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German death metal veterans RESURRECTED are turning loose their highly anticipated, crushing eighth full-length “Perpetual” today, on April 24, 2026. Shop link: https://spkr.store/collections/resurrected RESURRECTED comment: “With our new album, ‘Perpetual’, we have deliberately set out to expand our boundaries, and to push both the high and low ends of our sound”, guitarist Thomas Granzow writes. “On one hand, our new tracks feature the crushing, guttural groove of bands like Cannibal […]

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Last year, Turnstile made Tiny Desk history by being the first performer to stagedive. Now, Amaia is making history by being the first to play the chair flute (chlute?). The Spanish singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist mostly performed tracks from last year’s Si Abro Los Ojos No Es Real at the NPR office.

The post Amaia Played A Chair Flute On Tiny Desk appeared first on Stereogum.

Coinciding with the release of his Steel Burner album, Gus G. has debuted a music video for the single “Dancing With Death” featuring Matthew Barlow.
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After recent European tour announcement (booked in January 2027), Ensiferum have now also confirmed a headlining tour across the North American lands with direct support from Greek heavy metal veterans Firewind. ‘Winter Storm Over North America’ is scheduled for September and begins with performance at ProgPower USA festival in Atlanta, Georgia.
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Swedish melodic death metal band Abandon Agony have recently announced their debut full-length album Endbringer, due out May 22, 2026, alongside the first single and video, “Writing on the Wall”. Today, the band unveil a new music video for “Polar Shift”, now available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SshWoEnQ_bA Band comments on the single:“Polar Shift is one of the darker tracks on the album, built […]

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Many of them are still touring and releasing music today. Continue reading…

Let’s start out by saying that we do NOT stan, or really even like, Live Nation over here (who the hell does?), but, just like last time, we feel like this is a pretty good deal worth sharing. The ticket monopoly just announced this years $30 “Ticket to Live” shows, seemingly the same as their $30 “Ticket to Summer” promo they’ve run in the past, with over 4,000 shows to choose from. Yeah, that’s a whole hell of a lot, and there’s so many good ones.

For all you MetalSucks readers/hoes, some of the eligible shows y’all might be interested in include:

311 & Dirty Heads
Avenged Sevenfold & Good Charlotte
Breaking Benjamin
Deep Purple
Evanescence
Five Finger Death Punch
Godsmack
Guns N’ Roses
Iron Maiden
Motionless In White
Mötley Crüe
Rob Zombie, Marilyn Manson, The HU & Orgy
Shinedown
Staind
Summer Of ’99 Festival & Beyond (Creed, Limp Bizkit, Cypress Hill, etc.)

Live Nation’s “Summer of Live” ticket promotion starts next Wednesday, April 29, and runs through May 5. For more information of promo, head to their website here.

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Finnish folk metal goliaths ENSIFERUM will return to US and Canadian stages on a two-week headlining tour. The Winter Storm Over North America tour begins on September 9th with their appearance at this year’s edition of ProgPower USA in Atlanta, Georgia and runs through September 27th in Seattle, Washington. Support will be provided by Firewind.

The band comments, “We are very excited to come back to North America for this tour with Firewind in September. We’ll bring the Winter Storm on the stages! See you guys in the pit!”

Tickets for all shows are on sale now. See all confirmed dates below.

ENSIFERUM w/ Firewind:
9/09/2026 ProgPower USA – Atlanta, GA
9/11/2026 Exit/In – Nashville, TN
9/12/2026 Century Music Hall – Fort Wayne, IN
9/13/2026 Thunderbird Music Hall – Pittsburgh, PA
9/14/2026 Sanctuary – Detroit, MI
9/16/2026 The Roxy @ Mahalls – Cleveland, OH
9/17/2026 Blades Of Steel – Madison, WI
9/18/2026 Wooly’s – Des Moines, IA
9/20/2026 Park Theatre – Winnipeg, MB
9/22/2026 Starlite Room – Edmonton, AB
9/23/2026 Arrowhead – Calgary, AB
9/25/2026 Wise Hall – Vancouver, BC
9/26/2026 Hawthorne – Portland, OR
9/27/2026 El Corazon – Seattle, WA

ENSIFERUM will be touring in support of their Winter Storm full-length, out now on Metal Blade Records. A grandiose and heroic offering, Winter Storm centers itself on a fantasy concept narrative penned by bassist Sami Hinkka.

ENSIFERUM’s Winter Storm was produced by Janne Joutsenniemi, mixed and mastered by Jens Bogren, and includes guest appearances by Lassi Logrén on Nyckelharpa and violin and Mikko Mustonen on orchestration as well as Eleine’s Madeleine Liljestam who provides all vocals on “Scars In My Heart.”

Watch ENSIFERUM’s previously released videos for “Winter Storm Vigilantes,” “Long Cold Winter Of Sorrow And Strife,” “Fatherland,” and “The Howl,” which, when viewed consecutively, create a short movie, HERE.

Preview/purchase Winter Storm at metalblade.com/ensiferum.

ENSIFERUM:
Petri Lindroos – vocals, guitars
Markus Toivonen – guitars, vocals
Sami Hinkka – bass, vocals
Janne Parviainen – drums
Pekka Montin – keyboards, vocals

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Morten Veland, the Norwegian multi-instrumentalist, producer and songwriter known from Sirenia, Mortemia and as the founder of Tristania, has released a new Mortemia single. The track, “Send Me an Angel”, features guest vocals by Jessica Thierjung of Lyriel and is now available on all digital platforms. The song is the eighth release from Mortemia’s ongoing […]

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Death metal purveyors Embryonic Autopsy will be releasing their third full-length instalment, Rise Of The Mutated, on June 5th 2026 via Massacre Records. Alongside unveiled details, give a spin to the first single called “Feasting Upon The Rotted Uteru”.
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