Finnish rock sensations Ginger Evil shared an official live video for the track ‘Last Frontier’, taken from their debut album ‘The Way It Burns’, released earlier this year via Frontiers Music!
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Italian rockers IT’sALIE announced their new studio album ‘Wild Games’ to be out in February 2026 via Frontiers Music and shared a first single with ‘Waiting For The Rain’!
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Modern rock artist IWAN ignites with two new single releases, ‘Warriors’ and ‘Wait’, unleashing emotion, power and purpose, and out now on all major streaming platforms!
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Grunge-tinged up-and-coming rock outfit Return To Dust shared their latest single ‘New Religion’ just when they were about to embark on their tour in the US as support to Mammoth! People in Europe, catch them at some of the 2026 summer festivals, like the already confirmed Tuska!
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Crobot returns and fires off their new single ‘Gun To My Head’, out now for all of you to rock out to!
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Norwegian melodic hard rock outfit Lily Löwe unleashes the new dark rock anthem ‘Haunted House’, just in time to add to your soundtrack for today’s Halloween festivities!
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Chicago rockers Ignescent recently announced their new studio album ‘Eternal’ to be released in March 2026 via Frontiers Music and shared the video single ‘Joker’!
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Rising rockstar Austen Starr announced her debut album ‘I Am The Enemy’ to be out in February 2026 via Frontiers Music and unveiled another single with ‘Medusa’!
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Hard rock/alt-metal band Glasgow Kiss release the storm inside with their new video and single ‘Forsaken’, another track from their upcoming album ‘Down In Flames’ set for release in December via Eclipse Records!
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MC50 is releasing another explosive new live album with ’10 MORE’, out in December via earMUSIC, capturing the crazy energy of the 2018 world tour to celebrate one of rock’s most radical and influential bands, MC5!
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Album Reviews
The 20th album by the Hanover-based rockers Scorpions has the introspective muse of the past which shows the band’s unique style to play heavy rock songs that are balanced by catchy vocal hooks and sharp guitar riffs.
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After 14 long years The Hellacopters have finally released their new long player called ‘Eyes Of Oblivion’. It was worth the wait – a fantastic hard rock album comes your way!
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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”!
Kissing Dynamite is ready to rock again and spread rock music all over the world! With positivity as the key message.
Cherokee delivers some old school hard rock and heavy metal vibes with their debut full-length ‘Blood & Gold’!
Reaching back to their old roots Asking Alexandria is back with their newest record to remind us just why we came to love them in the beginning
The new Belgian metal outfit Shocker shows the decent amount of old school heavy metal they can produce with their own sound and personality!
Starlight Ritual’s full-length debut ‘Sealed in Starlight’ sounds as if it actually were sealed away in the eighties by some sorcerer only to be unearthed now 40 years later.
A dirty and intense kiss at an afterparty, that’s what ‘Rubbery Lips’ by Hot Breath sounds like!
Photo Reports
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.
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!
A PreParty for everyone who already arrived in Geraardsbergen for WildFest that was starting the next day with Beyond The Labyrinth and Sin City Rebels… We were also there to capture the atmosphere!
Asking Alexandria brought their tour to the Clyde Theatre in Ft Wayne, IN and put on a great show with the help of support acts From Ashes To New, Royale Lynn and What Lies Below! Those who were not there really missed out!
Finnish rock up-and-comers Ginger Evil made a proper introduction to Helsinki at the KULT Club with a release show celebrating their debut album released earlier in the year with Frontiers Music, and we saw it was good!
At the end of March it was time for a fantastic rock and metal opera in Stuttgart’s Schleyerhalle, Tobias Sammet’s multi musician project Avantasia held court. A fantasy stage layout built the base for a 3-hour spectacle that was packed with a long line of guest vocalists.
THUNDERMOTHER’s ‘Dirty & Divine Tour 2025’ brought together an almost 100% female rock night. Together with COBRA SPELL and VULVARINE a great night of classic heavy and hard rock is traveling around Europe and we got to see them in Stuttgart on the first leg of the tour. The tour will go on with the second leg, kicking off on 21 March 2025. Get your tix soon, it might sell out fast.
The tradition at GrimmGent is for all photographers to set up our personal collection of our favourites. Always an illustrious collection, sometimes with shots that haven’t even been published here. This is my Tom Treuten selection of highlights in 2024.
