V začetku oktobra smo poročali o ciklu 19 tribute skupin, ki bodo obiskale Orto Bar do aprila naslednjega leta. Trenutno je nastopila že skoraj polovica napovedanih bandov, cikel nastopov pa se nadaljuje že to soboto, in sicer s Kiss tribute bandom:

25. 11. 2023 Black Diamonds (Kiss Tribute Band)
02. 12. 2023 Iron Curtain (Iron Maiden Tribute)
08. 12. 2023 Eurosmith (Aerosmith Tribute)
09. 12. 2023 Mamaskin (Maneskin Tribute)
23. 12. 2023 Supergarden (Soundgarden Tribute)
27. 01. 2024 The Legacy Of Motörhead (Motörhead Tribute)

Black metal superskupina Høstsol, ki jo sestavljajo Cernunnus (Manes), Kalmos (ex-Barathrum), Rainer Tuominkanto (Ajattara) in Niklas Kvarforth (Shining), bo naslednji teden, natančneje v petek, 13. januarja, pri Avantgarde Music izdala svoj prvenec z naslovom L​ä​nge leve dö​den. Mastering je naredil legendarni Andy LaRocque (King Diamond). Tracklista:

As seen through the eyes of the prophet
Det som en gång var (det kommer aldrig igen)
Länge leve den ansiktslöse mördaren
Din skördetid är nu kommen
Parallellt dubbelliv

Italijanski black metalci Feralia bodo 28. aprila pri Time To Kill Records izdali album Under Stige/Over Dianam. Tukaj že lahko prisluhnete singlu Vigil, celotni seznam komadov pa je sledeč:

Under Stige:
Intro - Laudatio Funebris
Marcia Funesta
The Pyre And The Stars
Manes
Vigil
Under Stige
Outro – Terminalia

Over Dianam:
Over Dianam
Arthemide
The Altar And The Deer
Green Omen

Zapoznelo praznovanje 25. obletnice festivala Brutal Assault se uradno začne v torek, 9. avgusta, za to pa veljajo vse vstopnice, kupljene od jeseni 2019. Organizatorji še sporočajo, da je 60 % vstopnic že prodanih in da se prodaja trenutnega paketa vstopnic izteka ravno danes.

Zaenkrat potrjeni bandi so: 1914, Abbath, Aborted, Ad Nauseam, Ahab, Alcest, Amenra, Arcturus, As I Lay Dying, Asphyx, At The Gates, Atari Teenage Riot, Baest, Bell Witch, Benighted, Blood Incantation, Bloodbath, Butcher Babies, Cannibal Corpse, Cattle Decapitation, Clutch, Comeback Kid, Conjurer, Cradle Of Filth, Dark Funeral, Darkest Hour, Decapitated, Die Krupps, Draconis Infernum, Evil Dead, Evoken, Excrementory Grindfuckers, Exhorder, Exhumed, Extinction A.D., Fleshgod Apocalypse, Front Line Assembly, Frontierer, Fueled By Fire, Gaahls Wyrd, God Mother, Hangman's Chair, Hentai Corporation, Humanity's Last Breath, Igorrr, Imperial Triumphant, Insomnium, Jinjer, Katatonia, Leprous, Life Of Agony, Lorna Shore, Lost Society, Manes, Mass Infection, Mayhem, Melt-Banana, Mercyful Fate, Misery Index, Mors Principium Est, Municipal Waste, Mysticum, Nailed To Obscurity, Necrophobic, Necrot, Nekrogoblikon, Nunslaughter, Onslaught, Ottone Pesante, Pallbearer, Paradise Lost, Pensées Nocturnes, Pentagram, Phlebotomized, Psycroptic, Psykup, Razor, Regarde Les Hommes Tomber, Rings Of Saturn, Rivers Of Nihil, Sacred Reich, Sigh, Skywalker, Slagmaur, Soen, Soreption, Static–X, Strigoi, Suffocation, Swallow The Sun, Tallah, Tesseract, The Agonist, The Black Dahlia Murder, Uada, Undergang, Unearth, Urne, Valkyrja, Venom, Vitriol, Voices, Vola, Winterfylleth.

Organizatorji češkega festivala Brutal Assault 2021 so najavili 20 novih nastopajočih bandov, in sicer: Ahab, Clutch, Death by Stereo, Die Krupps, Insomnium, John Garcia, Manes, Mors Principium Est, Nekrogoblikon, Onslaught, Phlebotomized, Red Fang, Regarde Les Hommes Tomber, Revocation, Rivers Of Nihil, The Black Dahlia Murder, Undergang, Vanessa, Vio-Lence, Winterfylleth.

Svoj nastop pa so odpovedali Birds In Row, KMFDM, Kvelertak, Svartidaudi, Vader in Wormrot.

Kultna norveška zasedba Manes, ki je začela svojo glasbeno pot kot black metal band in danes preigrava eksperimentalno mešanico rocka, elektronike in jazza, bo 18. aprila izdala singel Young Skeleton.

Manes sestavljajo Tor-Helge Skei, Rune Hoemsnes, Torstein Parelius in viNd, za vokale za Young Skeleton je poskrbel Tom Engelsøy. Svoje prednaročilo že lahko oddate v spletni trgovini Aftermath Music, na voljo je več različnih limitiranih izdaj.

Organizatorji festivala Brutal Assault, ki bo med 5. in 8. avgustom 2020 brutaliziral Jaromer na Češkem, so razkrili nov paket nastopajočih skupin:
Baest, Birds In Row, Brutus, Gatecreeper, God Mother, Lost Society, Vitriol, Vola in Wolves In The Throne Room.

