News Posts

Thy Catafalque unleash a metallic punishment on the new single ‘Mindenevő’, a blackened blistering track from the upcoming new album ‘XII: A gyönyörű álmok ezután jönnek’, set for release in November via Season of Mist!

Fabulae Dramatis releases the new video single ‘The Jungle of Ego’ in anticipation of next week’s release of their new studio album ‘Violenta’ on September 5!

Massive Scar Era shared the new single ‘School Girls’, a collaboration with Entheos’ Chaney Crabb, giving a voice to recent Egyptian history and a track from the upcoming EP ‘Assyad’, out in October!

Get ready for some quality chaos! Acclaimed avant-garde metal band Melted Bodies unleashed their new single ‘Bloodlines’ a while ago, a track from their upcoming new album ‘The Inevitable Fork’, set for release in October!

Swiss avant-garde experimentalist outfit Schammasch announced their next album ‘The Maldoror Chants: Old Ocean’ to be released in October via Prosthetic Records and shared haunting lead single ‘They Have Found Their Master’, featuring additional vocals by Kathrine Shepard from Sylvaine!

Zeal & Ardor shared a visualizer for the new single ‘Hide in Shade’ another track from their upcoming new album ‘GREIF’, set for release in August!

Zeal & Ardor share ‘Fend You Off visualizer, another track from their upcoming 4th album ‘GREIF’, set for release in August! Catch them this weekend at Tuska, this will be a show you won’t want to miss!

Belgian avant-garde metal outfit Fabulae Dramatis unveiled new single ‘Fábula Violenta’, a track that is part of the new upcoming album ‘Violenta’, set for release in September!

New Zealand death metal trio Ulcerate are back with another highly-anticipated new album ‘Cutting the Throat of God’ set for release in June via Debemur Morti Productions and unleashed a first song with ‘The Dawn is Hollow’!

Hungarian avant-garde outfit Thy Catafalque are about to embark on their very first European headline tour in March and April with the support of The Answer Lies In The Black Void!

Lists

The first day of the second edition of Hellsinki Metal Festival is filled with an impressive line-up of extreme metal bands, topped off with the musical exelence that is the headliner of tonight. Our editorial team picked out 8 bands that they think you definitely shouldn’t miss out on with Wolfheart, Gutalax, Massacre, Deicide, Terrorizer, Triumph of Death plays Hellhammer, Heaven Shall Burn and Avantasia! What bands are you really looking forward to today? Let us know in the comments!

Our resident extreme metal reviewer Mazen has a selection of stellar (mostly) black and death metal releases as his favorite of the year with Sulphur Aeon, Varathron, Moonlight Sorcery, Cruciamentum, Suffocation, Dying Fetus, Asphodelus, Marduk, …And Oceans, and Cirith Ungol!