Thrash metal legends Dark Angel are on tour right now in Europe and are performing the classic ‘Darkness Decends’ album in full on select shows, including Brutal Assault and Alcatraz festival this weekend!
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News Posts
Thirteen Goats invites fans to their “Animal Kingdom” in the new video for the track that features guest vocals from Carly Ellen Jones and was part of their latest album ‘Capricorn Rising’, released last year via Exitus Stratagem Records!
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Denver’s thriving thrash punk band Arson Charge to release their debut album ‘A Dying Light’ in October via Anxious & Angry and shared a first single with ‘A New Throne’!
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UK metal powerhouse Sylosis announced a massive UK and European headline tour for early 2026, bringing along Revocation, Distant and Life Cycles!
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Bay Area thrash legends Forbidden are back, and how! They just released their first new song in over 15 years with ‘Divided By Zero’, just in time for their European appearances at fests like Hellsinki Metal Festival and Alcatraz Festival amongst many others!
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Extreme metal outfit Revocation are unleashing their new album ‘New Gods, New Masters’ in September with Metal Blade Records and unveiled a first sci-fi single with ‘Cronenberged’, featuring Jonny Davy from Job For A Cowboy!
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Thrash metal powerhouse Nervosa unleashes music video for their brutal new single ‘Smashing Heads’, celebrating 15 years of Nervosa, out via Napalm Records right now!
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Metal unit Sylosis have released a video for the vitriolic ‘Soured Ground’ track, taken from their most recent EP ‘The Path’, out via Nuclear Blast!
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German thrash metal legends Sodom released their new single and lyric video for the song ‘Taphephobia’, another track from their upcoming album ‘The Arsonist’, set for release at the end of this month through SPV/Steamhammer.
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Hammerheart Records announced the reissue of the criminally overlooked thrash metal masterpiece ‘Why Play Around?’ from the US outfit Wargasm.
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Photo Reports
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!
Second day at an exciting edition of Alcatraz with Predatory Void, Shadow Of Intent, Decapitated, and Sodom on the Swamp Stage ripping it up!
Second day at an exciting edition of Alcatraz with H.E.A.T., Sepultura and Biohazard on the main stage!
Pictures of the Asagraum, Chamber of Unlight, Suicidal Angels, Benighted, Impaled Nazarene and Batushka shows at the first day of Hellsinki Metal Festival 2023!
Festival Reports
Dynamo Metalfest delivered again on a wonderful day of great metal fun for a very very reasonable price! We were there and didn’t want it to end…
Tuska 2017 promised to be a huge party for metal and rock lovers. With their 20th anniversary they geared up to make it one hell of a celebration…
Two days of the best underground artists the metal scene has to offer at the Finnish city that brought forth a ton of black metal bands, sit back and let the darkness come over you!
A small, but great event with even greater bands from our local scene!
Onze impressie van dag drie van de 42ste editie van de Lokerse Feesten, ook wel gekend als de “Metaldag”…
