London power-punk risers Alien Chicks shared their new track and video ‘Curtains Up’, out via Hideous Monk REcords and SO Recordings, the 3rd track from their upcoming debut UP ‘Indulging The Mobs’!
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Spanish noise rock/post-hardcore outfit Palmar De Troya is set to release their new EP ‘II’ on Reptilian Records on July 5th, and are streaming the single ‘Cold Snakes’ right now!
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Post-black act Machukha announced their debut album ‘Mochari’ to be released via Consouling Sounds in June and unveiled an intense video for first single ‘Bezpliddya’!
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Belgian punk/post-hardcore band Adverse96 released a music video for the song ‘Forevermore’, a track from their recently released full-length album ‘Clear The Lane’!
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The tickets for all of the Punk Rock Bowling Festival club shows are going on sale this Saturday, March 16th! Don’t miss out because it’s promising to be yet again an amazing celebration of all that is punk!
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Texas horror punk sensation Tricie and the Phantom Punks have officially joined the We Are Horror Records family for their upcoming new releases!
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Noise rock/punk collective Heavenly Blue announced their upcoming new album ‘We Have The Answer’ set for release in April via Secret Voice Records and shared a single with ‘Static Voice Speaks to Static Me’!
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The sludge metal punks of Black Tusk announced their upcoming new album ‘The Way Forward’, set for release in April via Season of Mist, by unleashing first single ‘Brushfire’!
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Notorious and prolific Cleveland cult Midnight will unleash its sixth full-length ‘Hellish Expectations’ via Metal Blade Records in March and share the first single ‘F.O.A.L.’ (AKA ‘Fuck Off And Live’)!
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Norwegian black metal/punk legends Haust unveiled ‘Left To Die’, another track from the upcoming album ‘Negative Music’, set to be released in April via Fysisk Format!
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Photo Reports
Time for the last day of TOLLROCK – Day 3! No more rain, but slightly cooler temperatures but more awesome music. Live on stage a TOLLROCKERZ Band Contest with 3 local upcoming bands, DEINE COUSINE, ROGERS, BEYOND THE BLACK, ROYAL REPUBLIC and BONANSKA. What a day! We are looking forward to 2025 already and see what TOLLROCK will bring to the stage!
Big anniversary this year with TollRock taking place for 20th time! That is a serious reason to celebrate. On the additional opening day, Oi! outfit BOOZE AND GLORY opened up and the iconic H-BLOCKX took over to kick off the festivities.
Sami Yaffa has worn multiple hats in various different bands such as Hanoi Rocks, Pelle Miljoona OY, New York Dolls, The Hellacopters, just to name a few but now in his 60s he is still going stronger than ever! This legendary bassist just released his second solo album in his illustrious career titled “Satan’s Helpers, Warlazer Eyes & The Money Pig Circus” and brought the album in its entirety to a packed Tavastia in Helsinki!
A selection of 30 photos that Helder likes a lot from one of his most productive year considering covering concerts, including captures of Fear Factory, Atreyu, Jinjer, Rolo Tomassi, Stone, The Kooks, Pixies, Wunderhorse, Yours Truly, You Me at Six, Lake Malice, Bloodywood, Epica, Avatar, The 69 Eyes, Nova Twins, Cam Cole, Sabaton, The Lumineers, Grailknights, All For Metal, The Baboon Show, Combichrist, Megaherz, The BossHoss, Cancer Bats, Kvelertak, Fixation, Ignea, and Butcher Babies.
With Gary’s selection of his favorite pictures, we dive into his 2023 in punk with The Adolescents, The Interrupters, Fea, Sloppy Seconds, The Svetlanas, The Damned, L7, Madam Bombs, Roy Ellis & The Aggrolites, The Casualties, Surfbort and Suzi Moon captured at Punk Rock Bowling, The Darts, The Soap Girls and Tokyo Honey Trap captured at some of the smalles venues in his area, and The Rumkicks and Hi-Fi Spitfires captured at Rebellion Festival!
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!
Pictures of Blood Command at On The Rocks in Helsinki, Finland.
Kvelertak is continuing to take Europe by storm on their “Krøterveg Te Helvete Tour” presenting their latest work, in the company of Cancer Bats as support. We were there at the Backstage venue in Munich, Germany last week!
When a legend like John Lydon comes to a venue near you with his almost as legendary band Public Image Ltd., you know you can’t miss out! And so did our photographer when they took over the stage at Ääniwalli in Helsinki with the support of local hardcore punk heroes Bob Malmström!
