DRAGONFORCE: ANNOUNCE NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2026 NORTH AMERICAN TOUR DATES WITH ENSIFERUM and RHAPSODY OF FIRE

 

London, England power metal warriors DRAGONFORCE have announced NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2026 NORTH AMERICAN TOUR DATES WITH ENSIFERUM and RHAPSODY OF FIRE..  

 DRAGONFORCE have announced former ARCH ENEMY frontwoman  ALISSA WHITE-GLUZ as the bands new vocalist

 DRAGONFORCE have posted a video for "DRAGON SMASH GOBLIN (FEATURING Nekrogoblikon)" , a stand alone single, unleashed 11/28/2025. 

 DRAGONFORCE have added more headline shows to the bands anticipated  FALL 2025 NORTH AMERICAN TOUR

 DRAGONFORCE post video for " "BURNING HEART" (FEATURING ALLISA WHITE-GLUZ) , a stand alone single, unleashed 6/5/2025 via NAPALM RECORDS. 

DRAGONFORCE have announced  FALL 2025 NORTH AMERICAN TOUR DATES WITH POWERWOLF...

 DRAGONFORCE have posted a video for  "SONG TITLE HERE", a track from BRAWL STARS.... 

 DRAGONFORCE, via SPOTIFY, are streaming  the bands anticipated new release "WARP SPEED WARRIORS",  unleashed 3/15/2023 via NAPALM RECORDS.

 

 Helsinki, Finland based folk metal warriors ENSIFERUM have announced  FALL 2026 NORTH AMERICAN TOUR DATES WITH FIREWIND... 

ENSIFERUM have posted a lyric video for  "FROM ORDER TO CHAOS",a track from the bands anticipated new offering "WINTER STORM",  unleashed 10/18/2024 via METAL BLADE RECORDS. 

 ENSIFERUM have announced WINTER 2026 EUROPEAN TOUR DATES  with DRAGONY and FREEDOM CALL. 

 ENSIFERUM unleashed "THALASSIC", 7/10/2020 via METAL BLADE RECORD

 

Italian symphonic power metal warriors RHAPSODY OF FIRE have announced WINTER 2027 EUROPEAN TOUR DATES... 

RHAPSODY OF FIRE have posted "MASTERED BY THE DARK" , a  track from the bands anticipated new release  "CHALLENGE THE WIND",  unleashed 5/31/2024 via AFM RECORDS.

RHAPSODY OF FIRE have posted  "KREEL'S MAGIC STAFF", a stand alone single, unleashed 5/12/2023 via AFM RECORDS.

RHAPSODY OF FIRE unleashed  "GLORY FOR SALVATION",  11/26/2021 via AFM RECORDS

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

FROM DRAGONFORCE: 

 

We’re coming back to North America this November/December to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Inhuman Rampage, playing the full album live for the first time ever, along with other fan favorites and brand new songs.

This will be the debut tour featuring our new vocalist Alissa White-Gluz, plus special guests Ensiferum and Rhapsody Of Fire

Public on-sale begins this Friday, May 29th at 10am local time. Citi and artist presales start at 12pm ET today. Tickets available at the link in bio

“Twenty years is a long time to do anything, let alone survive the music industry and still be so inspired to continue doing what we love. Together we will honor what made Inhuman Rampage matter, while showing people exactly where we’re going next.” - Herman Li

“As a long-time fan of DragonForce, having seen them in concert multiple times over the last 20 years, I am beyond excited to be bringing such iconic music to life with these amazingly skilled musicians in such a fun and inspiring environment. It feels great to showcase all the colours of my voice in technically challenging, deeply energizing, highly addictive songs. Creating and performing with musicians who deeply care about the music and concerts as much as I do is so refreshing. Plus, with Blue Medusa going full throttle and gaining so much momentum in parallel, I feel like I am permanently in the creative zone, which is exactly where I want to be!” - Alissa White-Gluz

See you at a show!

