The Foreshadowing joins Marduk And Moonspell For ‘Voices From The Dark’ North American Tour Swedish black metallers Marduk and Portugal’s dark, gothic heavy hitters Moonspell will join forces for the “Voices From The Dark” North American co-headlining tour in February/March 2013. Support on the trek...

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The editor’s at team ThisIsNotAScene polled our writing and photography crew to ask them what their top 5 favorites were at this point in the 2012 release year. With so many great releases so far in 2012 we thought it would be a good idea...

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The title of Dutch singer-songwriter Anneke van Giersbergen‘s latest offering is pretty apt. In the years since she left The Gathering, one of the pioneering gothic-metal-turned-alt-rock bands without whom there would be no Nightwish or any other so-called female fronted metal bands (probably), a lot...

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Finnish death/doom collective SWALLOW THE SUN are pleased to announce a North American tour this fall supporting German metal legends Kreator and Accept! The North American Teutonic Terror Attack will commence on September 5, 2012 in Washington D.C. and annihilate 23 cities throughout the U.S....

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A new album by Moonspell is always something to look forward to. I’m something of a recent convert after seeing this dark metal outfit live at the Waldrock festival (RIP) back in 2007, it’s been a passionate love affair ever since. “Night Eternal” (2008), their...

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“Dark metal” is an attempt to categorize that exists only to frustrate and annoy people like me. Is it gothic metal? Is it DSBM? Is it a nice way of saying “this band is not cool enough to be black metal?” According to last.fm, Moonspell, Bethlehem, Rotting Christ,...

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