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Just a few days after Charlotte Wessels and her band, The Obsession, have returned from their biggest tour to date - joining Epica and Amaranthe on the Arcane Dimensions Tour and performing in arena-sized venues across Europe - the Dutch singer, songwriter, and producer shares the next highlight of her remarkable career. Charlotte Wessels will take The Obsession on their first headline tour in 2027, spanning major cities across Europe and the United Kingdom, with Melissa Bonny, vocalist of modern metal outfit AD INFINITUM, joining as support.
 
The tour will kick off on 4th February 2027, in Sint-Niklaas, Belgium, and conclude on 27th February 2027, in Charlotte’s hometown of Utrecht, the Netherlands. The full list of dates can be found below.

Tickets are now onsale here: https://charlottewessels.nl/tour/
 
CHARLOTTE WESSELS about the upcoming tour: “After the unforgettable Arcane Dimensions tour with Epica and Amaranthe, announcing our own headline tour across Europe feels surreal. It’s such an emotional next chapter. The energy we’ve shared with all of you over the past months has been incredible, and we can’t wait to take that even further, with longer sets, new songs, and deeper moments together every night. Finishing the tour in my hometown Utrecht, at TivoliVredenburg – Ronda, is something I’m especially proud of and looking forward to.”
 
UK dates: 
05.02.27 UK – London / Islington Assembly Hall
06.02.27 UK – Glasgow / Slay
07.02.27 UK – Manchester / Club Academy

Watch the video for recent single 'After Us, The Flood' here https://youtu.be/p_Lg-ZflaSY

Charlotte Wessels’ latest release, The Obsession (2024), has been widely praised for its dynamic range, artistic growth, and emotional depth. Ever Metal highlighted its “skyscraper melodies” and Wessels’ “masterful vocals,” while Blabbermouth noted the album’s impressive variety. Louder Sound described it as “an auspicious and metallicized spin on her dark fairytale aesthetic,” while Metal Sucks called it “a transcendent collection of moving yet forceful and complex compositions,” further cementing her reputation as a versatile and evolving artist.
 
In autumn 2025, Charlotte Wessels and Asger Mygind of VOLA released the song 'Backup Plan' to accompany the deluxe edition of The Obsession, followed by a brand-new single entitled “After Us, The Flood” in early 2026.

Charlotte Wessels online: 
WEBSITE
YOUTUBE
FACEBOOK
INSTAGRAM
TIKTOK
X
NAPALM RECORDS

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South Florida deathcore mainstays Bodysnatcher have unleashed their latest rager 'Plague Of Flies' with the official video (via MNRK Heavy).

Watch here: https://youtu.be/5YRxORbfvOQ

The track is taken from their soon-to-be-released new album Hell Is Here, Hell Is Home, out this Friday 10th April. 

Hell Is Here, Hell Is Home will be the band's fourth full-length and newest body of work since 2024's Vile Conduct, and promises to be their most furious and bloodthirsty work yet. Leading up to today, the quartet have released the singles 'Blade Between The Teeth', 'The Maker', and most recently, 'Violent Obsession'. Speaking about 'Plague Of Flies', guitarist Kyle Carter commented:

"To me, 'Plague Of Flies' is about giving in to the negativity and pain that the world brings, and becoming numb to the point where you welcome it and even add to it. This is one of the more exaggerated topics of the album. I don’t live in this headspace constantly, but there are times when I just want to say "fuck it, everyone else is an asshole, so I should be too.""  

Pre-order Hell Is Here, Hell Is Home here: https://bodysnatcher.ffm.to/hihhih

There are many clichés about battling adversity. That if you fall down, you get back up again. That what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. That it’s the journey that’s important, not the end result. That the struggle is worth it, that you need to suffer to make great art. It’s not always true, of course, but Hell Is Here, Hell Is Home certainly makes a strong case for that argument. The fourth full-length from Melbourne, FL deathcore outfit Bodysnatcher, it follows 2024’s brutal Will Putney-produced EP, Vile Conduct and serves up another powerful barrage of uncompromising deathcore across 10 incredible tracks that see the four piece - Kyle Medina (vocals), Kyle Carter (guitar), Kyle Shope (bass) and Chris Whited (drums) - turn the catharsis up as loud and as visceral as it will go. 

