MetalGate Records News

Dear friends, there is again music to be had in our release plan for this year. A strange music, eminently experimental, often disharmonious, dissonant, moving in a way beyond the angled space (as one would say in Lovecraftian), structuring its soundscapes into compositions that however are not really compositions in the traditional sense. Simultaneously, it has its inner charm, it is immersive, perhaps even transcendental. And the entity behind it calls itself Anurrn. Get acquainted!

Dear friends, we are at the third installment of our coverage regarding the upcoming Czech edition of the official biography of the Suomi metal icon Amorphis by the writer, journalist and musician Markus Laakso. Today is about the visual side of the book and its content in more detail.

Dear friends, welcome to the second installment of our coverage regarding the upcoming Czech edition of the official biography of the Suomi metal icon Amorphis by the writer, music journalist and active musician Markus Laakso. And it is precisely the author whom we shall introduce today in more detail, given his Czech premiere appearance so to speak.

Dear friends, all the best in 2026! To make its onset more appealing, there is more metal literature incoming. When we announced last October, what our label plans on the literature front v.2026-27, we mentioned that the title closest to release is the Czech translation of the official biography of the Suomi metal icon Amorphis, penned by the writer and active musician Markus Laakso. Today, we are happy to follow-up and announce that the book is in the printing plant and if all goes as planned, it will arrive by the month’s end!

Dear friends, we would like to wish you merry X-Mas and only the very best in the new year, as well as to thank for all your support! We also thank all our partners and are looking forward to the next joint ventures.

Dear friends, while it may seem like we opted for an early start of a winter hibernation, our black kitchen is on the contrary very busy these days. For successively entering execution are several heavyweight titles, the Czech translation licenses of which we managed to acquire. Consider: