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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
TALIA HOIT SET TO TAKE SYMPHONIC METAL TO THE HIGH SEAS AT 70,000 TONS OF METAL 2027
Following the Release of Her Acclaimed New Album “When The Skies Fall,” Talia Hoit Joins a Stacked International Lineup Featuring Exodus, Wolfheart, Brymir, Avaland and More

JACKSON, TN – September 3, 2026 – The timing couldn’t be better for Talia Hoit .
Just days after the release of her powerful new full-length album “When The Skies Fall” via SAOL, a division of CMM GmbH , symphonic metal artist Talia Hoit has been officially confirmed for 70,000 Tons of Metal 2027 , bringing her music to one of the most prestigious and unique metal festivals in the world.
Hoit’s appearance aboard the 2027 sailing comes at a pivotal moment in her career. Her second full-length album, released August 28, has already received international attention, including an impressive 8/10 rating from legendary German metal publication Rock Hard Magazine .
Now, she is taking that music to sea.
70,000 Tons of Metal 2027 will feature 60 bands performing two sets each , bringing thousands of metal fans together for an unparalleled festival experience aboard the ship.
And the lineup is getting seriously heavy.
Among the latest wave of artists announced alongside Talia Hoit are legendary thrash metal veterans Exodus , Finnish melodic death metal powerhouse Wolfheart , Finnish melodic metal act Brymir , cinematic metal project Avaland , and Famous Strangers , adding even more international firepower to an already massive 2027 lineup.
For Talia Hoit, being selected for the festival represents a major new chapter following the release of When The Skies Fall .
The album finds Hoit pushing her deeply personal songwriting into a larger symphonic metal landscape, combining intimate piano and vocal compositions with sweeping orchestration, powerful metal instrumentation, and emotionally charged performances.
Rock Hard Magazine’s Iberis praised the album as an “even more powerful and evocative evolution” of Hoit’s 2024 debut Oceans , ultimately describing When The Skies Fall as:


“A work as powerful as it is fragile.”


The publication also characterized Hoit’s songwriting as “art born from urgent necessity, not commercial calculation.”
Those words speak directly to the heart of Hoit’s music.
Long before the songs became fully realized symphonic metal compositions, many began as personal reflections, poems, melodies, and emotional processing. Hoit describes this foundation as her “piano confessional” , where deeply personal experiences become the starting point for songs about identity, transformation, love, grief, loss, resilience, and emotional survival.
Now those songs are headed to one of metal’s most legendary stages.
And in the case of 70,000 Tons of Metal, the stage just happens to be floating in the middle of the ocean.
FROM “WHEN THE SKIES FALL” TO 70,000 TONS

The release of When The Skies Fall marks a significant evolution in Talia Hoit’s artistic journey.
Following her 2024 debut album Oceans , Hoit has expanded her sound into a cinematic and emotionally expansive form of symphonic metal while maintaining the intimate songwriting foundation that makes her music uniquely personal.
Singles including “All You Want” and “Again” have already introduced listeners to the album’s emotional world, while the complete ten-track record tells a much larger story of what happens when everything familiar begins to crumble and the struggle to discover what remains.
That journey now continues aboard 70,000 Tons of Metal.
For an artist whose music explores the tension between devastation and hope, there may be no better setting than a ship filled with thousands of metal fans, surrounded by ocean, with some of the world’s most respected metal acts performing just steps away.
Talia Hoit is going to sea.
And she’s bringing When The Skies Fall with her.
70,000 TONS OF METAL 2027

70,000 Tons of Metal is the world’s largest heavy metal cruise, bringing 60 metal bands and thousands of metal fans together for an unparalleled festival experience at sea. Every band performs two sets during the voyage, giving fans an opportunity to experience their favorite artists in an intimate and completely unique environment.
The 2027 lineup continues to expand, with recent announcements including Talia Hoit, Exodus, Wolfheart, Brymir, Avaland, Famous Strangers and more.
For official festival information and the latest lineup announcements:
https://70000tons.com/home/
WHEN THE SKIES FALL

