melodic death metal

Soilwork, Sweden's long-running flag-bearers of melodic death metal, have released a new single, Night Whispers & Shining Lights, wrapping up the year in which they're celebrating 30 years as a band. The new single lands while the…

Insomnium, Finland's masters of melodic death metal, are celebrating the release of their new album "Netherworlds" today with a fourth album single and video. They picked The Hour Grows Late, featuring special guests from fellow Finns…

Insomnium, Finland's melodic death metal masters, are unveiling the third single from their upcoming new studio album "Netherworlds" – this time it's the track Arch Of The Sky, which you can check out below. "Netherworlds" lands on…

Trivium, America's metalcore champs, and In Flames, Swedish melodic death metal legends, have joined forces for a co-headlining European tour. With deathcore newcomers Paleface Swiss and Danish progressive metal standouts Vola in…

Amon Amarth, the Swedish melodic death metal heavyweights, are announcing a new studio album titled “The Allfather Awakens,” dropping on October 2, 2026 via Metal Blade Records. Check out the album single Eight Legs Of Thunder below,…

Withered Petunia, Finnish modern melodic metallers, have released a new double single, "Torn Pages". On it, the band keeps stretching its sound with plenty of experimentation, mixing elements of death metal with melodic metal and touches…

Iapetus, the American progressive melodic death metal duo, are back! The band will release their first new album since 2019, when the critically acclaimed "The Body Cosmic!" came out. "The Mother Void" is coming out on Willowtip on…

Amon Amarth, the Swedish melodic death metal heavyweights, have announced a new studio album called "The Allfather Awakens", out on 2. 10. 2026 via Metal Blade Records. Check out the album single Gjallarhorn below, complete with an…

Amon Amarth, the cult Swedish melodic death metallers, are taking on a new approach to songwriting with their first acoustic excursion – a single called Upphaf. The track strips away the fury of metal to get closer to the ancient magic…

On December 16, 2025, the red-hot Swedish melodic death metallers Avatar, famous for their theatrical shows, are coming to Ljubljana! Warming up the crowd before them: Neckbreakker, groove/death metallers from Denmark! Tickets are on…

Finnish symphonic melodic death metal outfit Inthraced released their long-awaited debut album "Constellation Zero" via Inverse Records on May 15, 2026. "Constellation Zero" packs seven tracks, each one revealing a piece of the…

Amorphis, the Finnish masters of progressive and melodic death metal, have announced dates for their new European "Borderland" tour next year, with Insomnium and Unto Others joining them as special guests! Here are the "Borderland Tour…

Sarcasm, the Swedish melodic death metal outfit, have dropped the third and final track from their upcoming album Lifeforce Omnibound, out May 29 via Hammerheart Records. You can check out the new single "Plunged Into A Paradox" below. …

Swedish melodic death metal pioneers At The Gates have followed up the release of their new album “The Ghost Of A Future Dead”, out April 24 on Century Media Records, with yet another single, this time for the track In Dark Distortion. It…

Lethalcore, a French melodic death metal/metalcore outfit from Rennes that started out as Emmanuel Devorst's project, are dropping a new video and single for the track Mental Jail. The new single will appear on the band's upcoming EP…

Hypocrisy / Vomitory / Vreid / (Abbath did not perform)Friday, 17 April 2026Ljubljana / Cvetličarna / Slovenia Hypocrisy, the Swedish death metal legends, set out in early April this year on a new European tour they dubbed the "Mass…

Fires In The Distance, melodic death metallers from Connecticut in the US, are unveiling a brand-new original single and video for the track Of Radiance And Levitation! Check out the video below. The new single will appear on the band's…

The organizer of tomorrow's Hypocrisy, Abbath, Vomitory and Vreid show in Ljubljana has announced the running order for the evening. You can check it out below. They also let us know that tickets for tomorrow's concert spectacle at…

Finnish metal veterans Amorphis have dropped their fifth single (and an official lyric video) from the new studio album “Borderland”, this time for the track The Lantern. “Borderland” is the band's 15th studio album, out September 26,…

Bloodhunter, the Spanish melodic death metallers who recently joined the ROAR roster – considered part of Germany's Reigning Phoenix Records (RPM) – have unveiled a fresh original single (and video) for the track Threshold Of Hell,…

Swedish melodic death metal pioneers At The Gates have announced their new album, “The Ghost Of A Future Dead”, which lands on April 24 via Century Media Records. The album follows 2021's “The Nightmare Of Being” and is dedicated to…

Blue Medusa, a new band fronted by former Arch Enemy vocalist Alissa White-Gluz, have dropped their first original single, a pretty hard-hitting cut called Checkmate. The new track, which came out yesterday, March 20, 2026, follows the…

Bloodhunter, the Spanish melodic death metallers who recently moved over to ROAR – part of Germany's Reigning Phoenix Records (RPM) – are unleashing a fresh original single (and video) for the track The Outspoken. The new single follows…

