Belgian death metallers Abysmal Descent shared the new single ‘Labyrinth of Distress’ from their upcoming album ‘Dismal Thoughts’, set for release next week Friday October 31st via Nuclear Winter Records!
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News Posts
Austrian doom masters Endonomos celebrate the first anniversary of their latest album ‘Endonomos II – Enlightenment’ with a new video for the track ‘Inversion’, released with Argonauta Records!
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Primitive Law is set to release their most crushing album to date with ‘Observance’ later this month, out via Relapse Records, but today shared another monstrous and trance-like single with ‘Natural Law’!
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Newly confirmed for the Steelfest 2026 line-up: Demonical, Mavorim, Shape of Despair and underground legends Beherit. Last week also brought the exclusive and unique shows of Holocausto and Erzebet to the bill. Deströyer 666 is no longer part of the lineup.
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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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Southern California quintet SPITE shared a video for the title track from their upcoming album ‘New World Killer’, out at the end of October via Rise Records!
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Brutal Assault just unveiled a new wave of bands for its 2026 edition with The Sisters of Mercy and The Ghost Inside announced as headliners, but also a great selection of extreme metal and progressive/experimental representation!
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Galge recently dropped the new video and single ‘Nidding’, the third track shared from their upcoming album ‘Dødelig’, set for release in a couple of weeks on October 3rd!
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Finnish Hooded Menace released their crushing take on Duran Duran’s classic hit ‘Save a Prayer’, which is featured on their upcoming new album ‘Lachrymose Monuments of Obscuration’, set for release in October via Season of Mist!
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Headlining Tuska 2026 will be Bring Me The Horizon and Bad Omens, backed by a diverse first wave including The Plot In You, Blood Incantation, Queensrÿche, Kublai Khan TX, Malevolence, Soilwork, Rivers of Nihil, Ensiferum, Bloodred Hourglass, Majestica, Melrose Avenue, The Callous Daoboys and Neckbreakker!
We’re already getting excited for another memorable weekend of metal and alternative music in Helsinki! 3-day tickets are already available right now.
Which band are you looking forward to the most? Or still wishing for? Let us know in the comments!
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Album Reviews
Mexican duo The Chasm’s 9th album ‘The Scars of a Lost Reflective Shadow’ captures their old school aesthetics, offering a robust blend of their early albums.
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Viogression’s 3rd full-length album “3rd Stage of Decay” offers a heavy slab of old school death metal morbidity with unforgettable riffs that bear the late 80s and early 90s trademarks! Out via Satanath Records!
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Archgoat perfectly embodies the ancient aesthetic of war metal in their latest four-track EP “All Christianity Ends” which plunges you into the morbid realm of the Luciferian darkness, and was released via Debemur Morti Productions!
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San Antonio-Texas-based death metal four-piece Haunter has sown the seeds of success in its third full-length album ‘Discarnate Ails’, out via Profound Lore Records.
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‘Mass Destroyer’ is Demonical’s strongest album in the past decade. The result of their songwriting genius proves that Martin Schulman and Co. have kept their raw sinister core sound intact.
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Sentient Horror has mastered the sheer power of the Swedish style of death metal and the fact that they have left fans anticipating a return to action on the third album “Rites of Gore” is a powerful onslaught of aggression.
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Wairua is the spirit of a person. Like when you die, it’s the spirit, or wairua, that leaves the body. To me, it feels like we are a spirit, and we get to go on a journey through this EP
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Hellfrost And Fire’s debut album ‘Fire, Frost and Hell’ employs the expertise of Dave Ingram’s vocals as they bring together fresh old school elements from classic death metal.
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Father Befouled’s “Crowned In Veneficum” is an excellent follow-up to 2017 “Desolate Gods”. This is a solid album that combines sludgy guitars and brutality!
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