News Posts

Finnish alternative metal outfit Stråle released their new single ‘Close Is Not Enough’, a taste of their upcoming album that is to be released later this year via FDA Records. Catch them live in Finland or at the end of the year on the Motocultor Across Europe Tour with Orphaned Land, Dirty Shirt, Royal Rage and Ring Of Gyges!

Aussie metalcore behemoths Alpha Wolf announced their upcoming brand-new album ‘Half Living Things’, set for release in April via Greyscale Records and SharpTone Records, and shared their explosive new single ‘Sucks 2 Suck’ featuring the legendary Ice-T!

Bad Omens and Poppy join forces on the new single ‘V.A.N’, out now via Sumerian Records right before their joint European tour starts this Saturday in Berlin!

Profiler brings back that sound of the contagious nineties Seattle grunge movement and the explosion of nu metal dominating the 00s and shared the third and last single ‘Operator’ in anticipation of their debut album ‘A Digital Nowhere’ set for release next month via SharpTone Records!

SoCal alt-metal foursome Alien Ant Farm are back after a long musical hibernation with the single ‘So Cold’ and the announcement of their new album ‘~mAntras~’ being released in April independently!

Platinum-selling rock juggernaut P.O.D. has officially announced their upcoming new album ‘Veritas’ to be released in May via Mascot Records and unleashed an absolute anthem with the single ‘I Won’t Bow Down’!

GHØSTKID announced their upcoming album ‘HOLLYWOOD SUICIDE’ to be released in March via Century Media Records and unleashed a video for the single ‘FSU’!

Crossover outfit Slope present the 4th single and video ‘WHY SAD’ from their highly anticipated upcoming album ‘Freak Dreams’, set for release next month via Century Media Records!

British alternative metallers Neonfly are set to tour Finland with Cyhra this February, visiting Tampere, Helsinki and Oulu on a tour organized by Nem Agency!

Modern rock/metal outfit Smash Into Pieces are aiming straight for 2024 with new single ‘Trigger’ from their upcoming full-length album ‘GHOST CODE’, set for release in April!

Gig Reports

A lovely live event with Evanescence, one of those bands that has been around for ages and still cranks out quality music time after time.

Finnish melodic metal outfit Crimson Sun released their latest album ‘Fates’, What better than a release show in a dark cellar to celebrate?

Lacuna Coil brought Cellar Darling and a touch of Christmas spirit to Belgium and we were there!

Papa Roach is back to celebrate their latest album “Crooked Teeth” and show that they can convince young and old to go nuts on their music!

Machinae Supremacy got the geeks in Finland united for a night! And the party was complete with the addition of violent poppers Blind Channel and “party” metalcore outfit One Morning Left!

We got to chance to join CoB and their fans in Helsinki, celebrating 20 years of “Lake Bodom”!

Photo Reports

The pictures of a wild night with Mors Subita, Shereign and I Am Your God at On The Rocks in Helsinki!

Pictures of Blood Command at On The Rocks in Helsinki, Finland.

We caught the renown German metalcore outfit Annisokay killing it at the Backstage venue in Munich, with the support of 2 promising bands with Fixation and To Kill Achilles!

Every year the Lost in Music Festival brings around 100 Artists to Tampere, showcasing what the Nordic region has to offer of music. And we made it to one of the shows happening at Olympia-Kortteli, featuring rising stars Bloodred Hourglass, One Morning Left and Shereign. It was packed, it was hot and it was a big party!

The Sonata Arctica “Arctic Storm Finland Tour 2023” has been a massive success, and we got to go to one of the first stops at Pakkahuone in Tampere. With them, they’re bringing the glam rock favorites Reckless Love and the energetic alternative rock/metal upstarts Luna Kills!

Catharsis at it’s finest, join Shinedown, Papa Roach and Spiritbox for a night you won’t forget. Welcome to the Revolutions Live Tour.

The last day of a long and exhausting weekend of great music and atmosphere was all about the Belgian music scene at La Morgue with Aeveris, Brutal Sphincter, Hexa Mera, Mantah and Reject The Sickness!

On the first day of Alcatraz 2023, we caught Eleine, Wind Rose, Rise of the Northstar, Bury Tomorrow, Powerwolf and Michael Schenker Group taking over the Prison Stage (mainstage)!

There was “Nothing to Gein” the first Friday of August in Ohio except metal bands that absolutely melted our faces off, with the Mudvayne “Psychotherapy Sessions” tour dropping by with support from Coal Chamber, GWAR, Nonpoint and Butcher Babies!

An Ice Nine Kills show is an absolute visual spectacle, and we were at one of their completely sold out shows in Finland at Vanha Ylioppilastalo in Helsinki with support from SKYND and Lansdowne!