Modern rock powerhouse Pop Evil shared their dark new single/video ‘Deathwalk’, out now via MNRK Heavy!
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Rock institution Franz Ferdinand shared a video for their latest single ‘Night Or Day’, a track from the upcoming album ‘The Human Fear’ to be released early 2025 via Domino!
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After a hiatus year, Rockfest is back! New location, but also a rather action packed first batch of confirmed names for the 2025 edition with names like Muse, Judas Priest and Till Lindemann topping the bill!
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Hard rock’s own Belgian firebrand Dani Hart dropped a powerful new single some time ago with ‘No More’, a track featuring legendary bassist Billy Sheehan and an empowering track urging people to stand up and confronting power abusers!
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Finnish rock sensations Ginger Evil announced the release of their debut album ‘The Way It Burns’, set to be out in early 2025 via Frontiers Music and shared the video single ‘Hands Move To Midnight’!
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Finnish rockin’ metal band Miss Vain is set to release their second EP ‘Sempiternal Drive’ via Inverse Records in April 2025 and shared a first single and music video with ‘Remedy’!
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Swedish rock ‘n’ roll royalty The Hellacopters have graced us with the first single from their upcoming album ‘Overdriver’ set for release in early 2025 via Nuclear Blast Records. ‘Leave A Mark’ unites the guitar assault and anthemic, hook-laden sound they’re known for and comes with a fitting video!
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Swedish rock goddesses Thundermother shared the new video single ‘Dead or Alive’, ahead of their much-anticipated upcoming album ‘Dirty & Divine’, set for release in February 2025 via AFM Records!
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Swedish hard rockers Crazy Lixx shared their official video for the track ‘Little Miss Dangerous’, turning up the heat quite some notches! Out now via Frontiers Music!
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Finnish rockers Temple Balls shared their new single ‘Distorted Emotions (Live)’, out now via Frontiers Music, in anticipation of the release of the deluxe edition of their latest album ‘Avalanche’ and upcoming UK tour with Straight For The Sun!
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Photo Reports
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!
We set the hard task for our photographers to choose the best 30 pictures that they have shot in 2023 out of possibly thousands of captures, and here is the result of Tom Treuten’s selection with Butcher Babies, Fateful Finality, Fear Factory, Thundermother, Hypocrisy, Spiritbox, Behemoth, Dog Eat Dog, The Cult, Skillet, Agnostic Front, Scorpions, May The Silence Fail, Cannibal Corpse, Ataraxy, Dark Funeral, Goldmann, Solstafir, Ingested, Antiheld, Lansdowne, Völkerball (Rammstein Tribute), Fettes Brot, Danko Jones, Royal Republic, Team Tot, and Mindead!
After a long break, Gluecifer, who are one of Norway’s finest rock exports, played 3 gigs on their ‘Kings of Rock Tour 2023’ in Germany. We were lucky enough to be able to catch one of these shows for you at LKA Longhorn in Stuttgart! Power-rock trio The Demtones gave a solid support as opening act.
The year wrapping up means that we’ll be looking back at the amazing things we’ve experienced, and “album of the year” lists. We’d also like to give some attention to our talented concert photographers who go out and cover shows for us. So here is a first in a series of articles where our artists pick their favorite pictures of 2023 with Anna/ScarletMemory Photography who mostly roams around in Tampere, Finland and pictures from bands like Pain, Sólstafir, Eleine, Myrath, Battle Beast, Brymir, Sabaton, Mors Subita, Lordi, Metalite, Shereign, Diablo, Before The Dawn, Wolfheart, Sonata Arctica, Deathstars, Brother Firetribe, Psychework, Apocalyptica, Voidfallen, Poets of the Fall, Amorphis, Lost Society, and Everwave!
Nonpoint, one of our photographers’ favorite bands to see live, made a stop at The Eclectic Room in Angola, Indiana on their “The Milliion Watts Tour 2023” and with the help of (hed)pe, Sumo Cyco and VRSTY turned the night in an absolute barn burner!
Extreme was on tour throughout Europe to present us their brand-new album “Six” and brought The Last Internationale with them as a support act. We caught their high energy shows at their stop at Trix in Antwerp, Belgium!
On the 10th anniversary edition of the Belgian hard rock and metal festival Blast From The Past, they did what they do best yet again: bringing the old school to a stage near you with an impressive line-up of Angel Witch, Onslaught, Exumer, Vengeance, Witchfynde, Hitten, Existance, Steelover, and Toledo Steel!
Danko Jones got us shakin’ to the pure rock ‘n’ roll show he brings every time he takes over the Tavastia stage in Helsinki. Warm-up was served by local rock heroes Dirt.
We also took some pictures of Brother Firetribe coming to town on their “Band On A Mission” Finland tour, where they rocked the G Livelab venue in Tampere, brought there by Master Events!
Today, they’re starting their extensive “Shake Your City” European tour at a sold out Tavastia in Helsinki, but earlier this year, to celebrate the release of their new album ‘Electric Sounds’, the Canadian rockers of Danko Jones dropped by in Helsinki. For a private rock party where only a select amount of fans and music professionals had a great time seeing them in a small club stage setting!
