Archive for December 6, 2025

Helsinki-Based Progressive Melodic Death Metal Band NUMENTO, Unleashes New Single “Wrath” From Upcoming EP

Posted in melodic death metal, Metal, metal bands, metal merch, Music, music news, news, nu metal with tags , , , , , on December 6, 2025 by Metal Odyssey

Photographer: Kai Lukander (lukastills)

Helsinki-based progressive melodic death metal band NUMENTO unleashes their new single Wrath from their upcoming EP, a relentless, hard-hitting track exploring the dark side of human nature. Inspired by people forming abusive “relationships” with AI chatbots, the lyrics take the abuser’s perspective to question empathy, control, and violence in the digital age. 

Watch the music video: 

https://youtu.be/0_6K73Iqj8Q

Listen to the single on music services: (Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer, Tidal, Amazon Music etc.) – https://push.fm/fl/numento-wrath

The band’s guitarists, Atte Asikainen and Aleksi Vehmassalo, tell a bit more about the new single. Aleksi states the following about composing and producing the song: “We started writing the song with the idea of making Numento’s heaviest song to date, one that would showcase our death metal influences. That’s what the song turned out to be, but we also added a few clean vocal phrases, albeit doubled with growls. Still, the song is our most aggressive song to date.”

Atte Asikainen continues about the production: “We continued the production together with German producer Chris Herrle to ensure that the world-class quality and impact familiar from our third album would also be present in the new music. However, this time we used less synths and focused more on the core sound of the band.”

01. Wrath

Composers: Atte Asikainen, Katri Hiovain-Asikainen, Simo Mattila, Aleksi Vehmassalo, Mikko Virtanen

Lyricists: Katri Hiovain-Asikainen, Atte Asikainen

Produced by Christian Herrle & Atte Asikainen

Numento:
Atte Asikainen – guitar & backing vocals
Katri Hiovain-Asikainen – vocals & kantele
Simo Mattila – bass
Aleksi Vehmassalo – guitar
Mikko Virtanen – drums

Band info: https://linktr.ee/Numento

MONOLORD Announce First U.S. Tour Dates Since 2022 | Swedish Doom Trio Returns To States Next June, As New Album Nears Completion

Posted in doom metal, doom rock, Heavy Metal, Metal, metal bands, metal music, Music, music news, news with tags , , , , , , , on December 6, 2025 by Metal Odyssey

Monolord return to the U.S. next June for their first North American tour since 2022, traversing the western United States with performances that include stops at The Regent Theater in Los Angeles and the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco.

The news arrives as the trio of Thomas Jäger (guitar/vocals), Esben Willems (drums), and Mika Häkki (bass), wraps up work on their highly anticipated fifth album.

“The new album is a wrap! Recording with Sylvia Massy has been a fantastic experience and we can’t wait to bring these new songs on the road,” the band shares, collectively.

Tickets are on sale now, via Monolord.com. Mizmor supports on all dates.

Monolord U.S. tour dates:

June 11 San Diego, CA Casbah
June 12 Santa Cruz, CA The Catalyst
June 13 San Francisco, CA Great American Music Hall
June 14 Sacramento, CA Harlow’s
June 16 Eugene, OR John Henry’s
June 17 Portland, OR Nova PDX
June 18 Seattle, WA Substation
June 19 Bellingham, WA Structures Brewing
June 20 Tacoma, WA Airport Tavern Music Hall
June 23 Denver, CO Marquis Theater
June 24 Salt Lake City, UT Urban Lounge
June 25 Las Vegas, NV Swan Dive
June 26 Pioneertown, CA Pappy & Harriet’s
June 27 Los Angeles, CA The Regent Theater

Photo credit: James Rexroad

Since forming in Gothenburg in 2013, Monolord have become one of doom’s most revered acts. Their music has earned praise from a wide range of publications including Bandcamp who described the band’s music as a “propulsive, tense balance between boogie and brutality,” Pitchfork noted the band’s ability to “render supernatural dread and cosmic nothingness into cavernous, hypnotic grooves,” and Decibelcelebrated their “heavy-as-mountains” sound.

Monolord have released four critically acclaimed albums: Empress Rising (2014), Vænir (2015), Rust (2017), and Your Time to Shine (2021). Their sound combines monolithic heaviness, psychedelic expansiveness, and meticulous production.

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