\m/\m/ Thank You Canadian MDs and DJs for the airplay Love!
November 2025 – Top 20 Loud
#4 Juliet Ruin, #18 Ancient Thrones
https://earshot-online.com/charts/2025/November/loud.cfm
Category: Ancient Thrones
0 \m/\m/ Thank You Canadian MDs and DJs for the airplay Love! November 2025 – Top 20 Loud #4 Juliet Ruin, #18 Ancient Thrones
0 !earshot – Charts For the Week Ending: Tuesday, January 20, 2026 CFBX 92.5 FM – Kamloops Loud – #6 Ivy Gardens, #10 Merfolk | CIVL 101.7 FM – Abbotsford Loud – #5 Triskelyon, #7 Juliet Ruin, #10 Phaeton | CJLO 1690 AM – Montreal Loud – #4 The Reticent | CJSR 88.5 FM – Edmonton Loud – #4 Merfolk, #5 Devolver, #10 Juliet Ruin | CJSW 90.9 FM – Calgary Loud – #5 Cepheidae Variable, #6 Ancient Thrones, #9 Triskelyon, #10 Discovery Through Torment | CJUM 101.5 FM – Winnipeg Loud – #8 Triskelyon | CFRU 93.3 FM – Guelph Top 30 – #18 Silas Fernandes, #30 Merfolk
!earshot – Charts
For the Week Ending: Tuesday, January 20, 2026
CFBX 92.5 FM – Kamloops
Loud – #6 Ivy Gardens, #10 Merfolk
https://earshot-online.com/charts/cfbx.cfm?intChartTypeID=6&dWeekOfID=2026-01-20
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CIVL 101.7 FM – Abbotsford
Loud – #5 Triskelyon, #7 Juliet Ruin, #10 Phaeton
https://earshot-online.com/charts/civl.cfm?intChartTypeID=6&dWeekOfID=2026-01-20
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CJLO 1690 AM – Montreal
Loud – #4 The Reticent
https://earshot-online.com/charts/cjlo.cfm?intChartTypeID=6&dWeekOfID=2026-01-20
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CJSR 88.5 FM – Edmonton
Loud – #4 Merfolk, #5 Devolver, #10 Juliet Ruin
https://earshot-online.com/charts/cjsr.cfm?intChartTypeID=6&dWeekOfID=2026-01-20
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CJSW 90.9 FM – Calgary
Loud – #5 Cepheidae Variable, #6 Ancient Thrones, #9 Triskelyon, #10 Discovery Through Torment
https://earshot-online.com/charts/cjsw.cfm?intChartTypeID=6&dWeekOfID=2026-01-20
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CJUM 101.5 FM – Winnipeg
Loud – #8 Triskelyon
https://earshot-online.com/charts/cjum.cfm?intChartTypeID=6&dWeekOfID=2026-01-20
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CFRU 93.3 FM – Guelph
Top 30 – #18 Silas Fernandes, #30 Merfolk
https://earshot-online.com/charts/cfru.cfm?dWeekOfID=2026-01-20
0 Thank You Canadian MDs and DJs for the airplay love! !earshot – The National Loud Chart For the Week Ending: Tuesday, December 16, 2025 #1 Juliet Ruin, #6 Triskelyon – Moribund Records | 92.5 FM CFBX “the X” – Kamloops Loud – #3 Woodhawk, #6 Ivy Gardens | CFUV 101.9 FM – Victoria Loud – #5 Juliet Ruin | CIVL Radio 101.7 FM – Abbotsford Loud – #1 Triskelyon, #3 Juliet Ruin, #9 Phaeton | CJSR FM 88.5 – Edmonton Loud – #6 Juliet Ruin, #8 Devolver, #9 Ancient Thrones | CFBX 92.5FM – Kamloops Top 30 – #20 Merfolk, #30 Woodhawk | CFRU 93.3 FM – Guelph Top 30 – #20 Merfolk | Smithers Community Radio CICK 93.9 – Smithers Top 30 – #15 Z-Cocoon | CIVL 101.7 FM – Abbotsford Top 30 – #9 Triskelyon
Thank You Canadian MDs and DJs for the airplay love!
