Danish melodic doom outift Sonic Moon announce their new album ‘In Lack Of Clarity’ to be out in November with Ripple Music and share the new single ‘Weightlessness’!
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Floor Jansen announced the release of her second solo album ‘Hytress’ early 2027 and unveiled a second single and video with ‘Bring Me Silence’!
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Greek dark atmospheric metal outfit Elysion unveiled ‘Phoenix’, the second single from their upcoming album ‘Identity’, out in October via Massacre Records!
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Swedish melodic metal force Metalite shared their latest new single ‘Echoes Of You’ from their upcoming album ‘Discovery’, set for release in September with Perception!
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Finnish melancholic metal outfit Segmentia’s new single ‘Nuclear Sun’ pays homage to the power metal era of the 2000s, out now everywhere!
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Finnish heavy metal band Crimson Day released an official lyric video for ‘Dark Dimension’, the title track from their latest album out now via Wormholedeath!
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Floor Jansen shared her new single ‘Run’, the first solo material in 3 years, out now everywhere! Catch her live at festivals this summer like John Smith Rock, Wacken and M’era Luna!
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Finnish melodic metal powerhouse Arion released their new single ‘Into The Fire’ last month with Reigning Phoenix Music in anticipatoin of their next album!
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Finnish modern melodic metal outfit Unén released their fiery new single and video ‘Dancing in Flames’, a taste of what is to come!
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Swedish melodic metal force Metalite shared the single ‘In Case Of Emergency’, the latest track shared from their upcoming album ‘Discovery’, set for release in September via Perception – A Division Of Reigning Phoenix Music!
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In the first part of our annual Support Your Locals at Alcatraz series, we take a closer look at Thursday’s Belgian bands, from legends like Channel Zero, Cyclone and Enthroned to exciting names such as Aeveris and Death Fury. Which Belgian act are you looking forward to seeing most?
With about a week to go, we put together 10 reasons why we think you should consider to still get yourself a ticket for Alcatraz 2024 and join in with the fun! With a stellar line-up, including some of the best the Belgian scene has to offer and a great organization trying to improve your festival experience year after year, it’s promising to be one hell of a weekend again!
With Glenn’s selection of his albums of the year, there is a bunch of metalcore, deathcore, djent and some surprising entries with Thy Art Is Murder, Avenged Sevenfold, Within Temptation, Tesseract, Avatar, In Flames, Sleep Token, Periphery, Invent Animate, and Chelsea Grin!
For the second day of Alcatraz 2023, our team picked out 13 bands we believe you shouldn’t miss out on with Schizophrenia, Crystal Viper, Brand of Sacrifice, Twilight Force, Gaerea, Predatory Void, Midnight, Tribulation, Belphegor, Biohazard, Godflesh, Exciter and Amorphis! Who are you especially looking forward to on the second day of the festival?
With less than 2 weeks to go, we put together 10 reasons why we think you should consider to still get yourself a ticket for Alcatraz 2023 and join in with the fun!
As the festival summer is quickly approaching, May sees many great releases yet again. Our team of writers put together a nice selection of those they are looking forward to the most this month with Deathstars, Cattle Decapitation, Veil Of Maya, The Dark Side Of The Moon, Ghost, Thulcandra, Frozen Soul, Sleep Token, Henget, Vomitory, Immortal, Kalmah and Legion Of The Damned!
A small grab of what we are looking forward to the most of the many exceptional releases coming our way during May 2022!
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!
Noble Demon is a new label that started in 2020 and is quickly on the rise to be one of the more prominent and big players in the scene!
Photo Reports
Day 2 at Ankea brought plenty of atmosphere and progressive sounds to the Ankea Stage. Check out our latest photo report featuring Rioghan, Ihlo, Green Carnation, Textures and Katatonia! 📸🤘
We almost forgot to post this one… as we do every year, we ask our photographers to pick their best and most favorite captures of the past year, and 2025 brought acts like Borknagar, Doro, Machine Head, Ne Obliviscaris, Room 13, Vola, Infected Rain, Luna Kills, Kickin Valentina, Art Nation, SatchVai Band, Arkona, Kreator, Cro-Mags, Bury Tomorrow, Electric Callboy, BTL and Ankor in front of Tom V.M.’s camera!
A powerful night of symphonic metal as Leaves’ Eyes and Catalyst Crime lit up DVG Club Kortrijk, Belgium a couple of weeks ago!
The Epica and Amaranthe co-headlining tour: “Arcane Dimensions” featuring special guest Charlotte Wessels dropped by at Vorst Nationaal in Belgium and we were there!
Bloodred Hourglass are currently on their “We Should Be Buried Like This” tour around Finland and came to Tampere’s Tavara-Asema on November 13, where they together with Luna Kills and Shereign delivered a sweaty hot show.
Dark, heavy, and intimate. Lacuna Coil at Tavara-asema in Tampere, with Nonpoint as special guests on the “Sleepless Empire EU/UK Tour”. An event by TuskaLive.
From melodic to feral, the “European Blood Dynasty Tour” rolled through Helsinki. Arch Enemy with Amorphis, Eluveitie and Gatecreeper at Jäähalli.
Last Friday, Stratovarius and Sonata Arctica came to Tampere’s fully packed Tavara-Asema for their “Nordic Power Titans tour 2025”. In addition, they also brought along Arion to warm up the room for them. While the sound wasn’t always quite on point, that didn’t stop the evening from being a great amount of fun. An event by Grey Beard Concerts & Management.
Eluveitie started 2025 with the first leg in Europe of their “ÀNV Rising” tour, with support from Infected Rain and Ad Infinitum, and we saw it was good at one of the first stops at Kulttuuritalo Helsinki back in January! An event by TuskaLive.
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!
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