The last day of a long and exhausting weekend of great music and atmosphere with some of the most extreme music around on the Swamp Stage from Serpents Oath, Archspire, Kataklysm and Bloodbath!

The last day of a long and exhausting weekend of great music and atmosphere with on the main stage shows from Sacred Reich, Bleed From Within, Blind Guardian, Killswitch Engage and of course, the party that was Electric Callboy!

Our personal highlights of the first day of the very first edition of Hellsinki Metal Festival with Voivod, Asagraum, Clawfinger, Monuments, Sodom, Blind Guardian, Impaled Nazarene and Apocalyptica!

Bokassa is back with a brand new track, ‘Garden of Heathen’, featuring no one less than Lou Koller from Sick Of It All on vocals! It’s also the first single of their upcoming album set for release via Indie Recordings!

Lizzy Borden is back with the first new original music since his last release back in 2018! The digital single ‘Death of Me’ is out now via Metal Blade Records!

Industrial metal legends Ministry are back with a 16th album next year in March with ‘HOPIUMFORTHEMASSES’, to be released via Nuclear Blast! A first single ‘Goddamn White Trash’ is out right now!

Of Mice & Men shared their latest single/video ‘Castaway’, a track from their upcoming album ‘Tether’, set for release in October via SharpTone!