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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
TALIA HOIT FEATURED IN BRAVEWORDS COVERAGE OF 70,000 TONS OF METAL 2027
Symphonic Metal Artist Receives New International Media Exposure Following Confirmation For Prestigious Metal Cruise

September 11, 2026 – Talia Hoit continues to build momentum following the release of her acclaimed new album When The Skies Fall , with the symphonic metal artist now receiving additional international media attention through BraveWords following her confirmation for 70,000 Tons of Metal 2027 .
BraveWords has published new coverage surrounding the 2027 edition of the legendary metal cruise, with Talia Hoit included among the artists featured in the announcement , placing her name alongside a growing international lineup of established metal acts.
The latest media coverage comes just days after Hoit’s confirmation for the festival and follows the August 28 release of her second full-length album, When The Skies Fall , via SAOL, a division of CMM GmbH .
The growing attention surrounding Hoit’s 70,000 Tons appearance adds another significant piece to an already strong run for the artist. Her new album has received international recognition, including an 8/10 review from Rock Hard Magazine , with the publication describing When The Skies Fall as “a work as powerful as it is fragile.”
Now, her music is heading to one of the most unique stages in heavy metal.
FROM NEW ALBUM TO INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL EXPOSURE

Talia Hoit’s appearance at 70,000 Tons of Metal 2027 represents a major milestone following the release of When The Skies Fall .
The album expands upon the intimate songwriting foundation established on her 2024 debut Oceans , bringing together piano, vocals, orchestration, powerful metal instrumentation, and emotionally charged performances.
Songs such as “All You Want” and “Again” showcase Hoit’s ability to move between vulnerable, intimate songwriting and expansive symphonic metal arrangements.
At the heart of the project is what Hoit describes as her “piano confessional” , where personal experiences, poetry, melodies, grief, transformation, resilience, and emotional survival become the foundation for her music.
That deeply personal approach has now carried her onto an international festival lineup featuring some of the biggest names in metal.
70,000 TONS OF METAL 2027

The 2027 edition of 70,000 Tons of Metal will bring 60 metal bands and thousands of metal fans together for the world’s largest heavy metal cruise, with every artist performing two sets during the voyage.
Hoit joins an increasingly stacked international lineup that includes legendary thrash metal veterans Exodus , Finnish melodic death metal powerhouse Wolfheart , Finnish melodic metal act Brymir , cinematic metal project Avaland , Famous Strangers , and many more.
With BraveWords now highlighting Hoit as part of the 2027 lineup, the announcement represents another important step in bringing When The Skies Fall to a wider international metal audience.
Talia Hoit is coming to 70,000 Tons of Metal.
And the world is starting to take notice.
BRAVEWORDS COVERAGE

Talia Hoit is featured in the latest BraveWords coverage surrounding the 70,000 Tons of Metal 2027 lineup.
https://bravewords.com/news/brymir-famous-strangers-avaland-and-talia-holt-confirmed-for-70000-tons-of-metal-2027/
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
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There’s nothing quite like the feeling of hearing a raging, seething, ass-kicking punk song in a language that you don’t speak — not knowing exactly what they’re saying but fully getting it anyway. Helsinki’s Kohti Tuhoa have given me that feeling over and over again. The band works within the rich tradition of Finnish D-beat, and they only sing in their native language, but I have never once been confused by one of their records because “fuck these motherfucking oppressors” is a universal sentiment. (The name Kohti Tuhoa is Finnish for “towards destruction,” if that helps situate them for you.)

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Suicide Silence have announced the details of a new full-length album, set to be a rip-roaring deathcore riot.

Titled ‘Graceless’, it’s set for release on November 20 via Century Media Records. It serves as the follow-up to 2023’s ‘Remember… You Must Die’.

Whilst guitarist Chris Garza has stated that goal of the album was to “just get out of the way and serve that band logo. When we choose to do that, great things follow. We’re back to doing it exactly as we did it when we were kids: just playing heavy shit and doing it from the heart.”

The artwork looks like this:

Additionally, the band have shared the title track of the album. 114 seconds of chaotic, crushing and cataclysmic deathcore that leaves nothing to the imagination, it is the definition of a bonesnapper.

Suicide Silence had this to say about it:

“This is the title track off our new record. It’s a short n sweet crusher that gives you a taste of what this record is all about. Check out our podcast where we go in detail about the song, video and album.”

