After an 18-year silence on the album front, CLAWFINGER are finally back – louder, sharper, and more defiant than ever! With ‘Ball & Chain’, they unleash another track from the upcoming album ‘Before We All Die’, out February 20, 2026 on PERCEPTION – A Division of Reigning Phoenix Music, fusing relentless riffs and raw energy with frontman Zak Tell’s unflinching honesty.
DIRKSCHNEIDER & THE OLD GANG (DATOG) have unleashed ‘Babylon,’ the monumental title track from their upcoming album, set for release on October 3, 2025 via Reigning Phoenix Music (RPM).
Alter Bridge shared first single/video ‘Silent Divide’ from their upcoming self-titled album, set for release in January 2026 via Napalm Records and announced the “What Lies Within U.S. tour” dates that will come right after their extensive Europe tour in early 2026!
Hard rock/heavy metal outfit Hell in the Club announced their new album ‘Joker In The Pack’ to be out in November with Frontiers Music and shared the new single and video ‘Magnetars’!
Melancholic Finnish metal band Mourning Wood is releasing their debut album this autumn, and the latest new single ‘Swift Demise’ gives you a proper miserable taste of what is to come!
Belgium’s up-and-rising heavy metallers Speed Queen are about to release their debut full-length ‘…With a Bang!’ this Friday via High Roller Records, but not before they provided a last taste of it a couple of weeks ago with the track ‘I Walk Alone’!
A couple of weeks ago, one of UK’s most promising acts, FURY, released a new thunderous and rebellious single ‘Don’t Lie To Me’, another track from their upcoming album ‘Interceptor’, set for release next month via Mighty Music!
Finnish metal icons Amorphis recently shared the new single ‘Dancing Shadow’ in anticipation of their upcoming new album ‘Borderland’, out next month via Reigning Phoenix Music! Catch them live this Fall in Europe with Arch Enemy or in the Summer of 2026 at the many festivals they’re already confirmed for, including Alcatraz Festival and Brutal Assault!
Finnish heavy metal powerhouse Battle Beast dropped their new single ‘Here We Are’ in the beginning of this month, another track from the upcoming anticipated album ‘Steelbound’, set for release in October via Nuclear Blast!
Disciples of Verity, a collective made up by some heavy hitters of the music scene, released their latest new single ‘In My Eyes’, the latest preview from their highly anticipated new album ‘NEXUS’!
Wind Rose is taking over Europe with their very first headlining tour “European Warfront 2023”, with support from the German heavy metallers of All For Metal and US metal outfit Seven Kingdoms, a recipe for a proper celebration of all that is classic heavy/power metal! We caught up with them at the Backstage venue in Munich and saw it was good!
Infected Rain came back to Belgium a second time this year on their “Heyday tour 2023”, the place to be was DVG Club in Kortrijk, accompanied by warm up act All Hail the Yeti!
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!
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!
Pictures of the performances of Pentagram, Burst, Priest, Déluge, Fit For An Autopsy and Watain on the indoor stage of Hellsinki Metal Festival!
Pictures of the Arion, Clawfinger, Blind Guardian and Apocalyptica shows at the first day of Hellsinki Metal Festival 2023.
Every year, one day of the 10-day long Lokerse Feesten is dedicated to metal. A day full of headbanging, mosh-pits and heavy guitars with this year Hammok, Biohazard, Doodseskader, Bullet For My Valentine, Psychonaut, Megadeth, Slift, Within Temptation, Stake and Amenra.
We got to see one of the Raskasta Iskelmää live shows at the sold out Hönö bar in Tampere. Featuring Marko Hietala, Antti Railio and Ville Tuomi on vocals, it’s the perfect summer getaway while waiting for the Raskasta Joulua season. A very fun evening presented by Tuhdimmat Tahdit and Master Events.
After having brought an impression of the first day of TollRock Festival, here are the impressions for day 2 from our photographer with Guano Apes, Thundermother, and Dog Eat Dog!
One of our photographers went to the smaller, but wonderful festival TollRock in Germany a couple of weeks ago and was so kind to share some of his pictures with us of day 1 with Mötorblast, Phil Campbell and the Bastard Sons and Völkerball.
