Spanish metal outfit SynlakrosS released earlier this month their video single ‘Bunnies And Bows’, a banger of a track from their upcoming album ‘Mental Parasites’, set for release in October!
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Metalcore juggernaut Our Hollow, Our Home unveiled their brand-new video single ‘Funeral Verse’ via Arising Empire last week, and will be touring through Europe in autumn in support of the Ghøstkid “Hollywood Suicide Tour 2024”!
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Norway’s rising stars in metalcore Fixation released the new single ‘Random Acts Of Violence’ via Indie Recordings last week, while they’re gearing up to embark on their summer tour which will take them to Tuska in Finland next week!
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Gearing up for a busy summer touring schedule that will bring them to for instance Tuska next week, Infected Rain present a new music video for the track ‘PANDEMONIUM’ from their latest album ‘TIME’, released earlier this year via Napalm Records!
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System Of A Down’s Shavo Odadjian unveiled his new project Seven Hours After Violet, featuring members of Left To Suffer, Winds of Plague and Scarypoolparty, and dropped the debut single ‘Paradise’ with a trippy video. It also marks the launch of his new joint label venture 1336 Records in partnership with Sumerian Music Group!
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Alternative metal band Ankor signed to UNFD for the release of their upcoming album and unleashed to celebrate the single ‘Embers’ with a mesmerizing video! Catch them this summer at a bunch of European festivals including some of our favorites like Tuska, Wacken and Alcatraz!
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Void of Vision announced their new album ‘What I’ll Leave Behind’ to be released in September via UNFD and shared the compelling new single and video ‘Gamma Knife’, detailing vocalist Jack Bergin’s personal growth after a near death experience!
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Bleed From Within released a brand-new anthem with ‘Hands Of Sin’, including a captivating video, via Nuclear Blast right when they were about to embark on a European summer festival tour this month with stops at Download and Graspop among others. Or catch them at the end of the year as special guests for the European tour of Slipknot!
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German metalcore veterans Neaera unveiled a video for latest single and title track ‘All Is Dust’ of their upcoming new full-length, set for release at the end of this month via Metal Blade Records!
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Rising UK nu-core band Sunfall releaes their new single and video ‘Blood Moon’, another teaser for their eagerly anticipated debut album ‘Les Morts Son Nés Ici’, set for release via Out Of Line Music at the end of June!
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Photo Reports
The popular US horror movie inspired metalcore outfit Ice Nine Kills came to Munich and, helped by From Fall to Spring and Ghost Kid, left a trail of blood in the TonHalle.
Dear Mother held 4 Dutch club shows to promote the release of their new EP ‘Necessary Darkness’ with the Finnish Luna Kills invited as support for what would be their first shows outside their country, setting the stage for future international endeavors!
In January, as it happens on the regular, we hosted a night with local talents at our Asgaard venue in Gent, Belgium, with Powerstroke, Hudiç, and what ended up being the last show of Beyond Our Sight!
AUGUST BURNS RED, the metalcore giants from Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA, are currently storming across European stages as part of their ‘Death Below’ tour. They are accompanied by THROWN and DYING WISH, bringing some of the best metalcore has to offer all across the continent!
A couple of weeks ago, Ektomorf brought their ‘Vivid Black Over Europe Tour 2024’ to the South of Heaven venue in Bilzen, Belgium, and supported by Inmate, Serpents and Tag My Heart brought the house down!
“Descending into madness EU/UK Tour 2024” is Orbit Culture’s first European headliner tour ever and we caught them at their impressive stop in Antwerp, Belgium, with support from Defects!
Tonight we get to see them in Helsinki, but about a week-and-a-half ago, the Australian Polaris returned to Munich as one of the stops on their Europe together with Paledusk, Thornhill and Silent Planet.
It’s spring and the year kicks off with a metalcore highlight: Electric Callboy is on the ‘Tekkno World Tour 2024’, and we caught them at the Schleyerhalle venue in Stuttgart, Germany. In tow, the German sextet brought along the band Coldrain from Japan and Nothing More from the United States. They are setting ablaze the largest stages in Europe before heading on to the US, Canada, and a selection of summer festivals, don’t miss out!
The UK progressive metallers Tesseract were touring around Europe to present their latest release ‘War of Being’, bringing a visual and musical delight to a packed Tavastia in Helsinki! With them, they brought the German proggers of Unprocessed and US mathcore up-and-comers of The Callous Daoboys!
An assault bus passed through Munich, and inside it were the Americans of Lionheart, Suicide Silence, Kublai Khan and Paleface Swiss, who simply wrung all the sweat out of those present in the larger room of the Backstage club.
Album Reviews
Last year, Holding Absence released ‘The Noble Art Of Self Destruction’, an album that left quite an impression on one of our writers, an album that tells a beautiful story on top of a bed of beautiful music. It is metalcore, but very melodic and not as heavy as you would think, released via SharpTone Records!
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While She Sleeps can make music speak, even with no lyrics. What they’ve accomplished again on their latest album ‘Self Hell’ is truly beautiful. Out via Spinefarm Records.