Of course, that’s nothing new for the band. If you’ve heard Vile Conduct, or any of the three albums that preceded it - 2017’s Death of Me, 2020’s The Heavy Void or 2022’s Bleed-Abide - you’ll know this is a band who have always pitted themselves against personal tragedy, who have fought on individual levels against the dark depths of a despair (often inspired by their own experiences of death). Hell Is Here, Hell Is Home is no less harrowing. 

"The band has always had roots lyrically in themes of betrayal, overcoming hardship, and moving on from things that happen in life and how to cope with them,” explains Medina. “Ever since the inception of Bodysnatcher, that was the theme. I do think, though, as the band has matured and we as people have grown, so have the ways to dig into the themes more. With more life experience there are more things to draw from.” Yet while this is still a viciously personal record, Hell Is Here, Hell Is Home is also a dark reflection of the world at large, and its current dystopia. It doesn’t just dwell on what’s happening, though. It lashes out at the way things are with a terrible, violent rage. 

That manifests itself from the very beginning of this record, from opener 'The Maker' on. A sheer assault of rage, noise and skullcrushing riffs, it multiplies Bodysnatcher’s intensity to a degree that, even by their already intense standards, is off the charts. 

That direct darkness continues throughout the entirety of the next nine songs, from the unforgiving vengeance of 'Writhe And Coil' and 'Violent Obsession' through to the blistering defiance of 'Blade Between The Teeth' and 'Survive Or Die'. The latter features vocals from Scott Vogel, the frontman of hardcore legends Terror, a band very close to Bodysnatcher’s blackened heart. It follows the previous impressive cameo on Vile Conduct by Hatebreed’s Jamey Jasta. 

Vogel’s appearance shows just how much of a mark Bodysnatcher have made on the scene. But it’s not distracting them from their intent and purpose. In fact, that only seems to have been refined as time has passed. The band are full of rage with a purpose, rage full of intention, rage with hope still attached to it. Because even though it was born out of incredibly difficult circumstances, both personal and universal, Bodysnatcher’s hope is that people listening to it can find some kind of solace in it alongside all the anger and the rage. 

Bodysnatcher are:
Kyle Medina – vocals
Kyle Carter – guitar
Kyle Shope – bass
Chris Whited – drums

Bodysnatcher online:
http://www.facebook.com/BODYSNATCHERfl
http://twitter.com/BODYSNATCHERfl
http://www.instagram.com/BODYSNATCHERfl

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Hell Is Here, Hell Is Home
 
1. The Maker
2. Writhe And Coil
3. Plague Of Flies
4. May Your Memory Rot
5. Violent Obsession
6. No Savior
7. Blade Between The Teeth
8. Two Empty Caskets
9. Survive Or Die
10. Hell Is Home

Photo Credit: M. Darcy

Boston post-metal band, Junius, will release their new LP, Sotera, on 26th June via Prosthetic Records. Sotera is Junius’ first full-length LP in nearly a decade, following 2017’s Eternal Rituals for the Accretion of Light, a recording that Rolling Stone noted “takes the band’s alternately soaring and crashing sound to even more diverse places.” Produced by Junius vocalist/guitarist, Joseph E. Martinez and Tom Syrowski (Blackberry Smoke, Mastodon), Sotera, in Martinez’s words, “feels like a rebirth for the band” and “is an act of devotion as much as it is a piece of music.” 

Pre-order/save Junius' Sotera at this location.

The first track released from Sotera is the surging 'Initiatrix'. Direct and succinct, 'Initiatrix' explores the use of intentional gestures as boosters for cognitive and emotional change.

Stream the striking video for Junius' 'Initiatrix', created by Joseph E. Martinez, here: https://youtu.be/evpkeAxF8_o

“‘Initiatrix” distills the album into 3 minutes and 23 seconds, and it captures the heart of the record,” says Martinez. “It’s about willingly stepping into a ritualistic transformation, asking to be changed and accepting the consequences of that choice." 

Harmonising bright transcendence, heightened consciousness, coiled ear-worming, and emotional swell in like degree, Sotera's’ ambient shoegaze metal is expansive and deep, best experienced unhurriedly. Call it sound as relief and release; intense undercurrents of magnetic volume attached to an almost symphonic use of motion. Fully realised music as exhilarating as it is ghostly. Whereas earlier Junius records wrestled with cataclysms, escaping Samsara and what might come after death, Sotera shifts the focus toward something more immediate: restoring balance through the worship of the divine feminine.

