Gus G. shares his new single ‘Nothing Can Break Me’ featuring Metal Queen Doro Pesch and another track from his upcoming solo album ‘Steel Burner’, set for release in April!
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Sabaton released their battle-ready new single ‘Yamato’, out now with Better Noise Music and joining forces with multiplayer game World of Warships!
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German metal band Schattenmann have released their new studio album Endgegner via Perception. Alongside the album, the group launched a music video for “Wir sind das Ende der Welt” and started their release tour across Germany and Austria!
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US heavy metal psych force Book of Wyrms signed with Argonauta Records for the release of their upcoming album ‘Megacelestial’!
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Finnish modern heavy metal force Crimson Day signed to Wormholedeath for the release of their highly anticipated new album ‘Dark Dimension’!
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Legendary metal band Venom just announced their new album ‘Into Oblivion’ to be out in May with Noise Records/BMG and unvelied a first single with ‘Lay Down Your Soul’!
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Meet The Ghoulstars! Finnish horror punks signed with Season of Mist to start invading the land of the living beyond their own swamps and bogs!
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Following the release of ‘Cult of the Serpent Sun’ with Season of Mist last year, San Francisco blackened heavy metal force NITE are bringing their metal attack to the European shores with a tour in April!
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Last week, the Tuska 2026 line-up was completed with the last 3 confirmed bands: Japanese heavy metal icons Loudness, Finnish melodeath heroes Warmen and Leeds alternative rock/metal outfit Caskets!
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Finnish festival Tuhdimmat Tahdit recently announced some more names for their 2026 line-up with HOKKA, Stam1na and Danko Jones joining an already diverse and exciting roster!
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THUNDERMOTHER’s ‘Dirty & Divine Tour 2025’ brought together an almost 100% female rock night. Together with COBRA SPELL and VULVARINE a great night of classic heavy and hard rock is traveling around Europe and we got to see them in Stuttgart on the first leg of the tour. The tour will go on with the second leg, kicking off on 21 March 2025. Get your tix soon, it might sell out fast.
Unleash the Archers on tour in Europe with their latest album ‘Phantoma’, released last year with Napalm Records, dropped by in Kortrijk, Belgium to deliver an excellent power/heavy metal night supported by Striker and Seven Kingdoms!
Marko Hietala had a special Valentine’s gift for us when he played a sold out show at Olympia-kortteli in Tampere. The show also included appearances from Noora Louhimo and JP Leppäluoto as guest vocals on some of his songs. Thanks Master Events for the access. Always a pleasure to see in a live setting, we’re all too happy to welcome him again on the Tuska stage this summer!
Trivium and Bullet for My Valentine celebrated their breakthrough albums on “The Poisoned Ascendancy Tour” throughout Europe, supported by rising stars Orbit Culture! Those who didn’t go to any stop of this tour really missed out on something! Thanks to FKP Scorpio Belgium for the access!
Eluveitie, Infected Rain and Ad Infinitum came to Tampere’s Tavara-Asema as part of their ‘Ánv Rising Tour pt I’ at the end of January, bringing their great music to one of Finland’s most beautiful cities. An event by TuskaLive.
20 years of HÄMATOM and an anniversary album are good reasons for the band to go on a ’20 Jahre Für Euch’ tour through Germany and celebrate German metal. With them as support are the Berlin rockers from ENGST, who impressed with their mix of rock, punk, and a pinch of pop. The openers in Stuttgart were the punk rockers from FOCUS.
This year’s “Motocultor across Europe Tour” kickoff show was at Poppodium 013 in Tilburg, The Netherlands, headlined by Moldovan favorite Infected Rain and support acts Semblant, Elyose, Miruthan, and Skin On Flesh!
Every year we like to look back at the amazing shows we captured, and in 2024 Anna/ScarletMemory Photography covered bands like Vola, Apulanta, Marko Hietala, Cyan Kicks, Stam1na, Kotiteollisuus, Blind Channel, Cyhra, Sigh, Everwave, Sonata Arctica, Neonfly, Altamullan Road, Avatar, Raskasta Joulua, Beatrix, Battle Beast, Steve ‘n’ Seagulls, Áilu Valle, Amoc and Trio Boogiemen mostly in Tampere, Finland!
Pictures of the “Rise from the North” tour striking down in Helsinki, Finland with In Flames, Arch Enemy and Soilwork bringing some of the best the world of melodic death metal has to offer!
Kamelot’s “Awaken the World Tour 2024” stopped by the Trix venue in Antwerp, Belgium. And together with supporting acts Frozen Crown, Blackbriar and Ad Infinitum, they made the event a complete package of symphonic and power metal brilliance!
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12 more releases of March 2021 we have been looking forward to for a while! Check it out!
Our 9 most anticipated releases of the first half of the month March of 2021… get ready for some real good music coming your way!
2021 promises to be quite the year again for new music releases! With our team we decided on some of the releases we’re looking forward to the most!
Maxen delivers us the best of the extreme side of metal year after year and with his albums of the year 2020 it’s no different!
Mazen lists up his favorite releases of 2019 in the black, death and heavy metal scene, check out what he thinks are interesting releases to check out!
Again, 2019 was an incredible year for music. Check out what we think were the albums of the year!
2018 was a big year for metal and especially for extreme metal, check out Maxen’s list of the best what 2018 had to bring in his opinion!
Heavy metal, doom and a touch of power in Wouter’s albums of the year 2018 list!
End of the year means albums of the year lists, so here is the one we accumulated from what our editorial team likes!
A list of the top albums of 2018, dominated by tech death releases!
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