Experimental metal collective OFFICER LUCIFER return with new single ‘Far From Right’, featuring Page Hamilton of Helmet. A confrontational, genre-defying track attacking complacency, false authority, and media-fueled outrage.
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Modern death/thrash outfit Dissentience unleashed the single ‘Kaiju’, title track of their upcoming EP, set for independent release in February!
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Finnish progressive metal collective Frozen Factory strikes back with a blistering new single and music video ‘Get More Stupid’, another track from their highly anticipated album ‘Apocalypse Inc.’, set for release in January 2026 with Wormholedeath!
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Brazilian extreme progressive metal outfit Abstracted recently delivered with ‘Axis’ another track from their upcoming album ‘Hiraeth’, set for release in February 2026 via M-Theory Audio!
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Dutch metal outfit Textures recently released their new single ‘Vanishing Twin’, another track revealed of their upcoming new album ‘Genotype’, set for release in January 2026 via Kscope Music! Make sure you catch them live all over Europe early next year on tour with Jinjer!
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Pelagic Records has announced its first wave of artists for Pelagic Fest 2026 with post-metal legends The Ocean in their new formation, an ultra-rare performance by The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble, full album performances by EF, Spurv and Lost In Kiev, exciting debut appearances by bands like Predatory Void, Preyrs and so much more!
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Finnish progressive outfit Frozen Factory shared their new single ‘The Nothing I Want More’, a track from their highly anticipated upcoming album ‘Apocalypse Inc.’, set for release in January 2026 via their recently signed new label Wormholedeath!
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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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To celebrate the 1-year anniversary of ‘The Last Will and Testament’, Opeth unveiled a brand-new animated video for ‘§3’! Catch them live next year on tour in the North America early 2026 and in Europe during summer festival season with for instance a headline spot at Hellsinki Metal Festival!
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Progressive act Phendrana announce new album ‘Cathexis’ to be out in February 2026 and shared the title track with a mesmerizing video!
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Photo Reports
Pictures of the first day of Hellsinki Metal Festival 2024 with on stage 3 shows from Swallow The Sun, Soen, Obscura, and Massacre!
Pictures of the first day of Alcatraz 2024, with on the Prison Stage explosive shows from Dyscordia, Orden Ogan, Beast In Black, Feuerschwanz, Channel Zero, Saxon and Amon Amarth!
Pictures of the first day of Alcatraz 2024, with on the Helldorado Stage a serving of punk and hardcore with Funeral Dress, The Casualties, Cro-Mags, Madball and Life of Agony, modern metal from Sylosis and post-metal with The Ocean!
Pictures of the artists on the main stage of the second day of Tuska 2024, with VOLA, Tarot, Stam1na, Amorphis and Bring Me The Horizon!
The UK progressive metallers Tesseract were touring around Europe to present their latest release ‘War of Being’, bringing a visual and musical delight to a packed Tavastia in Helsinki! With them, they brought the German proggers of Unprocessed and US mathcore up-and-comers of The Callous Daoboys!
An incredible night of showcasing the mind-bending progressive metal from stellar bands like Persefone, Hypno5e, Stellar Circuits and Lampr3a at our very own venue Asgaard!
A selection of Jonna’s best captures of 2023, with pictures from bands Butcher Babies, Electric Callboy, Ghost, Glenn Hughes, Gojira, In Flames, Lorna Shore, The Hu, Ville Valo, Chamber of Unlight, Asagraum, Monuments, Sodom, Batushka, Blind Guardian, and Apocalyptica!
A selection of Vaim’s best captures of 2023, after a long and grueling process of elimination, with pictures from bands like Battle Beast, Gaerea, Trollheim’s Grott, Avslut, Der Weg einer Freiheit, Amenra, Igorrr, Aesthetic Perfection, HIDE, SKYND, Ice Nine Kills, Utuk Xul, Rancid, Sick Of It All, Stratovarius, Testament, Michael Monroe, Volbeat, Hellacopters, Pensées Nocturnes, Amorphis, Biohazard, Killswitch Engage, Converge, Agnostic Front, Taake, Public Image Ltd, A.A. Williams, Butcher Babies, Clutch, Finntroll, Electric Callboy, Ghost, Gojira, Imperial Triumphant, Lorna shore, The Hu and Urne!
Our Benelux and France head of accreditation and most active photographer in that region, Tom VM, made his own selection of favorite pictures he took in 2023, including some new stuff that wasn’t shared on our site before with Biohazard, Bleed From Within, Brutal Sphincter, Brutus, Electric Callboy, Michael Schenker Group, Sepultura, Arion, Blackrain, Overdrivers, Avatar, Winery Dogs, Charlotte Wessels, Devin Townsend, Dream Theater, Extreme, Ghost, Michael Angelo Batio, Arch Enemy, Doodseskader, Halestorm, I Prevail, Powerwolf and SKYND!
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!
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