Essex punks The Meffs recently revealed their latest single ‘God Complex’, featuring Donots, and another taste of their upcoming album ‘Business’, out in a couple of weeks via FLG!
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A couple of weeks ago, Brazilian punk rocker Karen Dió announced her second EP ‘Fugaz’ to be released in August with Hopeless Records and unleashed the new single ‘Free Yourself’!
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Rising punk group Winona Fighter shared a fan-filmed video for their latest single ‘Bombs Away’, out via Rise Records!
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Japanese punk band Dizzy Sunfist signed to Fat Wreck Chords and shared a new video/song with ‘The Dream Is Not Dead (Fat Wreck Version)’ to celebrate!
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California punk band Ceremony announced their new album ‘Tell Me Your Dream’ to be out in August via Relapse and shared their new single ‘Death Destruction Mayhem’!
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Rising punk group Winona Fighter is back with explosive new single ‘Bombs Away’, out now via Rise Records!
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Belgian punk rockers Caught Up shared the single ‘Daily Grind’ a couple of weeks ago, the first track unveiled of their upcoming EP ‘The End Begins’, out in June with White Russian Records!
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NOFX drops hard-hitting political anthem ‘Minnesota Nazis’ amidst federal ICE raids sweeping the US!
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North American hard rock band Kissing Kaos unveiled their new single ‘Chaos Inside’, a track from their upcoming debut album set for release with Mighty Music!
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Yellowcard have released the new feature version of the track ‘Bedroom Posters’, bringing in Good Charlotte! The original track was featured on their latest album ‘Better Days’, out with Better Noise Music!
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On first Day of Rokki Raikaa Tampere we had a blast with Eläkeläiset, Kotiteollisuus, H.E.A.T, Poets of the Fall, Klamydia, Sonata Arctica, Stratovarius and Amorphis in front of Hakametsä Ice Hall.
Different scenes, one packed venue, and a whole lot of good vibes. Nenerchy celebrated the release of her debut album ‘Bailarina’ with a sold-out party at On The Rocks in Helsinki, joined by Kirkkovene.
We got to see a glimpse of Witch Fever, Bush and Volbeat when they came to Tampere’s Nokia Arena as the stop in Finland of the ‘Greatest Of All Tours’ tour! An event by Live Nation Finland.
On this day, we partied like it was 1994, when punk rock legends The Offspring brought their massive rock ‘n’ roll show to a sold-out Helsinki Ice Hall during their “Supercharged Worldwide European tour” with special guests Simple Plan.
On August 5th, Lokerse Feesten had an interesting line-up with big names on the mainstage, but also some pretty big acts on the much smaller stage in the Club Studio Brussel with Light Of Eternity, Redd Kross, envy and Coilguns!
Rockfest 2025’s final main stage day celebrated attitude and legacy. Demolition 23, The Cult, and Manic Street Preachers shaped Saturday’s atmosphere before the night’s finale.
Indian metal straight from New Delhi, India to Trix Antwerp, Belgium: Bloodywood with their ‘Return of The Singh’ tour! And with support from Calva Louise and Demonic Resurrection it was a great night of amazing vibes and music!
After 40 years of punk, Funeral Dress is saying farewell with a last tour, starting with a high-energy album release show at Trix, Antwerp. With memorable performances by support acts Luna en De Maanstenen and Belgian Asociality, it was quite the night!
The tradition at GrimmGent is for all photographers to set up our personal collection of our favourites. Always an illustrious collection, sometimes with shots that haven’t even been published here. This is my Tom Treuten selection of highlights in 2024.
The second night of this year’s edition of HKI SKEPU FEST in Helsinki was yet another (skate) punk party you shouldn’t have missed with the Danes from Uphill Struggle, the Polish party machine that was CF98 and Finnish acts Lame Duck, Teresa Banks and headliner Against It All!
Festival Reports
Tamperes first edition of Rokki Raikaa started on 24th of July with beautiful weather. We had a rocking party with Eläkeläiset, Kotiteollisuus, H.E.A.T, Poets of the Fall, Klamydia, Sonata Arctica, Stratovarius and last but certainly not least Amorphis!
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On the second day of Graspop 2025, our reporter there enjoyed the shows of Gloryhammers, Falling In Reverse, Me First & The Gimme Gimmes, Skillet and of course metal greats Slipknot bringing their show for the 9th time to the holy grounds of Dessel!
