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Polish atmospheric black/epic doom metal solo project Divine Sovereign has announced a new album, Autaxia Chronicles: A House Divided, due out via Wormholedeath. The first single, “Heresy,” is available now as an audiostream video. A House Divided is the second installment in the Autaxia Chronicles series, picking up where 2025’s Dawn of a New Age left off. Where the first album treated religious […]

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What did you expect from this guy? Sportsmanship? Perspective? The kind of sober self-reflection that can only come from suffering humiliating defeat on the largest possible stage? No. Not this guy. It was never going to happen. That kind of thing would’ve directly contradicted the entire ethos of the Drake project. It’s not that Aubrey Graham never discusses his own vulnerabilities. It’s that he only ever does it on his own terms. He’ll say that he loves women too much and that he feels hurt when they fuck other dudes in the apartments that he rents for them. He will not allow himself to consider the idea that the entire world laughed at him and danced on his grave. That’s not what Drake does.

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New album ‘The Bereaved’ is out now

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Today, Osmose Productions announces June 26th as the release date for Ruyned‘s highly anticipated second album, Profanum Sacrificium, on CD, vinyl LP, and cassette tape formats. Forged in the underground of Romania, Ruyned unleash their most ferocious and unrelenting material, Profanum Sacrificium, a blasphemous speed metal assault infused with elements of black, thrash, and heavy metal. The intro sets the calm before the storm. […]

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At the end of November 2024, the young Polish band Burning Creation released their debut album “Sea of Dead Bodies” via the independent local label Via Nocturna. A year earlier, these lovers of melodic death metal and Nordic-themed lyrics first introduced themselves with their debut EP “Never Dead Nation”, released through the same label. It was a remarkably strong beginning, and although Burning Creation still belongs firmly to the Polish underground scene, quality clearly matters to them in every aspect – from the polished, crystal-clear sound and carefully constructed lyrics about northern myths to the memorable melodies and vigorously arranged compositions.

Burning Creation was formed in 2024 in the small southern Polish town of Żywiec, perhaps best known across Europe for the beer sharing the same name. But that has little to do with the matter at hand, because the musicians draw their primary inspiration from Norse mythology – with its bloody battles, quarrels among gods, and the principle that honour is worth more than life itself. It was with such a mindset that the seemingly invincible Vikings marched into battle, conquering new lands and intimidating local populations through berserker-like courage and frenzied fury. Burning Creation carries that same spirit like a banner, reviving Nordic history in a more or less modern form.

The band was founded by the Klimonda brothers – guitarist Marek and drummer Jarosław, who also play in bands Hauros and Consumer, while Jarosław was additionally involved in the rather original technical death metal band with the very unoriginal name Catharsis. Yet it is in Burning Creation that they fully embrace their passion for Scandinavian folklore, paying tribute to their idols Amon Amarth. And just like them, they chose to remain firmly within melodic death metal territory, with very little influence from ethnic or pagan metal traditions.

Norse mythology may be an overused theme in the world of folk metal, yet it rarely becomes tiresome because it has effectively become a classic gateway into the world of fearless Vikings aboard carved drakkars or into the ceremonial halls of Odin himself, where fallen warriors feast beside the Allfather every day. Slavic mythology is no less rich or fascinating, but it remains far less mainstream in music and, unlike Nordic mythology, was not preserved as thoroughly due to Christianity’s relentless attempts to erase pagan gods and traditions. Today, the gods of the North are praised across every corner of the world, and to some degree this has become a trend, though usually not for the musicians themselves, for whom it is more a lifestyle than a fashionable aesthetic. Many metal musicians begin with anti-Christian ideas, and after period of denial they begin searching for their own source of strength, eventually rediscovering the not-so-forgotten names of the great northern gods. And credit must be given to Burning Creation here: their lyrics are precise and filled with interesting minor details, making it obvious that this goes far beyond reading a Wikipedia article about Norse mythology once. Their understanding of myth and history feels genuinely deep, because every myth contains invisible layers that are not immediately apparent at first glance.

The album opens with the solemn and epic intro “The Calling”, immediately setting the proper mood for bloody battles, betrayal, and ultimately Ragnarök, the northern apocalypse itself. It must be said that the album flows on a single consistent wavelength. There are no radically standout tracks, no experimental detours, no sudden shifts in rhythm, and yet it never feels as you are listening to the same song for forty-five minutes straight. In general, each composition revolves around one memorable riff – not so catchy that you find yourself humming it afterward, but strong in a different way, like stainless steel resting on the ocean floor. “Snakebite” and “Tears of Mourner” slightly accelerate the album’s otherwise dominant mid-tempo pacing, leaning closer towards thrash/death, while “Snakebite” in particular surprises with a kind of rock’n’roll carelessness. “As the Ocean Takes Us Down” also stands apart, though in the opposite direction – slow, contemplative, and faintly melancholic. Yet this nostalgic sorrow is answered by the surprisingly optimistic “Under the Fading Sun”, restoring balance before the sadness becomes overwhelming.

And of course, not for a single second does one forget that this is not merely heavy music, but melodic heavy music. Melody permeates the entire concept of the album, and although it never softens the extreme spirit of this musical canvas too drastically, the music constantly flows with harmonies and melodic sensibility. The debut ends with Burning Creation’s cover of their idols Amon Amarth, fiercely and straightforwardly declaring that Nordic melodic death metal and Amon Amarth are truly a match made in heaven.

There are no hyper-complex elements here, but neither is there any dull simplicity. “Sea of Dead Bodies” is more about minimalism and careful devotion to genre canon – executed professionally and with candid enthusiasm. The album artwork, painted in leaden tones and depicting brave dead Varangians, an obvious reference to the ship of the dead Naglfar, perfectly captures the mood of the album while deepening the impact of its lyrical themes. And while “Sea of Dead Bodies” sounds, all that remains is to pull a dusty drinking horn down from the attic, fill it with sweet and fragrant mead, and cry into the Ragnarök night: Hail Óðinn!

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His 1997 album Sunsets On Empire – a collaboration with Steven Wilson – remains a sunny moment in his stormy career, although one song might not be the same if it was written today

“I woke up at noon, and there were 45 years gone/ I never imagined I would live this long/ You don’t notice the days slipping away until there’s nothing left to protect except your next paycheck.” That’s the opening verse from “No Percentage In Caution,” the latest single from the noisy and transgressive quasi-industrial Austin…

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For fans of Fear Factory and Ministry

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The Transformers: The Movie Soundtrack  –  The Reformatted Edition Anniversary Tribute. Available July 24th Relive the soundtrack that fueled a generation. From soaring anthems to […]

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Beartooth’s third tour announcement in just as many days.

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