich, DE – Zenith
Oct 14 – Budapest, HU – Barba Negra Track
Oct 15 – Vienna, AT – Gasometer
Oct 17 – Berlin, DE – Columbiahalle
Oct 18 – Prague, CZ – Sportovni Hala Fortuna
Oct 19 – Gliwice, PL – Prezero Arena Gliwice
Oct 21 – Zürich, CH – The Hall
Oct 22 – Milan, IT – Alcatraz
Oct 23 – Lyon, FR – Radiant-Bellevue
Oct 25 – Madrid, ES – Palacio Vistalegre
Oct 27 – Paris, FR – Zenith
Oct 28 – Amsterdam, NL – AFAS Live
Oct 30 – Wolverhampton, UK – Civic Hall
Oct 31 – Manchester, UK – O2 Apollo Manchester
Nov 1 – London, UK – Eventim Apollo
Nov 3 – Esch-sur-Alzette, LU – Rockhal
Nov 4 – Brussels, BE – Ancienne Belgique
Nov 5 – Leipzig, DE – Haus Auensee
Nov 7 – Gothenburg, SE – Partille Arena
Nov 8 – Stockholm, SE – Annexet
Nov 10 – Helsinki, FI – Helsinki Ice Hall
Nov 12 – Oslo, NO – Sentrum Scene
Nov 13 – Copenhagen, DK – Poolen
Nov 14 – Hanover, DE – Swiss Life Hall
Nov 15 – Düsseldorf, DE – Mitsubishi Electric Halle

W/THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER
Dec 4 – Guadalajara, MX – Foro Independencia
Dec 5 – Monterrey, MX – Cafe Iguana
Dec 6 – Mexico City, MX – Supremo
Dec 8 – Bogotá, CO – Ace of Spades
Dec 12 – Buenos Aires, AR – Uniclub
Dec 14 – São Paulo, BR – Hangar 110 – Musica & Cultura

THE FIXER Unleash New Single ‘Ugly Knots’ + Announce “The Ugly Knots Tour” Across Canada w/ TEKNOSIS

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Thunder Bay, Canada’s The Fixer has dropped their new single “Ugly Knots”, a sonic and emotional powerhouse that sets the tone as they kick off their “The Ugly Knots Tour” this October with fellow hometown band Teknosis.

“Ugly Knots” is a raw, genre-defying track that fuses industrial metal with hardcore grit and ambient textures. It opens with abrasive riffs and harsh electronics before evolving into a sweeping, melodic climax, mirroring the emotional journey the band intends for listeners.

“This song is for the kind people we’ve seen be hated, harassed, and threatened. It’s written from the first-person perspective, but the spoken word section—contributed by our friend John Forget—comes directly from someone who lived that experience. It’s a message of strength in the face of cruelty,” says the band.

Add to your Spotify playlist – https://open.spotify.com/track/3hvFHi6mVgqRlmDWHlAo8f

Listen to “Ugly Knots”:

Lyrically and musically, “Ugly Knots” is one of The Fixer’s heaviest and most artful releases to date. Eschewing formulaic conventions, the band leans hard into their industrial roots while exploring themes of anger, sadness, and resilience. Fans of their heavier material will find plenty to latch onto, while new listeners will be drawn into its emotional depth.

The single marks the beginning of a new chapter for The Fixer, as they hit the road with Teknosis for a tour of Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta (dates listed below) that promises catharsis, chaos, and connection. “Ugly Knots” is more than a song; it’s a statement.

Formed out of pure love for metal. Teknosis has quickly evolved into a tight, aggressive unit with a shared vision: to make heavy music that hits hard and leaves no room to breathe. Set to ignite stages across the country this October, Teknosis is bringing their relentless live energy to fans in support of their acclaimed 2024 EP “Return to Civilization”, a five-track barrage of groove-laced hardcore and death metal influences. It’s a compact, violent sonic explosion that lyrically channels frustration and isolation from lockdowns, with themes ranging from societal collapse to personal survival.

With ambient samples bridging each track, Teknosis will be a visceral live experience as they deliver a seamless, high-impact set that’s organic, heavy, and hypnotic.

“We still believe in live amps and drums straight to the cochlea. It’s all about maximum intensity. A sonic experience that’s as brutal as it is addictive,” says bassist Travis Doggett.

Fans can expect new singles starting in Fall 2025, leading up to a full-length album in late 2025 or early 2026. The October tour will feature tracks from “Return to Civilization” alongside unreleased material, giving audiences a taste of what’s to come.

Lyric Video – Teknosis – Shapeshifter – https://youtu.be/dWfqfwHSbQY
Add to your Spotify playlist – https://open.spotify.com/artist/5Cu2jRvDUKvEZdqJd5QjwJ

Ugly Knots Tour 2025 – The Fixer, Teknosis
Oct 9 – Fort Frances, ON – Pink Parasol Tea Room
Oct 10 – Brandon, MB – The 40
Oct 11 – Prince Albert, SK – Studio Q
Oct 12 – Edmonton, AB – The Rendezvous
Oct 13 – Calgary, AB – Pin Bar
Oct 14 – Lethbridge, AB – The Slice
Oct 15 – Moose Jaw, SK – Chillers
Oct 16 – Saskatoon, SK – Green Room
Oct 17 – Regina, SK – The Exchange
Oct 18 – The Pas, MB – The Wescana Inn
Oct 19 – Winnipeg, MB – Osborne Taphouse
Oct 31 – Thunder Bay, ON – The Hunger 18 (Downtown-wide Hallowe’en Festival)

More Info:

https://www.facebook.com/TheFixerBand | https://www.instagram.com/thefixercanada | https://www.tiktok.com/@thefixercanada

https://www.facebook.com/teknosismetal | https://www.instagram.com/teknosis.metal/