Amaranthe, one of Sweden’s most influential modern metal bands, kicks off 2024 with the crushing pop metal song ‘Re-Vision’, the 4th single from their upcoming album ‘The Catalyst’, set for release next month via Nuclear Blast!
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Swiss modern metal upstarts Illumishade, featuring members from Eluveitie, dropped new single and music video ‘Cloudreader’, another track from their upcoming sophomore album ‘Another Side of You’, set for release next month via Napalm Records!
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Finnish melancholic metal band Garden of Stone is set to release their debut EP ‘Tides of Decay’ next month via Inverse Records and shared a second single with ‘Idol of Flesh’!
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A selection of 30 photos that Helder likes a lot from one of his most productive year considering covering concerts, including captures of Fear Factory, Atreyu, Jinjer, Rolo Tomassi, Stone, The Kooks, Pixies, Wunderhorse, Yours Truly, You Me at Six, Lake Malice, Bloodywood, Epica, Avatar, The 69 Eyes, Nova Twins, Cam Cole, Sabaton, The Lumineers, Grailknights, All For Metal, The Baboon Show, Combichrist, Megaherz, The BossHoss, Cancer Bats, Kvelertak, Fixation, Ignea, and Butcher Babies.
Popular band New Years Day shared their powerfully defiant new single ‘I Still Believe’, a track from their upcoming 5th album ‘Half Black Heart’, set for release in March via Century Media Records!
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Dutch melodic metal band Pandora’s Key released single and music video ‘Falls the Shadow’, a track from their upcoming debut full-length ‘Yet I Remain, set for release in 2024!
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We set the hard task for our photographers to choose the best 30 pictures that they have shot in 2023 out of possibly thousands of captures, and here is the result of Tom Treuten’s selection with Butcher Babies, Fateful Finality, Fear Factory, Thundermother, Hypocrisy, Spiritbox, Behemoth, Dog Eat Dog, The Cult, Skillet, Agnostic Front, Scorpions, May The Silence Fail, Cannibal Corpse, Ataraxy, Dark Funeral, Goldmann, Solstafir, Ingested, Antiheld, Lansdowne, Völkerball (Rammstein Tribute), Fettes Brot, Danko Jones, Royal Republic, Team Tot, and Mindead!
New Belgian metal band Throne of Thorns released the first single and music video ‘Underworld’, a track from their upcoming debut album ‘Converging Parallel Worlds’, set for release in 2024 via Rock of Angels Records!
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The year wrapping up means that we’ll be looking back at the amazing things we’ve experienced, and “album of the year” lists. We’d also like to give some attention to our talented concert photographers who go out and cover shows for us. So here is a first in a series of articles where our artists pick their favorite pictures of 2023 with Anna/ScarletMemory Photography who mostly roams around in Tampere, Finland and pictures from bands like Pain, Sólstafir, Eleine, Myrath, Battle Beast, Brymir, Sabaton, Mors Subita, Lordi, Metalite, Shereign, Diablo, Before The Dawn, Wolfheart, Sonata Arctica, Deathstars, Brother Firetribe, Psychework, Apocalyptica, Voidfallen, Poets of the Fall, Amorphis, Lost Society, and Everwave!
Sonata Arctica announced a Finnish tour of 8 different stops in March/April 2024 in support of their upcoming new album ‘Clear Cold Beyond’, which is coming out in the beginning of March via Atomic Fire Records.
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