Photo Credit: Brocarde 

Paranormal expert and haunting singer Brocarde unveils a video for 'Blank Pages', the latest single taken from her debut album, Good Attendance At Sunday School, released earlier this year. 'Blank Pages' showcases a more delicate and personal side of the experimental artist, whilst retaining her trademark dark undertone.

Watch the video here: https://youtu.be/_RKCOhFe4H4

Pre-order Good Attendence At Sunday School here: https://brocardemerch.com/products/good-attendance-aot-sunday-school-vinyl

Brocarde, who has experienced numerous paranormal encounters throughout her career, was filming 'Blank Pages', the final music video from her album Good Attendance at Sunday School, when she heard a child laughing before witnessing a mysterious young figure moving through the historic cemetery.

“I’ve experienced paranormal activity many times, so I’m not someone who is easily spooked by a strange noise, a shadow in the corner of my eye or the feeling that I’m being watched,” says Brocarde. “But what happened while I was filming my latest music video at Landoll’s Mohican Castle in Ohio genuinely stopped me in my tracks.”

Brocarde had chosen Landoll’s Mohican Castle as her base while attending Inkcarceration Festival, drawn to the property because of its rich paranormal history. During her stay, she became particularly fascinated by the Heyd Cemetery, an atmospheric burial ground tucked beneath the trees on the castle grounds.

The cemetery is associated with some of the earliest settlers in the area and is surrounded by stories of tragedy, conflict and restless spirits. Among the most well-known spirits associated with the property are Sarah Carnagey and her daughter, Samantha, who both died from typhoid fever in 1857. Their graves have become a focal point for visitors, with toys, coins, trinkets and other offerings left around them.

Brocarde chose the cemetery and nearby Heyd Cabin as locations for 'Blank Pages', a deeply personal song about endings, change and new beginnings. “I decided that the cemetery would be the perfect location to film 'Blank Pages', the final music video from my album Good Attendance at Sunday School,” she says. “The song is one of my most stripped-back and personal, so I wanted the location to feel authentic and atmospheric rather than simply looking like a film set.”

Arriving before dawn, Brocarde began filming in the cemetery while the grounds were still quiet. She found herself repeatedly drawn back towards Sarah and Samantha’s grave before moving inside Heyd Cabin to continue filming.

“I would walk away to film another shot, then somehow end up back there again,” she recalls. “There was no dramatic activity, but I could feel a presence around that particular area of the cemetery. It was one of those sensations that is difficult to explain unless you have experienced it yourself.”

Inside the cabin, Brocarde continued filming with a direct view of the grave through the window. She says the atmosphere intensified as she became immersed in the music. Then the music stopped, leaving the cabin in complete silence.

“And I heard a child laughing,” says Brocarde. “It was a little girl’s giggle, and I immediately turned towards the window.”

What she saw next was the moment that transformed the filming experience. “What I saw next is something I will never forget,” she says. “There was a small figure moving through the cemetery. It appeared to be a young girl wearing a long, flowing dress. Her back was towards me, so I couldn’t see her face, but I could clearly see her moving through the graveyard, almost skipping between the graves.”

As a paranormal expert who has experienced unexplained activity many times, Brocarde says the encounter felt immediately different from a frightening experience. “Having experienced paranormal encounters before, I didn’t immediately assume that I was looking at something threatening. In fact, the feeling was quite the opposite,” she says. “The little girl didn’t feel frightening. She felt peaceful. There was something almost angelic about her.”

Brocarde says the child’s presence felt almost like that of a guardian angel. “There was something almost angelic about the figure,” she recalls. “It felt like I had a guardian angel watching over me momentarily.”

The encounter is perhaps unsurprising given Brocarde’s increasingly deep connection with the paranormal world. Her work has taken her from some of America’s most famous haunted locations to major horror and entertainment brands, where she has combined her musical career with her fascination with the supernatural.

In the United States, Brocarde has been scouted to work with Universal Studios’ Halloween Horror Nights and has investigated some of America’s most notorious haunted locations. Her paranormal adventures have included working with the Lizzie Borden House, where she has explored the infamous murder mysteries surrounding the property, as well as visiting some of America’s most haunted hotels to conduct ghost hunts.

