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Modern symphonic metal act Beyond The Black rleased the new video single ‘Rising High’, out via Nuclear Blast! Catch them live at a select amount of European festivals this summer or early next year on their headline tour!

Nailed To Obscurity shared another video single with ‘Spirit Corrosion’, from the upcoming album ‘Generation Of The Void’, out in September via Nuclear Blast Records!

Chris Maragoth is back with a new single ‘History On Repeat’, released last month to point out that history returns when we choose not to look, featuring Cherry Summerfield on guest vocals!

Death metallers KHNVM announced their upcoming new album ‘Cosmocrator’ to be released in August with Testimony Records and shared the new video single ‘Fetid Eden’!

Germany’s heavy/power metal royalty Hammer King proudly present their new single and music video ‘Make Metal Royal Again’, the anthemic title track of their upcoming studio album, set for release in August via Reaper Entertainment!

Powerwolf just announced their next live album/DVD/BluRay ‘Wildlive (Live at Olympiahalle)’ to be released next year in March with Napalm Records! But for those who don’t want to wait for the epic live experience that is this band, make sure you catch them on their “Summer Of The Wicked” Europe tour starting today and bringing them to many festivals, including a headline performance at Finland’s Tuska Festival!

German thrash metal legends Sodom released their new single and lyric video for the song ‘Taphephobia’, another track from their upcoming album ‘The Arsonist’, set for release at the end of this month through SPV/Steamhammer.

German pagan folk collective Faun announced their new album ‘HEX’, set for release in September and shared the new single and music video ‘Lament’!

Grailknights dive into Lovecraftian depths with their new single ‘Necronomicon’, unveiling the first chapter of their upcoming new album, set for release with their new label Perception!

For those who somehow missed this, Electric Callboy dropped the mind-bending video for ‘Revery’ last week, a single that dives into a darker and more serious side of their sound, right in time for their massive European festival run this summer bringing them to some of our favorite events like Tuska and Lokerse Feesten!

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A couple of months ago, TuskaLive brought the highly popular Tokio Hotel to Kulttuuritalo in Helsinki for a show the was filled with positivity and love! A wonderfully theatrical experience that was amazing to see!

At the end of March it was time for a fantastic rock and metal opera in Stuttgart’s Schleyerhalle, Tobias Sammet’s multi musician project Avantasia held court. A fantasy stage layout built the base for a 3-hour spectacle that was packed with a long line of guest vocalists.

The German alternative metal band ENEMY INSIDE is on the road to promote their latest studio album, ‘Venom’, out via Reigning Phoenix Music. Accompanying them are LETTERS SENT HOME, completing the line-up for the ‘Venom Europe Tour 2025’ as the support act for the majority of the stops. One of the 18 gigs took place in Stuttgart, in the cosy club atmosphere of ‘Im Wizemann Studio’.

THUNDERMOTHER’s ‘Dirty & Divine Tour 2025’ brought together an almost 100% female rock night. Together with COBRA SPELL and VULVARINE a great night of classic heavy and hard rock is traveling around Europe and we got to see them in Stuttgart on the first leg of the tour. The tour will go on with the second leg, kicking off on 21 March 2025. Get your tix soon, it might sell out fast.

20 years of HÄMATOM and an anniversary album are good reasons for the band to go on a ’20 Jahre Für Euch’ tour through Germany and celebrate German metal. With them as support are the Berlin rockers from ENGST, who impressed with their mix of rock, punk, and a pinch of pop. The openers in Stuttgart were the punk rockers from FOCUS.

If you didn’t choose to attend WITHIN TEMPTATION’s ‘Bleed Out Tour 2024’ stop in the Porsche Arena on the 3rd of December in Stuttgart and its surroundings, you missed out! Their show was a visual event of its own that ranges in the absolute top without a doubt. Support acts BLIND8 (Ukraine) and ANNISOKAY (Germany) completed the line-up to make it an outstanding concert highlight!

This year, all Thrash Metal fans in Europe received a special treat, an early Christmas present: KREATOR & ANTHRAX feat. TESTAMENT. All three bands were in a class of their own that evening – there was no support, only headliners. This evening will be remembered by all thrashers for a long time.

40 years – what an anniversary for the Brazilian metal icons SEPULTURA. At the same time, it’s a ’40 Years Farewell Tour – Celebrating Life Through Death’. With 15 albums to their name, puts on a great show, supported by JESUS PIECE, OBITUARY and JINJER. What a goodbye for a legendary band, MHP Arena in Ludwigsburg, Germany literally boiled over!

With their 5th album ‘Attracted To Danger’, THE NEW ROSES are currently on tour in Europe. With MOONSHOT from Finland as the support act, the German rockers are thrilling the masses. At their gig in Stuttgart, we had the pleasure of witnessing this amazing rock performance.