 

 

 Nov. 13 - San Diego, CA - The Observatory North Park
Nov. 14 - Anaheim, CA - House of Blues
Nov. 15 - Phoenix, AZ - The Van Buren
Nov. 17 - Dallas, TX - House of Blues
Nov. 18 - Houston, TX - House of Blues
Nov. 20 - Lake Buena Vista, FL - House of Blues
Nov. 21 - Tampa, FL - The Ritz Ybor
Nov. 22 - Atlanta, GA - The Masquerade (Heaven)*
Nov. 24 - Charlotte, NC - The Fillmore Charlotte
Nov. 25 - Silver Spring, MD - The Fillmore Silver Spring
Nov. 27 - Worcester, MA - Palladium*
Nov. 28 - Philadelphia, PA - The Fillmore Philadelphia
Nov. 29 - New York, NY - Palladium Times Square
Dec. 01 - Montreal, QC - MTELUS
Dec. 02 - Toronto, ON - HISTORY
Dec. 04 - Chicago, IL - The Riviera Theatre
Dec. 06 - Minneapolis, MN - The Fillmore Minneapolis
Dec. 08 - Denver, CO - Fillmore Auditorium
Dec. 09 - Salt Lake City, UT - The Depot
Dec. 11 - Sacramento, CA - Ace of Spades
Dec. 12 - Berkeley, CA - The UC Theatre
Dec. 13 - Los Angeles, CA - The Wiltern

 

 

Thanks-Stay Metal, Stay Brutal-\m/ -l-  

DEFILED: POST VIDEO FOR NEW TRACK "ALTERED STATE"

 

Tokyo, Japan brutal death metal warriors DEFILED have posted a video for  "ALTERED STATE"  ,         a track from the bands anticipated new release  "ALTERED STATE", due to be unleashed 6/12/2026 via SEASON OF MIST.  

 DEFILED have posted  the bands anticipated new release  "HORROR BEYOND HORRORS",  unleashed 9/20/2024 via SEASON OF MIST.

 DEFILED unleashed "THE HIGHEST LEVEL",   4/28/2023 via SEASON OF MIST.

 

 

 

 FROM DEFILED: 

 

Our 9th full-length album “Altered State” will be released on June 12th via Season of Mist!

The first official video “Portal” is out now — check it out below!

Watch here: https://youtu.be/EIiQ4IV_AD8?si=37xmiVpCVgiQBtio

We also have official merch available for pre-order — don’t miss it!

https://shop.season-of-mist.com/band/defiled

 

VIDEO BELOW:DEFILED:NEW TRACK "ALTERED STATE" (VIA YOU TUBE, COURTESY OF SEASON OF MIST):  

Thanks-Stay Metal, Stay Brutal-\m/ -l-

ROB DUKES (EXODUS): MY STORY AS A METAL FRONTMAN VIA CHAOSZINE

 

ROB DUKES, vocalist of Bay area, California, U.S.A. thrash metal warriors EXODUS was interviewed on his story as a metal frontman via CHAOSZINE..  

 

 

  EXODUS, via SPOTIFY, are streaming  the bands anticipated new release "GOLIATH",  unleashed 3/20/2026 via NAPALM RECORDS. 

  EXODUS have posted "HE'S A WOMAN, SHE'S A MAN" (SCORPIONS COVER) , unleashed 4/22/2025. 

 

 EXODUS have announced vocalist STEVE "ZETRO" SOUZA has left the band as ROB DUKES is returning. 

 EXODUS, via SPOTIFY, are streaming a cover of the AC/DC classic "BEATING AROUND THE BUSH" , unleashed 11/1/2024. 

EXODUS, via SPOTIFY, are streaming the bands anticipated new live release "BRITISH DISASTER: THE BATTLE OF '89-LIVE AT THE ASTORIA", unleashed 5/31/2024 via NUCLEAR BLAST RECORDS. 

 EXODUS have inked a record deal with NAPALM RECORDS. EXODUS unleashed "PERSONA NON GRATA", 11/19/2021 via NUCLEAR BLAST RECORDS. 

