Danish death metal powerhouse Baest are hitting the road this fall with their “Colossal European Headline Tour 2026”, bringing their relentless live energy and latest album ‘Colossal’ across mainland Europe, the UK and Ireland!
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Canadian death metal institute Cryptopsy just released an uncensored version of the video for ‘Malicious Needs’, celebrating 3 decades of music! Catch them on their “Malicious & Vile Summer 2026” tour in Europe, including stops at Hellsinki Metal Festival and Brutal Assault!
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US death metal horde Funebrarum announced their new album ‘Beckoning the Void of Eternal Silence’ recently, set to be released in May via Pulverised Records and unveiled a first track with ‘Anhela Odor Mortuorum (The Adepts)’!
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Finnish extreme metal band Saasta unleashed their final single ‘The Coffin’ in anticipation of upcoming album ‘Cesspool’, set to be released next month!
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US black/death metal veterans Aurora Borealis unleashed first single ‘Millisecond Pulsar’ from upcoming album ‘Disillusioned By The Illusion’, set for release later this month with Non Serviam Records!
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Frozen Sould unleashed another crushing single with ‘Invoke War’, featuring Robb Flynn of Machine Head, and another track from their upcoming album ‘No Place of Warmth’, set for release in May via Century Media Records!
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Swedish death metal stalwarts Vomitory present their new single ‘Wrath Unbound’, another track from their upcoming album ‘In Death Throes’, out in a couple of weeks via Metal Blade Records. Catch them live on tour in Europe with Hypocrisy, Abbath and Vreid starting next week!
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Portuguese extreme metal force Okkultist finally returns with a vengeance, unleashing their new single ‘Teeth of the Hydra’, featuring a guest appearance of Fernando Ribeiro of Moonspell, out with Alma Mater Records!
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Last week, Master Boot Record and Fulci announced an exclusive co-headlining tour that will take them all over Europe this coming fall, with special guest Arottenbit as support on all dates!
Finnish bestial black/death metal trio Hoc Est Bellum signs with Time To Kill Records for the release of their debut album!
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Album Reviews
Swedish cult death metal band Wombbath return with their seventh studio album “Beyond the Abyss”, and is highly recommended for fans of obscure extreme metal, out since yesterday via Pulverised Records.
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Third studio album “Fentanyl” from German blackened doom/death metal quartet Morast is equally dark and misanthropic, out via Ván Records.
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The new album “Revelations from the Void” of the Catalonian death doom sextet Onirophagus is rooted in the style of classic death doom metal. Recommended for fans of Officium Triste, Saturnus, and early My Dying Bride, out via Personal Records.
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Sophomore release “Carnage Gathers” delivers a solid slab of primitivism from the Vancouver, British Colombia-based death metal quartet Grave Infestation. Out via Dark Descent Records on February 28th.
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Retromorphosis is a newly spawned technical death metal entity featuring ex-members of Spawn of Possession, Obscura and Decrepit Birth. Their debut album “Psalmus Mortis” is highly recommended for fans of Fleshgod Apocalypse, Gorguts and Nocturnus AD, out since yesterday via Season of Mist!
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Copenhagen-based death metal quartet Phrenelith has returned to conquer again with third studio album “Ashen Womb”, out via Dark Descent Records and Me Saco Un Ojo since February 7th, essential for fans of Incantation, Convulse, and Spectral Voice.
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Debut album “The Diseased Machine” from London’s death metal quintet Mutagenic Host packs heavy aggression of old-school death metal with spacey themes. Out via Dry Cough Records since January 3rd.
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The old-school death metal vein of Russia’s Pyre will not disappoint fans of early Asphyx and Entombed. Their third album “Where Obscurity Sways” is a must for aficionados of death/doom metal, out via Osmose Productions!
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Aeon of Awareness’ new album ‘Rarohenga’, named after the subterranean realm where spirits of the deceased dwell after death, according to Māori tradition, is an excellent result of the band expressing themselves through the music itself and the deeper meaning between the lines. Out independently this Friday!
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Molder’s death/thrash savagery is perfected on their third studio album “Catastrophic Reconfiguration”, out via Prosthetic Records since November 8th.
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Photo Reports
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!
Earlier this year, 3 excellent Belgian bands rocked our venue Asgaard with their music. One for one bands you should check out, with hardcore/deathcore from Despite Us, modern metal from Noord and pummeling death metal from Catharsis! An event presented to us by Fly Productions!
Turmion Kätilöt came to Tampere’s Pakkahuone for a big Easter party. Along came Japanese black metal legends Sigh and Finnish melodeath doomsters Marianas Rest. An event by Nem Agency and Tullikamari Tampere.
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!
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!
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!
Our Benelux and France head of accreditation and most active photographer in that region, Tom VM, made his own selection of favorite pictures he took in 2023, including some new stuff that wasn’t shared on our site before with Biohazard, Bleed From Within, Brutal Sphincter, Brutus, Electric Callboy, Michael Schenker Group, Sepultura, Arion, Blackrain, Overdrivers, Avatar, Winery Dogs, Charlotte Wessels, Devin Townsend, Dream Theater, Extreme, Ghost, Michael Angelo Batio, Arch Enemy, Doodseskader, Halestorm, I Prevail, Powerwolf and SKYND!
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!
Without question, the biggest deathcore band in the world, Lorna Shore made their stop at Jäähalli, the biggest venue in Helsinki, bringing their biggest stage production yet to a sold out crowd on their “The Pain Remains EU Tour”, and with them they had Rivers of Nihil, Ingested and Distant, resulting in massive pits from start to finish!
Nem Agency’s Melancholy Mass Festival made Finland’s dark winter nights just a bit better by bringing us Septicflesh, …And Oceans, Vorna, Assemble The Chariots and Voidfallen on the stage in Tampere and Helsinki.
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The music industry is at it again at full force after the festival season with a massive amount of really cool releases coming out, just look at the number of our most anticipated releases for September have grown into and then we probably could have included more still. With new albums from Blind Guardian, Yungblud, Wolfheart, Slipknot, Starcrawler, Lost Society, The Hu, Vermin Womb, Vermilia, Bloodbath, Slugcrust, Electric Callboy, Innumerable Forms, Tribal Gaze, Gaerea and Graceless, it’ll be quite the month again!
Finnish festival Steelfest is a true celebration of the underground, but it you’re not convinced yet, here are some reasons why you should go
A small grab of what we are looking forward to the most of the many exceptional releases coming our way during May 2022!
The month of April brings us not only Spring in full bloom, but a long list of stellar releases. Here is a selection of those we’re looking forward to the most!
March is one hell of a month! Yet again tons of releases to pick from, so here is a small selection again of what we highly recommend and is most anticipated for us!
This list is not for the faint of heart. A selection of releases that we experienced as being some of the most intense unleashed during 2021.
February 2022 is yet again brimming with great releases, here’s a small selection of our most anticipated ones!
Putting all the favorites of our team of writers and photographers together, we’ve come to a really diverse and interesting overall AOTY list!
The ultimate selection of black and death metal with the right amount of doom infused. Check out Maxen’s AOTY 2021!
14 melodic metal/rock albums from Finland that we still wanted to give some proper attention to and you should check out still too if you haven’t yet!
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