With its new theatrical piece “Solveig”, the female-fronted American bandSeven Spires is about to pull off a major coup in the ever-growing symphonic metal scene. This debut album, which is to be released worldwide on August 4th, 2017 via SAOL, indeed succeeds in establishing as of now the four-piece orchestra as an essential figure…

Swedish folk / medieval / doom metallers APOCALYSPE ORCHESTRA unveil their debut album,The End is Nigh through Despotz Records today. Formed in 2013, mult-instrumentalists Mikael Lindstrom and Erik Larsson bonded over their mutual love of the unlikely combination of folk music and doom metal. With a foundation of original music and lyrics the duo also…

  Progressive black/death metal collective CORMORANT are readying to release the long-awaited fourth LP Diaspora this August. Recorded and mixed by Greg Wilkinson (Vastum, Graves At Sea, Noothgrush, Brainoil) at Earhammer Studios in Oakland, California in late 2016, Diaspora serves as the follow-up to 2014’s critically-lauded Earth Diver full-length and sees CORMORANT take their unique…