MACHINE HEAD
"UNATONED"
Prog Death Metal
Year:25.04.2025
(NUCLEAR BLAST)

For over three decades, the personification of determination, founder/vocalist/guitarist Robb Flynn, has led Bay Area icons MACHINE HEAD on an uncompromising path – one fueled by defiance, reinvention, and a relentless pursuit of evolution. Now, Machine Head announce their new album, UNATØNED. UNATØNED is a testament to momentum, an album honed to its sharpest edge, forged on creative discipline and the hunger to push forward. To mark the announcement, the band reveals the first single, 'UNBØUND'. Experience the raw energy and watch the electrifying music video directed by Mike Sloat below!CD/ LP:        1. Landscape of Thorns        2. Atomic Revelations   ...

ELUVEITIE
"ANV"
Epic/ Viking/ Folk Metal
Year:25.04.2025
(NUCLEAR BLAST)

 In 2022, Eluveitie released the singles "Aidus" and "Exile of the Gods," marking a new chapter in their musical journey and thematical cycle pursuing the lyrical concept opened by their last studio album "Ategnatos". These tracks were followed by the announcement of their upcoming album, "ÀNV," set for release in April 2025. The first single from this album, "Premonition," has just been unveiled, offering a glimpse into the band's evolving sound. Over the years, Eluveitie has undergone lineup changes, including their latest addition with Lea-Sophie Fischer on violin in May 2024. Despite these changes, the band's essence and soul remains untouched. With nine studio albums, numerous tours all around the globe, and headline shows worldwide, Eluveitie continue...

HATE FOREST
"AGAINST ALL ODDS"
Black Metal
Year:25.04.2025
(OSMOSE PRODUCTIONS)

Today, Osmose Productions announces April 25th as the surprise release date for Hate Forest‘s highly anticipated seventh album, Against All Odds, on CD, vinyl LP, and cassette tape formats.

Offensive, blood-chilling, straightforward black metal. The third and final chapter of the trilogy including Sowing With Salt and Justice. The first Hate Forest album with live drums. Moscovia delenda est.

CD/ LP:

1. Werewolves [3:47]
2. One Way Ticket [4:45]
3. Devil’s On Our Side [3:20]
4. Ukrainian Thermopylae [4:29]
5. Mariupol [4:49]
6. Coprophagus Empire [3:17]
7. The Reaping Hand [4:49]
8. Courage [6:28]

HATE
"BELLUM REGIIS"
Blackened Death Metal
Year:02.05.2025
(METAL BLADE RECORDS)

With a dozen ferocious and lauded albums since 1996’s Daemon Qui Fecit Terra, HATE’s lucky thirteenth album, Bellum Regiis, sees the unrelenting Polish quartet forging a bolder and more aggressive style than ever. Bellum Regiis’ nine songs see vocalist/guitarist ATF Sinner, guitarist Domin, drummer Nar-Sil, and bassist Tiermes honing a modern sound rife with eerie atmosphere and depth. Produced by David Castillo (Candlemass, Carcass, Dark Tranquillity, Katatonia) at Stockholm's Grondahl Studio, Bellum Regiis is lyrically a more “humanity focused and personal” album than 2021’s Rugia while its songs are timely aural and visual exploration of, according to the vocalist, “a struggle for power and everything that comes with it.”CD/...

Steve Di Giorgio/ Paul Thesseling - QUADVIUM
"TETRADOM"
Prog/ Fusion Death Metal
Year:30.05.2025
(Agonia Records)

"Tetradōm" is the debut album of the instrumental progressive metal-fusion quartet Quadvium, half in California - half in the Netherlands, founded in late 2019 by American bass player Steve Di Giorgio (Testament, Death) and Dutch bass player Jeroen Paul Thesseling (Obscura, Pestilence).Steve Di Giorgio and Jeroen Paul Thesseling are both innovators in bringing a different style of fretless bass playing to metal. Launching a band with two predominantly multi-string fretless bass players is no common occurrence, and the bass-duo felt they needed to take very special and deliberate time to get the right alignment with who is participating and what will be the end result - meaning the right sound and composition to represent this rare vision.Over time, together with Dutch master drummer Y...

