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DER WEG EINER FREIHEIT
DER WEG EINER FREIHEIT
18 Sept 2026
A year on from Innern, DER WEG EINER FREIHEIT have done two things they had never done before. In May they played the United States for the first time, at Maryland Deathfest in Baltimore, after more than a decade of trying. And this month they put out an instrumental edition of the album, not a muted version but a rebuilt mix with the vocals stripped away. The second of those exists because of one man, and he is not the one who usually does the talking. Alan Noruspur came in on bass for *Innern*, his first appearance on a DER WEG EINER FREIHEIT record and, as it turns out, the first recording he has ever played on. He learned the instrument specifically to take the job. We spoke to Nikita Kamprad and Alan the week the instrumental edition came out.
HOLISSSTIK
HOLISSSTIK
05 Sept 2026
The plan was to put some MP3s online and be done with it. Instead, Tor-Helge Skei ended up on Season of Mist with the first installment of a trilogy, roughly twenty collaborators scattered across several countries, and an album that opens with a French rap verse. The MANES and LETHE founder spoke to The MetalList about *Chapter I: This Endless Solitude* — how a Facebook post brought in musicians he had never met, why he sent everyone stripped-down sketches with no instructions whatsoever, how Polish vocals and Buddhist monk chanting ended up on the same song, why he deliberately finished most of chapters two and three before anyone could react to the first one, and why a project this scattered will almost certainly never be played on a stage.
UNTITLED WITH DRUMS
UNTITLED WITH DRUMS
21 Aug 2026
UNTITLED WITH DRUMS, the French alt-rock and post-hardcore quartet of Martin Le Borgne (vocals, bass), Lucas Delay (guitar), Nicolas Zalachas (synths, backing vocals) and Rémy D. Perrin (drums), release their second album, Made Flesh, on August 21 via Season of Mist. The record follows 2020’s Hollow, a well-received debut that landed the band a Hellfest slot and a support run with DEFTONES, and last year’s stopgap EP, *Symbols*. Scorpio caught up with Le Borgne, Delay and Perrin over Zoom to talk about the album’s title, the small-town theater they turned into a recording studio, and why they’re allergic to sounding the same twice.
PSYCROPTIC
PSYCROPTIC
15 Aug 2026
Twenty-five years in, PSYCROPTIC are still writing songs they don't fully understand until the mix is done. Drummer and co-founder Dave Haley sat down with The MetalList to talk about The Pulse of Annihilation, the Tasmanian band's ninth album and first for Metal Blade Records — why the songs get written inside the studio instead of the rehearsal room, the day he threw out every drum part he'd prepared for lead single "Gathering a Venomous Herd," the dark, almost Middle Eastern-tinged intros on "A Sword of Me" and "Our Pillars Fall," why the band no longer answers to the "technical death metal" tag, the story behind the Belial Necroarts cover art, how an offhand comment turned into a deal with a legendary label, and the island the band still calls home — down to the Tasmanian devil.
Aaron Sammut
Aaron Sammut
07 Aug 2026
A slightly unusual one today. No album, no tour dates, no band — just a metal-themed comic book that takes the genre as seriously as anything else we cover. Twelve years ago, Aaron Sammut had a bad start to the day, put on METALLICA's "Master of Puppets," and by the time he got to work he had the entire premise of a comic book in his head: a superhero powered by heavy metal, and a Walkman possessed by the ghost of a BLACK SABBATH roadie. That comic, Maurice & The Metal, is four issues deep, has been drawn by three different illustrators, and is back on Kickstarter to fund a fifth — one that pits its hero against a goth cult act called THE VAMPLIFIERS and a frontman who wants every genre of music in town to sound the same. We caught up with Sammut, the Brisbane-based writer and creator behind the series, to talk about where the idea came from, the artist who defined Maurice before his death in 2021, why the book has stayed black and white for four issues running, and how much AI he lets anywhere near the actual story.
STORMKEEP
STORMKEEP
01 Aug 2026
Colorado's STORMKEEP have spent the better part of a decade rebuilding a bridge back to the golden age of symphonic black metal, the EMPEROR and DIMMU BORGIR-indebted sound of the mid-'90s that, as frontman Otheyn Vermithrax puts it, had been largely dormant for fifteen or twenty years. With their second full-length, *The Nocturnes of Iswylm* (out now via Vesperian), the band doubles down on that vision while pushing into darker, more dramatic territory: real orchestral arrangements in place of the dungeon synth interludes that once defined their sound, and Vermithrax himself taking on clean vocals for the first time across an entire record. The album continues the story of the world of Elda, following the Seer as he grapples with a curse from the Serpent Stone after the awakening of the Dragon Queen, a figure who also graces the album's cover art, painted by legendary British illustrator Simon Bisley. We sat down with Otheyn Vermithrax to talk about the record's new direction, the Bisley collaboration (and the YouTube algorithm's reaction to it), the symphonic black metal revival happening across North America, and juggling STORMKEEP alongside BLOOD INCANTATION and WAYFARER.
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TEMIC — Ceiba
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