News Posts

A couple of weeks ago, the Swedish rockers of Eclipse rocked us hard on the Alcatraz grounds, and now they have shared their latest single ‘Still My Hero’, a track from their upcoming album ‘Megalomanium II’, out on September 20 via Frontiers Music!

Rock legend Jerry Cantrell has announced his upcoming new album ‘I Want Blood’ to be released in October via Double J Music and unveiled a first track with the single ‘Vilified’!

Rock duo Bones UK released the single ‘BIKINIS’, a track from their upcoming sophomore album ‘SOFT’, set for release in September via Sumerian Records!

Myles Kennedy to release his third solo album ‘The Art Of Letting Go’ via Napalm Records in October and share the debut single ‘Say What You Will’ with an accompanying video!

Punk rock legends The Offspring announced their new album ‘SUPERCHARGED’ to be released on October 11th via Concorde Music and shared a first track with ‘Make It All Right’!

The iconic Slash announced his highly anticipated sixth solo album ‘Orgy of the Damned, set for release in May via Gibson Records, and filled with blues classics and special guests! With the announcement comes a first single with the Howlin’ Wolf blues standard ‘Killing Floor’, featuring Brian Johnson of AC/DC on vocals and Steven Tyler of Aerosmith on harmonica!

Pearl Jam announced their 12th studio album ‘Dark Matter’ to be released in April on Monkeywrench Records and Republic Records, followed by a massive world tour!

Hardy releases a banger of a country rock single with ‘Rockstar’, a tongue-in-cheek track paying homage to iconic rock bands with a great video, released via Big Loud Records / Big Loud Rock!

North Sea Echoes, the new project featuring Fates Warning members Ray Alder and Jim Matheos, have dropped the new single ‘Unmoved’, from their upcoming debut album ‘Really Good Terrible Things’ set for release later this month via Metal Blade Records.

Manchester icons Liam Gallagher and John Squire announced their debut album to be released in March via Warner Music and shared a second single with ‘Mars To Liverpool’!

Photo Reports

The last Wednesday night of November at The Clyde Theatre in Fort Wayne, Indiana was definitely NOT a “Nightmare” or a cause for “Panic” for fans anxiously waiting to catch a stop on the “Blackout Tour” with From Ashes to New, The Word Alive, Catch Your Breath and Ekoh!

We had a great time catching Poets of the Fall on the last stop of their 20th anniversary tour, at Tampere’s Pakkahuone venue on December 1st!

Black Stone Cherry fans flocked to Piere’s in Fort Wayne, Indiana for a night of good rocking out! And not only BSC blew us away, the support from Giovannie & The Hired Guns and Jigsaw Youth was amazing!

Every year the Lost in Music Festival brings around 100 Artists to Tampere, showcasing what the Nordic region has to offer of music. And we made it to one of the shows happening at Olympia-Kortteli, featuring rising stars Bloodred Hourglass, One Morning Left and Shereign. It was packed, it was hot and it was a big party!

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!

In the last hot days of this year’s summer, the H.E.A.T & Eclipse Co-Headliner Tour 2023 entered the stage at the ‘Im Wizemann’ in Stuttgart, Germany. That was a night of awesome Swedish hard-rock, and both bands delivered to the full expectation of the audience!

In the beginning of the month, the streets of Brussels turned black and the sky was filled with smoke for 3 days in a row: Rammstein was in town, and they held nothing back!

One of our photographers went to a rather unusual but nonetheless awesome festival – ‘Stars In Town’ which is taking place right in the middle of the old town city centre of Schaffhausen, Switzerland. We bring you the festival impressions from the opening day – with Danko Jones and Royal Republic!

Last week Friday, it was time to rock in Lima, Ohio with Tesla, and supporting band Fastest Land Animal, rocking a completely sold out Veterans Memorial Center with an amazing show!

Tuhdimmat Tahdit and Master Events brought one very hot festival to Tampere’s Ratinanniemi. It started with Verikalpa and ended with Beast in Black, but we also can’t forget about all the bands in between: Transworld Identity, Prestige, Ensiferum, Bloodred Hourglass, Dynazty, Lordi, Mors Subita, Dead by April and Diablo.

Gig Reports

Rock ‘n’ roll till we drop on a night where Sweden and Finland comes together under the form of Grande Royale and The Empire Strikes!

After delivering the hard rock album of the year, Shiraz Lane blasted the roof off Nosturi in Helsinki!

Heerlijk, kippenvel!

Do you wonder what it’s like to spend the night with Alice Cooper? Find out here.

Two bands taking us on a mesmerizing journey with an all enveloping soundscape filled with beauty and raw harshness.

Papa Roach is back to celebrate their latest album “Crooked Teeth” and show that they can convince young and old to go nuts on their music!

Let the girls take over…

Heavy metal? Hard rock? It doesn’t matter, as long as it’s heavy and grooves… Headbanger’s Balls Fest 2017 was again a great party!