Brocarde is the creator of an enchanting world where dark, haunting aesthetics meet passion-fuelled lyrics and design. Brocarde is a dynamic storyteller who marries both music and fashion in an orchestral explosion, designed to make the ears and eyes bleed. A onewoman horror story, if centuries aligned, Brocarde could almost be the secret lovechild of Edgar Allan Poe and Sylvia Plath.

Brocarde arrived on the music scene in 2019 presenting her debut single 'Last Supper'. She was hailed as “One to Watch” by Planet Rock Magazine, and secured airplay on Kerrang!, Planet Rock and BBC Introducing.

Since then, Brocarde has gone on to gain the praise of some of rock music’s biggest stars, with Whitesnake’s David Coverdale hailing her as an “electrifying, creative new artist” and describing her as “powerful stuff!” Brocarde’s follow-up single, 'Love Me ’Til I’m Beautiful', featured drums by Korn’s Ray Luzier described her writing as a dynamic, theatrical adventure and hailed her as a future star.

Brocarde recently experienced life outside of our dimension, when she found herself being introduced to the spirit world. One dark, stormy night when she was struggling to sleep Brocarde was visited by Edwardo, the ghost of a Victorian soldier. Edwardo wooed Brocarde, and after a short whirlwind romance the couple tied the knot on Halloween 2022.

This lead to appearances on ITV’s This Morning, Say Yes To The Dress and a regular paranormal column in The Daily Star. Following their divorce six months later, she made an appearance on First Dates on Channel 4.

Her paranormal work has also taken her to major music festivals. Brocarde has collaborated with Inkcarceration Festival, as well as appearing in the worlds of Download Festival and Wacken, bringing her distinctive blend of music, gothic performance and paranormal storytelling to some of the biggest names in rock and metal.

Brocarde online:
https://brocarde.com
https://www.instagram.com/brocarde
https://www.tiktok.com/@brocarde
YouTube.com/@thebrocardeshow

Track list:

01 Identity Theft
02 Feed My Soul ft. Ray Luzier
03 Last Supper
04 Haunted    
05 F*ck You Anthem    
06 Pandora's Box    
07 Seven Sins ft. Ray Luzier    
08 F.E.M.I.N.I.S.T    
09 Blank Pages

German metalcore heavyweights Accvsed return with their new single 'Rapture', pushing their sound into darker, more progressive and unsettling territory. 

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

With 'Rapture', Accvsed refuse to stand still. Darker, sharper and more immersive, the single takes the raw emotional foundation of their previous material and drags it into a hypnotic new abyss. It is the sound of panic becoming temptation, escape becoming dependency and a band pushing its identity into its next uncompromising chapter.

Formed in Wiesbaden in 2021, Accvsed have rapidly grown from a promising underground act into one of Germany's most exciting new names in modern heavy music. Their 2023 debut EP House of Doubt, led by breakout single 'Currents', earned the band attention far beyond their local scene and opened the door to support shows and festival appearances across Germany and neighboring countries.

Their rise accelerated with the release of their debut album Dealers of Doom via Arising Empire in August 2025. Even before the record arrived, its preceding singles had generated more than 2.3 million streams and propelled Accvsed beyond 160,000 monthly Spotify listeners. Extensive live activity followed, including festival appearances and touring across Germany and beyond, further establishing the band's reputation as a rapidly emerging presence in European metalcore.

Accvsed live: 
01.10.2026 I Flex I Vienna, Austria
03.10.2026 I Backstage I München, Germany
04.10.2026 I Im Wizemann I Stuttgart, Germany
06.10.2026 I Rock Café I Praha 1, Czech Republic
07.10.2026 I WERK2 - Halle D I Leipzig, Germany
08.10.2026 I Frannz Club I Berlin, Germany
09.10.2026 I Uebel & Gefährlich I Hamburg, Germany
10.10.2026 I Club Volta I Köln, Germany
13.10.2026 I Schlachthof Wiesbaden I Wiesbaden, Germany
15.10.2026 I The Black Heart I London, United Kingdom

Accvsed online:
https://www.instagram.com/accvsed.band

German heavy music force Half Me unleash 'King', the final single taken from their highly anticipated new album Dogma, set for release on 23rd October 2026 via Arising Empire. With the album drawing closer, 'King' delivers one last devastating glimpse into its uncompromising world, pushing the band’s sound into some of its most brutal and confrontational territory yet.

