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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Hard rock/heavy metal band Nerve Star released their new single ‘Black Ice’, which comes with the track ‘The Harder The Better’ on the B-side! Tracks from their upcoming album ‘White Hot’, set for release in February!
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Swedish rock ‘n’ roll powerhouse Thundermother is releasing their first live album ‘Live ‘n’ Alive’ in April with Napalm Records and just unveiled the live video for ‘Whatever’, recorded in Gothenburg!
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Dutch hard rock/metal band Queen of Spades released their first single ‘Committed’ from their upcoming new album, including a killer music video!
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Chez Kane unveils new single ‘Night Of Passion’ from upcoming album ‘Reckless’, out in March via Frontiers Music!
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Finnish rock legends The 69 Eyes announced to have joined BLKIIBLK for their next chapter, and unveiled their new track ‘I Survive’ to celebrate, featuring American guitarist Steve Stevens!
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Finnish rockers Temple Balls recently unveiled new single ‘Tokyo Love’, a track taken from their upcoming self-titled album, set for release next month via Frontiers Music!
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Swedish modern rock outfit Self Deception announces their new album ‘One Of Us’ to be out in May with Napalm Records and shared the title track as a single, showing their heavy modern metal side!
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Black Veil Brides ushered in the new year last week with the release of their new single and video ‘Certainty’, out now via Spinefarm Records!
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Photo Reports
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.
The year wrapping up means that we’ll be looking back at the amazing things we’ve experienced, and “album of the year” lists. We’d also like to give some attention to our talented concert photographers who go out and cover shows for us. So here is a first in a series of articles where our artists pick their favorite pictures of 2023 with Anna/ScarletMemory Photography who mostly roams around in Tampere, Finland and pictures from bands like Pain, Sólstafir, Eleine, Myrath, Battle Beast, Brymir, Sabaton, Mors Subita, Lordi, Metalite, Shereign, Diablo, Before The Dawn, Wolfheart, Sonata Arctica, Deathstars, Brother Firetribe, Psychework, Apocalyptica, Voidfallen, Poets of the Fall, Amorphis, Lost Society, and Everwave!
Nonpoint, one of our photographers’ favorite bands to see live, made a stop at The Eclectic Room in Angola, Indiana on their “The Milliion Watts Tour 2023” and with the help of (hed)pe, Sumo Cyco and VRSTY turned the night in an absolute barn burner!
Extreme was on tour throughout Europe to present us their brand-new album “Six” and brought The Last Internationale with them as a support act. We caught their high energy shows at their stop at Trix in Antwerp, Belgium!
On the 10th anniversary edition of the Belgian hard rock and metal festival Blast From The Past, they did what they do best yet again: bringing the old school to a stage near you with an impressive line-up of Angel Witch, Onslaught, Exumer, Vengeance, Witchfynde, Hitten, Existance, Steelover, and Toledo Steel!
Danko Jones got us shakin’ to the pure rock ‘n’ roll show he brings every time he takes over the Tavastia stage in Helsinki. Warm-up was served by local rock heroes Dirt.
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