News Posts

Polish black metal outfit Arkona shared a second glimpse into their upcoming 8th album ‘Stella Pandora’ (out next week via Debemur Morti Productions) with the single ‘Prometheus’! We’re already looking forward to seeing them live at next year’s Steelfest!

The 13th edition of Steelfest is happening in a bit more than 8 months and over the weekend they announced 30 confirmed names for 2025, with of course a nice selection of the top of the Finnish underground scene and plenty of pretty impressive names again, including some exclusive shows of bands like Absu, Osculum Infame, The True Werwolf, Imprecation, Hellwind & Vritrahn and more! Time to get those tickets, we’d say!

Polish black metal outfit Arkona present their upcoming eight album ‘Stella Pandora’, set for release in September via Debemur Morti Productions, and unveiled a first scathing track with ‘Necropolis’!

The Polish band Arkona is getting ready to unleash a new album upon the world!

The public sales are approaching and more bands are added to the line-up, get ready behind that pc to order your tickets because they are limited!

There we go again: 70000tons of Metal is gearing up to sail out again with some of the coolest bands in the world!

Wacken Winter Nights have released their trailer and more names, check it out here!

The new year has just started and here we are again with a whole list of new releases to look forward to!

The Dutch folk metal heroes are back and ready for some serious battle! New album coming in the beginning of next year and coming to a stage near you soon as well…

Let’s take a look on what’s going on at the Brutal Assault camp! Swedish legends CLAWFINGER has disbanded after their last BA appearance in 2013 and ever since they only did a handful of shows, returning to some of the very special places they played during their career. This also stands true for Brutal Assault 2017! The […]

Album Reviews

Polish black metal pioneers Arkona return with a supreme and majestic album. ‘Stella Pandora’ is one of the best releases in the genre this year. Out on Debemur Morti Productions.

“The Suns of Perdition – Chapter II: Render unto Eden” is the newest epic brought by Canadian black metal masters Panzerfaust?

Arkona’s ‘Age of Capricorn’ is a mystifying album, balanced between the ferocious tempos and the slow melodic parts.

Arkona released Khram in January, check out our opinion here!

Russia’s finest folk metal revives its debut album with a re-recording!

Gig Reports

Last month, we got to go to the very last stop of the Polish black metal collective Batushka “Black Pilgrimage tour 2023” at Vanha Ylioppilastalo in Helsinki, with the good company of Arkona, Aeternam and Varang Nord!

On 15/02/2018, together with around 1000 other metalheads, we headed towards a sold out Trix in Antwerp for an evening filled with folk- and paganmetal. Trollfest, arkona and heidevolk were opening for headliner korpiklaani.

Festival Reports

When you’re a fan of Sabaton or just a huge sucker for heavy, power, symphonic and folk metal, Sabaton Open Air might be the place to be for you!

Previews

Meet the magic of Wacken Winter Nights: a winter folk/pagan metal festival in Wacken, Germany!

The call of the mountains: Back to Slovenia! We’re going to Winter Days Of Metal pt. 2!