Swedish melodic death metal act Frantic Amber revealed the first details on their upcoming new album ‘Death Becomes Her’, set for release in April via ROAR, and unleashed a first brutal track with the single ‘Jolly Jane’!

The thrashers of Game Over announced their new album ‘Face The End’ to be released on April 25 through Scarlet Records!

Catch them live with their new music at Tolminator this summer!

Finnish metal unit I Am Your God released their new single and music video ‘Death Row’ via Out Of Line Music and announced their upcoming new album ‘Δ’ with pre-orders starting this coming Monday!

Progressive death metal progenitors Rivers Of Nihil are releasing their self-titled 5th full-length album via Metal Blade Records in May and shared the new single ‘House of Light’! Catch them on “The Aggressive Progressive Tour” in Europe next month, and North America in May and June!

Finnish black/thrash metal institution Urn is set to release their new album ‘Demon Steel’ via Osmose Productions at the end of March and are revealing a first track in the beginning of next month!

Spanish death metal veterans Avulsed have dropped their latest single ‘Blood Monolith’, another track from their upcoming album ‘Phoenix Cryptobiosis’, set for release next month via Xtreem Music!

Catch them live this summer at one of our favorite European festivals: Alcatraz!

Belgian melodic death metal outfit Ethereal Darkness returned with ‘On The Edge of the Cliff’, their most intense single yet, and a second taste of their upcoming ‘Echoes’ album!

French phenomenon Igorrr just announced a European tour for October this year with support from Master Boot Records and openers Imperial Triumphant! Don’t miss out on this musical spectacle!

Luna Kills

In Tom VM’s favorite pictures of the year shows off his captures of bands like Amorphis, Beyond the Black, Bury Tomorrow, Dimmu Borgir, Infected Rain, Lost Society, Opeth, Tarot, Vola, Zeal and Ardor, Amaranthe, Ankor, Beast in Black, Charlotte Wessels, Dark Tranquillity, Dear Mother, Draconian, Dragonforce, Epica, Europe, Feuerschwanz, Gene Simmons Band, Jinjer, Marco Mendoza, Moonspell, Saxon, Testament, Vandenberg and Luna Kills, of which some pictures have never before seen on our site!

On ‘Cult of the Serpent Sun’, NITE guards the altar of blackened heavy metal with sharpened blades and axes raised, out in March via Season of Mist, get to listen to the title track already right now!