Nuclear Blast have created a new EPK (electronic press kit) for Swiss, Celtic folk-metal band ELUVEITIE in the run up to the release of their second album ‘Slania’ which will be relased on February 14th. The video the concepts and lyrics of the music and allows us to hear some small samples of the new […]

Virginia’s ARSIS will release its new album, “We Are The Nightmare”, on April 15 via Nuclear Blast Records. Produced by Zeuss (AGNOSTIC FRONT, HATEBREED, MUNICIPAL WASTE) at Planet Z Studios in Massachussetts and mastered by Alan Douches (KATAKLYSM, UNEARTH, SHADOWS FALL), the CD will feature the following track listing:
01. We Are The Nightmare
02. Shattering […]

The Bloodstock team are pleased to announce that Canadian death metal legends KATAKLYSM have been added to the bill for Bloodstock Open Air Metal Festival 2008.
Kataklysm formed in Montreal in late 1991, releasing a demo entitled ‘Death Gate Cycle Of Reincarnation’ the following year which secured them a deal with Germany’s Nuclear Blast records. The […]

Polish death metallers BEHEMOTH have just announced that they’re signing to Nuclear Blast Records in Europe and Metal Blade Records in North America.
We are extremely proud to announce that Behemoth has inked a North American deal with Metal Blade Records and with Nuclear Blast for European territory. The band recently finished up an extremely […]

Nuclear Blast have announced that the first single taken from the new IN FLAMES album “A Sense Of Purpose” will be “The Mirror’s Truth”
Release Date: March 7th 2008 out via Nuclear Blast Records
This is a European single and will not be available elsewhere. The single will include the following tracks:
1. The Mirror’s Truth
2. Eraser*
3. Tilt*
4. […]

Finnish Symphonic Metal kings NIGHTWISH have received a Gold award for 100.000 sold copies of their newest album “Dark Passion Play” in Germany, within one week after its release end of September! The presentation of the award took place at the “On A Dark Winter´s Night”-Festival in Oberhausen, where NIGHTWISH played a phenomenal gig in […]

Swedish melodic death metal legends, IN FLAMES, have revealed the title for their upcoming album. It is to be titled ‘A Sense Of Purpose‘ and will be released through Nuclear Blast Records in Europe on April 4th.
The band have stated:
“We are extremely happy with the end result and are so proud of what we […]

Nuclear Blast have announced that the new DIE APOKALYPTISCHEN REITER DVD, ‘Tobsucht’, will be released on February 1st 2008.

After 27 long years and numerous line-up changes EXODUS are back again with ‘The Atrocity Exhibition…Exhibit A’. With the fair success they gained from 05’s ‘Shovel Headed Killing Machine’ and extensive touring taking in the US, UK, Japan and Australia it was always going to be an interesting album to follow.

KORPIKLAANI have announced the release details of their upcoming 5th studio album and the first single from it. The album is called ‘Korven Kuningas’ and will be out Nuclear Blast records on March 21st.

‘Korven Kuningas’ translates to mean ‘King of the Woods’, showing a continuation of the woodland themes in the music and lyrics.