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The first day of Graspop was filled with amazing power metal from Powerwolf, Beast In Black and Warkings, nostalgia with Yellowcard and heavy metal legends with Iron Maiden for our reporter there!
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Report of the 2nd day of Alcatraz 2024 with Ankor, Finntroll, Fleshgod Apocalypse, Spiritbox, Bizkit Park, Lord Of The Lost, Red Fang, Epica, Watain, Heideroosjes and Hatebreed!
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The report of the first day of Alcatraz 2024, filled with a quite heavy serving of hardcore music!
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Somehow this one got stuck in purgatory, but the last and third day of Punk Rock Bowling 2024 was yet another amazing day, with impressive women on stage with Doll Riot, Kate Clover, Vial, Die Spitz, Bratmobile, and Scowl, and good old fun with English Beat, Stiff Little Fingers, Gogol Bordello, and the end of a several decade wait to see Madness live in the US!
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Punk Rock Bowling and Music Festival 2024 was long and hot, but definitely worth it for any punk and hardcover lover with the first day our resident punker catching shows from The Iron Roses, Bad Cop Bad Cop, Teen Mortgage, The Skatalites, 999, Madball, Billy Bragg, Gorilla Biscuits and The Descendants!
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Day 3 of Rebellion Festival 2023 in Blackpool, our resident punk managed to catch shows from Slackrr, Rumkicks, Los Fastidios, TV Smith & Friends, The Chisel, The Meteors and Millie Sanders & The Shutup, making it yet another exciting day of good music!
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The 3rd day of Graspop Metal Meeting 2023 brought a lot of firsts for our team member there, seeing shows of Architects, Rancid and Pantera, but also some of her favorites like Halestorm, In Flames and of course, the band that is very near and dear to her heart: Parkway Drive!
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The second day of Rebellion Festival 2023 was filled with surprises and nostalgia with bands like The Zips, Red London, Turtles JR, Spizz Energi, Bar Stool Preachers and last but not least, the two-tone legend Neville Staples from The Specials to get everyone skanking.
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Belgium may be small, but when it comes to summer festivals, it punches well above its weight. From heavy and alt fests Graspop and Alcatraz to the more commercial Pukkelpop and Rock Werchter, the concert series of Lokerse Feesten and Live Is Live to the small and cosy Rock Zottegem and Parkpop Oostkamp, we’ve selected eight Belgian summer events that are reason enough to visit our home country in 2026. Which one is already on your calendar?
Who says festival season ends with summer? In Finland, the dark months come alive with music: experience the true punk spirit at HKI SKEPU FEST (starting tonight), get in touch with your ancestors and nature at Pakanafestarit, discover new talent at Lost In Music, embrace the shadows at Hellsinki Industrial Festival, sail into chaos with the Hellsinki Metal Cruise, sink into sorrow at Melancholy Mass Festivals, and feel the fire indoors at John Smith Rock Frozen. When the nights are long, Finland turns the volume up.
In 10 days, Kortrijk in Belgium, will turn the heavy up again with Hell’s Balls Belgium, just like they do every summer with Alcatraz festival. In case you weren’t sure yet why you should go, here are what we think are valid reasons for you to be there…
What are you the most excited about of this year’s editions of the festival? Let us know in the comments!
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, starting with Cult of Darkness today, Helsinki Techfest, and HKI SKEPU FEST VI this month still, Pakanafesterit in October, Hellsinki Industrial Festival and Melancholy Mass Festivals in November, and John Smith Rock Frozen in December! And for the beer and music lovers, several Masis Beer & Metal events spread over the next couple of months all over Finland! Go get your tickets now!
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?
Gary’s albums of the year venture away from our more standard metal selection with a bunch of stellar punk releases from bands like The Bar Stool Preachers, Grade 2, The Darts, The Dollyrots, Rumkicks and Rancid, but also sidesteps into other music like the special brand of rock that Public Image Ltd. brings, blues rock with Samantha Fish and Jesse Dayton, an acoustic Dropkick Murphys and a trip back into time, reminiscing about London’s legendary Batcave Club!
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!
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!
2023 starts off with quite the bang with new releases from VV, Anti-Flag, Imperium Dekadenz, Turmion Kätilöt, Katatonia, Kiberspassk, …and Oceans, Obituary, Suasion, Dropout Kings and Vėlių Namai!
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