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!
Links
News Posts
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’!
Links
Deathcore force Face Yourself have released their most unforgiving single yet with ‘Fractures’ a couple of weeks ago, the lead single from their upcoming EP ‘Fury’, set for release next month with Sumerian Records!
Links
Lorna Shore released their latest single ‘Prison Of Flesh’, one of their heaviest track to date about a just as heavy topic of dementia and the toll it takes on everyone, another track from their upcoming album ‘I Feel The Everblack Festering Within Me’, out next month via Century Media!
Links
As has become tradition, Alcatraz Festival announced a healthy grab of confirmed names during this year’s edition, and the 21 bands they dropped are promising the 2026 edition to be hitting hard again!
Links
German brutal surf death party metal band Stillbirth are unleashing their new album ‘Survival Protocol’ via Reigning Phoenix Music in October and shared a first single and hilarious video with ‘Baptized In Blood’!
Links
Melbourne blackened nu-metal force Mélancolia revealed their third single ‘Picking Scabs’ from the upcoming album ‘random.access.misery’, out at the end of August via Nuclear Blast and Greyscale Records!
Links
In anticipation of Fit For A King’s new album ‘Lonely God’, out on August 1st via Solid State Records, they unleashed the new single ‘Witness The End’, a deathcore track featuring Chris Motionless on guest vocals! Catch them in Europe this summer on their festival tour with stops at for instance Brutal Assault and Alcatraz Festival!
Links
Earlier this week, Lorna Shore announced a massive EU & UK headlining tour for early 2026, taking them all over the continent and bringing along Whitechapel, Shadow of Intent and Humanity’s Last Breath!
Links
Last week, Signs Of The Swarm released their new single and video ‘Scars Upon Scars’, another scathing track from their upcoming album ‘To Rid Myself of Truth’, set for release in August via Century Media Records!
Links
Interviews
Nothing Found
Sorry, no posts matched your criteria
Photo Reports
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!
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!
Back in August, Asgaard’s new live season kicked off with a metalcore/deathcore event in collaboration with Return Bookings, bringing Signs of the Swarm, Mental Cruelty, When Plagues Collide, Knives To A Gunfight and Subvergence to our venue to absolutely destroy!
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.
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.
The last day of a long and exhausting weekend of great music and atmosphere was all about the Belgian music scene at La Morgue with Aeveris, Brutal Sphincter, Hexa Mera, Mantah and Reject The Sickness!
Second day at an exciting edition of Alcatraz with Predatory Void, Shadow Of Intent, Decapitated, and Sodom on the Swamp Stage ripping it up!
Pictures of Lorna Shore, The Hu and Ghost on the last day of yet another great Tuska edition!
Pictures of the second day of Hellsinki Metal Horizons 2022, expanding everyone’s minds with musical experiments including Keoma, Assemble The Chariots, Humavoid, Vildhjarta, Enragement, Celeste, …and Oceans and Decapitated!
Pictures of an exciting first day of Hellsinki Metal Horizons 2022 with Oddland, Vulture Industries, Manticora, Humanity’s Last Breath, MyGrain and SHINING!
SUPPORTED BY
