The Helsinki Vampires are back! The 69 Eyes announced their upcoming new album ‘Death Of Darkness’, set for release in April via Atomic Fire Records! Don’t forget to catch them live on their Europe and US tours!

At the end of December, we managed to catch the shows of Shereign, Dirt and of course Oceanhoarse at the second edition of Hoarsefest at On The Rocks in Helsinki!

After several postponements, Hoarsefest finally happened again at the end of December at On The Rocks! The second edition of this unique event was right on the money again with great shows from Shereign, Dirt and Oceanhoarse!

Finnish heavy metal monsters Lordi announce their upcoming new album ‘Screem Writers Guild’ to be released in March via Atomic Fire Records and unleash first single ‘Lucyfer Prime Evil’!

A chat with Sara Strömmer of Shereign about the release of their debut album “Ghost Diaries”, the themes and artwork of the album, the planned release shows with Dark Sarah and how she would describe the band in images, with a very interesting result!

American heavy rockers of Carbellion unleashed their new single ‘Barfight’, from the upcoming new album ‘Weapons of Choice’, out in March via Eclipse Records!

Black and white photo of a concert shot from the right side of the stage. The left half of the image is darkened with the audience on the bottom left. Light streams in from the top right down to the middle center, illuminating the stage. The sihouette of a guitar player can be seen at the front of the stage, approaching the crowd.

After almost 30 years of rocking Flemish stages, the legendary Clement Peerens Explosition is calling it quits or as they would say “kuist zijn schup af”. A sad loss for Belgian music, but we were there to capture them going out with a blast at one of their farewell shows at De Roma in Antwerp.

VIDEO PREMIERE: The Norwegian hard rockers of Stargazer share the official video for ‘Can You Conceive It’, a song from their upcoming album ‘Life Will Never Be The Same’ out in March via Mighty Music!

The triumphant return of the Danish Volbeat to Munich for two sold-out nights at the Olympiahalle was quite the sight to behold, and with them came the ragga metallers of Skindred and US rockers Bad Wolves!

On a cold day in October, Volbeat came to warm us up with their hard rock and heavy metal circus at the Nokia Arena in Tampere, Finland. With them, they had the UK ragga metallers Skindred and the US rockers of Bad Wolves, and we saw it was good!