Full of Hell announced their upcoming new EP ‘Broken Sword, Rotten Shield’ to be released with Closed Casket Activities in May and shared lead single ‘Knight’s Oath’!
News Posts
Grindcore force Chepang joins the Relapse Records roster for the release of their new album ‘Jhyappa’, set to be out in May, and shared a first single and music video!
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Finnish death metal act Refusel has signed a deal with Time To Kill Records for the release of their upcoming third album ‘Venomous Human Concept’! More details on the album and a first single are coming soon!
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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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Belgian goregrind powerhouse Brutal Sphincter announce their new album ‘Sphinct-Earth Society’ to be released in May via Time To Kill Records and unveiled a first single with ‘Unvaxxed Lives Matter’! We can’t wait to party with these maniacs at Tolminator this summer!
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NOLA’s Brat shared a cover of Heart’s classic ‘Barracuda’ with a video and featuring Sammy Duet from Acid Bath and Goatwhore, out now via Prosthetic Records, approaching 2025 with the same energy as they do everything else: loud and relentless!
Catch them on tour in Europe next month supporting Napalm Death with Crowbar and Full of Hell!
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Montreal-based CHÜZO unleash the vengeance of their self-decribed “Aggro-Metal” in their new music video ‘Brand New Cell’, a track from their recently released EP ‘M.T.M.D (Maximum Threshold, Minimum Decay)’! The blend of grindcore, Swedish death metal, thrash and hardcore punk is quite the sonic assault!
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Finnish grindcore legends Rotten Sound announced the reissue of ‘Murderworks’, their acclaimed third full-length album, via Time To Kill Records, out early 2025!
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Cybergrind band Thotcrime has announced their third album ‘CONNECTION ANXIETY’, set for release in August via Prosthetic Records and shared the lead singles ‘The Wrong Way’ and ‘Behind The Cracks’!
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Colorado grindcore outfit Poolside at the Flamingo recently unleashed their sheer, unbridled brutality upon the world with the new EP ‘Accabadora’ and shared a video for the track ‘The Deceiver’ to celebrate!
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Photo Reports
Pictures of a brutal night at Chinastraat in Gent with Benighted, Baest and Coffin Feeder!
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!
Last month, Circuit Breaker Bookings with All Out Productions brought grindcore juggernauts Full Of Hell all the way from US to a fully sold out On The Rocks. And with supporting acts Kuvotus and Dome Runner, this was by far one of the most intense nights we have witnessed of late. A night full of blood, sweat and broken glass, with constant moshpits and stagediving!
The last day of a long and exhausting weekend of great music and atmosphere was all about the Belgian music scene at La Morgue with Aeveris, Brutal Sphincter, Hexa Mera, Mantah and Reject The Sickness!
Pictures of the Asagraum, Chamber of Unlight, Suicidal Angels, Benighted, Impaled Nazarene and Batushka shows at the first day of Hellsinki Metal Festival 2023!
On the third day of Rockfest 2023, we weren’t able to capture as many bands as on the earlier days due to other responsibilities and some artists not wanting any pictures to be taken, but we still caught the performances by Finnish legends Xysma and Rotten Sound on the Black Stage!
Steelchaos day 2 was yet another spectacle, both musically and visually, with shows from Chevalier, Horna, Cadaveric Incubator, Torture Killer, Lord Fist and the epic “Black Metal” anniversary celebration by Venom Inc.!
Pictures of the warm-up show for the first edition of Hellsinki Metal Horizons with Exciter, The Hirvi, Cannibal Accident and Satan’s Fall!
Spoil Engine’s last performance with Iris in De Kreun, Kortrijk.
Gig Reports
Report of a killer night of extreme metal with co-headliners Benighted and Baest with special guest Coffin Feeder!
Exciter came, saw, and absolutely destroyed with an old school speed metal show at On The Rocks as a warm-up to the main festival that was about to take place over the weekend. With support of Finnish acts The Hirvi, Cannibal Accident and Satan’s Fall, it was truly a night to remember for those who were there!
What a line-up! And what a night! Extreme music at its best.
One of this year’s most anticipated gigs in the Belgian underground: Misery Index and Wormrot were touring Europe and they blessed us with a visit in Flanders.
Rotten Sound and Implore on a Wednesday night. What better way to cut the week in half? Tonight’s grindcore fun will keep me satisfied for a few days at least.
It’s been a while since I’d been to a beatdown hardcore gig, but a varied line-up and an entertaining crowd filled with violent dancers is a great way to start your weekend. Join me at the MCP Apache for the second edition of Slamapache.
Another Friday night brimming with auditory violence, thanks to an all European grindcore line-up.
On the 4th of November, the first edition of grindcore and noise festival Grind Waarpen took place at Kavka in (of course) the beautiful city of Antwaarpen!
