Marilyn Manson has extended his “One Assassination Under God Tour” with newly announced spring U.S. shows featuring support from Australian death-pop duo Vowws.
Following a monumental year of sold-out shows around the world, Manson continues his relentless journey in support of his critically lauded 2024 album, One Assassination Under God – Chapter 1, which features the standout tracks “Sacrilegious”, “Raise The Red Flag”, and “As Sick As The Secrets Within”, and is available everywhere via Nuclear Blast Records.
The artist presale will begin on Tuesday, December 16, at 12 p.m. (noon) local time (password: OAUG26WT). The public on-sale will start on Friday, December 19, at 10 a.m. local time. Get your tickets here.
2026 “One Assassination Under God Tour” Dates:
04/23 – Highland, CA – Yaamava’ Theater* 04/25 – Las Vegas, NV – Sick New World* 05/08 – Minneapolis, MN – The Armory 05/10 – Green Bay, WI – EPIC Event Center 05/12 – Louisville, KY – The Louisville Palace Theatre 05/13 – Memphis, TN – Graceland Soundstage 05/15 – Nashville, TN – The Pinnacle 05/16 – Columbus, OH – Sonic Temple* 10/24 – Fort Worth, TX – Sick New World Texas*
Iconic Bay Area thrash band Testament‘s triumphant return continues in 2026 with the announcement of their “Thrash of the Titans” world tour, landing in the US this coming spring.The trek unites the band with fellow thrash legends Overkill and Destruction for one of the fiercest tours of the new year.
Commenting on the tour, Testament frontman Chuck Billy says, “2026 looks like it is going to start with an explosion with the ‘Thrash of the Titans Tour.’ Joining us will be our Metal Brothers Overkill and Destruction. Our friendship has almost reached 4 decades. This is gonna be a Thrash Metal show you don’t wanna miss!”
Overkill‘s founding vocalist Bobby “Blitz” Ellsworth states, “March can’t come soon enough. We are stoked to be part of this killer package, which will lay waste to the States! Let’s get this show on the road!”
Founding bassist for Destruction, Marcel “Schmier” Schirmer adds: “This is killer news — the Thrash of the Titans tour is finally hitting America! So many fans have been shouting for this, and now it’s happening. The best tours happen when you roll with bands you respect, bands you can raise hell with — and when the bill just hits hard.”
Exclusive Metal Injection Presale: Wednesday, December 17th @ 10:00 AM EST @ Metal Injection
Artist Presale: Thursday, December 18th @ 10:00 AM LOCAL (PW: TITANS)
Local/Promoter Presales: Thursday, December 18th @ 10:00 AM LOCAL
On Sale: Friday, December 19th @ 10:00 AM LOCAL at Testament‘s website.
“Thrash of the Titans” US Tour Dates:
Mar 14 – Portland, OR – Roseland Theater Mar 15 – Boise, ID – Treefort Music Hall Mar 16 – Salt Lake City, UT – Rockwell at the Complex Mar 18 – Denver, CO – Summit Music Hall Mar 20 – Milwaukee, WI – The Rave Mar 21 – Minneapolis, MN – The Fillmore Mar 22 – Chicago, IL – Ramova Theatre Mar 24 – Detroit, MI – St. Andrew’s Hall Mar 25 – Cleveland, OH – Agora Ballroom Mar 27 – Worcester, MA – The Palladium Mar 28 – Sayreville, NJ – Starland Ballroom Mar 29 – Reading, PA – Club Reverb Mar 31 – Atlanta, GA – Buckhead Theater Apr 1 – St. Petersburg, FL – Jannus Live Apr 3 – Houston, TX – House of Blues Apr 4 – Dallas, TX – The Bomb Factory Apr 5 – San Antonio, TX – Aztec Theatre Apr 8 – Phoenix, AZ – The Van Buren Apr 9 – Los Angeles, CA – The Belasco Apr 10 – Berkeley, CA – The UC Theatre (No Overkill)
Testament‘s lauded new album, Para Bellum, stands as both a battle cry and an observation of humanity’s uneasy alliance with its own creations. As technology accelerates and disconnection grows, Para Bellum sees Testament‘ reflecting the modern chaos through music that’s urgent, sharp, and unflinchingly human.
Tunisian–French metal innovators Myrath today release the video for their new single “The Funeral,” a track that approaches death with surprising brightness and emotional uplift. Instead of darkness, the band delivers a genre-blending anthem that transforms farewell into something empowering and beautiful. It’s a seamless, masterfully crafted piece that feels destined, natural, and utterly breathtaking.
