Progressive symphonic extreme metal force Tómarúm signed with Vesperian, the beginning of what promises to be an exciting new chapter!
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Black/death metal force Belphegor announced the “Praise The Beast European Tour 2026” to take place in October this year with the support of Krisiun, Asagraum and a 4th yet to be announced band! You won’t want to miss out on this night of brutality!
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Left To Die is unleashing their debut full-length ‘Initium Mortis’ with Relapse next month and unveiled another track with ‘Witch of Hell’! Catch them live this summer at European festivals, including Alcatraz Festival in Belgium!
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BAEST announces fellow Aarhus metal outfit Deadnate as special guests on their upcoming Europe Fall “Colossal tour 2026”, bringing together 2 Danish bands to showcase what their country has to offer for the next generation of heavy music!
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Belgian avantgatde extreme metal band Emptiness recently released the single ‘The Threat’ a second teaser of what is to come on their upcoming album ‘Nowhere Speask’, set for release in July via Season of Mist!
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UK outfit Burner announced their album ‘No One Is Coming To Save Us’ to be released in September with Church Road Records and unveiled single and music video ‘Sunrise, Parabellum’ featuring Matthew K. Heavy of Trivium!
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Supergroup Left To Die signed to Relapse Records to release their debut full-length ‘Initium Mortis’ in July! A band paying proper homage to the brutal beginnings of metal icons Death, now unleashing a first track with ‘Archangel’! Catch them live in Europe this summer at festivals like Alcatraz and Brutal Assault!
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Tokyo death metal legends Defiled unleashed the third and last single from their upcoming album ‘Altered State’ with the title track! The full-length is out next month with Season of Mist!
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Belgian death metal force Carnation unleashed yet another savage new single with ‘Flesh-Eating Frenzy’, from their album ‘Symphony In Flesh’, out in October!
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Brutal Records is proud to announce the signing of Finnish old school death metal entity Korpsesoturi for the release of their upcoming album ‘Korplish Sedamon’!
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After 2 years of delays, Steelfest is taking out all the stops with 4 days of underground metal madness in a celebration of their 10th anniversary!
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The organization behind SteelFest couldn’t wait any longer and decided to call a one-off Summer edition “SteelHordes” into life, and this is why you should go.
Will this be among one of the first bigger festivals of the Summer to bring about the end of this pandemic? I think so! Come to Obscene Extreme Fest 2021 for a good time!
It’s Winter but it’s not dark enough to your liking? The Finnish underground fest SteelChaos might be the place to be for you…
Evil Or Die Fest is ready again to kick some serious but with the best of Belgian and international hardcore and metal scene!
A preview of the first edition of Dynamo Metalfest that is longer than just 1 day!
A young festival made by fans for fans, Goathell holds a lot of promise!
Tuska 2019 promises to be exciting with a very solid line-up and a couple of major changes!
Soon it’s that time of the year again we’ve been looking forward to: Steelfest Open Air opens its doors and starts the Finnish festival season. The second edition of SteelChaos […]
The winds are turning to winter and so the time of Eindhoven Metal Meeting is coming close again!
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Finland’s summer festival season is stacked again. From underground black metal rituals to lakeside legends and city concerts with global names, we picked 12 events worth your time this summer with Steelfest, Allas Live, Sonic Rites, Ankea, Nummirock, Tuska, CoolHead Live, Dark River Festival, John Smith Rock, Ilosaarirock, Hellsinki Metal Festival and SaariHelvetti
Who says festival season ends with summer? In Finland, the dark months come alive with music: experience the true punk spirit at HKI SKEPU FEST (starting tonight), get in touch with your ancestors and nature at Pakanafestarit, discover new talent at Lost In Music, embrace the shadows at Hellsinki Industrial Festival, sail into chaos with the Hellsinki Metal Cruise, sink into sorrow at Melancholy Mass Festivals, and feel the fire indoors at John Smith Rock Frozen. When the nights are long, Finland turns the volume up.
For the second day of Alcatraz 2025, our team picked out 8 bands we believe you shouldn’t miss out on with Myrath, KNIFE, Baest, Drowning Pool, Rivers of Nihil, Nailbomb, Caliban and Avatar! What bands are you really looking forward to for this Friday at Alcatraz? Let us know in the comments!
Brutal Assault is a proper celebration of everything that is metal and/or extreme and there is something great to be found at any time of the day! We picked out 8 bands that you should go see on the fourth day of this year’s edition, with Crypta, Hanabie., Brujeria, Harakiri For The Sky, King Woman, Gost, Hellbutcher and Priest because they’re more than worth it!
Brutal Assault is a proper celebration of everything that is metal and/or extreme and there is something great to be found at any time of the day! We picked out 8 bands that you should go see on the first day of this year’s edition, with High Parasite, Gutalax, Landmvrks, Blood Fire Death, Slow Crush, Patriarchy, Fear Factory and Drowning Pool, because they’ll be more than worth your time!
On the last day of Alcatraz 2025, we get 10 more fantastic Belgian bands served up, going from mesmerizing atmosphere makers like Briqueville and Alkerdeel, to absolute mayhem from bands like Bark, Devastatiön, Slaughter Messiah and Cobracide, hardcore legends Congress and Whatever It Takes, rockers Promise Down or goth-tinged heavy metallers Cult of Scarecrow! Something for everyone and again proof how rich the Belgian heavy music scene is…
This weekend is the highlight for us and many among us in Belgium with the 2025 edition of Alcatraz Festival, but if you still haven’t decided to go, here are 10 reasons why we believe you should just go ahead and go get you some tickets still… What are you looking forward to the most for this year’s edition?
Only a handful of days left before Helsinki gets a healthy shot of heavy and dark music with the third edition of Hellsinki Metal Festival! If you’re still confused and wondering if you should go or not, check out 8 reasons we believe should convince you… Beware, get your tickets today as tomorrow the price will go up again!
From the amazing line-up of Tolminator 2025 we picked 10 acts we believe deserves your attention and time for you to check out at the festival if you’re there or at home if you’re not. A couple of them already played yesterday, like Vulvarine, High Parasite and Ghost Bath, but there is still plenty to discover and see with bands like Midnight, Cro-mags, Me And That Man, Party Cannon, Insanity Alert, Dopethrone and Mimi Barks!
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!
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