Finland’s summer festival season is stacked again. From underground black metal rituals to lakeside legends and city concerts with global names, we picked 12 events worth your time this summer with Steelfest, Allas Live, Sonic Rites, Ankea, Nummirock, Tuska, CoolHead Live, Dark River Festival, John Smith Rock, Ilosaarirock, Hellsinki Metal Festival and SaariHelvetti
Belgian metalpunks Shewolff shared their new track ‘Nail + Burn’, the third revealed from their upcoming debut mini-album ‘We’re All Gonna Fukking Die’, out on May 22nd via Dying Victims Productions!
Finnish bestial black/death metal trio Hoc Est Bellum are getting ready to unleash their debut album ‘Filth Majesty’ next month with Time To Kill Records and unveiled a first single with ‘Nightside Necromancy’!
Finnish black metal icons Azaghal shared second single ‘Saatana, Olen Miekkasi’ and first music video of their upcoming album ‘Nekrohelios’, set for release at the end of the month with Immortal Frost Productions!
Finnish melodic death/black metal outfit Se, Josta Ei Puhuta are gearing up to release their new album ‘Syvyyden portit on saatava auki’ on Inverse Records by the end of the month and recently shared their last single ‘Muinaiset jumalat kuuntelevat’!
Belgian extreme music apparition Emptiness announced its new album ‘Nowhere Speaks’ to be out in July via Season of Mist!
Czech black metal institution Inferno announced their new album ‘The Anthropic Sophisms’ to be our in July with Debemur Morti Productions and shared the one and only single ‘Circulus Vitiosus Deus (The Infinity Ravages All)’!
A four‑hour Scandinavian metal storm hit Stuttgart as Vomitory, Vreid, Abbath and Hypocrisy unleashed a night of fog, riffs and raw intensity at the LKA Longhorn. Dive into our photo report and relive the highlights.
Modern symphonic black outfit Stormkeep released the new song ‘Imperious Sanguine Eroticism’, a taste of their upcoming album ‘The Nocturnes Of Iswylm’, out in June with Vesperian!
‘Requiem: Reveries of the Dying’, the third full album by Bloody Valkyria, Jere Fervinen’s solo outing, will take you to realms of high fantasy with some soaring melodic black /death metal. Out via Northern Silence Productions.
