The first Tuska 2023 day is here! In a handful of hours the gates will open and 3 days of heavy music will begin! Besides the headliners and some big names, we’ve picked out about 10 bands and artists we believe you should give a shot while you’re at Tuska this weekend with Vended, Kouta, Foreseen and Miseria Ultima today, A.A. Williams, Orbit Culture, Dirt and Nakkeknækker tomorrow, and Vermilia and URNE on Sunday!

Filth Is Eternal announced their upcoming new album ‘Find Out’ set for release via MNRK Heavy in September and unleashed first single ‘Crawl Space’, which is nothing short of a punk anthem!

Vancouver’s Hardball put a new spin on grunge, infusing it with hardcore punk on the single ‘Worried As Shit’. Fans of Nirvana, Wipers and Hüsker Dü, you may want to pay attention…

The Hickey Underworld is back! After a break of eight years, they are ready to slap you in the face once again with their quirky alternative rock music. We caught them at their show at Great Gigs in the Park in Sint-Niklaas, Belgium together with the space rock/psych punk of Penus and poetry reading from Johan Sebastiaan Stuer.

One of our reporters survived Punk Rock Bowling & Music Festival 2023 in Las Vegas last month, and once he got sobered up and rested, he managed to remember 10 absolute highlights of the event!

A good week ago at Rockfest 2023, shortly before his set at the festival, we met up with Finnish rock ‘n’ roll icon Michael Monroe, where he talked candidly about meeting Vince Neil for the first time, reconnecting with Nikki Sixx, an upcoming Michael Monroe album, the documentary about his life that is coming really soon now, the recent Lords Of The New Church reunion show and more!

‘Okemah Rising’ is the second volume of Dropkick Murphys versions of Woody Guthrie lyrics set to their own music. Out via Dummy Luck.