London-based rock trio Dream Nails released their third studio album ‘You Wish’ via Marshall Records last Friday and unveiled a video for ‘The Spirit Does Not Burn’ to celebrate!
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Swedish underground rock label Majestic Mountain Records announced their first label fest in Finland to happen on February 21 at Lepakkomies in Helsinki with Kaiser, Craneium, I Am Low and Mushroom Caravan Overdrive on the line-up!
Belgian rock institution Triggerfinger kicked off the beginning of a new era with their latest single ‘Come Clean’!
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Cinematic visionaries Edge Of Paradise unveiled the official video for the track ‘Martyr (Monster)’ which was featured on their latest album ‘Prophecy’, released last year with Napalm Records!
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North American hard rock band Kissing Kaos unveiled their new single ‘Chaos Inside’, a track from their upcoming debut album set for release with Mighty Music!
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Promising heavy metal/hard rock outfit Furies sign to Fireflash Records and release new single and video ‘Cannibale’!
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Spanish melodic hard rock band XTASY open an exciting new chapter of their career with ‘Too Late’, a brand-new single from their upcoming album ‘Phoenix’, set for release in April with Art Of Melody Music and Burning Minds Music Group!
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Hard rock outfit The B.O.S. shared their bluesy new single and video ‘Ice Cream Cone’, the first single from their upcoming album ‘Volume 2’, set for release this spring!
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Aussie rock ‘n’ rollers Avalanche are back with ‘On The Bags Again’, a proper Aussie pub rock party anthem that is also the opener for their upcoming debut album ‘Armed to the Teeth’, out on February 13!
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Truckfighters announced their first new album in a decade, ‘MASTERFLOW’, set for release in April on their own label Fuzzorama Records, followed immediately by a tour through Europe!
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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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