The second day brought quite a rockin’ out to the main stage with national heroes The 69 Eyes and Stratovarius and rock legends Mötley Crüe and Def Leppard.

The Swedish melodic metal/rock outfit Cyhra is back, and announced a brand-new full-length to be released in August via Nuclear Blast with ‘The Vertigo Trigger’ and unveiled the new single ‘Life Is A Hurricane’!

Ghost

Ghost is on tour in Europe spreading their ‘Impera’ gospel, and so we went to see them in Lille, France, and Ghost does not disappoint! Support came from Spiritbox and Lucifer!

If you are still looking for a great summer destination, here are 10 festivals that might make Finland the ideal place to go for you with #Horizon23, Rockfest, Tuhdimmat Tahdit, Nummirock, Tuska, John Smith Festival, SaariHelvetti, Dark River Festival, Hellsinki Metal Festival and Flow Festival!

Scorpions and Thundermother rocked Stuttgart during their stop on the ‘Rock Believer World Tour 2022/2023’. First class lights, sounds, and coverage of 50+ years of rock and song history from the Scorpions were exciting a large audience.

Shinedown, Three Days Grace and From Ashes to New rolled into town on a Thursday night for the “Revolutions Live Tour”, and they lit the house up and burned it down in front of a sold out crowd at the Allen County War Memorial Coliseum!

The legendary W.A.S.P. hit the stage at a sold out Kulttuuritalo in Helsinki during their world tour celebrating 40 years of uncompromising heavy metal. The anticipation of the Helsinki crowd was through the roof already from opening act Crazy Lixx!

Last week, when he was just about to embark on his European Electric Guitarlands solo tour, Gus G dropped a video for the track ‘Not Forgotten’ via AFM Records! Catch him on the road right now with the good company of Michael Angelo Batio (Manowar), Rowan Robertson (DIO) and Andy Martongelli, including at our very own Asgaard venue in a couple of weeks!

A chat with Mr. Lordi about the new Lordi album ‘Screem Writers Guild’ (out since March 31st via Atomic Fire Records), how he was inspired by the “Universal Monsters”, a couple of things he did differently for this album and how the process was to get to their new looks. He also gives us a brief update about a translation of his recently released monster of a book about everything Lordi!