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  Dutch symphonic metal titans, EPICA, are thrilled to announce a special livestream event for one of their highly anticipated "The Symphonic Synergy" shows, set to take place in Amsterdam with a full orchestra and choir. This unique sold out performance, scheduled for September 20th at 20:00 CEST (19:00 LONDON, 15:00 SAO PAULO, 14:00 NEW YORK, 12:00 MEXICO CITY and 11:00 AM LOS ANGELES TIME), will showcase the band’s signature fusion of their greatest hits and secret fan favourites with soaring orchestral arrangements, guest performers and plenty of surprises including new music! Fans from all around the world who are unable to attend the show in person will now have the opportunity to experience the concert in real time through a professional multicam livestream. The band comments: "We’re beyond excited to bring this special show to every Epican anywhere in the world! 'The Symphonic Synergy' is more than just a concert—it's a celebration of everything Epica...

  Brace yourselves, metalheads! In a seismic announcement that has sent shockwaves through the metal community, three of Sweden's most iconic metal bands, In Flames, Arch Enemy and Soilwork are teaming up for a UK and EU tour titled the 'Rising From The North' 2024 tour. The line-up promises an unforgettable night of Swedish metal mayhem. Anders Fridén from In Flames stated: "Couldn’t be more excited to announce this tour. It’s been a long time coming and we are finally back together again on stage with our friends in ARCH ENEMY and SOILWORK. We plan to bring you an unforgettable night of melody and mayhem! This is some of Sweden's finest - a tour you simply should not miss!!!" Michael Amott from Arch Enemy adds: “Check this Swedish Metal extravaganza across Europe in 2024! We go way back with IN FLAMES and SOILWORK to the very early days of Arch Enemy and honestly couldn’t be happier to announce this run with our Swedish comrades - this tour is going to be a...

  Polish death metal legends VADER are proud to announce their "Revelation Of The Wicked - North American 2023" tour. The 29-date trek will kick off in Arizona on March 18th, the tour will make stops in Atlanta, Quebec City, and Salt Lake City before concluding in San Diego on April 17th. Joining the tour are Brazil's death metal heroes KRISIUN and brutal-tech death merchants and labelmates DECREPIT BIRTH. VADER’s Piotr "Peter" Wiwczarek comments, “FINALLY, we are announcing the long-awaited US & Canada tour. It's been a while since our last visit to the North American continent in early 2020. Together with Continental and Nuclear Blast, we prepared a very special show including a set of songs from the debut of The Ultimate Incantation (30-year anniversary) and Revelations (20-year anniversary). Quite a number of them were very occasionally or never played before. A nice mix of other VADER albums should satisfy every VaderManiac indeed. “Revelations Of T...

  Polish death metal legends VADER have announced new dates in Sweden and Denmark for "Final Declaration Northern Tour 2022" with HATE and THY DISEASE. Peter, frontman of Vader shared: "VADERMANIAX !!! Here we have some more details for the upcoming "Final Declaration Northern Tour 2022" for You. There are new dates in Sweden and Denmark. On this tour organized in cooperation between Massive Music and Creative Music we will bring our Friends from HATE and Thy Disease. ARE YOU READY ??? \m/" See the confirmed shows below. 01.09.22- LT / VILNIUS - “Kablys” 02.09.22 - LV / RIGA - “Republika“ 03.09.22 - EE / TALLINN - “Tapper” 04.09.22 - FI / HELSINKI - “On the Rocks“ 05.09.22 - FI / TAMPERE - “Yo-talo“ 06.09.22 - FI / SEINAJOKI - “Rytmikorjaamo“ 07.09.22 - FI / JYVASKYLA - “Lutakko“ 08.09.22 - SE / UMEA - “Droskan“ 10.09.22 - SE / STOCKHOLM - "Hus 7" 13.09.22 - DK / ROSKILDE - "Gimle" 14.09.22 - DK / ODENSE - "Kansas City...

