Photo Credit: Lina Glasir

Ukrainian metal titans JINJER have dropped a brand new one take vocal performance video of frontwoman Tatiana Shmayluk crushing the fan favourite and Duél album cut 'Hedonist'. The video not only bolsters her undisputed position as one of heavy music's premier vocal talents, but it is also the long-awaited follow up to her first vocal playthrough for 2019's 'Judgement (& Punishment)' which has amassed over 11 million views to date.    

Watch the video here: https://youtu.be/mMbGePzfDVo

Purchase Duél here: https://lnk.to/Jinjer-Duel/napalmrecords

JINJER have confirmed two new dates in Portugal and Italy amid their 2026 European tour, adding to the previously announced, nearly one-and-a-half month trek. The European Duél Tour marks JINJER's first headline tour in six years, and will also be the only EU/UK shows in 2026.

2026 UK / IE dates:
27 Jan: SWG3, Glasgow
28 Jan: 3Olympia, Dublin
29 Jan: O2 Ritz, Manchester
30 Jan: O2 Institute, Birmingham
31 Jan: O2 Forum Kentish Town, London

Tickets on sale here: https://www.livenation.co.uk/jinjer-tickets-adp1006950

The new video comes ahead of their North American tour supporting Babymetal. JINJER have also announced a North American tour this fall with Trivium and Heriot in the fall.

Over the past 15 years, JINJER have built a reputation as one of modern metal’s most fearless and forward-thinking bands. Rising from the Ukrainian underground to international acclaim, their blend of progressive groove, technical precision, and raw emotion has earned them over 250 million global streams and views. From viral hits like “'Pisces' to the crushing intensity of Macro and the dark complexity of Wallflowers, their discography continues to redefine what heavy music can be. Their latest album Duél features multiple music videos with multi-millions of combined views to date and broke into the charts at #2 US Hard Music Albums, #6 US Current Rock Albums, #2 CAN Hard Music Albums, #3 France Metal, #7 UK Rock & Metal and beyond.

JINJER are:

Tatiana Shmayluk - Vocals
Roman Ibramkhalilov - Guitars
Eugene Abdukhanov - Bass
Vlad Ulasevich - Drums

JINJER online:
FACEBOOK
TWITTER
INSTAGRAM
HOMEPAGE
NAPALM RECORDS

Duél tracklisting:

1. Tantrum
2. Hedonist
3. Rogue
4. Tumbleweed
5. Green Serpent
6. Kafka
7. Dark Bile
8. Fast Draw
9. Someone's Daughter
10. A Tongue So Sly
11. Duél

With four studio albums and European tours supporting Cult Of Luna and The Ocean, the Swiss masters Abraham have forged their reputation as one of the leading post metal bands in Europe.

They now return with news of their fifth studio album - the mighty idsungwüssä: a third and final chapter to a series of concept albums of truly epic proportions, at the centre of which lies a sprawling, apocalyptic portrayal of humanity’s downfall. idsungwüssä will be released 26th September via Pelagic Records.

In celebration of the news, the band have revealed the first glimpse of idsungwüssä - 'Naked in a Naked Sky'.

Watch 'Naked in a Naked Sky' here: https://youtu.be/qEGZCK4Wpzc
Pre-order idsungwüssä here: https://orcd.co/abraham-idsungwussa

Still staged in the gritty atmosphere and philosophical weight of post-metal, sludge, and ambient noise, idsungwüssä sees Abraham march even further into dissonant and defiant territory.

“The three albums are clearly linked together thematically”, the band comment, “although, rather than an additional chapter, idsungwüssä is more like a parallel narrative to Débris de mondes perdus. The latter was a jump in time after Look, Here Comes the Dark!, whereas idsungwüssä is a jump in space, a journey away from earth. It should be the final piece of this little jolly ride.”
 
This album isn’t just heavy, it is absolutely drenched in delicious filth, and yet by embracing even more the melodic interludes and melancholic passages, they create a devastating contrast to the wall of power coming from stacked guitars, catastrophic drums and raging, sharp vocals – delivered in Swiss-German dialect.
 
