Finnish metal outfit Whispered is releasing their long-awaited new album ‘Honorbound’ in September and recently shared their latest single ‘Battlecry’!
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Frozen Crown delve into Tolkien’s world with new single and video ‘The One’, a first track shared of their upcoming album ‘The Legend of the Six Kings’, set for release in October via Napalm Records!
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Beast In Black has officially welcomed Finnish guitarist Markus Venehsalo into the band’s ranks and thank Daniel Freyberg for helping them out! Markus will make his live debut next week at a festival in Germany!
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Symphonic power metal powerhouse Valkyrie’s Fire unleashed their epic new single ‘Burning Sky’ featuring Amaranthe’s Mikael Sehlin, a taste of their upcoming album ‘Our of Darkness’, set for release in September via Eclipse Records!
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Symphonic metal outfit Abstracted Mind presents their new single and video ‘Rise Again’, a fragile and melancholic song coming with a matching captivating video!
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Rising modern metal stars Dominum shared their new single ‘Dark Melodies’, another track from their upcoming album ‘Night is Calling’, out next month via Napalm Records!
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Italian power metal outfit Frozen Crown announced their new album ‘The Legend of the Six Kings’ to be out in October via Napalm Records!
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Power metal warriors Warkings just recently celebrated their energetic shows with their take on the Opus hit song ‘Live is Life’, just ahead of a summer taking them to festivals all over Europe, including Alcatraz!
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Moonlight Haze released a video for the track ‘Interstellar Madness’, in anticipation for this Friday’s release of their new EP of the same name with Scarlet Records!
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Japanese power metal quintet Lovebites unleashed a video for the track ‘Reaper’s Lullaby’, out with their new label Napalm Records!
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Album Reviews
Nanowar of Steel’s triple album release ‘XX Years of Steel’ really capture all that is this band. Both live CDs show the passion that was there during this concert. The devotion from the band to their music and the fans, but also from the fans to the band. They captured their live sound very nicely, which isn’t always the case with live CDs. And the third album with studio recorded songs adds some more great tracks to their catalogue! Released last year via Napalm Records.
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Avantasia gives us once again a pearl of an album full of magical stories and adventures. ‘Here Be Dragons’ is out now via Napalm Records! We can’t wait to experience the epicness on the upcoming tour!
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4 years in the making and it was worth the wait. Ensiferum does a throw to album of the year where epic, gloomy, atmospheric, and melodic are some of the words to describe this journey that is ‘Winter Storm’, out via Metal Blade Records on October 18!
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The new album “Wake Up the Wicked” from the German power metal act Powerwolf brings the band again to highlight each track stuffed with heavy rocking anthems and a bold twist of power metal style. Out via Napalm Records!
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Orden Ogans new, slightly harder, album ‘The Order Of Fear’, which has been released on July 5th via Reigning Phoenix Music, hasn’t gotten any big highlights, but it’s on a nice even high level. Everything works just perfect together. Catch their show on the Prison Stage of Alcatraz Festival this Friday!
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As to be expected of a new Dragonforce album, ‘Warp Speed Warriors’ is fun and fast! The typical elements they are known for are present, but at the same time they infused it with a bunch of new things, making this album really exciting! Out via Napalm Records!
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With ‘Clear Cold Beyond’ Sonata Arctica are re-visiting their faster and heavier roots and will delight older fans, while possibly surprising some of their more new fans. Out via Atomic Fire Records (Reigning Phoenix Music) since last Friday!
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‘A Heartless Portrait (The Orphean Testament)’ proves that even after 25 years of existence, Evergrey still has the ability to impress.
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Get ready to go on a magical journey with Power Paladin’s debut album!
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Crusade of Bards create this mix of power metal, symphonic metal, folk touches, and even gothic and pagan touches. It’s all there, and it all blends in beautifully together.
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For the first day of Alcatraz 2024, our team picked out 10 bands we believe you shouldn’t miss out on with Dyscordia, Dudsekop, Mantah, Feuerschwanz, Beast In Black, Cro-Mags, Hippotraktor, Uada, Paradise Lost and Amon Amarth! What bands are you really looking forward to for this Friday at Alcatraz? Let us know in the comments!
The second edition of Hellsinki Metal promises to be again absolutely great! Just in case you weren’t convinced enough yet, here are our reasons why we believe you should get a ticket still for the 2024 edition if you haven’t yet! With a massive line-up, added features and an overall excellent festival experience promised, you won’t want to sit this one out!
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!
Tomorrow it’s again that time of the year: Tuska weekend is upon us! If somehow you weren’t convinced yet that you need to go, here are 10 reasons we believe should be enough motivation to still get a ticket if any are available still! Going from a great line-up, to Tuska KVLT, Tuska Expo expanding further and simply an amazing atmosphere! See you there!
We enjoyed ourselves plenty at Tuhdimmat Tahdit, so we urge you to check out what we think are good reasons for you to try and make it to this lovely festival in Finland’s prettiest city of Tampere!
After the team sent in their top lists at the end of last year, and calculating the results, we got to an interesting “albums of the year 2023” list featuring releases from Marduk, Kludde, Blink-182, Blackbraid, Orbit Culture, Gloryhammer, Ne Obliviscaris, Hypno5e, Periphery, Dying Fetus, Obituary, Avatar, Svalbard, VV and Sleep Token! Do you agree with any of these? What did you have in your top list?
Xavier apparently spent more time catching up with what he missed in 2022, than discovering new releases in a year that he seemed somewhat disappointed about what was coming out. He still picked out a handful of releases that stuck out for him with Nytt Land, Avatar, Gloryhammer, Kludde and Dymna Lotva!
While we are still regularly looking back at what 2023 brought us, we of course also need to look forward. So here is the first edition of our 2024 series of articles where we bring the editorial team’s most anticipated releases with Escuela Grind, Green Day, The Empire Strikes, Saxon, Frank Carter & the Rattlesnakes, Static-X, The Gems, Lucifer, Manticora and Hiraes in January!
Annet’s favorite albums of the year 2023 involve a mix of punk rock and modern metal, bringing in loads of emotions going from deep and intense, to fun and light with albums from Green Day, Enter Shikari, Hexa Mera, Chris Maragoth, Powerwolf, Nanowar of Steel, Angus McSix, Blink-182, Gloryhammer and Bury Tomorrow!
For the third and last day of Alcatraz 2023, our team picked out 10 more bands we believe you shouldn’t miss out on with Serpents Oath, Archspire, Psychonaut, Mantah, Gaupa, Stake, Blind Guardian, Brutus, Killswitch Engage, and Holy Moses! Who are you especially looking forward to on the second day of the festival?
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