Finnish rock legend Michael Monroe announces new studio album ‘Outerstellar’ to be released via Silver Lining Music in February 2026 and shared a first new single ‘Rockin’ Horse’ with a hilarious video!
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News Posts
Heavy rockers Beast Eagle drops ferocious new single ‘Sharp Tongue’ from the upcoming EP ‘Sorceress’, set for release next month on Golden Robot Records!
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The Finnish rockers of Shiraz Lane are about to unleash their new album ‘In Vertigo’ (out this Friday via Frontiers Music) and in anticipation launched their own beer ‘Stone Cold Lager’, inspired by the opening track and in collab with Coolhead Brew!
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Toronto’s hardest-hitting rock’n’roll trio Danko Jones shared their latest single ‘Diamond In The Rough’ with a video paying homage to KISS and featuring Marty Friedman! Another track from their upcoming album ‘Leo Rising’, set for release next month via Perception!
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LA-based hard rock outfit Holy Wars returned with the haunting new single ‘Metamorphosis’, an industrial rock fusion bringing together the intensity of Nine Inch Nails and HEALTH with soaring vocals reminiscent of Evanescence, out with Pale Chord/Rise Records!
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Finnish rockers Temple Balls announced their return last week with the new single and video ‘There Will Be Blood’, out now via Frontiers Music!
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Black Stone Cherry announced their new EP ‘Celebrate’ to be released in March 2026 via Mascot Records and kicked off with a video for the new single ‘Neon Eyes’!
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Kadavar release new single ‘Total Annihilation’, an uncompromising metal attack, part of their new album ‘K.A.D.A.V.A.R.’ to be released in November via Clouds Hill!
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Des Rocs released a new single with ‘This Land’, which is also the theme song of the recently released new ‘Borderlands 4’ game, and is working on the final touches on his new album to be released in 2026 with Sumerian Records!
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American heavy metal icons Corrosion Of Conformity are bringing a special rendition of ‘Fire And Water’, a classic track originally released by English rock band Free and the first of the ‘Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions’, out with Nuclear Blast!
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Album Reviews
One of this generation’s guitar virtuosi, Euge Valovirta, releases his first ever solo album for you to get your rock on!
It eats you and there’s no other way than to absorb the music and listen to this story. Each and every song has a unique sound to it. Yet they are similar enough to form one solid album.
Yet another smoking hard rock release from one of the Scandinavian countries by the young band The Riven!
Shiraz’ 2nd is here and it rocks like never before! The next big step for these young guys has been taken…
Diablo Blvd.’s latest album certainly is a special one, check out what we thought here!
German rockband Kadavar is releasing their fourth full-length album: Rough Times.
Pop this disc in the car radio, start driving and listen to what is half an hour of the perfect roadtrip music!
Possibly the birth of the next big thing in “vintage rock” is to be found in Finland, check out their groovy, heavy rock now!
Papa Roach is back with number 9 “Crooked Teeth”, bolstering a mix of old school sound and a foot into the future they’ll satisfy the needs of all generations of their fans.
Photo Reports
On Friday 15.03.2024 Sonata Arctica started off their “Clear Cold Beyond” tour at Pakkahuone in Tampere together with Temple Balls as support. The show was organized by Grey Beard and TuskaLive.
The “Back to the 2000s Tour” has been going strong in the US territories, taking people back to the good old days of nu metal and alternative metal/rock and Ozzfest with stellar shows from The Union Underground, SOiL, Ra and Flaw! We caught the stop at Piere’s in Fort Wayne, IN!
A selection of Rachel’s best captures of 2023, with pictures from bands like Mudvayne, Nonpoint, Drowning Pool, From Ashes To New, Shinedown, Fozzy, Butcher Babies, Sumy Cyco, Black Stone Cherry and Saliva!
A selection of Jonna’s best captures of 2023, with pictures from bands Butcher Babies, Electric Callboy, Ghost, Glenn Hughes, Gojira, In Flames, Lorna Shore, The Hu, Ville Valo, Chamber of Unlight, Asagraum, Monuments, Sodom, Batushka, Blind Guardian, and Apocalyptica!
A selection of Vaim’s best captures of 2023, after a long and grueling process of elimination, with pictures from bands like Battle Beast, Gaerea, Trollheim’s Grott, Avslut, Der Weg einer Freiheit, Amenra, Igorrr, Aesthetic Perfection, HIDE, SKYND, Ice Nine Kills, Utuk Xul, Rancid, Sick Of It All, Stratovarius, Testament, Michael Monroe, Volbeat, Hellacopters, Pensées Nocturnes, Amorphis, Biohazard, Killswitch Engage, Converge, Agnostic Front, Taake, Public Image Ltd, A.A. Williams, Butcher Babies, Clutch, Finntroll, Electric Callboy, Ghost, Gojira, Imperial Triumphant, Lorna shore, The Hu and Urne!
One of our newest photographers to have joined the team, Tommy offers a fine selection of cover bands, and gigs from the local club scene with pictures of Sabbra Cadabra, Crowley, Kraken Waker, Self Revolution, The SoapGirls, Nu-Castle, All Before, Audioslaves, Rage, Spartan Warrior, Twin Lizzy, and Red Hot Chilipinos!
It has become a true tradition that DIE HAPPY plays some warm-up gigs at the end of December for the shows or tours of the following years. In this round, it’s the ‘Pre-Anniversary Shows 2023’, preparing for the upcoming anniversary tour in 2024, celebrating their 30th anniversary as a band. Support came from Templemind at their stop in Stuttgart’s Im Wizemann in Germany!
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!
We set the hard task for our photographers to choose the best 30 pictures that they have shot in 2023 out of possibly thousands of captures, and here is the result of Tom Treuten’s selection with Butcher Babies, Fateful Finality, Fear Factory, Thundermother, Hypocrisy, Spiritbox, Behemoth, Dog Eat Dog, The Cult, Skillet, Agnostic Front, Scorpions, May The Silence Fail, Cannibal Corpse, Ataraxy, Dark Funeral, Goldmann, Solstafir, Ingested, Antiheld, Lansdowne, Völkerball (Rammstein Tribute), Fettes Brot, Danko Jones, Royal Republic, Team Tot, and Mindead!
After a long break, Gluecifer, who are one of Norway’s finest rock exports, played 3 gigs on their ‘Kings of Rock Tour 2023’ in Germany. We were lucky enough to be able to catch one of these shows for you at LKA Longhorn in Stuttgart! Power-rock trio The Demtones gave a solid support as opening act.
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