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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Hardcore Punk/noise outfit Linguaserpente unleashed their debut album ‘Fast Radio Burst’ via Overdrive Records, Go Down Records, Shove Records and The Fucking Clinica Records and shared a scorching new music video for ‘Inferno Dance’ to celebrate!
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Get ready for this! Agnostic Front is returning to Europe yet again this summer for their Urban Decay Tour! Get your tickets now!
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Belgian punk/post-hardcore band Adverse96 released a music video for the song ‘Forevermore’, a track from their recently released full-length album ‘Clear The Lane’!
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Canadian thrash metal/hardcore punk force Supermodel Taxidermy shared the single ‘Lipstick’, a homage to the women in the scene and a track from their upcoming album ‘At What Cost’, set for release in May!
The tickets for all of the Punk Rock Bowling Festival club shows are going on sale this Saturday, March 16th! Don’t miss out because it’s promising to be yet again an amazing celebration of all that is punk!
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Modern punk and hardcore pioneers Comeback Kid shared their exhilarating new song and video ‘Disruption’, a track from their upcoming ‘Trouble’ EP, set for release in March via SharpTone Records!
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Tuska has confirmed 16 more names for the 2024 edition with Stratovarius, HEALTH, Lord Of The Lost, Eivør, Elvenking, Devourment, St. Aurora, Assemble the Chariots, I AM YOUR GOD, Swansong, Krypta, Sadistic Drive, Prestige, Putro In Black, SICK URGE and Dome Runner! Get your tickets now before the price increase in a couple of weeks!
What bands are you happy with this time? And what bands are you still hoping for?
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London punk rabble-rousers The Chisel are gearing up for the release of their highly anticipated new album ‘What A F*cking Nightmare’, set for release on February 9th via Pure Noise Records and share one more taste with the final single ‘Bloodsucker’!
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Punk outfit The Chisel delivers yet another banging track with ‘Those Days’, heralding the Oi! hooks and hardcore stomp that everyone love! A track from their upcoming album ‘What A F*cking Nightmare’ set for release via Pure Noise Records next month!
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In 10 days, Kortrijk in Belgium, will turn the heavy up again with Hell’s Balls Belgium, just like they do every summer with Alcatraz festival. In case you weren’t sure yet why you should go, here are what we think are valid reasons for you to be there…
What are you the most excited about of this year’s editions of the festival? Let us know in the comments!
The summer festival season is over, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t plenty of exciting fests happening over the next couple of months this autumn/winter in Finland, starting with Cult of Darkness today, Helsinki Techfest, and HKI SKEPU FEST VI this month still, Pakanafesterit in October, Hellsinki Industrial Festival and Melancholy Mass Festivals in November, and John Smith Rock Frozen in December! And for the beer and music lovers, several Masis Beer & Metal events spread over the next couple of months all over Finland! Go get your tickets now!
With about a week to go, we put together 10 reasons why we think you should consider to still get yourself a ticket for Alcatraz 2024 and join in with the fun! With a stellar line-up, including some of the best the Belgian scene has to offer and a great organization trying to improve your festival experience year after year, it’s promising to be one hell of a weekend again!
Gary’s albums of the year venture away from our more standard metal selection with a bunch of stellar punk releases from bands like The Bar Stool Preachers, Grade 2, The Darts, The Dollyrots, Rumkicks and Rancid, but also sidesteps into other music like the special brand of rock that Public Image Ltd. brings, blues rock with Samantha Fish and Jesse Dayton, an acoustic Dropkick Murphys and a trip back into time, reminiscing about London’s legendary Batcave Club!
The summer festival season is over, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t plenty of exciting fests happening over the next couple of months this autumn/winter in Finland with Helsinki Techfest and Kaamos Metal Cruise already this weekend, HKI SKEPU FEST V, Lost In Music, Steelchaos, Hellsinki Industrial Festival 2023, Fall Fest 2023, Black Box Mikkeli, Melancholy Mass Festival 2023 and Unholy Winter Fest!
With less than 2 weeks to go, we put together 10 reasons why we think you should consider to still get yourself a ticket for Alcatraz 2023 and join in with the fun!
The first Tuska 2023 day is here! In a handful of hours the gates will open and 3 days of heavy music will begin! Besides the headliners and some big names, we’ve picked out about 10 bands and artists we believe you should give a shot while you’re at Tuska this weekend with Vended, Kouta, Foreseen and Miseria Ultima today, A.A. Williams, Orbit Culture, Dirt and Nakkeknækker tomorrow, and Vermilia and URNE on Sunday!
March is one hell of a month! Yet again tons of releases to pick from, so here is a small selection again of what we highly recommend and is most anticipated for us!
