Charlotte Wessels’ The Obsession Announces Concept Album and European Tour


Charlotte Wessels and The Obsession band photo by Tim Tronckoe featuring Charlotte Wessels, Timo Somers, Joey Marin De Boer, Otto Schimmelpenninck Van Der Oije, and Nina Van Beelen, symphonic metal, Napalm Records, 2026

 Former Delain vocalist Charlotte Wessels and her band The Obsession announce Mute Swan Empire, a fifteen-track concept album out February 5, 2027 via Napalm Records, plus a European headline tour with Melissa Bonny of Ad Infinitum in support. Details below. Continue reading →


tAKiDA Share Their Single and Video “In Your Bed” – New Album Coming Soon


Photo credit: Joyce Rodriguez

tAKiDA are continuing the next chapter of their story, with the new single and video, “In your bed.” It serves as the second track to emerger from their upcoming studio album, Numbers, out January 8, 2027, via Napalm Records. Watch it below and find out more.
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ALBUM REVIEW: Rakinua – Esi Um Ninu – Heal Us, Mother


With a creative vision based on ancestral tales from the Raetic tribes of northern Italy, Rakinua isn’t your standard folk metal band. The brainchild of singers/lyricists Velis Calyra and Madame Noctinebra, this progressive Dark Folk collective differ from many other European and Nordic folk acts by adding Progressive Metal elements into their otherwise distinctly archaistic sound.

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