 

 ITP V.023 REVIEW: EXODUS: "PERSONA NON GRATA https://spak-individualthoughtpatterns.blogspot.com/2021/12/itp-v021-review-exodus-persona-non-grata.html

 

VIDEO BELOW:ROB DUKES (EXODUS): MY STORY AS A METAL FRONTMAN (VIA /YOU TUBE, COURTESY OF CHAOSZINE?):  

Thanks-Stay Metal, Stay Brutal-\m/ -l-

LEX LEGION: ANNOUNCE 11/28/2026 SHOW @ FILM STUDIO, GOTEBERG, SWEDEN

 

 European metal warriors LEX LEGION (featuring former members of PAGAN'S MIND, KING DIAMOND and MOTORHEAD) have announced a 11/28/2026 SHOW @ FILM STUDIO, GOTEBERG, SWEDEN..

 

 

  LEX LEGION (featuring former members of PAGAN'S MIND, KING DIAMOND and MOTORHEAD) have posted a video for "GYPSY TEARS" , a stand alone single, unleashed 5/6/2026. More info T.B.A. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

FROM LEX LEGION: 

 

The first curtain is going up. Our debut live show is coming in November!

PRE-SALES�

Mastercard: Wed 27 May – 11:00

Get tickets:: https://www.ticketmaster.se/event/613184884...

LN: Thur 28 May – 11:00 (23hrs)

Get tickets: https://www.ticketmaster.se/event/613184884?CL_ORIGIN=Web2

SRM: Thur 28 May – 11:00 (23hrs)

Get tickets: https://www.ticketmaster.se/event/613184884?CL_ORIGIN=Web3

GENERAL ON SALE: Fri 29 May – 11:00

Get tickets: https://www.ticketmaster.se/event/613184884

#LexLegion #LiveDebut #SwedenRockMagazine #newmusic

 

 

Thanks-Stay Metal, Stay Brutal-\m/ -l-  

FROZEN CROWN: SET TO UNLEASH "THE LEGEND OF THE SIX KINGS"

 

 Italy based power metal warriors FROZEN CROWN have revealed the track listing for the bands anticipated new release "THE LEGEND OF THE SIX KINGS", due to be unleashed 10/2/2026 via NAPALM RECORDS...  

 FROZEN CROWN have posted a video for  "ON SILVER WINGS", a track from the bands latest release "WAR HEARTS", unleashed 10/18/2024 via NAPALM RECORDS.  

FROZEN CROWN have announced FALL 2026 EUROPEAN TOUR DATES WITH BEAST IN BLACK. More FROZEN CROWN FALL 2026 EUROPEAN TOUR DATES

FROZEN CROWN have announced new guitarist ALEXANDRIA LIONESS...

FROZEN CROWN have announced lead guitarist FABIOLA BELLOMO has left the band.

Italy based power metal warriors FROZEN CROWN guitarist JADE has been diagnosed with an unnamed disease and will soon receive therapy.

 

 

 FROZEN CROWN have posted a video for  "NIGHT OF THE WOLF", a track from the bands recent release "WAR HEARTS",  unleashed 10/18/2024 via NAPALM RECORDS. 

FROZEN CROWN have announced WINTER/SPRING 2025 EUROPEAN HEADLINE TOUR DATES.

 

  FROZEN CROWN unleashed "CALL OF THE NORTH",  3/10/2023 via SCARLET RECORDS.

 

 

 

 

 

FROM FROZEN CROWN: 

 

We're INCREDIBLY proud to introduce you to our NEW ALBUM "The Legend Of The Six Kings"! PRE-ORDERS open NOW! Out October 2nd on Napalm Records.

Here's the gorgeous album cover painted by @Sheilafranco__art

Our brand new album will introduce dark fantasy elements in our music (and visuals, of course), and draw directly from our debut album "The Fallen King", continuing the saga of the Kings and the Tyrant, as we are - thanks to a brilliant newly extended team - finally able to do justice to what we had in mind with the original concept of the band. The visionary genius of Raoul Noise (the video maker behind all our new videos and band photos), the masterful craftsmanship of Daria Gislon (who designed and built the throne and the literal "frozen crown") and of course the outstanding artistic talent of Sheila Franco (who hand painted our album cover art) gave life to the vibrant, obscure, frozen world we had in mind since the very beginning of the band, somewhere between J. R. R. Tolkien's harmonious and regal aesthetics and Robert E. Howard's brutality.

