RISE OF THE NORTHSTAR
"CHAPTER 4: RED FALCON SUPER BATTLE! NEO PARIS WAR!!"
Crossover/ Hardcore
Release date: 04.11.2025
(MEMBRAN)

The new album “CHAPTER 4: RED FALCON SUPER BATTLE ! NEO PARIS WAR !!” released on Nov 14th 2025 is a collection of 13 heavy hitting modern rap-metal and hardcore anthems. It is a leaner blend of the band’s own mixture of head banging grooves, atmospheric melodies, and fast epic solos.

The record was made between the band’s own studio in the Parisian suburbs, and Marseille with Florent SALFATI from LANDMVRKS, who is also featured on the second single “BACK 2 BASICS”.

Rise Of The Northstar is the second French metal band after Gojira to have a song streamed +25M on Spotify with the single "Here Comes The Boom", and their video for the song “Demonstrating My Saiya Style” shot during their first tour of Japan in 20...

EQUILIBRIUM
"EQUINOX"
Epic/ Viking/ Folk Metal
Release date: 28.11.2025
(NUCLEAR BLAST)

In turbulent times, real art keeps us all grounded in the things that really matter. Equinox is a statement of intent from a band reborn.
 
Equilibrium have made great music in the past, but never with this much fire and focus. Brimming with smart ideas, anthemic melodies and crushing, state-of-the-art modern metal with an organic, folk-fuelled twist, it kicks open this new chapter in the band’s story with an exhilarating, heartfelt flourish.

CD/ LP:

01. Earth Tongue
02. Awakening
03. Legends
04. Archivist
05. Gnosis
06. Bloodwood

07. I'll Be Thunder
08. Anderswelt
09. One Hundred Hands
10. Borrowed Waters
11. Rituals of Sun and Moon
12. Nexus
13. Tides of Time 

HOODED MENACE
"LACHRYMOSE MONUMENTS OF OBSCURATION"
Funeral Doom/ Death Metal
Release date: 03.10.2025
(SEASON OF MIST)

On the precipice of their third decade, Hooded Menace stand not as a bridge but the pillar between two distinct realms of underground metal. The band’s seventh album is still rooted in cultish obsession with classic horrors. But with Lachrymose Monuments of Obscuration, these stewards of death-doom remain far from stuck in their ways. 

The Knights Templar still stand watch over Lachrymose Monuments of Obscuration. “Pale Masquerade” summons film director Amando de Ossorio’s flesh-eating muse with a fresh heap of bone-crunching chugs and death growls that reek of the tomb. While the lasting influence of Candlemass and Paradise Lost hasn’t vanished without a ghostly trace, Hooded Menace continues to break the mold. Old school heshers wil...

1349
"WINTER MASS"
Black Metal
Release date: 28.11.2025
(SEASON OF MIST)

For three decades, 1349 have embodied the original spirit of black metal. Since manifesting from Oslo’s underground in the late ‘90s, the cold and hellish Norwegians have appeared at major European festivals such as Wacken Open Air and Hellfest and toured internationally with the likes of Celtic Frost, Cannibal Corpse and Carcass. Now, fresh from the ashes of their eighth album, the band are releasing a new live album.    

Though recorded shortly after pandemic lockdown was lifted, Winter Mass explodes out the gates with 1349’s aural hellfire. During their hour-plus set at Parkteatret in front of their home crowd, the band summon a career-spanning range of apocalyptic spells from their massive cauldron of chaos. Early classics like &ldq...