Bay Area thrash metal icons Testament are back with ‘Shadow People’, another single from their upcoming 14th album ‘Para Bellum’, out next month via Nuclear Blast Records! Catch them live this fall in Europe with Obituary, Destruction and Nervosa, or next summer at plenty of European festivals like the already confirmed Alcatraz 2026!
Party.San Metal Open Air festival announced the first 27 bands for 2026, including Testament, Hypocrisy and Amorphis as top names but so much more with something for as good as anyone who is into the more underground and extreme metal! Ticket presales are live right now!
Thrash/punk band Arson Charge shared second single ‘The Aftermath’ from their highly anticipated debut record ‘A Dying Light’, out next month via Anxious & Angry!
UK thrash metal legends Onslaught have their legendary vocalist Sy Keeler returning after 6 years and announced the 2026 “The Force From Hell” European tour!
ALL HAIL THE GOAT!!! Hellripper has been quite literally ripping it up this summer in Europe with killer shows at festivals like Tolminator and Brutal Assault, and a couple of weeks ago it was announced that Century Media Records has forged a pact with the Aberdeen, Scotland’s ibex-obsessed blackened thrash bastards of Hades for the next chapter in the outfit’s career!
Bay Area thrash metal icons Testament announced their new album ‘Para Bellum’ to be out in October via Nuclear Blast and shared the intense single ‘Infanticide A.I.’!
Finnish thrash metal juggernauts Bloodride return with the lyric video for ‘King of Pain’, a track from their new album ‘Deafening’, out now through Wormholedeath!
The modern groovers of Incite just released their new album ‘Savage New Times’ via Reigning Phoenix Music and unleashed a music video for the title track to celebrate!
Dave Mustaine revealed that Megadeth’s next album will be the last of the band and that a global farewell tour will be kicking off in 2026! A first single is coming with the pre-orders in about a month and a half!
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!
Pictures of the first day of Alcatraz 2024, with on the Swamp Stage a serving of extreme metal with Sadus, Paradise Lost and Cradle of Filth!
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.
Pictures of the artists on the main stage of the last day of Tuska 2024, with Beyond The Black, Lost Society, Opeth and Parkway Drive!
Pictures of the artists on the main stage of the second day of Tuska 2024, with VOLA, Tarot, Stam1na, Amorphis and Bring Me The Horizon!
Pictures of the artists on the main stage of the first day of Tuska 2024, with Lord of the Lost, Alestorm, Kerry King, Dimmu Borgir and Pendulum!
The first day of Steelfest XII also brought a series of explosive and high energy performances to the outdoor stage with Unleashed, Aeternus, Hellbutcher, Craft, and Deathchain!
An alternative way to celebrate Easter weekend with Rytmihäiriö and Finntroll at their stop at Tavastia in Helsinki on the “Jesus är död, nu ska vi dricka” tour!
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.
A selection of Jonna’s best captures of 2023, with pictures from bands Butcher Babies, Electric Callboy, Ghost, Glenn Hughes, Gojira, In Flames, Lorna Shore, The Hu, Ville Valo, Chamber of Unlight, Asagraum, Monuments, Sodom, Batushka, Blind Guardian, and Apocalyptica!