People at the Backstage venue in Munich were eager to see The Baboon Show play the songs of their new album ‘God Bless You All’ live, and we were not disappointed! What an energetic punk and rock ‘n’ roll show was that! Support came from the equally killer Spiders, both bands you need to go see live whenever you can!
Festival Reports
Somehow this one got stuck in purgatory, but the last and third day of Punk Rock Bowling 2024 was yet another amazing day, with impressive women on stage with Doll Riot, Kate Clover, Vial, Die Spitz, Bratmobile, and Scowl, and good old fun with English Beat, Stiff Little Fingers, Gogol Bordello, and the end of a several decade wait to see Madness live in the US!
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The second day of Punk Rock Bowling & Music festival 2024 definitely had a whole bunch of highlights with shows from Catbite, Niis, Cosmic Psychos, Destroy Boys, Snooper, The Subhumans, Starcrawler, Rocket From The Crypt, The Chats and Devo!
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Punk Rock Bowling and Music Festival 2024 was long and hot, but definitely worth it for any punk and hardcover lover with the first day our resident punker catching shows from The Iron Roses, Bad Cop Bad Cop, Teen Mortgage, The Skatalites, 999, Madball, Billy Bragg, Gorilla Biscuits and The Descendants!
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The last day of this year’s Rebellion Festival, a day of no plans and discovery brought our man to the Ask Charlie (from UK Subs) Q&A, and shows from Zen Baseball Bat, Hi-Fi Spitfires, The Shit Talkers, Murphy’s Law, TV Smith & The Bored Teenagers, Antagonizers, Doug & The Slugz and The Briefs!
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A selection of our personal highlights in all the hardcore, punk, metalcore & co shows at Alcatraz 2023 with Trivium, Mad Sin, Converge, Agnostic Front, Biohazard, The Exploited, Heaven Shall Burn, Killswitch Engage and Electric Callboy!
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The 3rd day of Graspop Metal Meeting 2023 brought a lot of firsts for our team member there, seeing shows of Architects, Rancid and Pantera, but also some of her favorites like Halestorm, In Flames and of course, the band that is very near and dear to her heart: Parkway Drive!
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The second day of Rebellion Festival 2023 was filled with surprises and nostalgia with bands like The Zips, Red London, Turtles JR, Spizz Energi, Bar Stool Preachers and last but not least, the two-tone legend Neville Staples from The Specials to get everyone skanking.
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Every year in August, Blackpool gets overtaken by punks, and this year was no different. We had a good start at the first day of Rebellion Festival 2023 with shows from The Meffs, Deecracks, Svetlanas, Teenage Bottlerocket, Sloppy Seconds and Cock Sparrer!
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Day 3 of Inkcarceration didn’t slow the weekend down. Beartooth kept the crowd ready to rock as they took the stage and gave it their all!
Report of the second day we were at Wacken 2019, the first real day of the festival, with a massive anniversary special Sabaton show!
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We enjoyed ourselves plenty at Tuhdimmat Tahdit, so we urge you to check out what we think are good reasons for you to try and make it to this lovely festival in Finland’s prettiest city of Tampere!
Gary’s albums of the year venture away from our more standard metal selection with a bunch of stellar punk releases from bands like The Bar Stool Preachers, Grade 2, The Darts, The Dollyrots, Rumkicks and Rancid, but also sidesteps into other music like the special brand of rock that Public Image Ltd. brings, blues rock with Samantha Fish and Jesse Dayton, an acoustic Dropkick Murphys and a trip back into time, reminiscing about London’s legendary Batcave Club!
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!
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!
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!
2023 starts off with quite the bang with new releases from VV, Anti-Flag, Imperium Dekadenz, Turmion Kätilöt, Katatonia, Kiberspassk, …and Oceans, Obituary, Suasion, Dropout Kings and Vėlių Namai!
March is one hell of a month! Yet again tons of releases to pick from, so here is a small selection again of what we highly recommend and is most anticipated for us!
An albums of the year 2021 list with no compromises and a couple of real surprises!
Some of our most anticipated released for May 2021, warning: there is way more exciting music being released, this is only a small selection…
It wasn’t all bad in 2020. Although it seemed like that sometimes. An example are these awesome albums that were released this year. The bands couldn’t tour, but I’m sure they will the first moment they can. Enjoy!