“The album was recorded between November 2024 and February 2025, all while handling our day jobs and in a period that was, on a personal level, not the easiest for some of us. It is only in the last two weeks of the recording process, right before sending it out to mixing, that it sort of came together and started to feel like a coherent album, an album that we could be happy and proud about. For an album with change/transformation as an underlying theme, this is sort of performative!”
 
This urgency and duress bleeds into every song, an hour long journey that moves from the grim to sublime, from melancholy to raw destruction — evoking ruined civilisations and the last wails of fractured psyches. Yet there is something less bleakly human, more ethereal at moments, as if glimpsing beyond the constraints of the body and its wheel of flesh and death.

Strewn throughout the record are appearances of Farfisa Louvre organ - prominently featuring on an Abraham album for the first time. The band were also joined by Kevin Galland (Coilguns) who added additional Moog and piano parts. 

The band continue: “Our approach to recording guitars was different than what we did before. Instead of having one guitar on the left playing a part and one on the right playing another part, we decided that left and right guitars were to play the same part, and the center guitar was to play another part. We just stacked more guitars whenever we needed. And oh did we use a lot of reverb, too!”
 
The structures and movements of the songs found within idsungwüssä are unique and fresh - a balancing of themes and emotions that is both intoxicating and unsettling, it is an immersive journey that rewards deep listening and challenges the boundaries of genre. From the patient grandeur of coming extinction, to the chaos and fevered urgency of the aftermath, in idsungwüssä Abraham move forward from prophetic lamentation to an elegiac visceral response. The emotional closure of this expression is felt, something final that will leave you speechless and with only one real option; listen to it again.

Line-up:
Val DiCabillo – bass
Steven Margo Dita d’Oro – guitars
Dave Schlagmeister – drums, vocals
Jakkob Wierdmann – guitars

For more Abraham: 

OFFICIAL WEBSITE | FACEBOOK | PELAGIC ARTIST PROFILE | INSTAGRAM

Tracklisting:

1. Fate of Man Lies in the Stars
2. I Am the Vessel and The Vessel Is Me
3. A Discomposite Shell
4. Naked in a Naked Sky
5. Suurwäut
6. En Tüüfus Tümpu
7. 06.00.40U
8. Home

Belgian post-doom quartet Hemelbestormer have just revealed a new single titled 'Tinia' from their upcoming album The Radiant Veil. The new full length will be out on 25th July through Pelagic Records.

Watch 'Tinia' here: https://youtu.be/USI1bc4p2Jw
Pre-order The Radiant Veil here: https://orcd.co/hemelbestormer

Drummer Frederik Cosemans describes The Radiant Veil as "a journey through our solar system as perceived by the Etruscan civilization. Each track bears the name of a planet in the old Etruscan language, starting with the Sun (Usil) and ending with Saturn (Satre)."

Hemelbestormer has been a commanding entity in the heavy music scene for over ten years, with their idiosyncratic take on the merger of post-rock, doomgaze, and black metal. Made up of veterans from the Belgian hardcore and metal community, the four-piece from Hasselt create intricate sonic journeys through space and time built over punishing riffs and spine-chilling climaxes. With their fourth full-length album, The Radiant Veil, Hemelbestormer take their songwriting and production to new heights, honouring their name as trailblazers on the intersection of dark and light, the crushingly heavy and the hauntingly beautiful.
 
Having appeared at many of Europe’s finest music festivals – from Roadburn festival to Dunk! festival to Graspop Metal Meeting – Hemelbestormer feel right at home on stages with a wide variety of heavy and experimental acts. The road combining ethereal post-rock with seething black metal has been travelled by many groups, but with Hemelbestormer, that winding path has taken a different turn. Facing away from shoegaze or indie rock influences, the band finds a more sophisticated way of incorporating unsettling melodies, blast beats, and lo-fi synthesizers to emulate the dark void of space and eerie cold light of stars.
 
Powered by HM-2 pedals and a Lovecraft-ian use of retro synths, The Radiant Veil is driven by an old-school mentality that appears both learned and sincere. Produced by main songwriter Filip Dupont alongside drummer Frederik Cosemans, the eerie space noises coalesce like a celestial respiration between the bouts of metallic riffing and tremolo-picked riffs. 
 
