Portuguese progressive metal band Phase Transition released their second single ‘Veil of Illusions’, a track from their upcoming debut album ‘In Search of Being’, out in June!

Prog supergroup TEMIC is about to embark on their first European tour and shared a taste of what you can expect with a live video for ‘Falling Away’, one of the tracks from their debut album released with Season of Mist last year!

Prepare to be mesmerized as Changeling unveils yet another mind-bending single with ‘Falling in Circles’, a track from the upcoming self-titled debut album, set for release in April with Season of Mist!

Orbit Culture, Bullet for my Valentine and Trivium gave it all at the Lotto Arena stop in Antwerp, Belgium on “The Poisoned Ascendancy tour”! A trip down memory lane and a lot of interaction between the crowd and the bands, where the 2 co-headliners were celebrating their breakthrough albums by playing them in full! Thanks to FKP Scorpio Belgium for welcoming us!

Blackened progressive metal band Dawn Of Ouroboros shared ‘Slipping Burgundy’, their latest single on which they blend jazz parts with ferocious atmospheric black, getting us properly excited about their upcoming new album ‘Bioluminescence’, set for release in March via Prosthetic Records!

Progressive act Changeling released the lead single ‘Abyss’ from the upcoming self-titled album set for release in April via Season of Mist, a release featuring an impressive list of guest musicians!

The three young musicians of Wrath fuse the intensity and unpredictable nature of prog metal with the raw, unrefined energy of grunge, bringing a unique musical experience to the roster of Dark Essence Records, with who they’ll release their debut album!

Progressive blackened metal band Tómarúm announced their upcoming sophomore album ‘Beyond Obsidian Euphoria’, set for release in April via Prosthetic Records and unleashed a first track with ‘Shed This Erroneous Skin’!

Luna Kills

In Tom VM’s favorite pictures of the year shows off his captures of bands like Amorphis, Beyond the Black, Bury Tomorrow, Dimmu Borgir, Infected Rain, Lost Society, Opeth, Tarot, Vola, Zeal and Ardor, Amaranthe, Ankor, Beast in Black, Charlotte Wessels, Dark Tranquillity, Dear Mother, Draconian, Dragonforce, Epica, Europe, Feuerschwanz, Gene Simmons Band, Jinjer, Marco Mendoza, Moonspell, Saxon, Testament, Vandenberg and Luna Kills, of which some pictures have never before seen on our site!

Progressive symphonic metal band Scardust shared their new single and video ‘RIP’, out now via Frontiers Music! Quite the epic track, if we may say so!