Progressive act Phendrana announce new album ‘Cathexis’ to be out in February 2026 and shared the title track with a mesmerizing video!
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Avantgarde metal trio Imperial Triumphant have announced ‘Merkurius Gilded’, a graphic novel exploring the band’s themes, lyrics and artwork, set to be published via their own Vile Luxe Press in December!
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Thy Catafalque shared a live video for the track ‘Ködkirály’, recorded at Dürer Kert, and just in time to prepare us for their select European dates including Alcatraz Festival in a couple of weeks!
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The Finnish underground scene welcomes a formidable new entity under the form of Entheomorphosis and their debut album ‘PYHÄ KUILU’ out in May via Svart Records! Featuring members from Dark Buddha Rising and the genre-defying Mr Peter Hayden/PH/Enphin, this will be yet another exciting entity coming from Finland!
Release show at this year’s edition of Sonic Rites Festival in Helsinki in the last weekend of May!
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Avantgarde metal trio Imperial Triumphant released the new single/video ‘Hotel Sphinx’, a track from their upcoming 6th full-length ‘Goldstar’, set for release in 2025 via Century Media Records!
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Saxophone-driven, instrumental, avan-garde/post-black metal eccentrics Five The Hierophant announced their new album ‘Apeiron’ set to be released in October via Agonia Records and unleashed a first single with ‘Initiatory Sickness’! Catch them on their just revealed tour in October to experience the new work!
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In case you missed it, Norway’s pioneers of avantgarde/progressive black metal Borknagar released the single ‘Nordic Anthem’ last week, another taste of the upcoming album ‘Fall’ set for release next month and an absolutely empowering tune!
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Avantgarde metal trio Imperial Triumphant dropped the new single and cover of Metallica’s ‘Motorbreath’. Out via Century Media Records!
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With a first batch of 14 names, 2023-s Steelfest XI is promising to be quite the impressive edition again with a solid line-up of the obscure, extreme and underground!
Enslaved revealed the cover art for ‘Utgard’, new release date and their participation in a Norwegian online music festival!
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Tolminator is already a quite unique and exceptional experience on its own, but they always seem to keep a keen eye on the scenes of different countries and know to pic some of the most promising acts for their line-ups. And this year, we get to welcome our friends of Marche Funèbre, Mordkaul and Brutal Sphincter to be part of the “Belgian Invasion”, but also 2 stellar acts from Finland with melodeath icons Omnium Gatherum and psychedelic black metal collective Oranssi Pazuzu!
While it’s a given that as a metalfan you’ll want to catch shows of Dimmu Borgir and Kerry King today at the first day of Tuska, we think that there are a couple more bands that deserve some of your attention, or that we think will be even more epic to see live than you might suspect with editorial picks Lord of the Lost’s festival opening show, I Am The Night, Infected Rain, Krypta, Suburban Tribe, Assemble The Chariots, Zeal & Ardor and Pendulum!
Our editor-in-chief Vaim’s selection of albums of the year has turned into an eclectic mix that brings both unbridled chaos and extremes while maintaining a level of catchy with releases from bands like Blackbraid, Cabal, Zeal & Ardor, Machine Head, Wolfheart, Wiegedood, Doodseskader, Malevolence, Psychonaut and The Callous Daoboys!
12 of the albums we’re looking forward the most in June, there are more, but these are really at the top of our lists! Check it out!
Photo Reports
Pictures of the second day of Hellsinki Metal Festival 2024 with on stage 3 shows from Mayhem, Trelldom and Havukruunu!
Another great night of the Coolhead Live concert series with metal icon Ihsahn, supported by some of the top of the Finnish scene with Before The Dawn, …and Oceans and Qwälen!
Festival Reports
Report of the first day of Tuska 2024 with Lord of the Lost, I Am The Night, Alestorm, Infected Rain, Kerry King, Zeal & Ardor and Pendulum!
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