Mental Cruelty unleashed their crushing new single ‘The Serpent of Midgard’ with a cinematic video, out now with Century Media Records!
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Symphonic metal band Xandria is back with third single ‘Northstar’ from the upcoming new album ‘Eclipse’, set for release next month with Napalm Records!
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German heavy metal legends Accept shared another re-recorded track with ‘Balls to the Wall’, featuring Metal God Rob Halford, guitar icon Matthias Jabs, bassist Rex Brown and Bullet For My Valentine drummer Jason Bowld! Their new album ‘Teutonic Titans 1976-2026’ celebrating 50 years, will be out in September via Napalm Records!
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Germany’s rising rock force Velvet Rush signed to Frontiers Music and to celebrate unveiled the new single and video ‘Nature Of The Beast’!
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Future Palace shared their latest new single and video ‘Tidal Waves’, a rock balad from their upcoming new album ‘RESURGENCE’, out at the end of the month via Century Media! Catch them on tour in Europe this fall with As Everything Unfolds, Luna Kills and Defences!
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Alt-metal unit Luther signed with Long Branch Records and dropped their new single ‘Giving The People What They Want’ to celebrate!
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German death metal horde Endseeker have released their farewell EP ‘Coffin Born’ via Metal Blade Records last month and now recently unleashed a special cover and video of their take on David Hasselhoff’s ‘True Survivor’, featuring Lord Of The Lost!
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Neovise has joined the Arising Empire roster and unveiled their debut single ‘Gravity’, delivering an unforgettable first statement!
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Black forest metallers Finsterforst revealed the new track ‘Obduktion’, the second to be shared from the upcoming sixth album ‘Still’, out at the end of next month with AOP Records!
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Kissin’ Dynamite announce their final album with Hannes Braun, to be released in September on their own label!
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This year Lemmy Kilmister left this mortal realm 10 years ago. Mötorhead, the band that Lemmy brought to life, was founded 50 years ago. Phil Campbell joined Mötorhead over 40 years ago. What a list of anniversaries, and what better reasons to celebrate? We caught Phil Campbell and The Bastard Sons in Stuttgart, Germany on one of the stops of their “50 years of Mötorhead” celebration tour, with support from Airstrike!
Sabaton played a close to sold out show at the SchleyerHalle in Stuttgart, Germany together with The Legendary Orchestra a couple of weeks ago. Full power from start to finish.
SKINDRED’s explosive Stuttgart show on their current Europe tour featured electrifying sets from SICKRET and ALIEN ANT FARM, culminating in a masterclass of Reggae Metal led by Benji Webbe and his powerhouse bandmates. On a frosty November night, the legendary LKA Longhorn was set ablaze.
Saltatio Mortis marked 25 years with a spectacular jubilee tour! The Ludwigsburg finale featured pyrotechnics, wild Viking‑boat crowd-surfing, and hilarious crew pranks. As their own support band Bad Loverz, they rocked 80s hits in glam wigs before delivering a powerful set spanning 2.5 decades. A night of fire, fun, and unforgettable energy.
Melodic death metal heavyweights ARCH ENEMY are conquering Europe with their explosive “European Blood Dynasty tour”, and it’s nothing short of a musical crusade. To complete the total metal mayhem nights they have company from GATECREEPER (USA), ELUVEITIE (Switzerland) and AMORPHIS (Finland).
DISTURBED is celebrating the 25th anniversary of their debut album ‘The Sickness’ with an extensive tour in Europe. They brought along special guests MEGADETH as part of the package, ramping up the excitement for heavy music fans all over the continent! We caught their stop at Schleyerhalle in Stuttgart, Germany and saw it was good!
PARKWAY DRIVE is full into their ’20 Years Anniversary Tour Europe’ and we caught them recently at their show at Schleyerhalle in Stuttgart, Germany with an impressive stage production including tons of pyro and floating stage elements. And of course they brought friends, in the form of two fellow bands from Down Under: THE AMITY AFFLICTION and THY ART IS MURDER. This explosive package is the real deal for any die-hard metalcore fan! If this tour hits up a city near you, don’t miss out on this!
Day 2 of this year’s TollRock Festival had a great list of artists on the line-up. TollRockerz Band Contest is the yearly opening act of the Saturday procedures. Moonshot, Saint City Orchestra, Kissin’ Dynamite, Donots and Five Finger Skull Crushers were building the electrifying list of acts that appealed to a wide variety of rock, punk, Irish folk and metal fans. In combination with the special atmosphere and location making TollRock a Germany summer festival highlight.
TollRock 2025 Day 1 was not only blessed with wonderful weather but with an impressive line-up on the first day. Starting with Lost Sanity (TollRockerz Band Contest Winner 2024), followed by April Art, Emil Bulls, Fiddlers Green, Skindred and Rock Rising gave an impressive list of artists. The audience was thrilled by the great live performances of all bands on stage. The expectations for day 2 have been raised to an almost unbeatable level.
During the high time of the festival summer frenzy in 2025, THE GHOST INSIDE stopped over between all the festival gigs at Stuttgart’s LKA Longhorn on June 24 for one of two club shows. Support was given by the Hamburg, Germany-based metalcore band HALF ME.
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