Italian post-groove metal band Noumenia question spiritual connection with fate in their emotional new single and video ‘Fall Apart’, a track from their upcoming ‘Echoes’ album, set for release in June via Eclipse Records!
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Indigenous metal outfit Mawiza announced their new album ‘ÜL’ to be out in July via Season of Mist, sharing the defiant lead single and opening track ‘Wingkawnoam’!
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Orbit Culture started a new beginning with ‘The Tales of War’, their latest single out with Century Media Records, including a menacing video showing the band braving a raging storm. If you want to experience the blast that is the band live, you have limited choices with for now some shows in Europe supporting In Flames and at select festivals like Graspop and Tuska Festival this summer!
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New Wave of American Metal icons Shadows Fall shared another new single and video with ‘Souls Devoured’, out via MNRK Heavy and a metallic anthem released just in time for their upcoming tour dates with metal brethren Killswitch Engage!
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This summer we’ll get to enjoy them bringing their metal circus to the Alcatraz festival stage for an exceptional show, but if you’re going to miss out on that, no worries! Avatar just announced their 2026 Europe and UK headline tour “A Night To Be Torn Apart” with special guests Alien Weaponry, tickets available starting tomorrow April 25th!
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North Texas metal powerhouse Warhog returns with new single ‘Future Shock’, the newest chapter in their ongoing conceptual saga ‘The Dystopian Chronicles, Vol. III’!
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Indigenous metal outfit Mawiza beam with strength in the new video for ‘Killari’, recently unleashed with their new label home Season of Mist!
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Some time ago, Machine Head unveiled another taste of their upcoming album ‘UNATØNED’, set for release on April 25 via Nuclear Blast Records, with the single ‘BØNESCRAPER’! We can’t wait to hear the rest of the album and catch them live when they hit up Europe this summer at festivals like Alcatraz Festival!
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Noumenia project pure energy and power in their new single and music video ‘The Circle’, the first single revealed from their upcoming album ‘Echoes’, their first to be released on Eclipse Records in June!
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It’s been almost 3 years since we last saw the legendary Machine Head come by in Finland, and this summer they’re back! Hellsinki Metal Festival brings their tour to the Ice Halls together with support from Fleshgod Apocalypse, for one hell of a metal night on July 1st! People who are in the capital city for Tuska around that time might want to stick around for another day or 2 to not miss out on this show!
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Rivers of Nihil took over Tavastia in Helsinki a couple of months ago and absolutely blew our minds at the end of our weekend back then with the help of Cynic, Beyond Creation and Dååth!
Pictures of the third day of Alcatraz 2024, with on the Prison Stage explosive shows from Audrey Horne, Soil, Jinjer, Korpiklaani, Gene Simmons Band and Architects!
Pictures of the first day of Alcatraz 2024, with on the Prison Stage explosive shows from Dyscordia, Orden Ogan, Beast In Black, Feuerschwanz, Channel Zero, Saxon and Amon Amarth!
Orbit Culture came, saw and blew us away at Vanha Ylioppilastalo in Helsinki, Finland! And with the support of their country mates of Bite Down, we got a showcase of the promising new music coming from Sweden!
Avatar dropped by the legendary Helsinki venue Tavastia on their “The Great Metal Circus 2024” tour, bringing their visual spectacle and theatrics properly to Finland. With them they brought the US metallers of Æther Realm, really blowing up the night!
A chaotic fuelled blood rampage. That’s what Malevolence released upon Newcastle. Together with Rough Justice and Pain of Truth they laid down absolute destruction at the University Students Union!
A selection of 30 photos that Helder likes a lot from one of his most productive year considering covering concerts, including captures of Fear Factory, Atreyu, Jinjer, Rolo Tomassi, Stone, The Kooks, Pixies, Wunderhorse, Yours Truly, You Me at Six, Lake Malice, Bloodywood, Epica, Avatar, The 69 Eyes, Nova Twins, Cam Cole, Sabaton, The Lumineers, Grailknights, All For Metal, The Baboon Show, Combichrist, Megaherz, The BossHoss, Cancer Bats, Kvelertak, Fixation, Ignea, and Butcher Babies.
The second night of John Smith Rock Frozen 2023 was pretty epic with some of the best of the Finnish scene with Red Eleven, Kiuas, Finntroll, Turmion Kätilöt and headliners Amorphis! Throw on top of that the Swedish up-and-comers of Orbit Culture, and you know it was good!
Close to the end of the year 2023 there was an event that has left headbangers around the world in ecstatic anticipation—the Fear Factory ‘DisrupTour 2023’. This monumental tour brings together a powerhouse line-up featuring the ferocious Butcher Babies, Ignea and Ghosts of Atlantis. As these bands join forces, they promise to deliver an unforgettable experience for metal enthusiasts, showcasing a diverse range of styles within the genre.
A hot and sweaty night in the Halle room of the Backstage club in Munich. Fear Factory are back in a big way, and they were joined by Butcher Babies, Ignea and Ghosts of Atlantis, bringing quite the package with the “Disruptour” all over Europe!
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Rivers Of Nihil brought quite the intensity to Europe earlier this year with their “Aggressive Progressive Tour’, including Cynic, Beyond Creation and Dååth. We caught their show at the legendary Tavastia venue in Helsinki, Finland and saw it was good! Looking forward to seeing Rivers Of Nihil again this summer during the Europe festival season with shows at Brutal Assault, Alcatraz and more!
“The Great Metal Circus 2024” landed in Helsinki, where Avatar turned being at Tavastia that night into something absolutely spectacular and memorable! And the support Æther Realm came all the way from the US to Finland for the very first time, doing a great job at warming up the crowd!
30 years of ‘River Runs Red’, the iconic album of Life Of Agony was brought with bravura and the same grinta as if it was yesterday. The rockers of Prong showed us also that they are alive and kicking, never giving up, and with the night opened by Tarah Who? the night VIERNULVIER in Ghent, Belgium was complete!
Poisonblack returned for a couple more shows in October 2023, organized by Fullsteam Agency. We were present for the gig at Klubi in Tampere, a true celebration of the gothic metal legends they are.
Legendary Belgian metal band Channel Zero finally got to celebrate their 30th anniversary (a few years late due to the pandemic) at Cactus Club in Brugge, a small venue that was a perfect setting for an intense, energetic and somewhat intimate show. Support came from modern metal/nu metal stars on the rise Mantah!
Finally, after 3 years of waiting the “State of Unrest” tour transformed the magical music temple Ancienne Belgique into a pumping meltdown of metalheads. Lamb Of God was the absolute winner of moshpits and crowdsurfing while Kreator treated the German thrash fans. Municipal Waste was the excellent opening act to warm up the audience.
The celebration of 30 years of ‘River Runs Red’ by Life Of Agony at The Black Lab in Wasquehal, France was an intense experience. Prong added some sauce with their celebration of ‘Cleansing’ and some older ones. Tarah Who? did an excellent job to get the fire started.
Amon Amarth and Machine Head came, saw and delivered! The ‘Vikings & Lionhearts tour’ made a stop in Helsinki, Finland and set the room on fire, quite literally… Support came from Swedish melodeath supergroup The Halo Effect.
Gojira took over Europe on their massive ‘Fortitude’ tour with support from up-and-comers Alien Weaponry and Employed To Serve and we caught them at their show at a sold out Jäähalli in Helsinki, Finland in front of a crowd that was absolutely hungry for some good live show!
We had quite a blast at the St. Paddy’s Day Party at The King of Clubs in Columbus, Ohio with great bands, headed by the ever amazing Nonpoint!