!earshot – The National Loud Chart
For the Week Ending: Tuesday, December 16, 2025
#1 Juliet Ruin, #6 Triskelyon – Moribund Records
https://earshot-online.com/charts/index.cfm?intChartTypeID=106&dWeekOfID=2025-12-16
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92.5 FM CFBX “the X” – Kamloops
Loud – #3 Woodhawk, #6 Ivy Gardens
https://earshot-online.com/charts/cfbx.cfm?intChartTypeID=6&dWeekOfID=2025-12-16
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CFUV 101.9 FM – Victoria
Loud – #5 Juliet Ruin
https://earshot-online.com/charts/cfuv.cfm?intChartTypeID=6&dWeekOfID=2025-12-16
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CIVL Radio 101.7 FM – Abbotsford
Loud – #1 Triskelyon, #3 Juliet Ruin, #9 Phaeton
https://earshot-online.com/charts/civl.cfm?intChartTypeID=6&dWeekOfID=2025-12-16
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CJSR FM 88.5 – Edmonton
Loud – #6 Juliet Ruin, #8 Devolver, #9 Ancient Thrones
https://earshot-online.com/charts/cjsr.cfm?intChartTypeID=6&dWeekOfID=2025-12-16
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CFBX 92.5FM – Kamloops
Top 30 – #20 Merfolk, #30 Woodhawk
https://earshot-online.com/charts/cfbx.cfm?dWeekOfID=2025-12-16
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CFRU 93.3 FM – Guelph
Top 30 – #20 Merfolk
https://earshot-online.com/charts/cfru.cfm?dWeekOfID=2025-12-16
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Smithers Community Radio CICK 93.9 – Smithers
Top 30 – #15 Z-Cocoon
https://earshot-online.com/charts/cick.cfm?dWeekOfID=2025-12-16
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CIVL 101.7 FM – Abbotsford
Top 30 – #9 Triskelyon
https://earshot-online.com/charts/civl.cfm?dWeekOfID=2025-12-16
0 Thank You, MDs and DJS, for the Airplay Love! \m/\m/ !earshot – The National Loud Chart For the Week Ending: Tuesday, December 9, 2025 #2 Juliet Ruin, #8 Triskelyon | CFBX 92.5FM – Kamloops Loud – #3 Woodhawk, #6 Ivy Gardens | CIVL 101.7 FM – Abbotsford Loud – #1 Triskelyon, #7 Juliet Ruin, #3 Phaeton | CJSR 88.5MHz – Edmonton Loud – #7 Juliet Ruin, #10 Devolver | CJSW 90.9 MHz – Calgary Loud – #2 Juliet Ruin, #5 Ancient Thrones, #9 Born Divided, #10 Phaeton | CJSW 90.9 MHz – Calgary Top 30 – #21 – Juliet Ruin | CICK 93.9 – Smithers Top 30 #15 – Z-Cocoon
Thank You, MDs and DJS, for the Airplay Love! \m/\m/
!earshot – The National Loud Chart
For the Week Ending: Tuesday, December 9, 2025
#2 Juliet Ruin, #8 Triskelyon
https://earshot-online.com/charts/index.cfm?intChartTypeID=106&dWeekOfID=2025-12-09
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CFBX 92.5FM – Kamloops
Loud – #3 Woodhawk, #6 Ivy Gardens
https://earshot-online.com/charts/cfbx.cfm?intChartTypeID=6&dWeekOfID=2025-12-09
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CIVL 101.7 FM – Abbotsford
Loud – #1 Triskelyon, #7 Juliet Ruin, #3 Phaeton