Watch the video here: https://youtu.be/6gvjHuhtkYo

Hitting with the force of a wrecking ball, 'King' is a relentless hardcore assault built on crushing riffs, suffocating intensity and a constant sense of impending collapse. Rather than offering an easy release, the track keeps tightening its grip, turning aggression, desperation and inner conflict into an eruption of controlled chaos.

Since emerging from Hamburg’s heavy scene, Half Me have established themselves as one of Germany’s most exciting modern heavy acts. Their debut album SOMA introduced an ambitious collision of metalcore, hardcore, nu-metal and electronic experimentation, earning the band international attention and taking their music far beyond their home country. Through millions of streams, powerful live performances and tours alongside internationally established acts, Half Me have continued to build a reputation for combining uncompromising heaviness with a distinct, forward-thinking identity.

With previous singles already revealing the scope and intensity of their next chapter, 'King' brings the road to Dogma to its most punishing point yet. Brutal, claustrophobic and impossible to shake, the track captures the darkness at the heart of the record while showcasing Half Me at their most direct and merciless.

Half Me - European Crusade 2026
27.11.2026 | Dynamo | Eindhoven, NL
28.11.2026 | Musikzentrum | Hannover, DE
29.11.2026 I Die Stadtmitte I Karlsruhe, DE
30.11.2026 | Das Bett | Frankfurt am Main, DE
01.12.2026 | Naumanns I Leipzig, DE
02.12.2026 | Weberknecht I Vienna, AT
03.12.2026 | Mechanik I Warsaw, PL
05.12.2026 | Subzero I Prague, CZ
06.12.2026 | Kent Club I Hamburg, DE
08.12.2026 | Backstage By The Mill I Paris, FR
09.12.2026 | Downstairs At The Dome I London, DE
10.12.2026 | Key Club I Leeds, UK
11.12.2026 | Rebellion I Manchester, UK
12.12.2026 | O2 Institute3 I Manchester, UK
13.12.2026 I Gebäude 9 I Cologne, DE
15.12.2026 I Schüür I Luzern, CH
16.12.2026 I Hansa 39 I Munich, DE
17.12.2026 I Skaters Palace Cafe I Münster, DE
18.12.2026 I Mikropol I Berlin, DE
19.12.2026 I Z-Bau I Nürnberg, DE
20.12.2026 I Tower I Bremen, DE

Half Me online:
https://www.instagram.com/halfme.band

Los Angeles-based THE DARK.FM have today released their new single ‘Thai Angel’, out now on all platforms via Arising Empire.

Watch the video here: https://youtu.be/F3y9ya-DX6Q

Blending modern metal with 80s-inspired guitars, beat-driven verses and a huge, hook-heavy chorus, ‘Thai Angel’ captures the atmosphere of a late-night after-hours spot in Los Angeles.

Speaking of the new single, vocalist Craig Johns Jr. shares:  “'Thai Angel' was the name of an (alleged) after-hours in Koreatown that I would frequent after getting off work at the nightclub around the corner. It was very much a “if you know, you know” type spot. The door was locked, it was hot, crowded, and the DJ was loud as hell."

‘Thai Angel’ is released as part of a three-track bundle, with ‘prometheus.exe’ opening the release and ‘epoch.exe’ closing it out. The three tracks combine in the official music video accompanying the release, creating one continuous visual and musical journey that takes listeners through the immersive world of THE DARK.FM
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THE DARK.FM occupy a space that has been begging to be occupied within heavy music. A bridge between sounds, communities and cultures that has been ready and waiting for someone to build it. What started as a collaboration between vocalist Craig Johns Jr. and guitarist Alan Ashby that transcended music quickly became about appreciating not just moments in time, but how worlds are built. From flicking through old PlayStation magazines to grasp the visuals that defined the beginning of the Millennium to scouring Rick Owens collections and pondering which daring pieces best represented their intent, the pair quickly found that the strands connecting their passions for music, fashion, and film were deeply intertwined. Throw in childhoods spent being obsessed with The Matrix as much as Slipknot, Korn and Limp Bizkit, as well as a shared appreciation for the universe created within Cyberpunk 2077, and the foundations for something truly exploratory were in place.

