Hellsinki Metal Festival is becoming a permanent fixture in the Finnish summer festival landscape, and after 2 successful editions, the organisation decided they didn’t want to wait for another year. In comes a smaller winter edition of the main event about halfway December 2024, bringing amazing extreme metal bands together like Omnivortex, Batushka, Belphegor and headliners Dark Funeral!
Dutch metal act Degenerate unveiled their new single ‘Servitor’ with a video, the first single from their upcoming album and a killer metal track blending thrash and melodic metal influences!
This year’s “Motocultor across Europe Tour” kickoff show was at Poppodium 013 in Tilburg, The Netherlands, headlined by Moldovan favorite Infected Rain and support acts Semblant, Elyose, Miruthan, and Skin On Flesh!
Danish death metal/metallic hardcore outfit Lifesick is kicking off the year with a new video for ‘Peace Through Superior Firepower’, a track from their last year released album ‘Loved By None, Hated By All’ out via Metal Blade Records!
Folk metal institution Eluveitie announce their new album ‘ÀNV’ to be released in April via Nuclear Blast, and share 2nd single ‘The Prodigal Ones’! Catch them on tour in Europe with Infected Rain and Ad Infinitum starting this week and later this year as support for the Arch Enemy “European Blood Dynasty 2025 tour”!
Finnish melodic death metal outfit Horizon Ignited release yet another single with ‘Ashes’, adding another layer of intensity by bringing in Jaakko Mäntymaa from Marianas Rest on guest vocals! Their new album ‘Tides’ is set for release next month via Reaper Entertainment, catch them after on their mini release tour in Finland or in summer at festivals like Tuska!
Dutch metal/hardcore veterans Zubzero are ready for the world to get to know them, and unleash the single ‘The Essence Of Our Existence’, a track from their upcoming EP ‘Perverserverance’!
Finnish melodic death metal band Defiled Serenity released a stunning take on Rihanna’s track ‘Unfaithful’, featuring Karisma on guest vocals and another song from the upcoming debut album ‘Within the Slumber of the Mind’, set for release next month via Inverse Records!
Swedish death metal stalwarts Imperishable announced the release of their second album ‘Swallow the World’ via Hammerheart Records in April and unleashed the first single and video ‘Bells’!
Australia’s rising force Valhalore is right now touring with Hammerfall in their own country, and shared the music video and track ‘Horizon’, the first new track since their recent signing with ROAR!
