While we’re still trying to digest how crazy this year’s edition of Brutal Assault was, we’re already getting hyped up about 2026 with a first 14 names confirmed and they’re good ones!
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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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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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Rising metal stars Assurance re-emerged with the single and video ‘Entropy’ and announced their new vocalist Cuba Stanley!
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In anticipation of Fit For A King’s new album ‘Lonely God’, out on August 1st via Solid State Records, they unleashed the new single ‘Witness The End’, a deathcore track featuring Chris Motionless on guest vocals! Catch them in Europe this summer on their festival tour with stops at for instance Brutal Assault and Alcatraz Festival!
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I Prevail announced their fourth studio album ‘Violent Nature’, set for release in September via Fearless Records and unveiled a third single with ‘Rain’!
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SoCal’s reggaecore juggernaut aurorawave revealed their latest single ‘Judge Me’, featuring Aaron Gillespie from Underaoath, from their upcoming album ‘Monument’, set for release in August with Ineffable Records!
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British metalcore act Shields shares their emotional new single ‘Red & Green’, including a music video, out with Long Branch Records right now!
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Black Veil Brides are back with their first piece of new music since last year’s single. The next phase of the band begins with ‘Hallelujah’ out now via Spinefarm!
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Sister duo The Pretty Wild are continuing their meteoric rise with yet another new single and video ‘living ded’, out now with Sumerian Records!
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Photo Reports
Swedish melodeath legends In Flames filled Jäähalli in Helsinki with a massive crowd, along with fellow melodeath instigators At The Gates and up-and-comers Imminence and Orbit Culture to warm us up!
We caught Ra at their stop at Piere’s in Fort Wayne, Indiana while being on the road for their “From One 20th Anniversary Tour”, with support from A Killer’s Confession, Blood of Heroes and The Illegals!
We were stunned by the visual and musical feast that was the Trinity of Terror Tour when we caught Black Veil Brides, Ice Nine Kills, Motionless In White and Atreyu on the stage of MVP Arena in Albany, NY!
Pictures of the modern metal and metalcore party brought to Helsinki by Dead By April, Blood Youth and Ember Falls!
A while back, Bring Me The Horizon set fire to the Ameris Bank Amphitheatre in Alpharetta, Georgia with the help of the varied support with Knocked Loose, Grandson and Siiickbrain!
Pictures of a great night of modern metal at On The Rocks in Helsinki with Infected Rain and Awake Again.
Day 2 of Sauna Open Air was a blast with a great Line Up, including Battle Beast, Avantasia, Doro and Five Finger Death Punch. The festival was organised by RH Entertainment and Master Events.
Dear Mother’s (first) album ‘Bullet proof’ release show in Zik Zak Ittre, BE. Warm up act by the Belgian band Cellar Twins!
Spoil Engine’s last performance with Iris in De Kreun, Kortrijk.
A parade of ’80s track suits and pimp costumes went all the way from the Noordersingel into Trix, Antwerp. And no fucks were given because we had one hell of a metal party with One Morning Left, Blind Channel and Electric Callboy!
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