https://earshot-online.com/charts/civl.cfm?intChartTypeID=6&dWeekOfID=2025-12-09
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CJSR 88.5MHz – Edmonton
Loud – #7 Juliet Ruin, #10 Devolver
https://earshot-online.com/charts/cjsr.cfm?intChartTypeID=6&dWeekOfID=2025-12-09
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CJSW 90.9 MHz – Calgary
Loud – #2 Juliet Ruin, #5 Ancient Thrones, #9 Born Divided, #10 Phaeton
https://earshot-online.com/charts/cjsw.cfm?intChartTypeID=6&dWeekOfID=2025-12-09
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CJSW 90.9 MHz – Calgary
Top 30 – #21 – Juliet Ruin
https://earshot-online.com/charts/cjsw.cfm?dWeekOfID=2025-12-09
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CICK 93.9 – Smithers
Top 30 #15 – Z-Cocoon
https://earshot-online.com/charts/cick.cfm?dWeekOfID=2025-12-09
0 Thank You Canadian MDs and DJs for the Airplay Love! \m/\m/ For the Week Ending: Tuesday, December 2, 2025 CIVL 101.7 FM – Abbotsford Loud – #1 Triskelyon, #7 Juliet Ruin, #8 Phaeton | CJLO 1690 AM – Montreal Loud – #10 Fallstaf | CJSR 88.5 FM – Edmonton Loud – #4 Devolver, #7 Juliet Ruin, #9 Ancient Thrones | CJSW 90.9 FM – Calgary Loud – #4 Ancient Thrones, #10 Born Divided | CICK 93.9 – Smithers Top 30 – #14 – Z-Cocoon
Thank You Canadian MDs and DJs for the Airplay Love! \m/\m/
For the Week Ending: Tuesday, December 2, 2025
CIVL 101.7 FM – Abbotsford
Loud – #1 Triskelyon, #7 Juliet Ruin, #8 Phaeton
https://earshot-online.com/charts/civl.cfm?intChartTypeID=6&dWeekOfID=2025-12-02
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CJLO 1690 AM – Montreal
Loud – #10 Fallstaf
https://earshot-online.com/charts/cjlo.cfm?intChartTypeID=6&dWeekOfID=2025-12-02
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CJSR 88.5 FM – Edmonton
Loud – #4 Devolver, #7 Juliet Ruin, #9 Ancient Thrones
https://earshot-online.com/charts/cjsr.cfm?intChartTypeID=6&dWeekOfID=2025-12-02
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CJSW 90.9 FM – Calgary
Loud – #4 Ancient Thrones, #10 Born Divided
https://earshot-online.com/charts/cjsw.cfm?intChartTypeID=6&dWeekOfID=2025-12-02
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CICK 93.9 – Smithers
Top 30 – #14 – Z-Cocoon
https://earshot-online.com/charts/cick.cfm?dWeekOfID=2025-12-02
0 Thank You Canadian MDs and DJs for the Airplay Love! !earshot – The National Loud Chart For the Week Ending: Tuesday, November 25, 2025 #1 Juliet Ruin, #3 Ancient Thrones | CFUV 101.9 FM – Victoria Loud – #5 Juliet Ruin | CIVL Radio 101.7 FM – Abbotsford Loud – #1 Juliet Ruin, #5 Phaeton | CJSR FM 88.5 – Edmonton Loud – #1 Ancient Thrones, #5 Juliet Ruin, #9 Devolver | CJSW Radio 90.9 FM – Calgary Loud – #4 Ancient Thrones | CJSR FM 88.5 – Edmonton Top 30 – #12 Ancient Thrones
Thank You Canadian MDs and DJs for the Airplay Love!