Album opener 'Usil' is a compositional masterpiece from start to finish, combining seismic riffing with ice-cold guitar leads, as if Russian Circles had been formed in a small Norwegian fishing village in the early 90s. Meticulously building up to a double kick-driven finale, the band carefully lays the groundwork for the following hour of transformative music.

Hemelbestormer is a sight to behold on stage, and with The Radiant Veil, they penetrate deeper than ever into the farthest reaches of their sonic space ethos. Once more, the Belgians capture the cavernous expanse between the cold lights of the universe, but also our power as humans to explore it, proving their mastery as storytellers in sight and sound.

Line-up:
Filip Dupont – Guitars, Keys, Vocals
Koen Swerts – Bass
Jo Driesmans – Guitars
Frederik Cosemans – Drums

For more Hebelbestormer: 

INSTAGRAM • FACEBOOK • BANDCAMP • PELAGIC ARTIST PAGE

Tracklisting:

Side A
1. Usil
2. Turms (feat. Philip Jamieson of Caspian)    

Side B
3. Turan
4. Tiur

Side C
5. Cel
6. Laran    

Side D
7. Tinia
8. Satre

Iconic Berlin label Pelagic Records has unveiled the aftermovie for Pelagic Fest 2024, with bands and fans who attended last year’s edition reminding us of the amazing vibes and stunning performances by the likes of A Swarm of The Sun, Year Of No Light, Karin Park, Glassing, The Ocean and many more. It also serves as a great preview for what to expect at this year's edition on 23rd and 24th August at Muziekgieterij in Maastricht, The Netherlands.

Premiered via Everything Is Noise, watch the aftermovie here: https://youtu.be/X2_nph-Uuhc

Day tickets are now avilable, purchase day and weekend tickets here: www.PELAGIC-RECORDS.com

Pelagic Fest 2025 has also announced the addition of Sierra Veins, (formerly known as SIERRA) to the lineup. Merging violence with melancholy and gentleness with brutality, Sierra Veins blends contrasting moods and styles to create a singular, overpowering universe inspired by synthwave, EBM and darkwave. After the success of her first singles ‘Gone’ and ‘Unbroken’ getting millions of streams in no time, the French artist released her first album A Story of Anger in 2023 including collaborations with Carpenter Brut, Health, Gunship and The Ocean.

Headlined by blackened progressive metal virtuoso Ihsahn, Pelagic Fest 2025 will feature a standout lineup showcasing unique sounds and experiences. Also headlining are post-rock pioneers This Will Destroy You, known for their evocative soundscapes and God Is an Astronaut, whose cinematic instrumental rock has earned them global acclaim. This two-day event promises to traverse the full spectrum of Pelagic's musical universe, where innovation, depth and emotion converge in a truly transformative experience.

Full line-up:

Ihsahn
This Will Destroy You
God Is An Astronaut
Bruit ≤ (two sets: The Age Of Ephemerality in full; The Machine Is Burning-centred set with Monolith EP)
Psychonaut
Hypno5e
Gösta Berlings Saga
You, Infinite (performing 'S/T’ in full)
Pothamus 
LO!
A Burial At Sea
Telepathy
Bear
Barrens
Hemelbestormer
TÖRZS
The Gorge
Astrosaur 
Blessings
Johan G. Winther
The Hills Mover
Sierra Veins

The lineup's diversity spans from the engaging post-metal of Belgium’s Psychonaut to the tranquil, instrumental sounds of Hungarian ensemble TÖRZS. Sydney’s LO! will deliver their powerful, intense energy, while Hypno5e combines metal with atmospheric soundscapes. Swedish group Gösta Berlings Saga introduces a dark, krautrock influence. Each act offers a unique voice, collectively weaving a tapestry of emotions, innovation, and musical exploration.
 
The festival will also feature several exclusive full album sets. French instrumental rock pioneers Bruit ≤ will perform two sets: Sunday's set will focus on their trailblazing debut album The Machine Is Burning… alongside material from their Monolith EP. Saturday's performance will showcase upcoming album The Age Of Ephemerality, in full, live for the first time ever.

