After a hiatus year, Rockfest is back! New location, but also a rather action packed first batch of confirmed names for the 2025 edition with names like Muse, Judas Priest and Till Lindemann topping the bill!

Modern metal outfit The Tale Untold released their new album ‘Counterculture’ last Friday and shared a lyric video for ‘The Craving’ to celebrate!

Last week, rising metal force Lions At The Gate unveiled their latest single ‘Silhouettes of Me’, in anticipation of their “Cold Nights Over Texas” tour in December with local boys Upon A Burning Body and genre-bending support act VCTMS!

Within Temptation dropped by in Helsinki on their “Bleed Out tour 2024” that is taking over arenas all over Europe and treated us to a visual and musical spectacle like only they can deliver. With them they brought guest artists to do some songs with them and support band Annisokay!

Last week, as an early Halloween treat, Enemy Inside unleashed the single and video ‘Fuck That Party’, a spooky new track featuring none other than Zak Tell, frontman of Clawfinger, out via Reigning Phoenix Music! We put it in our Halloween playlists, did you check it out already?

Boston based metal act Major Moment released a heartfelt and emotive animated video for the track ‘You’ll Never Know’, out now on all streaming platforms!

Bloodywood is back! They announced to have signed with Fearless Records for the next chapter of their career, and unleashed the new single ‘Nu Delhi’, a homage to their home city!

Silhouette of the bass player/vocalist of the band Septicflesh backlit by bright light, glowing white in the center and pink to reddish further out. The silhouette is pink to red due to the lighting.

After an exemplary show at Alcatraz this past summer, Septicflesh graced Belgium again with their presence on their “Modern Primitive European tour”, dropping by the DVG Club in Kortrijk. And with support by Equilibrium, Oceans and Scar of the Sun, it was quite the death metal night of epic proportions!

Boston-based Major Moment released music video and single ‘Staged’, in anticipation of the release of their upcoming album ‘The Pain That Makes Us Grow’ set for release in late this year!

While being at Helsinki Techfest for their very first show outside Estonia, we met up with the metal band Pridian to talk about an excellent 2024 with some bucketlist shows, but also the major news that they are signed to the Century Media Records roster for their upcoming album!