Oh, and that podcast? You can check that out below as well:

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With great influences like Unfathomable Ruination, Defeated Sanity, and Unbirth to draw from, the modern brutal tech death scene is highly competitive, powerfully muscular, and ridiculously fun. Pittsburgh brutal death quartet Vulgar Mephitis sit comfortably in this space, throwing sickening grooves in between squealing pinches, writhing riffs, and thrashy freakouts at lightning speed. With a simple but effective formula such as this, debut LP From Dust promises all of the same high-octane pleasures the household names in the space set as the standard.

Those aforementioned brutal tech death influences are aforementioned for a reason, as Vulgar Mephitis presents their style as an ideal amalgamation therein. Huge, off-center grooves and disgusting vocal utterances splice muscular Unfathomable Ruination DNA all throughout these lean 26 minutes. Complex time signature manipulations scaffolded by an unrelenting habit of moving from motif to motif without rest recall Defeated Sanity’s MO. Filthy, serrated riffs built on brutal chug sequences and scraping triplet and quadruplet flourishes reek of a potent Unbirth stench sure to saturate my olfactory senses. These are the building blocks of Vulgar Mephitis’ sound, and while I could argue that calls into question how distinct a voice they achieve, it simultaneously verifies their merit as purveyors of worthy brutalities.

One big element that differentiates From Dust from its closest relatives is the vice-like tightness of their songwriting. Save for the first and last songs proper, every track here clocks in between 2 and 3-and-a-half minutes, and the content therein is relentlessly fast, vicious, and uncompromising. Not unlike some of Dormant Ordeal’s material, this animalistic method of attack affords songs like “Exterminating Profane” and “Scorn of My Flesh” a certain tangible sense of danger and of malice that makes hearing them terrifying and exciting. Nick Bentzel in particular exhibits the energy required to make these tracks feel like they’re about to fly off the rails. His acrobatic cymbal work and laser-precise blasts and grooves give “Martyr,” “Peer into the Abyss,” and “Gorging Greed” an elevated scale and an explosive impact that punches with terrible force. That’s no slight to the rest of the band, who deliver destructive payloads with scorching, sharp riffs, eerie leads, and a grotesque vocal array on a constant basis—sure to scare off poseurs and weaklings on a global scale.

Over time, however, I started to notice with progressively greater clarity how much Vulgar Mephitis owes to its influences. A fantastically engaging and brutal assault though From Dust obviously is, it’s also remarkably similar to the high water marks of its peers. In some areas, like the tightly fitted riffs and grooves of “Peer into the Abyss,” “From Dust,” and “Wounds,” I can almost hear both Defeated Sanity’s and Unbirth’s main riff-crafters questioning if they wrote some of what I’m hearing. It’s not quite plagiarism as much as it is a lack of identity that creates that effect, and it holds From Dust back from higher esteem. Additionally, the occasional instance of soft 808 drops, while undoubtedly very stimulating in a live environment, is extremely distracting for me in an album context. This is mainly due to the fact that it takes a while (at least a couple of seconds) for the rest of the instruments to recover from the blast, leaving a patch of muted and muffled measures made muddy by the density of instrumentation trying to breach the surface. As a final critique from a greedy sponge, I wish From Dust was at least ten minutes longer. With an instrumental intro and an extended outro on the final song, 26 minutes is reduced to a paltry 22 minutes of active content, which leaves me starving and malnourished for MOAR br00tality.

Of course, these complaints don’t take too much away from my enjoyment of the existing material, and for most listeners are easy enough to ignore. What remains is an intimidating tear of vicious songs that any brutal tech death band should be proud to have produced. It’s too short, and a touch too derivative. On the other hand, the percussion in particular is insane, and the sheer unchecked energy presented is infectious. Ultimately, there’s no reason From Dust shouldn’t check a significant number of boxes for any fan of brutal fare, and it has near-infinite replay value for its brevity and densely packed detailing. More telling, it’s just the beginning for Vulgar Mephitis. If this is their opening salvo, I shudder to think what will happen once they mature. Gird your loins!

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Rating: Good!
DR: 4 | Format Reviewed: 320 kb/s mp3
Label: Willowtip Records
Websites: Bandcamp | Facebook
Releases Worldwide: September 11th, 2026

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