We went to the second day of the first ever edition of the Metal Crane festival in Helsinki, to be smashed by melodic death metal and wallowing in depression through post-black metal!

After a quite strong month with many releases by big names, it seems like February is more dedicated to the underground!

Heerlijk, kippenvel!

Darkness, underground, dripping of hate and vile regret… our editor-in-chief has delivered his ode to absolute and relentless black in his albums of the year 2017…

Find out what Eindhoven Metal Meeting, the Netherlands’ darkest and heaviest festival, has to offer this year!

The pictures of the mesmerizing journey two bands took us on with their all enveloping soundscape filled with beauty and raw harshness.