Extreme metal powerhouse Escuela Grind is gearing up to unleash their new album ‘Dreams on Algorithms’ via MNRK Heavy in October and shared a second single and music video a couple of weeks ago with ‘Concept Of God’!

Finnish extreme metal outfit Where’s My Bible is set to release their second full-length ‘KAVE’ in a couple of weeks via Inverse Records and shared the last single and stunning music video ‘Rahko’ a while ago!

Swiss avant-garde experimentalist outfit Schammasch announced their next album ‘The Maldoror Chants: Old Ocean’ to be released in October via Prosthetic Records and shared haunting lead single ‘They Have Found Their Master’, featuring additional vocals by Kathrine Shepard from Sylvaine!

Last year, at Steelfest we were blown away by the performance of Columbian power-trio Witchtrap. We loved the old school blackened thrash and speed metal, and now we get to look forward to more of it through their upcoming album ‘Hungry as the Beast’, set for release at the end of September via Hells Headbangers Records!

A couple of weeks ago, the shoegaze and grunge pop act chokecherry shared a video for the single ‘No Other Place’, bringing a certain 90s nostalgia into our lives. Out with Fearless Records!

Finnish black metal icons Barathrum have set the release date for their 10th full-length ‘Überkill’ on October 11 via Hammer of Hate, and unleashed the title track as a teaser!

While the summer is about to be wrapping up, we can already look ahead towards the summer of 2025, especially after Tuska just announced the first 16 confirmed acts for next year’s edition with Electric Callboy, Powerwolf, Nothing More, Orbit Culture, Kim Dracula, Korpiklaani, Marko Hietala, Tarja, Charlotte Wessels, thrown, Eihwar, Timo Rautiainen & Trio Niskalaukaus, Blood Command, Arion and Tyrantti and the first announced headliner with Lorna Shore!

What do you think? What bands are you still hoping for?

Belgian death metal revelation Mordkaul crushed it again at Alcatraz a couple of weeks ago, and around that same time they unleashed another video single with ‘Shadowlord’, featuring James McIlroy formerly of Cradle of Filth, a track from their highly anticipated album ‘Feeding The Machine’, out in a couple of weeks via Massacre Records!

The highly anticipated second album of Finnish black metal outfit The Mist From The Mountains is set for release in October via Primitive Reaction. And with ‘The Seer of Ages’, a first track from ‘Portal – The Gathering of Storms’ is already available right now!

After blowing us away with their show at Tuska earlier this summer, we can’t help but be really excited about the news that Make Them Suffer is releasing a new self-titled album via Greyscale Records and SharpTone Records later this year still! They announced it a couple of weeks ago and with the announcement came the new single ‘Oscillator’, which has been played quite a few times here, what a banger!