It’s really going to be quite the year for Finnish alternative metal band Luna Kills! Not only are they releasing their new full-length album ‘DEATHMATCH’ on SharpTone Records in April, they just announced a very first European tour, ready to take the world by storm!
Modern metal band Never Obey Again released a video for the track ‘Control’, from their recently released second album ‘Trust’, out on Scarlet Records!
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!
Brand-new post-metal project Idle Heirs announced their debut album ‘Life Is Violence’ set to be released via Relapse Records in April and shared a first single with ‘Rare Bird’!
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!
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!
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!
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!