Additionally, the enigmatic You, Infinite will debut their new self-titled album in an exclusive live performance, offering a rare experience of their latest evolution whilst This Will Destroy You will serve some older classics. These performances promise to be both a celebration and a deep dive into the creative depths of these bands.

As a special Artist Focus event, Swedish artist John G. Winther will be sharing the full spectrum of his creative vision at Pelagic Fest. Beyond his performances with his bands Barrens and Blessings, Winther will present a  one-of-a-kind solo set centred around his 2021 album The Rupturing Sowle. As a testament to his multifaceted artistry, the festival will also feature an exhibition of his visual artwork, displayed in the venue’s foyer, blending his music and visual art into an experience that invites reflection.

Robin Staps, Head of Pelagic Records, comments, "Pelagic Fest 2025 will continue right where last year’s anniversary edition left off: it’s promising to be a killer weekend loaded to the brim with exceptional music from exceptional artists. I’m happy that we managed to avoid repetitions — NO band on this bill played last year already — whilst still remaining (almost) entirely within the Pelagic roster. Yes, that does include Ihsahn, who delivered a stunning reinterpretation of Lustmord’s Dark Awakening as part of our pandemic Lustmord tribute album, The Others… and God Is An Astronaut’s All Is Violent, All Is Bright was the 3rd album we ever released. "

Artist images can he found HERE

More information on Pelagic Records:

Founded in 2009 by post-metal spearheads The Ocean and their Berlin collective, Pelagic Records has grown into one of the most influential labels in the realms of post-rock, post-metal, and progressive/left-field heavy music. Over the years, Pelagic has worked with an impressive roster of artists, including MONO, Årabrot, Sugar Horse, Year of No Light, and Bruit ≤, among many others. Celebrating it's 15th anniversary last year, Pelagic Records is focused on further solidifying its legacy by establishing Pelagic Fest as an annual event, an occasion that removes barriers and brings together artists and fans for a captivating celebration of the music that defines the label’s diverse and forward-thinking sound.

Pelagic Records online:
https://pelagic-records.com
https://www.facebook.com/pelagicrecords
instagram.com/pelagic_records
https://pelagicrecords.bandcamp.com/

Photo Credit: Simon Volz

After performing at Rock am Ring, Rock im Park and touring with Neck Deep, Zebrahead and Donots, German pop-punk up-and-comers Indecent Behavior have announced their fourth studio album SICK for 26th September via Long Branch Records. The band from Saarbrücken have also released their new single ‘I Fell In Love Every Weekend’, including a music video.

Watch the video to 'I Fell In Love Every Weekend' here: 
https://youtu.be/4tMDyJS_Wl8

Stream the new single and pre-order the album SICK here:
https://indecentbehavior.lnk.to/sick

We live in a world full of impressions. What seems like an ocean full of possibilities to some is incredibly overwhelming, oppressive and unfair to others. There is no escape from the mass of unfiltered information that rains down on us every day. No light at the end of the dark news tunnel. No clear way out of the labyrinth of options, which instead of freedom only brings excessive demands. SICK was created precisely from these thoughts and is an album for everyone for whom it sometimes just gets too much. Who feel like they are living in a world that they simply don't understand. For all people who are looking for a place where they can feel understood and comfortable.

"'I Fell In Love Every Weekend' is a song about emotional dependency, loneliness and desperately holding on to something that is actually long gone. It's a song for anyone who has ever felt lost in a one-sided relationship - and still hoped that something would change," says Indecent Behavior singer Henrik Bergmann.

"To be completely honest, I had tears in my eyes the first time I watched this video. Last year, so many childhood dreams came true for us. We played shows and toured with some of our favorite bands, performed twice at Germany’s biggest rock festivals — Rock am Ring and — met countless amazing people, and had an absolutely incredible time. We captured all ofRock im Park these moments, mainly for ourselves, so that one day we can show them to our kids. But when we finally recorded 'I Fell In Love Every Weekend,' it felt like the perfect moment to share with everyone what we’ve fallen in love with. That said, as amazing as touring is — seeing the world, meeting inspiring people, and making memories — it also has its dark side. When everyone else is enjoying time at home, we’re on the road. We miss friends, lose relationships, don’t spend as much time with family as we’d like, and sometimes even lose connections we thought would last forever. All of the highs and lows can be seen in this video. And for me, that’s what makes it one of the most emotional songs and videos we’ve ever made."

