After an 18-year silence on the album front, CLAWFINGER are finally back – louder, sharper, and more defiant than ever! With ‘Ball & Chain’, they unleash another track from the upcoming album ‘Before We All Die’, out February 20, 2026 on PERCEPTION – A Division of Reigning Phoenix Music, fusing relentless riffs and raw energy with frontman Zak Tell’s unflinching honesty.
DIRKSCHNEIDER & THE OLD GANG (DATOG) have unleashed ‘Babylon,’ the monumental title track from their upcoming album, set for release on October 3, 2025 via Reigning Phoenix Music (RPM).
Alter Bridge shared first single/video ‘Silent Divide’ from their upcoming self-titled album, set for release in January 2026 via Napalm Records and announced the “What Lies Within U.S. tour” dates that will come right after their extensive Europe tour in early 2026!
Hard rock/heavy metal outfit Hell in the Club announced their new album ‘Joker In The Pack’ to be out in November with Frontiers Music and shared the new single and video ‘Magnetars’!
Melancholic Finnish metal band Mourning Wood is releasing their debut album this autumn, and the latest new single ‘Swift Demise’ gives you a proper miserable taste of what is to come!
Belgium’s up-and-rising heavy metallers Speed Queen are about to release their debut full-length ‘…With a Bang!’ this Friday via High Roller Records, but not before they provided a last taste of it a couple of weeks ago with the track ‘I Walk Alone’!
A couple of weeks ago, one of UK’s most promising acts, FURY, released a new thunderous and rebellious single ‘Don’t Lie To Me’, another track from their upcoming album ‘Interceptor’, set for release next month via Mighty Music!
Finnish metal icons Amorphis recently shared the new single ‘Dancing Shadow’ in anticipation of their upcoming new album ‘Borderland’, out next month via Reigning Phoenix Music! Catch them live this Fall in Europe with Arch Enemy or in the Summer of 2026 at the many festivals they’re already confirmed for, including Alcatraz Festival and Brutal Assault!
Finnish heavy metal powerhouse Battle Beast dropped their new single ‘Here We Are’ in the beginning of this month, another track from the upcoming anticipated album ‘Steelbound’, set for release in October via Nuclear Blast!
Disciples of Verity, a collective made up by some heavy hitters of the music scene, released their latest new single ‘In My Eyes’, the latest preview from their highly anticipated new album ‘NEXUS’!
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!
Apocalyptica came, saw and conquered our hearts with their renditions of even more Metallica songs from their latest album, brought to us in the middle of the chaos that was Metallica weekend in Helsinki!
Music lovers were transported into a trance during King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard’s psychedelic rock adventure at Vorst Nationaal in Brussels. The Australian band, notorious for their energetic live shows and experimental sounds, took the audience on a whirlwind tour of genres, from garage rock to metal and funk. Support came from their countrymates of Grace Cummings.
After a few delays, German heavy metal band Orden Ogan‘s new album ‘Final Days‘ has finally been released in March 2021. This album, a dark sci-fi concept, is once again produced by Sebastian ‘Seeb’ Levermann (vocals). “After creating a Dark Wild West scenery for ‘Gunmen’ and having storylines about monasteries in moorlands, apocalyptic ice worlds […]
Attention, (music-) world! BRUNHILDE is coming! The band with the legendary name released their debut full-length and it’s quite the banger!
Australian Butterfly brings us a traditional heavy metal album filled with retro sounds that go from hard to soft and back hard again!
After 3 years EINHERJER returns with ‘North Star’. A great addition to their already 25 year long existing discography.
Significant Point is releasing its monsoon of metal mayhem. Be prepared to go ‘Into The Storm’!
Holy Mother’s new album was recorded because of their love for the music, the fans and in loving memory of their bass player Randy Coven.
“Ravening Iron” is more than an embodiment of 80s heavy metal. The band has conveyed surreal art that draws life from the ancient mythologies of magic and dragons.
Take 4 talented metal musicians, seventies rock classics dipped in a heavy/thrash metal sauce and that’s what you get with BPMD’s first album…
French heavy metal about strong women in medieval tales. En garde!
With members from the ocean faring mastodons of in Mourning and Ahab, Svärd has set a psychedelic sail on the sludgy seas of heavy metal with their first EP ‘The Rift’.
Zero Hour is on its way. Alex Agnew tells you about the album, line-up changes, comedy in relation to lyrics and more!
We had a long talk with guitarist Teemu about the new album, live set-up, crowdfunding campaign and some of his musical preferences.
A talk with Dez about their European tour, “Outlaw Music”, being open for music and living as a geek!
We sat down with the man-wolves? wolf-men? of MWAM to figure out what their mission is all about…
