Heavy metal giants Powerwolf released the live version of ‘1589’, building up to the release of their ‘Wildlive (Live at Olympiahalle)’ album with Napalm Records in a couple of weeks! Catch them live in Europe starting next month with their “Wake Up The Wicked Tour” or this summer headlining festivals like Wacken and Alcatraz!
Rockshots Records announce the signing of Italian power metal outfit Embrace Of Souls for the release of their concept album ‘The Battle Of The Dead’ later this year. First single ‘Desolate Lands’ will be out soon!
To celebrate the 20th anniversary of ‘Through The fire And Flames’, former Dragonforce vocalist ZP Theart released a reimagining as a gift for the fans, with the help of Syndrone, Sophie Burrell and Bradley Hall!
ZP Theart returned with first new music in 13 years earlier this month, with the single ‘Dark to Light’, out now on all digital platforms!
Swedish power metal institution Dragonland signed with Scarlet Records for their upcoming studio album!
Finnish power metal powerhouse Metal De Facto presents ‘Across The Milky Way’, the first single from their highly anticipated new album ‘The Land Of The Rising Sun – Part 2’, set for release in March 2026 via Reaper Entertainment!
In anticipation of their upcoming tour together starting in February next year, Visions Of Atlantis and Warkings joined forces for the new single and video ‘Pirates & Kings’!
Modern power metal outfit Elettra Storm shared an official video for the track ‘Ride The Rainbow’, taken from their new album ‘Evertale’, released earlier this year by Scarlet Records!
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!
German power metal heroes Victorius are back with brand-new single ‘Raptor Squad Attack’, out with an arcade games inspired video and part of their upcoming album ‘World War Dinosaur’, set for release in April 2026 with Perception – A Division of Reigning Phoenix Music!
The year wrapping up means that we’ll be looking back at the amazing things we’ve experienced, and “album of the year” lists. We’d also like to give some attention to our talented concert photographers who go out and cover shows for us. So here is a first in a series of articles where our artists pick their favorite pictures of 2023 with Anna/ScarletMemory Photography who mostly roams around in Tampere, Finland and pictures from bands like Pain, Sólstafir, Eleine, Myrath, Battle Beast, Brymir, Sabaton, Mors Subita, Lordi, Metalite, Shereign, Diablo, Before The Dawn, Wolfheart, Sonata Arctica, Deathstars, Brother Firetribe, Psychework, Apocalyptica, Voidfallen, Poets of the Fall, Amorphis, Lost Society, and Everwave!
The second night of John Smith Rock Frozen 2023 was pretty epic with some of the best of the Finnish scene with Red Eleven, Kiuas, Finntroll, Turmion Kätilöt and headliners Amorphis! Throw on top of that the Swedish up-and-comers of Orbit Culture, and you know it was good!
Swedish industrial metal legends Pain are on tour throughout Europe right now, and we caught them at their stop at the Backstage venue in Munich, Germany. Bringing with them Finnish pagan metal giants Ensiferum, Swedish dark symphonic metallers Eleine and Japanese Ryujin, it was quite the night for heavy metal!
The Sonata Arctica “Arctic Storm Finland Tour 2023” has been a massive success, and we got to go to one of the first stops at Pakkahuone in Tampere. With them, they’re bringing the glam rock favorites Reckless Love and the energetic alternative rock/metal upstarts Luna Kills!
Wind Rose is taking over Europe with their very first headlining tour “European Warfront 2023”, with support from the German heavy metallers of All For Metal and US metal outfit Seven Kingdoms, a recipe for a proper celebration of all that is classic heavy/power metal! We caught up with them at the Backstage venue in Munich and saw it was good!
Pictures of the Arion, Clawfinger, Blind Guardian and Apocalyptica shows at the first day of Hellsinki Metal Festival 2023.
On the first day of Alcatraz 2023, we caught Eleine, Wind Rose, Rise of the Northstar, Bury Tomorrow, Powerwolf and Michael Schenker Group taking over the Prison Stage (mainstage)!
Pictures of Beast In Black and Metal De Facto playing at Coolhead Live.
Metfest 2023 at the Tollwood area in Munich, Germany… a celebration with superheroes, warriors, good music and of course mead, with Feuerschwanz, Fiddler’s Green, Warkings and Grailknights!
Day 2 of Tuhdimmat Tahdit was just as hot. Carnival Academy, Heavy Metal Perse, Antony Parviainen Trio, Turmion Kätilöt, Metalite, Wolfheart, Shereign, Before the Dawn, Brymir, Mokoma, Swallow the Sun and lastly Battle Beast. Master Events gave us a festival that is certainly worth coming back to.
