Les novetats, cròniques i concerts de metal que segueix Tótum Revolútum Press: del metal extrem als projectes que aposten per la producció més elaborada i ambiciosa, sense oblidar els clàssics que van fundar el gènere. Cobertura en català, amb crítica de discos i reportatge fotogràfic des de la primera fila.
“Aurora” is the last of three advances from the trio’s fifth album, out on Magnetic Eye on 20 November. Seven tracks cut at Studio Gröndahl in Stockholm with David Castillo.
Jethro Tull’s singer and flautist picked which song suited him from five demos he was sent. “Balkansylvania Vol. 1: Roots” arrives digitally in January 2027, with no physical edition until 2028.
She joined in 2022 and cut a single album, “Dark Waters”. Delain are not replacing her: several artists will sing the record they are preparing, and many of them will play live too.
Sixth album from the Denver quartet: nine opening minutes that travel from opera to blast beat without a visible seam, and a mix that floods everything with reverb.
The Ocean’s twelfth album, with four of the seven core musicians newly arrived. It opens and closes on celesta, and the label admits it wanted to sound recognisable.
The Finnish band also hold gold for the single “Not Strong Enough” with Brent Smith. “It took us a while to reach this,” the band said, now midway through a Latin American tour.
It is called “Nicke Andersson And Nobody Else” and the Entombed drummer and Hellacopters guitarist handles the instruments, the production and the artwork. The label has given no date.
The quartet from Paços de Ferreira put out their fourth album, ten tracks, with no label attached. The first advance, “Boundaries”, is sung by Soilwork’s Björn Strid.
Season of Mist announce that the 3 Inches of Blood keyboard player is staying with the Vancouver band. It began with an Alan Parsons cover: they asked for keys and he sent back fifteen tracks within hours.
Four tracks and twenty-three minutes of death metal and thrash by four friends from the south of England who started out playing covers. Not one track comes in under four and three quarter minutes.
The Tokyo band release the last advance track from their fourth album, out on 13 November through Arising Empire with eleven tracks and with Fuki guesting on the title track.
It is the fifth of the nine tracks on the band’s fourth album, their first since 2022. Ian Jacyszyn mixed it and Colin Marston mastered it.
The Norwegian says the first track he cut was “Beyond The Dead”, and that it was after the second that Iommi dropped the guest-singer plan. “From The Dark” is out this Friday.
The band of Kenny Hickey and Johnny Kelly, both out of Type O Negative, put out the second single. Eight tracks, seven years after “Edge Of Existence”.
Mexico City, Monterrey and Durango lose their shows after five dates played. The band wants to return in 2027 with a different partner and asks fans to claim refunds at the point of purchase.
The quartet playing seventies rock with Cannibal Corpse’s drummer and Deicide’s guitarist put out the EP’s second single, the longer of the two released so far.
Omaha, Iowa City and Evansville drop off the “Tour Of Unsound Minds: Act II”. The band says it has played its last shows of 2026 and is starting the fifth album.
Eleven tracks through Frontiers, with Aldo Lonobile on guitars and bass. The title track is already out with a lyric video.
Live Nation announces a third and final leg of “Run For Your Lives” for spring 2027, with Bullet For My Valentine and The Raven Age. None of the dates is European.
Thirty-eight minutes of darkjazz and black metal from Jason Köhnen, with Colin Webster’s saxophone and Lilian Tong’s soprano, built around the De Witt brothers painting in the Rijksmuseum.
The June 2025 recording returns with new drums and new rhythm guitars. Many comments under the video criticise the artificial-intelligence recreation of the guitarist.
The B-side carries “Tää Tango” in a piano and a band version, and neither goes out digitally. The song comes from the singer’s tenth album, “Frisson Noir”.
Andrew Brown leaves behind the progressive death-black hybrid of “Hemasanctum” and signs ten cold, fast tracks. Session drums are by Dmitry Kim of Jinjer.
The Kyiv trio put out seven songs through Season of Mist. Igor Sydorenko places them next to “Led Zeppelin III” and Opeth’s “Damnation”, and has already said how the series ends.
Eight tracks from the Seattle trio, with a broken kick drum, a chain for a cymbal and the last vocals Peter Clement Lund of Kollapse recorded before he died.
Seven tracks and sixty-nine minutes to close a trilogy opened in 2017: the American duo return with Fabienne Erni’s voice and an eighteen-minute closing epic.
The Fleshgod Apocalypse singer says surgeons transplanted tissue from his hip into the hand. Another operation is due next year, already written into the band’s schedule.
Both statements call it a mutual decision. The singer joined in 2012 and sang on three albums; the band says it continues and will record a new one next year.
A first album from the Russian trio: four tracks on the digital, fifty-one minutes and not one piece under eleven; the fifth composition only comes with the CD or the vinyl.
Seven tracks and forty minutes of death metal that Gabriele Gramaglia, of Cosmic Putrefaction, made almost single-handed. It is out on 16 October and already up on YouTube.
The third advance track from the second album is a fifteen-minute short film, with Justin Pearson as a priest and Lucien Greaves as Death. Relapse releases the record on 30 October.
Fifteen songs about how people react to collapse, with words by Hildegard of Bingen and Longfellow. It comes out through Napalm and the tour has no Spanish date.
The first advance track from the Norwegian band’s fourth album, out on 11 December through Season of Mist. Fredrik Nordström mixes it and Destructhor, ex-Morbid Angel, plays on it.
The fourth and last advance track from the album out on Friday through Napalm: thirteen songs, one per card of the Major Arcana. It is the Italian band’s first studio album since 2023.
A Dutch debut of two discs and nineteen tracks about Morgana, recorded in the studios of the Enschede conservatory with an orchestra, a choir and six guest voices. “It got a bit out of hand,” says the singer.
Sixteen tracks recorded from 27 to 31 August 2025 at Doornroosje, the first shows in eleven years by the “Mandylion” line-up. Bandcamp only, for now.
The Sydney quartet puts it out on 12 February through Nuclear Blast. The only song they had already been playing live opens the record and was the first taste.
It is the first taste of “Circuit Breaker”, the album Frontiers releases on 26 March. Kai Hansen and Roger Glover guest on two more tracks.
The fifth album arrives on 16 October through Napalm Records and follows “Space 1992: Rise Of The Chaos Wizards”, from 2015. The new taste comes with an animated video.
Eleven songs cut with Zeuss at Planet Z, with Jeff Loomis guesting on “Glass House”. The first taste is “Escapegoat”, with a video.
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