In about a week, Soulfly is embarking on their “Spirit Animal Tour 2025”, taking their music through Europe for almost 2 months from festival appearances to headline shows, and they just recruited Chase Bryant of Warbringer to be their bassist for this run!

Extreme metal supergroup Sinsaenum announced their return with the release of their crushing new single ‘In Devastation’, the title track from their upcoming third album, out later this year via earMUSIC and serving as a cathartic tribute to the passing of Joey Jordison and Frédéric Leclercq’s father.

If you are still looking for a great summer destination, our homecountry of Belgium has some great events to offer, so here are 7 festivals that might make it a great place to go for you this year with the very last Wildfest this weekend, dunk!festival, Graspop Metal Meeting, Litha Fest, Lokerse Feesten, Rock Werchter and Alcatraz!

If you are still looking for a great summer destination, here are 12 festivals that might make Finland the ideal place to go for you this year with Sonic Rites this weekend, Rockfest, Tuhdimmat Tahdit, Nummirock, Tuska, John Smith Festival, SaariHelvetti, Dark River Festival, Hellsinki Metal Festival, the CoolHead Live concert series, Sastamalan Torijuhlat and Hevipäivät!

After the break of last year, Rockfest is back with a vengeance and a solid line-up that will rock your world for about 3 days at the new location in Turku, Finland!

Italian post-groove metal band Noumenia question spiritual connection with fate in their emotional new single and video ‘Fall Apart’, a track from their upcoming ‘Echoes’ album, set for release in June via Eclipse Records!

Rivers of Nihil took over Tavastia in Helsinki a couple of months ago and absolutely blew our minds at the end of our weekend back then with the help of Cynic, Beyond Creation and Dååth!

Rivers Of Nihil brought quite the intensity to Europe earlier this year with their “Aggressive Progressive Tour’, including Cynic, Beyond Creation and Dååth. We caught their show at the legendary Tavastia venue in Helsinki, Finland and saw it was good! Looking forward to seeing Rivers Of Nihil again this summer during the Europe festival season with shows at Brutal Assault, Alcatraz and more!

Indigenous metal outfit Mawiza announced their new album ‘ÜL’ to be out in July via Season of Mist, sharing the defiant lead single and opening track ‘Wingkawnoam’!