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Sabaton — Berserker (Official Music Video)
One man, one bridge, one axe. Sabaton retell the legend of the lone berserker of Stamford Bridge, 1066, as an animated epic framed by live-action scenes with actor Eric Roberts as the storyteller. New single from the Legends deluxe edition, out 5 March, and half a million views in two days say the warhorse still runs.
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Vûlom — Longing (Official Music Video)
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Black Oak County - Rock'n'Roll (Official Video)
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The Ocean — Solaris (Full Album Stream)
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Enslaved — Spirit Helper (feat. Kevin Kicking Woman)
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Fleddy Melculy - COMPLOT (PINKER PART 2) ft. Alex Agnew
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Vingulmork — Krigserklæring (Official Lyric Video)
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Draconian — The Face of God, live debut in São Paulo
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Isvidd — By the Other Side of Midnight (Lyric Video)
Isvidd
Trivan — Crowned with Dread and Power (Lyric Video)
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Jack Sabbath — War Pigs with Geezer Butler on bass
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Dimmu Borgir — As Seen in the Unseen (Official Video)
Dimmu Borgir
Witch Club Satan — Live at Sonia, Cambridge MA (2026)
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Death SS — Love Until Death (Official Video)
Death SSOne Friday carried the whole week: Cult of Luna deliver their tenth album on their own label, Extol end thirteen years of silence with the classic lineup restored, Denmark's Konvent stretch death-doom past the ten-minute mark, Saor rebuild five early songs as Caledonia, Nottingham's Underdark bring the post-black noise, and Chile's Mawiza go acoustic.
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RIFF POST Smoke on the Water: The Riff Everyone Plays Wrong
The most famous riff in rock is also the most butchered. Ritchie Blackmore plays it in parallel fourths, plucked with his fingers, never a pick. Here's what the record actually does, plus the Beethoven claim he may or may not have been joking about.
11 Nov 2026
DEEP DIVE Opeth. Blackwater Park at 25, still the high-water mark
Blackwater Park, Opeth's fifth album, came out 12 March 2001 on Music for Nations. A UK silver disc and a 2026 reissue later, it is still the benchmark.
11 Nov 2026
DEEP DIVE Tony Iommi. The riff outlives the band
From The Dark is Tony Iommi's first solo album in twenty-one years, released 23 October 2026 on BMG, with Norwegian vocalist Jørn Lande co-writing and singing all eight tracks. It arrives one year after Black Sabbath's farewell show in Birmingham and the death of Ozzy Osbourne. The man who invented the heavy metal riff, at 78, refusing to let the story end there.
31 Oct 2026
DEEP DIVE Shores Of Null. Rome answers My Dying Bride
Shores Of Null is a melodic death-doom band from Rome, active since 2013. Their new album Homesick, released 16 October 2026 on Dusktone, explores home as both comfort and pain, with Shaun MacGowan of My Dying Bride on violin and Natalie Koskinen of Shape of Despair on guest vocals. Italian doom that earns its famous guests.
17 Oct 2026
DEEP DIVE Nerumia. The Swiss band that refused to let silence win
Nerumia is a Swiss melodic death/black metal band from Lausanne that has survived the death of two of its own members. They finished the 2023 album Senza Realtà with the guitar solos their late guitarist had already recorded. New album Aliénation, out 25 September 2026 and self-released, opens the next chapter as a trio. Switzerland finally enters this site, through the heaviest door imaginable.
17 Oct 2026
OPINION Someone is uploading fake songs to dead bands' pages
Scammers use AI tools and a distribution loophole to attach fake tracks to the streaming profiles of dormant bands, and collect the royalties. I know because I fell for one: a cheap electronic loop posing as the first new Arcturus music in a decade. A reader caught it within hours. Here is how the scam works, and why your follow button is part of the problem.
17 Oct 2026
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