  Polish death metal legends VADER - who are ready to kick off this Friday their "De Profundis XXV Album Reedition Tour 2022 Part 2 - have announced their new tour in Australia and New Zealand for October 2022. The support comes from Polish Industrial/Groove Metallers THY DISEASE. Massive Music stated: "Vader is coming back to Australia and New Zealand!!! After 5 year long break Vader will visit Australia and New Zealand! We were planning this for a long time and in 2017 we had a tour booked for these territories, but back then we had to change our plans for reasons beyond our control. Now the time has come to announce that CREATIVE MUSIC together with SLAMMAN BOOKING ASIA, HARDLINE MEDIA and VALHALLA TOURING are bringing the pride of Poland to Australia and New Zealand! We just keep our fingers crossed that nothing will stand in our way in these weird times. During their shows in Australia and New Zealand, VADER will be accompanied by Polish band Thy Disease who had the oppo...

  Polish death metal legends VADER have announced the rescheduled "De Profundis XXV Album Reedition Tour 2022 Part 2", organized by Massive Music. The tour was postponed from 2021 due to covid19! Support comes from REJECT THE SICKNESS, MARA and NEMESIS. See the tour dates below. "We proudly present a tour postponed due to covid19 from 2021. Death Metal legend VADER will hit the stage again with the classic "De Profundis". It will be the last opportunity to listen live the full album and a special set with the band's classics." DE PROFUNDIS XXV ALBUM REEDITION TOUR 2022 Part 2 ++++++++++++++++ VADER REJECT THE SICKNESS MARA NEMESIS 24.04.2022 SK - Bratislava / Randall 26.04.2022 A - Wien / Viper Room 27.04.2022 SLO - Ljubljana / Orto Bar 28.04.2022 SER - Novi Sad / SKCNS Fabrika 29.04.2022 CRO - Zagreb / Mocvara 30.04.2022 ITA - San Dona di Piave / Revolver 01.05.2022 ITA - Milano / Tbc 03.05.2022 CH - Martigny / Sunse...

  Polish death metal legends VADER have announced "Final Declaration Northern 2022 Tour" with HATE. Furthermore the band has issued an update for "United Titans Tour 2022" with MARDUK. VADERMANIAX !!!! We are proud to announce "Final Declaration Northern 2022 Tour" organized in cooperation with Creative Music and Massive Music. We plan to visit Baltic Lands area and Scandinavia all around Baltic See in September 2022. ARE YOU READY??? More info about dates and cities soon. UPDATED "United Titans" tour dates in March 2022, adding one more show in Germany: 09.03.2022 (D) - Wuerzburg / Posthalle 10.03.2022 (NL) - Helmond / Cacao Fabriek 11.03.2022 (D) - Marsberg / Metal Diver Festival 12.03.2022 (D) - Weinheim / Central Cafe 13.03.2022 (B) - Aarlon / L’Entrepod 14.03.2022 (UK) - London / The Garage 15.03.2022 (SCT) - Glasgow / Slay 16.03.2022 (UK) - Birmingham / Castle&Falcon 17.03.2022 (UK) - Manchester / Rebellion 18.03.2022 (F) - Lille / The ...

  Polish death metal legends VADER have issued their Happy New Year message for their fans, revealing also the plans for this year, read below. VADERMANIAX !!! Happy New Year 2022 \m/ We really (REALLY) hope, that all the global situation with pandemia won’t ground tours and shows for next months. It is about time to hit the road again, isn’t it? And what are Vader plans for 2022? Together with Massive Music we will try to start late February in Poland with some very special set list bringing memories from early days. Besides a list of Polish songs we’d like to bring back some tunes from „Revelations” (XX-anniversary in 2022). Of course, this is just a supplement to the regular list presenting songs from new album or (oh yes…still) still expected „De Profundis”. In March - as You already know - we’ll be back on „United Titans Tour” with Friends from Marduk to visit around 20 cities in Europe. Some of dates were already posted and more are to come soon. In Spring we’d love to be ba...