“The word Sotera is the feminine form of saviour or protector in Greek, and it perfectly captured what the album was circling around," offers Martinez. “This album is a musical invocation that explores the divine feminine as a force of transformation and balance. Medea stands at the threshold. In Sotera we’re calling upon Hekate, her mother, to guide us in her resurrection. The Oracle as a loving but ignored prophet. Lucifera appears as the punished light-bringer. The Initiatrix is the one who begins the rite.”

Try to stick just one label, descriptor, or adjective on Junius and it won’t hold - they resist it entirely. For over twenty years, the Boston-based five-piece has moved fluidly between extremes: shouts and hushes, grit and sheen, crushing intensity and hypnotic restraint. In the process, they keep stretching and reshaping the only genre that can loosely contain them - metal - pushing past its edges. That approach often means stepping away from metal’s typical barrage of down-tuned riffs in favour of a wider palette of textures, detours, and emotional tones.

“Mythic, atmospheric, melodic post-metal?” surmises Martinez when pressed to sum up Junius’ sound. “Over the years we’ve been labelled post-punk, post-rock, and now post-metal, in that order. We’ve never really cared too much about the label, but post-metal seems to be the one people have settled on for us. We see it as heavy music that prioritises movement and melody over aggression for its own sake. What we’ve always tried to do is balance weight with emotional lift. The heaviness creates the gravity, but the melody is what carries you into the ether."

In addition to Joseph E. Martinez, Junius features Dana Filloon (drums), Eoghan Mccarthy (guitar), Matthew Vincenty (guitar), and Orion Wainer (bass). 

Find Junius online at JuniusMusic.com and follow the band on Apple Music, Bandcamp, Facebook, Instagram, Spotify, YouTube, and X. 

Tracklisting:

1.) Disciple
2.) The Oracle
3.) Summon Her
4.) Initiatrix
5.) Darkwater
6.) Serpent
7.) Lucifera
8.) Scythian

Photo Credit: Rude Records

New York punk rockers I Am The Avalanche are excited to present 'I MISS CALIFORNIA AND EVERY DOG I’VE EVER MET,' the latest single to be lifted from their upcoming album THE HORROR SHOW out this Friday 10th April via Rude Records / Equal Vision Records.

Watch the music video for 'I MISS CALIFORNIA AND EVERY DOG I’VE EVER MET', directed by Jesse Korman, here: https://youtu.be/othJ2firbkU
Stream here: https://iata.lnk.to/IMISSCALIFORNIA
Pre-order the album here: https://iata.lnk.to/THEHORRORSHOW
Gold Swirl vinyl pre-order - https://www.ruderecords.com/products/the-horror-show-gold-swirl-lp
CD pre-order - https://www.ruderecords.com/products/the-horror-show-cd

“No truer statement,” frontman Vinnie Caruana says of the new single. “There are people and places in California that I think lovingly about on a daily basis. And I think about their dogs. I think about everybody’s dogs.” 

Their first full-length offering in six years - along with being the band’s most expansive and textural album to date - THE HORROR SHOW is a collection of songs forged in grief, courage, and the refusal to stand still. Written largely in the wake of frontman Vinnie Caruana’s profound personal loss, the album explores friendship, mortality, love, and resilience with a deeper emotional weight than ever before, all while embracing total creative freedom. 

I Am The Avalanche have announced a run of UK / IE tour dates, including a performance at 2000trees festival.

08 Jul — Belfast, UK — Voodoo
09 Jul — Dublin, IE — The Grand Social 
11 Jul — Cheltenham, UK — 2000 Trees Festival 
12 Jul — London, UK — New Cross Inn 
13 Jul — Manchester, UK — The Deaf Institute 
14 Jul — Leeds, UK — The Key Club
16 Jul — Glasgow, UK — Audio 

22 years into their career, I Am The Avalanche are making the most powerful music of their lives with THE HORROR SHOW, the band’s fifth full-length album. The heart of The Horror Show beats in the wake of unimaginable loss. "Experiencing ultimate loss will change you on a cellular level,” says frontman Vinnie Caruana. “About 75% of the lyrics were written after my best friend passed away suddenly and unexpectedly.”

Rebuilding from that devastation brought a new perspective. “You find courage you didn’t know you had,” he reflects. “Courage … that was his last gift to me.”

