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Jazz shadows, deep grooves and drums that refuse to behave.
Chilean death metallers DEATHWARDS have unveiled “The Sore Weight Of Repentance,” the second advance track from their debut album, Realms of Sin. The record will be released on October 30, 2026, through Sepulchral Voice Records. Drawing on death metal’s emergence from thrash and speed metal in the late 1980s, Realms of Sin places sharp riffing, […]
After talking festivals and the making of Colossal in Part One of this interview, Baest return to discuss the friendship that has kept their lineup together for a decade. They also look back on their North American tour with Arch Enemy and ahead to the UK shows, which begin in Southampton on 29 September.
Baest are a band with a totally stable lineup and have been friends for years. They all live in the same area. “We’re proud of that,” Lasse said. “It took a lot of hard work as well.”
“You have to work your ass off to make it work,” Olsen said. “Not everyone can manage to take care of a friendship for that long. You have to take care of that throughout the time. We had our faults. But we’re in a great place right now. I think a great way of working on a friendship is also working together creatively. You learn that. I think you can take some of those things from being a band out into your everyday living as well.
“Even after 10 years, we still have so much fun when we meet up, like last Wednesday and had to go on tour for three days.”
Baest / Colossal: A Bold Gear Change To Embrace And Enjoy. Photo: Impuls Film
The 2025 shows with Arch Enemy in North America saw Baest play tracks from Colossal even though the album had not been released. Brave, maybe, but it worked a treat for the band. “It was absolutely totally breathtaking,” Simon Olsen said. “Yeah, it was awesome.”
“It’s funny,” Lasse Revsbech said, “To travel the whole world and then you play for half an hour and leave such a great impression on people. That is just amazing.”
“You can see a lot of the political aspects that’s happening over there,” Olsen said, “but that has nothing to do with the actual people living over there.”
“We believe in them,” Lasse says.
“We believe in them,” Olsen agrees. “We were happy and inspired by their passion as well, and by them coming out and spending all that goddamn fucking money on merchandise. We left with 1,000 t-shirts and came back with 11. Halfway through, we sold out all the tour shirts. What the hell. They lined up for them. We aren’t messing with these guys.
“We met a lot of people who are still contacting us. When are you coming back, and when is the new music? So we have a lot of love for the North Americans, and we would love to go back there as well.”
Baest, Bloodstock 2022. Photo: John Inglis/MetalTalk
It is very impressive for sure. You can imagine it would be very tough for a Death Metal band from Denmark to get noticed in America. “It was just a very, very fortunate offer to go and play with Arch Enemy,” drummer Sebastian Abildsten said. “The people are not guaranteed to be there. We didn’t expect that to happen on our first time. So that was a very luxurious time.”
It was the longest time Baest had been away from home as a band. “Being in it together,” Olsen said, “we had such a good time as well. Even the off days, we were camping around completely beautiful areas in the United States and in Canada. In the Rocky Mountains. We drove through deserted areas in Nebraska as well. Meeting people out there, we were so happy and fortunate.
“Playing with those bands, they’ve been doing this for so long, and it’s so professional. To meet them, and them saying, ‘You’re a fucking great band. This is going to go well for you.’ The guys from Fit For An Autopsy as well. The guys from Thrown Into Exile, who were like the opening act, and of course, Arch Enemy and the whole crew. They’re fucking legends.”
Misfortunate Son was another new song that was on their US setlist. This is a song that, to me, comes across really well. I love the way the bass interplays with the riffs. I would imagine that song would have sounded awesome on one of the larger stages.
Lasse confirms it does. “We always started with the clapping. We love playing it live, actually. It’s a very fun song to do. The one song where Simon actually sings in Danish.”
“That song is just so boogie,” Olsen laughs. “It’s got the groove, man. It’s a pure rock song. That’s the whole barrier from Death Metal to rock music. It’s so fun to play.”