The first pieces of those exploratory pursuits resulted in 2025’s The Dark EP, a frenzied blend of rampant beats, guttural breakdowns and uncanny croons, its tracks racking up over 3 million streams, as well as festival appearances at Vans Warped Tour and Sick New World.
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THE DARK.FM online:
https://www.instagram.com/thedark.fm

Japanese metalcore frontrunners Sable Hills return with their powerful new single 'Homura', featuring an electrifying guest appearance from Fuki of Unlucky Morpheus. The release also marks the start of the pre-order for the band’s new album Homura, set for release on 13th November via Arising Empire.

Stream here: https://arisingempire.com/sablehills

Blending the fire of classic metalcore with melodic death metal intensity and a distinctly Japanese atmosphere, the title track marks another bold step forward for a band that continues to carve out its own identity on the international heavy music scene.

'Homura' arrives at another defining moment in Sable Hills’ remarkable rise. In 2022, the band became the first Japanese act in history to win the grand prize at the Wacken Open Air Metal Battle, a milestone that led to their signing with German label Arising Empire and the international release of their third album Odyssey in 2024. Their momentum accelerated further in 2025 when 'Namu' became a global viral success, surpassing 3 million Spotify streams and 5.4 million YouTube views, while related live clips generated more than 30 million views across Instagram and TikTok.

Sable Hills online:
https://www.instagram.com/sablehills

Photo credit: Jiawei Zhang

Post-metal heavyweights The Ocean today reveal their newest single 'Milk of My Dreams', featuring Thorsten Quaeschning of the legendary Tangerine Dream.

Stream here: https://youtu.be/FgBsVDqgJi4

The single is another glimpse of The Ocean's forthcoming Solaris record, to be released 25th September (Pelagic Records). 

Pre-order here: https://orcd.co/theocean-solaris

'Milk of My Dreams' is the second half of the 20-minute closing piece of The Ocean’s new and 12th studio album Solaris, inspired by Andrei Tarkovsky’s film of the same name. Entirely electronic, dark, hypnotic and danceable, it leads the Berlin-based heavy music collective into unfamiliar terrain, trading weight for pulse without losing any of its intensity. It closes the album’s 70-minute monolith on an unexpected note: alien yet coherent, disorienting yet strangely inevitable.

While most of the instrumental foundations of Solaris were written during the pandemic, 'Milk of My Dreams' is a much more recent piece, composed last year as the band began recording vocals for the album. New vocalist Enrico Tiberi wrote much of the track as a series of variations on musical themes introduced in the preceding song, 'Ultima Esperanza'.

Rearranged by Robin Staps and shaped by significant contributions from synth pioneer and Tangerine Dream bandleader Thorsten Quaeschning, the track became a distinctly collaborative and experimental undertaking - and may well mark the beginning of a broader creative relationship with Quaeschning.

The band first met Quaeschning while tracking drums at Berlin’s legendary Hansa Studios, where David Bowie recorded 'Heroes'. They later spent a week at Quaeschning’s studio in Berlin-Rudow, working not only on 'Milk of My Dreams' but on the electronic dimension of the album as a whole.

The band comment: “Working with Thorsten has been an incredibly inspiring experience and with all of us being huge Tangerine Dream fans, a great honour of course. His knowledge of electronic music, synthesizers and sound design is extraordinary, and at the same time he’s an immensely talented and curious musician. His studio feels like a synthesizer museum — everything is connected, switched on and ready to play. What’s particularly remarkable is his ability to take a sound you can only describe in words and translate it almost instantly into something you can actually hear.”

Thorsten Quaeschning says about his collaboration with The Ocean:

“It was a real pleasure to work on the new album by The Ocean Collective. At the same time, it was an interesting challenge for me, because I had to adjust some of my usual working methods and leave the safe harbour of familiar procedures. From my own musical microcosm, The Ocean Collective’s music moves through a wide range of shifting time signatures, which meant that most hardware step sequencers no longer worked in the conventional way. Of course, I could have programmed and recorded individual sections of two, three or sometimes eight bars, but I decided to play many of the sequences by hand. This made it possible to react more quickly to the time signature changes, while also giving the sequences a more organic feel through dynamics, touch and subtle timing differences. I’m very happy to be part of this album and I’m looking forward to seeing where this new collaboration may lead.”

