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  • KERRIGAN – “Wayfarer” Full Album Premiere – High Roller Records

    Shortly before its official release, the sophomore full-length album of KERRIGAN is now streaming in its entirety. You can listen to “Wayfarer” here: https://youtu.be/ijEfSvCZ-PU KERRIGAN are one of the most promising newcomers from Germany playing traditional heavy metal. Three years after the highly acclaimed debut album “Bloodmoon”, it’s time for the follow-up entitled “Wayfarer”. “Dreamy, melancholic and pretty versatile,” this […]

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  • Kissing Kaos Release New Single/Video ‘Hey Sugar’

    With their explosive new single ‘Hey Sugar‘, Kissing Kaos deliver the track that ignited the spark behind the band’s upcoming album. Packed with towering guitar riffs, infectious melodic hooks and an undeniable swagger, the song captures the raw energy and attitude that define the band’s sound. ‘Hey Sugar‘ dives headfirst into a story of reckless desire […]

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  • Forest – “Whore & Savior”

    “Whore & Savior,” the latest single from LA alt-rock musician Forest, is loud, chaotic, and weirdly addictive. My speakers are staging a tiny mechanical meltdown. It’s all screech, physical and feral. But there’s something softer fueling the pummeling sound. “I really drew on experiences of first love, and teenagehood,” Forest shared in a press release. “I wanted…

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  • Enslaved Hit the High Seas with the Release of Two Sea Shanties to Celebrate Their Heritage

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    Progressive black/viking metal outfit Enslaved are showing off their cred as salty dogs, as they released a pair of sea shanties earlier today. Recorded in collaboration with Bergen, Norway’s Storm Weather Shanty Choir, “Fire Marengo” and “Anna Lovinda” share a deeply Norwegian connection.

    According to the band, “Fire Marengo” is a standard, traditional shanty while “Anna Lovinda” is different. That song was written by Norwegian sailor and cultural figure Erik Bye. The incorporation of the aforementioned choir is particularly special, because they’re the same choir that sails on the Statsraad Lehmkuhl, a great Bergen tall ship that still sails the world’s oceans.

    Considering the fact that this sort of thing might not be the most common avenue for a band like Enslaved, the band explained why they chose to seek out this collaboration and produce these shanties.

    “Enslaved was formed on the western edge of Norway, where mountains fall into the sea and history is carried by wind and tide. Bergen is not simply a coastal city; it is a threshold — between land and ocean, between myth and lived experience. The sea is not scenery here. It is memory, labour, departure and return.

    “Among the most powerful living symbols of this heritage is Statsraad Lehmkuhl, the great Bergen tall ship that still sails the world’s oceans. Around this vessel lives and breathes the shanty tradition — songs born of rhythm, rope, salt, and collective effort. From this environment emerged Storm Weather Shanty Choir.

    “Our connection to the ship began in 2014, when the Tall Ships Races concluded in Bergen. We were invited to compose and perform a commissioned piece on the deck of Statsraad Lehmkuhl. Metal echoed across the harbour that evening — a meeting of ancient wind-powered technology and modern amplified ritual. It felt less like contrast and more like continuity.”

    Enslaved said they grew close with the choir, especially with the director of the ship’s foundation Haakon Vatle. Eventually, Enslaved said they were asked to play with the choir and today’s release stemmed from that.

    “In November 2025, during the choir’s 20th anniversary concert in Bergen, we joined forces on the traditional “Fire Marengo” and the Norwegian shanty “Anna Lovinda,” written by the late sailor and cultural figure Erik Bye. The collaboration felt less like fusion and more like recognition — two expressions of the same coastal inheritance meeting at the centre.

    “After the performance, it was clear that this convergence should not remain ephemeral. We met again in early 2026 to record the material — not as novelty, but as continuation

    “Because at the centre — at mið — we find not isolation, but shared origin. Wind, rhythm, voice. The same pulse that once moved sails now moves amplifiers. The same call-and-response that coordinated labour now shapes modern ritual.

    “The sea remembers. And so do we.”

    You can check out both tracks below.

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  • Joyce Manor Postpone Shows Due To Barry Johnson’s Torn Vocal Cord

    Joyce Manor released their fantastic new album I Used To Go To This Bar in January, and they’re out on the road supporting it right now. The Torrance trio will be pushing back their next two shows, though, due to a vocal cord tear for frontman Barry Johnson. Last night the band postponed their show at Toronto’s Danforth Music Hall, and tonight they won’t be appearing as scheduled at Detroit’s Majestic Theatre. Those shows have been rescheduled for April 23 (Detroit) and April 24 (Toronto) at the start of the next leg of the tour. Johnson hopes to be ready to perform again by Saturday’s show at the Salt Shed in Chicago, the last show of the current stretch.

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  • AN NCS PREMIERE: RIVERFLAME — “WHERE DRAGONS ONCE RULED”

    (written by Islander) “Riverflame were created in 2024 by members of Hail Spirit Noir, Ponte Del Diavolo, and OWLS.” That short announcement got my attention just as effectively as if it had been a meteor plowing into the house next door. Those other groups happen to be personal favorites, so there’s that, but the strong […]

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  • Setlist + Video – Arch Enemy Play First Show With Lauren Hart

    Hart recently replaced lead vocalist Alissa White-Gluz after her 11-year tenure with the band. Continue reading…
  • Dark Divine Share Decadent New Track ‘Half Past Dead (Unbury Me)’

    Dead Divine has shared a new taste of their upcoming album ‘Undead Melody’, and it dives deeper into their fantastically pitch-black universe.


    Titled ‘Half Past Dead (Unbury Me)’, it’s half ballad and half metalcore rager, a love song and death song in the same breath. Pushing the ante with both their melodic and malignant tendencies, it’s an absolute behemoth of a tune, one that shows how far into the abyss the band are willing to venture.

    Vocalist Anthony Martinez had this to say about the track, explaining, “Half Past Dead’ is a song about the concept of fleeting time. There are times we put ourselves in the very places that keep us from truly living. We sit and rot away while life passes us by. This song is meant to say that while we may feel past the point of no return, as long as we still bleed, we are still of the living.”


    ‘Undead Melody’ is set for release on May 19 via Thriller Records.

    Here’s how the artwork for the record is looking:


    The band are set to make their way across Europe supporting Smash Into Pieces next month. Here is where you can catch them.

    APRIL

    16 – ZWOLLE Hedon
    17 – HAARLEM Patronaat
    18 – MUNSTER Skaters Palace
    19 – BERLIN Astra
    21 – WEISBADEN Schlachthof
    22 – MUNICH Backstage Werk
    23 – STUTTGART LKA-Longhorn
    24 – COLOGNE E-Werk
    25 – LEIPZIG Felsenkeller
    26 – PRAGUE Roxy
    27 – VIENNA Flex
    20 – ANTWERP Zappa
    30 -TILBURG 013

    MAY

    02 – NOTTINGHAM Rock City
    03 – MANCHESTER 02 Ritz
    04 – GLASGOW Garage
    05 – BRISTOL Thekla
    06 – LONDON Electric Ballroom
    07 – PARIS Elysee Montmartre
    09 – HAMBURG Grosse Freiheit 36
    10 – COPENHAGEN Amager Bio

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