CREMATORY
"DESTINATION"
Melodic Death/ Gothic Metal
Year:02.05.2025
(Reigning Phoenix Music)

The CREMATORY hit factory opens its doors for the 17th time with its new studio album “Destination” and reaches a new, even higher level than before! It's an album that literally combines all the strengths and phases of the gothic metal pioneers, going back to their melodic death metal roots in places, then diving deep into the gothic realm again and surprising with some electro dancefloor bangers.CD/ 2LP:01.     Destination 02.     The Future Is a Lonely Place03.     Welt Aus Glas     04.     My Girlfriend's Girlfriend (Type O Negative cover)     05.     After Isolation 06.     My Own Private God  &n...

THE DEAD DAISIES
"LOOKIN' FOR TROUBLE"
Hard Rock/ Blues
Year:30.05.2025
(SPV)

"Lookin' For Trouble", THE DEAD DAISIES' first full-length blues album, is both a tribute to the genre's pioneers and a bold new chapter for the band. The album reimagines classic blues songs with the band's signature firepower, and was born in March 2024 during sessions for THE DEAD DAISIES' rock album "Light 'Em Up". After recording at Sienna Studios in Nashville, the band moved to Muscle Shoals, Alabama, to complete the album at the iconic FAME Studios.Stepping into the same space where legends like Aretha Franklin, Wilson Pickett and Etta James recorded their classic hits, the band — John Corabi (MÖTLEY CRÜE, THE SCREAM),David Lowy (RED PHOENIX, MINK),Doug Aldrich (WHITESNAKE, DIO),Michael Devin (WHITESNAKE, LYNCH MOB) and drummer...

ALESTORM
"THE THUNDERFIST CHRONICLES"
Pirate Heavy Metal
Year:20.06.2025
(NAPALM RECORDS)

ALESTORM will release a new album, "The Thunderfist Chronicles", on June 20, 2025 via Napalm Records. The Scottish party pirates return with their eight album, containing eight new anthems packed with blistering riffs, wild shanty-driven riffs, and utterly ridiculous lyrics — taking the high seas of metal to new depths."The Thunderfist Chronicles" arrives as the successor to ALESTORM's epic seventh studio album, "Seventh Rum Of A Seventh Rum", which peaked at No. 5 on both the U.S. Current Hard Music and Top New Artist Albums charts, No. 7 on the German Album chart and many more. After the release of last year's "Voyage of the Dead Marauder" EP and extensive touring, the band returns for more! With "The Thunderfist Chronicles", ALESTORM proves once again why they are the un...

EPICA
"ASPIRAL"
Symphonic Female Heavy Metal
Year:11.04.2025
(NUCLEAR BLAST)

Symphonic metal titans EPICA are excited to announce that their 9th studio album Aspiral will be out on April 11th, via Nuclear Blast Records. The album title is derived from the eponymous bronze sculpture made by Polish sculptor and painter Stanisław Szukalski back in 1965 and stands for renewal and inspiration – keywords that define EPICA in 2025. In Szukalski’s work every detail is a piece of art in its own right, and there’s always more to the story than you initially think. The band saw this as the perfect analogy for the creation of this 9th album: each song stands on its own with a distinctive vibe and meaning, while together they enforce each other into a monumental effort. The album, featuring stunning cover artwork by Hedi Xandt (Rammstein, ...

VOLBEAT
"GOD OF ANGELS TRUST"
Hard Rock/ AOR
Year:06.06.2025
(ADA - Alternative Distribution Alliance)

Danish rock and rollers VOLBEAT - Michael Poulsen (vocals, guitar),Jon Larsen (drums) and Kaspar Boye Larsen (bass) - have announced their ninth album, "God Of Angels Trust", due on June 6 via longtime label Vertigo/ Universal.With "God Of Angels Trust" the band throws all songwriting rules overboard. Volbeat, who hold a record of ten number 1 hits on the Billboard mainstream rock charts as a non-American band, have deliberately broken away from convention and broken new creative ground.The band's enthusiasm for breaking convention is palpable in "God Of Angels Trust", a punchy, crisp album that is undeniably Volbeat – with the usual powerful mix of catchy melodies and fresh, metallic energy.The fact that Volbeat wrote and recorded a complete album in just five weeks ...

