Filmed in an over 200-year-old Ostrobothnian house called ‘Itämäen talo’, a music video for “Before the Dawn” by Finnish Melancholic Metal band Segmentia has surfaced. It’s the first from a debut album mastered by Svante Forsbäck (Barricada, Elvenking, Swallow The Sun) at Chartmakers in Helsinki to be released via Inverse Records with director Tom Salminen suggesting its
Ahead of their festival debut this summer at Tuska Festival in Helsinki, Finland based Metalcore merchants Ashes Of The Perishing have once again shed their skin and evolved their sound with heavier and darker direction taken on new single “Rapture”. Their first single of the year, it has appeared in music video form via label home
Filmed in a hometown show Finnish Death Metal masters Hautajaisyö have shared a music video that combines their new live show introduction with the albums title track “Surun Paino” (or “Weight of Sorrow“) and “Hiljaisuuden Maa“. The album was of course released in March via Inverse Records, an affair mastered by Janne Tuikkala (Dawn of
While it remains untitled and without cover artwork, a sophomore album from Finnish Melodic Metal act Blackment has been confirmed for release on 12th June via label home Inverse Records. The follow up to 2022’s “Plains of Oblivion“, which took the band to Heavy Metal Heart Festival as well as the the semi final in
A third and final advanced single in “Aedis Tenebrae” has emerged from Finnish Dark Metal act Horizon of Aeons ahead of the 29th May release of their debut album “Timeless Forms of Desolation” on 29 May via Inverse Records. A band of vast experience with musicians who have played together in Fall of the Leafe, Ablaze
Telling the story of a man with an axe, “Hatchet in Hand” finds Earthblood embracing what they humorously describe as Thunder Ape Metal, a blend of gritty Sludge Metal with the fast tempos and riffing of Thrash and Death Metal. It’s their second single of 2026 following “Ape Warrior” as the trio build upon the
Creators of Alternative, Progressive and Melodic Metal since 2009, Kouvola Finland natives Volucrine gained a lot of attention for their 2024 album “ETNA” and two years on have a fifth studio album in “Chapter V: Renewal” ready and waiting. A thirteen track affair with a theme of rebirth, it has been preceded by a second
Back in 2023 Finnish power trio Occult Master issued a sign of things to come with EP “Lucifer’s Henchman“. Old school Heavy Metal with Doom and Progressive Metal elements in a natural, raw state with influences from the likes of Black Sabbath, Mercyful Fate, Blue Oyster Cult. Three years on, they’ve inked a deal with Inverse Records
Written and recorded in a matter of weeks after inspiration struck like a lightening bolt from a wrathful God, Black Metal odyssey “Unearthly Kingdoms ‘Neath Lifeless Stars” from Finnish trio Acolythus will arrive via Inverse Records on 8th May. The band promise music in its purist form – real instruments being played by real people,