!earshot – The National Loud Chart
For the Week Ending: Tuesday, November 25, 2025
#1 Juliet Ruin, #3 Ancient Thrones
https://earshot-online.com/charts/index.cfm?intChartTypeID=106&dWeekOfID=2025-11-25
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CFUV 101.9 FM – Victoria
Loud – #5 Juliet Ruin
https://earshot-online.com/charts/cfuv.cfm?intChartTypeID=6&dWeekOfID=2025-11-25
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CIVL Radio 101.7 FM – Abbotsford
Loud – #1 Juliet Ruin, #5 Phaeton
https://earshot-online.com/charts/civl.cfm?intChartTypeID=6&dWeekOfID=2025-11-25
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CJSR FM 88.5 – Edmonton
Loud – #1 Ancient Thrones, #5 Juliet Ruin, #9 Devolver
https://earshot-online.com/charts/cjsr.cfm?intChartTypeID=6&dWeekOfID=2025-11-25
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CJSW Radio 90.9 FM – Calgary
Loud – #4 Ancient Thrones
https://earshot-online.com/charts/cjsw.cfm?intChartTypeID=6&dWeekOfID=2025-11-25
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CJSR FM 88.5 – Edmonton
Top 30 – #12 Ancient Thrones
https://earshot-online.com/charts/cjsr.cfm?dWeekOfID=2025-11-25
0 Thank You Canadian MDs and DJs for the airplay love! For the Week Ending: Tuesday, November 18, 2025 -CJLO 1690 AM – Montreal Loud – #9 Fallstaf | CJSR 88.5 FM – Edmonton Loud – #1 Juliet Ruin, #2 Ancient Thrones, #6 Devolver, #7 Imperishable – Everlasting Spew Records | CJSR 88.5 FM – Edmonton Top 30 – #11 – Juliet Ruin, #13 Ancient Thrones | CICK 93.9 – Smithers Top 30 – #16 – Z-Cocoon
Thank You Canadian MDs and DJs for the airplay love!
For the Week Ending: Tuesday, November 18, 2025
CJLO 1690 AM – Montreal
Loud – #9 Fallstaf
https://earshot-online.com/charts/cjlo.cfm?intChartTypeID=6&dWeekOfID=2025-11-18
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CJSR 88.5 FM – Edmonton
Loud – #1 Juliet Ruin, #2 Ancient Thrones, #6 Devolver, #7 Imperishable – Everlasting Spew Records
https://earshot-online.com/charts/cjsr.cfm?intChartTypeID=6&dWeekOfID=2025-11-18
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CJSR 88.5 FM – Edmonton
Top 30 – #11 – Juliet Ruin, #13 Ancient Thrones
https://earshot-online.com/charts/cjsr.cfm?dWeekOfID=2025-11-18
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CICK 93.9 – Smithers
Top 30 – #16 – Z-Cocoon
https://earshot-online.com/charts/cick.cfm?dWeekOfID=2025-11-18
0 Canadian Blackened Prog Death ANCIENT THRONES Unleashes A Lesson In Extreme w/ Drum Playthrough “A Moon Fused Key” From New Concept Album “Melancholia” Out Now!
NEWS RELEASE
Montreal, QC – November 3, 2025
Canadian Progressive Blackened Death ANCIENT THRONES Unleashes A Lesson In Extreme w/ Drum Playthrough “A Moon Fused Key”
New Concept Album “Melancholia” Out Now!
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Ancient Thrones Current Line Up
L – Matt LeBlanc (Bass) | Top – Dylan Wallace (Guitar) | Bottom – Sean Hickey (Drums & Vocals) | R – Nick Leslie (Guitar)
Photo Credit – Matt Leblanc
Canadian extreme metal visionaries Ancient Thrones have released a new drum playthrough video for “A Moon Fused Key,” the opening track from their sophomore concept album “Melancholia.” The video, now streaming via TheCirclePit YouTube channel, captures the raw intensity and technical precision of drummer-vocalist Sean Hickey as he delivers a punishing performance that sets the tone for the album’s existential descent.
