News Posts

Can’t attend Hellfest Open Air this year? Just like we did in previous years, GRIMM Gent will bring you live updates from Hellfest 2022! General info about Hellfest can be found in our Encore section: Hellfest Festival Guide. Check out our liveblog down below : (initially, it might take a couple of seconds to load, so if […]

Comeback Kid unveils another single from their upcoming new album ‘Heavy Steps’ with ‘Crossed’, featuring Gojira’s Joe Duplantier!

Last headliner for Tuska has been announced with a healthy dose of heavy metal of all walks accompanying them!

Weekly list of the music video releases you might have missed out on!

These days it is very common that bands release one or more songs before they release a new album in its entirety. Recently some major bands in their genre have done just that. First up is Gojira, it hs been 4 years since they released their highly acclaimed ‘L’enfant Sauvage’. In june they will release […]

Lists

Only a bit over a week until Tuska weekend is upon us! If you weren’t convinced yet you needed to go, here are 9 reasons we believe should be enough motivation! Going from a great line-up, to Tuska KVLT, and the biggest Tuska Expo ever, this is one for the books!

If you are still looking for a great summer destination, here are 10 festivals that might make Finland the ideal place to go for you with #Horizon23, Rockfest, Tuhdimmat Tahdit, Nummirock, Tuska, John Smith Festival, SaariHelvetti, Dark River Festival, Hellsinki Metal Festival and Flow Festival!

An albums of the year list that focuses on quite a few deathcore and metalcore releases, but also has room for some more melancholic affairs.

A dozen of picks by our editorial team what they deem as the most anticipated releases of April 2021! Good stuff to be found here!

2017 seems to be the year one-man projects had the biggest impact on C’kes listening habits!

A bit of everything, but all high quality stuff!

A lot of groove to be found in this list!

Previews

Tuska 2023 promises to be quite the exciting edition again with a great line-up with something for everyone, the biggest ever “Tuska Expo” in its history and plenty of other stuff to discover! If you’re planning to go, we listed some info in a nice little preview…

The third edition of Dynamo Metalfest will bring a combination of thrash and progressive metal to Eindhoven for all of you to rock out to in a hopefully blistering sun!

Preview GMM 2016, here it goes.

Gig Reports

Gojira took over Europe on their massive ‘Fortitude’ tour with support from up-and-comers Alien Weaponry and Employed To Serve and we caught them at their show at a sold out Jäähalli in Helsinki, Finland in front of a crowd that was absolutely hungry for some good live show!

A report on their sold out show in the AB in Brussels…

A report on their sold out show in the AB in Brussels…

Photo Reports

Metal mastodons Gojira came, saw and conquered a sold out Jäähalli in Helsinki, Finland with their amazing music and killer visuals back in July, with support from Alien Weaponry and Employed To Serve!

Gojira

Finally, after all the delays, we got a double serving of the Gojira at 013 Poppodium in Tilburg, Netherlands. With both shows being sold out, they were quite the explosive nights, especially with added to that support acts Alien Weaponry and Employed to Serve!

The pictures of 3 days of metal and rock fun in the middle of Helsinki… Tuska 2018, you were awesome!

The visuals of a night of French prog and groove…