Southern California quintet SPITE announced their new album ‘NEW WORLD KILLER’ to be out via Rise Records on Halloween and shared the new single & video ‘LIGHTS OUT’!
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Hispanic metal project Impureza unleashed a cinematic music video for ‘Covadonga’ where the fiery flamenco dance embodies the fusion of tradition and extreme their recent album ‘Alcázares’ stands for! Out with Season of Mist!
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Prog death metal masters Fallujah are paying tribute to extreme metal pioneers Meshuggah with their music video for ‘The Obsidian Architect’, a track from their latest album ‘Xenotaph’ out via Nuclear Blast!
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Finnish death/doom mastodons Hooded Menace reawaken classic horror on new single ‘Pale Masquerade’ another track from their upcoming album ‘Lachrymose Monuments of Obscuration’, set for release in October via Season of Mist!
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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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Danish extreme metal outfit Galge shared second single ‘Genklang’ with some captivating visuals, from their upcoming album ‘Dødelig’, set for release in the beginning of October!
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Funeral doom titans Evoken announce new album ‘Mendacium’ to be released in October via Profound Lore Records and share a first track with album opener ‘Matins’!
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Manchester’s savage sons WODE return with their fourth album ‘Uncrossing The Keys’, out in October with 20 Buck Spin, shared the single ‘Transmutation’ and opened preorders for the album!
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Dungeon doom/death/black trio Cultic brings warlocks and dragons by unleashing the video single ‘Nomad’, a track from their upcoming third album ‘Lore’, out in October via Eleventh Key Records!
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Ukranian blackened death metal force 1914 announced their new album ‘Viribus Unitis’ to be released in November via Napalm Records and shared a first taste with ‘1916 (The Südtirol Offensive)’!
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Swedish cult death metal band Wombbath return with their seventh studio album “Beyond the Abyss”, and is highly recommended for fans of obscure extreme metal, out since yesterday via Pulverised Records.
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Third studio album “Fentanyl” from German blackened doom/death metal quartet Morast is equally dark and misanthropic, out via Ván Records.
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The new album “Revelations from the Void” of the Catalonian death doom sextet Onirophagus is rooted in the style of classic death doom metal. Recommended for fans of Officium Triste, Saturnus, and early My Dying Bride, out via Personal Records.
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Sophomore release “Carnage Gathers” delivers a solid slab of primitivism from the Vancouver, British Colombia-based death metal quartet Grave Infestation. Out via Dark Descent Records on February 28th.
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Retromorphosis is a newly spawned technical death metal entity featuring ex-members of Spawn of Possession, Obscura and Decrepit Birth. Their debut album “Psalmus Mortis” is highly recommended for fans of Fleshgod Apocalypse, Gorguts and Nocturnus AD, out since yesterday via Season of Mist!
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Copenhagen-based death metal quartet Phrenelith has returned to conquer again with third studio album “Ashen Womb”, out via Dark Descent Records and Me Saco Un Ojo since February 7th, essential for fans of Incantation, Convulse, and Spectral Voice.
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Debut album “The Diseased Machine” from London’s death metal quintet Mutagenic Host packs heavy aggression of old-school death metal with spacey themes. Out via Dry Cough Records since January 3rd.
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The old-school death metal vein of Russia’s Pyre will not disappoint fans of early Asphyx and Entombed. Their third album “Where Obscurity Sways” is a must for aficionados of death/doom metal, out via Osmose Productions!
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Aeon of Awareness’ new album ‘Rarohenga’, named after the subterranean realm where spirits of the deceased dwell after death, according to Māori tradition, is an excellent result of the band expressing themselves through the music itself and the deeper meaning between the lines. Out independently this Friday!
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Molder’s death/thrash savagery is perfected on their third studio album “Catastrophic Reconfiguration”, out via Prosthetic Records since November 8th.
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The first Tuska 2023 day is here! In a handful of hours the gates will open and 3 days of heavy music will begin! Besides the headliners and some big names, we’ve picked out about 10 bands and artists we believe you should give a shot while you’re at Tuska this weekend with Vended, Kouta, Foreseen and Miseria Ultima today, A.A. Williams, Orbit Culture, Dirt and Nakkeknækker tomorrow, and Vermilia and URNE on Sunday!
If you are still looking for a great summer destination, here are 10 festivals that might make Finland the ideal place to go for you with #Horizon23, Rockfest, Tuhdimmat Tahdit, Nummirock, Tuska, John Smith Festival, SaariHelvetti, Dark River Festival, Hellsinki Metal Festival and Flow Festival!
Steelfest manages to impress with their line-up and organization every single year, and this year is no different, even after some recent setbacks! We’re amazed with the line-up that celebrates everything that is underground and extreme yet again, and that’s only a part of the reasons why you should still try to make it to the fest this weekend!
