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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.

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.

After nine years of silence and in celebration of the band’s 25th anniversary, progressive doom/death veterans Psilocybe Larvae are proud to announce the forthcoming release of fifth full-length album “Where Silence Dwells”.

Genocide Pact returns with their eponymous new full-length, set for release December 3rd, 2021, via Relapse Records. An overdose of gut-wrenching death metal, “Genocide Pact” is heavy, engrossing, and undoubtedly brutal.
 
In advance of the record’s release, today the band unveils their new music video for “Perverse Dominion”.
 

On January 24th, 2020, more than a decade after its predecessor “The Darkness”, Finnish death and gothic doom metal icon Tuomas Saukkonen returned with “Waves”, his sophomore solo-album under the flag of Dawn Of Solace.

Praised by fans and critics alike as one of the best albums of the year, the release and the band’s resurrection raised high hopes that it won’t be another 14 long years until a new full-length is out.

Today, the British gothic metal legends Paradise Lost announced their UK “Obsidian Moon” tour for February 2022, featuring longtime friends and Portuguese gothic metal titans Moonspell, as special guests on selected dates.

Paradise Lost frontman Nick Holmes says:

Finland’s Ghastly returns anew from the limitless wellspring of incomprehensible obscurity and dark inspiration that is Finland with its third album of mind-altering nightmare visions, “Mercurial Passages”. Confirming the album for late May release, 20 Buck Spin presents the lead single, “Parasites”, alongside the cover artwork and more.
 

While concerts and cheering crowds seem to be a long lost echo from the past these days, melancholic progressive metallers Amorphis bring back some of the life and uncomparable energy that many of us have been missing so desperately. Recorded during a special hometown show that took place on December 7th, 2019, little did the Finns know that this would be one of their last concerts before the pandemic outbreak in early 2020.

Emerging from the Finnish coastal town of Kotka, melodic death/doom metal strikers Marianas Rest will unleash their third studio album, “Fata Morgana”, on March 12th, 2021, via Napalm Records.

In anticipation, they have just unveiled the first single from the album, entitled “Glow from the Edge”, along with a moving official video.
 

Draconian have rescheduled their 2021 European tour with Nightfall to March 2022.

Comments the band:
“Unsurprisingly due to the pandemic situation, we’re forced to reschedule the European tour from 2021 to 2022. There were a few changes but most of the cities and venues are maintained. All tickets bought for the 2021 tour will remain valid for the new dates in 2022. We hope to see all of you on tour. Finally”.