Hellsinki Metal Festival is becoming a permanent fixture in the Finnish summer festival landscape, and after 2 successful editions, the organisation decided they didn’t want to wait for another year. In comes a smaller winter edition of the main event about halfway December 2024, bringing amazing extreme metal bands together like Omnivortex, Batushka, Belphegor and headliners Dark Funeral!

Finnish pop metal outfit Memoremains delivers a full-blood party song with ‘Stand Up’, the perfect song to take a little break and let everything go!

People in Finland, make sure you catch them live supporting Enemy Inside in a couple of months!

Distant’s latest release ‘Tsukuyomi: The Origin’ is the brutal answer to all who say deathcore has gone soft, where they completely redid the songs from an old EP, brought in some new songs and a bunch of great guests! Released in November 2024 via Century Media Records!

Belgian metal band Fabulae Dramatis is extremely excited about the fact they were invited to play at this year’s 70,000 Tons Of Metal, the world’s largest and most prestigious heavy metal cruise that is setting sail on January 30th! Make sure to catch one of their sets if you’re going to the cruise!

Swedish power metal band Hans & Valter are proud to share their latest single and first music video (with a bunch of cats playing a big role) ‘Warriors Without a Quest’, another track from their upcoming debut album ‘The Legend of the Oakensource’, set for release this spring!

Last year, we met up with the mysterious and intriguing Finnish duo Rabbit Cult, who started a new chapter in their musical journey and told us all about their new path forging cool music blending Finnish with kawaii and alternative rock and metal into a unique and sometimes contradicting mixture.

Catch them on the Nordic Metal Cruise in a couple of weeks!

Brand-new Belgian heavy metal project Neuroblade releases their first single ‘Endless Slaughter’, a track from their debut EP ‘Desert Claw’, set for release independently in May!

Dutch metal act Degenerate unveiled their new single ‘Servitor’ with a video, the first single from their upcoming album and a killer metal track blending thrash and melodic metal influences!

Taiwanese folk metal pioneer NiNi Music unleashed a proper drinking anthem with ‘GAN BEI’ last week, to celebrate the start of the Year of the Dragon! Catch them live on tour with Korpiklaani and Ensiferum through North-America starting next month!