Alter Bridge return with their brand-new single ‘Playing Aces’, another taste of their upcoming self-titled album, set for release in January 2026 via Napalm Records! Catch them live in Europe shortly after the album comes out, and then following with a US tour!
Powerwolf unleashed the live version of ‘Armata Strigoi’, which will part of their upcoming monumental live album ‘Wildlive (Live at Olympiahalle)’, out in February 2026 via Napalm Records! If you want to experience them live in real life yourself, catch them on their “Wake Up The Wicked Tour” in 2026 or next summer headlining European festivals like Wacken and Alcatraz!
Eye Of Melian, the Tolkien-inspired symphonic project founded by Martijn Westerholt (Delain) and featuring Johanna Kurkela (Auri) on vocals, has signed to Napalm Records for the release of their new album ‘Forest of Forgetting’ in February 2026! Shortly after, they’ll be touring through Finland with what promises to be a magical show!
Last Friday, 1914 released their latest album ‘Viribus Unitis’ with Napalm Records and shared one last crushing single before with ‘1918 Pt 3: ADE (A Duty to Escape)’ featuring Aaron Stainthorpe and with an animated video!
The torch of NWOBHM is being carried high and proud by UK upstarts Tailgunner! In February 2026 they are releasing their new album ‘Midnight Blitz’ via Napalm Records, produced by K.K. Downing and recently unveiled first single and title track as a first taste!
Lord Of The Lost revealed third single ‘Would You Walk With Me Through Hell’, featuring Infected Rain and another track from their upcoming album ‘OPVS NOIR Vol. 2’, out in December via Napalm Records!
Last week, French melodic death metal trio Aephanemer finally released their new album ‘Utopie’ via Napalm Records, but not before they unveiled a video for the blistering single ‘Contrepoint’! Catch them live in Europe for the rest of the month, starting this Thursday, and dropping by our very own Asgaard Gentbrugge venue in Belgium!
Modern metal unit Ad Infinitum shared their impressive new single ‘Regicide’, released with Napalm Records just before they started their European headline tour with support from Seven Spires and Tulip last week!
Charlotte Wessels shared the new single ‘Backup Plan’ featuring Asger Mygind from VOLA, part of her recently released deluxe edition of ‘The Obsession’ to celebrate its 1 year anniversary, out with Napalm Records! Catch her live in Europe next year as support for the Epica/Amaranthe “Arcane Dimensions Tour”!
Swedish powerhouse Bloodbound unleashed their second single ‘As Empires Fall’ from upcoming album ‘Fields Of Swords’, set for release with Napalm Records next month!
Candlmass’ 13th record “Sweet Evil Sun” delivers plenty of emotive melodies and crushing riffs that will appease the demons inside your head, The songs in the album evokes the inner spirit of the Swedish doom metal masters this is a heavy bombardment of powerful riffs. Out on November 18 via Napalm Records!
“Sacred Rites & Black Magick” draws epic landscapes of grandeur Stormruler aptly invokes the cold chilling melodies of the second wave of black metal capturing the classic feel of bands like Dissection, Vinterland, and Dawn. Released via Napalm Records.
Bloodbath’s sixth album ‘Survival of the Sickest’ is an astonishingly aggressive and ultimately brutal record that resonates with the band’s earlier discography. Its 11 tracks unleash a raw old-school sound and bring the fans a bloody Smörgåsbord of zombified gore-themed death metal. Out on Napalm Records on September 9.
Alestorm sets sail for the seventh time on ‘Seventh Rum of a Seventh Rum’: creativity and pirates at their best! Out on Napalm Records.
Brymirs new masterpiece ‘Voices in the Sky’ is unleashed to the world via Napalm Records. If you like the band’s previous releases, you will absolutely love this one. it’s bigger, better and even more epic than ever before.
‘A Heartless Portrait (The Orphean Testament)’ proves that even after 25 years of existence, Evergrey still has the ability to impress.
Paddy And The Rats serve us some highly enjoyable Celtic punk to get through our day! Recommended if you’re looking for a recharge!
German thrash metal veterans DESTRUCTION celebrate their 40th anniversary by setting the world ablaze with a new, hard-hitting grenade in the form of their new album, Diabolical (out April 8, 2022 via Napalm Records). As one of the most legendary German thrash metal bands in existence, DESTRUCTION grace the wall of fame alongside giants like Kreator, Sodom and Tankard.
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.
Kissing Dynamite is ready to rock again and spread rock music all over the world! With positivity as the key message.
Kamelot is on tour in Europe with their “Awaken the World” cycle, in the good company of Myrath, Eleine and League of Distortion! We caught up with them at their stop at Le Splendid in Lille, France.
Katatonia and Sólstafir, two masters of melancholy and doom on a co-headline tour through Europe, supported by the American SOM, which we caught at their stop at Trix in Antwerp, Belgium!
The North-American metalcore stars Atreyu and modern metallers on the rise Jinjer warmed up for Bullet for My Valentine at Zenith in Munich, Germany!
Brymir and Master Events put up yet another great show, this time at Torvi, Lahti in Finland. This show won us over with its close, intimate and sweaty atmosphere.
Back in Munich, Sweden’s Katatonia and co-headliners Iceland’s Sólstafir brought the luxurious company SOM and warmed up a cold winter night nicely at the Backstage venue.
The Scottish pirates of Alestorm docked their pirate ship in Torhout, Belgium. A sold out venue was ready to party with them, fantasy power metallers Gloryhammer, the dwarves of Windrose and fellow pirates Rumahoy.
Rising stars in the melodeath realms, Aephanemer is touring, and we visited them on their stop at The Black Lab in Wasquehal, France. Warm up act were black folk metallists Sorcières.
We caught the power metal feast that is Powerwolf’s Wolfsnächte 2022 tour with support acts Dragonforce and Warkings at the Lotto Arena in Antwerp!
We had the chance to visit the next to last gig of the ‘Symphonic Metal Nights Tour 2022’ with co-headliners Visions of Atlantis and Xandria and support from Ye Banished Privateers. A hot and sweaty night that got our photographer to go back home drenched!
Metal bands on the rise Amaranthe and Beyond The Black have been on a co-headline tour through Europe with support from Butcher Babies and Ad Infinitum. And we were at their stop at Trix in Antwerp, Belgium to celebrate these talented men and women!
We interviewed Heidevolk on their most recent run through Europe, check it out here!
It was a great pleasure to sit down with Brittney from Unleash the Archers to tackle questions of education and experience, emancipation and the ultimate point of skiing along a mountain.
Moonspell is bringing a new album soon and if we may believe them, it’s going to be a rumbling one… More about that and other things from Pedro!
“I see many bands out there who are afraid of what people would think. That’s not the right way. You have to follow your dreams. This is not only about bands, I would give this advice to anyone out there.”
The guys of Evil Invaders told us more about their night in jail and their upcoming album.
Interview with Vicky Psarakis from The Agonist about their latest album “Five”, herself and recent changes they’ve been through.
