News Posts

After hinting at it in our talk at Alcatraz last month, Avatar unveiled the album title and release date of their upcoming 10th ablum ‘Don’t Go in the Forest’! And to celebrate, we got a video for the opening track ‘Tonight We Must Be Warriors’! Don’t forget to catch them live this Fall in the US and early next year in Europe!

Avatar is back with another single under the form of ‘In The Airwaves’, the fastest song they’ve done in quite some time! Catch them live the coming years supporting Iron Maiden in Europe right now, at their exclusive Europe festival show at Alcatraz Festival, US headline tour this fall, Europe headline tour early 2026 or supporting Metallica in Europe summer 2026,… plenty of opportunities!

Avatar is back with their brand-new single ‘Captain Goat’, ahead of some massive touring supporting Iron Maidne in Europe in July, an exclusive European festival appearance at Alcatraz in August, and a headline tour in Europe and supporting Metallica in 2026!

For the soundtrack of yesterday’s released movie ‘Queen of the Ring’, Kittie, The Pretty Wild and Diamante joined forces to bring an emotionally gripping cover of Metallica’s ‘The Unforgiven’ into this world! The movie soundtrack is out now via Sumerian Records!

Avantgarde metal trio Imperial Triumphant dropped the new single and cover of Metallica’s ‘Motorbreath’. Out via Century Media Records!

Can’t attend Hellfest Open Air this year? Just like we did in previous years, GRIMM Gent will bring you live updates from Hellfest 2022! General info about Hellfest can be found in our Encore section: Hellfest Festival Guide. Check out our liveblog down below : (initially, it might take a couple of seconds to load, so if […]

Metallica is celebrating the 30th anniversary of ‘The Black Album’ with a remaster and one of the most ambitious projects ever with over 50 artists bringing their own take of songs from the album on ‘Metallica The Blacklist’!

Now hear about the history of Metal Blade Records through the soothing voice of Brian Slagel himself in the audio book version of his autobiography!

The heavy metal legends of Diamond Head are coming your way!

Metallica has won the Swedish Polar Music Prize, check out the details here!

Photo Reports

Apocalyptica came, saw and conquered our hearts with their renditions of even more Metallica songs from their latest album, brought to us in the middle of the chaos that was Metallica weekend in Helsinki!

Gig Reports

Sabaton’s The Great Tour has come to burn the place down in Het Sportpaleis in Belgium. They were all too happy to perform their songs in the country where it all happend. Support of Amaranthe and Apocalyptica

Apocalyptica (****1/2) at Cirque Royale in Brussels: an amazing performance!

The Weekend Man was here!

Pick Your Poison

Metallica joined hands with Stone Brewing to create the Enter Night pilsner. Find out our opinion about this collaboration of two respected powerhouses!

Strap yourselves to your electric chair and get ready to ride the lightning with the boys from Brouwerij Bliksem from the Netherlands and their rye session IPA!

An evening of beer tasting brewed by the collaboration between Mikeller and 3 Floyds: Warpigs! We encountered some of the most surprising beers backed with a metal and hard rock soundtrack…