Occult heavy metal outfit on the rise Savage Master set March 28th as the release date for their highly anticipated fifth album ‘Dark & Dangerous’, coming to you via Shadow Kingdom Records! First track and pre-orders coming early next month!
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News Posts
This past year has been amazing yet again with milestones being set on our site, Asgaard club and more. We want to thank all our supporters, partners and crew for 2024 and are looking to make it our mission in 2025 to lift our community and music scene to even bigger heights! Who’s in?
Italian horror metal project Deathless Legacy announced their new album ‘Damnatio Aeterna’ to be released in March 2025 via Scarlet Records and introduce the concept behind the album!
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Heavy metal legends W.A.S.P. will be performing their entire debut album from start to finish on the 2025 “Album ONE Alive!” tour in Europe and drop by summer festivals like Into The Grave and Alcatraz Festival with a “Greatest Hits” setlist!
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Metal non-profit project Savage Lands continues the fight with their latest single ‘Out of Breath’, featuring Lord of the Lost and Chloe Trujillo, another track from their upcoming album ‘Army of the Trees’, set for release in February 2025 via Season of Mist!
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In February 2025, Sweden’s Armory will release their EP ‘Black Star’ via Dying Victims Productions and Jawbreaker Records, but they have shared the title track already right now!
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Nerdy metalheads among us, rejoice! Parody metal heroes Nanowar Of Steel unleashed a video for their track ‘HelloWorld.java’, in which they are paying homage to the world of coding! A track from the bonus CD of their recently released live album ‘XX Years Of Steel’, out via Napalm Records!
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Barcelona’s rising heavy metal force Wicked Leather has set loose their debut double single ‘Echoes of the Storm’ via Jawbreaker Studios and now shared a video for the track ‘Night Hunter’!
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Finnish progressive heavy metal band Mastord released their second single from their upcoming third album with ‘Kaarne’ (out via Inverse Records), a deep kaleidoscope of rhythm, sound and words, blending the multifaceted nature of progressive music.
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Old school Finnish speed metal band Arched Fire released their latest single ‘Northbound Train’ with Inverse Records, a track that is both a tribute to their roots and journey and possibly a mark for an end of an era!
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Album Reviews
Diablo Blvd.’s latest album certainly is a special one, check out what we thought here!
Salt Lake City rockers Visigoth head out for new conquests on their second album.
The popular metal outfit Trivium is back with album number 8 “The Sin and the Sentence” to prove that they’re the epitome of modern metal!
This album has the Black Veil Brides sound that you know. It won’t disappoint you and it won’t surprise you. But it will amaze you.
Are you in for a trip to the unknown? The horrors that hide in the unknown is exactly what we’re after! A slice of industrial horror metal by Killus to quench your thirst for music to lose your mind to.
Classic metal band Anvil is ready to release a new pounding record to the world. Quality heavy metal at its best.
Good ol’ Corrosion of Conformity is back with the new album ‘No Cross No Crown’, and they’re more powerful than ever!
Five Finger Death Punch is back with old AND new material! 10 years of Death Punch in A Decade of Destruction
Iron Savior takes us on an adventurous journey to the past with their new album containing re-recorded songs from their first albums.
Photo Reports
At the end of December, we managed to catch the shows of Shereign, Dirt and of course Oceanhoarse at the second edition of Hoarsefest at On The Rocks in Helsinki!
The first stop on Katatonia’s and Sólstafirs co-headlineing tour was Pakkahuone in Tampere, Finland with SOM as support act. If you’re still hesitant about getting tickets for a show near you, let these captures convince you!
After years of waiting Pain finally made it back to Finland! We made it to their show at Olympia-Kortteli in Tampere, organised by Nem Agency. Finnish modern metallers Detset also did a great job as their support.
German veterans of Heavy Metal Grave Digger are back on tour with their ‘Knights and Riots Tour 2023’. Together with Cellar Stone from Greece and Mystic Prophecy they entered the stage at LKA Longhorn, Stuttgart, Germany on 17th January 2023.
Swedish melodeath legends In Flames filled Jäähalli in Helsinki with a massive crowd, along with fellow melodeath instigators At The Gates and up-and-comers Imminence and Orbit Culture to warm us up!
Amorphis came to show why they are one of Finland’s favorites and with them the folk metal legends Eluveitie ripped up the stage at Jäähalli in Helsinki, right after Dark Tranquillity and Nailed To Obscurity warmed up the crowd!
On December 18th, 2022 Nightwish performed their last German gig of the ‘Human :II: Nature’ tour 2022 at Schleyerhalle, Stuttgart. Together with Turmion Kätilöt and Beast in Black, an all Finland based metal night was going to take place.
We made it to the final show of this year’s Raskastan Joulua tour at the Nokia Arena in Tampere, saved by the band and Master Events from cancellation, and the perfect way to celebrate Christmas and heavy metal music in Finland!
We caught Ra at their stop at Piere’s in Fort Wayne, Indiana while being on the road for their “From One 20th Anniversary Tour”, with support from A Killer’s Confession, Blood of Heroes and The Illegals!