“A Moon Fused Key is the opening track on the album, but also a narrative climax. It begins with unrelenting force and speed, and doesn’t stop until the final bitter moments. This song is a statement in existential exhaustion, where you have no choice but to brace for what’s coming,” says Hickey.
“Melancholia” is a 42-minute journey through psychological trauma, psychedelic hallucinations, and emotional collapse. The album follows a colourblind protagonist who takes hallucinogens in a desperate attempt to see colour, only to spiral into a surreal and terrifying inner world. Musically, the album blends black metal, 2000s death metal, and modern tech-death, with cinematic and progressive flourishes that elevate its narrative scope.
The drum playthrough showcases the band’s meticulous production and elevated musicianship, honed over five years of writing and refinement. Hickey’s dual role as drummer and vocalist adds a unique dynamic to the band’s live shows, described by fans as “crushing and violent,” with mosh pits, stage dives, and crowd-surfing that reflect the chaos of the music itself.
Formed in 2011 and rebranded in 2018, Halifax, Nova Scotia’s Ancient Thrones has evolved into a fully extreme metal force. With Dylan Wallace as the primary songwriter and Sean Hickey crafting the lyrical and conceptual framework, the band’s collaborative process results in music that is fast, existential, and emotionally resonant.
“This is the sound of existential exhaustion. From the opening drum fill in ‘A Moon Fused Key’ to the washed-out doomy fallout of ‘Vacant,’ “Melancholia” is pure aggression wrapped in a surreal narrative. We hope this album moves you in unnatural ways. Enjoy the trip while it lasts.” Hickey adds.
Watch the full drum playthrough at https://youtu.be/e62MaLUyZgY
“Melancholia” was released on September 19, 2025. The band is already writing new material for the follow-up. Fans can expect more crushing, emotionally charged music in the near future.
Album order (Vinyl, Digital) – https://ancientthrones.bandcamp.com
Lyric Video – “A Moon Fused Key” – https://youtu.be/IfDBNhlJ0sI
Music Video – “Melancholia” – https://youtu.be/_LvSTJ78kd8
Playthrough – “A Turning Point” – https://youtu.be/zQ3wZqZj9EQ
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Track Listing:
1. A Moon Fused Key (5:12)
2. Achromatopsia (1:19)
3. Melancholia (6:17)
4. A Turning Point (5:46)
5. A Pellucid Prism (4:26)
6. Sacred Swollen Glass (6:16)
7. Blight (2:18)
8. A Pale Palace (4:55)
9. Vacant (5:31)
Album Length: 42:00
Band Lineup:
Dylan Wallace – Guitar
Nick Leslie – Guitar
Matt LeBlanc – Bass
Sean Hickey – Drums & Vocals
More info: Facebook.com/Ancientthrones | Instagram.com/ancientthrones
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“The music is indeed violent, and immediately so, exploding in a blast of turbulent riffing, heavily undulating bass tones, and furious beats. The guitars wildly writhe and rapidly spear off in crazed angles, kaleidoscopic in effect, and the words spit forth in caustic screams that are equally deranged. Dissonant and dismal tones intrude, along with guttural roars, blast-beat outbursts, and pulverizing blows, and the riffing also seems to swarm in agony, adding further dimensions of darkness to the song’s overarching manifestation of delirium. Backed by a pulse-pounding and highly headbangable groove, the song also introduces yet another dimension, an eerie guitar solo that slowly slithers, brightly swirls, and evolves into an entrancing harmony, very much like a beckoning and seductive presence that manifests within the mayhem.” – No Clean Singing (single – A Moon Fused Key – 2025)
“Hailing from Halifax, Nova Scotia, Ancient Thrones’ second album, Melancholia not only cherry picks from a sturdy stable of metallic subgenres — from the melodic, blackened and textural to the technical, exploratory and unhinged — but is also ground zero for an interesting concept/story. The record’s nine songs tell the story of a colorblind individual who dives head first into psychedelic drug use as a last-ditch attempt to experience life in color. The album chronicles everything they experience in the process as life goes on with their newly minted perceptual capabilities. Given that it’s an extreme metal album, we can only surmise that the story doesn’t end on a particularly happy note, but you can find out for yourself via the stream of Melancholia we’re running below, a single day before its release date.” – Decibel Magazine