Solaris is an album that tells a story of cosmic escapism: a journey on that ship, which is essentially a celestial rescue boat escaping from a metaphorically sinking Mother Earth. The rescue boat can be imagined as a historic naval vessel, and the lyrics and episodes of the album  make reference to the real-life explorers of the past who set out to discover (back then) unknown continents and uncharted territories: Da Gama, Magellan, Sir Frances Drake, as well as the Polar explorers Amundsen, Scott, Rasmussen etc.

The Solaris album artwork is a collaborative effort by German artist Phillip Janta (Metallica, Queens Of the Stone Age, Envy) whose distinctive, highly detailed line work is instantly recognisable, and Norwegian artist Martin Kvamme who is the graphic designer behind most of Mike Patton's numerous projects. The deluxe version of the album will be accompanied by a hardcover, fabric-wrapped book with copper hot foil print, printed inner sleeves, a 32 pages book, seven art prints by Phillip Janta as well as a customised, retro-futuristic star constellation finder.

Solaris will be released via Pelagic Records on 25th September.

The Ocean Line-up:

Robin Staps – guitar, vocals
Mattias Hägerstrand - bass
Jordi Farré – drums, percussion
Enrico Tiberi – vocals, keys
Lane Shi – vocals
Emmanuel Jessua – guitar
Marco Gennaro – guitar

In addition, the following musicians performed on this record:

Thorsten Quaeschning – keys
Orestis Zafiriou – keys
Simen Eifring – trombone
Jiawei Zhang – vibraphone

The Ocean online:
Label Website
Instagram
Facebook
Bandcamp
Spotify
YouTube

Track list:

1. 52°30'11" N, 13°26’12“ E
2. Departure Song
3. Light Pollution
4. Simulacra
5. Belligerence
6. Ultima Esperanza
7. Milk Of My Dreams
8. 51°28'30" S, 73°6'11" W

Photo Credit: Jacob Moinz

Alternative rock outfit Anberlin have announced CURRENCY, the band's highly anticipated ninth studio album and the first full-length release to feature Matty Mullins as lead vocalist. Marking the beginning of a bold new chapter, CURRENCY builds on the momentum of 2024's Vega, where Mullins made his recording debut on two tracks, and signals a renewed creative energy for a band that has continually evolved throughout their nearly 25-year career. Produced by the band alongside Kellen McGregor (Memphis May Fire), the eleven-track album embraces both Anberlin's storied past and an exciting future, proving that growth and reinvention can coexist without sacrificing the band's unmistakable identity.

Today, the band offers another taste of what’s to come on the new record - 'GRAVITY' - which follows the release of 'NEVERAFTER' and its accompanying music video, directed by Anberlin drummer Nathan Young, and Jacob Moniz. 

Watch the video here: https://youtu.be/6ULC4vtxNDw

Pre-order CURRENCY here: https://anberlin.lnk.to/CURRENCY

Vocalist Matty Mullins adds “GRAVITY is about coming to terms with the fact that our time here is limited and choosing to live in a way that leaves nothing unsaid and nothing undone. It wrestles with the weight of mortality, but ultimately finds peace in letting go of fear and embracing the people, moments, and purpose that matter most.”

On the new record, vocalist Matty Mullins shares “The overall theme of CURRENCY is what happens after everything you built your identity on falls apart. It’s a journey through heartbreak, loss, addiction, shame, and the lies we tell ourselves. Instead of staying in the wreckage, it’s about finding the strength to face the truth, let go of what was killing you, and become someone new. I believe that healing doesn’t begin when the pain ends, it begins when you finally stop running from it.”

Rather than looking back with hesitation, CURRENCY finds Anberlin moving forward with confidence. Drawing from a collection of previously unfinished songs while giving Mullins the space to leave his own creative mark, the album balances soaring rock anthems with deeply reflective moments, exploring themes of perseverance, vulnerability, and hope. Featuring standout tracks including 'Neverafter,' 'Highstakes,' and the emotionally resonant 'Trenches' featuring Switchfoot, CURRENCY reaffirms Anberlin's commitment to creating music that connects through honesty and resilience. More than simply the next album in the band's catalogue, CURRENCY is a statement of renewal—one that celebrates where Anberlin has been while embracing everything that lies ahead.

Anberlin will hit the road with longtime friends and alternative rock mainstays Switchfoot for an extensive run of tour dates later this year. The tour brings together two of the genre's most enduring and influential bands, giving fans the opportunity to experience Anberlin's next chapter live while celebrating a catalogue that has resonated for nearly 25 years. As the band ushers in a new era with CURRENCY, the upcoming shows promise a dynamic set that blends beloved fan favourites with the powerful new material, underscoring the renewed energy and excitement driving Anberlin forward.

