After a hiatus year, Rockfest is back! New location, but also a rather action packed first batch of confirmed names for the 2025 edition with names like Muse, Judas Priest and Till Lindemann topping the bill!
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News Posts
Cavalera shared another track from the upcoming re-recording of the legendary Sepultura album ‘Schizophrenia’ with ‘From The Past Comes The Storms’, including an animated video! The re-recording is set for release in a couple of weeks via Nuclear Blast Records!
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Brazilian death metal supergroup The Troops Of Doom unleashed first video single ‘Chapels Of The Unholy’, a track from the upcoming ‘A Mass To The Grotesque’ album set for release at the end of May via Alma Mater Records!
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Legendary metal band Sepultura has announced a last tour to say farewell to their fans worldwide before wrapping up the 40 years of existence of the band… Make sure you don’t miss out on seeing this legendary band one more time on the already announced Latin America and European farewell tours!
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Cavalera released a lyric video for ‘Necromancer’ to kick off their highly anticipated ‘Morbid Devastation’ UK/European tour with the first show tonight! Don’t miss out on this monumental tour!
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Dynamo Metalfest unleashed 15 more names for the 2023 line-up with impressive names like Megadeth as one of the headliners, Trivium, Killswitch Engage and more!
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Kapitur released an impressive cover, including the use of a cello, of Sepultura’s “Roots Bloody Roots”!
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Absent In Body unveils the first oppressive track ‘The Acres/The Ache’, from their upcoming debut album ‘Plague God’!
Legendary Brazilian metal band Sepultura shows they’re ready to defend the Amazon forest with the music video for “Guardians of Earth”!
The lineup announcement for the 15th anniversary edition of Hellfest (2020)! Are you excited yet? We sure are! Check which bands have been announced!
Photo Reports
Sun, sweat, and steel… Rockfest 2025 opened in style in Turku. H.E.A.T. brought the fire, Sepultura gave Finland their final bow, and Judas Priest proved once more why they’re the Metal Gods.
40 years – what an anniversary for the Brazilian metal icons SEPULTURA. At the same time, it’s a ’40 Years Farewell Tour – Celebrating Life Through Death’. With 15 albums to their name, puts on a great show, supported by JESUS PIECE, OBITUARY and JINJER. What a goodbye for a legendary band, MHP Arena in Ludwigsburg, Germany literally boiled over!
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!
Second day at an exciting edition of Alcatraz with H.E.A.T., Sepultura and Biohazard on the main stage!
The visuals that came from 2 days of great metal fun at one of the nicest and biggest “extreme” metal festivals in Belgium!
Lists
Besides the epic shows of the headliners at this year’s Rockfest, we picked 10 bands that we think you shouldn’t miss out on if you’re going to the festival this weekend, with Moon Shot, Sepultura, RØRY, Awake Again, Bullet For My Valentine, Jinjer, Cemetery Skyline, Demolition 23, GHØSTKID and Black Flag! Who are you looking forward to the most this weekend? See you there!
If you are still looking for a great summer destination, here are 12 festivals that might make Finland the ideal place to go for you this year with Sonic Rites this weekend, Rockfest, Tuhdimmat Tahdit, Nummirock, Tuska, John Smith Festival, SaariHelvetti, Dark River Festival, Hellsinki Metal Festival, the CoolHead Live concert series, Sastamalan Torijuhlat and Hevipäivät!
As every year, we put the heads together of our editorial team to decide on our collective “Albums of the Year”, check it out!
An album of the year 2020 list heavily populated with Finnish bands and a mix of several genres, coming from our senior publisher.
Previews
After the break of last year, Rockfest is back with a vengeance and a solid line-up that will rock your world for about 3 days at the new location in Turku, Finland!
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