Finnish melodeath outfit Horizon Ignited shared the digital single ‘Sixpounder’, their take on a Children Of Bodom classic as part of the Reaper Entertainment project ‘A Tribute To The Reaper’! A lot of good ones are still coming in the nearby future, keep an eye out!
Italian melodic death metal band 5RAND is releasing their long-awaited third album ‘Ordhalia’ next month via Art Gates Records and already shared their new single ‘Bloodlife’ as a first taste!
Chris Maragoth is at it again and shared the new single and video ‘Hidden Signs of Sadness’ last Friday, a track from his upcoming EP ‘Depths of Despair’, set for release next month!
Recently, Mathias ‘Vreth’ Lillmåns opened the vault releasing long-lost tracks from his formative years with the EP ‘The Degenerate Years’!
Avatar unleashed the new single and video ‘Death and Glitz’, another track from their upcoming album ‘Don’t Go in the Forest’, set for release by the end of this month!
The 18th edition of Alcatraz is shaping up to be historic with headliners Arch Enemy and Alestorm, legends like Soulfly, Saxon, Body Count, Rose Tattoo, extreme assaults from Immolation, Internal Bleeding, 200 Stab Wounds, Sanguisugabogg, and modern favorites like Kittie, Northlane, Animals As Leaders, The Ghost Inside.
We’re especially thrilled to see the Belgian flag flying high again with Channel Zero, Amenra, Enthroned, Psychonaut and Mantah on the bill. And let’s not forget our longtime Finnish favorites Luna Kills, making a big step onto the Alcatraz stage!
On top of that, the Prison Stage opens already on the Thursday for the first time ever, and day ticket prices are lower than 2025 right now!
Italian metal outfit Hellfox have unveiled the official video for the track ‘Water On The Ceiling’, one of the standout tracks from their latest album ‘The Spectrum Of Human Gravity’, released a couple of months ago via Rockshots Records!
Aephanemer unleashed the new video single ‘Le Cimetière Marin’, another track from their upcoming album ‘Utopie’, set for release at the end of October through Napalm Records!
Catch them after on tour through Europe in November, including a stop at our very own Asgaard Gentbrugge venue in Belgium!
Finnish melodic death metal icons Omnium Gatherum shared the last single ‘Walking Ghost Phase’ before the release of their new album ‘May The Bridges We Burn Light The Way’ in November via Century Media Records, and announced a Finnish tour for early 2026!
Swedish melodic death metal outfit After Earth have unleashed their brand-new video and single ‘Skinwalker’, another track from their imminent second album ‘Dark Night of the Soul’, set for release this Friday, September 26th!
A chat with Bloodred Hourglass about their pretty amazing year thus far, and the new album ‘How’s the Heart?’, how they’re not afraid of trying out any ideas or leaving things out when a song calls for it, and how they’ve stepped up their game yet again with this record.
A chat with Jukka from Omnium Gatherum about their recent US tour, how they got their new EP ‘Slasher’ together with the first track featuring their new guitarist and a cover of the famous 80s song ‘Maniac’, a hint at new music that is in the works and upcoming festival shows and European tour with Paradise Lost, Primordial and Harakiri For The Sky.
A chat with Jaakko and Niko from Marianas Rest about their new album ‘Auer’, set for release via Napalm Records on March 24, and how they’ve tried some new things with their music without losing the band’s soul, by having the courage to follow where the songs were taking them, bringing in clean vocals and a guest vocalist for the first time.
A talk with Niilo and Ville of Insomnium about their new album ‘Anno 1696’, how the short story it’s based on was specially written by Niilo for the album, how much they love putting together special editions and a kind of whole experience for their fans and how they got Johanna Kurkela and Sakis Tolis to join them on some tracks!
A chat with Johannes from Avatar on the new album ‘Dance Devil Dance’ on why this is the best album of them as of yet, how they did things somewhat different and tried to approach everything in such a way that they thought people could dance to even blast beats and why now was the time for them to self-release the album.
A chat with Björn Gelotte about In Flames’ amazing year in 2022, their new album ‘Foregone’ and how everyone seem to link it to a different stage of their sound with the way they put the mixing and production together this time around. We also touch on his personal writing process and how incredible it is to him to be able to have their music transcend into other forms of art like the upcoming graphic novel!
Watch the chat we had with vocalist Jarkko from the Finnish melodeath outfit Bloodred Hourglass about their upcoming new album ‘Your Highness’!
Watch the chat we had with Markus Vanhala about the new Insomnium EP ‘Argent Moon’, the upcoming new work of Omnium Gatherum and his new black metal project I Am The Night!
Watch the interview with Lukas Kerk from the new German melodeath band Hiraes about their debut album ‘Solitary’, the dangers of pyrotechnics and their excitement for the future of the band.
A chat with the remaining members of Bodom After Midnight about their EP ‘Paint the Sky with Blood’, working with Alexi Laiho and the possible future.
Pictures of a sold-out night with melodic metal legends Dark Tranquillity, gothic metal institution Moonspell and German promises Hiraes at Ääniwalli in Helsinki!
Eluveitie started 2025 with the first leg in Europe of their “ÀNV Rising” tour, with support from Infected Rain and Ad Infinitum, and we saw it was good at one of the first stops at Kulttuuritalo Helsinki back in January! An event by TuskaLive.
Getting a show packed on a Wednesday isn’t something everyone can do, but for a supergroup like The Halo Effect no problem. Together with Bloodred Hourglass they brought one heck of a hot show to Tampere’s Tavara-Asema a couple of weeks ago. Thanks to Fullsteam Agency for welcoming us to the event!
Finnish metal institution Wolfheart decided to wrap up their year with one last show at On The Rocks in Helsinki, and with them they brought the melodeath talents Swansong and Scythe of Sorrow to warm the crowd up for a great night of Finnish metal! An event by Nahka Agency!
Pictures of the “Rise from the North” tour striking down in Helsinki, Finland with In Flames, Arch Enemy and Soilwork bringing some of the best the world of melodic death metal has to offer!
We checked out the first day of the second edition of Hell’s Balls Belgium festival… With banging names like Triptykon, Primordial, Vltimas, the unofficial inclusion of the “Night Eternal tour” with Dark Tranquillity, Wolfheart and Moonspell, Carpathian Forest, Hellripper, Dead Head and The Monolith Deathcult, it was a true fest for any extreme metal fan!
Pictures of the second day of Hellsinki Metal Festival 2024 with on stage 2 shows from Hammerfall, Abbath and Insomnium!
Pictures of the third day of Alcatraz 2024, with on the Swamp Stage a serving of extreme metal with Mordkaul, Aborted, Dark Tranquillity and Opeth!
Pictures of the first day of Hellsinki Metal Festival 2024 with on stage 1 shows from Avantasia, Heaven Shall Burn, The Amity Affliction, Emmure and Wolfheart!
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!