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At the end of last month, the Swedish metalcore legends Dead By April were finally back with their latest album ‘The Affliction’, another solid album that on the one hand surprises with some really cool collaborations with other bands and artists, but on the other hand doesn’t really bring in much new. If you’re a fan of the band, you’ll love this, though!
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Metalcore institution Unearth is back with some melodic and brutal core tunes on their new album ‘The Wretched; The Ruinous’, released via Century Media Records!
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Invent Animate’s new and 4th album ‘Heavener’ is ready to break all the bones in your body and proves that they’re ready for the big leagues with their new and improved sound. Released via UNFD!
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Almost a decade after their debut, Swedish metalcore outfit Beneath My Feet is finally releasing their second album ‘In Parts, Together’ via Noble Demon this Friday! And with a couple of refreshing sounding tracks, this should appeal to fans of Dead By April and Bullet For My Valentine!
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Ten56. released ‘Downer part.2’, filled with songs that have a metalcore sound with rap influences similar to Landmvrks. 20 years ago we had nu metal, and now we have something you could call the “nu metalcore” sound, a progression that most definitely will have its own share of fans. Released via Out of Line Music!
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Mantah brings you low tuned and heavy guitar riffs. Their album ‘Evoke’ gives a mix between late 90s nu metal, modern metal and metalcore, very melodic and heavy at the same time. A beautiful album to listen to, musically at first, but also lyrically when you take the time to dive deeper into this album.
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Parkway Drive’s latest ‘Darker Still’ is a darker album than usual, but the quality is outstanding. So much energy is coming from this, you can feel that this was an outlet for the band to share some of their dark thoughts. A masterpiece from a continuously evolving band, out via Epitaph Records.
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Electric Callboy proves that they’re not just a one trick pony and brings you the best of two worlds on ‘Tekkno’: electronica and metalcore perfectly combined into both party bangers and more serious tracks, but all equally killer! Out this Friday via Century Media!
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The second day of Tuska 2024 will get at least as exciting as the day before, we highly recommend you don’t sit out on the shows of Ankor, VOLA, Solence, St. Aurora, Make Them Suffer, I Am Your God, Bring Me The Horizon and The Abbey!
While it’s a given that as a metalfan you’ll want to catch shows of Dimmu Borgir and Kerry King today at the first day of Tuska, we think that there are a couple more bands that deserve some of your attention, or that we think will be even more epic to see live than you might suspect with editorial picks Lord of the Lost’s festival opening show, I Am The Night, Infected Rain, Krypta, Suburban Tribe, Assemble The Chariots, Zeal & Ardor and Pendulum!
Tomorrow it’s again that time of the year: Tuska weekend is upon us! If somehow you weren’t convinced yet that you need to go, here are 10 reasons we believe should be enough motivation to still get a ticket if any are available still! Going from a great line-up, to Tuska KVLT, Tuska Expo expanding further and simply an amazing atmosphere! See you there!
After the team sent in their top lists at the end of last year, and calculating the results, we got to an interesting “albums of the year 2023” list featuring releases from Marduk, Kludde, Blink-182, Blackbraid, Orbit Culture, Gloryhammer, Ne Obliviscaris, Hypno5e, Periphery, Dying Fetus, Obituary, Avatar, Svalbard, VV and Sleep Token! Do you agree with any of these? What did you have in your top list?
With Glenn’s selection of his albums of the year, there is a bunch of metalcore, deathcore, djent and some surprising entries with Thy Art Is Murder, Avenged Sevenfold, Within Temptation, Tesseract, Avatar, In Flames, Sleep Token, Periphery, Invent Animate, and Chelsea Grin!
Annet’s favorite albums of the year 2023 involve a mix of punk rock and modern metal, bringing in loads of emotions going from deep and intense, to fun and light with albums from Green Day, Enter Shikari, Hexa Mera, Chris Maragoth, Powerwolf, Nanowar of Steel, Angus McSix, Blink-182, Gloryhammer and Bury Tomorrow!
The summer festival season is over, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t plenty of exciting fests happening over the next couple of months this autumn/winter in Finland with Helsinki Techfest and Kaamos Metal Cruise already this weekend, HKI SKEPU FEST V, Lost In Music, Steelchaos, Hellsinki Industrial Festival 2023, Fall Fest 2023, Black Box Mikkeli, Melancholy Mass Festival 2023 and Unholy Winter Fest!
For the third and last day of Alcatraz 2023, our team picked out 10 more bands we believe you shouldn’t miss out on with Serpents Oath, Archspire, Psychonaut, Mantah, Gaupa, Stake, Blind Guardian, Brutus, Killswitch Engage, and Holy Moses! Who are you especially looking forward to on the second day of the festival?
With less than 2 weeks to go, we put together 10 reasons why we think you should consider to still get yourself a ticket for Alcatraz 2023 and join in with the fun!
The first Tuska 2023 day is here! In a handful of hours the gates will open and 3 days of heavy music will begin! Besides the headliners and some big names, we’ve picked out about 10 bands and artists we believe you should give a shot while you’re at Tuska this weekend with Vended, Kouta, Foreseen and Miseria Ultima today, A.A. Williams, Orbit Culture, Dirt and Nakkeknækker tomorrow, and Vermilia and URNE on Sunday!