While the record confronts grief, it is not defined by it. Across 11 tracks, I Am The Avalanche explore various personal themes with the same urgency that has fuelled them since day one, but this time drawn from a deeper emotional well than ever before. It’s reflected in Caruana’s lyric writing but embraced by the whole band. “We go to a lot of new places, musically,” Caruana explains. “There are no rules or constraints. Complete freedom to create and push our music forward.”

That sense of freedom is everywhere — on the driving title track “THE HORROR SHOW,” the raw defiance of 'LAUGHING AND BLEEDING,' the fragility of '5:55,' the life-affirming radiance of 'I’M NOT DEAD…,' the punishing force of 'TRUE LEGENDS NEVER DIE,' and the shimmery glow of 'ALIVE ON 14th STREET.' It’s an album made with the visceral understanding that life can change in an instant and nothing should be left unsaid.

Out of that tribute comes a duality: The Horror Show holds grief and celebration side by side. In that, Caruana hopes this album can become a guide for anyone experiencing loss. “This record can become a lifelong companion for those who let it in,” he says. “The message is simple: You are stronger than you think you are and you are not alone.”

The Horror Show will be carried across the world as I Am The Avalanche join tours in support before heading out on their own. For fans, it’s a chance to see the band at the peak of their powers. For Caruana, it’s another step forward in the process of healing. “My only hope is that performing these songs on stage will repair the part of my soul that broke during the writing process. If that doesn’t happen, that’s okay. I achieved my mission and I’ll happily die tomorrow with a full and simultaneously broken heart,” he admits. After years of survival, I Am The Avalanche return with The Horror Show, aiming not just to endure but to thrive.

I Am The Avalanche online:

Instagram | Facebook | Spotify | Apple Music

Track list:

1. GOD'S TRAVEL PLANS
2. THE HORROR SHOW
3. LAUGHING AND BLEEDING
4. I'M NOT DEAD (I JUST BLINKED AND NEVER SAW THE LIGHT AGAIN)
5. OSPREY
6. 5:55
7. I MISS CALIFORNIA AND EVERY DOG I'VE EVER MET
8. TRUE LEGENDS NEVER DIE
9. ALIVE ON 14TH STREET
10. ROGUE KNIFE
11. TRÉBUCHET

Photo Credit: Matthieu Gill

British metal heavyweights CONJURER have unveiled a new live video for 'The Searing Glow', recorded at their sold-out November 2025 London headline show at The Underworld.

Watch: https://youtu.be/PaRMMHO6sxU

The band comment: "Headlining, let alone selling out, The Underworld was one of the last milestones we had left for this band. From seeing Yob level the place on September 8th 2014 and deciding that night that we had to make this band happen, it's been a long time coming. Naturally, we'd want to document the occasion so we enlisted our trusty videographer Joe Guppy to get some multicam footage and here it is: 'The Searing Glow', from our album Unself, live at The Underworld, London."

Catch CONJURER on tour in the UK, EU, and North America this year: 

UK
13/06/2026 Donington, UK @ Download Festival
22/08/2026 Bristol, UK @ ArcTanGent Festival

EU
14/05/2026  Alkmaar, NL @ Hal 25
15/05/2026 Leeuwarden, NL @ Neushoorn
16/05/2026 Brussels, BE @ La Botanique
17/05/2026 Tilburg, NL @ Little Devil
19/06/2026 Clisson, FR @ Hellfest
27/06/2026 Bourlon, FR @ Rock In Bourlon
08/08/2026 Josefov, CZ @ Brutal Assault

NORTH AMERICA w/ Sadness, Snooze, & Pains
05/22/2026  US   NY  New York City @ The Meadows
05/23/2026  US   ME Portland @ Geno's Rock Club
05/24/2026  US   MA Boston @ The Rockwell
05/26/2026  US   RI  Providence @ Alchemy
05/27/2026  CAN QC Montreal @ Cabaret Foufs
05/28/2026  CAN ON Ottawa @Dominion Tavern
05/29/2026  CAN ON Toronto @ Prepare The Ground
05/30/2026  US   OH Columbus @ Donatos Basement
05/31/2026  US   IL   Chicago @ Sleeping Village
06/01/2026  US   IN  Indianapolis @ Black Circle
06/02/2026  US   KY  Louisville @ Portal
06/03/2026  US   TN  Nashville @ DRKMTTR
06/04/2026  US   GA  Atlanta @ Boggs Social & Supply
06/05/2026  US   NC  Raleigh @ Chapel Of Bones
06/06/2026  US   MD  Baltimore @ Motown Ballroom
06/07/2026  US   PA   Philadelphia @ Kung Fu Necktie

CONJURER have evolved radically since the release of their debut album (Mire, 2018), and their second release (Páthos, 2022) saw them lauded among the most exciting British metal bands. Whilst award nominations and accolades accumulated, the four-piece band retained their very simple mission: to make heavy music and have fun whilst doing so. Preferring to use their spotlight to showcase technicality and musicality rather than centring politics or opinions, CONJURER lived in the moment and embraced everything that came their way.
  
