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Swedish trio Firebreather announce their return with an incendiary new album due out in February 2022, and today share the first track. Listen to “Kiss of Your Blade” below.

Northern metal giants Amorphis recently released “The Moon”, a beautifully haunting first taste of their forthcoming album “Halo”, set for release on February 11th, 2022, via Atomic Fire Records. To shorten the wait until the arrival of their second single, “On the Dark Waters” (out on January 28th, 2022), the band has announced a limited 7" blue/white vinyl single of the same name, due out on the same day.

After releasing their latest masterpiece “Viscera” earlier this year, Demon Head are finally able to announce their first European tour in support of their current album when they will hit the road with their friends in Slaegt.

The two diabolical and urgent orchestras will be touring through Europe for 18 days in March and April next year. Both bands have traveled wide and far on the continent on many previous tours, but there will be first appearances in several cities as well.

Author & Punisher, the alias for visionary San Diego musician-meets-mechanical engineer Tristan Shone, returns with the melody-laden new album, “Krüller” (Feb. 11τη, 2022, ωια Relapse Records), featuring a suite of upgraded machines, a distilled vocal process and a handful of guest players including Tool’s Danny Carey and Justin Chancellor.

Rock and metal music have always been a haven for those who have bigger stories to tell; who have grander emotions to convey. For more than thirty years, Finnish figureheads Amorphis have done their best to carve their very own niche in heartfelt yet aggressive, melancholic yet soothing tunes.

On “Halo”, their staggering fourteenth studio effort, the Finns underline their trailblazing status as one of the most original, culturally relevant, and rewarding acts ever to emerge from the land of the thousand lakes.

YOB, “the Pacific Northwest trio able to swing effortlessly between menacing distortion and hushed reverie” (Associated Press), close out 2021 with the release of a remixed and remastered version of their stunning sixth album, “Atma”, and word of the trio’s first tour since 2019.

Cruz Del Sur Music will release legendary former Trouble singer Eric Wagner’s posthumous solo album, “In the Lonely Light of Mourning” in March 2022.

Richmond, Indiana’s Wolftooth launched onto the scene in 2017, swiftly grabbing the attention of fans, tastemakers and industry alike. Now, building upon the subterranean success of their lauded previous albums (2018’s “Wolftooth” and 2020’s “Valhalla”), the band unveils their colossal full-length Napalm Records debut, “Blood & Iron”, out December 3rd, 2021.
 

Atmospheric metal band Aquilus return with their second full-length album “Bellum I” on December 3rd, 2021, via Blood Music.

The enigmatic, atmospheric metal band became one of the most whispered-about secrets in the metal scene, following the quiet release of their debut album “Griseus” in 2011.

Doomed heavy metal outfit Khemmis will make their long-awaited return this autumn with their fourth full-length album, “Deceiver”. Set to be released on November 19th, 2021, via Nuclear Blast, their first record in over three years is their darkest release to date.

Today, the band have also revealed a music video for the first single, “Living Pyre”. Watch the new video below.