Product versions:
LP Edition in sleeve with marbled white/translucent red vinyl and LP insert
Limited to 500 copies
LP Edition in sleeve with splattered dark black smoke/yellow vinyl and LP insert
Band exclusive / Limited to 300 copies
CD Edition in Digipak
Standard Stream & Download

Indecent Behavior impress with powerful hooks and catchy melodies. Their energetic live show creates musical space for optimism in a world where it is becoming increasingly rare. They get your feet tapping, adrenalin flowing and the songs drill into your nerves like healing acupuncture. A good dose of variety ensures an entertaining experience at all times.

Indecent Behavior is a familiar place where you forget your worries and fears. A place where you can share your inner self and simply be yourself. 

Indecent Behavior are:
Henrik Bergmann – Vocals
Christian Noß – Guitar, Vocals
Denis Selzer – Bass, Vocals
Florian Heintz – Drums

Indecent Behavior online:
https://www.instagram.com/indecentbehaviorofficial
https://www.facebook.com/IndecentBehavior

Track list:

1 Grown Up
2 Not In A Lifetime
3 Chaos
4 Sick
5 Give Me Everything (ft. Air Drawn Dagger)
6 I Fell In Love Every Weekend
7 Shoot
8 Pointless
9 Black Water
10 No Direction
11 If I Had Two Lives
12 The Story Never Ends (ft. All To Get Her)

Gothenburg's inimitable noise experimentalists Blessings have given a third glimpse of their upcoming album Blodsträngen (1st August, Pelagic Records) with new single 'Allt Vi Kan Ge Är Upp'.

Stream and pre-order: https://orcd.co/blessingsb 

The new album begins and ends in the same space: the rehearsal room.
 
In between these moments however, Blodsträngen knows no boundaries; it rampages through your inner sanctum, upending everything it can, razing everything you hold dear and drawing on the walls whilst panting, drooling and muttering to itself in strange tongues...

With all four members of Blessings already veterans of numerous bands and several distinct scenes throughout their native Sweden, the group came together with the idea of creating something wholly their own, rather than compromising to fit in elsewhere. The resultant sound is a cacophony of influences where nothing is sacred and no idea is thrown out; all that matters is all playing disgustingly loud music together in a room.

Blodsträngen, which can be translated as ‘The Bloodline’ or ‘The Blood String’ is another bracing evolution of Blessings’ truly inimitable sound, pushing the band’s percussive and found-sound textural elements even further to embrace a wild sonic palette that blends modular synths with crushing guitar feedback and even the occasional cowbell.

It should come as no surprise that Blessings’ debut album, 2012’s Bittervatten, is abrasive, crusty and intriguingly in-your-face as the band barely manage to contain the barrage of influences from across the heavy spectrum. Years of near-constant touring and creative experimentation followed, and later came Biskopskniven in 2021; still deafeningly loud and defiantly confrontational, the album brought with it a sense of uneasy patience and seething restraint as the band trimmed the fat and found a new menace in machine-like repetition courtesy of drummer Mattias Rasmusson and synth player/percussionist Erik Skytt.

Each Blessings album to date includes a song by the name of ‘Strings of Red’, an unspoken narrative that charts the band’s unique journey through genre. As such, Blodsträngen opener and lead single ‘Strings of Red’ sets pulses racing with a loping percussive loop before the song abruptly explodes into a double-time thrash-metal dirge with Fredrik Karlsson’s gravel-soaked voice leading the charge and Johan G. Winther swiftly joining him. Before we know it though, the song turns on its heels again as a nightmarish, prog-like synth motif possesses the song and sends all into a downward spiral of equal parts euphoria and delirium.