Baest hit the UK this week, and with Colossal to promote, how do they decide which older tracks to keep in the set? “With this year’s festivals, they became the outline of what will happen,” Lasse says. “But I think we will make small changes.”
“The main focus, of course, will be on the Colossal,” Olsen says. “But it’s always fun to try and represent all your years, all your eras and try to make them fit in. Also to show some colour. We also have our first EP, Marie Magdalene, turning 10 years old. Maybe some of those songs will be on the setlist, who knows? But yeah, some great bangers that represent us, and fit in a great setlist. Some for people to remember.”
These dates will be great. Colossal is a fun album, and Baest are a band that convey that fun on stage. The upcoming tour is intense with hardly any days off. Is there pressure to maintain the vocals?
“I’ve done it before,” Olsen says. “The last time on the European Tour, it took a couple of days actually in to. So maybe I will take my precautions this time and try and not drink beer.”
“Not drink beer?” Lasse laughs.
“Not drink so much beer this time,” Olsen smiles. “But maybe get some sleep, keep hydrated. I think for me, most of all, it’s mentally. It’s very subjective for each vocalist. How they manage to warm up and prepare their voice. For me, it’s mostly a mental thing. I can mostly perform when my head is there. So for me, it’s important to have a calm mind and to have a mindset which is prepared. The rest is small measures. I think it will be fine.”
Baest, Bloodstock 2022. Photo: John Inglis/MetalTalk
The UK leg kicks off in Southampton on 29 September, and then Baest run all the way to Hamburg on 18 October. With only two days off, stamina is a word that springs to mind.
“I guess,” Olsen says. “But we are again having fun, and that’s the whole mental state, not only for me but also for the whole band.”
“It can be more depressing not playing,” Lasse says. “Then you miss home.”
I asked the band what their favourite UK town or city to play was. Bristol was the snap response, though Belfast soon came into the reckoning. Either way, the band noted them for having plenty of beer.
Lasse says he is looking forward to meeting people again whom they have met over the course of time. “Hopefully some new faces as well from London,” he says. “We’re just looking forward to going on tour. Fuck man, come meet us. Come have the same fun as we have because we are having a ton of fun. We are there to share that, that fun, with each and every one of you.
“So we will be at the show. We will be at the pub. Then we will be at the show again. We will be everywhere you guys are. So come see us, get your tickets now. Because it’s gonna be amazing. It’s gonna be fun.”
It will. But, as Simon Olsen says to plenty of smiles, “Expect no mercy.”
September
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Danish Death Metal powerhouse Baest return to the UK later this year as part of their Colossal European Headline Tour 2026.
Released in August 2025, Colossal saw Naest return with a
Event Details
Danish Death Metal powerhouse Baest return to the UK later this year as part of their Colossal European Headline Tour 2026.
Released in August 2025, Colossal saw Naest return with a sound that is surprisingly different. “With repeated plays, this album has grown on me hugely,” MetalTalk’s Paul Hutchings wrote in his album review. “It is definitely lighter than earlier works, but it is still heavy as a bus full of elephants, and still high-quality Heavy Metal.”
Danish Death Metal powerhouse Baest return to the UK later this year as part of their Colossal European Headline Tour 2026.
Released in August 2025, Colossal saw Naest return with a
Event Details
Danish Death Metal powerhouse Baest return to the UK later this year as part of their Colossal European Headline Tour 2026.
Released in August 2025, Colossal saw Naest return with a sound that is surprisingly different. “With repeated plays, this album has grown on me hugely,” MetalTalk’s Paul Hutchings wrote in his album review. “It is definitely lighter than earlier works, but it is still heavy as a bus full of elephants, and still high-quality Heavy Metal.”
Danish Death Metal powerhouse Baest return to the UK later this year as part of their Colossal European Headline Tour 2026.
Released in August 2025, Colossal saw Naest return with a
Event Details
Danish Death Metal powerhouse Baest return to the UK later this year as part of their Colossal European Headline Tour 2026.