Anberlin are:
Matty Mullins (Vocals),
Christian McAlhaney (Guitar & Vocals)
Joseph Milligan (Guitar)
Deon Rexroat (Bass)
Nathan Young (Drums).

Anberlin online:
Website | Instagram | Facebook | YouTube | Spotify

CURRENCY track listing:

1. NEVERAFTER
2. GRAVITY
3. HIGHSTAKES
4. GHOST
5. MEDICATE
6. TRENCHES ft. Switchfoot
7. AFTERMATH
8. RELAPSE
9. DISPLACE
10. LIES
11. ASHES

After more than two decades of carving out their own space between crushing heaviness and expansive atmosphere, Rosetta return with their final full-length album, Temporal Lapse, set for release on 27th November via Pelagic Records. Alongside the announcement, the band unveil the album’s first single, ‘The Native Hue of Resolution’, marking the return of a band whose music has always found its power in the tension between weight and space, devastation and beauty.

Watch the album trailer video here: https://youtu.be/JijpDz5oat8

Pre-order Temporal Lapse here: https://orcd.co/rosetta-temporallapse

The band comment on the new single, "Sometimes deep grief can provoke a strange ambivalence: isolation is both a comfort and its own particular misery."

The album’s long-awaited arrival comes after years of upheaval, during which the original concept for Temporal Lapse shifted dramatically. When work began in late 2019, Rosetta initially set out to explore climate change and the grief of watching the natural world disappear. The pandemic brought that process to a halt, and when the band eventually returned to the material, personal loss had changed the perspective entirely.

“In late 2019 when we began working on the songs, we intended to focus on climate change. As we explored that concept, we became interested in the grief / loss dimension of environmental destruction — essentially, the human experience of loss as nature gives way to something else," comments guitarist, Matt Weed. "However, in 2020 the pandemic stopped the whole process cold, and it took years to get started again. In that time, a lot of personal grief and loss happened. I lost my house to a fire in 2022. Eric and I both lost our dads. Rather than looking at climate change through the lens of grief and loss, we ended up looking at personal grief and loss through the imagery of climate change and apocalypse.”

That sense of upheaval runs through Temporal Lapse, an album shaped by resilience, grief and the ways people change when confronted with experiences that cannot be undone. Rosetta remain unmistakably themselves, but there is a greater breadth to the band's sound: heavier passages collide with melodic and textural elements, cleaner vocals sit alongside their trademark intensity, while electronics and increasingly intricate guitar arrangements create new contrasts within the songs.

The result is a record that can feel both enormous and deeply intimate. ‘The Native Hue of Resolution’ offers the first glimpse into that world, bringing together the physical weight and atmospheric reach that have defined Rosetta since their earliest releases, while pointing towards the wider emotional and sonic territory explored across Temporal Lapse.

The album was recorded across several years and locations, with its own history becoming intertwined with that of the band. Drums were recorded over a full week in a 1920s stone church sanctuary outside Philadelphia, the same building where Rosetta held their very first rehearsal in June 2003.

“It felt good to come back around and use that building again. We did guitars and bass a month later (August 2024) at the Radar Studio in Connecticut, owned by Will Benoit from Pelagic labelmates SOM. Then there was another long hiatus after the birth of my son. We finally got together to write and record all the vocals in Austin, Texas in December of 2025, which took ten days,” comments Matt Weed.


Elsewhere on Temporal Lapse, ‘The Pale Cast Of Thought’ lands with a sense of desperation and crushing intensity, while ‘Dvora’ builds tension through hypnotic melody, pre-battle percussion and a slow-rising swell of distortion, with Johnny Dang of O'Brother contributing slide guitar, piano and synths. ‘Ribbon Of Dawn’ moves from a raging, thrashing opening into something unexpectedly hopeful before its melodies grow increasingly complex and heavy, charging towards the threshold.


At the heart of the album is a question about what happens to us after loss, whether we emerge from it fundamentally broken or fundamentally changed.


For Rosetta, Temporal Lapse is ultimately both an ending and a reflection on everything that came before it. The band have been clear that this is their final album in their current form, bringing the story of Rosetta to a deliberate close rather than disappearing without resolution.