  Polish death metal legends VADER, fresh from their first part of ‘De Profundis XXV’ European Tour, are now announcing the second part of the tour, kicking off in December 2021, supported by MONUMENT OF MISANTHROPY and guests. The band stated: “VADERMANIAX !!! Great news indeed \m/ We proudly announce the 2nd part of Vader tour celebrating reedition of "De Profundis" album and our last record "Solitude in Madness", organiazed again by Massive Music! This time we'll head to the South visiting Poland, Slovakia, Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria, Serbia, Croatia, Macedonia, Slovenia and Turkey. How about that?! ARE YOU READY?” DE PROFUNDIS XXV ALBUM REEDITION TOUR 2021 - part 2 VADER MONUMENT OF MISANTHROPY & GUESTS 07.12.2021 (POL) Krosno / Iron Klub 08.12.2021 (SK) Kosice / Coloseum 09.12.2021 (ROM) Cluj Napoca / FormSpace 10.12.2021 (ROM) Bucarest / Quantic Club 11.12.2021 (TUR) Istanbul / Tbc 12.12.2021 (BUL) Sofia / Mixtape 5 1...

  Unleashing their beast of an album "Seismic" on November 20th, Without Mercy assaulted fans with their latest behemoth of nine assaulting grooving death metal tracks that even include special guests Jeff Loomis (Arch Enemy) on opening track "Thunderbird" and Chris Broderick (Act of Defiance) on "Disinfect The Soul". Both showcase their undeniable massacring shred talents for each guest solo and today, Without Mercy is sharing the playthrough clip for Loomis' contribution. It's all speed, virtuosity, and the Midas touch of an unquestionable guitar god. Watch the video on Without Mercy's YouTube channel HERE .   Without Mercy's new album "Seismic" is distributed by Bloodblast Distribution (powered by Nuclear Blast) and follows the band's 2016 EP "Moucchido". The vast majority of the material for “Seismic” was written and rewritten multiple times over the past four years. Honed and tightened over tours and live pe...

It is one of these songs that makes both musicians and audience hold their breath: Italian orchestral death metallers FLESHGOD APOCALYPSE release a bass playthrough for one of their most demanding songs - "The Fool", a both epic and brute masterpiece taken from FLESHGOD APOCALYPSE's 2016 album "King". Check out the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BikqWvokc1M The band states,"'The Fool' is one of our most popular songs and, at the same time, one of the most challenging to perform live. That's why we chose it for the second installment in our series of playthrough videos. Have fun watching it!" Veleno Across Europe Tour 2020 w/ EX DEO 01.10. D Übach-Palenberg - Rockfabrik 02.10. NL Nijmegen - Doornroosje 03.10. F Paris - Petit Bain 04.10. UK London - The Underworld Camden 06.10. F Nantes - Le Ferrailleur ...

Last year, Swedish-American power metal supergroup NORTHTALE released their successful debut album "Welcome To Paradise" via Nuclear Blast. The band release a new playthrough video for 'Shape Your Reality', watch here how Bill Hudson shreds the song: https://youtu.be/mh8QAb39lgE Guitarist Bill Hudson comments: “I hope everyone is staying safe, wherever they are. It seems unreal to think we’re actually living through this, but it’s giving me an opportunity to get a good headstart on the songs for our next album! I already have about half of it written and it will be time for pre production soon. For the time being, i want to go back to the first album and release the guitar playthrough for the song that started it all for the band, Shape Your Reality! Since you’ll be home anyway, check it out and share it with your friends! ” Last year, NORTHTALE played two concerts in Japan as part of the Evoken Fest. In case you missed it, watch the video for 'Time To R...

After months of mounting anticipation and mass critical praise, Georgia bred metal powerhouse IRIST has released their debut album, Order of the Mind, via Nuclear Blast on March 27th 2020. It’s now available for purchase and stream at nuclearblast.com/irist-ootm . Without warning, IRIST exploded on the scene in January with the massive single ' Burning Sage ', which was lauded by Kerrang as having, “the throttle and swing of GOJIRA, the thoughtful bludgeoning of MESHUGGAH, the arcane sneer of HIGH ON FIRE”, and Revolver stating, “It's post-metal without the drawn-out pretense, it's hardcore without the corny bro-speak, and it worships at the foot of doom without the exhaustive passages that wear on the ear.” Since that moment, IRIST has experienced monumental breakout success, fueled by crushing singles like ' Severed ' and ' Creation '. Now, with the arrival of Order of the Mind, fans can witness firsthand the urgency and intensity of the album a...

