The ultimate pirate metal adventure is about to set sail! Hoist the sails, sharpen your cutlasses, and fill your tankards—Alestorm is back with their brand-new album, The Thunderfist Chronicles, set for release on June 20, 2025 via Napalm Records! The Scottish party pirates return with their eighth album, containing eight new anthems packed with blistering
Swiss heavy metal powerhouse Burning Witches have announced their new studio album, Inquisition, out August 22, 2025 via Napalm Records! On their sixth studio album, the band returns with a darker, more thunderous brew — diving headfirst into the themes of medieval persecution, religious oppression, and the unbreakable spirit of resistance. Featuring 12 brand-new tracks,
Månegarm have announced their much-awaited new studio album, entitled Edsvuren, to be released on August 29, 2025 via Napalm Records! A music video for the band’s first hauntingly powerful single “Hör mitt kall”, is now premiering below. “2025 marks the 30-year anniversary for Månegarm as a band and what better way to celebrate than to
A Haunting Journey of Darkness and Hope – the New Masterpiece by Sweden’s Grand Seigneurs of Gloom! Nightmares have never sounded so beautiful! Swedish grandeurs of melancholic heaviness, Katatonia, return with Nightmares as Extensions of the Waking State, set for release on June 6, 2025 via Napalm Records. Once again, the Stockholm-based unit masterfully navigates
Het Zweedse Ye Bansihed Privateers werd in 2008 opgestart door Björn Malmros en Peter Mollwing om hun liefde voor folk rock / metal en piraten deuntjes in de verf te zetten. Al vlug kwamen er extra muzikanten bij en in 2023 telde Ye Banished Privateers maar liefst negenentwintig bandleden. Met ”Til The Sea Shall Give
Grammy-nominated Candlemass celebrate 40 years of doom metal mastery! Candlemass, the Swedish godfathers of epic doom, honour their 40th anniversary of pioneering the genre with a four-track EP, Black Star. Packed with canyon-deep riffs, this celebration of doom metal mastery is set for release on May 9, 2025 via Napalm Records. On Black Star, the
Tetrarch redefines Nu Metal for a new generation! With tireless perseverance and distinct talent, the ascent of modern metal/hard rock stars Tetrarch has been palpable since the release of their first album, Freak (2017), followed by their Napalm Records label debut, the highly-acclaimed Unstable (2021). After four years of intensely focused growth and lead guitarist
Master of macabre Wednesday 13 returns with a sleaze-fueled goth rock gorefest! After returning in 2022 with his widely-acclaimed full-length album Horrifier (#8 US Top New Artist Albums), as well as several major tours supporting his solo work and celebrated Murderdolls reunion shows, world-renowned fearsome frontman Wednesday 13 is back with another slew of harbingers
Swedish grandeurs of melancholic heaviness, Katatonia, return with Nightmares as Extensions of the Waking State, set for release on June 6, 2025 via Napalm Records. Once again, the Stockholm-based unit masterfully navigates the tightrope act between nocturnal darkness and Scandinavian despair while subtly weaving a sense of hope into the listener’s heart. Nightmares as Extensions
Swedish sea-pillagers Ye Banished Privateers return to plunder with new shanties aplenty! Raucous Swedish sea marauders Ye Banished Privateers are back, ready to set sail once more with their musical journey ´Til the Sea Shall Give up Her Dead, out April 11, 2025 via Napalm Records! After monumental performances at renowned festivals like Wacken Open
