We’re still buzzing about last weekend’s festivities at Alcatraz Festival, but no rest for the wicked with already a first 30 names confirmed for next year’s edition and early bird sales on the way since yesterday! Who are you looking for or hoping for still for the 2027 edition? Let us know in the comments!
Tony Iommi announced his new album ‘From The Dark’ to be out in September and shared a first single with ‘World Alone’!
Frozen Crown share second single ‘Reborn’ from their upcoming album ‘The Legend of the Six Kings’, out in October via Napalm Records!
blacktoothed surge into their heaviest chapter yet with new single ‘ADRENALINE’, giving a taste of the direction their upcoming album ‘FERAL BLOOM’ is heading, set for release early next year with Arising Empire!
King Diamond welcomes legendary guitarist Gus G. to the band’s lineup for all future gigs and recordings, replacing Andy LaRocque who split with the band afteer 40 years!
Belgian heavy metal icons Killer are releasing one more album with ‘The Grand Finale’ in September, via High Roller Records and shared the title track as a first taste! Catch them later this year on tour through Europe as very special guests of Anvil!
UK outfit King Kraken released their latest video and single ‘I Am The Apocalypse’ recently!
Canada’s heavy rock outfit Famous Strangers confront division and reclaim power in their latest video single ‘As Your Leader’, another track from their upcoming self-titled album set for release in August!
Bay Area thrash legends Heathen are celebrating Iron Maiden’s 50 anniversary in style with their take on the classic ‘The Prisoner’, out now via Napalm Records!
German heavy metal legends Accept shared another re-recorded track with ‘Balls to the Wall’, featuring Metal God Rob Halford, guitar icon Matthias Jabs, bassist Rex Brown and Bullet For My Valentine drummer Jason Bowld! Their new album ‘Teutonic Titans 1976-2026’ celebrating 50 years, will be out in September via Napalm Records!
The Infected Rain and Butcher Babies co-headline “Mutation Phase in Europe tour” dropped by at DVG Club in Kortrijk for an amazing night of modern metal, supported by Black Spikes!
Belgian modern metal outfit Behind the Veil proudly presented their new EP “Betrayed by Shadows’ with a release party at DVG club Kortrijk, supported by Ironborn and X-Pozed!
We almost forgot to post this one… as we do every year, we ask our photographers to pick their best and most favorite captures of the past year, and 2025 brought acts like Borknagar, Doro, Machine Head, Ne Obliviscaris, Room 13, Vola, Infected Rain, Luna Kills, Kickin Valentina, Art Nation, SatchVai Band, Arkona, Kreator, Cro-Mags, Bury Tomorrow, Electric Callboy, BTL and Ankor in front of Tom V.M.’s camera!
In the beginning of the month, Butcher Babies hosted an electrifying show at Piere’s in Fort Wayne, Indiana along with Lylvc and Remember Me! Catch Butcher Babies live on their co-headline tour with Infected Rain in Europe right now!
In 2025 Anna/ScarletMemory Photography covered again tons of bands and events both in Finland and Germany with her favorite captures being of shows from Amoral, Apocalyptica, Apulanta, Battle Beast, Blind Guardian, Bloodred Hourglass, Bush, Catch Your Breath, Cemetery Skyline, Cyan Kicks, Finntroll, Hammerfall, In Flames, Indica, Leverage, Lordi, Michael Monroe, Nothing More, Popeda, Powerwolf, Sabaton, Shade Empire, Sonata Arctica, The Legendary Orchestra, The Rock Orchestra, Timo Rautiainen & Trio Niskalaukaus, Toto, Volbeat and Wednesday 13.
The year 2025 is wrapped up, and we’re looking back on all the great gigs and festivals we had the pleasure of shooting.
At the end of last year, power metal legends HELLOWEEN were taking their 40th anniversary tour through Europe and they lit up Schleyerhalle in Stuttgart, Germany with a jaw-dropping show. Finnish next generation power metallers BEAST IN BLACK kicked things off, before the main act unleashed pyro, confetti, and pure metal magic. A night of epic riffs and fan-fueled celebration!