Within the tumult of forging a renewed identity as a band, on Unself there is a more intense, more personal voyage of discovery unfurling for vocalist/guitarist Dani Nightingale. Diagnosed with autism at age 31, their long-held view of self, and perception of their place in the world began to unravel. Unself documents much of the piecing back together around the diagnosis, alongside the realisation they were non-binary. 
  
These vignettes of processing and self-actualisation take place against the backdrop of a society careening towards glassy-eyed capitalist dystopia; finding firm footing eludes many of us - and CONJURER delve headfirst into exploring these suffocating new societal parameters.
 
Within Unself's nine tracks, CONJURER deliver the writhing post-metal sound they’ve become known for, but have loosened their grip on the desire to fill every moment with sonic obliteration. Instead, they have leaned into utilising space, gifting listeners a little breathing room which serves to make the heavy elements feel all the more intense. 
  
A more direct, organic approach to songwriting was facilitated by the ever-strengthening bonds within the band, and the supportive environment created by producer Joe Clayton. Allowing themselves more time than with any previous recording experience, they committed to preproduction sessions, followed by an elongated recording period in order to do justice to the material they had crafted. Stripping back the excesses of previous outings to reveal their solid songwriting chops allowed for more clarity and more dynamics to shine through. To their ears, the mood, the core of the lyrical content and the music are more aligned than ever before. 
  
This record is the sound of four individuals living with more purpose and as a consequence creating with more purpose. Unself sees them reaching out to offer community, catharsis and connection. CONJURER remain true to their original mission - they’re still having fun, playing interesting heavy music - but now that music is imbued with the power that comes from opening themselves up to others, at first within the band, and now beyond.

Conjurer are:
Brady Deeprose | guitars, vocals
Dani Nightingale | guitars, vocals
Conor Marshall | bass
Noah See | drums

Conjurer online:
https://www.facebook.com/conjureruk
https://x.com/ConjurerUK
https://www.instagram.com/conjureruk
https://www.conjureruk.com

Tracklisting:

1 Unself
2 All Apart
3 There Is No Warmth
4 The Searing Glow
5 A Plea
6 Let Us Live
7 Hang Them In Your Head
8 Foreclosure 
9 This World Is Not My Home

Photo Credit: Gobinder Jhitta

Warning return with Rituals of Shame, their first new album in 20 years, due 19th June via Relapse Records. The band’s 2006 album, Watching from a Distance, has become one of the most revered releases in doom metal, with Pitchfork noting it “stands among the high water marks of the genre,” and Stereogum declaring it the “greatest doom record of all time.”

Today, the first track released from Rituals of Shame is unveiled.
Stream 'Stations' here: https://youtu.be/x49aT-WREO0

Pre-order Rituals of Shame here: https://orcd.co/warning-ritualsofshame

“It’s my privilege to be able to present to you the first track released from Rituals of Shame,” Patrick Walker shares. “Whether you’re among those who have been waiting for this for twenty years, or whether you’re new to my music, it is with great pleasure and some relief, that I can finally give you a taste of the album that will follow later in the year. I wrote and recorded the entire record throughout 2025. This is the year I shall have the honour of sharing it with you.”

Walker, who also leads 40 Watt Sun, began work on Rituals of Shame in January 2025, writing seven days a week over three months as he turned his full focus back to Warning. The album was recorded at The Arch Studio, a 140-year-old former church in Southport, U.K., with recording and mixing handled by Chris Fullard (Idles, Sunn O))), Ulver). 

The decision to make a new Warning album emerged from a transformative period in Walker’s life. Reluctant to explain his lyrics, he acknowledges only that the work reflects a deeply personal present moment, with the collection echoing the themes that have long defined his writing: longing, separation, and most of all, love. 

