French post-rock collective Hanry unveiled their third single ‘Her Crown, Her Empire’ with an official live video, and another track from their upcoming debut album ‘What Came From Silence’, out at the end of this month via Pelagic Records!
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A.A. Williams unveils her powerful new single ‘Poison’, another track from her upcoming new album ‘Solstice’, set for release in June with Reigning Phoenix Music. Catch her live on release day at Ankea Festival or at several dates throughout summer either with A Perfect Circle or at select European festivals!
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Greek post-metal duo Salos unveiled a new version of their originally instrumental track ‘Slaughter’, featuring Soilwork’s Björn Strid!
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Atmospheric black metal act Sotabosc unveiled their haunting new single ‘Freyja’, a track from their upcoming debut full-length ‘El Batec dels Maquis’, set for release in a couple of weeks via Dunk!Records!
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A.A. Williams announces her new album ‘Solstice’ to be out in June via Reigning Phoenix Music and shared the new single ‘Hold It Together’! Catch her live this summer in europe with A Perfect Circle and several festivals like Ankea Festival and Brutal Assault!
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Crippled Black Phoenix confront memory and relapse on their latest new single ‘Ravenettes’, a track from their upcoming album ‘Sceaduhelm’, set for release in April via Season of Mist!
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Brutal Assault reveals massive lineup update for the 2026 edition with Body Count, Primus, Periphery, synthwave titans Perturbator and Carpenter Brut, Cradle of Filth and a bunch more heading to the fortress! Get your tickets!
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A.A. Williams signed to Reigning Phoenix Music and celebrates with her new single ‘Just A Shadow’! Catch her next year on her UK and EU tour or at the already confirmed festivals like for instance Ankea Festival in Finland!
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A couple of friends of the site are bringing something quite new to Finland with Ankea Festival, to take place next summer in Tampere, giving a space for music that isn’t as much represented at festivals overall with a focus on alternative rock and progressive metal! The first dozen of names confirmed is already pretty impressive with Ihsahn, God Is An Astronaut, Oranssi Pazuzu, Kaelan Mikla, Green Carnation, Circle, A.A. Williams, Bruce Soord, Earthside, Ihlo, Vermilia and Virta!
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Finnish Sonic Rites 2026 just got heavier and darker with the newly added Russian Circles, Pelican, OvO and Helsinki’s own Vestal Climax, joining an already stacked lineup!
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Finland’s summer festival season is stacked again. From underground black metal rituals to lakeside legends and city concerts with global names, we picked 12 events worth your time this summer with Steelfest, Allas Live, Sonic Rites, Ankea, Nummirock, Tuska, CoolHead Live, Dark River Festival, John Smith Rock, Ilosaarirock, Hellsinki Metal Festival and SaariHelvetti
On the last day of Alcatraz 2025, we get 10 more fantastic Belgian bands served up, going from mesmerizing atmosphere makers like Briqueville and Alkerdeel, to absolute mayhem from bands like Bark, Devastatiön, Slaughter Messiah and Cobracide, hardcore legends Congress and Whatever It Takes, rockers Promise Down or goth-tinged heavy metallers Cult of Scarecrow! Something for everyone and again proof how rich the Belgian heavy music scene is…
As every year is the case, Alcatraz Festival has plenty of space and attention for the local Belgian scene and we’re not the only ones happy about that. On the newly expanded Thursday warm-up night you’ll get to enjoy cover/tribute bands like Mr. Lipstick and the Lost Traces, Motörheads and BelgianQuoBand, the popular thrash/speed metallers of Evil Invaders and a stage filled with more underground like Sister May, Kerker, Stung, Violent Sin and Ancient Rites!
The summer festival season is over, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t plenty of exciting fests happening over the next couple of months this autumn/winter in Finland, starting with Cult of Darkness today, Helsinki Techfest, and HKI SKEPU FEST VI this month still, Pakanafesterit in October, Hellsinki Industrial Festival and Melancholy Mass Festivals in November, and John Smith Rock Frozen in December! And for the beer and music lovers, several Masis Beer & Metal events spread over the next couple of months all over Finland! Go get your tickets now!
With about a week to go, we put together 10 reasons why we think you should consider to still get yourself a ticket for Alcatraz 2024 and join in with the fun! With a stellar line-up, including some of the best the Belgian scene has to offer and a great organization trying to improve your festival experience year after year, it’s promising to be one hell of a weekend again!
With less than 2 weeks to go, we put together 10 reasons why we think you should consider to still get yourself a ticket for Alcatraz 2023 and join in with the fun!
Belgium’s sludge and post-metal scene cranks out one after the other impressive releases and in 2020 things were no different…
As every year, we put the heads together of our editorial team to decide on our collective “Albums of the Year”, check it out!
An album of the year 2020 list heavily populated with Finnish bands and a mix of several genres, coming from our senior publisher.
Darkness, underground, dripping of hate and vile regret… our editor-in-chief has delivered his ode to absolute and relentless black in his albums of the year 2017…
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In support of the ‘World Maker’ album release, we went to see Psychonaut with the support of Bloed at Cactus Club in Brugge, Belgium as part of the “Bruges Is Doomed” concerts!
Day 2 at Tolminator was pure chaos and contrast! From Fulci and Midnight to Cro-Mags, Villagers of Ioannina City, and Cradle of Filth, our intern photographer Nox caught it all on the main stage!
The last day of a long and exhausting weekend of great music and atmosphere brought some of the best of the sludge, post-metal and psychedelic rock scene with Psychonaut, Gaupa, Stake, Brutus and Cult of Luna!
Pictures of A.A. Williams, Orbit Culture, Finntroll, Marko Hietala and Butcher Babies taking over the tent stage and Inferno stage on the second day of Tuska 2023!
A mix and explosion of different sounds from post-metal and post-rock to hardcore and sludge and everything in between, presented by Heriot, Holy Fawn and Rolo Tomassi at Feierwerk in Munich, Germany!
Finally! The Belgian lock down period is over and little by little we’re able to attend gigs again. be it small ones, but it’s something… My first show sure was something though!
The pictures of the 3rd day of Rockfest madness with headliner Kiss!
Labirinto and Le Temps Du Loup finished their European tour in JH Asgaard – check out the photos.
The pictures of the mesmerizing journey two bands took us on with their all enveloping soundscape filled with beauty and raw harshness.
The live pics of the epic rock show brought to you by Papa Roach!
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