BATTLE BEAST
"CIRCUS OF DOOM - LIVE IN HELSINKI 2023"
Symphonic Female Heavy Metal
Year:11.04.2025
(NUCLEAR BLAST)

Exciting news from Finnish metal masters BATTLE BEAST, who announce today their majestic new live album Circus Of Doom - Live In Helsinki 2023 filmed & recorded at Helsinki Ice Hall in front of 3.000 ecstatic fans. The live album will be released on April 11th via Nuclear Blast Records. With 'King For A Day - (Live In Helsinki)' the band shares the brand new video of this upcoming record.Bass player Eero Sipilä quotes excited:”Our homecoming show was certainly one for the books. After the endless Covid delays, with our closest friends in the audience and our biggest production brought alive on stage, this night served as a true celebration of live music and life itself. We can’t wait to share this package with you all!”CD/ LP:1 Intro (Live in Helsinki 2...

SODOM
"THE ARSONIST"
Thrash Metal
Year:27.06.2025
(SPV)

German Thrash Metal legends Sodom returns with ‘The Arsonist‘, their first full-length album since 2020.It’s not only the complex production process that testifies to the band’s exceptional creative spirit, but also their diverse song writing, which saw all four Sodom musicians – Tom Angelripper (vocals, bass), Frank Blackfire (guitar), York Segatz (guitar) and Toni Merkel (drums) – involved in the development of the material on ‘The Arsonist’.The mastering was done by the famous sound engineer Eroc and the cover artwork with its martial design was penned by the exceptional Polish artist Zbigniew M. Bielak (Ghost, Mayhem, among others).CD/ 2LP:1. The Arsonist2. Battle Of Harvest Moon3. Trigger Discipline4. The Spirits That I Called5. Witchhun...

IN THE WOODS...
"OTRA"
Black Metal
Year:11.04.2025
(PROPHECY PRODUCTIONS)

With their seventh studio album "Otra", Norwegian avant-garde metal stalwards IN THE WOODS... might surprise their listeners – and particularly those, who have not followed the remarkable evolution that the band from the southern Norwegian city of Kristiansand has undergone since the early nineties. The tracks of "Otra" are surprisingly captivating with melodic tunes dominating the present sound of IN THE WOODS... – although progressive elements and the occasional rough reminder of the Norwegians' harsh past are also regularly shimmering through the fabric of these songs. What sets "Otra" apart from the average heavy work of music is the excellence of composition that shows expert level experience and comes with a seeming ease that makes the achievement even greater. Lyric...

ELVENKING
"READER OF THE RUNES - LUNA"
Epic/ Viking/ Folk Metal
Year:11.04.2025
(ADA - Alternative Distribution Alliance)

The final installment of the Readers of the Runes trilogy crowns one of the most epic sagas in metal history. With Luna, Elvenking combine the medieval splendor of Divination with the dark intensity of Rapture, finally unraveling the mysteries surrounding the enigmatic rune reader and the fate of the eight characters.Masterful songwriting and a unique blend of folk, melodic and symphonic metal create stunning anthems like “Throes of Atonement” and “Gone Epoch” as well as dramatic epics like “The Ghosting” and the monumental 11-minute finale Reader of the Runes - Book II. An absolute must for fans of Blind Guardian, Skyclad or Helloween - an album that redefines fantasy metal.Immerse yourself in the magical world of Luna - where magic, wonder and heavy me...

BENEDICTION
"RAVAGE OF EMPIRES"
Death Metal
Year:04.04.2025
(NUCLEAR BLAST)

British death metal legends, BENEDICTION, have unveiled the cover of their upcoming new studio album, Ravage Of Empires, which is due to be released on April 4, 2025, via Nuclear Blast Records. Ravage Of Empires will be the band's ninth full length since forming back in 1989 in Birmingham, England.The year 2020 saw BENEDICTION re-enter the stage with their eighth record, Scriptures, after 12 years without releasing any new music. The album was a huge success and it was praised by fans and critics alike, also due to the return of long-time vocalist Dave Ingram.Just like its predecessor, Ravage Of Empires was produced by Scott Atkins at Grindstone Sudio with cover artwork by Wolven Claw Artist. The album continues BENEDICTION’s flawless discography on Premier League lev...