Frozen Soul & Darkest Hour in Karlsruhe

Frozen Soul is an American death metal band formed in Fort Worth, Texas, in 2018. The group plays old-school death metal shaped by heavy riffs and a recurring frozen-horror theme. Its principal releases include the albums Crypt of Ice and Glacial Domination, home to songs such as “Arctic Stranglehold” and “Morbid Effigy.” The 2023 Glacial Domination Tour took Frozen Soul across North America on a headline run supported by 200 Stab Wounds, Judiciary and Vomit Forth. In 2024, the band joined Amon Amarth, Cannibal Corpse and Obituary for the North American Metal Crushes All Tour.

Darkest Hour is an American metal band formed in Washington, D.C., in 1995. Their music draws on melodic death metal, metalcore and hardcore, and they are known for albums including Undoing Ruin and Deliver Us, as well as songs such as “Convalescence” and “Demon(s).” Darkest Hour performed on Ozzfest in 2004 and joined The Sounds of the Underground tour the following year. They later supported At the Gates on the Swedish band’s 2008 North American reunion tour, extending a live history built through club shows and major touring packages with At the Gates.