“Five years after The Veil, the Halifax quartet returns with a second self-produced album. Melancholy is hardly a musical concern. Melancholia is a forty-one-minute blast of extreme metal, combining the codes (and vocals) of black and death metal across nine tight and scorching tracks. Somewhere between AngelCorpse and Black Dahlia Murder, Ancient Thrones stands out more for its true ferocity than for the originality of its material. It’s up to you to decide whether substance outweighs form, or vice versa. In any case, the effectiveness is truly undeniable.” – Metallian Magazine (France)
“indeed a contentious and brutal slab of metal that will roll right over you and crush your skull into dust. Just when you think the band has reached their limit of intensity, they take it up a notch to impossible heights. If you dare, travel to their world of “Melancholia.”” – Metal Temple
“Who needs a compact disc when you have a vinyl? That’s what Canadian’s Ancient Thrones are saying as they approach the 19th September arrival of their new album “Melancholia“. Curiously enough with their guitar playthrough for new song “A Turning Point” the outfit trade Speed for Sludge, Groove and emotional weight as they continue to evolve their progressive and existential sound.” – Metal Noise
“Thrashy blackened death metal, pretty cool stuff.” – The Mosh Pit 89.9 FM (Madison, WI)
“Tracks like A Moon Fused Key and Vacant drive the narrative through blasts of speed, cinematic atmosphere, and suffocating heaviness, pulling from black, death, and tech death while pushing into surreal territory.” – IDIOTEQ
“The whole album, clocking in at 42 minutes, is a descent into what I can only call emotional extremity, not just brutality for brutality’s sake, but a narrative steeped in alienation, transformation, and the horror of seeing the world differently. Tracks like “Achromatopsia” (a 90-second tone poem of dissonance) and the doom-smeared closer “Vacant” frame a journey that’s as cerebral as it is crushing. Think Deafheaven’s atmosphere meets Archspire’s velocity, with a dash of The Red Chord’s structural madness. And the production? Impeccably violent. Every layer was obsessively sculpted: tones dialed, performances honed over a year just to play the damn thing. You can hear it. This isn’t noise; it’s architecture. A cathedral of dissonance with stained glass made of feedback.” – Papy Jeff Metal
“A psychedelic trip turns sideways on Ancient Thrones’ second album, Melancholia. A concept inspired by vocalist/drummer Sean Hickey’s own experience on hallucinatory drugs, chilling fright is given through blackened death metal. Their songwriting trims the excess from their debut The Veil, while never losing sight of the overarching story of a person’s inner turmoil. A few songs use piano for cinematic effect, including the calming interlude “Achromatopsia” and rumbling stance of “Vacant.” The latter is the group at their slowest, slinking along as each word is coughed out with disdain. A cavalcade of drum fills perks the tune up before an extended bout of noise finishes Melancholia on a hopeless note for our suffering main character.” – Heavy Music HQ
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0 Oct – Nov 2025 – Absolute Underground TV / Magazine w/ Visitant – Exitus Stratagem Records, Ancient Thrones, Ivy Gardens, Harvested, Phaeton, Little King, #ashesofthesun, The Fixer, Unpunished, Devolver
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w/ Visitant – Exitus Stratagem Records, Ancient Thrones, Ivy Gardens, Harvested, Phaeton, Little King, #ashesofthesun, The Fixer, Unpunished, Devolver
https://absoluteunderground.tv/absolute-underground-magazine-issue-126/
0 Merci Metallian \m/\m/ Août – Septembre 2025 Exitus Stratagem Records – Visitant, Devolver, Ancient Thrones, Doll, Night’s Edge
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