Italian doom outfit Ponte Del Diavolo just announced their first European festival shows for 2025 at renown events like Inferno Metal Festival, Roadburn and Sonic Rites, after having released their haunting debut ‘Fire Blades from the Tomb’ via Season of Mist last year!

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!

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!

French troubled black metallers Decline Of The I shared their new single ‘Éros N’ in anticipation of the release of ‘Wilhelm’, the upcoming album set for release in February via Agonia Records!

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This year’s “Motocultor across Europe Tour” kickoff show was at Poppodium 013 in Tilburg, The Netherlands, headlined by Moldovan favorite Infected Rain and support acts Semblant, Elyose, Miruthan, and Skin On Flesh!

Finnish pagan black metal unit Havukruunu are taking one step closer to the release of their new album ‘Tavastland’ via Svart Records next month by unleashing second single ‘Havukruunu ja Talvenvarjo’!

Ukranian black metal outfit Drudkh unveiled the new track ‘The Eve’, lead single of their upcoming album ‘Shadow Play’, which is set for release via Season of Mist in March!

Danish doom unit Katla is set to release their debut album ‘Scandinavian Pain’ in March via Napalm Records and unleashed their first single ‘Taurus’!

Swedish black and sludge metal outfit This Gift Is A Curse embrace the abyss on new single ‘Ascension’, a taste from their upcoming album ‘HEIR’, set for release in March via Season of Mist!