Released in August 2025, Colossal saw Naest return with a sound that is surprisingly different. “With repeated plays, this album has grown on me hugely,” MetalTalk’s Paul Hutchings wrote in his album review. “It is definitely lighter than earlier works, but it is still heavy as a bus full of elephants, and still high-quality Heavy Metal.”
Danish Death Metal powerhouse Baest return to the UK later this year as part of their Colossal European Headline Tour 2026.
Released in August 2025, Colossal saw Naest return with a
Event Details
Danish Death Metal powerhouse Baest return to the UK later this year as part of their Colossal European Headline Tour 2026.
Released in August 2025, Colossal saw Naest return with a sound that is surprisingly different. “With repeated plays, this album has grown on me hugely,” MetalTalk’s Paul Hutchings wrote in his album review. “It is definitely lighter than earlier works, but it is still heavy as a bus full of elephants, and still high-quality Heavy Metal.”
Danish Death Metal powerhouse Baest return to the UK later this year as part of their Colossal European Headline Tour 2026.
Released in August 2025, Colossal saw Naest return with a
Event Details
Danish Death Metal powerhouse Baest return to the UK later this year as part of their Colossal European Headline Tour 2026.
Released in August 2025, Colossal saw Naest return with a sound that is surprisingly different. “With repeated plays, this album has grown on me hugely,” MetalTalk’s Paul Hutchings wrote in his album review. “It is definitely lighter than earlier works, but it is still heavy as a bus full of elephants, and still high-quality Heavy Metal.”
Danish Death Metal powerhouse Baest return to the UK later this year as part of their Colossal European Headline Tour 2026.
Released in August 2025, Colossal saw Naest return with a
Event Details
Danish Death Metal powerhouse Baest return to the UK later this year as part of their Colossal European Headline Tour 2026.
Released in August 2025, Colossal saw Naest return with a sound that is surprisingly different. “With repeated plays, this album has grown on me hugely,” MetalTalk’s Paul Hutchings wrote in his album review. “It is definitely lighter than earlier works, but it is still heavy as a bus full of elephants, and still high-quality Heavy Metal.”
Danish Death Metal powerhouse Baest return to the UK later this year as part of their Colossal European Headline Tour 2026.
Released in August 2025, Colossal saw Naest return with a
Event Details
Danish Death Metal powerhouse Baest return to the UK later this year as part of their Colossal European Headline Tour 2026.
Released in August 2025, Colossal saw Naest return with a sound that is surprisingly different. “With repeated plays, this album has grown on me hugely,” MetalTalk’s Paul Hutchings wrote in his album review. “It is definitely lighter than earlier works, but it is still heavy as a bus full of elephants, and still high-quality Heavy Metal.”
Danish Death Metal powerhouse Baest return to the UK later this year as part of their Colossal European Headline Tour 2026.
Released in August 2025, Colossal saw Naest return with a
Event Details
Danish Death Metal powerhouse Baest return to the UK later this year as part of their Colossal European Headline Tour 2026.
Released in August 2025, Colossal saw Naest return with a sound that is surprisingly different. “With repeated plays, this album has grown on me hugely,” MetalTalk’s Paul Hutchings wrote in his album review. “It is definitely lighter than earlier works, but it is still heavy as a bus full of elephants, and still high-quality Heavy Metal.”
Danish Death Metal powerhouse Baest return to the UK later this year as part of their Colossal European Headline Tour 2026.
Released in August 2025, Colossal saw Naest return with a
Event Details
Danish Death Metal powerhouse Baest return to the UK later this year as part of their Colossal European Headline Tour 2026.
Released in August 2025, Colossal saw Naest return with a sound that is surprisingly different. “With repeated plays, this album has grown on me hugely,” MetalTalk’s Paul Hutchings wrote in his album review. “It is definitely lighter than earlier works, but it is still heavy as a bus full of elephants, and still high-quality Heavy Metal.”
