Založba Profound Lore na tej povezavi ponuja v posluh novi album ameriških eksperimentalnežev Locrian z naslovom End Terrain. Ta obsega te naslove:

Chronoscapes
Utopias
Umwelt
The World Is Gone, There Is No World
Excarnate Light
Black Prisims of Our Dead Age
Innenwelt
In the Throes of Petrification
After Extinction

Band Pelhan iz Ajdovščine je po malo več kot desetih letih danes izdal nov album Zgrabi me. Ploščku lahko trenutno prisluhnete v digitalni obliki v YouTubovem kanalu in na strani Bandcamp, v fizični obliki pa bo na voljo od 20. aprila, ki je tudi datum koncerta ob izdaji nove plošče.

Kot smo januarja poročali, je v 78. letu starosti umrl Tony Clarkin, kitarist, ustanovitelj britanskih veteranov Magnum. Že takrat se je šušljalo, da to pomeni tudi konec za zasedbo, ki je to zdaj tudi uradno potrdila. Izjava vokalista Boba Catleyja:

»Hello, everybody. Bob here. All right. I wish I didn't have to tell you this, but I really can't carry on with Tony not here anymore. Please forgive me, and I hope you can understand how I feel. I've been thinking about it a lot lately.
Since we lost Tone, we lost our guiding light, the magnum force behind the band, our songwriter, our producer, our guitar player. He was everything to the band. He was everything to me. For the last 50 years, we never went anywhere without each other. On tour, in the studio, I was at his side constantly, working on stuff with him. I had a wonderful life with Tony. But now it's all too much for me, people. I can't carry on without Tony.
I may pop up in some other shape or form in the near future – you never know – but I can't keep going on like this. It's far too sad; it's all too sad.
So, I hope you understand. You've been fantastic – the best audience ever. You kept this band going year after year, album after album, and we thank you for that.
So, be good. Keep Tony's music in your heart always. I know I will. I will always carry MAGNUM inside me. And I will always have Tony Clarkin beside me wherever I go.
I love you. You've been brilliant. But it's time for me to bow out now. It's my last curtain call, okay? I'll see you sometime. Be good. Cheers. Bye-bye.«

Kanadski folk/black metal band SIG:AR:TYR po večletnem zatišju predstavlja svež material. Tukaj lahko prisluhnete novi skladbi Ascending the Stellar Throne s prihajajočega albuma Citadel of Stars, ki ga bo 31. maja izdala založba Hammerheart Records. Album obsega te naslove:

Awaiting the Last Dawn
Beyond the Stars Unknown
The Blood that Came Before You
Citadel of Stars
Ascending the Stellar Throne
I Sail on, Eternal
Who Will Guide Me Now
From the Land of the North
Where the Sun Never Sets

Ekstremneži Reversed sporočajo, da bodo 24. maja pri Invictus Productions izdali album Wildly Possessed. Pred izidom albuma je band objavil tudi video za komad Final Death, ki ga najdete spodaj.

Gothic/doom metalci Drift Into Black, pri katerih bobna Klemen Markelj, bodo 28. junija izdali peti album Voices Beneath the Rubble. Ta bo izšel pri Black Lion Records in prinesel deset komadov:

The Horns of Despair
In Turmoil
The Great Machine
Voices Beneath the Rubble
Last Hope
Forever King
Blood Storm
What’s Left in the Fire
Turning of the Tide
December

Francoski black metal okultneži Corpus Diavolis bodo marca izdali tretji celovečerec Elixiria Ekstasis. Izšel naj bi 15. marca pri založbi Les Acteurs De L'Ombre Productions. Tracklista:

His Wine Be Death
Key to Luciferian Joy
Carnal Hymnody
Cyclopean Adoration
Vessel of Abysmal Luxury
The Golden Chamber
Menstruum Congressus
Enfleshed in Silence
Chalice of Fornication

Spodaj pa si lahko ogledate video za drugi single s prihajajočega albuma Chalice of Fornication.

Mlad hrvaški festival Pannonian Rock Festival 2024, ki se bo letos odvil v Katakombah v Osijeku, že ponuja možnost nakupa festivalskih vstopnic. Do 5. marca je na voljo 150 »super early bird« vstopnic, in sicer na tej povezavi.

In ne pozabimo, na letošnji ediciji bodo nastopili ljubljanski Noctiferia. Več informacij o festivalu najdete v našem Napovedniku.

Japonski doom/death metal veljaki Coffins so obelodanili komad Spontaneous Rot s prihajajočega albuma Sinister Oath, ki izide 29. marca pri Relapse Records. Tracklista:

B.T.C.D.
Spontaneous Rot
Forced Disorder
Sinister Oath
Chain
Everlasting Spiral
Things Infestation
Headless Monarch
Domains of Black Miasma

Temačni simfoniki Vesperian Sorrow pred izidom albuma Awaken The Greylight predstavljajo nov single Traverse The Vorthonian Passage. Album izide 26. aprila pri Black Lion Records.

Francoski psihedelični doom stonerji Mars Red Sky so najavili dodatne koncerte od marca dalje do sredine oktobra. Vse datume najdete na sliki.

Danski rockerji Junkyard Drive so objavili videospot za pesem Tearaway kot del prihajajočega albuma Look At Me Now, ki izide 12. aprila pri Mighty Music.

Nemški black metalci Farsot so predstavili besedilni video za skladbo Descent s četrtega albuma Life Promised Death, ki ga bodo izdali 16. februarja pri založbi Lupus Lounge.

Ameriški sleaze rockerji Kickin Valentina so posneli videospot za pesem Takin’ a Ride s prihajajočega albuma Star Spangled Fist Fight, ki bo izšel 19. aprila pri Mighty Music. Tracklista:

Gettin’ Off
Dirty Rhythm
Fire Back
Man on a Mission
Turn Me Loose
Died Laughing
Takin’ a Ride
Amsterdam
Ride or Die
Star Spangled Fist Fight

Pri Impure Wedding Productions bodo na kaseti znova izdali Nekrotisk Inkvisition, debitantski album norveških black metalcev Koldbrann. Kasete bodo v črni in beli barvi, in sicer od 21. februarja dalje.