Like many artists, CELLAR DARLING have been hit hard by the Coronavirus pandemic and the associated lockdown measures and show cancellations. Rather than giving in or just asking for money without offering something in return, they've announced a campaign where they will provide exclusive content to fans straight from their own homes and rehearsal space, culminating in a live-streamed performance at Lucerne's Soundfarm Studio. The campaign will begin on 5 April with a live Q&A session at www.cellardarling.com/lockdown-content The live stream will take place on 3 May at 20:00 CEST | 19:00 BST | 14:00 EDT | 11:00 PDT | 15:00 BRT | 21:00 MSK | 03:00 JST | 02:00 SGT. Fans will be able to watch at www.cellardarling.com/live-at-soundfarm Throughout the campaign, fans can contribute by donating directly to the band. The stream itself is 'pay-what-you-want' and will also be available for free for those who can't afford to contribute. The band comment: "T...

Breakout Southern metal band IRIST will release their massively anticipated debut album, Order of the Mind, next Friday, March 27th with Nuclear Blast. In a much-needed distraction, the band has delivered a colossal new single, 'Creation', and accompanying video that can be viewed here: youtu.be/q1w8B22JIiw Although their record release show was cancelled due to COVID-19, IRIST’s new video for 'Creation' gives fans a taste of their incendiary live performance. Director Dan Almasy beautifully captures the song’s introspective spirit and powerful energy. “‘Creation' is an upbeat song on the surface, but it’s also meant to be meditative”, says guitarist Pablo Davila. “I think it somehow conveys a subtle “otherworldliness” that’s not easy to express. Dan Almasy did a great job of interpreting that vibe for us in this music video.” Digging in further, the lyrical concept of 'Creation' is a profound exercise in self-reflection that peels away at the laye...

Recently, Finnish singer/ bassist Marko Hietala released his debut solo album "Pyre Of The Black Heart" via Nuclear Blast. Today, the band are pleased to reveal another live video for the track 'For You', that was recorded during their recent European tour. Watch the live clip 'For You', here: https://youtu.be/XTuVCe_YEUs Get your copy of 'Pyre Of The Black Heart' here: https://nblast.de/MarkoHietala-POTBH Marko Hietala comments: "Hi everyone! What a sorry state we, the civilization on planet Earth, are in. Everyone everywhere feels it this time. For a lot of us, this has already become a personal issue in the worst possible ways. For my part, I’m just grateful that my lady got back to me from the other side of the world in time. There’s a trusted hand to hold in this isolation. I was lucky. Patience, courage, strength & love to all. Marko. And here’s one more live video from Z7, Pratteln, Switzerland. This one’s 'For You...

A few weeks back, Georgian metal quintet IRIST dropped a bombshell new single, 'Burning Sage' on an unsuspecting metal world and in its wake left the scene buzzing about one of the South’s most exciting bands to come along in years. In a new video released by the band, they’ve invited fans into their world to find out a little more about them and the nature of their sound. Meet the band below. IRIST - INTRODUCTION TO THE BAND: youtu.be/Qyekg-tAE7U Pre-order your copy of Order of the Mind here: nuclearblast.com/irist-ootm Stream / pre-save / pre-add 'Burning Sage' and the album here: nblast.de/IRISTpreSave Watch the video for 'Burning Sage': youtu.be/sYk7vOpLVgg The framework for IRIST began in the summer of 2015 when South American born friends Pablo Davila (guitar) and Bruno Segovia (bass) conspired on a dream of finding success in music outside their native lands as iconic metal band Sepultura had done decades before. After relocating fro...