Kittie released another single with ‘One Foot In The Grave’, continuing their quest for global metal domination that comes with their long-awaited new studio album ‘Fire’, set for release later this month via Sumerian Records!

Earlier this year, 3 excellent Belgian bands rocked our venue Asgaard with their music. One for one bands you should check out, with hardcore/deathcore from Despite Us, modern metal from Noord and pummeling death metal from Catharsis! An event presented to us by Fly Productions!

Finnish metal outfit SulfuriS will be performing at Tuska 2024, and released their new single ‘Shatterpoint’ last week! Catch their show if you’re going to the festival and be on the look for their upcoming album ‘CORPUS//ANIMUS’, set for release in August via Inverse Records!

Vended came to show that they’re their own entity, ready to push the metal scene into the next wave of popularity, with the help of The Gloom In The Corner and Profiler!

Orbit Culture came, saw and blew us away at Vanha Ylioppilastalo in Helsinki, Finland! And with the support of their country mates of Bite Down, we got a showcase of the promising new music coming from Sweden!

Finnish modern metal supergroup Crownshift unleashed their new single ‘My Prison’, another track from their upcoming self-titled debut album set for release in May via Nuclear Blast Records!

Metalcore outfit Make Them Suffer returned armed with a glossy yet blistering new single ‘Epitaph’, out via Greyscale Records and SharpTone Records! Catch them live this Summer at European festivals like Copenhell, Graspop and Tuska Open Air, and select club dates!

German trio Future Palace have released their new single ‘Uncontrolled’, including captivating video, via Arising Empire, the first new music in almost a year!

Togo based metallers Arka’n Asrafokor share another important message with their latest single ‘The Truth’, another track from their upcoming album ‘Dzikkuh’, set for release in May via Reigning Phoenix Music!

With 3 bands being shining lights for (the future of) metal, and all 3 of them having a brand-new album in their pocket, Amaranthe, Dragonforce and Infected Rain turned Black Box Helsinki into a true celebration of heavy music about a month ago!