Sweden’s Bewitched is back. This Friday, they are unleashing their comeback full-length album ‘Diabolical Death Mass’ with Osmose Productions, the first new release in 2 decades!
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Soulfly unleashed a gritty animated visual for ‘Favela/Dystopia’, one of the tracks of their latest album ‘Chama’, out with Nuclear Blast Records!
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Thrash metalheads Belushi Speed Ball revealed their new single ‘How Tough Am I?’ with a video featuring the Toxic Avenger himself with Lloyd Kaufman! A second track unveiled of their upcoming new album ‘Toxic Waste Was Everywhere In The ’80s’, set for release in June!
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Canadian speed/thrash trio Warsenal unleashed their new album ‘Endless Beginnings’ via Massacre Records yesterday and are about to start their Europe tour next week, including a stop at our very own Asgaard Gentbrugge! You won’t want to miss this!
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Nervosa releases their menacing new single ‘Impending Doom’ in anticipation of tomorrow’s official release of their latest album ‘Slave Machine’, out via Napalm Records!
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Old school thrashers Taskforce Toxicator released their new single ‘Die Alone’, a taste of what’s to come…
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Belgian thrashers Toxic Shock share new single ‘Creeping Reaper’, the second track unleashed in anticipation of their new album ‘Future Is Calling’, out next week Friday April 3rd with This Charming Man!
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Belgian thrash metal band Sanity’s Rage releases a new video for the track ‘Reeducate The Masses’ shedding a light on the current state of the world, and a track from their latest album ‘The Dead Don’t Run’!
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The Troops Of Doom are celebrating 6 years of existence by unleashing their take on the Kiss classic ‘God Of Thunder’, featuring several guest musicians like Chuck Billy, Andria Busic, PJ and Martin Furia!
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Swedish metal band Eradikated released their new single ‘Precipice’ with a heavy groove and a brutal portrayal of the abyss of war… another track from their upcoming album ‘Wiring of Violence’, set to be out in May via Indie Recordings!
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Previews
This year’s Tuska will be one to remember since they’re gearing up to celebrate their 20th anniversary with a bang! Go see what is happening…
Durbuy Rock Festival brings us a great mix of genres at its 21st edition!
The fourth edition of our partner festival Black-Out Bash: Evile, Gama Bomb, Spoil Engine, The Black Tartan Clan, Malism, Hope Erodes and DJ Mein Herz Bernd!
Hardcore or metal of a high quality? Evil or Die Fest offers you both on this year’s edition!
Olenfest brings a mix of heavy metal, rock and punk greats and upcoming bands!
A small but upcoming festival in France with a huge diversity of bands!
It’s the time of the year again for Dinkelsbühl to go metal, already for the 19th time. Summer Breeze has grown to be one of the leading metal festivals in Germany […]
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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?
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!
Steelfest manages to impress with their line-up and organization every single year, and this year is no different, even after some recent setbacks! We’re amazed with the line-up that celebrates everything that is underground and extreme yet again, and that’s only a part of the reasons why you should still try to make it to the fest this weekend!
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!
with a killer line-up featuring stellar acts from the underground with Satanic Warmaster, Ævangelist, Archgoat, Trollheims Grott, Heretic, Blood Chalice, Aesthus, Flame, Malicious, Medico Peste, Mörk Gryning and Avslut to celebrate their 10th anniversary!
Our editor-in-chief Vaim’s selection of albums of the year has turned into an eclectic mix that brings both unbridled chaos and extremes while maintaining a level of catchy with releases from bands like Blackbraid, Cabal, Zeal & Ardor, Machine Head, Wolfheart, Wiegedood, Doodseskader, Malevolence, Psychonaut and The Callous Daoboys!
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!
As usual, Mazen’s top albums are a mix of death metal, black metal and a touch of doom metal, heralding everything that is underground and extreme with bands like Phobophilic, Autopsy, Stormruler, Watain, Shape of Despair, Ars Hmu, Sedimentum, Chaotian, Trolldom and Immolation!
Steelchaos is back! If that is not reason enough to get yourself a ticket still, here are 5 reasons why you should still consider to go this weekend, including the exclusive Finland “Black Metal” 40 years anniversary show of Venom Inc.!
Photo Reports
Day 1 of Brutal Assault 2025 set the tone right away with a good mix of legends and crushing heaviness. From the epic Viking soundscapes of Skálmöld to the industrial grooves of Static-X, the unrelenting brutality of Dying Fetus, the thrash assault of Kerry King, and the dark rituals of Rotting Christ, the Marshall and Sea Shepherd stages started off the festival properly.
Thrash, death, industrial, and classic heavy metal all came together on the opening day of Hellsinki Metal Festival 2025. Check out our photo report featuring Forbidden, Dismember, Fear Factory, and King Diamond! 🔥
Day 1 at Alcatraz started with a bang… Blaze Bayley, SNOT, Wednesday 13, W.A.S.P., Mastodon and Kreator all took over the Prison Stage.
From haunting doom to speed metal fury, La Morgue delivered another memorable weekend at Alcatraz. Relive performances by Frayle, Messa, Knife, and Cult of Scarecrow in our latest photo report! 🔥
Moon Shot, RØRY, and Stam1na took over Rockfest’s Red Stage and Black Stage with unforgettable performances, and we captured it all.
Last month, both of our home countries met at a great event with some of the top of the underground metal scene like Unhoped, Rapid, Galvanizer and the very first appearance in Finland of the Belgian speed metallers of Bütcher!
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.
Lithuanian thrash metal force Phrenetix were on tour in Europe and stopped at our very own venue Asgaard in Gentbrugge to throw a hell of a party with the help of Nuclear Warfare and Steamroller!
This year, all Thrash Metal fans in Europe received a special treat, an early Christmas present: KREATOR & ANTHRAX feat. TESTAMENT. All three bands were in a class of their own that evening – there was no support, only headliners. This evening will be remembered by all thrashers for a long time.
40 years – what an anniversary for the Brazilian metal icons SEPULTURA. At the same time, it’s a ’40 Years Farewell Tour – Celebrating Life Through Death’. With 15 albums to their name, puts on a great show, supported by JESUS PIECE, OBITUARY and JINJER. What a goodbye for a legendary band, MHP Arena in Ludwigsburg, Germany literally boiled over!
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