Upheaval Festival 2026 completed its line-up awhile back and it’s absolutely delicious, with headliners Gojira and Papa Roach and plenty of popular acts both from the US and abroad! Seems like a fest you won’t want to miss out on if you’re any bit close!
Traditional heavy metal force Sulphur And Mercury unveiled their new single ‘Sulphur Eternal’, out now with Time To Kill Records!
Finnish melodic metal act After Infinity return with sophomore release ‘Beyond Eternity’, out this Fall via Rockshots Records and unveils the first tracks with ‘King With No Crown’ featuring Paolo Ribaldini of Delain, Leverage and Seraphiel, and ‘Hands of Time’ featuring Aitor Arrastia of Metal De Facto!
Gus G. released his new solo album ‘Steel Burner’ today and to celebrate shared a video for the track ‘Dancing With Death’ featuring Matt Barlow!
Officer Lucifer’s transmission continues with new single nad video ‘Swallow’, out now everywhere!
Black Sites released their personal new single ‘Silent Wars’, a track from their upcoming album ‘For Eternity’, out in July!
Heavy/stoner metal outfit King Kraken released their new single ‘Call To War’, including a video for the track! Catch them live the next couple of weeks with Fury starting today, or at plenty of festivals all over the UK throughout summer!
Icelandic Sátan Festival has announced the final line-up for their 2026 edition with not only Icelandic rock legends Sólstafir at the top of the bill, but also acts like The Haunted, Hamferð, Múr, Aborted and many more!
Finnish metal outfit Crimson Day unveiled their dark new single & video ‘Hexed’ from their upcoming album ‘Dark Dimension’, out next month via Wormholedeath!
Sweden’s Bewitched is back. This Friday, they are unleashing their comeback full-length album ‘Diabolical Death Mass’ with Osmose Productions, the first new release in 2 decades!
2022 was yet again an exceptional year for music. After putting together the favorite releases of most of our members, we came to our editorial top featuring the latest releases from bands like Wolfheart, Muse, Ghost, Electric Callboy, Kreator, Malevolence, Heilung, Machine Head, Wiegedood, Psychonaut, Lorna Shore, Bad Omens, Sylvaine, Parkway Drive, Lamb Of God, Rammstein and Zeal & Ardor!
February has some great releases again, and we’re looking forward to albums from artists like Memoriam, In Flames, Paramore, dEUS, Mordkaul, Ulthar, Avatar, The Abbey, Insomnium, Host, Gorillaz and Heidevolk!
As usual, Mazen’s top albums are a mix of death metal, black metal and a touch of doom metal, heralding everything that is underground and extreme with bands like Phobophilic, Autopsy, Stormruler, Watain, Shape of Despair, Ars Hmu, Sedimentum, Chaotian, Trolldom and Immolation!
Steelchaos is back! If that is not reason enough to get yourself a ticket still, here are 5 reasons why you should still consider to go this weekend, including the exclusive Finland “Black Metal” 40 years anniversary show of Venom Inc.!
Week 37 brought us a bunch of wholesome, heavy and unique songs and videos from bands like Dust In Mind, SKYND, Lorna shore, Starbenders, In Flames, Vévaki, King Dude, Sahg and Electric Callboy. Go check them out if you haven’t yet!
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!
Things are getting ramped up now that the summer period is at its end! Great releases are coming out soon and it showed in the past week with new singles from Slipknot, Gaerea, Alien Weaponry, Brymir, Orbit Culture, Suasion ft. Steffi Pacson and The Callous Daoboys that amazed us!
With the end of summer in sight, we came across 10 releases coming out in August that our editorial team has been looking forward to the most.
Helsinki’s renown metal festival Tuska is back and approaching fast! Let us tell you why you should be there with 7 reasons we’re pretty excited about the event…
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!
From the modern metalcore of Signs of Algorithm to the death metal power of Baest and Vader and the epic doom of Candlemass — relive Day 2 at the Swamp Stage in our latest Alcatraz photo gallery!
Thrash, death, industrial, and classic heavy metal all came together on the opening day of Hellsinki Metal Festival 2025. Check out our photo report featuring Forbidden, Dismember, Fear Factory, and King Diamond! 🔥
Heavy metal legends, groove metal chaos, and theatrical brilliance — relive Day 2 at Alcatraz’s Prison Stage with Myrath, Nailbomb, Doro and Avatar in our latest photo report!
The Swamp Stage offered plenty to discover on Day 1 of Alcatraz. Relive the performances of Room13, Hypocrisy, Absu, and Abbath Doom Occulta in our latest photo report!
Day 1 at Alcatraz started with a bang… Blaze Bayley, SNOT, Wednesday 13, W.A.S.P., Mastodon and Kreator all took over the Prison Stage.
Super Wednesday at STARS IN TOWN rocked Schaffhausen! From local heroes ELLIS MANO BAND to the legendary ALICE COOPER, the night was packed with unforgettable performances. UGLY KID JOE brought ’90s nostalgia with “Everything About You” & “Cat’s In The Cradle,” while ALICE COOPER’s shock rock spectacle—complete with guillotine and powerhouse guitarist Nita Strauss—blew the crowd away. Rain didn’t stop the energy, and the packed Herrenacker square proved once again: this festival is pure magic.
From haunting doom to speed metal fury, La Morgue delivered another memorable weekend at Alcatraz. Relive performances by Frayle, Messa, Knife, and Cult of Scarecrow in our latest photo report! 🔥
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.
Day two of Tuhdimmat Tahdit brought Michael Monroe, Moon Shot, Black Devils, Hardcore Superstar, Turmion Kätilöt, Battle Beast and the legendary Blind Guardian to Tampere’s Eteläpuisto on the second day and was great yet again! We surely will be back at this festival in the future.
We, yet again, had a blast enjoying this year’s edition of Tuhdimmat Tahdit, which brought Finntroll, Kilpi, Mustasch, Timo Rautiainen & Trio Niskalaukaus, Lordi, Amaranthe and HammerFall to Tampere’s Eteläpuisto on the first day!
Would you like to know how Guilty As Charged is doing 4 years after their last album? Find out here in this interview I had with the band.
Would you like to know how Guilty As Charged is doing 4 years after their last album? Find out here in this interview I had with the band.
We talked with the only original Judas Priest member still in the band, Ian Hill, about (of course) music, drinks and food!
We talked with the only original Judas Priest member still in the band, Ian Hill, about (of course) music, drinks and food!
Check out what Johannes Andersson had to say about Tribulation’s new album Down Below here!
Check out what Johannes Andersson had to say about Tribulation’s new album Down Below here!
We interviewed Diablo Blvd. when they arrived in Belgium from 70.000 Tons Of Metal. “We watched the Superbowl with the singer of Cannibal Corpse while a dinosaur was dancing on Justin Timberlake.”
We interviewed Diablo Blvd. when they arrived in Belgium from 70.000 Tons Of Metal. “We watched the Superbowl with the singer of Cannibal Corpse while a dinosaur was dancing on Justin Timberlake.”
It was a great pleasure to sit down with Brittney from Unleash the Archers to tackle questions of education and experience, emancipation and the ultimate point of skiing along a mountain.
Read all about what this fantastic, talented and beautiful lady has to say about her band Liv Sin !!
