Nothing Sacred, one of Australia’s pioneering heavy metal bands, is kicking off their highly anticipated 2024 European summer tour tomorrow at Headbangers Open Air, taking them all over Europe until they wrap things up at Speed Metal Party in Tampere, Finland halfway August!
Finnish thrashers Mutant Blast haunt fans with a horror inspired video for the track ‘Final Day’, from their upcoming album ‘Soulsteeler’, set for release in September via Rockshots Records!
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!
Thrash metal icons Flotsam and Jetsam unleashed their new single ‘Primal’ and shared the cover artwork of their upcoming album ‘I Am The Weapon’, set for a September release via AFM Records!
Finnish thrashers Mutant Blast unleashed their new single ‘Acid Rain’, another track from their upcoming album ‘Soulsteeler’, set for release in September via Rockshots Records!
Kerry King unleashed the new single and first music video ‘Residue’, a track from the upcoming debut ‘From Hell I Rise’ of his new project, set for release in May via Reigning Phoenix Music!
Metal powerhouse Umbra Vitae, featuring members of Converge, Twitching Tongues, The Red Chord, Uncle Acid and Tsjuder, announced their sophomore album ‘Light of Death’ to be released in June via Deathwish Inc., and shared a first relentless single with ‘Belief Is Obsolete’!
Australian metallers Flaming Wrekage shared single ‘Hell On Earth’, another banging track from their upcoming album ‘Terra Inferna’, set for release at the end of April!
Louisville thrash metalheads Belushi Speed Ball shred heads on new single ‘This Is The Peak’, another track from their upcoming album ‘Stellkira’!
French groove/nu metal thrash monsters Rage Behind have returned with a relentless new single ‘The Hands Of Revenge’, which was earlier to be found as a bonus track on their debut album released at the end of last year via Atomic Fire Records (Reiging Phoenix Music)!
Day one of Tuhdimmat Tahdit in it’s all renewed version gave us Kotiteollisuus, Marko Hietala, Lost Society, Stratovarius, Mokoma, Stam1na and Amorphis. What a great festival that we sure will return to again in the future.
In January, as it happens on the regular, we hosted a night with local talents at our Asgaard venue in Gent, Belgium, with Powerstroke, Hudiç, and what ended up being the last show of Beyond Our Sight!
Abbath and company came to Munich to show how black metal is done at the highest level. In their luggage came the American Toxic Holocaust and the Scottish Hellripper, who opened the night like two big explosions.
We set the hard task for our photographers to choose the best 30 pictures that they have shot in 2023 out of possibly thousands of captures, and here is the result of Tom Treuten’s selection with Butcher Babies, Fateful Finality, Fear Factory, Thundermother, Hypocrisy, Spiritbox, Behemoth, Dog Eat Dog, The Cult, Skillet, Agnostic Front, Scorpions, May The Silence Fail, Cannibal Corpse, Ataraxy, Dark Funeral, Goldmann, Solstafir, Ingested, Antiheld, Lansdowne, Völkerball (Rammstein Tribute), Fettes Brot, Danko Jones, Royal Republic, Team Tot, and Mindead!
On the 10th anniversary edition of the Belgian hard rock and metal festival Blast From The Past, they did what they do best yet again: bringing the old school to a stage near you with an impressive line-up of Angel Witch, Onslaught, Exumer, Vengeance, Witchfynde, Hitten, Existance, Steelover, and Toledo Steel!
Cavalera re-recorded the first two albums of Sepultura (‘Bestial Devastation’ and ‘Morbid Visions’) and are touring the world with them on the “Morbid Devastation” tour! We caught up with them at L’Aéronef in Lille, France, and we saw it was good… Support came from Max’s stepson’s band Incite…
Pictures of the massive Stam1na show at the Ice Hockey Hall in Helsinki with special guests Diablo, Corroded and Dear Mother!
The last day of a long and exhausting weekend of great music and atmosphere was all about the Belgian music scene at La Morgue with Aeveris, Brutal Sphincter, Hexa Mera, Mantah and Reject The Sickness!
The last day of a long and exhausting weekend of great music and atmosphere with on the main stage shows from Sacred Reich, Bleed From Within, Blind Guardian, Killswitch Engage and of course, the party that was Electric Callboy!
Second day at an exciting edition of Alcatraz we went to get a bit of a taste of the old school heavy metal that was playing the whole day at La Morgue with EvilDead and Vicious Rumors!
Tomorrow it’s again that time of the year: Tuska weekend is upon us! If somehow you weren’t convinced yet that you need to go, here are 10 reasons we believe should be enough motivation to still get a ticket if any are available still! Going from a great line-up, to Tuska KVLT, Tuska Expo expanding further and simply an amazing atmosphere! See you there!
For the third and last day of Alcatraz 2023, our team picked out 10 more bands we believe you shouldn’t miss out on with Serpents Oath, Archspire, Psychonaut, Mantah, Gaupa, Stake, Blind Guardian, Brutus, Killswitch Engage, and Holy Moses! Who are you especially looking forward to on the second day of the festival?
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?
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!
Steelfest manages to impress with their line-up and organization every single year, and this year is no different, even after some recent setbacks! We’re amazed with the line-up that celebrates everything that is underground and extreme yet again, and that’s only a part of the reasons why you should still try to make it to the fest this weekend!
As the festival summer is quickly approaching, May sees many great releases yet again. Our team of writers put together a nice selection of those they are looking forward to the most this month with Deathstars, Cattle Decapitation, Veil Of Maya, The Dark Side Of The Moon, Ghost, Thulcandra, Frozen Soul, Sleep Token, Henget, Vomitory, Immortal, Kalmah and Legion Of The Damned!
with a killer line-up featuring stellar acts from the underground with Satanic Warmaster, Ævangelist, Archgoat, Trollheims Grott, Heretic, Blood Chalice, Aesthus, Flame, Malicious, Medico Peste, Mörk Gryning and Avslut to celebrate their 10th anniversary!
Our editor-in-chief Vaim’s selection of albums of the year has turned into an eclectic mix that brings both unbridled chaos and extremes while maintaining a level of catchy with releases from bands like Blackbraid, Cabal, Zeal & Ardor, Machine Head, Wolfheart, Wiegedood, Doodseskader, Malevolence, Psychonaut and The Callous Daoboys!
2022 was yet again an exceptional year for music. After putting together the favorite releases of most of our members, we came to our editorial top featuring the latest releases from bands like Wolfheart, Muse, Ghost, Electric Callboy, Kreator, Malevolence, Heilung, Machine Head, Wiegedood, Psychonaut, Lorna Shore, Bad Omens, Sylvaine, Parkway Drive, Lamb Of God, Rammstein and Zeal & Ardor!
As usual, Mazen’s top albums are a mix of death metal, black metal and a touch of doom metal, heralding everything that is underground and extreme with bands like Phobophilic, Autopsy, Stormruler, Watain, Shape of Despair, Ars Hmu, Sedimentum, Chaotian, Trolldom and Immolation!