The surviving members of Children of Bodom kicked off a two-night tribute to the band's legacy, titled “Children Of Bodom – A Celebration Of Music”, at Helsinki's Tavastia club at the end of February. Both nights were all about riffs that…

Arch Enemy, the Swedish extreme metal crew on Century Media Records out of the US, are opening a new chapter in their career with a fresh single, the band's first new music since their last album, "Blood Dynasty". The single is To The…

Nekrogoblikon, the grotesque American melodic death metallers formed in Santa Barbara in 2006, will drop a new EP titled "The Boiling Sea" on April 17. Below you can check out the single and video for the track Secret Elephant (ft. Reel…

Bloodhunter, the Spanish melodic death metallers who recently joined the ROAR roster, a label that's part of Germany's Reigning Phoenix Records (RPM), are dropping a fresh original single (and video) for the track The Devil's Own. The…

At The Gates vocalist Tomas Lindberg has died at the age of 52. The news of the singer's death was first shared today (September 16) by David Isberg, the former vocalist of Swedish death metal outfit Opeth, and confirmed by Arch Enemy…

Dark Tranquillity / Moonspell / HiraesWednesday, 30 April 2025, 7:00 PM – 10:50 PMZagreb / Boogaloo / Croatia Some tours you just can't turn your back on. Tours that come to our region! What could be better. The pairing of legendary…

Dark Tranquillity (support: Moonspell & Hiraes)Saturday, 19 April 2025, 7:15 PM – 11:10 PMLjubljana / Kino Šiška / Slovenia This pre-Easter Saturday evening, Kino Šiška dressed up in predominantly melodic death metal colors —…

Eluveitie (special guests: Ad Infinitum, Infected Rain)Tuesday, 11 February 2025Ljubljana / CUK Kino Šiška / Slovenia Eluveitie are one of those — how do you put it — generational bands that have really taken hold with metal crowds…

Performing: Amon Amarth (support acts: Insomnium, Kanonenfieber)Date: Monday, 19 August 2024Location: Lignano Sabbiadoro / Arena Alpe Adria / Italy Europe, mid-August 2024! Scorched and gnawed to the bone! By blazing sun and…

Acts: Lost Society / Solstafir / AmorphisConcert date: Tuesday, 1 November 2023Location: Zagreb / Boogaloo / Croatia And that day finally came — after several years, Zagreb's Boogaloo found its way back onto our concert-going…

Label: Metal Blade RecordsRelease date: August 22, 2022Production: Andy SneapAlbum length: 42.59 minGenre: Melodic Death MetalRating: 7/10 After three years, the long-bearded Swedes Amon Amarth have landed on the sonic shores…

Label: Century MediaRelease date: February 24, 2023Production: InsomniumAlbum length: 50.26 minGenre: Melodic Death MetalRating: 9/10 Finnish melo-death melancholics Insomnium hardly need an introduction. The band has been around…

David Andersson, guitarist for Swedish melodic death metallers Soilwork and AOR revivalists The Night Flight Orchestra, who had recently joined the Australian death metal outfit Gang Of Old Ladies (he managed to record and release their…

With their debut album, The Halo Effect have proven that, as a group of friends from way back, they're having a blast making music, and it shows in the final product.

Label: Atomic Fire Records Release date: February 11, 2022 Production: Jens Bogren Album length: 55.45 min. Genre: Melodic Death Metal/Progressive Metal Rating: 9.0/10 Amorphis kicked off 2022 with the closing album of a trilogy the band…

With this EP, Insomnium have definitely whetted our appetite for more. Four superb tracks with a crafty mix of contrasts, slow builds to a climax and infectious melancholic melodies so typical of a ton of Finnish bands, paired with dark,…

Label: self-releasedRelease date: April 30, 2021Production: Dethrone the Corrupted, Matic MlakarLength: 20:28 Modern metal subgenres get overlooked fast in Slovenia, especially whatever has been relevant on the international scene over…

Heaven Shall Burn took a risky gamble with the double album Of Truth And Sacrifice, but in the end it turns out to have been a calculated one. The album has everything Heaven Shall Burn are known for, and then some.

Older fans won't be interested in this album in the slightest. But then, In Flames aren't a young band anymore that has to pay the bills by playing small halls. Despite all the criticism, In Flames somehow hung on. It more than obviously…

Archspire, Beneath The Massacre, Vulvodynia, and Inferi made sure the year went out with one final concert packed with brutality, technicality, punch, and melody.

Venue: Ljubljana / Orto Bar / SloveniaDate: Sunday, 13 Oct 2019 Finnish melodic death metallers Omnium Gatherum have always seemed to get less attention than they deserve, overshadowed by some of their more established compatriots. They…

Location: Majano / Area Concerti Festival / Italy Date: Monday, 07.08.2017 This year's festival lineup in Majano, a little town a good ten kilometers northwest of Udine in Italy, brought two Swedish melodic death metal outfits to…