This year Lemmy Kilmister left this mortal realm 10 years ago. Mötorhead, the band that Lemmy brought to life, was founded 50 years ago. Phil Campbell joined Mötorhead over 40 years ago. What a list of anniversaries, and what better reasons to celebrate? We caught Phil Campbell and The Bastard Sons in Stuttgart, Germany on one of the stops of their “50 years of Mötorhead” celebration tour, with support from Airstrike!
Sabaton played a close to sold out show at the SchleyerHalle in Stuttgart, Germany together with The Legendary Orchestra a couple of weeks ago. Full power from start to finish.
Battle Beast played a visually stunning show in front of over 5000 fans at Nokia Arena in Tampere on November 21st together with Dynazty as the dedicated warm-up band.
Tuska Sunday always feels a bit different. More relaxed, a little bittersweet, but no less memorable. We wrapped up the weekend with Kim Dracula, Whitechapel, Motionless In White, Nothing More, Noiduin and a stunning headline performance by Lorna Shore. Read our final festival report now.
Report of day 3 of Alcatraz 2024 with Soil, Eternal Champion, Jinjer, Korpiklaani, Dark Tranquillity, Baroness, Danko Jones, Architects, Clutch and Opeth!
The report of the first day of Alcatraz 2024, filled with a quite heavy serving of hardcore music!
And time really flew, already being at the last day of Graspop Metal Meeting 2024, with personal highlights of one of our team members through Body Count, Corey Taylor, Deep Purple, Scorpions and festival closer Machine Head!
One of our team members gathered some of her memorable moments of the third day at Graspop Metal Meeting 2024 with Fleddy Melculy, Steel Panther, While She Sleeps, Blind Guardian and Kamelot!
A handful of highlights for our reporter taking part in the Graspop Metal Meeting festivities last month, with Dynazty, Bruce Dickinson, Avantasia, and Electric Callboy!
One of our writers went to Graspop Metal Meeting this year, and wrote down some of her favorite experiences of day 1 with Amaranthe, Bury Tomorrow, Kerry King, Babymetal and Alice Cooper!
Report of the second day of Tuska 2024 with Ankor, Vola, Tarot, Stam1na, Make Them Suffer, Amorphis, Turmion Kätilöt and Bring Me The Horizon!
Report of the first day of Tuska 2024 with Lord of the Lost, I Am The Night, Alestorm, Infected Rain, Kerry King, Zeal & Ardor and Pendulum!
Last day of Graspop 2023, where our team member managed to see rockin’ bands like Kissin’ Dynamite, Skid Row and Mötley Crüe, melodeath supergroup The Halo Effect, the explosive show of Enter Shikari and the extremely popular performance of Hellmut Goes Metal!
We sat down with vocalist Sini and guitarist Joni from Crimson Sun to talk about their new album ‘Sorrowbreaker’, out today, and how they did things a bit differently, resulting in a “lighter” album in the sense of somewhat breaking with the sorrow and shining a bright light, encouraging you to stop and enjoy life! Be sure to check out this great new album if you’re looking for some nice melodic heavy metal with a modern touch!
A chat with the guys of the Belgian heavy metal band Hunter about their show at Alcatraz 2023, their new album ‘Rebel Angels Rise’ and their release show at our own Asgaard venue this Saturday!
A chat with Mr. Lordi about the new Lordi album ‘Screem Writers Guild’ (out since March 31st via Atomic Fire Records), how he was inspired by the “Universal Monsters”, a couple of things he did differently for this album and how the process was to get to their new looks. He also gives us a brief update about a translation of his recently released monster of a book about everything Lordi!
A talk with Joonas and Ben from Oceanhoarse about the new album ‘Heads Will Roll’ and how their state of mind was different with the recording of this one, trying to get a more raw and dirty sound to take it even closer to a live feeling than before!
A chat with Johannes from Avatar on the new album ‘Dance Devil Dance’ on why this is the best album of them as of yet, how they did things somewhat different and tried to approach everything in such a way that they thought people could dance to even blast beats and why now was the time for them to self-release the album.
