Rising metal powerhouse The Pretty Wild recently unleashed their latest offering with ‘AFTERLIFE (feat. Magnolia Park)’, another track of their upcoming album ‘zero.point.genesis’, set to be released in November with Sumerian Records!
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For those who missed the announcement, in Spring 2026, Europe will be invaded by this massive “Mutation Phase In Europe” tour with co-headliners Infected Rain and Butcher Babies and support from Black Spikes! This is one you want to mark in your calendar!
Black Satellite unveiled a fiery music video for the single ‘Doom or Die’, taken from their recently released album ‘Aftermath’!
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Rise Of The Northstar unveiled their final preview track ‘Falcon’ from upcoming album ‘CHAPTER 04: RED FALCON SUPER BATTLE! NEO PARIS WAR!!’, out next month! Catch them on tour in Europe with Half Me, Get The Shot and Deez Nuts or in the summer of 2026 where they’ll return to festivals like Alcatraz!
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Alt-metal titans The Veer Union are back with their new single ‘Sunk Your Teeth In’, from their upcoming album ‘Reinvention’, set for release in February 2026 via Arising Empire!
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Entheos unveiled the new video single ‘Empty on the Inside’, out now via Metal Blade Records, just in time for their first ever North American headlining tour to start next week!
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Tuska is bringing Megadeth to its 2026 line-up as the headliner for the Friday and adds 13 more bands to the line-up with Trivium, P.O.D., Stam1na, Lost Society, Paleface Swiss, Return To Dust, The Browning, Dogma, Slope, 802, Allt, Atlas and Kneel Before The Death! All ticket classes are available right now!
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Avatar unleashed the new single and video ‘Death and Glitz’, another track from their upcoming album ‘Don’t Go in the Forest’, set for release by the end of this month!
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The 18th edition of Alcatraz is shaping up to be historic with headliners Arch Enemy and Alestorm, legends like Soulfly, Saxon, Body Count, Rose Tattoo, extreme assaults from Immolation, Internal Bleeding, 200 Stab Wounds, Sanguisugabogg, and modern favorites like Kittie, Northlane, Animals As Leaders, The Ghost Inside.
We’re especially thrilled to see the Belgian flag flying high again with Channel Zero, Amenra, Enthroned, Psychonaut and Mantah on the bill. And let’s not forget our longtime Finnish favorites Luna Kills, making a big step onto the Alcatraz stage!
On top of that, the Prison Stage opens already on the Thursday for the first time ever, and day ticket prices are lower than 2025 right now!
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Sydney alternative metal outfit Reliqa are back with their punding new single ‘Your Touch’, out right now with a video via Nuclear Blast!
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The ever popular Swedish metalcore outfit Imminence came to blow us away at a completely sold out On The Rocks in Helsinki, with the help of the energy bomb that is Blood Command to set things off!
A SKILLET show is every time quite the experience! As they were touring Europe as part of their ‘Day Of Destiny Tour 2023’, we made sure we caught them at one of their stops, at LKA Longhorn in Stuttgart, Germany to be more specific. The energy was through the roof and the place got steaming hot! With support from Like A Storm and Eva Under Fire.
Electric Callboy came to set a huge 2-day party in Helsinki and even though it was a Monday night, the energy went through the roof. With support from the lovely people of Future Palace, it was a night to remember.
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!
Fozzy is saving the world by bringing their rock ‘n’ roll to stages all around! We caught them at their sold out show at The King of Clubs in Columbus, OH where they kicked ass with the support of Seventh Day Slumber and The Nocturnal Affair!
Lost Society blew the roof off a sold out Tavastia in Helsinki, and brought with them the metalcore upstarts Balance Breach and our favorite alt-rockers Luna Kills!
Indian metal sensation Bloodywood and UK alternative metallers Lake Malice demolished the Backstage venue in Munich, Germany!
A mix and explosion of different sounds from post-metal and post-rock to hardcore and sludge and everything in between, presented by Heriot, Holy Fawn and Rolo Tomassi at Feierwerk in Munich, Germany!
A massive celebration of Turmion Kätilöt’s carreer of several decades long at Helsinki’s Black Box Jäähalli with support from Lord Of The Lost and Proteus!
Blind Channel’s biggest show to date was a visual spectacle and everything they’ve worked towards for all these years! With support from Arttu Lindeman, it was a great way to wrap up an amazing year.
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