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AMORPHIS Shares 'Bones' Single From Upcoming 'Borderland' Album

Finnish metal icons AMORPHIS have released their new single "Bones", a powerful preview of their upcoming album "Borderland", set for release on September 26 via Reigning Phoenix Music. In contrast to the album's first single, "Light And Shadow", which showcased a more uplifting tone, "Bones" dives...

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70000 TONS OF METAL Cruise Announces Destination Change And Initial Lineup For 2026 Sailing

70000 Tons Of Metal, the original, the world's biggest heavy metal cruise, has announced a change in the destination for its 2026 voyage. The upcoming edition of the festival at sea, taking place from January 29 to February 2, 2026, will now sail from Miami, Florida to Nassau, the Bahamas aboard Roy...

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AMORPHIS Unveils Lyric Video For New Single 'Light And Shadow'

Following the announcement of their 15th studio album "Borderland", Finnish metal icons AMORPHIS have released the first single from their forthcoming opus today. "Light And Shadow", which can also be interpreted as a metaphor of the album title in the sense of counter-play between two parties close...

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AMORPHIS Announces New Album 'Borderland'; First Single 'Light And Shadow' To Arrive Next Week

Finnish melancholic progressive metallers AMORPHIS will release their fifteenth studio album, "Borderland", on September 26 via Reigning Phoenix Music. The follow-up to 2022's "Halo" was recorded earlier this year at Hansen Studios in Ribe, Denmark with producer Jacob Hansen. AMORPHIS guitarist Esa...

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ARCH ENEMY's MICHAEL AMOTT Hasn't Forgotten His Roots: 'It's Cool To Reach More People, But I Grew Up In The Underground Metal Scene'

By David E. Gehlke The clean vocals from Alissa White-Gluz found in the chorus on "Illuminate The Path", a song from ARCH ENEMY's new "Blood Dynasty" studio album, would historically generate a rash of message board and social media chatter regarding the band's supposed tilt toward selling out. But...

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ELUVEITIE Announces New Album 'Ànv'

About one month ago ELUVEITIE released "Premonition", the first new music after two long years. Today the band announce their new album "Ànv", which will be released on April 25, 2025 via Nuclear Blast Records. ELUVEITIE also shares the second song "The Prodigal Ones" from the upcoming album. After...

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March Of The Unheard

Both cherished and maligned, melodic death metal seems to have survived a sustained onslaught from pop-inclined metalcore and rediscovered its cojones again. Admittedly, plenty of bands have kept the flag flying throughout metal's innumerable ups, downs and shameless cash-grabs, but a combination of...

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AMORPHIS Taps Danish Producer JACOB HANSEN For 15th Studio Album

Finnish melancholic progressive metallers AMORPHIS have confirmed that they have entered Hansen Studios in Ribe, Denmark with producer Jacob Hansen to begin recording the follow-up to 2022's "Halo" album. A fall 2025 release via Reigning Phoenix Music is expected. Earlier today, AMORPHIS shared a ph...

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AMORPHIS Enters Danish Studio To Record 15th Album

Finnish melancholic progressive metallers AMORPHIS have entered an as-yet-undisclosed studio in Denmark to begin recording the follow-up to 2022's "Halo" album. A fall 2025 release via Reigning Phoenix Music is expected. In a July 2024 interview with Loud TV, AMORPHIS keyboardist Santeri Kallio spok...

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KATAKLYSM Frontman MAURIZIO IACONO's EX DEO To Release New EP 'Year Of The Four Emperors'

EX DEO, the Juno-nominated project of KATAKLYSM frontman Maurizio Iacono, will release a new EP, "Year Of The Four Emperors", on January 10, 2025 via the band's new record label Reigning Phoenix Music (RPM). That same month, EX DEO will embark on a tour of Europe in support of DARK FUNERAL and FLESH...

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ARCH ENEMY Announces Fall 2025 European Tour With AMORPHIS, ELUVEITIE And GATECREEPER

Swedish/Canadian/American extreme metal titans ARCH ENEMY have announced the "European Blood Dynasty 2025 Tour". Support on the trek, which will kick off on October 10 in Stuttgart, Germany and conclude on December 15 in Düsseldorf, Germany, will come from AMORPHIS, ELUVEITIE and GATECREEPER. Ticket...

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Nordic Gothic

With the possible exception of death metal workaholic Rogga Johansson, the hardest working man in Swedish metal is Mikael Stanne. Frankly, it is hard to conceive quite where the melo-death legend gets his energy from. Aside from fronting DARK TRANQUILLITY for more than 30 years, he is also currently...

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New AMORPHIS Album Could Arrive In Fall Of 2025

In a recent interview with Loud TV, AMORPHIS keyboardist Santeri Kallio spoke about the progress of the songwriting process for the follow-up to 2022's "Halo" album. He said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): "I think everybody has done some songs in their home studios a little bit, but we haven'...

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Tales From The Thousand Lakes (Live At Tavastia)

Originally released in the summer of 1994, "Tales From The Thousand Lakes" turned AMORPHIS from an aspiring death metal band into something much richer and more progressive. Aside from its huge impact on gothic, folk and melodic death metal, the Finns' second studio record was also their first authe...

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Beyond The Aeons

No one could accuse Olli-Pekka Laine of rushing into a solo career. Bassist with Finnish legends AMORPHIS for the bulk of their 34-year career, he has already secured his place in the modern metal pantheon, but OCTOPLOID illuminates the Finn's creative big picture like never before. Ostensibly a ban...