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!
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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!
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Recently, Mathias ‘Vreth’ Lillmåns opened the vault releasing long-lost tracks from his formative years with the EP ‘The Degenerate Years’!
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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!
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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!
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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!
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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!
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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!
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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!
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Quebec extreme metal outfit Outlying is releasing their new album ‘Oblivisci’ this November, exploring pain and redemption, and is streaming the single ‘November’ right now!
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Album Reviews
We reviewed North Hammer’s debut ‘Stormcaller’ check it out here!
The Crown have always been a modern death/thrash band and ‘Cobra Speed Venom’ is presented with immense extremity.
Eyes Wide Open will be to the liking of a lot of In Flames fans and definitely brings quality to the table…
I took them 13 years to release a demo and a single, but here’s the first album!
Avatar bids you welcome to Avatar Country! The king wants you! What for? Only one way to find out!
Power house Arch Enemy delivers with album number 10 the “Will to Power”, a release that both sounds surprising and like we’ve heard it before…
The Lovecraftian deities are here… doom and chaos guaranteed!
Does Arch Enemy need any introduction? In case your answer to that question is affirmative, you’re probably new to the whole melodic death metal genre and you’ve just found the […]
Photo Reports
Before setting out to take over Europe with their co-headline tour, Before The Dawn and Wolfheart hit several cities throughout Finland, and we were there when they dropped by Tavastia in Helsinki, with the support of Brymir!
Every year the Lost in Music Festival brings around 100 Artists to Tampere, showcasing what the Nordic region has to offer of music. And we made it to one of the shows happening at Olympia-Kortteli, featuring rising stars Bloodred Hourglass, One Morning Left and Shereign. It was packed, it was hot and it was a big party!
Awhile ago, the Finnish leg of the Wolfheart and Before the Dawn co-headline tour started, and with support of Brymir, we got a very nice night of Finnish melodeath at the not so crowded Pakkahuone in Tampere, organised by Master Events.
Be’lakor just finished their biggest European tour ever with 6 festivals and 10 club shows! We joined them in at JOC in Ypres, Belgium, where together with Hiraes brought a great night of melodic death metal!
The last day of a long and exhausting weekend of great music and atmosphere was all about the Belgian music scene at La Morgue with Aeveris, Brutal Sphincter, Hexa Mera, Mantah and Reject The Sickness!
Pictures of Samael, Before The Dawn and Bury Tomorrow on the second outside stage at Hellsinki Metal Festival!
Pictures of Bloodred Hourglass, I Am Morbid, Leprous and Emperor performing on one of the outdoor stages at Hellsinki Metal Festival!
Second day at an exciting edition of Alcatraz we had a very black metal heavy one with Gaerea, Taake and Belphegor, old school punk with The Exploited, gloomy industrial from Godflesh and one of Finland’s favorite bands Amorphis!
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!
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