Alongside the single, Myrath presents a cinematic video that expands the vast world of their upcoming album Wilderness of Mirrors. The production is bold, detailed, and effortlessly monumental.
“If you thought that 2024’s Karma was a big step up in their theatrical desires, just wait until the jaw-dropping brilliance of Wilderness Of Mirrors launches itself into the public domain! Put simply, and without wishing to be overly melodramatic, this is the most ambitious, most complete and most engaging set that Myrath have produced to date!”
Wilderness of Mirrors will be released on March 27 and features 10 brand-new, emotionally charged tracks that continue Myrath‘s evolution of blending oriental influences with progressive and power metal. Fans can expect a journey through fantasy and reality, from haunting melodies to thunderous riffs and cinematic arrangements.
To celebrate the release, Myrath will embark on a major European tour starting in April 2026, bringing Wilderness of Mirrors to fans across 16 countries.
With millions of views on their cinematic music videos, critically acclaimed albums, and performances at festivals such as Hellfest, Wacken, and Sweden Rock, Myrath continue to captivate audiences worldwide. Wilderness of Mirrors represents the band at their most dynamic and authentic, a milestone in their journey toward becoming one of metal’s most unique acts.
Pre-orders for Wilderness of Mirrors and tickets for the European tour are available now. Don’t miss the next chapter in Myrath‘s epic musical journey.
The newly revised metal biography Slayer 66 2/3: A Metal Band Biography… Or, How Fkin’ Slayer Kicked Fkin’ @ss is now available in audiobook form. For the 2025 holiday season, this expanded audio edition is being offered exclusively through Bandcamp.
Award-winning journalist D.X. Ferris personally narrates the book, which he has updated, expanded, and reworked following Slayer’s unexpected reunion. The audiobook spans 36.5 hours and includes 12 bonus chapters not found in the paperback edition. The final three chapters focus specifically on the band’s 2025 reunion run, which concluded with a festival performance at Hersheypark in Pennsylvania. At that event, the Los Angeles thrash pioneers headlined over Exodus, Cavalera Conspiracy, Power Trip, Suicidal Tendencies, and Knocked Loose.
The book is still current, explains Ferris. Think of the bonus chapters as European B-sides.
Ferris first released the book in 2013, only months after the death of Slayer co-founder, guitarist, and primary songwriter Jeff Hanneman. At that time, the book carried the title Slayer 66 2/3: The Jeff & Dave Years.
The third edition, released in 2023, totaled 350 pages and included 33 images, a four-page index, and roughly 450 endnotes and research citations. By contrast, the fourth edition, released in 2025, expanded significantly to 639 pages, featuring 70 images, a 10-page index, and 795 endnotes.
“I really put in the work on this version”, says Ferris, who has been named Best Reporter Of The Year by the Ohio Society Of Professional Journalists. “Some days when I was working at home, I would put on a shirt and tie. I felt like I was documenting important history, some of it for the first time. It is a serious subject that deserves professionalism and respect”.
The latest edition offers deeper profiles of the band’s members and collaborators, including Exodus guitarist Gary Holt, who stepped in after Hanneman became ill in 2011. Ferris also interviewed new witnesses, such as Valley Stream, New York record store owner MichaelSchutzman of Slipped Disc, who hosted early East Coast in-store appearances. Mellow Man Ace contributes perspective on the racially charged neighborhoods that gave rise to both the pioneering thrash scene and Cypress Hill.
Additional material includes extensive archival research, updated statistics, original fan surveys, and a detailed, data-driven comparison of the careers of the so-called Big Four thrash bands: Metallica, Megadeth, and Anthrax, alongside Slayer. Version 4.1 of the fourth edition appeared in May 2025, incorporating sources that had emerged only weeks earlier. A recurring feature titled The Rick Rubin Watch tracks key moments involving the band’s longtime producer and label executive, whose work has touched roughly 10 percent of Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame performer inductees.
The unauthorized biography is now available in five formats: a 6×9-inch Uncut edition, an oversized 8.5×11-inch coffee table version, an abridged Long Story Short… and Cheaper edition, a mostly color ebook, and two versions of the expanded audiobook.
Photographs throughout the book come from contributors including Murder In The Front Row co-author Harald Oimen, former Def Jam staffer Tom Tronckoe, and Cameron Edney.
