Last week, rising star Poppy gave us another glimpse into her upcoming album ‘Empty Hands’ (out January 23 via Sumerian Records) with the new single ‘Guardian’! Catch her live throughout Europe next year on both a headline tour and as guest for the Evanescence tour!
Ex-Falling In Reverse guitarist Max Georgiev returns with the new track and video ‘Believe In You’!
Modern metal quartet GORE. shared a cinematic Game of Thrones-inspired video for the track ‘Wrath’, a track from their latest EP ‘IF YOU DO NOT FEAR ME…’ released earlier this year with Spinefarm!
Modern metal project A Cold Paradise unleashed their latest track ‘Waking Up’, another banger of a track, released via Perception!
Rising LA metal band In Virtue unveiled their brand-new music video for ‘Karma Loop’, featuring Charlotte Wessels and a track from their album ‘Age of Legends’, available now everywhere!
Czech modern metal upstarts STELLVRIS unleashed their highly anticipated new EP ‘Shatter and Bloom’ last week and with that came a music video for the title track!
Recently, Lindsay Schoolcraft returned with her new single ‘Crucified’, an emorionally charged and sonically powerful track that many fans of genre-bending acts will want to hear!
Urne recently unveiled the single ‘The Spirit, Alive’, another track from their upcoming studio album ‘Setting Fire To The Sky’, set for release in January 2026 via Spinefarm!
Recently, welsh ragga metal legends and party monsters Skindred have released their brand-new single ‘You Got This’, the title track of their upcoming album, set for release in April 2026 via Earache Records!
Australian breakthrough heavy act Future Static return with their new single and video ‘There’s Nowhere Else To Go’, out now via Wild Thing Records!
Back in September at Kuudes Linja in Helsinki, from dark alt-rock intensity to high-energy metalcore, Luna Kills and Balance Breach showed why they’re among Finland’s most promising rising acts.
Luna Kills went on tour through Europe presenting their brand-new album ‘Deathmatch’. We attended their show at Club Hell in Diest, Belgium with support of the Dutch alt-metal act Pacemaker!
Motionless In White came back to Finland back in February for their 2nd show ever in the country and brought out quite some people, filling up Helsinki’s Ice Halls nicely. And with Fit For A King to warm us up, it was an epic night! Next up: MiW’s show at Tuska Festival this summer, we’re hoping to see an epic show with some more of their usual theatrics live!
Luna Kills blew the roof off On The Rocks in the beginning of April with their release show, celebrating their new album ‘DEATHMATCH’ in style, and with support Lastout to warm up the crowd, it was a great night of promising bands! In just a couple of days, Luna Kills is kickstarting their first ever European headlining tour, don’t miss out!
The pictures of the Enemy Inside show at On The Rocks in Helsinki, Finland.
With 30 shows in 17 countries, Ankor’s “Shoganai EU/UK Tour 2025” ended at the DVG Club in Kortrijk, Belgium with support of Conquer Divide and A Dark Reborn, and we of course where there!
The German alternative metal band ENEMY INSIDE is on the road to promote their latest studio album, ‘Venom’, out via Reigning Phoenix Music. Accompanying them are LETTERS SENT HOME, completing the line-up for the ‘Venom Europe Tour 2025’ as the support act for the majority of the stops. One of the 18 gigs took place in Stuttgart, in the cosy club atmosphere of ‘Im Wizemann Studio’.
Ankor has been getting a lot of attention and making new fans this past festival season in Europe, and it clearly got caught by TuskaLive as well, bringing this exciting group back to Helsinki for a completely sold-out and packed night at On The Rocks. And with the addition of special guests Conquer Divide and openers A Dark Reborn, the party was complete!
Eluveitie started 2025 with the first leg in Europe of their “ÀNV Rising” tour, with support from Infected Rain and Ad Infinitum, and we saw it was good at one of the first stops at Kulttuuritalo Helsinki back in January! An event by TuskaLive.
Eluveitie, Infected Rain and Ad Infinitum came to Tampere’s Tavara-Asema as part of their ‘Ánv Rising Tour pt I’ at the end of January, bringing their great music to one of Finland’s most beautiful cities. An event by TuskaLive.
Bloodred Hourglass’ latest release ‘We Should Be Buried Like This’ combines versatile, catchy soundscapes with heavy riffs and harsh vocals. A success from start to finish, out via Out Of Line Music.
Australian modern metal band Ghostseeker unleashed their debut full-length album ‘Divergence’ into the world at the end of April via ROAR. A band that dares to do something different and experiment and discover their own style, and with this album they’re ready to take over the world!
‘The Catalyst’ contains powerful songs that are loud and clear. But then again, the album also has a power ballad. It shows once again the different styles that Amaranthe has to offer. Out since last month via Nuclear Blast!
Tampere’s Everwave are giving us an early Christmas present, with their slow roasted second album ‘Another Lifetime’ which dropped on December 1st. They spiced up their existing sound with some new elements and took their music another step forward.
Chris Maragoth just released his first album, ‘Gatherer of Souls’. Some of the songs have already been released before, and have been remastered for this album. Some songs are brand new. This album contains mostly instrumental melodic death metal/modern metal tracks, worked on by Chris alone or together with other artists, bringing a lovely collection of melodeath-inspired modern metal tracks!
A Life Divided’s new album, ‘Down The Spiral Of A Soul’, feels a little too instantly familiar, but it provides a very easy, fun listening experience. The album was released via AFM Records earlier this summer!
Curse Of Cain released their self-titled grand debut album via Atomic Fire Records back on May 12th. This album adds a fresh flavour to the Modern Metal scene.
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.
French metal outfit Dagoba delivers with ‘By Night’ an album that very well might be the next step in their career and a schooling in modern metal! A furious blend of metal, electronic elements and neck breaking moves.
Written from her own experiences in life, Lena Scissorhands and her band-mates bring us another album with some undeniable truths!
