The third offering ‘Eastern Tales’ from the French atmospheric black metal project Belore will be much appreciated by fans of Summoning, Caladan Brood and Emyn Muil. Out via Northern Silence Productions.

Swedish black/death metal quartet Vanhelgd delivers a chilling piece of old school and modern atmospheric metal on their sixth album ‘Atropos Doctrina’. Out via Dark Descent Records.

The first day of the second edition of Hellsinki Metal Festival is filled with an impressive line-up of extreme metal bands, topped off with the musical exelence that is the headliner of tonight. Our editorial team picked out 8 bands that they think you definitely shouldn’t miss out on with Wolfheart, Gutalax, Massacre, Deicide, Terrorizer, Triumph of Death plays Hellhammer, Heaven Shall Burn and Avantasia! What bands are you really looking forward to today? Let us know in the comments!

Orden Ogans new, slightly harder, album ‘The Order Of Fear’, which has been released on July 5th via Reigning Phoenix Music, hasn’t gotten any big highlights, but it’s on a nice even high level. Everything works just perfect together. Catch their show on the Prison Stage of Alcatraz Festival this Friday!

Dyscordia’s fourth album ‘The Road to Oblivion’ is out since April, and it’s a true treat to the ear for any metal fan. Go check out this little musical gem of a great Belgian metal band and if you’re going to Alcatraz, make sure you catch them opening up the whole festival weekend with their hometown show on the main stage early this Friday!

The second edition of Hellsinki Metal promises to be again absolutely great! Just in case you weren’t convinced enough yet, here are our reasons why we believe you should get a ticket still for the 2024 edition if you haven’t yet! With a massive line-up, added features and an overall excellent festival experience promised, you won’t want to sit this one out!

Heavy metal icons Blitzkrieg unleashed their single and music video ‘If I Told You’, a track from their upcoming album to be released later this year via Mighty Music!

Powerwolf unleashed their new album ‘Wake Up The Wicked’ last week via Napalm Records and released the thrilling, cinematic music video for the track ‘We Don’t Wanna Be No Saints’ to celebrate!