Sepultura announced their farewell release ‘The Cloud Of Unknowing’ EP to be out in April with Nuclear Blast and unveiled the track ‘The Place’!
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News Posts
Lamb of God released their new single ‘Blunt Force Blues’, the last track unveiled before the release of their new album ‘Into Oblivion’ in a couple of weeks via Epic Records! See them live this summer in August at a bunch of European festivals, including Wacken and a headline spot at Alcatraz!
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Legendary heavy metal powerhouse Nevermore signed with Reigning Phoenix Music and are gearing up to their first shows with the new line-up in April and at festivals like Alcatraz and Wacken this summer!
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Finnish festival Tuhdimmat Tahdit recently announced some more names for their 2026 line-up with HOKKA, Stam1na and Danko Jones joining an already diverse and exciting roster!
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Lamb of God is releasing their new album ‘Into Oblivion’ with Epic Records and Century Media Records in March and shared the title track as a single! Catch them live in Europe this summer with appearances at festivals like Wacken and Alcatraz!
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Avatar expanded their already impressive touring schedule for the next couple of years by adding a Spring 2026 headline tour of North America in April and May, bringing along Fleshgod Apocalypse and Frozen Soul!
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Full House Brew Crew started the new year hyping up their upcoming album with the release of their new single ‘The Tear’! ‘Glasgow Grin’ is set to be out next month via ROAR!
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Groove metal outfit Devilz By Definition released a video for their latest and second single ‘Angel Warfare’ of the upcoming album ‘Devilz Knight’, set for release in June 2026 via SelfMadeRecords LLC!
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Lamb of God recently shared their latest new single ‘Parasocial Christ’, out with Century Media Records! See them live next year on their Spring 2026 North American tour or at one of the many European summer festivals they’ve been invited to like Wacken, Alcatraz, Dynamo Metalfest and more!
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Full House Brew Crew unleashes new video single ‘Free Fall’, another single from the upcoming album ‘Glasgow Grin’, set for release in February 2026 via ROAR – A Division of Reigning Phoenix Music!
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Photo Reports
Avatar’s “In the Airwaves Tour” hit Brussels at Ancienne Belgique with Alien Weaponry and Witch Club Satan for an amazing night of theatricality and music!
On the third stop of their “Duél tour”, Jinjer impressed a sold-out Brussels crowd with their set blending latest material and fan favorites! And with the support of exceptional bands Unprocessed and Textures, it was quite the night to behold!
On the European leg of the “Death Above Life world tour”, Orbit Culture made a stop at Trix in Belgium with their special guests Gaerea and openers Atlas. We were there!
We got to see a glimpse of Witch Fever, Bush and Volbeat when they came to Tampere’s Nokia Arena as the stop in Finland of the ‘Greatest Of All Tours’ tour! An event by Live Nation Finland.
Friday night at Black Hawk MC’s Choppershow weekend in Belgium was all about live music, and especially local bands with Poseydon, popular cover band Impact, and most of all Hexa Mera hitting the stage with a farewell show. Their powerful set hit especially hard, knowing the band is stepping away after 15 years: a bittersweet but fitting send-off for a group that’s been so important to our scene and community.
Last month, the tribe of Helsinki got to welcome Soulfly at Tavastia. Founded by the legendary Max Cavalera they still sound and are as energetic as ever, and with the fitting addition of Finnish hardcore icons Terveet Kädet as support, it was a great night with fast music!
Tuska 2025 day two hit hard on the main stage. Slaughter To Prevail, Orbit Culture, and headliners Powerwolf shaped a powerful Saturday at the festival.
Sun, sweat, and steel… Rockfest 2025 opened in style in Turku. H.E.A.T. brought the fire, Sepultura gave Finland their final bow, and Judas Priest proved once more why they’re the Metal Gods.
Moon Shot, RØRY, and Stam1na took over Rockfest’s Red Stage and Black Stage with unforgettable performances, and we captured it all.
Rivers of Nihil took over Tavastia in Helsinki a couple of months ago and absolutely blew our minds at the end of our weekend back then with the help of Cynic, Beyond Creation and Dååth!
Album Reviews
Lamb of God unleashed their monumental 10th album ‘Into Oblivion’ with Century Media Records and Epic Records yesterday and it’s everything you’ve come to expect of a good LoG album! Catch them live in Europe this summer at plenty of festivals including Alcatraz Festival!
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After last year’s impressive fictional compilation album “Killection”, Lordi is back with an even more mind-blowing release as they unleash a back catalogue of 7 albums with “Lordiversity”!
French metal outfit Dagoba delivers with ‘By Night’ an album that very well might be the next step in their career and a schooling in modern metal! A furious blend of metal, electronic elements and neck breaking moves.
Gemini Syndrome brings with the 3rd Degree – The Raising the final chapter in their trilogy. An excellent and powerful album full of hooked and groovy melodies.
With Vengeance, Twelve Foot Ninja continues to build on their path to becoming one of the more crazy hard-to-define bands within the metal genre.
Helsinki based The Silenced contradicts their namesake with their first release filled with grooves and heaviness!
Finnish thrash metal youngsters of Lost Society are back with a brand new release and it offers absolutely ‘No Absolution’! Check it out!
BEAR do not disappoint with their fourth full-length record ‘Propaganda’, a true jewel reminiscent of the late 2000s. Check it out!
The nice thing about the songs using different approaches, is that this album has something to offer to everybody. With that, this album can be the dessert on a metal plate.
Crusty death metal with a heavy dose of thrash metal, get ready for this because Goregäng is going fast!
Interviews
Fear of Domination’s Saku opens up over a good craftbeer at Crafters Bar in Finland about the long, difficult road behind their recently released album ‘Katharsis’, finding the missing piece with producer Jarno Hänninen, and why this album became a true emotional release.
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Jinjer are bringing their full headline production back to Europe in 2026. We spoke with Eugene Abdukhanov about Duél, the special tour lineup, and reconnecting with fans after years away.
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Two months after our talk at Alcatraz Festival, we stepped back into the forest with Johannes Eckerström of Avatar to talk about their upcoming album ‘Don’t Go In The Forest’ (out next week October 31st), from disco death grooves and true crime commentary to piano-born love songs and the return of the metal circus among many other things.
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We sat down with Orbit Culture’s Niklas to talk about their upcoming album ‘Death Above Life’ (out now with Century Media Records), their journey from support slots to headliners, and why this new era feels like a true rebirth. Catch them live on tour with Gaerea and Atlas in Europe next month or at summer festivals in 2026 like the already confirmed Alcatraz Festival!
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At Alcatraz 2025, Avatar’s Johannes Eckerström opened up about the band’s next chapter: a new album that was not to be named (it has a name, but he was being a “good boy” in not unveiling the title), their fastest song in 15 years, and why independent festivals (like the one we were at) keep metal’s future alive.
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A chat with Johannes from Avatar on the new album ‘Dance Devil Dance’ on why this is the best album of them as of yet, how they did things somewhat different and tried to approach everything in such a way that they thought people could dance to even blast beats and why now was the time for them to self-release the album.
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A chat with vocalist Shawter from Dagoba about the new album ‘By Night’ and much more!
Watch the interview with Mike Spreitzer from DevilDriver about their upcoming album “Dealing With Demons I”!
A chat with the young misfits of Wake Up Frankie about their upcoming debut EP ‘Green Is The New Black’!
A video interview with Samy Elbanna from Lost Society about Nosturi, the uprising of the new generation and the (Finnish) music scene.
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