Technical metallers Coroner have released their new studio album ‘Dissonance Theory’ via Century Media Records last Friday and launched a lyric video for the track ‘Consequence’ to celebrate! See them live next summer at already confirmed Europe festivals Brutal Assault and Alcatraz Festival!
Tuska is bringing Megadeth to its 2026 line-up as the headliner for the Friday and adds 13 more bands to the line-up with Trivium, P.O.D., Stam1na, Lost Society, Paleface Swiss, Return To Dust, The Browning, Dogma, Slope, 802, Allt, Atlas and Kneel Before The Death! All ticket classes are available right now!
The 18th edition of Alcatraz is shaping up to be historic with headliners Arch Enemy and Alestorm, legends like Soulfly, Saxon, Body Count, Rose Tattoo, extreme assaults from Immolation, Internal Bleeding, 200 Stab Wounds, Sanguisugabogg, and modern favorites like Kittie, Northlane, Animals As Leaders, The Ghost Inside.
We’re especially thrilled to see the Belgian flag flying high again with Channel Zero, Amenra, Enthroned, Psychonaut and Mantah on the bill. And let’s not forget our longtime Finnish favorites Luna Kills, making a big step onto the Alcatraz stage!
On top of that, the Prison Stage opens already on the Thursday for the first time ever, and day ticket prices are lower than 2025 right now!
Danish thrash metallers Persecutor announced their upcoming third album ‘Casualties of Violence’ to be out in March 2026 and unleashed a first new single with ‘Acta Est Fabula’!
Thrash metal titans Kreator announce their new album ‘Krushers of the World’ to be coming into the world in January 2026 via Nuclear Blast and unveiled a first single and the opening track with ‘Seven Serpents’!
Danish crossover thrash powerhouse Swartzheim shared a first single and video ‘Spitting Nails’ and announce their upcoming album ‘Wounds’, set for release in December!
Quebec extreme metal outfit Outlying is releasing their new album ‘Oblivisci’ this November, exploring pain and redemption, and is streaming the single ‘November’ right now!
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!
Pictures of the 2nd day of Rock in the City Kerava 2022 with Stam1na, Melrose, Uriah Heep, Accept, Cyan Kicks and Deep Purple.
Pictures of the last day of Tuska 2022 with Sonata Arctica, Devin Townsend, Stratovarius, Kreator and Jinjer!
Pictures of the 2nd day of Tuska 2023 with Oranssi Pazuzu, Reckless Love, VLTIMAS, Stam1na, Blind Channel, Amorphis, Baroness and Mercyful Fate.
Pictures of the warm-up show for the first edition of Hellsinki Metal Horizons with Exciter, The Hirvi, Cannibal Accident and Satan’s Fall!
Burning Witches and Nervosa made a stop at 7er Club, Mannheim, Germany on their current ‘Double The Metal Tour’. See the photos of their phenomenal gig right here!
Pictures of the stop in Munich of the “Double The Metal 2022” tour with Burning Witches and Nervosa and support from SystemHouse33!
Pictures of the second day of SaariHelvetti 2021 with some of Finland’s brightest future in metal and absolute legends!
Pictures of spending some time in a venue with the thrashers of Lost Society at one of those rare gigs nowadays!
Pictures of one of the first shows ever by Alexi Laiho’s CoB continuation baptized Bodom After Midnight!
Pictures of Sound Of Noise or what will be known as one of the only metal festivals in Belgium during 2020’s pandemic.
