After recently signing with MNRK Heavy, Waylon Reavis’ latest project A Killer’s Confession shared the video for their new single ‘Greed’!
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News Posts
Togolese metal outfit Arka’n Asrafokor present their latest single ‘Angry God Of Earth’ and launched the pre-orders for their upcoming album ‘Dzikkuh’, set for release in May via Reigning Phoenix Music!
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Finnish supergroup Crownshift, featuring members from Nightwish, Wintersun, Children of Bodom, Finntroll and myGRAIN, released a second single with ‘A World Beyond Reach’ and more details on their eagerly awaited self-titled debut album, out in May via Nuclear Blast!
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Pain announced their upcoming new album ‘I Am’ to be released in May via Nuclear Blast and shared a first single and video with ‘Go With The Flow’!
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Burton C. Bell is back with his debut solo single ‘Anti-Droid’, a return to his moody, synth-heavy, sci-fi metal self!
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Jinjer announced the release of their first official live DVD/BluRay ‘Live in Lost Angeles’ via Napalm Records in May, and shared a live video for ‘Call Me A Symbol’!
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Walk into the ocean with Icelandic metal outfit Drungi’s new single ‘Alda’, a track from their upcoming debut album ‘Hamfarir Hugans’! Fans of Sólstafir, Skálmöld and Gojira may want to pay heed!
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Finnish modern melodeath powerhouse Numento dropped the brand-new single ‘The Solipsist’, the first track from their upcoming third album set for release this summer via Inverse Records!
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UK heavyweights Shrapnel announced their upcoming album ‘In Gravity’, to be released in May via Candlelight Records and shared the new single and video ‘Amber Screams’, inspired by their love for bands like Alice In Chains, Deftones and Gojira!
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Australian modern metal force Flaming Wrekage announced their new album ‘Terra Inferna’ to be released in April and shared a second single with ‘Ghosts’!
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Photo Reports
A selection of 30 photos that Helder likes a lot from one of his most productive year considering covering concerts, including captures of Fear Factory, Atreyu, Jinjer, Rolo Tomassi, Stone, The Kooks, Pixies, Wunderhorse, Yours Truly, You Me at Six, Lake Malice, Bloodywood, Epica, Avatar, The 69 Eyes, Nova Twins, Cam Cole, Sabaton, The Lumineers, Grailknights, All For Metal, The Baboon Show, Combichrist, Megaherz, The BossHoss, Cancer Bats, Kvelertak, Fixation, Ignea, and Butcher Babies.
Besides starting the new year properly looking to the future, this month we’re also still looking back at all the awesomeness that 2023 brought us. One of those awsome things was the already 3rd edition of the by Bloodred Hourglass curated festival Black Box Mikkeli. They were able to bring a killer line-up again on the 2nd day of their event with besides a fantastic show by themselves, Insomnium, Gaerea, Balance Breach, I Am Your God and Lastout!
Our Benelux and France head of accreditation and most active photographer in that region, Tom VM, made his own selection of favorite pictures he took in 2023, including some new stuff that wasn’t shared on our site before with Biohazard, Bleed From Within, Brutal Sphincter, Brutus, Electric Callboy, Michael Schenker Group, Sepultura, Arion, Blackrain, Overdrivers, Avatar, Winery Dogs, Charlotte Wessels, Devin Townsend, Dream Theater, Extreme, Ghost, Michael Angelo Batio, Arch Enemy, Doodseskader, Halestorm, I Prevail, Powerwolf and SKYND!
We set the hard task for our photographers to choose the best 30 pictures that they have shot in 2023 out of possibly thousands of captures, and here is the result of Tom Treuten’s selection with Butcher Babies, Fateful Finality, Fear Factory, Thundermother, Hypocrisy, Spiritbox, Behemoth, Dog Eat Dog, The Cult, Skillet, Agnostic Front, Scorpions, May The Silence Fail, Cannibal Corpse, Ataraxy, Dark Funeral, Goldmann, Solstafir, Ingested, Antiheld, Lansdowne, Völkerball (Rammstein Tribute), Fettes Brot, Danko Jones, Royal Republic, Team Tot, and Mindead!
Lord of the Lost wrapped up their year with a mini tour in Finland, that ended with a sold out gig at Olympia-kortteli in Tampere, with as support Rain Diary and Gothminister. An event by TuskaLive and Grey Beard Concerts & Management that served as the perfect last show in 2023 for our photographer!
Close to the end of the year 2023 there was an event that has left headbangers around the world in ecstatic anticipation—the Fear Factory ‘DisrupTour 2023’. This monumental tour brings together a powerhouse line-up featuring the ferocious Butcher Babies, Ignea and Ghosts of Atlantis. As these bands join forces, they promise to deliver an unforgettable experience for metal enthusiasts, showcasing a diverse range of styles within the genre.
Smash Into Pieces have become quite the force to be reckoned with in the heavy music scene and together with Cyhra, they set Tavastia in Helsinki ablaze a couple of months ago!
A hot and sweaty night in the Halle room of the Backstage club in Munich. Fear Factory are back in a big way, and they were joined by Butcher Babies, Ignea and Ghosts of Atlantis, bringing quite the package with the “Disruptour” all over Europe!
The pictures of a wild night with Mors Subita, Shereign and I Am Your God at On The Rocks in Helsinki!
Pictures of the massive Stam1na show at the Ice Hockey Hall in Helsinki with special guests Diablo, Corroded and Dear Mother!