Rituals of Shame also reflects a range of Walker’s longstanding influences, from the expansive melodic structures of Marillion to the restraint and clarity of June Tabor. He also cites John Brenner of Revelation as a formative influence, particularly in shaping his approach to articulating emotion through heavy music.

The collection is available now for pre-order on various vinyl variants and other physical formats, as well as digital pre-saves.

Warning tour dates:

April 16 to 19  Tilburg, NL  Roadburn Festival
July 10 to 12  Pleszew, PL  Red Smoke Festival
July 29 to August 1  Bergen, NO  Beyond The Gates
August 13 to 15  Francavilla Al Mare, IT  Frantic Festival
August 13 to 16  Carhaix-plouger, FR  Motocultor Festival
September 4    Helsinki, FI  KULT
September 12 to 13  Leon, MX  Candelabrum Metal Festival
November 7  Nuremberg, DE  Sonus Obscura Festival
November 13  Athens, GR  An Club

Warning hail from Essex, U.K., emerging from the British doom scene in 1994. The band released two albums in their initial run, The Strength to Dream (1999) and Watching from a Distance (2006). The band reunited in 2017 for a limited number of live performances including an appearance at Roadburn Festival. Warning are Patrick Walker (vocals/guitar), Wayne Taylor (guitar), Marcus Hatfield (bass), and Andrew Prestidge (drums). 

Warningband.com
Instagram.com/warningdoom
Facebook.com/Warningdoom

Rituals of Shame tracklisting:

1. Rituals of Shame
2. Stations
3. Night Comes Down
4. Landing Lights
5. Teacher

Photo Credit: VD pictures

LORD OF THE LOST show their emotional side and present the final video of the OPVS NOIR trilogy with the music video for their single 'The Days Of Our Lives', unveiled today.

With the release of OPVS NOIR Vol. 3 this Friday, 10th April, the band conclude the album trilogy that began in the summer of 2025. 'The Days Of Our Lives' is a soulful and seemingly hopeless ballad, situated somewhere between a soundtrack and cold electronica, and, as the closing track, serves as the curtain call for the entire work.

Watch the video here: https://youtu.be/NFD9pyiEVO8

Pre-order the album here: https://lnk.to/LOTL-OPVSNOIR - first formats already sold out.

With nearly half a million listeners on Spotify, their appearance at the Eurovision final in 2023, followed by a number-one album and international tours with Iron Maiden, LORD OF THE LOST are proving themselves to be one of the most exciting and successful acts on the scene right now. OPVS NOIR Vol. 3 represents the creative peak of a band whose repertoire leaves no room for stagnation. The year started with shows in the USA, Canada, and Australia, and now continues with a headline run across Europe.

The most out-of-the-box of the full album trilogy, OPVS NOIR Vol. 3, the third and final chapter of LORD OF THE LOST’s latest journey, sees the six-piece close this era on a fulminant high note, intertwining heavy guitars and dark electronica with compassionate messages and cinematic orchestrations. It continues to push the band’s unpredictable path without settling for the familiar. Rounding off this impressive work, the album takes listeners by the hand and guides them through their darkest paths.

Following the captivating 'Blood & Glitter', which brought them to the grand final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2023 and a #1 chart entry in their native Germany to go along with it, LORD OF THE LOST once again demonstrate their unmatched diversity. Initiated by beautiful cello melodies, 'Kill The Lights' is an overture like no other, setting a dark mood, but also unafraid to switch it up to make room for catchy and reassuring 'I’m A Diamond' featuring Alea, frontman of German medieval metal torchbearers SALTATIO MORTIS. 'My Funeral', despite the name, picks up the positive message, expanding the near-gothic soundscapes while sprinkling in tongue-in-cheek lyrics, promoting black as a happy colour – wear pink to their funeral! Stomping 'I Hate People' invites horror punk icon WEDNESDAY 13 to an industrial duet about equality, after which gentle 'The Shadows Within' hits twice as hard with its symphonic arrangement. Next, Chris Harms and parting KISSIN’ DYNAMITE frontman Hannes Braun deliver the bombastic 'La Vie Est Hell' (based on Charles Baudelaire’s influential book of poetry, “Les Fleurs Du Mal”) partly in French language, before going back to 'Square One'. 'When Did The Love Break?' is a heartfelt song of lost love – the addition of whimsical vocals by Ambre Vourvahis of XANDRIA drives the emotions of this universal topic right home. After 'Your Love Is Colder Than Death', LORD OF THE LOST team up with Damien Edwards of British glam rock band CATS IN SPACE for the captivating duet 'Take Me Far Away', before the album closes with a ballad, 'The Days Of Our Lives' – the sweeping track simultaneously being the closest LORD OF THE LOST have ever been to a cinematic soundtrack. The happy ending is skipped, almost making it sound like a goodbye…

OPVS NOIR Vol. 3: the trilogy is finally concluded.