“This is the final album. We're not breaking up; there's always openness to doing interesting things together in the future. But even as far back as 2019, we intended to release one more full length as a capstone, do a ‘victory lap’ tour around the world, and then be done with Rosetta as it existed before,” comments Weed.

With Temporal Lapse, Rosetta leave behind a record that carries the density, volume and scope that have characterised their music for more than twenty years, while embracing space, melody, reflection and vulnerability. It is abrasive and beautiful, turbulent and meditative, a final statement from a band still willing to push against the boundaries of what their music can contain.

Rosetta are:

Mike Armine - Vocals, Samples
David Grossman - Bass
Eric Jernigan - Vocals, Guitar, Bass
Bruce McMurtrie - Drums
Matt Weed - Guitar, Bass, Producer/Engineer

Discography:

The Galilean Satellites (2005)
Wake/Lift (2007)
The Anaesthete (2013)
Quintessential Ephemera (2015)
Utopioid (2017)
Terra Sola EP (2019)
Sower Of Wind EP (2019) 

Rosetta online:
Instagram | Facebook | Bandcamp

Tracklist:

1. Curl Up And Deny
2. The Winepress
3. Dvora
4. Self-Dealing Position
5. The Native Hue Of Resolution
6. The Pale Cast Of Thot
7. Ribbon Of Dawn
8. Epilogue

Photo Credit: Pep Williams

Metal juggernauts Darkest Hour will return to the UK in February 2027 with Frozen Soul, following the release of their 30th October album Suffer Divine (MNRK Heavy).

Dates:

01.02.27 UK Bristol Electric Bristol
02.02.27 UK Glasgow Slay
04.02.27 UK Manchester Club Academy
05.02.27 UK Birmingham XOYO
06.02.27 UK Leeds Stylus
07.02.27 UK London Scala

The band comment: "We love this new album so much and thus we are both proud and excited to bring our Suffer Divine album release to Europe in 2027 alongside the crushingly heavy Frozen Soul. Creating this new album was a galvanizing experience and we can’t wait to bring this new fire and energy to European and British soil." - Mike Schleibaum 

"Touring the EU & UK has been some of the most fun, memorable, and fulfilling experiences of our lives. We’ll celebrate the release of our 11th record the best way possible, with live shows, and you in the pit!” - John Henry 

Recorded with producer Mark Lewis (Whitechapel, The Black Dahlia Murder, Cannibal Corpse) across 11 ferocious tracks, Darkest Hour's upcoming record Suffer Divine distills everything the band love about heavy music from force to spirit. 

Stream the crushing title track now.

Listen: https://darkesthour.ffm.to/sufferdivine
Watch: https://youtu.be/wb3cAMPkOkI

Darkest Hour’s music carries the passion, pressure, and purpose of hardcore with an unapologetic reverence for melodic riffs, death metal stomp, speed, and twin-guitar harmonies. The band’s forthcoming album Suffer Divine is a no-holds-barred, invigorated slab of aggression where hardcore urgency and emotional meaning behind every note continue to power their metal obsessions with tone, attack, and riffs. 

Darkest Hour will also perform as direct support for Fear Factory on U.S. dates this autumn.

After three decades of defining the intersection of melodic death metal and hardcore, Darkest Hour continue to deliver music as vital as it is visceral. Darkest Hour clawed their way out of the DMV area in 1995. Throughout the ensuing years, they tallied tens of millions of streams and quietly built a diehard fan base. Circling the globe, they packed hundreds of shows and touched down on every continent, save Antarctica. Along the way, they notably notched five Top 3 debuts on the Billboard Heatseekers Albums Chart. 2017’s Godless Prophets & the Migrant Flora marked the group’s third #1 bow on the latter in addition to crashing the Top 10 of the Top Vinyl Albums Chart.

Darkest Hour are:

John Henry – vocals
Mike Schleibaum – guitar
Nico Santora – guitar
Aaron Deal – bass
Travis Orbin – drums

For more information:
https://www.instagram.com/darkest_hour_official 
https://twitter.com/darkesthourrock 
https://www.facebook.com/DarkestHourDudes/ 
https://www.tiktok.com/@darkest.hour.official 
https://www.youtube.com/@darkesthourdudes
https://www.mnrkheavy.com