Pagan metallers Varg invite their fans to another ritual with second single ‘Morgenrot’ ahead of their upcoming live album ‘Live at Woflszeit Festival 2024’, out in May via Napalm Records!
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Samurai Pizza Cats released their second album ‘Press Start’ with Century Media Records yesterday and celebrated with a video for the high energy track ‘Ramen-Man’, featuring Babybeard! Catch them live tonight at their Samurai Pizza Fest and most of April on tour with Fall To Spring!
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German hard rockers Lynx shared the new track ‘Island Universe’ from their upcoming album ‘Trinity of Suns’, set for release in April with Dying Victims Productions!
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German metal band Schattenmann have released their new studio album Endgegner via Perception. Alongside the album, the group launched a music video for “Wir sind das Ende der Welt” and started their release tour across Germany and Austria!
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Power metal warriors Victoruis released their latest single ‘Brachio Brazooka Battalion’ with a matching animated video, another track from their epic upcoming album ‘World War Dinosaur’, out in April via Perception – A Division Of Reigning Phoenix Music!
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Stuttgart-based dark rock outfit Astraya unveiled the first glimpse on their new album with the single ‘A Spark Within’! The album ‘Atropine’ is set to be out in April via These Hands Melt!
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Modern metalcore powerhouse The Narrator have released their new single ‘Two Lives’, a track from their upcoming album ‘Phosphor’, set for release in May via Nuclear Blast!
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Death metal powerhouse Rise Of Kronos have released their brand new single ‘Escalate The Rot’, another track from their upcoming album ‘Slaves Of Time’, out next month!
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HEAVEN.EXE just shared their latest new single ‘Chasing Ghosts’, featuring 20TOKENS! Out now everywhere!
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Arroganz announced their new album ‘Death Doom Punks’ to be out in May on Testimony Records and shared the new single ‘Die For Nothing’, proving that you’ll get exactly what the album title promises: old school death metal with a punk attitude!
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Melodic death metal heavyweights ARCH ENEMY are conquering Europe with their explosive “European Blood Dynasty tour”, and it’s nothing short of a musical crusade. To complete the total metal mayhem nights they have company from GATECREEPER (USA), ELUVEITIE (Switzerland) and AMORPHIS (Finland).
DISTURBED is celebrating the 25th anniversary of their debut album ‘The Sickness’ with an extensive tour in Europe. They brought along special guests MEGADETH as part of the package, ramping up the excitement for heavy music fans all over the continent! We caught their stop at Schleyerhalle in Stuttgart, Germany and saw it was good!
PARKWAY DRIVE is full into their ’20 Years Anniversary Tour Europe’ and we caught them recently at their show at Schleyerhalle in Stuttgart, Germany with an impressive stage production including tons of pyro and floating stage elements. And of course they brought friends, in the form of two fellow bands from Down Under: THE AMITY AFFLICTION and THY ART IS MURDER. This explosive package is the real deal for any die-hard metalcore fan! If this tour hits up a city near you, don’t miss out on this!
Day 2 of this year’s TollRock Festival had a great list of artists on the line-up. TollRockerz Band Contest is the yearly opening act of the Saturday procedures. Moonshot, Saint City Orchestra, Kissin’ Dynamite, Donots and Five Finger Skull Crushers were building the electrifying list of acts that appealed to a wide variety of rock, punk, Irish folk and metal fans. In combination with the special atmosphere and location making TollRock a Germany summer festival highlight.
TollRock 2025 Day 1 was not only blessed with wonderful weather but with an impressive line-up on the first day. Starting with Lost Sanity (TollRockerz Band Contest Winner 2024), followed by April Art, Emil Bulls, Fiddlers Green, Skindred and Rock Rising gave an impressive list of artists. The audience was thrilled by the great live performances of all bands on stage. The expectations for day 2 have been raised to an almost unbeatable level.
During the high time of the festival summer frenzy in 2025, THE GHOST INSIDE stopped over between all the festival gigs at Stuttgart’s LKA Longhorn on June 24 for one of two club shows. Support was given by the Hamburg, Germany-based metalcore band HALF ME.
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!
The Belgian giants of post-metal, AMENRA, are gracing Europe’s stages with a tour in 2025. For over 20 years, the Belgians have unleashed incredible live experiences with their massive stage presence and a furious sonic tornado. The tour kick-off in Stuttgart was no exception. A night with overwhelming sound intensity took place, accompanied by YEAR OF THE COBRA, a project from their recently added new bassist Amy Tung Barrysmith.
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’.
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