Finnish deathgrind band I, Cursed unleashed second single ‘Death Pays It All’ from their upcoming yet unnamed EP set for release with Inverse Records and Meara Music soon.
News Posts
Full of Hell announced their upcoming new EP ‘Broken Sword, Rotten Shield’ to be released with Closed Casket Activities in May and shared lead single ‘Knight’s Oath’!
Grindcore force Chepang joins the Relapse Records roster for the release of their new album ‘Jhyappa’, set to be out in May, and shared a first single and music video!
Finnish death metal act Refusel has signed a deal with Time To Kill Records for the release of their upcoming third album ‘Venomous Human Concept’! More details on the album and a first single are coming soon!
Hellsinki Metal Festival completed its 2025 line-up last week with the addition of Venom, Michael Schenker, Cult of Luna, our friends of Brutal Sphincter and Rabbit Cult!
Belgian goregrind powerhouse Brutal Sphincter announce their new album ‘Sphinct-Earth Society’ to be released in May via Time To Kill Records and unveiled a first single with ‘Unvaxxed Lives Matter’! We can’t wait to party with these maniacs at Tolminator this summer!
NOLA’s Brat shared a cover of Heart’s classic ‘Barracuda’ with a video and featuring Sammy Duet from Acid Bath and Goatwhore, out now via Prosthetic Records, approaching 2025 with the same energy as they do everything else: loud and relentless!
Catch them on tour in Europe next month supporting Napalm Death with Crowbar and Full of Hell!
Montreal-based CHÜZO unleash the vengeance of their self-decribed “Aggro-Metal” in their new music video ‘Brand New Cell’, a track from their recently released EP ‘M.T.M.D (Maximum Threshold, Minimum Decay)’! The blend of grindcore, Swedish death metal, thrash and hardcore punk is quite the sonic assault!
Finnish grindcore legends Rotten Sound announced the reissue of ‘Murderworks’, their acclaimed third full-length album, via Time To Kill Records, out early 2025!
Cybergrind band Thotcrime has announced their third album ‘CONNECTION ANXIETY’, set for release in August via Prosthetic Records and shared the lead singles ‘The Wrong Way’ and ‘Behind The Cracks’!
Lists
12 festivals that make Finland a great summer destination in 2025
Alternative, Alternative Metal, Alternative Rock, Avant-garde Metal, Black Metal, Death Metal, Deathcore, Electronic Music, Extreme metal, Folk, Folk Metal, Glam Metal, Groove Metal, Hard Rock, Heavy Metal, Hip Hop, Indie, Melodic Death Metal, Metalcore, Modern Metal, Pop, Power Metal, Progressive Metal, Punk, Punk Rock, RnB, Synth, Thrash MetalIf you are still looking for a great summer destination, here are 12 festivals that might make Finland the ideal place to go for you this year with Sonic Rites this weekend, Rockfest, Tuhdimmat Tahdit, Nummirock, Tuska, John Smith Festival, SaariHelvetti, Dark River Festival, Hellsinki Metal Festival, the CoolHead Live concert series, Sastamalan Torijuhlat and Hevipäivät!
The first day of the second edition of Hellsinki Metal Festival is filled with an impressive line-up of extreme metal bands, topped off with the musical exelence that is the headliner of tonight. Our editorial team picked out 8 bands that they think you definitely shouldn’t miss out on with Wolfheart, Gutalax, Massacre, Deicide, Terrorizer, Triumph of Death plays Hellhammer, Heaven Shall Burn and Avantasia! What bands are you really looking forward to today? Let us know in the comments!
10 festivals that make Finland a great summer destination in 2023
Alternative, Alternative Metal, Alternative Rock, Avant-garde Metal, Black Metal, Death Metal, Deathcore, Electronic Music, Extreme metal, Folk, Folk Metal, Glam Metal, Groove Metal, Hard Rock, Heavy Metal, Hip Hop, Indie, Melodic Death Metal, Metalcore, Modern Metal, Pop, Power Metal, Progressive Metal, Punk, Punk Rock, RnB, Synth, Thrash MetalIf 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!
Steelchaos is back! If that is not reason enough to get yourself a ticket still, here are 5 reasons why you should still consider to go this weekend, including the exclusive Finland “Black Metal” 40 years anniversary show of Venom Inc.!
