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Swedish heavy metal band Corroded teamed up with dark drum ‘n’ bass producer Zardonic and his friend Andy Malex for a killer remix of their track ‘Rain’ from the latest album ‘Plague’, released via Despotz Records!

Sweden’s most promising new rock band The Gems are gearing up to release their debut album ‘Phoenix’ this Friday, January 26, via Napalm Records and are sharing the single ‘Fruits Of My Labor’ to overcome the last couple of days before that!

The shred masters of Striker have resurrected that nostalgic 80s saxophone metal sound in their latest single and video ‘Give It All’! Another track from their upcoming album ‘ULTRAPOWER’, set for release next month!

Swedish rockers tAKIDA released the lyric video for the new single ‘Sickening’, another track from their upcoming album ‘The agony flame’ set for release next month via Napalm Records!

The line-up for the 2024 edition of the Belgian glam, sleaze and hard rock festival Wildfest is complete with the addition of Catalano to the already earlier confirmed Tyketto, The New Roses, Crashdïet, The Cruel Intentions, Toxic Rose, DeVicious, Girish and the Chronicles, Trench Dogs, Wildheart, Madhouse, Graywolf, Kim Jennett, Sextrow and Dirty Toy Company! Don’t miss out on this one!

Popular band New Years Day shared their powerfully defiant new single ‘I Still Believe’, a track from their upcoming 5th album ‘Half Black Heart’, set for release in March via Century Media Records!

Seattle based rock outfit Palooka are delivering big thick rock with latest single ‘Save Yourself’, the title track of their upcoming EP set for release in 2024!

American NWOCR band Hearts & Hand Grenades meld rock, country, hip hop and pop in their new single ‘I Just Want My Rock’, another track from their upcoming album ‘Where I Begin’, set for release on January 26 via Eclipse Records!

Heavy rock outfit Lucifer released a video for the new single ‘Slow Dance In A Crypt’, a track from their upcoming album ‘Lucifer V’, set for release in January via Nuclear Blast! And announced ATTIC to join them on the second leg of ‘The Satanic Panic European Tour 2024’ as special guests!

Swedish rock trio The Gems unveiled the new, emotional single ‘Undiscovered Paths’, a track from their upcoming debut album ‘Phoenix’, set for release in January via Napalm Records

Photo Reports

Lordi and his monsters visited Backstage Munich with the “Lordiversitour” and we had a whole lot of fun! With them came the German power metallers of Almanac and the popular Czech metallers Dimitry and we saw it was good!

Skid Row Erik Grönwall

Skid Row on tour with a new album and a new vocalist, so we couldn’t hold back from catching them at their stop in the Kavka Zappa venue in Antwerp with supporting bands Edge of Forever and Max Pie! And what an energetic evening it was!

After 3 years Black Stone Cherry returned to German stages. They have not lost anything ever since the last time and are a fantastic live band with an energy loaded show. Presenting songs from all of their albums making the German fans at the LKA go crazy. With very special guest The Georgia Thunderbolts opening the night, it couldn’t get any better!

The coalition of the Norwegian stoner punks of Bokassa and Greek stoner rockers of Planet of Zeus rocked the house seriously. On The Rocks Helsinki was the place to be and those who weren’t there missed out on some good fun!

To bring back some good festival memories from this summer here are some impressions from day 1 of Wacken Open Air 2022 with Thundermother, Phil Campbell And The Bastard Sons and Grave Digger!

Pictures of a night of good old rocking with the Shiraz Lane boys at the release show of their latest album, with The Cruel Intentions and Luna Kills joining in on the fun!

Pictures of the second day of Knotfest Finland that topped everything of the day before on all levels with kings of metal Slipknot, joined by bands like Shiraz Lane, Tesseract, Stoned Statues, Cradle of Filth, Medeia, Bring Me The Horizon, and Moon Shot!

Yngwie Malmsteen

Yngwie Malmsteen played a show at 013 Poppodium that seemed like more of a try-out than an actual part of the Parabellum tour, but nevertheless a schooling in neo-classical metal that only someone like him could give!

Pictures of the 2nd day of Rock in the City Kerava 2022 with Stam1na, Melrose, Uriah Heep, Accept, Cyan Kicks and Deep Purple.

Pictures of the first day of Rock in the City Kerava 2022 with Turmion Kätilöt, Dampf, Brother Firetribe, Lordi and Korpiklaani.