All For Metal announced their sophomore album ‘Gods Of Metal’ to be released in August via Reigning Phoenix Music, officially opened the pre-orders and shared a music video for the title track!
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News Posts
After recently signing with MNRK Heavy, Waylon Reavis’ latest project A Killer’s Confession shared the video for their new single ‘Greed’!
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With ‘Holy Mountain Mind’, Spain’s The Wizards proudly present another song from their upcoming album ‘The Exit Garden’, set for release via High Roller Records next week!
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US heavy metal legends Attacker return with their first album in eight years ‘The God Particle’, set for release in April via Cruz Del Sur Music, and unleashed a single with ‘The Mighty Have Fallen’!
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US heavy metal powerhouse Floodfall signs with Wormholedeath for the re-release of their album ‘Unbroken’ in April and any future releases in the nearby future!
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French heavy metal pioneers Nightmare return with brand-new album ‘Encrypted’ set for release via AFM Records in June and unleashed a first single with ‘Saviours of the Damned’!
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“Thrash Grass” outfit The Native Howl dropped the captivating new single and video ‘Mercy’ via Sumerian Records, featuring the ever impressive Lzzy Hale from Halestorm on guest vocals!
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Greek occult doom/heavy metal outfit Saturday Night Satan shared the video single ‘Devil in Disguise’, a track from their upcoming debut album ‘All Things Black’, set for release at the end of this month via Made of Stone Recordings! Fans of artists like Ghost, Lucifer or Witchcraft may want to pay attention!
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Walk into the ocean with Icelandic metal outfit Drungi’s new single ‘Alda’, a track from their upcoming debut album ‘Hamfarir Hugans’! Fans of Sólstafir, Skálmöld and Gojira may want to pay heed!
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UK heavy metal titans Balance Of Power are back with new band members and a brand-new album 2 decades after their last album! ‘Fresh From The Abyss’ is set for release in April via Massacre Records, with the single ‘Abyss’ out right now!
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Photo Reports
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!
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!
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!
The cold came to Munich in the form of a package of Scandinavian bands, but Liv Sin, Priest and Deathstars managed to warm the souls of those present in the small Strom quickly after waiting in the cold and snow.
Pictures of the massive Stam1na show at the Ice Hockey Hall in Helsinki with special guests Diablo, Corroded and Dear Mother!
Kvelertak wrapped up their “Krøterveg te helvete” tour in Trix, Antwerp with support from the Canadian hardcore punk formation Cancer Bats!
Kvelertak is continuing to take Europe by storm on their “Krøterveg Te Helvete Tour” presenting their latest work, in the company of Cancer Bats as support. We were there at the Backstage venue in Munich, Germany last week!
Kvelertak and Cancer Bats started quite the riot at Kulttuuritalo Helsinki some weeks ago!
First edition of the charity festival named Aütfëst, held in Bruay-La-Buissière, France. Profit goes to Autism related organisations. With shows from Overflow Guy, Titans Rage, Death Structure, Kamizol K, Overdrivers, Xaon, and BlackRain!
Drowning Pool, Salive, Adelitas Way and Any Given Sin are touring the US with “The SNAFU tour” and we got to enjoy a great night of American metal/rock in Fort Wayne, Indiana!
Album Reviews
Darkthrone on its 20th album tackles the old era of traditional metal in a very conventional method. Although some of the tracks may lack the raw organic sound, nevertheless “Astral Fortress” is an epic blackened and doom-laden heavy metal record that is gritty and bold to its core! Out via Peaceville Records.
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8 years after the near perfect ‘The Year is One’, one of the longest running Finnish doom acts Spiritus Mortis has returned with a new lineup and a fifth album ‘The Great Seal’, easing down a bit on the heavy doom riffery and replacing it with simply epic sounding heavy metal. Out on Svart Records since last Friday.
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Made out of part Eternal Champion and part former Magic Circle comes Sumerlands’ sophomore on Relapse Records ‘Dreamkiller’ which sees these heavy metal warriors take on a more AOR oriented approach. So strap yourself into the Delorean, fire up the flux capacitor and head for the Sumerlands. They don’t have roads there.
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Sweden’s finest all-female hard rock band and #1 rock export Thundermother have released their newest album ‘Black and Gold’ via AFM Records and it’s yet again filled with heartfelt and solid rock songs that are primed to take over the world!
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After last year’s impressive fictional compilation album “Killection”, Lordi is back with an even more mind-blowing release as they unleash a back catalogue of 7 albums with “Lordiversity”!
The Germans of J.B.O. are back to lighten up the party with their brand new party-metal album ‘Planet Pink’!
Sabaton is back singing about “The War To End All Wars”, telling stories that took place during WW1, going all the way from the beginning to the very end.
Finnish heavy metal band Battle Beast just released their new album »Circus of Doom«, on which they perfected their usual sound while still adding a lot of new flavours into the mix. Definitely recommended.
Kyle Pfeiffer aka Blacklite District released a brand new rockin’ record that holds a lot of promise after getting his life back on track!
Cherokee delivers some old school hard rock and heavy metal vibes with their debut full-length ‘Blood & Gold’!
