North Carolina’s From Oceans To Autumn return after their last album A Perfect Dawn in 2013 and several digital EPs released in 2014/2015. Ether/Return To Earth is a stunning double album which veers from huge landscapes to walls of sound. Brandon Helms says “Writing and recording of this double album has been going on for two years off and on. Mainly in the fall months. We wanted something a little different, yet was still us at heart. The songs are more airy, with the guitars seemingly drifting in and out of consciousness.”
Melbourne’s heavy experimental creatives Orsome Welles will release their long awaited new EP titled Rise on Friday May 26, and they’ll be hitting the road nationally across June and July. Supports for all shows have now been confirmed. In Melbourne, catch them on Saturday, July 8 at The Evelyn with Qlaye Face, Transience and The Valley Ends.
SikTh are back. The Watford mathcore sextet return with what will be one of the finest albums of 2017. The Future In Whose Eyes? will be released on Friday June 2 via Millennium Night, the newly created label imprint from Snapper Music, home of Peaceville Records and Kscope. Ahead of the release, the band have premiered the track Vivid. Frontman Mikee W Goodman explains the meaning behind the song: “Lyrically it is inspired by traumatic dreaming. The verses talk from perspective of being in the actual dream, where the chorus’ are in despair from an awoken perspective. The song itself has a lot of elements of both tradition and new SikTh.”
Norwegian doom/death metallers Among Gods are streaming their new single Vinter via Echoes and Dust. Alongside writing for the next release, the band has resurrected Vinter from their ‘doom vault.’ Recorded during the Monument album session, it’s been mixed in Consternation Studio and features Gunnhild Huser on vocals. The song features the Monument 2014 lineup of the band, but Among Gods have also just announced their newest additions: Andreas Johansen on drums and Jonis Forland on bass.
Metal pioneers Accept just finished an extensive European tour and have immediately jumped back into the fray with a new studio album. The Rise Of Chaos will be unleashed on Friday August 4. It’s the band’s fourth studio release through Nuclear Blast, and they’ll celebrate the album with a live premiere the day before its release at Wacken Open Air Germany in a set consisting of three parts: classic Accept, tracks from Wolf Hoffmann’s solo album Headbangers Symphony performed with the Czech National Symphony Orchestra and finally an intense Accept-plus-orchestra set with a complex multimedia show.
Sweden’s doom wizards Avatarium will deliver their third studio album, Hurricanes And Halos, on Friday May 26. If you hit the Nuclear Blast YouTube channel you can see a behind-the-scenes clip recorded at Gröndahl Studios while singer Jennie-Ann Smith and guitarist Marcus Jidell discuss the songwriting process and the arrangements of their eight new tracks.
