Sci-fi metal innovators Voïvod dropped a new video clip for the song ‘Holographic Thinking’ from their recently with Century Media Records released ‘Symphonique’ album! Catch them in Europe right now with club shows and appearances at festivals like for instance Alcatraz Festival!
Ecuadorian progressive metal trio Minipony unveiled the single ‘Pachanga’ a couple of weeks ago with a music video, the first taste of their upcoming EP ‘Detach’, out still this month via Subsound Records!
Progressive metal standouts Stellar Circuits shared their new single ‘Stargazer’, out now everywhere via Nuclear Blast! Catch them on tour in Europe with Evergrey coming November and December!
Belgian progressive post-metal outfit Traels shared their new single ‘Centered’ from their upcoming album ‘A Study of Absence’, set to be released in November through their new label Polderrecords!
Green Carnation just recently announced the third and last part of their ‘A Dark Poem’ trilogy, ‘The Messiah Complex’, to be out in September with Season of Mist, and shared the lead single ‘Unconditional Artificial Chemistry’!
Progressive, alternative metal band Haken announced the release of their new EP ‘in a fever dream’ in September with InsideOutMusic and shared the new single and video ‘delirium’! Catch them on tour all over Europe shortly after the release!
Symphonic metal project Eternal Recurrence released their debut self-titled EP and a music video for the track ‘Precious Stones’ featuring Mordian and James Dorton on vocals!
Progressive heavy metal act Crystal Throne unveiled their new single and lyric video ‘Children Of The Ruins’, a first glimpse in their upcoming album ‘Chantry Of Sacrifice’!
Progressive gothic metal collective The Eternal have unveiled their latest new video single ‘Existing To Expire’, a track from their upcoming album ‘Obscured Horizons’, out in September via Reigning Phoenix Music!
Progressive symphonic extreme metal force Tómarúm signed with Vesperian, the beginning of what promises to be an exciting new chapter!
After the team sent in their top lists at the end of last year, and calculating the results, we got to an interesting “albums of the year 2023” list featuring releases from Marduk, Kludde, Blink-182, Blackbraid, Orbit Culture, Gloryhammer, Ne Obliviscaris, Hypno5e, Periphery, Dying Fetus, Obituary, Avatar, Svalbard, VV and Sleep Token! Do you agree with any of these? What did you have in your top list?
While we are still regularly looking back at what 2023 brought us, we of course also need to look forward. So here is the first edition of our 2024 series of articles where we bring the editorial team’s most anticipated releases with Escuela Grind, Green Day, The Empire Strikes, Saxon, Frank Carter & the Rattlesnakes, Static-X, The Gems, Lucifer, Manticora and Hiraes in January!
With Glenn’s selection of his albums of the year, there is a bunch of metalcore, deathcore, djent and some surprising entries with Thy Art Is Murder, Avenged Sevenfold, Within Temptation, Tesseract, Avatar, In Flames, Sleep Token, Periphery, Invent Animate, and Chelsea Grin!
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 with Helsinki Techfest and Kaamos Metal Cruise already this weekend, HKI SKEPU FEST V, Lost In Music, Steelchaos, Hellsinki Industrial Festival 2023, Fall Fest 2023, Black Box Mikkeli, Melancholy Mass Festival 2023 and Unholy Winter Fest!
For the second day of Alcatraz 2023, our team picked out 13 bands we believe you shouldn’t miss out on with Schizophrenia, Crystal Viper, Brand of Sacrifice, Twilight Force, Gaerea, Predatory Void, Midnight, Tribulation, Belphegor, Biohazard, Godflesh, Exciter and Amorphis! Who are you especially looking forward to on the second day of the festival?
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!
2022 was yet again an exceptional year for music. After putting together the favorite releases of most of our members, we came to our editorial top featuring the latest releases from bands like Wolfheart, Muse, Ghost, Electric Callboy, Kreator, Malevolence, Heilung, Machine Head, Wiegedood, Psychonaut, Lorna Shore, Bad Omens, Sylvaine, Parkway Drive, Lamb Of God, Rammstein and Zeal & Ardor!
Another week with amazing releases, check out the 13 singles that caught our attention with Rue Vox, Enter Shikari, …And Oceans, Aphyxion, Dirty Shirt, For I Am King, Hoaxed, Seas On The Moon, Stake, Suicide Silence, VV, Demeted and Tallah!
Things are getting ramped up now that the summer period is at its end! Great releases are coming out soon and it showed in the past week with new singles from Slipknot, Gaerea, Alien Weaponry, Brymir, Orbit Culture, Suasion ft. Steffi Pacson and The Callous Daoboys that amazed us!
A small grab of what we are looking forward to the most of the many exceptional releases coming our way during May 2022!