Elsewhere, the likes of ‘No Good Things’ pairs the filthiest bass sound you’ve ever heard with a shuffling, playful xylophone-like synth refrain and haunting baritone vocals before collapsing in on itself as underneath colossal guitar riffs and black metal blast beats.

‘Alt Vi Kan Ge Ar Upp’ (All We Can Give Is Up) is as cutting, angular and cathartic as the song’s title suggests. A relentless 3/4 groove all but trips over itself as the growl of guitars builds to breaking point and the track spills into a half-time doom waltz with soaring bittersweet pipe organ melodies and a harrowed vocal lament colliding to briefly create something staggeringly beautiful before crumbling into its separate parts and melting away to nothing…

Blodsträngen is Blessings fine-tuning their deliberately dissonant sound whilst simultaneously casting their net wide for ever more left-field, experimental influences; a disparate collection of idiosyncrasies that the band somehow manage to pull into something cohesive, captivating and empowering. The band leave the messages and meanings behind their music open to interpretation as a means of sharing this attitude of openness with their audience because remember, when all is said and done, all that matters is all playing disgustingly loud music together in a room.

Blessings are:

Fredrik Karlsson
Mattias Rasmusson
Johan G. Winther
Erik Skytt

Blessings online: 
INSTAGRAM • FACEBOOK • SPOTIFY • BANDCAMP

Side A
1. Raised On Graves
2. Strings of Red
3. Clean
Side B
4. No Good Things
5. Alt Vi Kan Ge Är Upp
6. Copper + Dirt
7. Through Veils of Glass and Silica

Photo Credit: Long Branch Records

LA Hard-Rock rising stars S8NT ELEKTRIC have just released a revised version of their latest single, 'TAR', now featuring American blues-rock guitarist and singer Eric Steckel.

Stream the single here: https://s8ntelektric.lnk.to/TARftES

Steckel brings his acclaimed talent to the high-energy track, known for its heavy rock sound and a powerful message about overcoming anxiety. With a touring history alongside legends like Steve Vai, Gregg Allman, and Ray Charles, and recognised as one of "The 100 Greatest Blues Guitarists of All Time" by Total Guitar magazine, Steckel's contribution elevates 'TAR' to new heights.

“‘TAR' is a high-energy track that embodies the heavy rock sound that we are known for. It’s a song written about struggling with anxiety and ultimately overcoming it. Our hope is that it helps others as much as it helped us. Mental health can be a difficult thing to talk about since social media has conditioned us to think we have to have perfect lives or there’s something wrong with us. In reality, we are all dealing with something or another. ‘TAR' is a very personal song for us and a song that is SO fun to play. The breakdown at the end has never failed to get people moshing and going wild in the pit. It always ends up being a highlight moment of every show," comment S8NT ELEKTRIC.

The song's breakdown remains a guaranteed crowd-pleaser, consistently igniting moshing and wild energy at every S8NT ELEKTRIC show. The band, a staple on the European summer festival circuit, has opened for acts such as Wolfmother, Mammoth WVH, and Dirty Honey, and graced stages at major festivals including Bottlerock, Rockville, and Prague Rocks.

S8NT ELEKTRIC's debut album Off The Edge will be released in late 2025 via Long Branch Records.

S8NT ELEKTRIC are:
Bri Carbajal - Vocals
Niko Tsangaris - Guitar
Trey Baker - Drums
Sinner - Guitar
Harrison Forsythe - Bass

S8NT ELEKTRIC online:
https://s8ntelektric.band
https://www.instagram.com/s8ntelektric
https://www.tiktok.com/@s8ntelektric
https://www.youtube.com/@s8ntelektric

Founded in 2000, Car Bomb celebrate their 25th year with the release of a new EP Tiles Whisper Dreams which will be out 1st August, 2025. Consisting of three new tracks, Tiles Whisper Dreams is the band's first new music to be released since 2019's Mordial album. The band have recently released a first track 'Paroxysm' which is now streaming at the link below.

