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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Urne recently unveiled the single ‘The Spirit, Alive’, another track from their upcoming studio album ‘Setting Fire To The Sky’, set for release in January 2026 via Spinefarm!
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Lamb Of God just shared an electrifying live video for their latest single ‘Sepsis’, recorded at Aftershock Festival where they debuted the track in front of tens of thousands of fans!
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Soulfly delivered their tribally fueled thirteenth album ‘Chama’ via Nuclear Blast last week and unleashed a video for the track ‘No Pain = No Power’ to celebrate! We can’t wait to see them at Alcatraz Festival next summer!
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Trivium released their new EP ‘Struck Dead’ last Friday via Roadrunner Records and unveiled a video for the title track to celebrate! Catch them live right now in North America with Jinjer and Heriot or in Europe next summer at festivals like the already confirmed Tuska!
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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.
Gig Reports
From early ignition to full-scale eruption, Neckbreakker set the spark, Comeback Kid tore the room wide open, and Gojira turned a sold-out Zénith de Lille into something truly monumental. Innovation, intensity, and absolute commitment, this was Gojira on home soil at full force.
At the beginning of this month, Belgian metal supergroup Coffin Feeder set up shop in the Ancienne Belgique in Brussels and nearly destroyed the Club room, with the help of local support from Horrible!
Rivers Of Nihil brought quite the intensity to Europe earlier this year with their “Aggressive Progressive Tour’, including Cynic, Beyond Creation and Dååth. We caught their show at the legendary Tavastia venue in Helsinki, Finland and saw it was good! Looking forward to seeing Rivers Of Nihil again this summer during the Europe festival season with shows at Brutal Assault, Alcatraz and more!
“The Great Metal Circus 2024” landed in Helsinki, where Avatar turned being at Tavastia that night into something absolutely spectacular and memorable! And the support Æther Realm came all the way from the US to Finland for the very first time, doing a great job at warming up the crowd!
30 years of ‘River Runs Red’, the iconic album of Life Of Agony was brought with bravura and the same grinta as if it was yesterday. The rockers of Prong showed us also that they are alive and kicking, never giving up, and with the night opened by Tarah Who? the night VIERNULVIER in Ghent, Belgium was complete!
Poisonblack returned for a couple more shows in October 2023, organized by Fullsteam Agency. We were present for the gig at Klubi in Tampere, a true celebration of the gothic metal legends they are.
Legendary Belgian metal band Channel Zero finally got to celebrate their 30th anniversary (a few years late due to the pandemic) at Cactus Club in Brugge, a small venue that was a perfect setting for an intense, energetic and somewhat intimate show. Support came from modern metal/nu metal stars on the rise Mantah!
Finally, after 3 years of waiting the “State of Unrest” tour transformed the magical music temple Ancienne Belgique into a pumping meltdown of metalheads. Lamb Of God was the absolute winner of moshpits and crowdsurfing while Kreator treated the German thrash fans. Municipal Waste was the excellent opening act to warm up the audience.
The celebration of 30 years of ‘River Runs Red’ by Life Of Agony at The Black Lab in Wasquehal, France was an intense experience. Prong added some sauce with their celebration of ‘Cleansing’ and some older ones. Tarah Who? did an excellent job to get the fire started.
Amon Amarth and Machine Head came, saw and delivered! The ‘Vikings & Lionhearts tour’ made a stop in Helsinki, Finland and set the room on fire, quite literally… Support came from Swedish melodeath supergroup The Halo Effect.
Photo Reports
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!
Pictures of the second day of Hellsinki Metal Festival 2024 with on stage 1 shows from Kreator, Meshuggah, Doro and Blackbraid!
Pictures of the third day of Alcatraz 2024, with on the Prison Stage explosive shows from Audrey Horne, Soil, Jinjer, Korpiklaani, Gene Simmons Band and Architects!
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