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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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
The French band Aephanemer dropped by On The Rocks in Helsinki to turn the heat up and make a pretty much crammed venue go wild to their symphonic/melodic death metal tunes! Support came from locals Numento.
The outdoor stage on the 2nd day of Steelfest XI was the place for explosive and often high velocity performances by Tsatthoggua, Sex Messiah, Grenadier, Witchtrap, Kalmankantaja and Behexen!
The Black Dahlia Murder is touring the US right now, and we were lucky enough to catch them, and Terror, at The Neptune Theater in Seattle last week for what turned out being a very memorable night!
We got to enjoy yet another show of Brymir and Kaunis Kuolematon a couple of Friday’s ago at Tampere’s YO-Talo. An event was organized by Nem Agency and Master Events.
The biggest Metal Circus on the planet came through Munich and did some damage. The Swedish Avatar are tricky, and brought with them Veil of Maya and Kassogtha for a banger of a show at the Neue Theaterfabrik!
Insomnium came, saw and conquered at their ‘Anno 1696’ release shows at a sold out Tavastia, and so did The Abbey with their captivating doom music!
Avatar’s ‘Dance Devil Dance’ 2023 tour brought the circus back to Tilburg’s 013 Poppodium, supported by Veil of Maya and Kassogtha.
Brymir and Master Events put up yet another great show, this time at Torvi, Lahti in Finland. This show won us over with its close, intimate and sweaty atmosphere.
Rising stars in the melodeath realms, Aephanemer is touring, and we visited them on their stop at The Black Lab in Wasquehal, France. Warm up act were black folk metallists Sorcières.
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