Watch the video for 'Paroxysm' here: https://youtu.be/HIiw_IzJZFM
Pre-order the EP here: https://carbomb.bandcamp.com/album/tiles-whisper-dreams

'Paroxysm' reveals a revitalized Car Bomb, seemingly chomping at the bit with all the fury of a band half its age. "This is our first release since before COVID," states guitarist Kubacki "and we really tried to put our 100% into these songs." 

In under three minutes, the aptly-titled 'Paroxysm' delivers a barrage of semi-automatic drum-fire and viscous guitars, conjoined in inscrutable patterns. Vocalist Michael Dafferner mostly roars but lets his singing voice shine in one brief, glistening moment. The song is about "the never-ending struggle with power and control," he says.

In a genre built on shock and awe, it is tough to be shocking or awe-inspiring these days. With metal in its sixth decade, making an impact is an increasingly difficult feat. The ceiling is red with the blood of straight-line shredders futilely competing for the attention of desensitised ears.

Car Bomb is that rare metal band that have found a pathway through the ceiling – a wormhole, if you will – and have occupied a position of radical transcendence for a quarter-century now. In their 25 years of existence, the New York City-area quartet have been sculpting its own signature sound and cementing its identity as an outlier, above the fray, inspiring a legion of younger musicians in the process.

Car Bomb's sound is that of perpetual transformation: a spiraling flurry of rhythm and texture that congeals, fleetingly, into planet-pulverizing death-grooves and fragments of haunting melodies. Baffling rhythmic modulations and deep-space guitar effects appear to warp time completely. Disorientation is the rule, not the exception. 

"Their psychotic turbo-thrash is disgustingly disorienting," reads one Kerrang! review. "One relentless onslaught of time-chopping violence."

A Stereogum review describes the style as "a rhythmically abstruse variety of extreme metal... hallucinatory time-stretching."

Car Bomb guitarist Greg Kubacki puts it like this: "When someone asks me what we sound like, I always ask them ‘what’s the heaviest band you listen to?’ and then I say it’s either 10x, 100x, or 1,000x crazier than that, depending on their answer. We aspire to create our own style of heavy music by bending everything: the notes, time signatures, tempos, sonic quality of the guitars, etc. We’re always pushing and pulling everything, ripping ideas apart and then squashing them back together. And as a result our songs might sound chaotic at first, but as they progress the patterns, grooves, and motifs embedded inside all of the mangling and warping will reveal themselves and evolve in unexpected ways. Most people won’t get that deep into our stuff and will just hear a pile of noise, which is fine with us. We’re creating the kind of music we want to hear and that’s all we care about."

Car Bomb will tour Europe and the UK in August, including dates with Gojira, Between the Buried and Me, and Imperial Triumphant.

Catch Car Bomb live:
Aug 7 - Jaromer, CZ @ Brutal Assault Fest
Aug 8 - Berlin, DE @ Cassiopeia
Aug 9 - Karlsruhe, DE @ P8
Aug 10 - Utrecht, NL @ Pandora *
Aug 12 - Oberhausen, DE @ Turbinenhalle Δ
Aug 14 - Nottingham, UK @ Rock City Beta
Aug 15 - Bristol, UK @ ArcTanGent Fest
Aug 16 - London, UK @ Oslo
Aug 18 - Copenhagen, DK @ Vega #
Aug 19 - Stockholm, SE @ Bar Brooklyn #
Aug 20 - Oslo, NO @ Goldie #
Aug 21 - Aalborg, DK @ SH35 #
Aug 22 - Kiel, DE @ Kieler Schaubude #
Aug 23 - Haarlem, NL @ Complexity Fest #

* = Between the Buried and Me
Δ = Gojira
# = Imperial Triumphant

Line-up:
Michael Dafferner - vocals
Greg Kubacki - guitar
Jon Modell - bass
Elliot Hoffman - drums

For more information:
https://www.instagram.com/carbombofficial
https://www.facebook.com/CarBomb
https://www.carbombcult.com/
https://carbomb.bandcamp.com

Track-list:
1. Blindsides
2. Paroxysm
3. Tiles Whisper Dreams

Photo Credit: Stefán Ari Stefánsson

Icelandic retro prog rock trio THE VINTAGE CARAVAN have announced their return with their sixth studio album, entitled Portals, set for release on 26th September 2025 via Napalm Records. The charismatic band have also released a music video for first album single 'Riot', a track dripping in their trademark sound, rich in bluesy psychedelia infused with modern intensity and irresistible riffs.

