Samurai Pizza Cats released their second album ‘Press Start’ with Century Media Records yesterday and celebrated with a video for the high energy track ‘Ramen-Man’, featuring Babybeard! Catch them live tonight at their Samurai Pizza Fest and most of April on tour with Fall To Spring!
Eva Under fire announce their new album ‘Villainous’ to be out in July via Better Noise Music and share a video for the title track, featuring Maria Brink of In This Moment!
Alissa White-Gluz unveiled first new single ‘Checkmate’ with her band Blue Medusa, out now everywhere!
Finnish melodic metalcore outfit Beyond Awareness is releasing their debut album ‘Reflections’ in May with Ranka Kustannus and shared a new single with ‘TAKEMEBACKTOHELL’ to celebrate, featuring Cyan Kicks!
Moldovan modern metal band INFECTED RAIN have released their new single ‘Stranger’, offering the first preview of their upcoming musical chapter. The track arrives just days before the group begins their European co-headline tour with BUTCHER BABIES and support Black Spikes!
Danish modern metal act Siamese returned with their first new music in two years with ‘drown’, out with Long Brang Records!
Modern metalcore outfit Halcyon Days unleashed their powerful new single ‘Save Me From Myself’ with Indie Recordings last week, featuring Fixation’s Jonas Westerud Hansen on guest vocals!
Belgian metal outfit Behind The Veil shared new single ‘Renegade’
Pennsylvania metal outfit The Last Ten Seconds Of Life unleashed their latest single ‘Make It To Heaven’ featuring David Simonich of Signs of the Swarm last week, another track shared in anticipation of their new album ‘The Dead Ones’ to be out in April via Metal Blade Records!
Sweden’s modern metal frontrunners Self Deception unveiled their latest new single and video ‘The Wedding’ last week, another track from their upcoming album ‘One Of Us’, set for release in May with Napalm Records!
At the beginning of March, Amaranthe, Dragonforce and Infected Rain brought quite the spectacle to thousands of fans gathered in Helsinki’s Black Box Jäähalli venue!
With mind-blowing energy and pure anticipation, Esprit D’air blew the roof off Northumbria University with Diamond Black supporting!
It’s spring and the year kicks off with a metalcore highlight: Electric Callboy is on the ‘Tekkno World Tour 2024’, and we caught them at the Schleyerhalle venue in Stuttgart, Germany. In tow, the German sextet brought along the band Coldrain from Japan and Nothing More from the United States. They are setting ablaze the largest stages in Europe before heading on to the US, Canada, and a selection of summer festivals, don’t miss out!
An assault bus passed through Munich, and inside it were the Americans of Lionheart, Suicide Silence, Kublai Khan and Paleface Swiss, who simply wrung all the sweat out of those present in the larger room of the Backstage club.
Avatar dropped by the legendary Helsinki venue Tavastia on their “The Great Metal Circus 2024” tour, bringing their visual spectacle and theatrics properly to Finland. With them they brought the US metallers of Æther Realm, really blowing up the night!
Last week, Cyhra, together with NeonFly, started off their short Finland tour at Tampere’s YO-Talo with a blast of a show organised by Nem Agency.
A chaotic fuelled blood rampage. That’s what Malevolence released upon Newcastle. Together with Rough Justice and Pain of Truth they laid down absolute destruction at the University Students Union!
Once again the Backstage München received an explosive night with Tenside dropping by for a hometown show showcasing their brand-new album ‘Come Alive Dying’, and very special guests For I Am King and The Oklahoma Kid!
Last week, after a fantastic 2023, Bury Tomorrow started the new year with a victory lap in their own country with a small UK tour with the support of metalcore/modern metal greats We Came As Romans and Kingdom of Giants! We caught up with them at the Boiler Shop in Newcastle for what was an amazing show!
A selection of Rachel’s best captures of 2023, with pictures from bands like Mudvayne, Nonpoint, Drowning Pool, From Ashes To New, Shinedown, Fozzy, Butcher Babies, Sumy Cyco, Black Stone Cherry and Saliva!
