It appears I will be going to a show tomorrow night. And without a camera maybe? That’s kinda rad, not gonna lie. We shall see!

• Let’s start with a Fire In The Mountains update. They’ve announced a special collaboration and curation with Norwegian music label By Norse, with Mari Boine, Lindy-Fay Hella & Dei Farne, and BardSpec now part of the event. Dope!
• Octoploid, the project fronted by Olli-Pekka “Oppu” Laine of Amorphis, shared a lyric video for the track “Coast Of The Drowned Sailors”. That one, of course, is taken from their debut album Beyond The Aeons which dropped back in July through RPM.
• you, infinite (I like this band name), a project born from former members of This Will Destroy You, are releasing their self-titled debut full-length on February 28th through Pelagic Records. Check out “Throughlines” here.
• Actually, let’s stay with that Berlin label. Pothamus shared a new track titled “Zhikarta”. The cosmic sludge group are releasing Abur, their second full-length, on February 14th.
• And we’re going to wrap up by circling back to Reigning Phoenix and… Lordi! Check out the lyric video for “Syntax Error” below. Limited Deadition is out on March 21st. I haven’t listened to a Lordi song in years, but man am I happy they are still a thing.

“Ein Bier… bitte.”
– cmb