Finnish modern metal supergroup Crownshift, with members of some of Finland’s finest bands like Nightwish, Children Of Bodom, Wintersun, Finntroll and myGRAIN, released their first single with ‘If You Dare’, a first step in their journey together on their newly signed label Nuclear Blast!
Century Media Records welcomes Sweden’s modern metal standard-bearers, Orbit Culture, to their roster for their foreseeable future in a worldwide deal!
UK modern metallers Sylosis released a music video for the track ‘Absent’ a track from their most recent album ‘A Sign Of Things To Come’, released last year via Nuclear Blast and a remix by their shadowy labelmates Zetra!
German modern metal quintet Doomcrusher released their crushing debut single ‘Breakout’ after recently signing to the Arising Empire roster!
A selection of Vaim’s best captures of 2023, after a long and grueling process of elimination, with pictures from bands like Battle Beast, Gaerea, Trollheim’s Grott, Avslut, Der Weg einer Freiheit, Amenra, Igorrr, Aesthetic Perfection, HIDE, SKYND, Ice Nine Kills, Utuk Xul, Rancid, Sick Of It All, Stratovarius, Testament, Michael Monroe, Volbeat, Hellacopters, Pensées Nocturnes, Amorphis, Biohazard, Killswitch Engage, Converge, Agnostic Front, Taake, Public Image Ltd, A.A. Williams, Butcher Babies, Clutch, Finntroll, Electric Callboy, Ghost, Gojira, Imperial Triumphant, Lorna shore, The Hu and Urne!
Modern metal experts Infected Rain revealed the eerie, ultra-heavy anthem ‘VIVARIUM’ in anticipation of the release of their upcoming album ‘TIME’ next month via Napalm Records!
With Glenn’s selection of his albums of the year, there is a bunch of metalcore, deathcore, djent and some surprising entries with Thy Art Is Murder, Avenged Sevenfold, Within Temptation, Tesseract, Avatar, In Flames, Sleep Token, Periphery, Invent Animate, and Chelsea Grin!
Amaranthe, one of Sweden’s most influential modern metal bands, kicks off 2024 with the crushing pop metal song ‘Re-Vision’, the 4th single from their upcoming album ‘The Catalyst’, set for release next month via Nuclear Blast!
Norwegian metalcore sensation Fixation makes history as first metal band ever to be nominated to the prestigious Norwegian awards “Musikkforleggerprisen”! And not just once, but twice!
Make sure you catch these stars on the rise whenever they come near you in 2024, like for instance at Tuska festival in Finland this summer…
Swiss modern metal upstarts Illumishade, featuring members from Eluveitie, dropped new single and music video ‘Cloudreader’, another track from their upcoming sophomore album ‘Another Side of You’, set for release next month via Napalm Records!
