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Aviana: Europe Tour 2025
The Swedish metalcore band Aviana will play a big headline tour in Europe this fall. There are 21 dates across Germany, the UK, the nordics and some more. They will be supported by The Gloom in the Corner, Diamond Construct and Atena. All dates below: All dates: 06 Nov: NL, Eindhoven – Dynamo 07 Nov: UK, London – The Dome 08 Nov: UK, Glasgow – Cathouse 09 Nov: UK, Manchester – Rebellion 10 Nov: UK, Bristol – The Fleece 12 Nov: DE, Frankfurt – Das Bett 13 Nov: DE, Hamburg: Stage 15 14 Nov: SE, Gothenburg – Valand 15 Nov: SE, Stockholm – Kollektivet Livet 16 Nov: NO, Oslo – John Dee 18 Nov:…
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Ad Infinitum: Into The Abyss Tour 2025
The Swiss-German symphonic/modern metal band Ad Infinitum heads out for a headline tour this fall. They’re playing 15 shows in a variety of European counries. As special guests they bring along the American symphonic metal band Seven Spires. The second supporting act will be Tulip from Toronto, Canada. You can find all dates below: All dates: 🇩🇪 23.10.25: DE, Aschaffenburg – Colos-Saal 🇧🇪 24.10.25: BE, Kortrijk – DVG Club 🇫🇷 25.10.25: FR, Paris – Backstage by the Mill 🇨🇭 26.10.25: CH, Bern – Stellwerk 🇨🇭 27.10.25: CH, Zurich – Dynamo Werk 21 🇩🇪 29.10.25: DE, Munich – Backstage 🇦🇹 30.10.25: AT, Vienna – Szene 🇨🇿 31.10.25: CZ, Zlin – Masters Of Rock Cafe 🇩🇪 01.11.25:…
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Album review: Lorna Shore – The Everblack is Festering Within Me
How long have I been waiting for this album! (How long, given the fact that I’m not exactly a super-duper long-term Lorna Shore fan, I’ve only really started listening to them this year.) This was perhaps one of my most awaited albums of the second half of 2025. And it was worth the wait!
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Release Friday – 12 September 2025
Oh holy moly, this week has been incredible in terms of new releases? Also my TIDAL algorithm is still not trained super well and I keep coming across problems with faulty artist attributions, so from time to time stuff slips my attention. So here’s my personal list of this week’s new releases and some older ones that I dug out a little belated (there’s quite a bit of female power here): The first one is a new single by the German metalcore trio Future Palace. The song is called Cyclone and IT FUCKING SLAPS. Pardon my French, but Maria Lessing is QUEENING again. This song is so goddamn good, I just can’t. Maria…
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Festival report: Oelde Open Air – Friday: Annisokay, Any Given Day & Pentastone (22 August 2025)
Aaaand another summer festival, this time a smaller one. Oelde Open Air is a two-day „festival“ in Oelde, Northrhine-Westfalia. I put „festival“ in quotation marks because it’s rather two days of open air concerts, organised by a collective of music fans who really did a great job at putting this together. I only attended one of the two days and here’s how it was.
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Festival report: NEXUS Nerd Rock Festival 2025
This summer was intense in a lot of senses. This includes visiting a few festivals, and one of them stood out in a certain way: this year was the first time the NEXUS took place in its current form. NEXUS is a mix of convention and festival, which makes it somehow unique. I went there this year and here’s how I perceived the first edition of this festival. Spoiler alert: I think it was cool.
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Release Friday – 05 September 2025
Another Friday and another week full of interesting releases! Yay! Let’s start with my most awaited release of this week: My beloved Oceans released a new single today and not only does it once again just click with me – it also comes with an absolutely perfect feature: Fabian Getto of Equilibrium joined them for the song Still Nøt Okay and wow. It’s a fits! Speaking of Equilibrium: There’s finally something new from them as well! Not only has guitarist and composer René Berthiaume recently announced that the next album is now more or less done – they also blessed us with a new single. It’s been a while since their last release Gnosis, and BLOODWOOD is an incredibly good song…
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Release Friday – 29 August 2025
I am lacking the words to describe what’s currently going on. Last week there was a new release of Private Line, who hadn’t been active since *checks notes* 2011 when they released their album Dead Decade. This week, one of my fave Gothic Metal bands from my teenage days returned and melted my heart once again with a fresh, super damn beautiful song! Teenage-me would be very excited to know that all those bands I loved dearly when I was young will also be a part of my adult life. I am speaking of Charon and their new single Fall of Angels. Super damn powerful, beautiful song, 10/10, Juha-Pekka Leppäluoto’s voice is still one of…
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Tour: Oceans go on their first headline tour: „Still Nøt Økay“ Tour 2025
For the first time, Oceans go on a headline tour. This fall, they will play 10 shows in Germany and one in Switzerland. As support they bring along Deliver the Galaxy (except for the show in Switzerland). These are the dates: All dates: 20.09 – Lindau, DE | Club Vaudeville 25.09 – Munich, DE | Backstage 26.09 – Bochum, DE | Rockpalast 02.10 – Aschaffenburg, DE | Colos Saal 03.10 – Lichtenfels, DE | Paunchy Cats 04.10 – Wiesloch, DE | R’N’P 10.10 – Berlin, DE | Spirale 11.10 – Leipzig, DE | Hellraiser 23.10 – Hamburg, DE | Logo 24.10 – Vechta, DE | Gulfhaus 01.11 – Basel, CH | Sudhaus (without Deliver…
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Release Friday – 22 August 2025
It’s been a while again. My summer has been busy. I guess at this point I can be happy if I manage to post a Release Friday once a month. Sorry sorry. Here’s what caught my attention recently: Firstly, let’s start with a fresh release today from one of my favourite German bands: Versengold released a new single, this time featuring the German rock band Madsen. Falscher Leuchtturm is a very typical Versengold-song that makes me tap my feet: A highly awaited new release for me was Private Line’s new single Alterlife. Private Line are a Finnish sleaze rock band I’ve been listening to since my teenage days. They went on a break for a few…
