The gates of Tuska 2025 are opening in about 4 hours, and the first day is going to be a blast with shows of Horizon Ignited, Blood Command, Knocked Loose, SKYND, Enemies Everywhere, Bambie Thug, Tyrantti and Bokassa that we believe you shouldn’t miss out on! What acts of today are you looking forward to the most?

Canadian/Belgian duo Ghostwoman are set to release their new album ‘Welcome to the Civilized World’ in September via Full Time Hobby and shared the new single & video ‘Alive’.

If you are still looking for a great summer destination, our homecountry of Belgium has some great events to offer, so here are 7 festivals that might make it a great place to go for you this year with the very last Wildfest this weekend, dunk!festival, Graspop Metal Meeting, Litha Fest, Lokerse Feesten, Rock Werchter and Alcatraz!

If you are still looking for a great summer destination, here are 12 festivals that might make Finland the ideal place to go for you this year with Sonic Rites this weekend, Rockfest, Tuhdimmat Tahdit, Nummirock, Tuska, John Smith Festival, SaariHelvetti, Dark River Festival, Hellsinki Metal Festival, the CoolHead Live concert series, Sastamalan Torijuhlat and Hevipäivät!

With Kami Kehoe, Ekoh, and Colorblind working together, three of the most electrifying forces in the alternative scenes united forces to create the new song ‘Safehouse’, inspired by the recent California wildfires and to support the efforts to help those impacted!

While still on tour with Heilung at the moment, Eivør just announced a European headline tour in fall this year with special guest Ásgeir and support by her younger sister Elinborg!

For the soundtrack of yesterday’s released movie ‘Queen of the Ring’, Kittie, The Pretty Wild and Diamante joined forces to bring an emotionally gripping cover of Metallica’s ‘The Unforgiven’ into this world! The movie soundtrack is out now via Sumerian Records!


Our site is dedicated to everything rock and metal with a few sidesteps in music that appeals to the same music fans like synthwave, neo (pagan) folk, industrial,… But some of us do have a taste for music and art that goes beyond these limitations. Enter “GRIMM goes rogue”: where you’ll get a metalhead, punker, rocker,… who ventures into realms beyond their usual habitat with an open mind and give their honest opinion, views and experiences.

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Frank Zappa



Avant-pop project SPELLING announces the new album ‘Portrait of My Heart’ to be released in March via Sacred Bones, and shares a video for the first single and title track!

Dynamic Central Queensland alternative trio ViperSnatch released their new single ‘Therapy’, out via Golden Robot Records! A deeply emotional track about the trauma left by the SA young women have to experience regularly.

After an incredible year for Gåte, the round up things with the brand-new song ‘På veg’, released via Indie Recordings, and a last series of shows taking them through Europe in December!