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!
The first day of Graspop was filled with amazing power metal from Powerwolf, Beast In Black and Warkings, nostalgia with Yellowcard and heavy metal legends with Iron Maiden for our reporter there!
This weekend is the highlight for us and many among us in Belgium with the 2025 edition of Alcatraz Festival, but if you still haven’t decided to go, here are 10 reasons why we believe you should just go ahead and go get you some tickets still… What are you looking forward to the most for this year’s edition?
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.
Day two of Tuhdimmat Tahdit brought Michael Monroe, Moon Shot, Black Devils, Hardcore Superstar, Turmion Kätilöt, Battle Beast and the legendary Blind Guardian to Tampere’s Eteläpuisto on the second day and was great yet again! We surely will be back at this festival in the future.
Italian melodic power metal force Alterium unleashed their new EP ‘Stormrage’ last Friday, featuring 2 explosive new songs, and unleashed a lyric video for the track ‘Sui’ to celebrate!
Power metal band Sabaton announced their highly anticipated 11th studio album ‘Legends’ to be out in October via Better Noise Music and shared 2 more songs with ‘The Duelist’ and ‘Lightning at the Gates’!
We, yet again, had a blast enjoying this year’s edition of Tuhdimmat Tahdit, which brought Finntroll, Kilpi, Mustasch, Timo Rautiainen & Trio Niskalaukaus, Lordi, Amaranthe and HammerFall to Tampere’s Eteläpuisto on the first day!
The second day of Alcatraz 2025 delivers yet another trio of Belgian stage openers with the power metallers of Magic Kingdom on the Prison Stage, metalcore outfit Signs of Algorithm blowing the roof off the Swamp Stage and modern thrash wrecking crew Primal Creation causing mayhem on La Morgue!
