Alt-rock trailblazers Nova Twins announced their new album ‘Parasites & Butterflies’ to be released in August via Marshall Records, and dropped their electrifying new single ‘Soprano’ in anticipation of their tour supporting Lenny Kravitz in Europe starting tomorrow!
Tampere, Finland-based festival Tuhdimmat Tahdit completed the 2025 line-up with the addition of legendary power metal band Blind Guardian as headliner for the Saturday, plus Amaranthe, Lordi, Michael Monroe, Turmion Kätilöt, Moon Shot and Black Devils! Get your tickets now!
Finnish alternative act Cyan Kicks dropped their massive new heavy track ‘Echo’ and announced their debut UK headline tour dates!
Cinematic hard rockers Edge Of Paradise unleashed their epic sixth album ‘Prophecy’ with Napalm Records yesterday, but earlier this week they already shared the video single ‘Give It To Me (Mind Assassin)’, featuring Ben V. from industrial goth outfit Ludovico Technique!
Influential alternative rock band Garbage announced their new album ‘Let All That We Imagine Be The Light’, set for release in May! New music coming soon as a first taste!
French chaotic popcore outfit Point Mort shared another powerful track from their upcoming album ‘Le point de non-retour’, set for release in April via Almost Famous. The anarchic punk-infused track is out now with a matching music video!
Norwegian band Djerv shared a music video for their international success single ‘Rebel Heart’, which was featured on the official soundtrack for season 2 of the critically acclaimed series “Arcane”!
Popular Romanian folkcore outfit Dirty Shirt is celebrating 30 years in 2025 and kicked off the celebrations with the new single ‘FOMO’, a first track from their upcoming still to be revealed new album! And they’re also right now on a proper anniversary tour, don’t miss out!
The Original Sin celebrated their comeback after a two-year hiatus with new single and video ‘Digital Dolls’ and a crowdfunding campaign to support the release of a new EP and second music video!
Hot Milk have announced their sophomore album ‘Corporation P.O.P’, set for release in June via Music For Nations and unveiled the rebel rowsing single ’90 Seconds To Midnight’! Catch them live this spring in both the UK and US, and at this year’s edition of Belgium’s biggest metal and rock festival Graspop Metal Meeting in June!
I got to chat with Sharone and discuss her upcoming album Morbid Illusion as well as Cinco De Mayo outfits, archery adventures and inspirations!
A chat with Ariel Bloomer and Shawn Jump of Icon For Hire about their music and way of life just before they hit the stage in Helsinki!
We had a chat with Normandie about their music, touring and more!
We talked with vocalist Maja Shining about touring, their music, inspiration and being empowering to women and girls in the music business!
We sat down with the man-wolves? wolf-men? of MWAM to figure out what their mission is all about…
Pictures of the artists on the main stage of the first day of Tuska 2024, with Lord of the Lost, Alestorm, Kerry King, Dimmu Borgir and Pendulum!
Fans were definitely ready to “FACE IT”, the show with Nothing More, Veil Of Maya and Of Virtue, that is! Concert-goers were lined down the sidewalk and around the block in anticipation of the concert at Kemba Live in Columbus, Ohio. And what a fantastic night it became!
Dear Mother held 4 Dutch club shows to promote the release of their new EP ‘Necessary Darkness’ with the Finnish Luna Kills invited as support for what would be their first shows outside their country, setting the stage for future international endeavors!
The “Back to the 2000s Tour” has been going strong in the US territories, taking people back to the good old days of nu metal and alternative metal/rock and Ozzfest with stellar shows from The Union Underground, SOiL, Ra and Flaw! We caught the stop at Piere’s in Fort Wayne, IN!
Enter Shikari dropped by the Zenith Kulturhalle in Munich, Germany and amazed with an electric show, supported by an explosive Fever 333 and the locals of Blackout Problems opening the night!
A selection of 30 photos that Helder likes a lot from one of his most productive year considering covering concerts, including captures of Fear Factory, Atreyu, Jinjer, Rolo Tomassi, Stone, The Kooks, Pixies, Wunderhorse, Yours Truly, You Me at Six, Lake Malice, Bloodywood, Epica, Avatar, The 69 Eyes, Nova Twins, Cam Cole, Sabaton, The Lumineers, Grailknights, All For Metal, The Baboon Show, Combichrist, Megaherz, The BossHoss, Cancer Bats, Kvelertak, Fixation, Ignea, and Butcher Babies.
It has become a true tradition that DIE HAPPY plays some warm-up gigs at the end of December for the shows or tours of the following years. In this round, it’s the ‘Pre-Anniversary Shows 2023’, preparing for the upcoming anniversary tour in 2024, celebrating their 30th anniversary as a band. Support came from Templemind at their stop in Stuttgart’s Im Wizemann in Germany!
We set the hard task for our photographers to choose the best 30 pictures that they have shot in 2023 out of possibly thousands of captures, and here is the result of Tom Treuten’s selection with Butcher Babies, Fateful Finality, Fear Factory, Thundermother, Hypocrisy, Spiritbox, Behemoth, Dog Eat Dog, The Cult, Skillet, Agnostic Front, Scorpions, May The Silence Fail, Cannibal Corpse, Ataraxy, Dark Funeral, Goldmann, Solstafir, Ingested, Antiheld, Lansdowne, Völkerball (Rammstein Tribute), Fettes Brot, Danko Jones, Royal Republic, Team Tot, and Mindead!
The year wrapping up means that we’ll be looking back at the amazing things we’ve experienced, and “album of the year” lists. We’d also like to give some attention to our talented concert photographers who go out and cover shows for us. So here is a first in a series of articles where our artists pick their favorite pictures of 2023 with Anna/ScarletMemory Photography who mostly roams around in Tampere, Finland and pictures from bands like Pain, Sólstafir, Eleine, Myrath, Battle Beast, Brymir, Sabaton, Mors Subita, Lordi, Metalite, Shereign, Diablo, Before The Dawn, Wolfheart, Sonata Arctica, Deathstars, Brother Firetribe, Psychework, Apocalyptica, Voidfallen, Poets of the Fall, Amorphis, Lost Society, and Everwave!
Shereign finished off their year with a gig at Tampere YO-Talo on December 9th, organized by Nem Agency. They brought along Ikinä, Everwave and Lastout to make the night complete with up-and-coming Finnish artists.
