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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Galge recently dropped the new video and single ‘Nidding’, the third track shared from their upcoming album ‘Dødelig’, set for release in a couple of weeks on October 3rd!
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Danish extreme metal outfit Galge shared second single ‘Genklang’ with some captivating visuals, from their upcoming album ‘Dødelig’, set for release in the beginning of October!
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Hiroe, the new darlings of the American post-rock underground, have revealed the new single ‘Collider’, taken from their upcoming debut album ‘Wield’, out next month via Pelagic Records!
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The new darlings of the American post-rock underground, Hiroe, revealed their new single ‘Dancing at the End of the World’, a track from their upcoming debut album ‘Wield’ set for release in June via Pelagic Records!
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Belgian post-doom quartet Hemelbestormer have announced their new album ‘The Radiant Veil’ to be out in July via Pelagic Records and unveiled a first single with ‘Usil’!
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French collective BRUIT ≤ share the second new track ‘DATA’ from their upcoming album ‘The Age Of Ephemerality’, set for release in April via Pelagic Records!
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French instrumental experimentalists BRUIT ≤ announced the details of their upcoming album ‘The Age Of Ephemerality’, set for release in April via Pelagic, and shared the new track ‘Ephemeral’!
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Love Is Noise blast into 2025, bringing the ‘Sunshine’ with their latest single and video, another track coming from the debut album set for release via Century Media Records in February!
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Julie Christmas releases an enthralling new video for ‘The Ash’, a track from her earlier released album ‘Ridiculous and Full of Blood’ (out via Red Crk), her first full-length in 14 years!
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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…