Lord Of The Lostare:
Chris Harms – Vocals, Guitar
Pi Stoffers – Guitar
Class Grenayde – Bass
Gared Dirge – Piano, Synths, Percussion, Guitar
Niklas Kahl – Drums

Lord Of The Lostonline:
Website
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Napalm Records 

OPVS NOIR Vol. 3 track list:

1. Kill The Lights
2. I’m A Diamond (feat. Saltatio Mortis)
3. My Funeral
4. I Hate People (feat. WEDNESDAY 13)
5. The Shadows Within
6. La Vie Est Hell (feat. Kissin’ Dynamite)
7. Square One
8. When Did The Love Break? (feat. Xandria)
9. Your Love Is Colder Than Death
10. Take Me Far Away (feat. Cats In Space)
11. The Days Of Our Lives

OPVS NOIR Vol. 3 will be available in the following formats:
- 1-LP Liquid Vinyl PURPLE-BLACK with 12-page booklet – Napalm Records Mailorder exclusive
(strictly limited) – SOLD OUT!
- 1-LP Gatefold SPLATTERED SILVER/BLACK with 12-page booklet – Napalm Records Mailorder
exclusive (strictly limited)
- 1-LP Gatefold Cristallo with 12-page booklet – LORDSHOP exclusive (strictly limited)
- 1-LP Gatefold Recycled Black
- 1-CD in paper sleeve for everyone that already own a OPVS NOIR Collectors Edition (= Earbook or
Wooden Box Set)
- 1-CD 6-page Digisleeve with 16-page booklet
- Music Cassette Noir with silver print – Napalm Records Mailorder & LORDSHOP exclusive (strictly
limited) – SOLD OUT!
 
AUDIO STEMS per song:
01 Drums, Percussion and Beats
02 Bass, Bass Synths
03 Rhythm Guitars
04 Additional Guitars
05 Piano
06 Orchestra, Choir, Organ
07 Synths
08 Vocals
+ Audio Click
+ MIDI Track containing all tempo and time signature changes
 
Audio format:
WAV, 44.1 kHz, 24 Bit

Photo Credit: Zhao Lanxin

Experimental multifaceted artist Otay:Onii has unveiled new single / video 'Love From Survivors'. This is the second single taken from her new album Love is in the Sh*t, set for release on 8th May 2026 via Pelagic Records.

Watch the video to 'Love From Survivors' here: https://youtu.be/d3Bi88F55iM

Stream and pre-save here: https://orcd.co/otayonii

Otay:Onii comments on the new single: “Put Shělìzǐ 舍利子 back in our own mouth, teach ourselves how to shit like we shit for the first time. The shit carries our history and memory. Let them bloom, let them wither, let them bloom, let them wither, let them bloom, let them wither, let them.” 

Otay:Onii’s music unfolds like a living organism - restless, curious, and constantly re-shaping itself. Her sound is driven by her enchanting voice that serves as texture, rhythm, and raw material, moving between breath, chant, incantation, and fractured lyricism. From the beginning of her work Otay:Onii has treated sound as a physical substance, sculpting it with an experimental instinct that resists genre boundaries.

Otay:Onii’s new album Love is in the Sh*t is a deeply intimate album that reaches a striking balance between control and chaos. Harnessing her ability to move from serenity to madness, Love is in the Sh*t is an exploration in representing trialing conscious states. Drawing-in and challenging the listener, the songs play with comfort and discomfort, deliciously crafting the sonic arc of the story so that intention is undeniably felt.

Otay:Onii comments on the album: "This album speaks to what we cannot escape - the noise, the weight, the mess from the world, from others, from our own minds and bodies, what is damaged is damaged, we cannot change that one bit. Yet within the agony, here comes our process to restore, and hold on to something. The burden becomes alchemy: transformed into passion, into what makes us feel alive, and living. By choosing what ignites us, we do not lose ourselves - and from that grounding, we are able to give more of ourselves to others."

