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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Finnish death metal outfit Plague Vessel sign with Memento Mori and are preparing to release their debut album with their new label in 2026!
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The legendary Finnish metal band Soulgrind is back after 15 years with new music under the form of their tenth album ‘Ad Pulchram Mortem’, set for release with Inverse Records and a first single and video ‘Jylhä metsämies’!
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Finnish death metal unit Abhorrence honours the Great Old Ones of death metal and unleashed the single and video ‘Old Age, Sickness and Death Metal’ as a tribute to Possessed and the 40th anniversary of the album that started it all: ‘Seven Churches’!
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Finnish death doom mastodons Hooded Menace are casting their music in ghoulish new light on their upcoming new album ‘Lachrymose Monuments of Obscuration’, set for release in October with Season of Mist and shared its lead single ‘Portrait Without a Face’!
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Diabolical black death metal force Belphegor are back with their blazing new single ‘Sanctus Diaboli Confidimus’, the first new work released on their new label Reigning Phoenix Music!
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Swedish death metal legends Unleashed released their new album ‘Fire Upon Your Lands’ with Napalm Records today and offered a lyric video for the emotional track ‘To My Only Son’.
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Photo Reports
Our Benelux and France head of accreditation and most active photographer in that region, Tom VM, made his own selection of favorite pictures he took in 2023, including some new stuff that wasn’t shared on our site before with Biohazard, Bleed From Within, Brutal Sphincter, Brutus, Electric Callboy, Michael Schenker Group, Sepultura, Arion, Blackrain, Overdrivers, Avatar, Winery Dogs, Charlotte Wessels, Devin Townsend, Dream Theater, Extreme, Ghost, Michael Angelo Batio, Arch Enemy, Doodseskader, Halestorm, I Prevail, Powerwolf and SKYND!
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!
Without question, the biggest deathcore band in the world, Lorna Shore made their stop at Jäähalli, the biggest venue in Helsinki, bringing their biggest stage production yet to a sold out crowd on their “The Pain Remains EU Tour”, and with them they had Rivers of Nihil, Ingested and Distant, resulting in massive pits from start to finish!
Nem Agency’s Melancholy Mass Festival made Finland’s dark winter nights just a bit better by bringing us Septicflesh, …And Oceans, Vorna, Assemble The Chariots and Voidfallen on the stage in Tampere and Helsinki.
The Polish black metal institution Batushka brought their unholy sermon to the halls of Helsinki’s Vanha Ylioppilastalo and brought with them the Russian pagans of Arkona, the pretty epic Canadian Aeternam and Latvian vikings of Varang Nord!
On Thursday November 16, Mors Subita made it to Klubi, Tampere for one of their ‘Origin of Fire’ release shows, in good company of Marianas Rest. Nem Agency presented a nice evening of Finnish metal.
Cavalera re-recorded the first two albums of Sepultura (‘Bestial Devastation’ and ‘Morbid Visions’) and are touring the world with them on the “Morbid Devastation” tour! We caught up with them at L’Aéronef in Lille, France, and we saw it was good… Support came from Max’s stepson’s band Incite…
A night of extreme metal blasting in our face with Lorna Shore bringing their ‘The Pain Remains EU tour’ to Finland with the good company of Rivers of Nihil and Ingested.
Pictures of the massive Stam1na show at the Ice Hockey Hall in Helsinki with special guests Diablo, Corroded and Dear Mother!
First edition of the charity festival named Aütfëst, held in Bruay-La-Buissière, France. Profit goes to Autism related organisations. With shows from Overflow Guy, Titans Rage, Death Structure, Kamizol K, Overdrivers, Xaon, and BlackRain!
