Anneke van Giersbergen, the talented Dutch singer, guitarist and songwriter, has been captivating audiences with her unique blend of rock, metal, and folk music for quite some years. And she’s been on the road exploring new musical territories with her ‘Heavy Strings’ tour in 2024. Earlier this month we caught up with her at Stuttgart’s Theaterhaus where she presented metal and rock classics in a semi-classical arrangement.

Orden Ogan unveiled their latest single ‘Moon Fire’ with a music video last week, another track from their highly anticipated upcoming new album ‘The Order Of Fear’, set for release in July vie Reigning Phoenix Music!

Finnish thrashers Mutant Blast unleashed their new single ‘Acid Rain’, another track from their upcoming album ‘Soulsteeler’, set for release in September via Rockshots Records!

Finnish dark metallic hardcore unit SARS shared their new single ‘Bitter Soil’, a track from their upcoming debut full-length ‘Nothing Hurts Quite Like Life’, set for release in July via Time To Kill Records!

Earlier this year, 3 excellent Belgian bands rocked our venue Asgaard with their music. One for one bands you should check out, with hardcore/deathcore from Despite Us, modern metal from Noord and pummeling death metal from Catharsis! An event presented to us by Fly Productions!

Finnish black metal outfit Curse Upon A Prayer shared the brand new single ‘Black Venus Erotica’ and are set to release their new album ‘THE VVORship: Orthoprax Satanism” in July!

Finnish metal outfit SulfuriS will be performing at Tuska 2024, and released their new single ‘Shatterpoint’ last week! Catch their show if you’re going to the festival and be on the look for their upcoming album ‘CORPUS//ANIMUS’, set for release in August via Inverse Records!

Operatic/symphonic black metal outfit Folterkammer’s sophomore album ‘Weibermacht’ has roots that are embedded in the European sound of 90s black metal. Out on Century Media.

The 14th studio album ‘Pro Xristou’ from the Greek black metal masters Rotting Christ is a grand testimony to the band’s creative skills and brings nostalgia to their loyal fans. Out via Season of Mist on May 24.

Symphonic black metal act Vesperian Sorrow is one of the fewer ones that doesn’t sound like any other U.S. black metal band. Their fifth studio album ‘Awaken the Greylight’ presents their modern symphonic clichés. Out on Black Lion Records.