Artist: Talia Hoit
Album: When The Skies Fall
Genre: Symphonic Metal
Release Date: August 28, 2026
Label: SAOL, a division of CMM GmbH
Format: Full-Length Album
Tracks: 10
Status: OUT NOW
For Fans Of: Nightwish, Within Temptation, Epica, Delain, Evanescence
LISTEN TO “WHEN THE SKIES FALL”

https://orcd.co/wtsf
Listen to “Again”:
https://music.suricatemusic.com/Again
ROCK HARD MAGAZINE REVIEW

8/10
“A work as powerful as it is fragile.”
“Art born from urgent necessity, not commercial calculation.”
Rock Hard Magazine – Iberis
PRESS / MEDIA

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The name may be unfamiliar, but the musicians behind VIOLENCE ONLY are anything but newcomers to brutal death metal. Drawing personnel from Between The Killings, Stabbing, Flesh Hoarder, Horrific Visions, Embodied Torment and Enfrenzied, the US-based group will release its self-titled debut EP on November 6 through Comatose Music. After several delays, the five-track recording […]

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“Disaster Dawn” opened the campaign for Abomination of Mind. Its follow-up now pushes SAGITTARIUS further into the darker and more progressive territory promised by their debut album. The Polish heavy metal band have released “Voice of Myst,” the second single taken from Abomination of Mind, which arrives worldwide on October 9 through Wormholedeath. Built around […]

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Within the independent music world, there’s been a growing enthusiasm this year for Historic New Jersey, a recording collective and/or record label in Philadelphia making retro-tinted pop-rock, scrappy yet finely crafted, familiar but seemingly beamed in from an alternate timeline. The hype started to build in February, when Emily Moales graced us with her brilliant Star Moles album Highway To Hell, and it intensified this summer, when siblings Sam and Louise Sullivan released their charming and inspired Love & Devotion. Kevin Basko, whose home studio plays host to all this creation, has been regularly name-dropped in coverage of these projects, and it’s left me wondering when we’d get a potential breakthrough release from his own project, Rubber Band Gun. Without notice, that time has come.

The post Rubber Band Gun Shares Surprise New Album <em>Bloodwork</em> Feat. Sam And Louise Sullivan & Star Moles appeared first on Stereogum.

It always stops me in my tracks a little bit when I’m reminded that the same Martin Rygge that is responsible for one half of the guitar insanity in Oslo avant-grinders Beaten to Death is also responsible for one half of the chin-stroking technical wizardy in Oslo progressive metal trio Grant the Sun. The band took a small corner of the prog metal community by surprise with their debut, Voyage. Comparisons were drawn to Meshuggah, post-SYL Devin Townsend, newer Cynic and the like, none of which anyone in their right mind would dispute. Three years on and the band — also consisting of drummer Håvard Sveberg and guitarist/bassist/vocalist Markus Lillehaug Johnsen — are ready, set and itching to offer up their latest work, Biomes. Set to be issued by Mas-Kina on October 16th, Biomes continues in the same vein, though with an increased expansiveness in the chord selection and arrangement department and a greater sense of melodic maturity.

“Tedium” is the album’s first single (and second track) and today we’re offering an advance listen. Says the band about the song: “‘Tedium’ is about the endless desert, a barren and boring landscape that never changes. It was one of those songs we had no idea how to approach when it came time to record the drums. The track is a bit all over the place, with an early Pantera vibe running through it, but somehow all those different elements came together in the end. We felt ‘Tedium’ became the perfect single to showcase what this record has to offer: unpredictable, restless, and heavy.”

For more info, pre-orders and all that jazz, connect at:

Bandcamp

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Mas-Kina Recordings

The post Track Premiere: Grant the Sun Besmirch Musical Tedium with “Tedium” appeared first on Decibel Magazine.

We’re just three months away from the return of Magazine Metal & Beer Fest: Denver—the world’s loudest, heaviest, headbangingest, two-day craft beer event—so it’s time to make those December 3-5 weekend plans NOW!

