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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.

Swiss apocalyptic metal act Abraham will unleash their new full-length, “Debris de Mondes Perdus”, on February 25th, 2022, via Pelagic Records!
 

With a crushing soundtrack that often blurs the lines between stoner rock, sludge, doom metal and grunge elements, Man In The Woods transport their listeners to dystopian dark new worlds. Fusing together their critically acclaimed, 2018 debut “Badlands Part One” with the band’s much anticipated successor “Badlands Part Two”, the four-piece has inked a worldwide deal with Argonauta Records for the release of “Badlands” in its entirety!

They are a band known for crossing borders, overstepping genre taboos and keeping the (metal) world in suspense. Today, French avantgarde black metallers Celeste take their immersive experience one step closer to the edge: January 28th, 2022, will see the release of the band’s new LP “Assassine(s)”, produced by Chris Edrich (Gojira, Tesseract, The Ocean, Leprous) - a long awaited follow-up to 2017’s “Infidèle(s)”.

Cult Of Luna have announced their new full-length album, “The Long Road North”, set for release on February 11th, 2022, via Metal Blade Records. The album marks as a follow-up to this years “The Raging River” EP, and prove that for over two decades, Cult Of Luna have forged a sound that has grown incomparable to others - ambitious, epic, visceral, and drenched in emotion.

Pre-orders will begin on December 1st, 2021, here.

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.

Silent Pendulum Records has announced the December 3rd, 2021, release of “None But a Pure Heart Can Sing”, the new album by So Hideous. It’s the New York City band’s first new album since 2015’s acclaimed “Laurestine”, released on Prosthetic Records.

There is a red light at the end of the tunnel in this concert deprived time. Having always been an immersive and sensory experience, the shows of French avant-garde black metallers Celeste will be taken to the next level on their upcoming European tour throughout March and April 2022, set to include a UK date at London venue The Dome on March 10th.

Baroness make a welcome return to the road this Fall, bringing their uplifting, dynamic and much needed version of heavy music to smaller stages from coast-to-coast.