News Posts

Swedish metal legends Arch Enemy unveiled their latest single ‘Liars & Thieves’, another track from their upcoming album ‘Blood Dynasty’, set for release in 2025 via Century Media Records. Catch them on their current “Rising from the North” Europe tour with In Flames and Soilwork!

In anticipation of this Friday’s official release of her new album ‘The Obsession’ via Napalm Records, Charlotte Wessels reveals the dramatic new single and video ‘Ode To The West Wind’ featuring Alissa White-Gluz!

Charlotte Wessels returns with a captivating new single ‘Chasing Sunsets’, including a just as mesmerizing music video, another taste of the upcoming album ‘The Obsession’, set for release in September via Napalm Records!

Gothic doom metal outfit Tomorrow’s Rain announced their upcoming new album ‘Ovdan’ to be released in April via AOP Records, featuring a wide array of impressive guests from bands like Mayhem, Mercyful Fate, Sisters of Mercy, Dark Funeral and Sol Invictus! And last week, they shared the first single and video ‘Sunrise’!

Swedish melodeath fans in Europe, rejoice! In Flames, Arch Enemy, and Soilwork, 3 of the biggest and most influential bands of the genre are banding together and will reap havoc across the continent with the “Rising From The North 2024 tour” next year!

In anticipation of their new album ‘Deceivers’ out next month via Century Media, Arch Enemy unleashed another video single with ‘In The Eye Of The Storm’!

To tease their new album “Deceivers” Arch Enemy is releasing their new single “Handshake With Hell” which is premiering soon!

Metal legends Arch Enemy announced their upcoming new 11th full-length ‘Deceivers’ to be released in July!

Arch Enemy surprised yet again with another standalone single and video ‘House Of Mirrors’!

Photo Reports

Best Of 2023 Tom VM

Our Benelux and France head of accreditation and most active photographer in that region, Tom VM, made his own selection of favorite pictures he took in 2023, including some new stuff that wasn’t shared on our site before with Biohazard, Bleed From Within, Brutal Sphincter, Brutus, Electric Callboy, Michael Schenker Group, Sepultura, Arion, Blackrain, Overdrivers, Avatar, Winery Dogs, Charlotte Wessels, Devin Townsend, Dream Theater, Extreme, Ghost, Michael Angelo Batio, Arch Enemy, Doodseskader, Halestorm, I Prevail, Powerwolf and SKYND!

Pictures of Avatar, Lost Society, Jinjer, Arch Enemy and Gojira taking over the main stage on the first day of Tuska 2023!

Grilling season was figuratively and quite literally opened when The European Siege tour starring Unto Others, Carcass, Behemoth and Arch Enemy hit Jäähalli in Helsinki with their first sold out show of the tour.

Swedish melodeath masters Arch Enemy and Polish blackened metal occultists Behemoth are on their European Siege Tour 2022 with special guest Carcass and warm up act Unto Others. While last night they played a killer show at a sold-out Jäähalli in Helsinki, we caught the show earlier at their stop in the Netherlands!

Pictures of day 1 of Knotfest Finland with Bloodred Hourglass, Stam1na, Sara, Arch Enemy, Lähiöbotox, Lamb of God, Huora, and Nightwish

Pictures of a fiery night in Helsinki with the berserkers of Amon Amarth, Arch Enemy and Hypocrisy!

The pictures of 3 days of metal and rock fun in the middle of Helsinki… Tuska 2018, you were awesome!

Arch Enemy played a near sold out show in 013 in Tilburg, if you didn’t get to be there, this was our impression!

Arch Enemy came to Helsinki to showcase their latest album “Will to Power” and brought with them Ukrainian powerhouse Jinjer!

Photo report Durbuy Rock 2017

Festival Reports

Report of the first day of Tuska 2023 with Avatar, Vended, Kouta, Lost Society, While She Sleeps, Jinjer, Imminence, Arch Enemy, Glenn Hughes, Gojira and Miseria Ultima!

Sun, metal, beers and an ice skating rink as festival grounds. Dynamo Metalfest has it all. Day 2 report!

Wacken 2018 was definitely a shiner of an edition! Go have a look at our experiences and see you next year!

3 days of the best you can find in metal, rock and other related genres all came together on the Suvilahti grounds in Helsinki, what resulted in yet another great edition of Tuska!

Previews

Tuska 2023 promises to be quite the exciting edition again with a great line-up with something for everyone, the biggest ever “Tuska Expo” in its history and plenty of other stuff to discover! If you’re planning to go, we listed some info in a nice little preview…

A preview of the first edition of Dynamo Metalfest that is longer than just 1 day!

Lists

If you are still looking for a great summer destination, here are 10 festivals that might make Finland the ideal place to go for you with #Horizon23, Rockfest, Tuhdimmat Tahdit, Nummirock, Tuska, John Smith Festival, SaariHelvetti, Dark River Festival, Hellsinki Metal Festival and Flow Festival!

In case you weren’t convinced yet and are still debating if you want to get tickets still last minute, check out the 5 reasons why we think you should go for it…

With the end of summer in sight, we came across 10 releases coming out in August that our editorial team has been looking forward to the most.