News Posts

NYC’s legendary hardcore pioneers, AGNOSTIC FRONT, are set to unveil their unapologetically fierce new album ‘Echoes in Eternity’, featuring the band’s established sound remains best known for their pure adrenaline fuelled riffs, unrelenting energy and outspoken critique on social corruption. ‘Way of War’ is the first single to land ahead of this forthcoming onslaught;

‘Echoes in Eternity’ will be released on November 7, 2025, via Reigning Phoenix Music.

Deez Nuts released a special, animated video for ‘5 Gold Chains’, a track from their upcoming album ‘Saudade’, out next month with Century Media Records!

Last week, UK sludgers Mastiff unleashed the new single ‘Decimated Graves’ upon the world, another relentless taste of what is to come with their upcoming EP ‘For All the Dead Dreams’, out next month via Church Road Records!

NY hardcore upstarts SPACED share another new single ‘Pressure’ from their upcoming EP ‘No Escape’, set for release in October with their new label Pure Noise Records!

Manchester’s heavy hardcore punk outfit Going Off unveiled their new single ‘No One Loves You’, from their upcoming EP ‘Kill List II’, out at the end of October!

Earlier this month, URNE announced their new album ‘Setting Fire To The Sky’ to be released in January 2026 with Spinefarm Records and shared the new single and video ‘Be Not Dismayed’!

Dutch black metal innovators Terzij de Horde released the second new single ‘The All-Consuming Work of the Soul’s Foreclosing’ and video of the upcoming album ‘Our Breath Is Not Ours Alone’, set for release in October with Church Road Records!

Headlining Tuska 2026 will be Bring Me The Horizon and Bad Omens, backed by a diverse first wave including The Plot In You, Blood Incantation, Queensrÿche, Kublai Khan TX, Malevolence, Soilwork, Rivers of Nihil, Ensiferum, Bloodred Hourglass, Majestica, Melrose Avenue, The Callous Daoboys and Neckbreakker!

We’re already getting excited for another memorable weekend of metal and alternative music in Helsinki! 3-day tickets are already available right now.

Which band are you looking forward to the most? Or still wishing for? Let us know in the comments!

Canadian hardcore/metal powerhouse Teeth delivered their latest offering in the form of the 2 song EP ‘I Am the Way to Oblivion’, out now via Nuclear Blast and shared a visualizer for the track ‘Blue and Cold’!

Spinefarm Record signed the fast-rising hardcore band Southpaw FLHC for the release of their first full-length next year and to celebrate, they unleashed the single ‘Torches’!

Photo Reports

For more than 40 years, AGNOSTIC FRONT brings the finest New York Hardcore to the concert hall stages and festivals around the globe. Europe and its loyal NY HC fan base is a reason to tour annually. This summer they hit European venues on their ‘Urban Decay Tour 2024’. With the opening date being a totally sold-out gig at Café Central in Weinheim, Germany. Turning every venue into a constant circle-pit and sweaty moshing area, the NYHC veterans excite the audiences of all ages. A band not to be missed out on whenever they come to a venue close to you!

Earlier this year, 3 excellent Belgian bands rocked our venue Asgaard with their music. One for one bands you should check out, with hardcore/deathcore from Despite Us, modern metal from Noord and pummeling death metal from Catharsis! An event presented to us by Fly Productions!

Doodseskader (and Watergruwels as support) shook VIERNULVIER and the surrounding area in Gent, Belgium awake with an intense show in a sold out venue to release their new album: “Year Two”.

AUGUST BURNS RED, the metalcore giants from Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA, are currently storming across European stages as part of their ‘Death Below’ tour. They are accompanied by THROWN and DYING WISH, bringing some of the best metalcore has to offer all across the continent!

An assault bus passed through Munich, and inside it were the Americans of Lionheart, Suicide Silence, Kublai Khan and Paleface Swiss, who simply wrung all the sweat out of those present in the larger room of the Backstage club.

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!

Our recently joined photographer Lindy is excited to see what 2024 is going to bring for her, but for now, let’s have a look back at some of her favorite pictures she took in 2023 at shows from bands like Across the White Water Tower, Alesana, Autopsy Affair, Brand of Sacrifice, Currents, Emmure, Greyhaven, Knuckle Puck, Magg Dylan, Magnolia Parl, Midnight Threat, Norma Jean, Origami Angel, Pink Shift, Saliva, See You Space Cowboy, Silverstein, Sweet Pill, The Contactees, The SoapGirls, Virginia, and We Came As Romans!

Kvelertak

Kvelertak wrapped up their “Krøterveg te helvete” tour in Trix, Antwerp with support from the Canadian hardcore punk formation Cancer Bats!

We caught the renown German metalcore outfit Annisokay killing it at the Backstage venue in Munich, with the support of 2 promising bands with Fixation and To Kill Achilles!