Otay:Onii (Lane Shi) is a multifaceted artist originally from Haining, China. Her artistic practice spans across music, performance, installation, and film composition. 

Performance works such as Unwrap! at the Ming Contemporary Art Museum exemplify her innovative concept of “bio instruments.” She has performed at Harvard University and at prestigious international festivals including SXSW, Roadburn Festival, CTM Festival, Fusion Festival, Creepy Teepee, Le Guess Who?, Fekete Zaj Festival, and Full of Lava Festival.

Otay:Onii has joined the opera performance 'Sancta' by Florentina Holzinger and was selected as a featured artist by the SHAPE+ Platform for 2024 - 25. Her work moves fluidly between humour and the poignant realities of contemporary zero-generation immigrants, offering rooted Eastern perspectives to Western audiences in an effort to bridge cultural divides.

Her acclaimed albums — NAG (2018), MíngMíng ٥٥ (2021), Dream Hacker (2023) and True Faith Ain’t Blind (2024)  — defy conventional structures, foregrounding philosophies drawn from lived experience. 

She describes her process as: “Solving a puzzle with another puzzle — one that cannot be seen or touched, only felt.”

Otay’s work has received recognition and accolades, including the bronze prize for "Best Female Vocalist" from Global Music Awards, and "Best Sound" from the Audiovisual Arts Industrial Incubator Awards.

Otay:Onii is:
Lane Shi - all lyrics, composition and performance

Otay:Onii online:
https://www.instagram.com/laneshiotayonii
https://www.facebook.com/Laneshiotayonii

Track list:
1.    Have You Ever
2.    Love From Survivors 
3.    World Class Citizen 
4.    No Talent 
5.    The Plaice 
6.    Underdog Bark 
7.    Tears Won’t Tell 

Photo Credit: Jack Lue

Provocative hard rock force Dogma mark Good Friday with the arrival of 'Fate Unblinds,' a cinematic, high-impact metal anthem that signals a bold new chapter for the band. The single is their first original release since last summer’s 'Be Free,' and it lands with unmistakable intent.

Watch the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzobdkDGq4c

Stream here: https://ffm.to/fateunblinds

Driven by frontwoman Lilith’s commanding, firebrand vocals, 'Fate Unblinds' surges with thunderous guitars and ritualistic percussion, unfolding from eerie, tension-filled verses into a towering, anthemic chorus. Anchored by the declaration “my fate unblinds,” the track explores themes of revelation, faith, and the confrontation of buried truths, delivered with both raw intensity and theatrical precision.

Dogma are about to embark on their Time To Be Free European tour, UK dates below:

April 29: London, UK (final tickets)
April 30: Wolverhampton, UK (sold out)
May 1: Manchester, UK (sold out)
May 2: Bristol, UK (sold out)

Rising with defiant energy and an unmistakable visual identity, Dogma continue to reshape the modern metal landscape. Blending mystique, empowerment, and hook-driven heaviness, the band has rapidly emerged as a global force, with a momentum that has ignited audiences across North and South America and Europe, turning controversy and intrigue into a fast-expanding, deeply engaged fanbase.

With 'Fate Unblinds,' Dogma double down on their signature fusion of rebellion, sensuality, and sonic power. Fueled by surging streams, viral traction, and sold-out shows, the band isn’t just breaking through - they’re building a phenomenon.

Lilith says: “‘Fate Unblinds’ lives in a moment you already know… even if you choose to ignore it. It’s that point where something stops feeling right, where what’s in front of you begins to crack… and still, you hold onto it. Not because you don’t see it, but because you lack the will to face it. I’ve seen it. I’ve felt it. And so have you.

"We’ve all been given something and called it truth simply because it was easier. We’ve all trusted what stood beside us… without questioning what it really was. And we’ve all felt that hesitation… that moment where we knew, and still chose to stay exactly where we were. That’s not confusion. That’s weakness.

"And most people live there. They protect the illusion, they defend it, they repeat it… because it allows them to avoid responsibility for what they see. I have no respect for that.
Fate doesn’t come to comfort you. It comes to test you. To confront you with what is real and force you to decide who you are when it matters. Those moments are inevitable.  You either use them to sharpen yourself… to evolve, to rise, to move forward… or you stay where it’s safe, rooted in the same place, choosing comfort over growth.

"And that choice… is everything.

Dogma’s fate, your fate… unblinds…”

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