Wrath of Logarius expand their reign on new single ‘Long Dead the King’, another single from their upcoming monstrosity of a debut album ‘Crown of Mortis’, set for release in April with Season of Mist.
News Posts
Cradle of Filth dropped another devilish single with ‘White Hellebore’, a track from their highly anticipated new album ‘The Screaming Of The Valkyries’, out next week with Napalm Records! Catch them on tour in the US this spring or in Europe this summer with stops at festivals like Tuska and Tolminator!
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Behemoth unleashed their latest single ‘The Shadow Elite’, another track from their upcoming album ‘The Shit Ov God’, set for release in May via Nuclear Blast!
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Hellenic metal legends Rotting Christ share a live video for the medley of ‘Sorrowful Farewell & Among Two Storms’, from the upcoming live album ’35 Years of Evil Existence – Live in Lycabettus’, set for release in April via Season of Mist! Catch them live for real on “The Unholy Trinity 2025” tour with Behemoth and Satyricon in April, or this summer at plenty of European festivals like Dark River, Tolminator and Alcatraz!
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Hellsinki Metal Festival completed its 2025 line-up last week with the addition of Venom, Michael Schenker, Cult of Luna, our friends of Brutal Sphincter and Rabbit Cult!
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Extreme metal institution Cradle of Filth unleashes satanic new music video for latest single ‘To Live Deliciously’, a track from their upcoming album ‘The Screaming Of The Valkyries’, set for release in March via Napalm Records! We’re looking forward seeing them on stage at some of our favorite summer festivals like Tuska and Tolminator!
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Avant-garde metal trio Imperial Triumphant unleashed the new single/video ‘Pleasuredome’ last week, a track featuring Tomas Haake and Dave Lombardo, and another taste of their upcoming album ‘Goldstar’, set for release in March via Century Media Records!
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German metal duo Mantar present their video for ‘Cosmic Abortion’, a track from their recently released album ‘Post Apocalyptic Depression’, out via Metal Blade Records.
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The wait is almost over: Swedish extreme metal titans Arch Enemy will be unleashing their 12th studio album ‘Blood Dynasty’ next month via Century Media Records! But for those who can’t wait, last week they shared the ultimate single and video ‘Paper Tiger’!
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Environmental metal project Savage Lands shared the new track ‘Ruling Queen’, featuring Arch Enemy’s Alissa White-Gluz and Obituary’s Kenneth Andrews, in anticipation of the release of debut album ‘Army of the Trees’ soon via Season of Mist!
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Photo Reports
Last month, both of our home countries met at a great event with some of the top of the underground metal scene like Unhoped, Rapid, Galvanizer and the very first appearance in Finland of the Belgian speed metallers of Bütcher!
The Convalescence stirred things up with a healthy serving of deathcore on a Sunday night at Piere’s in Ft. Wayne, Indiana and the help of support Mantra of Morta, Nailed Casket and Discard the Body!
Finland’s band of misfits King Satan released their latest album ‘The Devil’s Evangelion’ via Noble Demon, and such an epic album deserves a proper release tour of course. With them, they brought their friends of the dark elektro duo Miseria Ultima to open the night, and doomy outfit The Abbey as direct support at the Helsinki stop. An excellent night of great music and friends, and with all bands in absolute top form!
Pictures of a brutal night at Chinastraat in Gent with Benighted, Baest and Coffin Feeder!
We checked out the first day of the second edition of Hell’s Balls Belgium festival… With banging names like Triptykon, Primordial, Vltimas, the unofficial inclusion of the “Night Eternal tour” with Dark Tranquillity, Wolfheart and Moonspell, Carpathian Forest, Hellripper, Dead Head and The Monolith Deathcult, it was a true fest for any extreme metal fan!
This past summer, Assemble The Chariots released a monumentally epic debut full-length album, a concept album that is the first chapter of a massive world they’re building. And there was only one way to properly celebrate this: by having a release show, playing the album from start to finish live as it’s intended to be listened to. And with the addition of supporting guests acts IA and Lightbearer, it was truly a mind-bending night to remember for a long time! If you want to catch Assemble the Chariots live, this weekend is your shot with their show at Helsinki Techfest this Friday and their first ever arena show with Lost Society in Järvenpää this Saturday!
Pictures of the third day of Alcatraz 2024, with on the Swamp Stage a serving of extreme metal with Mordkaul, Aborted, Dark Tranquillity and Opeth!
Pictures of the first day of Alcatraz 2024, with on the Swamp Stage a serving of extreme metal with Fleshgod Apocalypse, Benediction, Lord of the Lost and Watain!
Pictures of the first day of Alcatraz 2024, with on the Swamp Stage a serving of extreme metal with Sadus, Paradise Lost and Cradle of Filth!
The El Corazon venue in the center of Seattle came alive with a burst of energy when Greek extreme metal legends Rotting Christ took over the stage there a couple of weeks ago!
Album Reviews
UK’s extreme metal legends Cradle of Filth achieved unchallenged supremacy on their fourteenth studio album “The Screaming of The Valkyries”, a symphonic grandeur full of catchy songs and melodic hooks. Out via Napalm Records tomorrow, March 21st! We’re already looking forward to hearing the new songs live at some of our favorite events like Tuska and Tolminator this summer!
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Gaerea unveils its composition and musical faculties with remarkable quality on their fourth studio album “Coma” and show an interesting new approach from these musicians, shifting somewhat towards a more generally extreme metal with an atmospheric post-black vibe, turning this into their best effort yet. Out via Season of Mist since October 25th.
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Vltimas’ second full length album “Epic” deliver plenty of head-banging moments for fans of Morbid Angel, Mayhem, and Cryptopsy. This is a coherent record that showcases the chemistry between these veterans and takes what they already did expertly on their debut to a whole new level. Out since today via Season of Mist!
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On “Existence Is Futile”, Cradle Of Filth plunges into the dark horror themes of hell, the songs shimmer with innovative composition and are ultimately driven by the morbid principles of the Filths.
On the fourth album ‘Succumb’ Altarage has freshly managed to bring their dissonant remarks as well as the cacophonous sound and harsh vocals on an extreme, voluminous scale.
Devil Worshipper takes you on a demented and emotional ride littered with sin and temptation. And Satan, of course Satan!
Vltimas modernized sound is referred to the stylish models of death metal riffs which are splendidly installed on the album.
Through the medium of metal Rotting Christ have achieved their musical art and this time they have nailed with perfection!!!
“I Loved You at Your Darkest” is Behemoth’s holy grail, it’s simply marvelous and undoubtedly marks the beginning of the band’s third era.
Lautreamont’s ‘Silence of the Deceased’ is an avant-garde extreme metal poetry for the 21st century.
