Imperium Dekadenz is an atmospheric Black Metal Band from the south-west of Germany (Villingen-Schwenningen/ Black Forest).

Imperium Dekadenz is a German black metal band formed in 2004. The band name is inspired by the 1979 film Caligula. The band members were fascinated by the violence and dec...

Tamás Kátai has a vision that extends beyond borders and boundaries. Even during its infancy, Thy Catafalque had already outgrown the rather rigid guidelines of black metal. Though only intended for the studio, over the past 20 years, his recording project has evolved into a lively collaboration....

Voyager are an Australian progressive metal band from Perth, Western Australia, formed in 1999. They have released eight studio albums. Their latest, Fearless in Love, was released in 2023. The band represented Australia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2023 with the song "Promise", finishing in ni...

Der Weg einer Freiheit is a German extreme metal band from Würzburg, formed in 2009 by Tobias Jaschinsky as vocalist and Nikita Kamprad as guitarist and principal songwriter.

Formed in 2004 in Sogndal, Norway, Vreid (Old Norwegian for “Wrath”) rose from the ashes of Windir after the tragic loss of Valfar. With a shared resolve to continue forging a path forward, the founding trio of Jarle (bass), Jørn (drums), and Sture (vocals/guitar) were joined by guitarist Ese (gu...

Ne Obliviscaris is a six-piece Australian progressive metal band from Melbourne. Formed initially as a four-piece in April 2003, the group was founded by Marc "Xenoyr" Campbell and Adam Cooper. The current line-up comprises violinist and clean vocalist Tim Charles, guitarists Matt Klavins and Ben...

BENIGHTED were spawned by members from French Death and Black metal bands DISHUMANIZED, DARKNESS FIRE, and OSGILIATH, who joined forces in 1998 for a more brutal, heavy and modern way of expression. When their first self-produced and self-titled full-length hit the streets in 2000, it immediately...

ETHS were founded in Marseilles and rapidly managed to conquer the covers of French music magazines following the wildfire success of their EPs ‘Autopsie’ (2000) and ‘Samantha’ (2002). Debut album ‘Soma’ (2004) saw the band open for CHILDREN OF BODOM and CRADLE OF FILTH in France. With the follow...

A real musical experience: HEILUNG. The band from Denmark, Norway and Germany describes its music as “amplified history from early medieval Northern Europe” while their lyrics are based on texts and runic inscriptions from Germanic peoples of the Bronze Age.

The American doom metal band from Los Angeles. One of the first bands of the genre, starting out as early as the late 1970s, along with Pentagram and Trouble.

Kells was a symphonic metal band out of Lyon, France, formed in 2001 by vocalist Virginie Goncalves, guitarist Patrick Garcia, and keyboardist Fabrice Desire. They have played at the Metal Female Voices Festival and been main support for Epica and Tarja. They have released three albums. Their fir...

Septicflesh was formed in Greece in the early ’90s by Spyridon Antoniou (a.k.a. Seth Siro Anton): vocals/bass, Christos Antoniou: guitar and Sotirios Vagenas (a.k.a. Sotiris Anunnaki V.): guitar/ clean vocals. A debut Ep was released in 1991, entitled “Temple of The Lost Race”. Their first full-l...

CHAOSTAR was conceived out of Christos’ longing to create music that reflects more on his aspect as an academy trained composer and go beyond the possibilities that his orchestral arrangements for SEPTICFLESH offer. After all, the guitarist finished his studies of classical composition in London ...

Kylesa is an American sludge metal band that was formed in Savannah, Georgia. Their music incorporates experimentalism with heavy riffs, drop-tuned guitars and elements of psychedelic rock.

Brutal Truth was an American grindcore band from New York City, formed by ex-Anthrax, Nuclear Assault, and Stormtroopers of Death bass guitarist Dan Lilker in 1990. The group disbanded in 1999, but reformed in 2006 and continued to release music until 2014.

ROTTING CHRIST have reached another peak in their long career that now spans over more than three decades. The Greeks have literally stood the test of time. With a steady core line-up and their well-honed live delivery, ROTTING CHRIST are filling concert halls and reap enthusiastic crowd reaction...

Psykup invites the audience to embrace life’s ordeals, becoming stronger and more audacious. Back to basics for the band with this album that embodies the mere essence of its name : “psyche up”. Each track is a concentrate of brutal energy, an irresistible fusion of convulsive aggressiveness and ...

Red Harvest is a Norwegian industrial metal band from Oslo. Their 2002 album Sick Transit Gloria Mundi was nominated for a Norwegian Grammy and an alternative Grammy in the "Best Metal Album" category.

Arcturus is a Norwegian avant-garde/progressive metal band formed in 1991. They have continuously experimented throughout their career, drawing influences and incorporating elements from a wide range of musical styles, including black metal and classical music, while maintaining their roots as a ...

Blood Duster are an Australian grindcore/stoner rock band from Melbourne.

Certainly, if Freud were alive today, they would undoubtedly be his favourite experiment subjects.

Creating and implementing both musical and social havoc for over a decade now, BLOOD DUSTER are responsible for some of t...

Confessor is an American progressive doom metal band from Raleigh, North Carolina.

Forming in 1986 as a high school collaboration between friends Scott Jeffreys, Cary Rowells and Brian Shoaf, plus Brians brother Jim and additional guitarist Graham Fry, the bands goal was to try and create a uni...

Since their inception in 1993, Oslo’s TSJUDER have been responsible for some of the most hate-filled ferocity perpetrated under the banner of TRUE NORWEGIAN BLACK METAL.

Formed in 1986, AGRESSOR is one of the precursor bands of the French Death-Thrash Metal scene, and the very first to release an album of this style in France (the split LP Licensed To Thrash). A true pioneer.

Founded as early as 1984 in Oslo, Norway by the late and legendary frontman Øystein Aarseth aka Euronymous, bassist Jørn “Necrobutcher” Stubberud, and Kjetil “Manheim” Haraldsson on drums, the band took its name from the VENOM song “Mayhem with Mercy”. Continuing and renewing the Black Metal styl...