Metal icons Machine Head have just announced their new album ‘UNATØNED’ to be out in April via Nuclear Blast Records and unveiled first single and video ‘UNBØUND’! We can’t wait to seeing them headlining Alcatraz this summer, it’ll be a blast!

Occult heavy metallers Saturday Night Satan have released their own blistering take on the heavy metal classic ‘Am I Evil’ from Diamond Head!

Environmental metal project Savage Lands shared the new track ‘Ruling Queen’, featuring Arch Enemy’s Alissa White-Gluz and Obituary’s Kenneth Andrews, in anticipation of the release of debut album ‘Army of the Trees’ soon via Season of Mist!

Marko Hietala’s new album ‘Roses from the Deep’ released through Nuclear Blast showcases the amazing skill and the variety that these guys are capable of. From the lyrics and the instrumentation to the mix, everything on this album has been executed masterfully. Catch Marko on his small Finnish release tour starting next week, and this summer at festivals like Tuska!

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!

20 years of HÄMATOM and an anniversary album are good reasons for the band to go on a ’20 Jahre Für Euch’ tour through Germany and celebrate German metal. With them as support are the Berlin rockers from ENGST, who impressed with their mix of rock, punk, and a pinch of pop. The openers in Stuttgart were the punk rockers from FOCUS.

New York heavy metal trio Sanhedrin are set to release their new album ‘Heat Lightning’ in March on Metal Blade Records and shared a video for the single ‘Blind Wolf’!

Heavy metal power-trio Tubal Cain shared the new track ‘Drifting to the Black Sun’, the second revealed from their highly anticipated upcoming album ‘Slime Abyss’, set for release in February via Darkness Shall Rise Productions!

Belgian metal band Fabulae Dramatis is extremely excited about the fact they were invited to play at this year’s 70,000 Tons Of Metal, the world’s largest and most prestigious heavy metal cruise that is setting sail on January 30th! Make sure to catch one of their sets if you’re going to the cruise!