Brutal Assault just unveiled a new wave of bands for its 2026 edition with The Sisters of Mercy and The Ghost Inside announced as headliners, but also a great selection of extreme metal and progressive/experimental representation!
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Still about 10 months to go, Alcatraz has announced the first 50 confirmed acts for the 2024 edition of one of Belgium’s greatest rock and metal fests!
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The darkest of the dark will of course also appear at the 2018 edition of Brutal Assault!
Join the darkness… but hurry!
One of the blackest festivals of Belgium with yet another impressive name!
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Only a handful of days left before Helsinki gets a healthy shot of heavy and dark music with the third edition of Hellsinki Metal Festival! If you’re still confused and wondering if you should go or not, check out 8 reasons we believe should convince you… Beware, get your tickets today as tomorrow the price will go up again!
If you are still looking for a great summer destination, here are 12 festivals that might make Finland the ideal place to go for you this year with Sonic Rites this weekend, Rockfest, Tuhdimmat Tahdit, Nummirock, Tuska, John Smith Festival, SaariHelvetti, Dark River Festival, Hellsinki Metal Festival, the CoolHead Live concert series, Sastamalan Torijuhlat and Hevipäivät!
After the team sent in their top lists at the end of last year, and calculating the results, we got to an interesting “albums of the year 2023” list featuring releases from Marduk, Kludde, Blink-182, Blackbraid, Orbit Culture, Gloryhammer, Ne Obliviscaris, Hypno5e, Periphery, Dying Fetus, Obituary, Avatar, Svalbard, VV and Sleep Token! Do you agree with any of these? What did you have in your top list?
Our resident extreme metal reviewer Mazen has a selection of stellar (mostly) black and death metal releases as his favorite of the year with Sulphur Aeon, Varathron, Moonlight Sorcery, Cruciamentum, Suffocation, Dying Fetus, Asphodelus, Marduk, …And Oceans, and Cirith Ungol!
Album Reviews
Marduk’s fifteenth studio album “Memento Mori” perfectly fits with the raw aesthetics of the band. In terms of quality and songwriting the ten tracks offer sinister and furious black metal, this is one of the band’s best albums and is set for release this Friday via Century Media Records!
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Deus Mortem’s “Kosmocide” is a great album for those who like their black metal played fast and catchy at the same time!
Nordjevel’s Necrogenesis is a remarkable album that focuses on the musical ability of these North men who have unleashed one of the best black metal albums in 2019.
Sulphur Sovereign is mastered by sharp riffs and it’s sacrilegiously brutal and extremely evil.
If Marduk’s “Frontschwein” generally possessed the fierce and brutal elements, then “Viktoria” has managed to proceed as a natural continuation to its prior.
Hekatomb is without doubt a vicious inferno of the wicked and Funeral Mist has inevitably set the bar high on the new studio album.
Belgian black metal outfit Ars Veneficium released their first full length upon the masses, stabbing your eardrums with furious blastbeats!
Festival Reports
Steelfest XI was the first time to be a full 3-day event, and the first day was killer with bands like Coraxul, Azazel, Nattverd, Utuk Xul, Hail Conjurer, Nocturnal Sorcery, Sacrilegious Impalement, Loits, The Committee, Pest, Horna, Deströyer 666 and Marduk!
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Alcatraz was a blast! A covid-proof, restrictionless, metal-laden blast! Here’s the report of the third and last day of good ol’ festival fun.
The second day of Steelfest 2019 offered more diversity with different styles of black and death!
2 days of extreme metal from the crypts of the underground: SteelChaos, you were great yet again!
Two days of the best underground artists the metal scene has to offer at the Finnish city that brought forth a ton of black metal bands, sit back and let the darkness come over you!
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On Ascension day, Steelfest XI brought a great collection of stellar underground bands to the festival’s indoor stage with Coraxul, Nattverd, Hail Conjurer, Sacrilegious Impalement, The Committee, Horna and Marduk on the first day of the 3-day fest!
The pictures of a more diverse and even hotter 2nd day of Steelfest 2019!
2 nights of darkness, occult and extreme metal… SteelChaos 2019 was yet again a highly stimulating festival! Check out the awesome pictures here…
Pictures of the French “end of the summer” underground music festival Fall of Summer 2017!
Previews
In about 3 weeks, the eleventh edition of Steelfest will take place in Hyvinkää, Finland and they have yet again a very impressive line-up at this 3-day celebration of the underground!
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Soon it’s that time of the year again we’ve been looking forward to: Steelfest Open Air opens its doors and starts the Finnish festival season. The second edition of SteelChaos satisfied our needs somewhat (for our report go here) and we recently got the little Easter treat from the organisation under the form of Watain […]
The winds are turning to winter and so the time of Eindhoven Metal Meeting is coming close again!
Yet another promising edition of SteelChaos is quickly approaching, ready to envelope us in darkness…
For the fourth year already, the cosiest festival of France is organised at Torcy. For the third time, GRIMM Gent is looking forward to Fall of Summer festival!