Danish Death Metal powerhouse Baest return to the UK later this year as part of their Colossal European Headline Tour 2026.
Released in August 2025, Colossal saw Naest return with a
Event Details
Danish Death Metal powerhouse Baest return to the UK later this year as part of their Colossal European Headline Tour 2026.
Released in August 2025, Colossal saw Naest return with a sound that is surprisingly different. “With repeated plays, this album has grown on me hugely,” MetalTalk’s Paul Hutchings wrote in his album review. “It is definitely lighter than earlier works, but it is still heavy as a bus full of elephants, and still high-quality Heavy Metal.”
Danish Death Metal powerhouse Baest return to the UK later this year as part of their Colossal European Headline Tour 2026.
Released in August 2025, Colossal saw Naest return with a
Event Details
Danish Death Metal powerhouse Baest return to the UK later this year as part of their Colossal European Headline Tour 2026.
Released in August 2025, Colossal saw Naest return with a sound that is surprisingly different. “With repeated plays, this album has grown on me hugely,” MetalTalk’s Paul Hutchings wrote in his album review. “It is definitely lighter than earlier works, but it is still heavy as a bus full of elephants, and still high-quality Heavy Metal.”
Brazilian dark power metallers GARGANT have released their debut album, Dead Night Defiance, on CD and limited coloured vinyl through Fireflash Records. To mark the physical release, the band have also unveiled a video for “Burning Crusader,” the bonus track included on both editions. The song introduces another character into the album’s dark fantasy setting: […]
British blues-rock artist Joanne Shaw Taylor returns today with ‘You And Me (Rachel’s Song)‘, the latest single from her forthcoming studio album ‘The Trouble With Love‘, due Friday October 23rd via Journeyman Records. Released alongside an official lyric video, the song is a deeply personal tribute to Joanne’s best friend Rachel and the kind of […]
Kirill Nguyen, the founder of Gaga Daily, said he had been imprisoned in Belarus for participating in pro-democracy protests. He resurfaced this week after an absence of more than two years.
French black metal duo HARDIESSE are streaming their debut mini-album, Tristesse Vespérale, in full ahead of its September 30, 2026 release through Antiq. The six-track record is available to hear through the Black Metal Promotion YouTube channel. The project brings together Wynter on bass and vocals, known for WŸNTËR ÄRVN, WOEST and his former role […]
Motörhead proudly announce the 40th Anniversary Edition of ‘Orgasmatron‘, celebrating 40 years of a Motörhead classic, released on November 6th via BMG. Released in 1986, ‘Orgasmatron‘ featured the line-up of Lemmy, Phil Campbell, Würzel and Pete Gill. It marked a new chapter for the band, pushing further into heavier territory while retaining the speed, aggression […]
Check Partner’s Bad Luck leans into a gritty alternative rock sound with a restless edge, built around sharp guitars, driving drums and a vocal delivery that carries both frustration and attitude. The track has a direct, energetic character, balancing its heavier moments with enough melodic movement to keep the arrangement engaging throughout. There is a sense of tension running underneath the song, giving the performance a slightly raw and unsettled quality that suits its theme. Check Partner keep the production focused on the core of the song, allowing the guitars and rhythm section to push everything forward without unnecessary distractions. The result is a straightforward rock track with plenty of energy and a rougher emotional texture, capturing that feeling of being caught on the wrong side of circumstances while still pushing ahead.
Sometimes bad luck just needs a louder soundtrack.
A DISTORTED UTOPIA, the solo project of Leicester-based musician Richard Allsopp, will release An Heir To All The Ills Of Flesh on October 23, 2026. The progressive technical death metal album follows 2016’s Sleepless Walks, bringing together science-fiction horror, social commentary and deeply personal reflections. Known for his work with MONACHOPSIS and appearances as a […]