Southern doom supergroup Down make their first Denver appearance in over 12 years to headline Saturday night (December 5), while crossover thrash metal legends Suicidal Tendencies will unleash their first Denver headline performance in over eight years on Friday night (December 4).

The already stacked artist bill, presented by BLKIIBLK Records, is rounded out by: legendary DMV grind force Pig Destroyer (performing a special 25th anniversary Prowler in the Yard set); reunited progressive psych sludge institution Kylesa; New York hardcore legends Cro-Mags (performing a special 40th anniversary The Age of Quarrel set); Denver’s own Americana gunslingers Wayfarer; freshly resurrected death/thrash/crust killers Black Breath; progressive sludge crew Intronaut (performing for the first time in over four years); masked mincecore marauders Haggus and Denver doom lords In the Company of Serpents.

But that’s just the (sober) half of it! America’s most metal breweries and meaderies will descend upon the beer capital of America to provide essential suds to the soundtrack of crushing metallic thuds! Presented by American craft beer vanguard 3 Floyds Brewing (IN), the murderous maelstrom of malts includes Featured Breweries—and Meadery—WarPigs Brewing (IN), XUL Beer Company (TN), Brimming Horn Meadery (DE), Bear Cult Brewing Co. (DE), Odell Brewing Co (CO), Zymos Brewing (CO), Mythk Brewing (FL), Surly Brewing Co (MN), Left Hand Brewing (CO), plus pours from Ratio Beerworks (CO).

Daily lineups can be found below. All ticket options for Metal & Beer Fest: Denver 2026, including single-day tickets, are ON SALE NOW!

DECEMBER 4 TICKETS
DECEMBER 5 TICKETS
TWO-DAY TICKETS
THREE-DAY TICKETS (INCLUDES PRE-FEST)

IMPORTANT: We’re already down to an extremely limited number of three-day passes that include tickets to the official Metal & Beer PRE-Fest at Ratio Beerworks (Larimer Street location) on December 3 with Clusterfux,  Axeslasher and Victim of Fire. Full daily lineups below.

DECEMBER 3 (Pre-fest at Ratio Beerworks)
Clusterfux
Axeslasher
Victim of Fire

DECEMBER 4 (at Fillmore Auditorium)
Suicidal Tendencies
Pig Destroyer (special Prowler in the Yard set)
Cro-Mags (special The Age of Quarrel set)
Black Breath
Haggus

DECEMBER 5 (at Fillmore Auditorium)
Down
Kylesa
Wayfarer
Intronaut
In the Company of Serpents

“Just Metal” Ticket (21+)

Admittance to the day’s event, but as the name suggests, you just get to see the show—no beer samples.

 “Metal & Beer” Ticket (21+)

Admittance to the day’s event plus unlimited* sampling from our diverse lineup of national breweries presented by 3 Floyds. Decibel Magazine Metal & Beer Fest: Denver 2026 sampling cups provided. Limited tickets available per day.

*Please note: In extremely extreme cases, certain high-ABV pours will be ticketed, with attendees receiving a limited number of tickets available to redeem for each offering.

Hails and ales to our sponsors!

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Bear Cult Brewing Co.
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Surly Brewing Co.
Zymos Brewing
Mythk Brewing
Odell Brewing Co.
Left Hand Brewing
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Tankcrimes
Dark Descent Records
Sauce Leopard
Ratio Beerworks

The post Metal & Beer Fest: Denver 2026 Is Only 3 MONTHS AWAY! Make Your Plans NOW! appeared first on Decibel Magazine.

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There may be no 15-minute epic on Construction of Conflict, but FEBRUUS have hardly made their music easier to navigate. The Swedish progressive death metal project instead compresses its twists, rhythmic disruptions and stylistic collisions into eight tightly packed tracks, most of which run for approximately five minutes. The entire album can now be streamed […]

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What remains of an absolute truth when those preaching it reveal their own interests? HATESPHERE confront that question in “Dogma,” the second single from the Danish thrash-death veterans’ forthcoming album, Guillotine. The song arrives with a new lyric video and examines the contradictions the band sees within religion, particularly when faith is treated as the […]

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