As the festival summer is quickly approaching, May sees many great releases yet again. Our team of writers put together a nice selection of those they are looking forward to the most this month with Deathstars, Cattle Decapitation, Veil Of Maya, The Dark Side Of The Moon, Ghost, Thulcandra, Frozen Soul, Sleep Token, Henget, Vomitory, Immortal, Kalmah and Legion Of The Damned!
with a killer line-up featuring stellar acts from the underground with Satanic Warmaster, Ævangelist, Archgoat, Trollheims Grott, Heretic, Blood Chalice, Aesthus, Flame, Malicious, Medico Peste, Mörk Gryning and Avslut to celebrate their 10th anniversary!
February has some great releases again, and we’re looking forward to albums from artists like Memoriam, In Flames, Paramore, dEUS, Mordkaul, Ulthar, Avatar, The Abbey, Insomnium, Host, Gorillaz and Heidevolk!
As usual, Mazen’s top albums are a mix of death metal, black metal and a touch of doom metal, heralding everything that is underground and extreme with bands like Phobophilic, Autopsy, Stormruler, Watain, Shape of Despair, Ars Hmu, Sedimentum, Chaotian, Trolldom and Immolation!
2023 starts off with quite the bang with new releases from VV, Anti-Flag, Imperium Dekadenz, Turmion Kätilöt, Katatonia, Kiberspassk, …and Oceans, Obituary, Suasion, Dropout Kings and Vėlių Namai!
Steelchaos is back! If that is not reason enough to get yourself a ticket still, here are 5 reasons why you should still consider to go this weekend, including the exclusive Finland “Black Metal” 40 years anniversary show of Venom Inc.!
The music industry is at it again at full force after the festival season with a massive amount of really cool releases coming out, just look at the number of our most anticipated releases for September have grown into and then we probably could have included more still. With new albums from Blind Guardian, Yungblud, Wolfheart, Slipknot, Starcrawler, Lost Society, The Hu, Vermin Womb, Vermilia, Bloodbath, Slugcrust, Electric Callboy, Innumerable Forms, Tribal Gaze, Gaerea and Graceless, it’ll be quite the month again!
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After a well-deserved summer break, the new season opened with a bang. Fat Bastard Promotions and Asgaard managed to book 1914, one of the most interesting bands of the last decade. Bokkerijders was chosen as support. No wonder the tickets flew out the door. After a few days, the event was hopelessly sold out.
Pictures of the artists on the Radio City and OPEN AIR II stage of the second day of Tuska 2024, with Ankor, Devourment, Make Them Suffer and Turmion Kätilöt!
Steelfest XII brought a great collection of stellar underground bands to the festival’s indoor stage with headliner Mysticum, the current iteration of Horna with vocalist Spellgoth, Denial of God, White Death, Diocletian and Ifernach on the first day of the 3-day fest
The outdoor stage on the 2nd day of Steelfest XII was the place for explosive and often high velocity performances by Kroda, Infernal War, Ved Buens Ende, Délétère, and Corpsessed!
The first day of Steelfest XII also brought a series of explosive and high energy performances to the outdoor stage with Unleashed, Aeternus, Hellbutcher, Craft, and Deathchain!
Earlier this year, 3 excellent Belgian bands rocked our venue Asgaard with their music. One for one bands you should check out, with hardcore/deathcore from Despite Us, modern metal from Noord and pummeling death metal from Catharsis! An event presented to us by Fly Productions!
Turmion Kätilöt came to Tampere’s Pakkahuone for a big Easter party. Along came Japanese black metal legends Sigh and Finnish melodeath doomsters Marianas Rest. An event by Nem Agency and Tullikamari Tampere.
In January, as it happens on the regular, we hosted a night with local talents at our Asgaard venue in Gent, Belgium, with Powerstroke, Hudiç, and what ended up being the last show of Beyond Our Sight!
A selection of Jonna’s best captures of 2023, with pictures from bands Butcher Babies, Electric Callboy, Ghost, Glenn Hughes, Gojira, In Flames, Lorna Shore, The Hu, Ville Valo, Chamber of Unlight, Asagraum, Monuments, Sodom, Batushka, Blind Guardian, and Apocalyptica!
A selection of Vaim’s best captures of 2023, after a long and grueling process of elimination, with pictures from bands like Battle Beast, Gaerea, Trollheim’s Grott, Avslut, Der Weg einer Freiheit, Amenra, Igorrr, Aesthetic Perfection, HIDE, SKYND, Ice Nine Kills, Utuk Xul, Rancid, Sick Of It All, Stratovarius, Testament, Michael Monroe, Volbeat, Hellacopters, Pensées Nocturnes, Amorphis, Biohazard, Killswitch Engage, Converge, Agnostic Front, Taake, Public Image Ltd, A.A. Williams, Butcher Babies, Clutch, Finntroll, Electric Callboy, Ghost, Gojira, Imperial Triumphant, Lorna shore, The Hu and Urne!
