While the summer is about to be wrapping up, we can already look ahead towards the summer of 2025, especially after Tuska just announced the first 16 confirmed acts for next year’s edition with Electric Callboy, Powerwolf, Nothing More, Orbit Culture, Kim Dracula, Korpiklaani, Marko Hietala, Tarja, Charlotte Wessels, thrown, Eihwar, Timo Rautiainen & Trio Niskalaukaus, Blood Command, Arion and Tyrantti and the first announced headliner with Lorna Shore!

What do you think? What bands are you still hoping for?

Pictures of the first day of Hellsinki Metal Festival 2024 with on stage 3 shows from Swallow The Sun, Soen, Obscura, and Massacre!

Pictures of the first day of Hellsinki Metal Festival 2024 with on stage 2 shows from Satyricon, Deicide, Hellhammer, Terrorizer and Deathchain!

Pictures of the first day of Hellsinki Metal Festival 2024 with on stage 1 shows from Avantasia, Heaven Shall Burn, The Amity Affliction, Emmure and Wolfheart!

Pictures of the first day of Alcatraz 2024, with on the Swamp Stage a serving of extreme metal with Sadus, Paradise Lost and Cradle of Filth!

Pictures of the first day of Alcatraz 2024, with on the Prison Stage explosive shows from Dyscordia, Orden Ogan, Beast In Black, Feuerschwanz, Channel Zero, Saxon and Amon Amarth!

Pictures of the first day of Alcatraz 2024, with on the Helldorado Stage a serving of punk and hardcore with Funeral Dress, The Casualties, Cro-Mags, Madball and Life of Agony, modern metal from Sylosis and post-metal with The Ocean!

Belgian death metal revelation Mordkaul crushed it again at Alcatraz a couple of weeks ago, and around that same time they unleashed another video single with ‘Shadowlord’, featuring James McIlroy formerly of Cradle of Filth, a track from their highly anticipated album ‘Feeding The Machine’, out in a couple of weeks via Massacre Records!

The highly anticipated second album of Finnish black metal outfit The Mist From The Mountains is set for release in October via Primitive Reaction. And with ‘The Seer of Ages’, a first track from ‘Portal – The Gathering of Storms’ is already available right now!

After blowing us away with their show at Tuska earlier this summer, we can’t help but be really excited about the news that Make Them Suffer is releasing a new self-titled album via Greyscale Records and SharpTone Records later this year still! They announced it a couple of weeks ago and with the announcement came the new single ‘Oscillator’, which has been played quite a few times here, what a banger!