The audiobook itself grew out of Ferris’s long-running podcast Talkin’ Slayer: A Metal Podcast And Half-@Assed Audiobook. Each episode features Ferris reading from the book, presenting exclusive essays, answering listener questions, or sharing updates.
“When the show started, the band was broken up, and it looked like it would remain in the grave”, says Ferris. “The audiobook was almost done. Then they announced the reunion. Things changed. And, as a former Metallica roadie says in The Big Lebowski, New sh*t came to light. It was the perfect opportunity to dig even deeper in Slayer’s long, controversial history”.
For the fourth edition, Ferris rewrote, revised, rearranged, and remastered the entire book. While longer, the new version is structured to be easier to read, with shorter sentences and tighter paragraphs.
“My old writing style was like jazz or ornate Yngwie Malmsteen hot licks”, explains Ferris. “Looking back, that wasn’t the most effective method of communication. Now I try to write short, simple sentences that are like S.O.D. riffs. Short sentences, short chapters… I believe books should be easy to use”.
Listeners can choose between two audiobook editions. The full Uncut version explores the broader history of American thrash metal, placing Slayer within a wider cultural context and examining the Big Four and Elite Eight scenes. The Long Story Short… and cheaper edition focuses more narrowly on Slayer’s chronological story.
As the first pages of the book demonstrate, Slayer is as relevant as ever, says Ferris. It is Slayer’s world. Still. And we’re living in it.
Journey guitarist Neal Schon has confirmed that he will appear on the season 28 finale of NBC’s singing competition The Voice, airing Tuesday, December 16 at 9 p.m. ET.
Schon shared the news on Sunday, December 14, via social media, explaining that he will perform alongside “members of the current Journey touring band” as part of the group’s efforts to promote Journey’s upcoming tour. He later clarified which musicians would be joining him onstage, noting that drummer and vocalist Deen Castronovo, keyboardist and vocalist Jason Derlatka, and bassist Todd Jensen will be part of the performance. Schon also explained that keyboardist Jonathan Cain and lead singer Arnel Pineda were unable to participate.
In his post, Schon addressed why he accepted this appearance after a period away from public performances: “There were many other great TV opportunities that I had to turn down. I want to work and promote after being off for close to a year”.
According to People, Schon and the participating members of Journey will perform a medley of some of the band’s best-known songs, including “Lights,” “Lovin’, Touchin’, Squeezin’,” and “Don’t Stop Believin’.”
The performance will also feature appearances from The Voice coaches Michael Bublé, Snoop Dogg, and Reba McEntire, along with several fan-favorite artists from season 28.
This televised appearance follows the recent announcement of Journey’s large-scale Final Frontier Tour, scheduled to run across North America in 2026. In November, Schon, now 71, referred to the tour as a meaningful farewell to longtime supporters.
“We’re pulling out all the stops with a brand-new production — the hits, the deep cuts, the energy, the spectacle. It’s a full-circle celebration of the music that’s brought us all together, he said in a statement. As its founding member, I carry the Journey torch to this day, wherever I go. The sentiment and spirit of the band will always remain.
While this marks a farewell to one powerful chapter of the Journey we’ve shared, I want everyone to know I’m not done. Music is still burning strong inside me, and there are new creative horizons ahead. This tour is both a thank you and the beginning of what’s next”, concluded his statement.
The Final Frontier Tour lineup will include founding guitarist Schon, keyboardist and backing vocalist Jonathan Cain, lead vocalist Arnel Pineda, keyboardist and vocalist Jason Derlatka, drummer and vocalist Deen Castronovo, and bassist Todd Jensen.
Guitarist Joel Hoekstra, known for his work with Whitesnake, Trans-Siberian Orchestra, and Revolution Saints, has announced the next chapter in his solo project. The fourth album from Joel Hoekstra’s 13, From The Fade, is set for release on February 27, 2026 through Frontiers Music Srl.
For the new record, Hoekstra once again teamed up with a lineup of seasoned rock musicians. The sessions feature drummer Vinny Appice of Black Sabbath and Dio, bassist Tony Franklin from The Firm and Blue Murder, keyboardist Derek Sherinian of Dream Theater and Sons Of Apollo, and vocalist Girish Pradhan, best known for Girish And The Chronicles and The Nail.
The band has already shared a taste of the album with the release of a music video for the second single, “You Can Give”, which appears on From The Fade.
