As has become tradition, Alcatraz Festival announced a healthy grab of confirmed names during this year’s edition, and the 21 bands they dropped are promising the 2026 edition to be hitting hard again!
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News Posts
Finnish melodic death metal powerhouse Before The Dawn presented their fourth and fiercest single ‘Shockwave’ from their upcoming album ‘Cold Flare Eternal’, out in September via Reaper Entertainment!
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Orbit Culture released 3rd single and video ‘Hydra’ from their upcoming album ‘Death Above Life’, set for release in October via Century Media Records!
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Metal outfit Darkness Surrounding shared their new single ‘Choke On Your Mistakes’ with a lyric video, a track taking aim at cancel culture and part of their upcoming album ‘Is There Salvation?’ out in September!
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Finnish melodic death metal visionaries Suotana unveil the stunning new single and video ‘The Crowned King of Ancient Forest’, another track from their upcoming ‘OUNAS II’ album, out at the end of August via Reaper Entertainment!
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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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Enough fun and sun this summer – Finland’s Shade Of Sorrow released the new single ‘Summer’s Sorrow (Self-Destruction Diaries)’, out now with M-Theory Audio!
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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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Finnish melodic death metal masters Before The Dawn released a sing-through video for their latest single ‘Stellar Effect’, from the upcoming album ‘Cold Flare Eternal’, out in September via Reaper Entertainment.
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UK metal powerhouse Sylosis announced a massive UK and European headline tour for early 2026, bringing along Revocation, Distant and Life Cycles!
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Photo Reports
Pictures of the performances of Pentagram, Burst, Priest, Déluge, Fit For An Autopsy and Watain on the indoor stage of Hellsinki Metal Festival!
On the first day of Alcatraz 2023, La Morgue had a fine collection of Belgian bands, sludge, stoner and even psychobilly with A Goat As Our Shepherd, Gnome and Mad Sin!
Lost Society and Amorphis gave us a little preview last Friday of the upcoming ‘Halo’ European Tour, when they did a show together at Logomo’s Terassikesä in Turku, Finland.
Pictures of A.A. Williams, Orbit Culture, Finntroll, Marko Hietala and Butcher Babies taking over the tent stage and Inferno stage on the second day of Tuska 2023!
Pictures of Turmion Kätilöt, Clutch, Motionless In White, In Flames, and Ville Valo on the mainstage of Tuska 2023’s second day!
Pictures of Avatar, Lost Society, Jinjer, Arch Enemy and Gojira taking over the main stage on the first day of Tuska 2023!
Day 2 of Tuhdimmat Tahdit was just as hot. Carnival Academy, Heavy Metal Perse, Antony Parviainen Trio, Turmion Kätilöt, Metalite, Wolfheart, Shereign, Before the Dawn, Brymir, Mokoma, Swallow the Sun and lastly Battle Beast. Master Events gave us a festival that is certainly worth coming back to.
Tuhdimmat Tahdit and Master Events brought one very hot festival to Tampere’s Ratinanniemi. It started with Verikalpa and ended with Beast in Black, but we also can’t forget about all the bands in between: Transworld Identity, Prestige, Ensiferum, Bloodred Hourglass, Dynazty, Lordi, Mors Subita, Dead by April and Diablo.
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