Progressive alt-metal band Stellar Circuits have announced their upcoming new album ‘Phantom :: Phoenix’ to be out in November with Nuclear Blast and shared a first single and the opening track ‘I See Your Spirit’!
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Alternative metal band Glasgow Kiss signs a worldwide exclusive deal with Eclipse Records for the release of their upcoming album ‘Down In Flames’, coming in December!
Raven Black recently unleashed dual darkness with the 2 new tracks ‘Cry of the Raven’ (channeling her struggles with mental health) and ‘Dead’ (a vampire-themed power metal track)!
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Heavy music pioneers Kittie mark the 25th anniversary of landmark debut album with the ‘Spit XXV’ EP, featuring updated and re-recorded versions of 4 of the album’s biggest tracks, out in September via Sumerian Records and shared the modern version of the title track!
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Danish electro death metal band Lightchapter released the fourth and final single ‘Restore My Faith in Sanity’ in anticipation of their second album ‘Where All Hope Begins’ being released on September 26!
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Texas metal quartet GORE. announced their new EP ‘If You Do Not Fear Me…’ to be out in October via Spinefarm Records and shared the track ‘Wrath’!
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Fleshwater reveal the track ‘Last Escape’ from their upcoming full-length ‘2000: In Search of the Endless Sky’, set for release in the beginning of September with Closed Casket Activities!
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Finnish progressive metal force is gearing up to release their new album ‘INNERDEEPS’ with InsideOutMusic next month and recently shared the new beautiful and deadly single ‘Bloodflower’! Catch them later this year on tour in Europe with Leprous!
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Modern metal powerhouse Dymytry Paradox signs with Reaper Entertainment and announced their new single ‘Red Sky Remains’ to be out in September!
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At the start of this month, Papa Roach unleashed the official music video for the track ‘BRAINDEAD’, featuring Toby Morse of H2O. Catch them still on the remaining handful of summer dates in Europe with a show at Pukkelpop in Belgium this Sunday!
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Photo Reports
At the end of January, Battle Beast and Merta came through Tampere’s Pakkahuone for a powerful sold out show presented by Tuhdimmat Tahdit and Master Events.
A selection of 30 photos that Helder likes a lot from one of his most productive year considering covering concerts, including captures of Fear Factory, Atreyu, Jinjer, Rolo Tomassi, Stone, The Kooks, Pixies, Wunderhorse, Yours Truly, You Me at Six, Lake Malice, Bloodywood, Epica, Avatar, The 69 Eyes, Nova Twins, Cam Cole, Sabaton, The Lumineers, Grailknights, All For Metal, The Baboon Show, Combichrist, Megaherz, The BossHoss, Cancer Bats, Kvelertak, Fixation, Ignea, and Butcher Babies.
Besides starting the new year properly looking to the future, this month we’re also still looking back at all the awesomeness that 2023 brought us. One of those awsome things was the already 3rd edition of the by Bloodred Hourglass curated festival Black Box Mikkeli. They were able to bring a killer line-up again on the 2nd day of their event with besides a fantastic show by themselves, Insomnium, Gaerea, Balance Breach, I Am Your God and Lastout!
We set the hard task for our photographers to choose the best 30 pictures that they have shot in 2023 out of possibly thousands of captures, and here is the result of Tom Treuten’s selection with Butcher Babies, Fateful Finality, Fear Factory, Thundermother, Hypocrisy, Spiritbox, Behemoth, Dog Eat Dog, The Cult, Skillet, Agnostic Front, Scorpions, May The Silence Fail, Cannibal Corpse, Ataraxy, Dark Funeral, Goldmann, Solstafir, Ingested, Antiheld, Lansdowne, Völkerball (Rammstein Tribute), Fettes Brot, Danko Jones, Royal Republic, Team Tot, and Mindead!
Welcoming events that try to bring something different and out of the norm to Finland, we went to the second night of the club festival Hellsinki Techfest with Sirkuit Preiker, Khroma, Balance Breach and Hacktivist back in September for some killer music and high energy!
Nonpoint, one of our photographers’ favorite bands to see live, made a stop at The Eclectic Room in Angola, Indiana on their “The Milliion Watts Tour 2023” and with the help of (hed)pe, Sumo Cyco and VRSTY turned the night in an absolute barn burner!
Shereign finished off their year with a gig at Tampere YO-Talo on December 9th, organized by Nem Agency. They brought along Ikinä, Everwave and Lastout to make the night complete with up-and-coming Finnish artists.
The second night of John Smith Rock Frozen 2023 was pretty epic with some of the best of the Finnish scene with Red Eleven, Kiuas, Finntroll, Turmion Kätilöt and headliners Amorphis! Throw on top of that the Swedish up-and-comers of Orbit Culture, and you know it was good!
Close to the end of the year 2023 there was an event that has left headbangers around the world in ecstatic anticipation—the Fear Factory ‘DisrupTour 2023’. This monumental tour brings together a powerhouse line-up featuring the ferocious Butcher Babies, Ignea and Ghosts of Atlantis. As these bands join forces, they promise to deliver an unforgettable experience for metal enthusiasts, showcasing a diverse range of styles within the genre.
The last Wednesday night of November at The Clyde Theatre in Fort Wayne, Indiana was definitely NOT a “Nightmare” or a cause for “Panic” for fans anxiously waiting to catch a stop on the “Blackout Tour” with From Ashes to New, The Word Alive, Catch Your Breath and Ekoh!