Hoekstra explained the song’s approach and meaning in detail, focusing on both its sound and message: “”You Can Give” is a heavy, riff-driven track. Although some of the riffs could be described as metal, it still falls under the category of melodic hard rock. Vinny Appice and TonyFranklin do an amazing job laying out a strong, creative foundation. Girish Pradhan delivers a powerful, emotional vocal performance while Derek Sherinian and Jeff Scott Soto provide the perfect complimentary parts on keys and backing vocals respectively. Lyrically, the song is based on music itself singing to me and essentially highlights what can be the downside of an attempt to maintain a strong work ethic”.
Musically, From The Fade leans on a mix of classic hard rock and modern melodic metal. The album emphasizes sharp arrangements, technical skill, and performances that carry a strong emotional edge. Each song reflects Hoekstra’s established writing style, drawing from traditional influences while still aiming for a current and forward-looking sound.
Hoekstra’s career outside this project has remained just as active. He has previously released three instrumental solo albums along with three well-received records under Joel Hoekstra’s 13. More recently, he appeared as a guest guitarist on the “hair metal” episode of Dancing With The Stars and performed with Cher during her Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame induction as well as the SNL 50 homecoming concert.
From The Fade recording lineup:
Joel Hoekstra: Guitars Girish Pradhan: Lead Vocals Vinny Appice: Drums Tony Franklin: Bass Derek Sherinian: Keyboards Jeff Scott Soto: Backing Vocals
Arizona extreme metal trailblazers Soulfly are set to join intergalactic shock rock legends Gwar on their extensive spring headlining run, “The Gor Gor Strikes Back Tour”. This 34-date journey begins March 19th in Richmond, Virginia, and will include performances in major markets like Boston, Green Bay, and Portland before concluding in Charlotte, NC, on April 29th. Australian grind icons King Parrot will serve as the opening act for all dates.
Max Cavalera states: “I can’t wait for Soulfly to storm the gates with Gwar!! I’m excited to be part of one of the coolest tours of 2026! Soulfly bringing the Chama tribal energy and Gwar, the ultimate theatrical madness band! I have been a fan of Gwar for a long time. It will be an honor to support them! Come on out and party with us every night!!”
Gwar‘s lead vocalist The Berserker Blothar states: “Gwar, Soulfly and King Parrot. This tour will be a ritual orgy of death, sex, violence and rock and fu**ing roll!! Let the severed heads rain, bouncing down the pyramid onto a heap of human skulls. Be there humans, or be left to suffer on this planet while we party in the stars!”
Tickets for “The Gor Gor Strikes Back Tour” go on sale this Friday, December 19that 10am local time; purchase them here.
Confirmed dates for Soulfly joining headliners Gwar on “The Gor Gor Strikes Back Tour” with KingParrot are:
03.19.2026 Richmond, VA @ The National 03.20.2026 Reading, PA @ Reverb 03.21.2026 Albany, NY @ Empire Live 03.22.2026 Huntington, NY @ The Paramount 03.24.2026 Hartford, CT @ The Webster 03.25.2026 Wilmington, DE @ The Queen 03.26.2026 Sayreville, NJ @ Starland Ballroom 03.27.2026 Boston, MA @ House Of Blues 03.28.2026 Buffalo, NY @ Town Ballroom 03.29.2026 Columbus, OH @ Newport Music Hall 03.31.2026 Louisville, KY @ Mercury Ballroom 04.01.2026 St. Louis, MO @ The Pageant 04.02.2026 Chicago, IL @ Concord Music Hall 04.03.2026 Fort Wayne, IN @ Piere’s 04.04.2026 Saginaw, MI @ The Vault 04.05.2026 Green Bay, WI @ EPIC Events Center 04.07.2026 Minneapolis, MN @ First Avenue 04.08.2026 Des Moines, IA @ Val Air Ballroom 04.09.2026 Tulsa, OK @ Cain’s Ballroom 04.10.2026 Lawrence, KS @ The Granada 04.12.2026 Grand Junction, CO @ Mesa Theater 04.14.2026 Portland, OR @ Roseland Theater 04.15.2026 Boise, ID @ Treefort Music Hall 04.17.2026 Sacramento, CA @ Channel 24 04.18.2026 Los Angeles, CA @ The Belasco 04.19.2026 San Diego, CA @ House of Blues 04.20.2026 Tucson, AZ @ Rialto Theater 04.21.2026 Albuquerque, NM @ Sunshine Theater 04.23.2026 Austin, TX @ Emo’s 04.24.2026 Houston, TX @ Warehouse Live 04.25.2026 Mobile, AL @ Soul Kitchen Music Hall 04.27.2026 Chattanooga, TN @ The Signal 04.28.2026 Asheville, NC @ The Orange Peel 04.29.2026 Charlotte, NC @ The Fillmore
Worldwide dates:
01.24.2026 AU Mt Claremont @ Froth & Fury Fest – Perth 2026 01.26.2026 AU Brisbane @ The Tivoli * 01.27.2026 AU Newton @ Enmore Theatre 01.30.2026 AU Melbourne @ Forum Melbourne 01.30.2026 AU Wayville @ Froth & Fury Fest – Adelaide 2026
Finnish metal group Battle Beast has confirmed a major lineup change, announcing that longtime vocalist Noora Louhimo has officially exited the band.
