UK sludge masters Mastiff recently signed with Church Road Records and are now unveiling their new single ‘A Story Behind Every Light’, a track from the upcoming EP ‘For all the Dead Dreams’ set for release in October!
News Posts
Japanese legends Boris are celebrating the 20th anniversary of their landmark albums ‘Pink’ and ‘dronevil’ with special editions of both, coming October 17 on Relapse Records!
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British metal heavyweights Conjurer are back with their mighty third album ‘Unself’, set for release in October via Nuclear Blast and shared a first single with ‘Hang Them In Your Head’!
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While we’re still trying to digest how crazy this year’s edition of Brutal Assault was, we’re already getting hyped up about 2026 with a first 14 names confirmed and they’re good ones!
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Finnish sludge mongers Zombie Eater announced their long-awaited debut album ‘FACES’ to be released in September via Argonauta Records!
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Finnish blackened sludge outfit Trypanon announce their new album ‘Through the Portal of Flesh to Achieve Divinity’ to be out in September via Time To Kill Records and unleashed a first single with ‘Veiled In Shadows’!
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UK post-black metal torchbearers Ba’al have unveiled their new track ‘Well of Sorrows’, second single from their upcoming album ‘The Fine Line Between Heaven and Here’, out in July via Road To Masochist.
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Swiss doom/sludge outfit Zatokrev announce their return with their new album ‘Bring Mirrors To The Surface’, set for release in August via Pelagic Records and unveiled a first new single with ‘Blood’, featuring vocals of the the band Inezona!
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Swedish sludge and groove metal heavy weights Caregah are celebrating the reissue of their debut album ‘Osmium’, out via ROAR, with a music video for the track ‘Terrorized’!
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Depressive doom/sludge metal band Mosara announces a collaboration with Remorseless Records to release their new album ‘Rumour of a Funeral’ in July!
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Photo Reports
Pictures of Imperial Triumphant, Electric Callboy and Urne on the third day of Tuska 2023.
A true challenge for him, our photographer went to capture the performance art that is a live show of HIDE at Kuudes Linja in Helsinki a couple of months ago, with support from Keretik!
Igorrr returned to the Finnish shores with their “Distortion European Tour”, joined by Amenra and Der Weg Einer Freiheit, bringing not only a musical treat, but also a visual feast to the Pakkahuone venue in Tampere!
Belgian radio channel Studio Brussel threw a big party in VIERNULVIER for their 40th birthday with only headliners: Psychonaut, STAKE and Brutus!
Liège-based sludge metal outfit Cottrell’s first show in Flanders in our very own Asgaard venue showed a whole lot of potential!
Pictures of the 2nd day of Tuska 2023 with Oranssi Pazuzu, Reckless Love, VLTIMAS, Stam1na, Blind Channel, Amorphis, Baroness and Mercyful Fate.
Celeste plays 30 shows on their European tour from which 2 in Belgium. We attended their show in Antwerp.
When the line-up of the 2018 edition of Blow-Up festival got released bit by bit, we decided that we couldn’t let this event pass us by. With some of the biggest names in the sludge and doom scene and a few really special and rather rare sights on a stage over here, it’s something we’ve […]
The smoky pictures of a night of doom, sludge and stoner at the Blowup vol. 4 Pre Festival Club!
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For the second day of Alcatraz 2023, our team picked out 13 bands we believe you shouldn’t miss out on with Schizophrenia, Crystal Viper, Brand of Sacrifice, Twilight Force, Gaerea, Predatory Void, Midnight, Tribulation, Belphegor, Biohazard, Godflesh, Exciter and Amorphis! Who are you especially looking forward to on the second day of the festival?
Alcatraz 2023 is getting really close now! This Friday is the first day, and our team picked out 10 bands we believe you shouldn’t miss out on with Eleine, Wind Rose, Frozen Soul, Gnome, Kludde, Svalbard, Gaahls Wyrd, Possessed, I Am Morbid and Mad Sin! Who are you especially looking forward to on the first day of the festival?
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!
The first Tuska 2023 day is here! In a handful of hours the gates will open and 3 days of heavy music will begin! Besides the headliners and some big names, we’ve picked out about 10 bands and artists we believe you should give a shot while you’re at Tuska this weekend with Vended, Kouta, Foreseen and Miseria Ultima today, A.A. Williams, Orbit Culture, Dirt and Nakkeknækker tomorrow, and Vermilia and URNE on Sunday!
This list is not for the faint of heart. A selection of releases that we experienced as being some of the most intense unleashed during 2021.
Belgium’s sludge and post-metal scene cranks out one after the other impressive releases and in 2020 things were no different…
Don’t you just hate when that happens? 10 top albums I missed last year that I think you should still check out…
Darkness, underground, dripping of hate and vile regret… our editor-in-chief has delivered his ode to absolute and relentless black in his albums of the year 2017…
A full year of incredible releases that we are trying to cram into a list of “albums of the year”, here we go again…
