Finnish modern metal band Volucrine is releasing their 4th full-length ‘ETNA’ next month via Inverse Records and shared a new single with ‘Riptide’!

Norwegian industrial metal legends Gothminister to take over the Eurovision Song Contest pre-qualifications for their country with the new single ‘We Come Alive’ this weekend! Their new album ‘Pandemonium II: The Battle Of The Underworlds’ is set to be released later this year via AFM Records!

Our resident extreme metal reviewer Mazen has a selection of stellar (mostly) black and death metal releases as his favorite of the year with Sulphur Aeon, Varathron, Moonlight Sorcery, Cruciamentum, Suffocation, Dying Fetus, Asphodelus, Marduk, …And Oceans, and Cirith Ungol!

Greek thrashers Suicidal Angels release their brand new track ‘Purified By Fire’, another single from their upcoming album ‘Profane Prayer’, set for release in the beginning of March via Nuclear Blast, right before their European tour starts!

Symphonic metal trio Exit Eden unleashes another new single and original song with ‘Femme Fatale’ in anticipation of the release of their new album ‘Femmes Fatales’ this Friday, January 12 via Napalm Records!

Our recently joined photographer Lindy is excited to see what 2024 is going to bring for her, but for now, let’s have a look back at some of her favorite pictures she took in 2023 at shows from bands like Across the White Water Tower, Alesana, Autopsy Affair, Brand of Sacrifice, Currents, Emmure, Greyhaven, Knuckle Puck, Magg Dylan, Magnolia Parl, Midnight Threat, Norma Jean, Origami Angel, Pink Shift, Saliva, See You Space Cowboy, Silverstein, Sweet Pill, The Contactees, The SoapGirls, Virginia, and We Came As Romans!

The line-up for the 2024 edition of the Belgian glam, sleaze and hard rock festival Wildfest is complete with the addition of Catalano to the already earlier confirmed Tyketto, The New Roses, Crashdïet, The Cruel Intentions, Toxic Rose, DeVicious, Girish and the Chronicles, Trench Dogs, Wildheart, Madhouse, Graywolf, Kim Jennett, Sextrow and Dirty Toy Company! Don’t miss out on this one!

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’!

Renowned French black metal entity Merrimack continues to unravel the enigmatic tapestry of their upcoming album ‘Of Grace and Gravity’ (out in March via Season of Mist) with the release of their second single ‘Dead and Distant Clamors’!

Belgian symphonic metal act Cathubodua shares the details of their upcoming album ‘Interbellum’ (set for release in February via Massacre Records), and a first single and music video with ‘Foretelling’!