The update was shared earlier today, Monday, December 15, through the band’s social media channels, where the remaining members addressed the split directly and at length. In their message, they explained the reasons behind the decision and what it means going forward.
“After six albums and 13 incredible years together, we announce that Noora Louhimo is leaving Battle Beast to focus on her solo career. While we are saddened by her departure, we fully support her decision to pursue new creative paths — something she hasn’t been able to explore wholeheartedly with the demanding schedule of Battle Beast“.
“We are deeply thankful for the music, the tours, and the magic we created together. These memories will never be tarnished nor forgotten, and we wish Noora nothing but success and happiness on her path forward”.
“We know you — our fans — will miss Noora as much as we do. But rest assured: the flight of Battle Beast continues, and so does Noora’s, now simply on a different trajectory”.
“A new era begins. We will announce the new voice of Battle Beast tomorrow on December 16th. With gratitude and love, Noora, Janne, Eero, Juuso, Joona & Pyry“.
Shortly after the band’s announcement, Noora Louhimo also shared her own statement, reflecting on her time with the group and the reasons behind her decision to move on.
“For 13 years I got to grow, learn, develop and explore with Battle Beast who I am as a musician and as a person. And now my heart desires more adventures, and flying with my own wings towards my dreams that I can only pursue if I give them my full attention. Life is full of different eras and now it is time for a new one. I am forever grateful and love Battle Beast and our fans. This is not the end, this is a beginning of a new adventure for both of us. See you soon Little Beasts!”
While the departure marks the end of a long-running chapter for Battle Beast, both sides have made it clear that the split is amicable. Fans won’t have to wait long for the next development, as the band has already confirmed that its new vocalist will be revealed on December 16.
In a new chat with Troy Culpan from Australia’s May The Rock Be With You, Dream Theater drummer Mike Portnoy opened up about being back on the road with the band after more than a decade away.
When asked whether the comeback has felt “seamless,” Mike Portnoy said (via Blabbermouth): “It was seamless. To me, this was not just rejoining an old band; this was kind of coming home to my family. After 40 years and forming this band when we were teenagers, it’s more than just a band. We’ve lived life together. We’ve been to each other’s weddings and seen our kids grow up together, and we’ve had all these life experiences together. So coming back home to it, it was pretty seamless.”
“There were kind of baby steps that led here, which also made the transition that much more comfortable. I did [Dream Theater guitarist] John Petrucci’s solo album and tour, and then we did a Liquid Tension Experiment album with me, John, Jordan [Rudess, Dream Theater keyboardist], and Tony Levin. So there were these kinds of little steps that led to finally coming back to Dream Theater. So by the time I came back full-time to Dream Theater, it just felt like coming home to a family,” he added.
He also explained how his return influenced the writing and recording of the band’s latest release, 2025’s Parasomnia: “Well, we were definitely inspired writing together. We hadn’t written and recorded an album together since Black Clouds & Silver Linings, which came out in 2009, but we made it in 2008. So it had been 15 years since we had written and recorded an album together. So we were very inspired being together again and having that chemistry, that artistic and creative chemistry that we always had. And it was immediately there once we started working on the new album.”
Asked if the band is already mapping out what comes after Parasomnia — or if fans will “have to wait a little while”—Portnoy pointed to how long the current run has been: “Well, we have to wait, ’cause it’s been a long tour. We’ve been out for a year now at this point. We started in October of 2024. And here we are, a year later now, and by the time we get down to Australia [in February 2026] and wrap up the tour cycle a few months after that, it’ll have been a year and a half on the road. So, that’s the focus right now. But once the tour cycle wraps and concludes by next spring or so, we’ll probably take the summer off, ’cause it’s been a long road, and then start thinking about a new album after that.”
