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The Finnish rockers of Shiraz Lane are about to unleash their new album ‘In Vertigo’ (out this Friday via Frontiers Music) and in anticipation launched their own beer ‘Stone Cold Lager’, inspired by the opening track and in collab with Coolhead Brew!

Finnish rock band Shiraz Lane announced their new studio album ‘In Vertigo’ to be out in October via Frontiers Music and shared the new single ‘Come Alive’ to celebrate the announcement!

Buckcherry shared the third video and single ‘Set It Free’ from their upcoming album ‘Roar Like Thunder’, set for release in June via Round Hill, Sony Japan and Earache!

Finnish rockers Shiraz Lane share the new video single ‘Dangerous’, the first of their upcoming album, and first new music since they returned to Frontiers Music recently!

One of Finland’s frontrunners of the modern rock scene, Shiraz Lane, has announced to make a return to their former label Frontiers Music for the release of their upcoming new album! Get ready for the first single ‘Dangerous’ on February 26th, and catch them at a select amount of shows including an appearance at the very last Wildfest in Belgium!

Swedish sleaze rockers unveiled the new video single ‘Hunt For Danger’, a track from their upcoming album ‘Thrill Of The Bite’, set for release next month with Frontiers Music!

The line-up for the 2024 edition of the Belgian glam, sleaze and hard rock festival Wildfest is complete with the addition of Catalano to the already earlier confirmed Tyketto, The New Roses, Crashdïet, The Cruel Intentions, Toxic Rose, DeVicious, Girish and the Chronicles, Trench Dogs, Wildheart, Madhouse, Graywolf, Kim Jennett, Sextrow and Dirty Toy Company! Don’t miss out on this one!

80s glam metal unit Cobra Spell aims for world domination! In anticipation of the release of their debut album ‘666’ this Friday via Napalm Records, they unleash the single ‘Warrior From Hell’!

The heavy metal/sleaze rock outfit Cobra Spell unleashed second single ‘The Devil Inside of Me’, another track from their upcoming debut full-length ‘666’, set for release next month via Napalm Records!

New Tommy Henriksen-led project Crossbone Skully released a new video for their single ‘The Boom Went The Boom’, featuring Def Leppard guitarist Phil Collen, a second taste of new music from the upcoming debut album set for release in 2024 via Better Noise Music!

Photo Reports

The Duke of Spook himself, Wednesday 13, brought his “Mid Death Crisis EU Tour” to the legendary Tavastia rock club in Helsinki, unleashing a night of theatrical horror and high-octane rock ’n’ roll. The show celebrated his latest album, and marked a long-awaited return to Finland with his solo work. Support came from the equally exciting Swedish horror rock outfit Sister, properly setting the mood for the rest of the night!

Wednesday 13 came through Tampere’s Olympia-kortteli last week for the “Mid Death Crisis” tour, also bringing along Sister for a full night of horror punk and sleaze rock! An event by Fullsteam Agency.

Crazy Lixx

The 8th and “End of the Road” last edition of Glam/Sleaze/Melodic rock festival Wildfest wrapped up on a high note with Crazy Lixx, The Cruel Intentions, Art Nation, Shiraz Lane, Wildness, South of Salem, Bulletrain and Mr Myst!

The Treatment

The 8th and last edition of the Belgian glam/sleaze/melodic rock festival Wildfest was pretty wild again with on the first day of this “End of the Road” edition bands like The Treatment, Wildheart, Blackrain, Kickin Valentina, and All I Know!

The second day brought quite a rockin’ out to the main stage with national heroes The 69 Eyes and Stratovarius and rock legends Mötley Crüe and Def Leppard.

The Others’ horror punk hand in hand with the Helsinki vampires… The 69 Eyes haunted the Backstage Club in Munich with an absolutely great night for anything and anyone who prefer the shadows and a Gothic style!

Pictures of the second day of Knotfest Finland that topped everything of the day before on all levels with kings of metal Slipknot, joined by bands like Shiraz Lane, Tesseract, Stoned Statues, Cradle of Filth, Medeia, Bring Me The Horizon, and Moon Shot!

The Swedish/Norwegian sleaze rock outfit The Cruel Intentions came to set On The Rocks on fire to kick off the weekend with a Friday night rock ‘n’ roll party!

Pictures of Finnish hard rock around the clock with Shiraz Lane and Violent Fever absolutely kicking ass!

Shiraz lane, the last band band playing on this stage, ever, rocked the place!

Interviews

Finnish rockers Shiraz Lane are back with ‘In Vertigo’ (out October 24th via Frontiers Music) — their most vibrant, uplifting, and heartfelt chapter yet. We sat down with Hannes and Jani to talk about fresh energy, finding balance in chaos, and the joy of making music that moves both body and soul.

A video interview with Hannes Kett from Shiraz Lane about the past, the present and the future! Check out the full conversation!

We had a talk in the sun about beer, hard rock, peace and love with Hannes and Ana from the band…

Interview with a Belgian glam band who believes they were conceived on the Sunset Strip in 1984!

Festival Reports

After a great first day, we and the full house that showed up celebrated all that Wildfest is and was one more time with an exceptional day 2 swansong featuring shows from Crazy Lixx, The Cruel Intentions, Art Nation, Shiraz Lane, Wildness, South of Salem, Bulletrain and Mr Myst! A pity that this door is closing, but what a way to end things!

We had a great time at the 8th and last edition of the Belgian Wildfest, bringing together some of the best glam, sleaze and melodic rock has to offer with on the first day stellar shows by The Treatment, Wildheart, Blackrain, Kickin Valentina, and All I Know!

Last day of Graspop 2023, where our team member managed to see rockin’ bands like Kissin’ Dynamite, Skid Row and Mötley Crüe, melodeath supergroup The Halo Effect, the explosive show of Enter Shikari and the extremely popular performance of Hellmut Goes Metal!

For those who didn’t have enough yet with what happened at the main festival, Tuska had several afterparties every night in the center!

3 days of the best you can find in metal, rock and other related genres all came together on the Suvilahti grounds in Helsinki, what resulted in yet another great edition of Tuska!

Only the 2nd edition of The Rock Fest in Finland and we were in for one hell of a massive event!

Lists

If you are still looking for a great summer destination, our homecountry of Belgium has some great events to offer, so here are 7 festivals that might make it a great place to go for you this year with the very last Wildfest this weekend, dunk!festival, Graspop Metal Meeting, Litha Fest, Lokerse Feesten, Rock Werchter and Alcatraz!

With the end of summer in sight, we came across 10 releases coming out in August that our editorial team has been looking forward to the most.

February 2022 is yet again brimming with great releases, here’s a small selection of our most anticipated ones!

The same struggle that comes back every single year: making a selection of the best albums of the year from all the quality releases it has brought forth, so here is the 2018 edition!