Heavy/Power metal outfit Hammer King presented their second single ‘King For A Day’, yet another uplifting anthem from their upcoming album ‘Make Metal Royal Again’, out in August via Reaper Entertainment!
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News Posts
British heavy rockers FURY are blazing forward with ‘What’s It Gonna Be?’, the new video and single from the upcoming album ‘Interceptor’, set for release in September via Mighty Music!
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The twisted, theatrical misfits of Raven Black return with their most sinister offering yet: ‘This Little Piggy’! Out now with a just as haunting animated music video!
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Canadian metal outfit Famous Strangers shared their new music video and single ‘L.S.C.’, right in time for their festival shows at Armstrong Metal Fest and Loud As Hell Open Air!
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Belgian hard rock and metal festival Blast From The Past is back on December 6 with an amazing line-up of 8 acts like Adrian Vandenberg, Medieval Steel, Savage Grace, Highway Chile, ADX, Toxikull, Opium Heathen and Thorium! Get your tickets now!
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British heavy metal band FURY are set to unleash their new album ‘Interceptor’ in September with Mighty Music and shared a video for the title track!
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Swedish metal institution Eleine announced their new EP ‘We Stand United’ to be out in September via Reigning Phoenix Music and reveal a video for ‘Never Forget (Live at Masters of Rock 2024)’! Catch them at one of their limited festival stops like SaariHelvetti, or later this year as special guests for Primal Fear!
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Swiss heavy metal powerhouse Burning Witches announced their new studio album ‘Inquisition’ to be out in August via Napalm Records and shared a video for the title track!
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Sabaton released their new single and cinematic video ‘Hordes Of Khan’ last week, another taste of their upcoming new album, which is set to be released with Better Noise Music later this year!
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Germany’s heavy/power metal royalty Hammer King proudly present their new single and music video ‘Make Metal Royal Again’, the anthemic title track of their upcoming studio album, set for release in August via Reaper Entertainment!
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Festival Reports
The last day of Tuska was as usually the “chill-out” day, but delivered some nice surprises and great bands!
Sun, metal, beers and an ice skating rink as festival grounds. Dynamo Metalfest has it all. Day 2 report!
Sun, metal, beers and an ice skating rink as festival grounds. Dynamo Metalfest has it all. Day 1 report!
Yet another day of discovering new talent and enjoying timeless classics. Top that with a RATM after party, and you’ve got yourself a fine second full day at Graspop Metal Meeting 2019.
Day 1 of the almighty Tuska brought some issues to the surface, but mostly delivered on some damn good music!
The third day of Rockfest mayhem with the very last show of Kiss on Finnish shores!
A report of the second day of Rockfest mayhem with headliner Disturbed!
The first day of Rockfest madness was one to remember, with the very first European Slipknot show in years!
All aboard The Sabaton Cruise 2018 Review. The battle has been fought and is reviewed here!
2 days of extreme metal from the crypts of the underground: SteelChaos, you were great yet again!
Photo Reports
Pictures of the second day of Alcatraz 2024, with on the Prison Stage explosive shows from Finntroll, Spiritbox, Dio Disciples, Testament, Epica and Europe!
Pictures of the first day of Alcatraz 2024, with on the Prison Stage explosive shows from Dyscordia, Orden Ogan, Beast In Black, Feuerschwanz, Channel Zero, Saxon and Amon Amarth!
Tuhdimmat Tahdit’s second day with Brother Firetribe, Tarot, Huora, Klamydia, Suburban Tribe, Sonata Arctica and Apulanta was just as much fun as the first day!
Day one of Tuhdimmat Tahdit in it’s all renewed version gave us Kotiteollisuus, Marko Hietala, Lost Society, Stratovarius, Mokoma, Stam1na and Amorphis. What a great festival that we sure will return to again in the future.
Yngwie Malmsteen coming to Finland was an event we didn’t want to miss, especially when he was bringing along Phil Campbell and the Bastard Sons to kick off the night!
Pictures of the people we captured during the weekend of the 2024 edition of Tuska, those who make the festival what it is.
Pictures of the artists on the Radio City and OPEN AIR II stage of the last day of Tuska 2024, with Warmen, Fixation, Eivør, Bury Tomorrow and Brothers Of Metal!
Pictures of the artists on the main stage of the last day of Tuska 2024, with Beyond The Black, Lost Society, Opeth and Parkway Drive!
Pictures of the artists on the main stage of the second day of Tuska 2024, with VOLA, Tarot, Stam1na, Amorphis and Bring Me The Horizon!
Pictures of the artists on the main stage of the first day of Tuska 2024, with Lord of the Lost, Alestorm, Kerry King, Dimmu Borgir and Pendulum!
Album Reviews
Join the Cult of Scarecrow on their debut full length ‘Tales of the Sacrosanct Man’ for some groove fueled grungy heavy metal, out now on Wormholedeath.
“At One with None” is an epic heavy metal album, masterfully achieved by the clear refinement in the songwriting.
After more than a decade the evil raiders of Blacksword have set sail again on their aptly titled sophomore ‘Alive Again’. Out on No Remorse Records.
The new Belgian metal outfit Shocker shows the decent amount of old school heavy metal they can produce with their own sound and personality!
The fourth album from Belgium’s combat metal unit FireForce is a really tasty slab of heavy metal!
NWOBHM from Latin America in 2021? Lucifer’s Hammer proves that it can work with their third album ‘The Trip’, out on High Roller Records.
Starlight Ritual’s full-length debut ‘Sealed in Starlight’ sounds as if it actually were sealed away in the eighties by some sorcerer only to be unearthed now 40 years later.
From times before the great heavy metal cataclysm of the grunged nineties Blazon Rite leads us into the ‘Endless Halls of Golden Totem’.
With their second album ‘When Good Men Go To War’ Vexillum takes us on an epic and heroic adventure. Are you ready to set sails and join them?
