Welcome To Episode 191 In this episode we are joined by Good Things Festival 2024 Alumni, Eddie Berg of the band Imminence
Swedish alternative metalcore outfit, Imminence, has during the latest years established their own highly unique brand and pushed the genre beyond extents of anyone’s expectations. With the distinct use of classical string arrangements blended with the influence of ferocious Scandinavian metal, the sound and visual universe of the quintet stands out as one of the most innovative and exciting acts on the market today.
Fronted by vocalist and violinist Eddie Berg, guitarists Harald Barrett & Alex Arnoldsson, drummer Peter Hanström and bass player Christian Höijer; Imminence unleashed their musical prowess with the brand new album ”The Black” on April 12th this year. Already recognized as one of the most exciting and outstanding releases in the modern metal scene this year, putting Imminence in the spotlight like never before.
Imminence recently opened a new release cycle with the success from latest singles The Black, Come Hell or High Water, Desolation, Heaven Shall Burn and Death by a Thousand Cuts quickly achieving millions of streams and a rapid growth in social media following. The astonishing success on the live market includes the bands very first North American tour (December 2023) being sold out within 48 hours, followed by the first leg of The Black Tour premiering over the entire United States with incredible results – recognizing Imminence as one of the most strongly demanded act on the international market today!
After closing the cycle of previous album Heaven In Hiding with an exclusive Deluxe Edition release, Imminence continued to gain viral attention on all social media platforms, partially due to the remarkable ”Live In Studio”-recordings, and experienced an impressive growth of +100 000 followers and millions of streams over the course of just a few months this year.
With five full length studio albums, +250.000.000 streams, +580.000 combined online followers and closing in on 900.000 monthly Spotify listeners, Imminence monumental touring history now continues to other continents. After selling out headline shows all over Europe and supporting metal legends In Flames in late 2022, the band continues The Black Tour to Europe in October 2024 – already selling out close to 2000 capacity rooms – and Scandinavia in February 2025. Summer 2024 includes some of the most respected festivals such as Welcome To Rockville, Sonic Temple, Full Force, Download, Greenfield, Sweden Rock, Rockstadt Extreme and many more
The band cannot wait to get to Australia as part of the gargantuan Good Things Festival Line Up
GOOD THINGS FESTIVAL LINE-UP:
Korn Sum 41 Violent Femmes Electric Callboy | Billy Corgan | Mastodon | Kerry King The Gaslight Anthem | Jet | The Living End | L7 | Northlane Bowling For Soup | Alpha Wolf | Sleeping With Sirens | The Butterfly Effect | 311 In Alphabetical Order: AViVA | Destroy Boys | Dragon | Frank Turner And The Sleeping Souls From Ashes To New | Grandson | Highly Suspect | Imminence Killing Heidi (Performing ‘Reflector’ In Full) | Loathe | Reliqa | Taylor Acorn Plus the return of Stage 666!
DATES & VENUES:
Friday 6 December – Flemington Racecourse, Melbourne (15+)
Saturday 7 December – Centennial Park, Sydney (16+)
Sunday 8 December – Brisbane Showgrounds, Brisbane (15+)
