News Posts

Texas progressive metalcore outfit Fervence signs to Metal Blade Records for the release of their upcoming new album!

Steel City Kings Malevolence released their new album ‘Where Only The Truth Is Spoken’ last week via MLVLTD and Nuclear Blast Records and unleashed a video for the track ‘So Help Me God’ to celebrate!

Metal titans Killswitch Engage released a video last week for the track ‘Aftermath’ in collaboration with some of the world’s leading environmental groups to highligh the damage being done to Earth and what to do to help!

As Everything Unfolds announced their signing to Century Media Records and shared the brand new single ‘SET IN FLOW’ to celebrate the news!

Between The Buried And Me announced their InsideOutMusic debut ‘The Blue Nowhere’ to be out in September and shared the new track ‘Things We Tell Ourselves In The Dark’ as a first taste! Catch them live this summer at festivals like Alcatraz festival and Brutal Assault for a mind-bending experience!

Tampa, Florida’s metal maniacs Cold Steel signed to Spinefarm Records and introduced the world to their signature brand of aggressive metal with the single ‘Blacksmith of Damnation’!

16-year-old rising force STORM and genre-pushing band Fixation joined forces and unleashed the track ‘Suffocating’, another taste of the upcoming debut ‘Join The Storm’ out in August with Indie Recordings, and a powerful reminder that Norway’s heavy scene is thriving!

British metalcore act Shields return after over a decade with the new single ‘Abuser’, out via Long Branch Records.

Metal unit Sylosis have released a video for the vitriolic ‘Soured Ground’ track, taken from their most recent EP ‘The Path’, out via Nuclear Blast!

Dymytry Paradox is preparing to return to play their most intense headlining tour yet in Europe, Born From Chaos, in 2026! Don’t miss out, because this is going to be a riot!

Photo Reports

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.

The second day of Rockfest 2023, the Red Stage by Soundi was the place to be for stellar performances by Von Hertzen Brothers, Escape The Faith, Testament and Stam1na.

Jinjer

Jinjer is on tour through Europe this summer, and we attended their show in Lille, France. Warm up act was the French band Hypno5e!

An evening full of fun, for young and old, with one of Belgium’s best and most popular metal bands of the past 3 decades: Channel Zero; with support from Temptations for the Weak.

The ever popular Swedish metalcore outfit Imminence came to blow us away at a completely sold out On The Rocks in Helsinki, with the help of the energy bomb that is Blood Command to set things off!

Unearth is touring through the US, presenting their recently released album on the “The Wretched; The Ruinous album release tour”, and we caught them and Upon A Burning Body at their stop in Seattle last weekend!

Electric Callboy came to set a huge 2-day party in Helsinki and even though it was a Monday night, the energy went through the roof. With support from the lovely people of Future Palace, it was a night to remember.

Lost Society blew the roof off a sold out Tavastia in Helsinki, and brought with them the metalcore upstarts Balance Breach and our favorite alt-rockers Luna Kills!

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!