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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Italian melodic power metal force Alterium unleashed their new EP ‘Stormrage’ last Friday, featuring 2 explosive new songs, and unleashed a lyric video for the track ‘Sui’ to celebrate!
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Blackbriar release their wistful new single ‘A Last Sigh of Bliss’, alongside a video. Another track from their upcoming new album ‘A Thousand Little Deaths’, out next month via Nuclear Blast!
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Finnish melodic metal force Arion released a brand-new lyric video for the track ‘From An Empire To A Fall’, from their latest album ‘The Light That Burns The Sky’ out with Reigning Phoenix Music! Catch them at John Smith Rock Festival this weekend!
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Melodic metal band Dead End Finland released the new single and music video ‘The Reason’, part of their upcoming sixth studio album to be out later this year via Inverse Records!
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Finnish melodic metal band Unén announced the release of their debut album ‘Forever Winter’ in August with Frontiers Music and shared the track ‘Black Heart’! Catch them tonight live at On The Rocks in Helsinki!
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Cinematic hard rock/melodic metal band Morningstar ignites the spirit with their explosive new anthem ‘Free’, out now on all streaming platforms!
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Finnish metal icons Amorphis released the first single ‘Light And Shadow’ from their upcoming new album ‘Borderland’, set for release in September with Reigning Phoenix Music!
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Finnish melodic doom death duo The Bleak Picture are preparing to release their new album ‘Shades Of Life’ with Ardua Music at the end of this month and unveiled the video single ‘Without The I’ recently!
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Deathless Legacy released a video for ‘Get On Your Knees’, taking from their recently released concept album ‘Damnatio Aeterna’, out with Scarlet Records!
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Album Reviews
Helix is surprising. It’s catchy and poppy. But also sturdy and material for head banging. Definitely give it a listen if you’re in for something new.
I took them 13 years to release a demo and a single, but here’s the first album!
Go on a trip with Nordheim riding raptors, drinking beer and plundering, what can go wrong ?
A soaring, flying start of a new band compiled out of some of the most prominent artists of the metal scene showcasing that they have this “modern metal” thing down!
The symphonic band reimagined some old fan favorites.