TRACKLIST:

1) Lightning in the Sky

2) Who Wants to Burn in Heaven

3) Reborn

4) The One

5) Iris

6) Winter Hearts

7) River of Time

Through the Fire

9) To the Stars

10) The Legend of the Six Kings

#frozencrownofficial #frozencrown #lotr #nazgul #darkfantasy

 

 

Thanks-Stay Metal, Stay Brutal-\m/ -l-  

GODTHRYMM: INTERVIEWED BY INTO THE NECROSPHERE

 

  UK/International traditional doom metal warriors GODTHRYMM were interviewed by INTO THE NECROSPHERE...    

 

 

 GODTHRYMM have posted a video for  "JEWELS"   , a track from the bands anticipated new release  "PROJECTIONS", due to be unleashed 5/29/2026 via  PROFOUND LORE RECORDS.... 

GODTHRYMM, via BANDCAMP, are streaming the bands anticipated new release "DISTORTIONS",  unleashed 8/18/2023 via PROFOUND LORE RECORDS. 

GODTHRYMM have posted a video for "CHASMS", a stand alone single, unleashed 6/10/2022 via PROFOUND LORE RECORDS. 

GODTHRYMM unleashed "A GRAND RECLAMATION" (EP),   3/16/2018 via TRANSCENDING OBSCURITY. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

FROM INTO THE NECROSPHERE: 

 

This week Catherine and Hamish Glencross join me for a raucous, wide-ranging discussion featuring a deep dive into the making of the new Projections record by Godthrymm. We explore the evolution of the band’s sound across their three-album discography, Catherine’s increasingly prominent role on newer material, and the perks and pitfalls of balancing marriage, family and careers with life in a band. Along the way, Hamish also shares insights from his time with Vallenfyre and My Dying Bride — and I drop a huge announcement of my own.

Then it’s on to the Weekly News Rant, where I round up the latest singles from Verzauber, Chamber of Unlight, Left to Die, Witch Club Satan and more for judgment. I also share my list of must-see bands at this weekend’s Fortress Festival, talk about my favourite film scores, and plenty more besides.

PLUS: Irish blackened death metal upstarts Leadbelcher deliver a “Premiere On The Sphere” with their latest single — while reanimating a fallen icon because you’re starved for attention and money earns a one-way trip to the porcelain bowl of reckoning for this week’s Swirly of the Week.

Episode 318 is now on your favourite digital platform

 

 

 

 

VIDEO BELOW: GODTHRYMM: INTERVIEW (VIA YOU TUBE, COURTESY OF INTO THE NECROSPHERE):  

Thanks-Stay Metal, Stay Brutal-\m/ -l-

ITP V.026 SPORTS: NEW YORK KNICKS WIN NBA EASTERN CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIP WITH SWEEP OVER CLEVELAND CAVALIERS

 

 

 

 ITP V.026 SPORTS: NEW YORK KNICKS WIN NBA EASTERN CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIP WITH SWEEP OVER CLEVELAND CAVALIERS 130-93..

 JALEN BRUNSON  EASTERN CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIP MVP. 

 The NEW YORK KNICKS swept both the PHILADELPHIA 76ers and the CLEVELAND CAVALIERS for an an 11 game winning streak with point differential wins over 20 points per game.   

 FROM ITP V.026 EDITORS NOTE: 

 

The New York Knicks are going to the NBA FINALS after a sweep of Cleveland in the Eastern Conference Finals. Us KNICKS fans have suffered enough.this is the the knicks first finals appearance since 1999. if the knicks win it all, it would be their first championship since 1973. I was 3 in 1973. Win it in my lifetime.

#LetsGoKnicks

 

FROM THE ATHLETIC and NEW YORK TIMES: 

 From The Athletic: The Knicks went from a nearly 30-year drought to an NBA Finals berth in a New York minute. With a 130-93 win in Game 4 of the Eastern Conference finals, New York swept the Cleveland Cavaliers to advance for the first time since 1999. https://nyti.ms/42Wdwus

Thanks-Stay Metal, Stay Brutal-\m/ -l-