News Posts

Earlier this month, URNE announced their new album ‘Setting Fire To The Sky’ to be released in January 2026 with Spinefarm Records and shared the new single and video ‘Be Not Dismayed’!

Headlining Tuska 2026 will be Bring Me The Horizon and Bad Omens, backed by a diverse first wave including The Plot In You, Blood Incantation, Queensrÿche, Kublai Khan TX, Malevolence, Soilwork, Rivers of Nihil, Ensiferum, Bloodred Hourglass, Majestica, Melrose Avenue, The Callous Daoboys and Neckbreakker!

We’re already getting excited for another memorable weekend of metal and alternative music in Helsinki! 3-day tickets are already available right now.

Which band are you looking forward to the most? Or still wishing for? Let us know in the comments!

Canadian hardcore/metal powerhouse Teeth delivered their latest offering in the form of the 2 song EP ‘I Am the Way to Oblivion’, out now via Nuclear Blast and shared a visualizer for the track ‘Blue and Cold’!

Darkness Surrounding deliver another impressive preview of their upcoming album ‘Is There Salvation?’ (out in a couple of weeks) with the single ‘Achromatica’!

Between the Buried and Me unveiled the third and final preview from their upcoming album ‘The Blue Nowhere’ (out next week via InsideOutMusic) with a video for the title track!

Southern California quintet SPITE announced their new album ‘NEW WORLD KILLER’ to be out via Rise Records on Halloween and shared the new single & video ‘LIGHTS OUT’!

Dying Wish shared the second new song and video ‘Revenge In Carnage’ from their upcoming album ‘Flesh Stays Together’, set for release at the end of this month via SharpTone Records!

Metalcore trio Phazed shared new single ‘Crystallize’ from their upcoming EP ‘Ashes & Echoes’!

Electric Callboy release an explosive cover of the Sum 41 classic ‘Still Waiting’, featuring Sum 41 drummer Frank Zummo! The video premiere has just started a moment ago, go check it out!

Lists

Week 37 brought us a bunch of wholesome, heavy and unique songs and videos from bands like Dust In Mind, SKYND, Lorna shore, Starbenders, In Flames, Vévaki, King Dude, Sahg and Electric Callboy. Go check them out if you haven’t yet!

The music industry is at it again at full force after the festival season with a massive amount of really cool releases coming out, just look at the number of our most anticipated releases for September have grown into and then we probably could have included more still. With new albums from Blind Guardian, Yungblud, Wolfheart, Slipknot, Starcrawler, Lost Society, The Hu, Vermin Womb, Vermilia, Bloodbath, Slugcrust, Electric Callboy, Innumerable Forms, Tribal Gaze, Gaerea and Graceless, it’ll be quite the month again!

Things are getting ramped up now that the summer period is at its end! Great releases are coming out soon and it showed in the past week with new singles from Slipknot, Gaerea, Alien Weaponry, Brymir, Orbit Culture, Suasion ft. Steffi Pacson and The Callous Daoboys that amazed us!

With singles from Wolfheart, Electric Callboy, Luna Kills, Aeveris and Bastarður we introduce our new article series in which we recommend and highlight some of the singles that really impressed us and stuck by us recently! More coming soon!

A small grab of what we are looking forward to the most of the many exceptional releases coming our way during May 2022!

With 2021 being again a bit of a weird year, while looking forward to a hopefully better 2022, lets look back at some of the albums I enjoyed the most this past year.

Last month of 2021, still some releases coming in December that are most anticipated by our team of writers!

Photo Reports

Pictures of the artists on the Radio City and OPEN AIR II stage of the last day of Tuska 2024, with Warmen, Fixation, Eivør, Bury Tomorrow and Brothers Of Metal!

Pictures of the artists on the main stage of the last day of Tuska 2024, with Beyond The Black, Lost Society, Opeth and Parkway Drive!

Pictures of the artists on the main stage of the second day of Tuska 2024, with VOLA, Tarot, Stam1na, Amorphis and Bring Me The Horizon!

Pictures of the artists on the Radio City and OPEN AIR II stage of the second day of Tuska 2024, with Ankor, Devourment, Make Them Suffer and Turmion Kätilöt!

Pictures of the artists on the Radio City and OPEN AIR II stage of the first day of Tuska 2024, with I Am The Night, Infected Rain, Suburban Tribe, GHØSTKID and Zeal & Ardor!

Vended came to show that they’re their own entity, ready to push the metal scene into the next wave of popularity, with the help of The Gloom In The Corner and Profiler!

Dear Mother

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!

Orbit Culture came, saw and blew us away at Vanha Ylioppilastalo in Helsinki, Finland! And with the support of their country mates of Bite Down, we got a showcase of the promising new music coming from Sweden!

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!