Atmosphere, emotion, and legendary music filled the Hellsinki 03 stage on Day 2 of Hellsinki Metal Festival 2025. Check out our latest photo gallery featuring Alfahanne, Cult of Luna, Me and That Man, and Blood Fire Death – A Tribute to Quorthon and the Music of Bathory! 📸🤘
German post-metal act Coltaine are set to unleash their new album ‘Brandung’ in a couple of weeks, revealing the single ‘Keep Me Down In The Deep’ and the European tour dates in support of the new album release in September!
The second and final day of Hellsinki Metal Festival 2025 once again showcased the incredible diversity of the metal scene.
Party Cannon kicked things off with their trademark madness, AngelMaker delivered one of the day’s biggest surprises, Napalm Death and Enslaved reminded everyone why they remain legends, LANDMVRKS made a memorable Finnish debut, Cult of Luna mesmerized, Hatebreed ignited the pits, Venom celebrated their legacy and Blood Fire Death brought the festival to an epic close.
British metal heavyweights Conjurer are back with their mighty third album ‘Unself’, set for release in October via Nuclear Blast and shared a first single with ‘Hang Them In Your Head’!
While we’re still trying to digest how crazy this year’s edition of Brutal Assault was, we’re already getting hyped up about 2026 with a first 14 names confirmed and they’re good ones!
As has become tradition, Alcatraz Festival announced a healthy grab of confirmed names during this year’s edition, and the 21 bands they dropped are promising the 2026 edition to be hitting hard again!
For the second day of Alcatraz 2025, our team picked out 8 bands we believe you shouldn’t miss out on with Myrath, KNIFE, Baest, Drowning Pool, Rivers of Nihil, Nailbomb, Caliban and Avatar! What bands are you really looking forward to for this Friday at Alcatraz? Let us know in the comments!
For the first day of Alcatraz 2025, our team picked out 8 bands we believe you shouldn’t miss out on with Messa, Frayle, 3 Inches of Blood, thrown, Cabal, Crystal Lake, Phil Campbell and the Bastard Sons and Heriot! What bands are you really looking forward to for this Friday at Alcatraz? Let us know in the comments!
Brutal Assault is a proper celebration of everything that is metal and/or extreme and there is something great to be found at any time of the day! We picked out 8 bands that you should go see on the first day of this year’s edition, with High Parasite, Gutalax, Landmvrks, Blood Fire Death, Slow Crush, Patriarchy, Fear Factory and Drowning Pool, because they’ll be more than worth your time!
On the second day of Graspop 2025, our reporter there enjoyed the shows of Gloryhammers, Falling In Reverse, Me First & The Gimme Gimmes, Skillet and of course metal greats Slipknot bringing their show for the 9th time to the holy grounds of Dessel!
