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!
Brutal Assault 2025 revealed the daily line-up and launched the sale of single day tickets for those who want a taste of this amazing fest, but can’t fit the whole weekend in their planning!
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’!
Orbit Culture started a new beginning with ‘The Tales of War’, their latest single out with Century Media Records, including a menacing video showing the band braving a raging storm. If you want to experience the blast that is the band live, you have limited choices with for now some shows in Europe supporting In Flames and at select festivals like Graspop and Tuska Festival this summer!
New Wave of American Metal icons Shadows Fall shared another new single and video with ‘Souls Devoured’, out via MNRK Heavy and a metallic anthem released just in time for their upcoming tour dates with metal brethren Killswitch Engage!
