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!
French metalcore stars LANDMVRKS unveiled their latest single ‘A Line In The Dust’ featuring a guest appearance of Mat Welsh (While She Sleeps), another banger from their upcoming album ‘The Darkest Place I’ve Ever Been’, set for release in April via Arising Empire!
French instrumental experimentalists BRUIT ≤ announced the details of their upcoming album ‘The Age Of Ephemerality’, set for release in April via Pelagic, and shared the new track ‘Ephemeral’!
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!
Finnish pop metal outfit Memoremains delivers a full-blood party song with ‘Stand Up’, the perfect song to take a little break and let everything go!
People in Finland, make sure you catch them live supporting Enemy Inside in a couple of months!
Distant’s latest release ‘Tsukuyomi: The Origin’ is the brutal answer to all who say deathcore has gone soft, where they completely redid the songs from an old EP, brought in some new songs and a bunch of great guests! Released in November 2024 via Century Media Records!
Belgian metal band Fabulae Dramatis is extremely excited about the fact they were invited to play at this year’s 70,000 Tons Of Metal, the world’s largest and most prestigious heavy metal cruise that is setting sail on January 30th! Make sure to catch one of their sets if you’re going to the cruise!
The line-up of Brutal Assault 2025 is 70% complete with the addition of over 30 more names with Opeth, Kerry King, Karnivool, Fear Factory, Cult of Luna, Paradise Lost and much more!
Swedish power metal band Hans & Valter are proud to share their latest single and first music video (with a bunch of cats playing a big role) ‘Warriors Without a Quest’, another track from their upcoming debut album ‘The Legend of the Oakensource’, set for release this spring!
Last year, we met up with the mysterious and intriguing Finnish duo Rabbit Cult, who started a new chapter in their musical journey and told us all about their new path forging cool music blending Finnish with kawaii and alternative rock and metal into a unique and sometimes contradicting mixture.
Catch them on the Nordic Metal Cruise in a couple of weeks!
