Only a handful of days left before Helsinki gets a healthy shot of heavy and dark music with the third edition of Hellsinki Metal Festival! If you’re still confused and wondering if you should go or not, check out 8 reasons we believe should convince you… Beware, get your tickets today as tomorrow the price will go up again!
Day 2 of this year’s TollRock Festival had a great list of artists on the line-up. TollRockerz Band Contest is the yearly opening act of the Saturday procedures. Moonshot, Saint City Orchestra, Kissin’ Dynamite, Donots and Five Finger Skull Crushers were building the electrifying list of acts that appealed to a wide variety of rock, punk, Irish folk and metal fans. In combination with the special atmosphere and location making TollRock a Germany summer festival highlight.
German brutal surf death party metal band Stillbirth are unleashing their new album ‘Survival Protocol’ via Reigning Phoenix Music in October and shared a first single and hilarious video with ‘Baptized In Blood’!
TollRock 2025 Day 1 was not only blessed with wonderful weather but with an impressive line-up on the first day. Starting with Lost Sanity (TollRockerz Band Contest Winner 2024), followed by April Art, Emil Bulls, Fiddlers Green, Skindred and Rock Rising gave an impressive list of artists. The audience was thrilled by the great live performances of all bands on stage. The expectations for day 2 have been raised to an almost unbeatable level.
Alternative metal band ODC announced that their new album ‘Twisted Love’ will be out in October via BLKIIBLK and shared the new single and video ‘My Name Is Gold’!
Metal outfit Darkness Surrounding shared their new single ‘Choke On Your Mistakes’ with a lyric video, a track taking aim at cancel culture and part of their upcoming album ‘Is There Salvation?’ out in September!
We caught up with Signs of Algorithm’s frontman Frederick to talk about their latest album ‘Sunchaser’, the band’s musical and his vocal evolution, and why their Alcatraz Festival show is a dream come true.
Melbourne blackened nu-metal force Mélancolia revealed their third single ‘Picking Scabs’ from the upcoming album ‘random.access.misery’, out at the end of August via Nuclear Blast and Greyscale Records!
From the amazing line-up of Tolminator 2025 we picked 10 acts we believe deserves your attention and time for you to check out at the festival if you’re there or at home if you’re not. A couple of them already played yesterday, like Vulvarine, High Parasite and Ghost Bath, but there is still plenty to discover and see with bands like Midnight, Cro-mags, Me And That Man, Party Cannon, Insanity Alert, Dopethrone and Mimi Barks!
Tolminator is already a quite unique and exceptional experience on its own, but they always seem to keep a keen eye on the scenes of different countries and know to pic some of the most promising acts for their line-ups. And this year, we get to welcome our friends of Marche Funèbre, Mordkaul and Brutal Sphincter to be part of the “Belgian Invasion”, but also 2 stellar acts from Finland with melodeath icons Omnium Gatherum and psychedelic black metal collective Oranssi Pazuzu!
