This summer we’ll get to enjoy them bringing their metal circus to the Alcatraz festival stage for an exceptional show, but if you’re going to miss out on that, no worries! Avatar just announced their 2026 Europe and UK headline tour “A Night To Be Torn Apart” with special guests Alien Weaponry, tickets available starting tomorrow April 25th!

In between full lengths, Finnish-Hellenic ensemble Aeonian Sorrow has birthed a new four track EP of resplendent funereal gothic doom. ‘From the Shadows’ is available right now.

Danish metal band Galge unleashed the new video single ‘Brosten’ from their upcoming sophomore album ‘Dødelig’. Catch them on tour right now with Neckbreakker!

Paris’ SPHERES have an invitation to a spiritual journey and dystopian dimension with the release of their new single “Underworld”. This is the first feast of new music since releasing their 2022 sophomore album “Helios“. The new track, recorded and mixed by Chris Edrich (Devin Townsend, Tesseract, Leprous), is a preview of their third full-length “Shadows of Despair,” set for release in […]

German doom metal outfit Obsidian Scapes has set June 6th as the release date for their highly anticipated debut album ‘Death Chants Echo From Aphotic Void’, to be released with Darkness Shall Rise Productions!

UK death metal outfit Celestial Sanctuary drops a video for ‘Choking on the Rotten Seed’, a track from their recently by Metal Blade Records reissued EP ‘Visions Of Stagnant Blood’!

Opeth released an absolutely brilliant new album with ‘The Last Will And Testament’ last year, and now they brought it to the stage all over Europe. And we in Helsinki were honored to be the first stop of the tour back in February, getting a first taste of their new work live. And with Grand Magus to warm us up, this was a brilliant night for the (metal) music lovers among us! An event by Fullsteam Agency

Gruesome is to return with ‘Silent Echoes’, their new album set for release in June via Relapse Records. First single and video ‘A Darkened Window’ is out now!

Ancient Death’s first album “Ego Dissolution” will thrill you with the contrasting elements of the atmospheric riffs that are cleverly placed with the female vocals. Out via Profound Lore Records since last Friday, April 18th.

Sweden’s rising metal force Bloodstain returns with a vengeance on their new single ‘Lies Bleeding Through’, out now via Threeman Recordings!