Saturday at the Clyde Theatre it Smelled Like a Freakshow with Avatar rolling into Fort Wayne with their “Don’t Go In The Forest tour”, bringing along the amazing Italian symphonic death metallers Fleshgod Apocalpyse and Texan death metal grinders Frozen Soul!
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
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 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!
Cavalera Conspiracy are returning to Europe for a 2026 summer festival run to bring their ‘Chaos A.D.’ to the fans, including a stop at Graspop and many more! There’s also a chance you could catch them at more intimate headliner shows, don’t miss out!
German progressive metal masters Obscura released a new video for ‘The Sun Eater’, out now with Nuclear Blast Records, just before they kicked off their tour in Asia!
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.
Tokyo’based death metal band Defiled released new music video and single ‘Obsession’, the second unveiled from their upcoming album ‘Altered State’, out in June with Season of Mist!
Nunslaughter unleashed their latest new single ‘Rotten Messiah’ from their upcoming album ‘Satanic Chaos Legions’, out in June with BLKIIBLK!
