Thrash/heavy metal Juggernauts Megadeth returns with their 16th album ‘The Sick, the Dying, and the Dead!’. Arguably his strongest and heaviest record since ‘Countdown to Extinction’, Dave Mustaine’s perceptive songwriting on the new album never strays from the old-school roots of thrash metal. Out on Universal Music Group.
Steelchaos is back! If that is not reason enough to get yourself a ticket still, here are 5 reasons why you should still consider to go this weekend, including the exclusive Finland “Black Metal” 40 years anniversary show of Venom Inc.!
Ultima Ratio Fest has been bringing a proper collection of metal bands around Europe with Moonspell, Insomnium, Borknagar, Wolfheart and Hinayana. Sadly it seemed the crowd was mostly asleep at this stop at Backstage Munich, regardless some great metal music was played this night!
Finland’s death metal act Cryptic Hatred has released one of the year’s most brutal death metal albums, ‘Nocturnal Sickness’. If you crave for some old Cannibal Corpse and Suffocation, then this is for you. Out on The Other Records.
The eighth album from the Italian satanic coven Abhor brings dark morbid tunes of unholy mass with a great mixture of first-wave black metal sound that is similar to bands like Mortuary Drape, Mystifier, Death SS, and Samael, if you are into the occult style of black then you must check ‘Sex Sex Sex (Ceremonia Daemonis Anticristi)’, released via Iron Bonehead Productions!
Brymirs album release show at Tavastia was one sweaty pleasure, full of surprises and even though it was on a Wednesday with a decent sized crowd! Overall, a really pleasant night with a band that continues to rise and soar!
Amon Amarth is always a spectacle on a stage. Add to that the US metallers Machine Head that finally managed to get to Helsinki and the supergroup The Halo Effect and you know that the night was going to be a good one!
Amon Amarth and Machine Head came, saw and delivered! The ‘Vikings & Lionhearts tour’ made a stop in Helsinki, Finland and set the room on fire, quite literally… Support came from Swedish melodeath supergroup The Halo Effect.
Obscura proved yet again at Backstage Munich that metal can be complex and brutal at the same time with a bombshell of a show. Support came from Disillusion and Persefone.
“In Nomine Diaboli” shows the Texan quartet Imprecation in its strongest form, offering a slew of demonic brutal death metal. The new studio album is a demonic pandemonium that captures the hellish aesthetics of blackened/death metal, out on October 14 via Dark Descent Records.