With Dream Theater currently celebrating four decades as a band on its 40th-anniversary tour (launched in late 2024), Portnoy was asked whether that milestone brings “pressure” or if it’s “more of a celebration.”
His answer was direct: “It’s a celebration. There’s no pressure. I mean, for me, it’s surreal that it’s been 40 years since we started this band. We were teenagers at college, Berklee College Of Music, back in 1985, and here we are 40 years later. We’ve been around the world dozens and dozens of times, and it’s just been quite a journey and quite a trip. And if anything, it’s just more surreal than anything. It’s just hard to believe how quickly time has flown.”
He also addressed the “discussions” that go into building the setlist for this tour, saying the process is more straightforward than people might assume: “Well, there’s not really any discussion. Those guys trust that in my lap. I’ve always been the guy who wrote the setlist in the band, at least in my time here, and for me, writing the setlist for this 40th-anniversary tour was actually easier than you would think. Coming back to the band after not having been in the band for over 15 years, whatever it’s been, it was all a fresh, clean slate for me to work with. It wasn’t like, ‘Oh, I played this song a billion times over the last couple of years.’ I hadn’t played any of these songs in so long. So for me, I was able to write with a clean slate.
“The setlist we’re going to be doing when we come down [to Australia] is slightly different than the one we’ve been doing throughout the rest of the world, because when we started the 40th-anniversary tour, we spent the first six to eight months on tour just concentrating on that,” Portnoy explained.
“But since then, the last few months we’ve been playing the new album, Parasomnia, in its entirety. So when we come down to Australia, it’s kind of gonna be a combination of the two. It’ll be a heavyweight of the 40th anniversary and the full catalog stuff, but we also wanna play a bit more of the Parasomnia album than we had, just because it’s so fresh to us, and it’s the only opportunity that the Australian fans will have to hear those songs. So it’ll be a kind of a combination of the two,” he concluded.
Dream Theater played its first show with Mike Portnoy in 14 years on October 20, 2024, at London’s O2 Arena. A co-founder of the group, Portnoy originally appeared on 10 studio albums over two decades, starting with When Dream And Day Unite and running through Black Clouds & Silver Linings, before leaving in 2010. He officially returned in October 2023, following the band’s long run with Mike Mangini, who handled drums across five studio releases and the tours that followed.
Embers of Dawn unveil their newest single “Shadow of Her Veil” a track that walks the line between heavy gothic rock and doom metal with a sound that feels both timeless and unrelenting. Early listeners have compared it to a modern day Sisters of Mercy tune, capturing a haunting blend of gothic atmosphere and doom driven weight. Echoes of Type O Negative and Paradise Lost also pulse through the track, creating a dark immersive soundscape that lingers long after the final note.
“Shadow of Her Veil” explores themes of sorrow, reflection, and heavy beauty. Lyrically, the song delves into the feeling of being haunted by the past by memories by expectations and by the versions of people we hold onto even when they are no longer present. It is a meditation on loss and identity, portraying the struggle of living with memory and expectation, and the sense of being followed by someone’s lingering presence while trying to understand oneself in the aftermath.
With its brooding atmosphere and powerful emotional weight “Shadow of Her Veil” stands as one of Embers of Dawn’s most evocative works to date and offers a compelling preview of what awaits on their forthcoming album arriving in 2026.
Formed in 2022, Embers of Dawn is a genre-defying metal project born out of Jacksonville, Florida and Santa Barbara, California. The band blends elements of industrial, gothic, melodic death metal, and cyber-metal to create a sound that is both cinematic and punishing. Known for their thematic focus on alienation, modern decay, and emotional detachment, Embers of Dawn delivers music that is as introspective as it is aggressive.
The band’s music features cold, mechanical precision layered with dark melodic textures, drawing influence from acts like Pain, Dark Tranquillity, Ministry, Fear Factory, Rammstein, Static-X, Rob Zombie, Arch Enemy, and Type O Negative. With each release, they continue to explore new sonic territory, balancing technicality with atmosphere, brutality with beauty.
Their upcoming debut album Infernal Culture features drums by Adrain Erlandsson (At the Gates, Cradle of Filth, Paradise Lost, The Haunted), adding an explosive edge to their already dynamic sound.
