Michael Monroe shares another single with ‘Disconnected’, building up excitement for the upcoming new studio album ‘Outerstellar’, set for release in February 2026 via Silver Lining Music!
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News Posts
Finnish rock legend Michael Monroe announces new studio album ‘Outerstellar’ to be released via Silver Lining Music in February 2026 and shared a first new single ‘Rockin’ Horse’ with a hilarious video!
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Finnish rock band Shiraz Lane announced their new studio album ‘In Vertigo’ to be out in October via Frontiers Music and shared the new single ‘Come Alive’ to celebrate the announcement!
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Las Vegas dark rockers The Nocturnal Affair are returning to Europe next week, joining Wednesday 13 and Drowning Pool on selected dates of their Europe summer tours!
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Finnish rockers Shiraz Lane share the new video single ‘Dangerous’, the first of their upcoming album, and first new music since they returned to Frontiers Music recently!
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One of Finland’s frontrunners of the modern rock scene, Shiraz Lane, has announced to make a return to their former label Frontiers Music for the release of their upcoming new album! Get ready for the first single ‘Dangerous’ on February 26th, and catch them at a select amount of shows including an appearance at the very last Wildfest in Belgium!
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Swedish hard rockers Crazy Lixx shared their official video for the track ‘Little Miss Dangerous’, turning up the heat quite some notches! Out now via Frontiers Music!
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Atlanta-based rock quartet Starbenders shared their new single and video ‘Tokyo’, a first taste of their yet to be announced upcoming 4th album, set for release in early 2025 via Sumerian Records!
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Mötley Crüe is celebrating the 35th anniversary of their landmark album ‘Dr. Feelgood’ by releasing a limited edition box set of the album, available for pre-order now!
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Palaye Royale announced their Summer 2024 European tour taking them to several major festivals and headline shows all around!
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Festival Reports
After a great first day, we and the full house that showed up celebrated all that Wildfest is and was one more time with an exceptional day 2 swansong featuring shows from Crazy Lixx, The Cruel Intentions, Art Nation, Shiraz Lane, Wildness, South of Salem, Bulletrain and Mr Myst! A pity that this door is closing, but what a way to end things!
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We had a great time at the 8th and last edition of the Belgian Wildfest, bringing together some of the best glam, sleaze and melodic rock has to offer with on the first day stellar shows by The Treatment, Wildheart, Blackrain, Kickin Valentina, and All I Know!
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One of our team members gathered some of her memorable moments of the third day at Graspop Metal Meeting 2024 with Fleddy Melculy, Steel Panther, While She Sleeps, Blind Guardian and Kamelot!
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Last day of Graspop 2023, where our team member managed to see rockin’ bands like Kissin’ Dynamite, Skid Row and Mötley Crüe, melodeath supergroup The Halo Effect, the explosive show of Enter Shikari and the extremely popular performance of Hellmut Goes Metal!
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The 2nd day brought us massive shows of Oranssi Pazuzu, Reckless Love, Vltimas, Stam1na, Blind Channel, Amorphis, Baroness and Mercyless Fate!
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3 days of the best you can find in metal, rock and other related genres all came together on the Suvilahti grounds in Helsinki, what resulted in yet another great edition of Tuska!
Only the 2nd edition of The Rock Fest in Finland and we were in for one hell of a massive event!
The first edition of a festival that is aiming for the stars! With a lot of good but also a lot of bad happening…
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The 8th and “End of the Road” last edition of Glam/Sleaze/Melodic rock festival Wildfest wrapped up on a high note with Crazy Lixx, The Cruel Intentions, Art Nation, Shiraz Lane, Wildness, South of Salem, Bulletrain and Mr Myst!
The 8th and last edition of the Belgian glam/sleaze/melodic rock festival Wildfest was pretty wild again with on the first day of this “End of the Road” edition bands like The Treatment, Wildheart, Blackrain, Kickin Valentina, and All I Know!
The Sonata Arctica “Arctic Storm Finland Tour 2023” has been a massive success, and we got to go to one of the first stops at Pakkahuone in Tampere. With them, they’re bringing the glam rock favorites Reckless Love and the energetic alternative rock/metal upstarts Luna Kills!
On the third day of Rockfest 2023, we weren’t able to capture as many bands as on the earlier days due to other responsibilities and some artists not wanting any pictures to be taken, but we still caught epic shows on the main stage by Michael Monroe, and Volbeat!
The second day of Rockfest 2023, the Black Stage brought 3 very different takes on rock music with shows from Crashdiet, Nestor and Cleopatrick.
The packed Yo-Talo in Tampere, Finland was hotter than hell when Reckless Love and Dirt came by to play a show full of energy, rocking the place. Nem Agency organised yet another great show.
Pictures of a night of good old rocking with the Shiraz Lane boys at the release show of their latest album, with The Cruel Intentions and Luna Kills joining in on the fun!
Pictures of the second day of Knotfest Finland that topped everything of the day before on all levels with kings of metal Slipknot, joined by bands like Shiraz Lane, Tesseract, Stoned Statues, Cradle of Filth, Medeia, Bring Me The Horizon, and Moon Shot!
Pictures of the 2nd day of Tuska 2023 with Oranssi Pazuzu, Reckless Love, VLTIMAS, Stam1na, Blind Channel, Amorphis, Baroness and Mercyful Fate.
The Swedish/Norwegian sleaze rock outfit The Cruel Intentions came to set On The Rocks on fire to kick off the weekend with a Friday night rock ‘n’ roll party!
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If you are still looking for a great summer destination, our homecountry of Belgium has some great events to offer, so here are 7 festivals that might make it a great place to go for you this year with the very last Wildfest this weekend, dunk!festival, Graspop Metal Meeting, Litha Fest, Lokerse Feesten, Rock Werchter and Alcatraz!
Week 37 brought us a bunch of wholesome, heavy and unique songs and videos from bands like Dust In Mind, SKYND, Lorna shore, Starbenders, In Flames, Vévaki, King Dude, Sahg and Electric Callboy. Go check them out if you haven’t yet!
With the end of summer in sight, we came across 10 releases coming out in August that our editorial team has been looking forward to the most.
Interviews
Wednesday 13 is celebrating the release of this 10th studio album, ‘Mid Death Crisis’, out this Friday April 25th via Napalm Records. We had the privilege of sitting down via Zoom with Duke of Spook himself to chat about the new album and going back to the roots of the horror punk style of the good old early 2000s…
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We talked with the guys from Rimbacher about their debut album ‘High Hopes on the Rocks’, and how they absolutely love that classic rock sound from the 80s, which is the basis of all the music they make!
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We sat down with Kriss and Aaron of Starbenders right before their headline show at On The Rocks in Helsinki, Finland to talk about their present European tour, their road and struggles of the past decade to get where they are right now and things to be looking forward to, like their brand-new single coming out this Thursday, September 26 with Sumerian Records!
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A video interview with Hannes Kett from Shiraz Lane about the past, the present and the future! Check out the full conversation!
Interview with a Belgian glam band who believes they were conceived on the Sunset Strip in 1984!