March is one hell of a month! Yet again tons of releases to pick from, so here is a small selection again of what we highly recommend and is most anticipated for us!
This list is not for the faint of heart. A selection of releases that we experienced as being some of the most intense unleashed during 2021.
Last month of 2021, still some releases coming in December that are most anticipated by our team of writers!
Oktober has many releases again that are some of the most anticipated of the year within our editorial team! Check out the wide range of awesome albums!
Album Reviews
Death metal and grindcore masters Caustic Wound drop an excellent album with “Grinding Mechanism of Torment”. The album is recommended for fans of Repulsion, Terrorizer and early Napalm Death, out with Profound Lore Records.
‘Vault Of Horrors’ is coming in heavy with killer songs and a long, impressive list of guest appearances! Don’t miss out on the 12th full-length release of Aborted, out via Nuclear Blast!
Mexico’s powerhouse death/grindcore band Brujeria returns with their long-awaited album “Esto Es Brujeria”. The fifth album offers sixteen high-octane death grind songs with tight drumming, a solid release from these unhinged Mexicans out now via Nuclear Blast!
The long-awaited comeback album “Make Them Beg For Death” from the U.S. brutal death metal/grindcore Dying Fetus brings the expected top-notch, high caliber quality we all expected. An absolute monster of an album, released on September 8 via Relapse Records!
The tenth opus “Terrasite” in Cattle Decapitation’s catalog focuses on the slower melodic trademarks without sacrificing its sonic brutality. This is another high-quality output from these progressive death metal/grindcore maniacs, and I will not be surprised to see it on fans’ top albums of the year. Out via Metal Blade Records!
“Reality Rotten to the Core” sums up the extreme side of the eighties grindcore music, the Japanese quartet FesterDecay managed to deliver a putrid mix of grindcore and death metal that brings a breath of the rotten stench to the mortuary. Out via Everlasting Spew Records.
Full of Hell’s latest outing on Relapse Records: ‘Garden of Burning Apparitions’. Hell never sounded so filthy.
Fuck the Facts is back with ‘Pleine Noirceur’. An album that mixes their trademark grindcore sound with an emotional aspect that really hits home.
Anaal Nathrakh is back with yet another release of their signature blend of several extreme metal genres!
Finland’s Mustasuo deliver an intense and quite memorable experience with their second full-length record, ‘Katharsis’.
Photo Reports
Pictures of a brutal night at Chinastraat in Gent with Benighted, Baest and Coffin Feeder!
Our Benelux and France head of accreditation and most active photographer in that region, Tom VM, made his own selection of favorite pictures he took in 2023, including some new stuff that wasn’t shared on our site before with Biohazard, Bleed From Within, Brutal Sphincter, Brutus, Electric Callboy, Michael Schenker Group, Sepultura, Arion, Blackrain, Overdrivers, Avatar, Winery Dogs, Charlotte Wessels, Devin Townsend, Dream Theater, Extreme, Ghost, Michael Angelo Batio, Arch Enemy, Doodseskader, Halestorm, I Prevail, Powerwolf and SKYND!
Last month, Circuit Breaker Bookings with All Out Productions brought grindcore juggernauts Full Of Hell all the way from US to a fully sold out On The Rocks. And with supporting acts Kuvotus and Dome Runner, this was by far one of the most intense nights we have witnessed of late. A night full of blood, sweat and broken glass, with constant moshpits and stagediving!
The last day of a long and exhausting weekend of great music and atmosphere was all about the Belgian music scene at La Morgue with Aeveris, Brutal Sphincter, Hexa Mera, Mantah and Reject The Sickness!
Pictures of the Asagraum, Chamber of Unlight, Suicidal Angels, Benighted, Impaled Nazarene and Batushka shows at the first day of Hellsinki Metal Festival 2023!
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 the performances by Finnish legends Xysma and Rotten Sound on the Black Stage!
Steelchaos day 2 was yet another spectacle, both musically and visually, with shows from Chevalier, Horna, Cadaveric Incubator, Torture Killer, Lord Fist and the epic “Black Metal” anniversary celebration by Venom Inc.!
Pictures of the warm-up show for the first edition of Hellsinki Metal Horizons with Exciter, The Hirvi, Cannibal Accident and Satan’s Fall!
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