Vse potrjene skupine do sedaj:
1914, THE AGONIST, ALCEST, ARCTURUS, AS I LAY DYING, ASPHYX, ATARI TEENAGE RIOT, AUTHOR & PUNISHER, BAEST, BENIGHTED, BEYOND CREATION, BIRDS IN ROW, BLOOD INCANTATION, BLOODBATH, BRUTUS, BUTCHER BABIES, CATTLE DECAPITATION, CRADLE OF FILTH, DARK FUNERAL, DARKEST HOUR, DENIAL OF GOD, DESPISED ICON, DEVIN TOWNSEND, DRACONIS INFERNUM, EVOKEN, EXCREMENTORY GRINDFUCKERS, EXHORDER, EXHUMED, FEVER 333, FLESHGOD APOCALYPSE, FRONT LINE ASSEMBLY, FRONTIERER, FUELED BY FIRE, GATECREEPER, GOD MOTHER, HAVOK, HENTAI CORPORATION, IMPERIAL TRIUMPHANT, KATATONIA, KVELERTAK, LIFE OF AGONY, LOST SOCIETY, MANES, MASS INFECTION, MAYHEM, ME AND THAT MAN, MELT-BANANA, MERCYFUL FATE, M.O.D., MUNICIPAL WASTE, MYRKUR, MYSTICUM, NAILED TO OBSCURITY, NECROPHOBIC, NECROT, NOCTURNUS AD, OBITUARY, OTTONE PESANTE, PARADISE LOST, PENSÉES NOCTURNES, PENTAGRAM, PHILIP H. ANSELMO & THE ILLEGALS PERFORMING A VULGAR DISPLAY OF PANTERA, PSYKUP, RAZOR, RED FANG, RING OF SATURN, SACRED REICH, SHADOW OF INTENT, SIGH, SOEN, SOREPTION, STATIC–X, STRIGOI, SUFFOCATION, TERROR, TOXIC HOLOCAUST, UADA, VADER, VALKYRJA, VENOM, VITRIOL, VOLA, WHILE SHE SLEEPS, WOLVES IN THE THRONE ROOM in WORMROT.

Med novimi potrditvami za 24. Brutal Assault so Animals As Leaders, Car Bomb, Decapitated, Dr. Living Dead, Ensiferum, Gorod, Letter from The Colony, Slapshot, Violator, Voivod in Zuriaake. Konec decembra pa so se naboru pridružili še Batushka in Emperor, svoj nastop pa so odpovedali Dimmu Borgir.

Doslej potrjeni so še Aborted, After the Burial, Alien Weaponry, Agnostic Front, Annal Nathrakh, Anathema, Annotations Of An Autopsy, Antaeus, Anthrax, Carcass, Carpenter Brut, Counting Hours, Crystal Lake, Cult of Luna, Cytotoxin, Deicide, Daughters, Destruction, Diablo Swing Orchestra, Ektomorf, Electric Wizard, Get the Shot, Godflesh, Gutalax, Heilung, Higher Power, Hypocrisy, Immolation, Iron Reagan, Jinjer, Jungle Rot, Krisiun, Lionheart, Manes, Meshuggah, Metal Church, Mgła, Midnight, Myrkur, Napalm Death, Necros Christos, Of Mice & Men, Oceans of Slumber, Perfecitizen, Prong, Raised Fist, Rotting Christ, Sacred Reich, Saor, Shape of Despair, Slægt ,Taake, Tankard, Taphos, Testament, The Obsessed, The Ocean, Thy Art Is Murder, Toska, Unfathomable Ruination, Vargrav, Venom Prison, Vuur, Windhand, Wolfbrigade in Woe Unto Me.

Prejšnji teden so organizatorji objavili tudi videokolaž utrinkov z lanskega festivala:

Francoska založba Debemur Morti je 15. obletnico delovanja obeležila s kompilacijo Servants of Chaos II, na kateri so skladbe skupin, ki so pomembno prispevale k njeni zgodbi. Med njimi sta med drugim priredba Immortal v izvedbi Au Champ Des Morts in prvi single Yerûšelem, novega projekta članov Blut aus Nord, vseh 15 skladb ponuja v posluh na Bandcampu.

Na Servants of Chaos II so naslednje skladbe:

Behexen – Queen of Apostasy
Slidhr – Stones on Soil
Arkona – Silence in the Dark
Aoratos – Ecstases Of Dread
Blut Aus Nord – Dimensions of Chaos
Au Champ Des Morts – Sanglot
Au Champ Des Morts – Blashyrk (Mighty Ravendark)
Wallachia – Transilvanian Majesty
October Falls – Without Credence
Manes – The Answer (Is at the End)
Yerûšelem – Autoimmunity
Throane – Nuées
Tenebrae In Perpetuum – Triumphata Morte
Dødsengel – Thothfire
Terra Tenebrosa – Donum Serpentis

Norveška black metal zasedba Deathcult, v kateri so se zbrali Hoest (Taake, ex-Ragnarok, ex-Slavia) na basu, Thurzur (Dead To This World, Infernal Manes, Gaahlskagg, ex-Slavia) na bobnih in Skagg (Infernal Manes, Gaahlskagg) na kitari in vokalu, predstavlja skladbo Ascension Rite s prihajajočega albuma z naslovom Cult Of The Goat, ki bo izšel 15. decembra pri založbi Soulseller Records.