Photo by Sam Jamsen
Right before taking Nordic Gothic to their first-ever US show at ProgPower US this past weekend, and braving the Latin American heat for a short tour, Cemetery Skyline are releasing “Nothing From This World.” The performance for the video was filmed on their sold-out Finnish tour in March and spiced up by Jari Heino for Coldstore Productions. Watch it here:
Led by former Dimmu Borgir guitarist, Galder, Old Man’s Child, have just been announced as the first headliner for Fortress Festival 2026. This will be the band’s first UK performance since the 1990s, and a national exclusive. The event takes place on 30-31 May 2026 at Scarborough Spa, Scarborough, North Yorkshire. Find out more below.
Proving that career paths often never work out quite the way you imagine, Finnish experimentalists …And Oceans was founded by the two guitarists of Death Metallers Festerday and began life as a fairly straight-forward Black Metal act. After metamorphosing into something more akin to Black Cybermetal on their 2001 album A.M.G.O.D., in 2005, the band changed their name to Havoc Unit before reverting to Festerday a few years later. A band that continues to exist despite the reformation of …And Oceans in 2019. Continue reading
Rebranding himself simply as Changeling for this eponymously titled release, German guitar maestro Tom Geldschläger (aka Tom Fountainhead) is one of those musicians who never seems to stop working. Whether it’s projects like Despotic, NYN or My Atomic Majesty, his studio engineering and session musician work, or as a music clinician, author, and speaker on music production and musicians’ mental health, Geldschläger always keeps a full diary. Continue reading
CKRAFT 2025 Photo by Manuel Braun
We have returned with our feature My Favorite Concert Memory for the first time in 2025. We welcome in an artist we dig and ask them to recall a treasured musical memory. In this new edition; Charles Kieny of Paris France-based CKRAFT recalls how he converted from Nu Metal and Extreme Metal to an awakening to Jazz. The band released their latest and sophomore album, Uncommon Grounds on January 17, 2025.
Wacken Metal Battle Canada has announced its return for 2025. Independent bands will battle it out across the nation, for just one spot at an already sold out Wacken Open Air (July 30th – August 2nd), which has seen an attendance of over 80,000 people in Wacken, Germany for over 30 years. Band submissions end November 20th, 2024, and are only open to unsigned bands. Ghost Cult is an official media partner of Wacken Metal Battle Canada 2025. Find more information below.
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Saturday:
Early on the Saturday, we return to the Eindhoven icerink for the second day of Dynamo Metalfest. With the first band starting at noon, it’s a fairly long day. Today we have Headliners Dimmu Borgir on the menu, as well as Amaranthe, Flotsam & Jetsam, Forbidden, and more! Continue reading
Dynamo Metalfest, the spiritual successor of the legendary Dynamo Open-Air, is in Eindhoven once again the weekend of the 17th and 18th of august. This year what was usually just the warm-up party turned into a proper half-day festival, marketed under the name Black Friday, and sporting an impressive (mostly) black metal bill with Uada, Watain, and Decapitated on the menu.Continue reading
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Longtime Dimmu Borgir guitarist Galder (real name Thomas Rune Andersen) has announced he is leaving the band after twenty-three years. He intends to reactivate Old Man’s Child, which tours less than Dimmu. Galder posted on social media that his final show with the band was this weekend, headlining Dynamo Open Air in Eindhoven, The Netherlands (review coming to the site soon). Continue reading
Photo credit: Sam Jamsen
Last month, metal supergroup Cemetery Skyline (Dark Tranquility, Amorphis, Insomnium, Dimmu Borgir, Sentenced) played their very first show at John Smith Festival, right by one of the thousand lakes of Finland and in the middle of the night. Their video for “Torn Away”, that was produced by Sam Jamsen, is giving you a sneak peek of three days of rehearsals and fun behind-the-scenes as well as impressions from the show. Join them and get “Torn Away” from the here and now for 4 minutes: