Orbit Culture, Bullet for my Valentine and Trivium gave it all at the Lotto Arena stop in Antwerp, Belgium on “The Poisoned Ascendancy tour”! A trip down memory lane and a lot of interaction between the crowd and the bands, where the 2 co-headliners were celebrating their breakthrough albums by playing them in full! Thanks to FKP Scorpio Belgium for welcoming us!
Blackened progressive metal band Dawn Of Ouroboros shared ‘Slipping Burgundy’, their latest single on which they blend jazz parts with ferocious atmospheric black, getting us properly excited about their upcoming new album ‘Bioluminescence’, set for release in March via Prosthetic Records!
Progressive act Changeling released the lead single ‘Abyss’ from the upcoming self-titled album set for release in April via Season of Mist, a release featuring an impressive list of guest musicians!
The three young musicians of Wrath fuse the intensity and unpredictable nature of prog metal with the raw, unrefined energy of grunge, bringing a unique musical experience to the roster of Dark Essence Records, with who they’ll release their debut album!
Progressive blackened metal band Tómarúm announced their upcoming sophomore album ‘Beyond Obsidian Euphoria’, set for release in April via Prosthetic Records and unleashed a first track with ‘Shed This Erroneous Skin’!
In Tom VM’s favorite pictures of the year shows off his captures of bands like Amorphis, Beyond the Black, Bury Tomorrow, Dimmu Borgir, Infected Rain, Lost Society, Opeth, Tarot, Vola, Zeal and Ardor, Amaranthe, Ankor, Beast in Black, Charlotte Wessels, Dark Tranquillity, Dear Mother, Draconian, Dragonforce, Epica, Europe, Feuerschwanz, Gene Simmons Band, Jinjer, Marco Mendoza, Moonspell, Saxon, Testament, Vandenberg and Luna Kills, of which some pictures have never before seen on our site!
Progressive symphonic metal band Scardust shared their new single and video ‘RIP’, out now via Frontiers Music! Quite the epic track, if we may say so!
In anticipation of next week’s new album release ‘Duél’, Ukrainian metal icons Jinjer share the title track with a video. Get ready for this monster of a release to be out soon via Napalm Records! And catch them live on tour in Europe this summer, visiting a bunch of festivals, including Rockfest in Finland!
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!