Watch the music video for 'Riot' here: https://youtu.be/PJX3YI2adME

Pre-order Portals here: https://lnk.to/TheVintageCaravan-Portals/napalmrecords

"We proudly present our sixth studio album, Portals. It’s our most diverse, dynamic, experimental album and in our opinion, our best effort yet," the band state. "Portals was recorded at Arda Recorders in Porto, Portugal in October 2024 with Axel ‘Flexi’ Árnason, with whom we worked on Voyage (2012), Arrival (2015) and the Monuments Tour (2023). This is the first time we recorded on tape and we are so happy with the results. We feel that this time we really managed to capture our live energy.

"The title of the album is a nod to the city of Porto and connecting the songs are a series of interludes which we call “Portals” that set the mood and bring you to the next track. We can’t wait for you to experience the journey that is Portals!"

On the single, singer and guitarist Óskar Logi Águstsson comments: "’Riot’ came to me in a dream. It’s the only time that has happened to me. I woke up around 7am humming the first two riffs and I really liked it and I thought to myself, “I’ll go back to sleep for a bit and then I’ll work on this”. Then I woke up again and I forgot the main riff, which was a bummer and I tried remembering the pattern all day until I gave up and went to bed, right as I was drifting off to sleep it came back to me! Thankfully!

"The track is an energetic and heavy one. The lyrics were inspired by the 2024 riots in England. We were touring the country at the time, it was a very surreal thought to be possibly caught up in a riot and I knew I wouldn’t do very well in that sort of situation, so that’s what inspired me to write the lyrics. 

"We hope you enjoy 'Riot' and remember, don’t start a riot, just listen to this tune instead."

Catch the band on the following dates:

25/10/2025 UK Margate - Margate Rock Festival, Margate
26/10/2025 UK London - Camden Assembly
27/10/2025 UK Brighton - Dust
28/10/2025 UK Southampton - The 1865
29/10/2025 UK Bristol - Exchange
30/10/2025 UK Birmingham - Mama Roux
31/10/2025 UK Newcastle - Think Tank
01/11/2025 UK Glasgow - Classic Grand

Portals is another testament to THE VINTAGE CARAVAN’s endlessly creative, modern take on the psychedelic retro rock sound, cementing the band’s leading position in the scene. The band’s previous studio album, Monuments, hit #21 on the German charts, marking a milestone in their evolution, and the new offering – which also features a stunning guest performance by Opeth’s Mikael Åkerfeldt on the soulful album opener 'Philosopher' – continues to solidify THE VINTAGE CARAVAN’s reputation as torchbearers of contemporary classic rock. Aside from their critically acclaimed releases, the band’s electrifying live performances have mesmerized audiences at major festivals such as Wacken Open Air and Hellfest, as well as on international tours both as headliners and as support for the likes of progressive metal giants Opeth. THE VINTAGE CARAVAN will be celebrating the release of Portals with extensive headline tours in mainland Europe and the UK, announced for autumn 2025.

THE VINTAGE CARAVAN are:
Stefán Ari Stefánsson - Drums, backing vocals, percussion
Óskar Logi Águstsson - Electric guitars, vocals, acoustic guitars, flute
Alexander Örn Númason - Bass guitars, backing vocals, synthesizers, Farfisa

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Track list:
1. Philosopher (ft. Mikael Åkerfeldt)
2. Portal I
3. Days Go By
4. Portal II
5. Here You Come Again
6. Current
7. Give and Take
8. Portal III
9. Crossroads
10. Alone
11. Portal IV
12. Freedom
13. Riot
14. Electrified
15. Portal V
16. My Aurora
17. This Road

Formats:

- 1 CD Digipak
- 2LP Black Vinyl
- 2LP Solid Silver
- 2LP Splattered Milk / Black Orange
- 2LP  Marbled Green Yellow Black
- Digital Album