Der Weg Einer Freiheit announce the instrumental edition of ‘Innern’ to be out next month via Season of Mist and share ‘Xibalba’ as a first taste! Catch them live this October in Europe with Conjurer and Brnjsmin or next summer in Finland at the second edition of Ankea Festival!
Mental Cruelty announced their new studio album ‘Echoes of a Forlorn Land’ to be out in October via Century Media Records and unveiled third single ‘Raise The Raven Banner’!
German black metal outfit Böötes Void unleash the new track ‘Panta Rhei’, featuring Ellende and the title track of their upcoming album, set for release in a couple of weeks via Vendetta Records!
April Art recently unveiled their next single ‘Bulletproof’ from upcoming studio album ‘Red’, set for release in October via Reaper Entertainment, including a rather bloody and unfortunate music video!
Half Me detonate with their new and third standalone single ‘Fear Is The New Belief’, out now with Arising Empire!
blacktoothed surge into their heaviest chapter yet with new single ‘ADRENALINE’, giving a taste of the direction their upcoming album ‘FERAL BLOOM’ is heading, set for release early next year with Arising Empire!
German blackened death metal band Horresque are back with their new single and video ‘Behind the Door’, a glimpse of their upcoming album ‘Chasms Pt. III – The Dread, Unveiled’ out next year!
German black metal outfit Servant announced their new album ‘Lux Ex Inferis’ to be out in October via AOP Records and shared a first single with ‘Tabula Rasa’ featuring P.G. of Groza!
Extreme metal outfit Firtan announced their new album ‘Herlios’ to be out in October with AOP Records and dropped a first single with ‘The Hierophant Way’, featuring James Dorton of Ne Obliviscaris!
Mental Cruelty unleashed their crushing new single ‘The Serpent of Midgard’ with a cinematic video, out now with Century Media Records!
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’.
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.
