Crossover outfit Slope present the 4th single and video ‘WHY SAD’ from their highly anticipated upcoming album ‘Freak Dreams’, set for release next month via Century Media Records!

Australia’s Aardvark brings the masses together with the biting forces of power and honesty of classic heavy metal with the single ‘Fight Back’, a track from their upcoming album ‘Tough Love’, set for release in March via Dying Victims Productions!

A selection of Vaim’s best captures of 2023, after a long and grueling process of elimination, with pictures from bands like Battle Beast, Gaerea, Trollheim’s Grott, Avslut, Der Weg einer Freiheit, Amenra, Igorrr, Aesthetic Perfection, HIDE, SKYND, Ice Nine Kills, Utuk Xul, Rancid, Sick Of It All, Stratovarius, Testament, Michael Monroe, Volbeat, Hellacopters, Pensées Nocturnes, Amorphis, Biohazard, Killswitch Engage, Converge, Agnostic Front, Taake, Public Image Ltd, A.A. Williams, Butcher Babies, Clutch, Finntroll, Electric Callboy, Ghost, Gojira, Imperial Triumphant, Lorna shore, The Hu and Urne!

US metal outfit Darkest Hour are gearing up to release their new album ‘Perpetual | Terminal’ via MNRK Heavy next month, and shared another single with ‘Societal Bile’!

Power metal titans Firewind dropped the music video for the new single ‘Fallen Angel’, another track from their upcoming album ‘Stand United’, set for release via AFM Records in March!

Make sure you catch them live on one of their many tours this year!

Finnish power metal band Metal De Facto is ready to once again revive the grandeur of power metal with their second full-length ‘Land Of The Rising Sun Part 1’, to be released via Rockshots Records next month and share the single ‘Rise Amaterasu’!

Symphonic metal vikings Leaves’ Eyes shared a gripping music video for the new single ‘Realm of Dark Waves’, pulling us down into the ocean’s desolate depths of Rán, the Goddess of the Sea! Another track from their upcoming album ‘Myths Of Fate’, set for release in March via AFM Records!

Finnish atmospheric progressive metal band Alase released their new single ‘Love Crime’, featuring Rioghan on guest vocals! A track from their upcoming ‘Beyond Our Imagination’ EP, set for release in February via Inverse Records!

US cult metal band Ruthless revealed the new single and lyric video ‘The Fallen’, the title track of their new album that is out since yesterday via Fireflash Records!