German heavy metal band on the rise All For Metal signed to Reigning Phoenix Music and are working on a second full-length! Catch them on tour in Europe with their now labelmates Lordi starting next month!
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UK’s heavy metal shooting stars Tailgunner welcome a new drummer with the Finn Jani Pasanen! Right on time for their upcoming tours with U.D.O. and Riot (V) and UK tours the following months!
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German heavy metal legends Accept announced their new album ‘Humanoid’ to be released in April via Napalm Records, with a first single and video coming at the end of this month! And following the new album, they will go on an extensive tour through South America and Europe this year still!
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Faroe Islands viking metal collective Týr is set to release their new album ‘Battle Ballads’ in April via Metal Blade Records and shared a new single with ‘Axes’!
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Finland’s favorite monsters Lordi announced All For Metal and Supreme Unbeing as the support acts for the upcoming European tour “Unliving Pictour Show 2024” that kicks off in a bit over a month!
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Canadian heavy metal force Striker are Kings of the Ring with new wrestling music video for the track ‘Sucks To Suck’, celebrating the release of their new album ‘ULTRAPOWER’ on last Friday!
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New Belgian metal band Throne of Thorns, featuring members of Ostrogoth and Reject The Sickness, released their 2nd single ‘Atomic Retribution’, from the upcoming debut album ‘Converging Parallel Worlds’ set for release next month via Rock Of Angels Records!
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Legendary US heavy metallers Riot (V) unveil the music video for the new single ‘Feel The Fire’, another track from their upcoming album ‘Mean Streets’, to be released in April via Atomic Fire Records (Reigning Phoenix Music)!
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Swedish heavy metal band Corroded teamed up with dark drum ‘n’ bass producer Zardonic and his friend Andy Malex for a killer remix of their track ‘Rain’ from the latest album ‘Plague’, released via Despotz Records!
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Power/heavy metal band Lokheira signs with Wormholedeath for the release of their debut album ‘Dark of the Night’ next month!
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Photo Reports
Day 2 of Tuhdimmat Tahdit was just as hot. Carnival Academy, Heavy Metal Perse, Antony Parviainen Trio, Turmion Kätilöt, Metalite, Wolfheart, Shereign, Before the Dawn, Brymir, Mokoma, Swallow the Sun and lastly Battle Beast. Master Events gave us a festival that is certainly worth coming back to.
On the third day of Rockfest 2023, we weren’t able to capture as many bands as on the earlier days due to other responsibilities and some artists not wanting any pictures to be taken, but we still caught killer performances on the Red Stage by Soundi by Igorrr, The Hellacopters and Beast In Black!
On the third day of Rockfest 2023, we weren’t able to capture as many bands as on the earlier days due to other responsibilities and some artists not wanting any pictures to be taken, but we still caught epic shows on the main stage by Michael Monroe, and Volbeat!
The second day of Rockfest 2023, the Black Stage brought 3 very different takes on rock music with shows from Crashdiet, Nestor and Cleopatrick.
Ghost is on tour in Europe spreading their ‘Impera’ gospel, and so we went to see them in Lille, France, and Ghost does not disappoint! Support came from Spiritbox and Lucifer!
Sabaton brought war to Helsinki and tried burning down the sold out Jäähalli with their fire show. They outdid themselves with this grand masterpiece, brought to Finland by TuskaLive and Grey Beard. Babymetal and Lordi both did a great job warming us up for this spectacle.
An evening full of fun, for young and old, with one of Belgium’s best and most popular metal bands of the past 3 decades: Channel Zero; with support from Temptations for the Weak.
Sabaton, Lordi and Babymetal in Munich: A hot, exuberant and wild night at the Olympiahalle.
Gig Reports
Nervosa came back to Finland and kicked absolute ass at a show that felt as if we were at one of those legendary underground shows people still talk about decades after!
Sabaton’s The Great Tour has come to burn the place down in Het Sportpaleis in Belgium. They were all too happy to perform their songs in the country where it all happend. Support of Amaranthe and Apocalyptica
Finnish melodic metal outfit Crimson Sun released their latest album ‘Fates’, What better than a release show in a dark cellar to celebrate?
American mega band Five Finger Death Punch came back to Europe again and we caught them at their first stop in Helsinki with very special guest Megadeth!
Steel Panther set up shop in Helsinki and brought us a kickass night of fun, titties and metal! Heavy metal rules!
Eluveitie came to play a great show in Belgium that I’m hoping to see again some time soon!
After releasing their new album “Walk The Sky”, Alter Bridge passed by Helsinki to show us what they got!
It’s been about a year since I last saw Children Of Bodom, perfect timing for another show by them!
An unholy celebration of Christ’s Death with Watain and Obnoxious Youth? Sign us up!
Excellent beer and 3 good Finnish bands… consider me warmed up for Rockfest this Summer!
