Sylosis have released their career defining record ‘The New Flesh’ via Nuclear Blast yesterday and unveiled an official music video for the track ‘Spared From The Guillotine’ to celebrate!
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The new Arch Enemy era now officially commences, confirming Lauren Hart as their new vocalist and the new scathing track ‘To The Last Breath’! Catch them in Europe this summer on the “Back To The Root Of All Evil” club tour or at festivals like Alcatraz!
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Goblin metal icons Nekrogoblikon joined forces with Reel Big Fish for the new single ‘Secret Elephant’, a track from their upcoming EP ‘The Boiling Sea’ set for release in April!
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Spanish melodic doom legends Golgotha share their new single ‘A Simple Life’, a track from their upcoming album ‘Hubris’, set for release in April with Abstract Emotions.
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Last week, the Tuska 2026 line-up was completed with the last 3 confirmed bands: Japanese heavy metal icons Loudness, Finnish melodeath heroes Warmen and Leeds alternative rock/metal outfit Caskets!
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Finnish melancholic death/doom metallers Hanging Garden unveiled the details of their upcoming new album ‘Isle of Bliss’, set for release in March via Agonia Records and shared a music video for its opening track ‘To Outlive the Nine Ravens’!
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Ferocious melodic death metal act Bloodhunter are back with a vengeance with their new single ‘The Devil’s Own’, out with ROAR – A Division of Reigning Phoenix Music!
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Extreme metal outfit Blood Of Angels release new single ‘The Last Rites’, offering a first lok into their upcoming new album ‘Les Agnst ov Thanatou’, set for release in June!
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Finnish melodic death metal powerhouse Omnium Gatherum drops a surprise new single with ‘Moongold’! Catch them on tour in Europe starting next month in support of their latest album ‘May The Bridges We Burn Light The Way’!
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Finnish doom-laden death metal force Marianas Rest have released their new album ‘The Bereaved’ last Friday via Noble Demon and shared a video for the track ‘Again Into The Night’ to celebrate!
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Photo Reports
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!
Pictures of the first day of Alcatraz 2024, with on the Helldorado Stage a serving of punk and hardcore with Funeral Dress, The Casualties, Cro-Mags, Madball and Life of Agony, modern metal from Sylosis and post-metal with The Ocean!
While on the road supporting In This Moment and Ice Nine Kills on tour in the USA, the Swedish metallers of Avatar came to bring their “Great Metal Circus” to the Clyde Theatre in Ft Wayne, Indiana. One of the few headlining stops they’re doing, providing people the chance to get the full experience and freakshow treatment that usually comes with the band, providing a night to remember for many there! Support came from locals Mantra of Morta!
Another great night of the Coolhead Live concert series with metal icon Ihsahn, supported by some of the top of the Finnish scene with Before The Dawn, …and Oceans and Qwälen!
Gig Reports
In Flames & Five Finger Death Punch embark on a massive double headliner European tour and we were there at the very first stop at the Hartwall Arena in Helsinki!
Mastodons Arch Enemy are back to destroy with their new album and with them they had the promising Ukranian band Jinjer!
We got to chance to join CoB and their fans in Helsinki, celebrating 20 years of “Lake Bodom”!
Interviews
Interview with the melodic death metallers from Re-Armed about their upcoming new album “Ignis Aeternum”.
After their excellent performance on the Swamp Stage at the Alcatraz festival, we had a nice little chat with Bjorn, Sylvain and Sebastian.
After their excellent performance on the Swamp Stage at the Alcatraz festival, we had a nice little chat with Bjorn, Sylvain and Sebastian.
Now that Finnish Melodic death metal band Mors Subita released their third full lenght. we couldn’t help but to send them some questions regarding the new album as well as some other stuff. check it out.
Short interview with Jukka and Markus from Omnium Gatherum about their music and tour!
On the 7nd of October, Kataklysm brought the ‘A Moment In Time Tour’ to the Trix Club in Antwerp. I had the chance to have a chat with guitarist Jean-François “Jeff” Dagenais about beer, doing what you love and maintaining a good working band for so long.
We had an interesting talk with Ensiferum’s Petri Lindroos about touring, performing… and the upcoming new album ‘Two Paths’!
We had a chat with Niclas about touring, the changes in their music and bands from their homecountry.
We talked with Mikael Stanne about the tour, their latest album and some of the line-up changes…
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