In Tom VM’s favorite pictures of the year shows off his captures of bands like Amorphis, Beyond the Black, Bury Tomorrow, Dimmu Borgir, Infected Rain, Lost Society, Opeth, Tarot, Vola, Zeal and Ardor, Amaranthe, Ankor, Beast in Black, Charlotte Wessels, Dark Tranquillity, Dear Mother, Draconian, Dragonforce, Epica, Europe, Feuerschwanz, Gene Simmons Band, Jinjer, Marco Mendoza, Moonspell, Saxon, Testament, Vandenberg and Luna Kills, of which some pictures have never before seen on our site!
Belgian goregrind powerhouse Brutal Sphincter signed to Time To Kill Records, hinting at a new album coming soon! Catch them at this summer’s place to be for a proper metal holiday: Tolminator!
Dutch death metal legends Pestilence announced that Max Blok (Alkaloid, Dark Fortress) has joined their new line-up as their new official guitarist, and are working on their 10th album ‘Portals’, expected to be out in June via Agonia Records.
Catch them live this year at a select amount of festivals, including with our friends of Alcatraz Festival!
New Zealand death metal ensemble Ulcerate will be hitting up 6 cities in the Nordic Region this May ahead of festival appearances at Graveland Festival and Fortress Festival, bringing French extreme sludge band Fange with them!
Leeds based tech death outfit Pravitas announced their upcoming debut ‘The Parasitic Divine’, set for release in March, and dropped the ferocious single and video ‘Defragment’!
The old-school death metal vein of Russia’s Pyre will not disappoint fans of early Asphyx and Entombed. Their third album “Where Obscurity Sways” is a must for aficionados of death/doom metal, out via Osmose Productions!
UK death metal force Vacuous share the new song ‘Stress Positions’, another track from their upcoming second album, set for release at the end of February via Relapse Records!
Hellsinki Metal Festival is becoming a permanent fixture in the Finnish summer festival landscape, and after 2 successful editions, the organisation decided they didn’t want to wait for another year. In comes a smaller winter edition of the main event about halfway December 2024, bringing amazing extreme metal bands together like Omnivortex, Batushka, Belphegor and headliners Dark Funeral!
The line-up of Brutal Assault 2025 is 70% complete with the addition of over 30 more names with Opeth, Kerry King, Karnivool, Fear Factory, Cult of Luna, Paradise Lost and much more!
Dutch metal act Degenerate unveiled their new single ‘Servitor’ with a video, the first single from their upcoming album and a killer metal track blending thrash and melodic metal influences!
