Metalcore quartet Awake The Dreamer released their brand new single ‘Labyrinth’ via Arising Empire, a track about breaking free from the chains of the past and rising above struggles!

Dying Wish announced their new album ‘Symptoms of Survival’ to be released on November 3rd via SharpTone Records, and now shared the single ‘Lost in the Fall’ with a captivating video!

In anticipation of the release of their new album ‘Human’ on September 15th via Arising Empire, Resolve shares the new single ‘Older Days’ featuring ten56. and Paleface Swiss!

Tuska unleashed the first batch of bands for the 2024 line-up and it seems they put their chips strongly on modern metal/metalcore with Bring Me The Horizon, Bloodred Hourglass, Bury Tomorrow, Make Them Suffer, Infected Rain and Fixation, proggy music with Opeth, Vola, Voyager and Riverside, and power metal with Alestorm, Angus McSix and Brothers Of Metal. And of course, festival regulars Amorphis and Stam1na belong to the party as well!

What do you think of the line-up already? Who do you hope to be added still?

After a decade of silence from these legends, Job For A Cowboy are back with the single ‘The Agony Seeping Storm’, a first track from their upcoming new full-length to be released via Metal Blade Records!

British heavyweights Heart Of A Coward released a video for the new single ‘Surrender to Failure’, a track from their upcoming album ‘This Place Only Brings Death’, set for release next month via Arising Empire!

Modern metal act Of Virtue released their brand-new single and music video ‘Holy’ awhile back, taken from their upcoming album ‘Omen’, set for release via Arising Empire next month!

The first edition of Hellsinki Metal was absolutely epic, find some of the most memorable performances here with Pentagram, Priest, I Am Morbid, Bury Tomorrow, Emperor, Fit For An Autopsy and Watain!

A selection of our personal highlights in all the hardcore, punk, metalcore & co shows at Alcatraz 2023 with Trivium, Mad Sin, Converge, Agnostic Front, Biohazard, The Exploited, Heaven Shall Burn, Killswitch Engage and Electric Callboy!