Mister Misery
Met twee uitstekende albums op zoek is Mister Misery continu op pad om hun aanstekelijke (horror) metal aan de man te brengen. Afgelopen jaar schopten ze het zo ver dat ze een uitstekende performance neer zetten op het Wacken Open Air Festival 2022. En zoals vorig jaar lanceert deze Zweedse band ook nu weer vlak voor Halloween een nieuwe single Welcome Insanity. En trappen daarmee ook hun The Reawakening Tour 2022 af.
“Altho Mister Misery is about letting go of reality, it felt important to us that this song be the first release after we got back to the stages. Touching upon the darkness we all faced during the pandemic. All we want to do is to let this go and move on. This song defines our rise out of the lockdowns and we are so excited to present our most emotionally charged song to date ‘Welcome Insanity’
– Harley (vocals/guitar)
Katatonia
De meesters van de melancholische Metal Katatonia hebben aangekondigd dat het nieuwe album Sky Void Of Stars op 20 januari 2023 via Napalm Records zal worden uitgebracht.
Vanaf de start in 1991 weet Katatonia zich muzikaal te omlijsten met duisternis en melancholische klanken waarbij ze de grenzen van doom en deathmetal hebben verkend. De eerste nieuwe single Atrium is nu online.
Over het nieuwe album zegt Katatonia: “Our 12th album, Sky Void of Stars is a dynamic journey through vibrant darkness. Born out of yearning for what was lost and not found, the very peripheries of the unreachable, but composed and condensed into human form and presented as sounds and words true to the KATATONIA signum. No stars here, just violent rain.”
Frozen Sand
Na vijf jaar presenteert Frozen Sand met trots de nieuwe single The Aftertaste. Het is afkomstig van het aankomende album Fractals: A Light Among Shadows.
“The Aftertaste” talks about the passing of time, through the eyes of a worn-out, broken man who looks back at his life and tries to get the meaning of it. As he goes back through time in his mind, seasons such as “spring” and “autumn” metaphorically represent “youth” and “adulthood” respectively, as he is now approaching the “winter” of his life. But, unlike it happened too often in the past, this time something is different: he is now wiser, stronger and with much more self-consciousness that he is ready to face head-on whatever comes.