A chat with Sara Strömmer of Shereign about the release of their debut album “Ghost Diaries”, the themes and artwork of the album, the planned release shows with Dark Sarah and how she would describe the band in images, with a very interesting result!
Watch the chat we had with Anton Kabanen about the upcoming new album ‘Dark Connection’ and his cyberpunk inspirations!
Watch the interview with Joonas and Jyri from Oceanhoarse about their debut full-length studio album ‘Dead Reckoning’, out via Noble Demon Records!
Watch the chat we had with Vallu and Bini from the Finnish alternative rock outfit Blame Me! about their upcoming new album ‘The Invisible You’!
We have a chat with Patrick Walch, the man behind the successful and interesting new label Noble Demon! Check out what he has to say!
Pakanafestarit returns to Espoo in just two weeks: a celebration of Nordic folklore, rituals, community, and one of the strongest line-ups yet, from folk icons Värttinä to pagan metal force Havukruunu and so much more from The Gallows Dance to Kallomäki, Ilkka Heinonen, Rauni, Iterum Nata and Ínkar and of course plenty of vendors yet again! Here are the top reasons why we think you should join us there…
For the second day of Alcatraz 2025, our team picked out 8 bands we believe you shouldn’t miss out on with Myrath, KNIFE, Baest, Drowning Pool, Rivers of Nihil, Nailbomb, Caliban and Avatar! What bands are you really looking forward to for this Friday at Alcatraz? Let us know in the comments!
The first day of the third edition of Hellsinki Metal Festival is filled with an impressive line-up of metal bands of almost every subgenre, completed with some special ones. Of course you need to go see King Diamond headlining tonight, but there is so much more to discover, so our editorial team picked out 7 bands that they think you definitely shouldn’t miss out on with Rabbit Cult, Gost, Kanonenfieber, Forbidden, Fear Factory, Candlemass and Moonsorrow! What bands are you really looking forward to today? Let us know in the comments!
For the first day of Alcatraz 2025, our team picked out 8 bands we believe you shouldn’t miss out on with Messa, Frayle, 3 Inches of Blood, thrown, Cabal, Crystal Lake, Phil Campbell and the Bastard Sons and Heriot! What bands are you really looking forward to for this Friday at Alcatraz? Let us know in the comments!
Brutal Assault is a proper celebration of everything that is metal and/or extreme and there is something great to be found at any time of the day! We picked out 8 bands that you should go see on the first day of this year’s edition, with High Parasite, Gutalax, Landmvrks, Blood Fire Death, Slow Crush, Patriarchy, Fear Factory and Drowning Pool, because they’ll be more than worth your time!
On the last day of Alcatraz 2025, we get 10 more fantastic Belgian bands served up, going from mesmerizing atmosphere makers like Briqueville and Alkerdeel, to absolute mayhem from bands like Bark, Devastatiön, Slaughter Messiah and Cobracide, hardcore legends Congress and Whatever It Takes, rockers Promise Down or goth-tinged heavy metallers Cult of Scarecrow! Something for everyone and again proof how rich the Belgian heavy music scene is…
This weekend is the highlight for us and many among us in Belgium with the 2025 edition of Alcatraz Festival, but if you still haven’t decided to go, here are 10 reasons why we believe you should just go ahead and go get you some tickets still… What are you looking forward to the most for this year’s edition?
Only a handful of days left before Helsinki gets a healthy shot of heavy and dark music with the third edition of Hellsinki Metal Festival! If you’re still confused and wondering if you should go or not, check out 8 reasons we believe should convince you… Beware, get your tickets today as tomorrow the price will go up again!
If you want to experience a true metal holiday with zero worries and all the possible fun you can think of, Tolminator is the place to be. Here are 10 reasons why we think you should join us there next week…
Brutal Assault is a proper celebration of everything that is metal and/or extreme and there is something great to be found at any time of the day! We picked out 8 bands that you should go see on the first day of this year’s edition, with Frayle, RUÏM, Orange Goblin, Crystal Lake, Oranssi Pazuzu, 3 Inches of Blood, Sigh, and Brutally Deceased, because they’ll be more than worth your time!
