Over the course of the past decade, Orbit Culture have been steadily carving their name into metal. In 2025, they've stood up, hulkingly tall, and smashed an imprint of themselves everywhere they go. The Swedish quartet's turn with Bullet and Trivium on The Poison Ascendancy tour saw them barrelling their way through the O2 with ease, while delays and a shortened set only made their Main Stage appearance at Download this summer more compressed and deadly.

With Death Above Life, they've turned this change-up of gear into a creative one as well. Their music has always been build around a chassis of riffs and chest-out power that can square up to previous tourmates Slipknot or Knocked Loose, but here everything feels like it's been levelled up. Opener Inferna rides in on deadly, surgically

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