We’re still buzzing about last weekend’s festivities at Alcatraz Festival, but no rest for the wicked with already a first 30 names confirmed for next year’s edition and early bird sales on the way since yesterday! Who are you looking for or hoping for still for the 2027 edition? Let us know in the comments!
Progressive dark metal collective The Eternal unveiled the captivating music video for their latest single ‘Colours Fade’, another taste of their upcoming album ‘Obscured Horizons’, out in September with Reigning Phoenix Music!
Green Carnation release new single ‘The Messiah Complex’, the title track of the upcoming last chapter of their A Dark Poem trilogy, out in Sepember via Season of Mist!
International prog metal supergroup Temic announced their second album ‘Ceiba’ to be out in October via Season of Mist and shared the lead single ‘Ceased to Be’ with a captivating video!
Broken By The Scream recently shared new single ‘花鏑[HANAKABURA]’, the first on their new label Metal Blade Records and just when they were about to head on their European tour that started last Wednesday in Finland and with a main stage spot at Wacken yesterday!
French progressive visionaries Hypno5e announced their new album ‘Trame Noire’ to be out in November via Pelagic Records and shared a first single and video with ‘Lost Fires’!
Kim Dracula introduces the next chapter. New song with ‘Molecular Conversion’, new label with Rise Records, new story!
Lithuanian up-and-coming metal outfit Black Spikes unleashed fourth single ‘ZELVAR’ in anticipation of next month’s release of their new album ‘Ydos’ with Napalm Records!
Finnish prog metallers Oddland unveil their new single ‘Unilluminate’ from upcoming new album ‘Unilluminate To Illuminate’, set for release in August via Frontiers Music!
Mastodon announced their long-awaited new album ‘Marrow Deep’ to be released in August with Loma Vista Recordings and shared the new single ‘Snakes For Dinner’ featuring Josh Homme!
We have a chat with Patrick Walch, the man behind the successful and interesting new label Noble Demon! Check out what he has to say!
An old chat with Olly and Mike from Monuments we dug up from our archives because it was just too much fun to keep it from you!
A chat with the Finnish progressive outfit Wheel about their upcoming sophomore full-length ‘Resident Human’!
A chat with Evergrey’s main man Tom Englund about their latest release ‘Escape Of The Phoenix’!
The video of the talk we had with Wheel about their quick rise in 2019, some of their highlights of the year and what they think of the new Tool album…
We talked with drummer Martin Lopez from Soen about the new album “Lotus” and more!
We talked with drummer Martin Lopez from Soen about the new album “Lotus” and more!
From viral concept to international festival act — Dark Vader explains how Galactic Empire balances absurdity, musicianship, and fandom while bringing John Williams’ legendary compositions to metal stages worldwide.
Because these belgian progressive metallers released a brand new album we thought it would be great to ask them some questions about it. check it out.
Check out what Johannes Andersson had to say about Tribulation’s new album Down Below here!
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!
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?
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!
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!
The summer festival season is over, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t plenty of exciting fests happening over the next couple of months this autumn/winter in Finland with Helsinki Techfest and Kaamos Metal Cruise already this weekend, HKI SKEPU FEST V, Lost In Music, Steelchaos, Hellsinki Industrial Festival 2023, Fall Fest 2023, Black Box Mikkeli, Melancholy Mass Festival 2023 and Unholy Winter Fest!
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!
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!
Another week with amazing releases, check out the 13 singles that caught our attention with Rue Vox, Enter Shikari, …And Oceans, Aphyxion, Dirty Shirt, For I Am King, Hoaxed, Seas On The Moon, Stake, Suicide Silence, VV, Demeted and Tallah!
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!
