After recently signing with MNRK Heavy, Waylon Reavis’ latest project A Killer’s Confession shared the video for their new single ‘Greed’!
News Posts
Norwegian gothic industrial metal act Gothminister shared the new single ‘One Dark Happy Nation’, another track from their upcoming ‘Pandemonium II: The Battle Of The Underworlds’ album set for release in May via AFM Records!
Pain announced their upcoming new album ‘I Am’ to be released in May via Nuclear Blast and shared a first single and video with ‘Go With The Flow’!
Burton C. Bell is back with his debut solo single ‘Anti-Droid’, a return to his moody, synth-heavy, sci-fi metal self!
16 more bands confirmed for Tuska 2024!
Alternative Metal, Alternative Rock, Death Metal, Deathcore, Folk, Folk Metal, Hardcore Punk, Heavy Rock, Industrial, Melodic Death Metal, Melodic Metal, Modern Metal, Noise Rock, Pagan Folk, Power Metal, Rock 'n' Roll, Symphonic Metal, Thrash Metal, Vintage RockTuska has confirmed 16 more names for the 2024 edition with Stratovarius, HEALTH, Lord Of The Lost, Eivør, Elvenking, Devourment, St. Aurora, Assemble the Chariots, I AM YOUR GOD, Swansong, Krypta, Sadistic Drive, Prestige, Putro In Black, SICK URGE and Dome Runner! Get your tickets now before the price increase in a couple of weeks!
What bands are you happy with this time? And what bands are you still hoping for?
Industrial giants Ministry have something to say about ‘B.D.E.’ (Big Dick Energy) in their new single, another track from the upcoming ‘HOPIUMFORTHEMASSES’ album set for release in March via Nuclear Blast!
Finnish modern metal act Without Warning released explosive new single ‘NEW ORDER’ via Inverse Records, taking us to a dystopian future and showcasing their updated looks in the video that came with it!
Norwegian industrial metal legends Gothminister to take over the Eurovision Song Contest pre-qualifications for their country with the new single ‘We Come Alive’ this weekend! Their new album ‘Pandemonium II: The Battle Of The Underworlds’ is set to be released later this year via AFM Records!
Swedish industrial metal outfit Rave The Reqviem shared a new video for the track ‘Zero Solace’ and announced a tour for 2024, with support from the Finnish newcomers of Blame Me!
Finnish melodic metal outfit Northern Genocide shared the new single ‘To Serve the Pestilence’, a track from their upcoming album ‘The Point of No Return’, set for release in March 2024 via Inverse Records!
Lists
While we are still regularly looking back at what 2023 brought us, we of course also need to look forward. So here is the first edition of our 2024 series of articles where we bring the editorial team’s most anticipated releases with Escuela Grind, Green Day, The Empire Strikes, Saxon, Frank Carter & the Rattlesnakes, Static-X, The Gems, Lucifer, Manticora and Hiraes in January!
As the festival summer is quickly approaching, May sees many great releases yet again. Our team of writers put together a nice selection of those they are looking forward to the most this month with Deathstars, Cattle Decapitation, Veil Of Maya, The Dark Side Of The Moon, Ghost, Thulcandra, Frozen Soul, Sleep Token, Henget, Vomitory, Immortal, Kalmah and Legion Of The Damned!
2022 was yet again an exceptional year for music. After putting together the favorite releases of most of our members, we came to our editorial top featuring the latest releases from bands like Wolfheart, Muse, Ghost, Electric Callboy, Kreator, Malevolence, Heilung, Machine Head, Wiegedood, Psychonaut, Lorna Shore, Bad Omens, Sylvaine, Parkway Drive, Lamb Of God, Rammstein and Zeal & Ardor!
2023 starts off with quite the bang with new releases from VV, Anti-Flag, Imperium Dekadenz, Turmion Kätilöt, Katatonia, Kiberspassk, …and Oceans, Obituary, Suasion, Dropout Kings and Vėlių Namai!
Finland produces amazing music by the tons every year, and 2021 wasn’t any different. This is a selection of 12 releases by bands we believe might become big pretty soon!
12 of the albums we’re looking forward the most in June, there are more, but these are really at the top of our lists! Check it out!
Photo Reports
Best of 2023: Helder’s favorite captures of the year
Alternative Metal, Alternative Rock, Folk Metal, Folk Rock, Gothic Metal, Gothic Rock, Groove Metal, Grunge, Hardcore, Heavy Metal, Industrial, Industrial Metal, Melodic Death Metal, Melodic Metal, Metalcore, Metallic Hardcore, Modern Metal, Nu Metal, Post-metal, Power Metal, Punk, Punk Rock, Symphonic MetalA selection of 30 photos that Helder likes a lot from one of his most productive year considering covering concerts, including captures of Fear Factory, Atreyu, Jinjer, Rolo Tomassi, Stone, The Kooks, Pixies, Wunderhorse, Yours Truly, You Me at Six, Lake Malice, Bloodywood, Epica, Avatar, The 69 Eyes, Nova Twins, Cam Cole, Sabaton, The Lumineers, Grailknights, All For Metal, The Baboon Show, Combichrist, Megaherz, The BossHoss, Cancer Bats, Kvelertak, Fixation, Ignea, and Butcher Babies.
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!
Welcoming events that try to bring something different and out of the norm to Finland, we went to the second night of the club festival Hellsinki Techfest with Sirkuit Preiker, Khroma, Balance Breach and Hacktivist back in September for some killer music and high energy!
Lord of the Lost wrapped up their year with a mini tour in Finland, that ended with a sold out gig at Olympia-kortteli in Tampere, with as support Rain Diary and Gothminister. An event by TuskaLive and Grey Beard Concerts & Management that served as the perfect last show in 2023 for our photographer!
The second night of John Smith Rock Frozen 2023 was pretty epic with some of the best of the Finnish scene with Red Eleven, Kiuas, Finntroll, Turmion Kätilöt and headliners Amorphis! Throw on top of that the Swedish up-and-comers of Orbit Culture, and you know it was good!
Close to the end of the year 2023 there was an event that has left headbangers around the world in ecstatic anticipation—the Fear Factory ‘DisrupTour 2023’. This monumental tour brings together a powerhouse line-up featuring the ferocious Butcher Babies, Ignea and Ghosts of Atlantis. As these bands join forces, they promise to deliver an unforgettable experience for metal enthusiasts, showcasing a diverse range of styles within the genre.
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.
A hot and sweaty night in the Halle room of the Backstage club in Munich. Fear Factory are back in a big way, and they were joined by Butcher Babies, Ignea and Ghosts of Atlantis, bringing quite the package with the “Disruptour” all over Europe!
True Crime industrial rock band SKYND has been on tour in Europe for a while now, and we caught them performing live in the Trix club, in Antwerp, with Knife Bride as support!
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