Sweden’s metal vikings Amon Amarth released their new single ‘We Rule The Waves’ and its video with Metal Blade Records, and it couldn’t be a more fitting track for these guys! Get ready to get pumped up!
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Swiss heavy metal act Burning Witches unleashes the music video for new single ‘High Priestess Of The Night’, another track unveiled from their upcoming new album ‘Inquisition’, set for release in August via Napalm Records!
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Finnish legends Amorphis released their new single ‘Bones’ the second preview of their upcoming album ‘Borderland’, set for release in September via Reigning Phoenix Music.
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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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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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Album Reviews
The Agonist are back with another damn solid release that might catapult them into the higher regions of the metal world!
Alter Bridge is ready to take over some headlining spots from bands that are becoming a bit rusty. If you’re a fan, you will love it. For the others, let it grow on you. There are some beauties on this album.
RAM is back with an album loaded with the classic sound of heavy metal with a clear improvement in songwriting and style!
The profound experience of Crypt Sermon in approaching doom metal. Between the thin lines of Candlemass and Solitude Aeternus the band craft their musical creativity.
This is a really cool heavy metal/ rock ‘n roll album by Gygax. It has different vibes to it. There is a very active solo guitar, which sounds cool, but can be a bit too much as well.
Idle Hands’ ‘Mana’ is a goth rroch/heavy metal masterpiece that strikes more than one emotional chord.
Germany’s take on Speed and thrash metal doesn’t need any introduction. Ghastly Waves & Battered Graves is a pure speed metal album as there is a solid improvement in the musical talent.
Heavy metal rules! And the Burning Witches are keeping the fire hot and blazing!
Photo Reports
One of our newest photographers to have joined the team, Tommy offers a fine selection of cover bands, and gigs from the local club scene with pictures of Sabbra Cadabra, Crowley, Kraken Waker, Self Revolution, The SoapGirls, Nu-Castle, All Before, Audioslaves, Rage, Spartan Warrior, Twin Lizzy, and Red Hot Chilipinos!
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!
Pictures of yet another excellent show by the legendary Finnish metal band Amorphis at the gorgeous Kulttuuritalo venue in Helsinki!
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!
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