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The second night of this year’s edition of HKI SKEPU FEST in Helsinki was yet another (skate) punk party you shouldn’t have missed with the Danes from Uphill Struggle, the Polish party machine that was CF98 and Finnish acts Lame Duck, Teresa Banks and headliner Against It All!
Last month, the 6th edition of HKI SKEPU FEST took place in Helsinki to celebrate (skate) punk and everything surrounding that scene with on the first night bands like Critical Low, Glass Wipe, Malvina and Snuff!
Pictures of the first day of Alcatraz 2024, with on the Helldorado Stage a serving of punk and hardcore with Funeral Dress, The Casualties, Cro-Mags, Madball and Life of Agony, modern metal from Sylosis and post-metal with The Ocean!
A selection of Vaim’s best captures of 2023, after a long and grueling process of elimination, with pictures from bands like Battle Beast, Gaerea, Trollheim’s Grott, Avslut, Der Weg einer Freiheit, Amenra, Igorrr, Aesthetic Perfection, HIDE, SKYND, Ice Nine Kills, Utuk Xul, Rancid, Sick Of It All, Stratovarius, Testament, Michael Monroe, Volbeat, Hellacopters, Pensées Nocturnes, Amorphis, Biohazard, Killswitch Engage, Converge, Agnostic Front, Taake, Public Image Ltd, A.A. Williams, Butcher Babies, Clutch, Finntroll, Electric Callboy, Ghost, Gojira, Imperial Triumphant, Lorna shore, The Hu and Urne!
Our recently joined photographer Lindy is excited to see what 2024 is going to bring for her, but for now, let’s have a look back at some of her favorite pictures she took in 2023 at shows from bands like Across the White Water Tower, Alesana, Autopsy Affair, Brand of Sacrifice, Currents, Emmure, Greyhaven, Knuckle Puck, Magg Dylan, Magnolia Parl, Midnight Threat, Norma Jean, Origami Angel, Pink Shift, Saliva, See You Space Cowboy, Silverstein, Sweet Pill, The Contactees, The SoapGirls, Virginia, and We Came As Romans!
With Gary’s selection of his favorite pictures, we dive into his 2023 in punk with The Adolescents, The Interrupters, Fea, Sloppy Seconds, The Svetlanas, The Damned, L7, Madam Bombs, Roy Ellis & The Aggrolites, The Casualties, Surfbort and Suzi Moon captured at Punk Rock Bowling, The Darts, The Soap Girls and Tokyo Honey Trap captured at some of the smalles venues in his area, and The Rumkicks and Hi-Fi Spitfires captured at Rebellion Festival!
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!
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!
Kvelertak wrapped up their “Krøterveg te helvete” tour in Trix, Antwerp with support from the Canadian hardcore punk formation Cancer Bats!
Kvelertak and Cancer Bats started quite the riot at Kulttuuritalo Helsinki some weeks ago!
Festival Reports
Somehow this one got stuck in purgatory, but the last and third day of Punk Rock Bowling 2024 was yet another amazing day, with impressive women on stage with Doll Riot, Kate Clover, Vial, Die Spitz, Bratmobile, and Scowl, and good old fun with English Beat, Stiff Little Fingers, Gogol Bordello, and the end of a several decade wait to see Madness live in the US!
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Punk Rock Bowling and Music Festival 2024 was long and hot, but definitely worth it for any punk and hardcover lover with the first day our resident punker catching shows from The Iron Roses, Bad Cop Bad Cop, Teen Mortgage, The Skatalites, 999, Madball, Billy Bragg, Gorilla Biscuits and The Descendants!
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The last day of this year’s Rebellion Festival, a day of no plans and discovery brought our man to the Ask Charlie (from UK Subs) Q&A, and shows from Zen Baseball Bat, Hi-Fi Spitfires, The Shit Talkers, Murphy’s Law, TV Smith & The Bored Teenagers, Antagonizers, Doug & The Slugz and The Briefs!
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A selection of our personal highlights in all the hardcore, punk, metalcore & co shows at Alcatraz 2023 with Trivium, Mad Sin, Converge, Agnostic Front, Biohazard, The Exploited, Heaven Shall Burn, Killswitch Engage and Electric Callboy!
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The second day of Rebellion Festival 2023 was filled with surprises and nostalgia with bands like The Zips, Red London, Turtles JR, Spizz Energi, Bar Stool Preachers and last but not least, the two-tone legend Neville Staples from The Specials to get everyone skanking.
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Day 3 of Inkcarceration didn’t slow the weekend down. Beartooth kept the crowd ready to rock as they took the stage and gave it their all!
Helsinki Punk ‘n’ Roll Day brought a bunch of really interesting punk bands together on one stage!
HVNK PNKRCK 3.0 came, grabbed us by the nuts and threw us into the fray of several steaming moshpits with energetic punk, hardcore and rock ‘n’ roll!
Tuska 2017 promised to be a huge party for metal and rock lovers. With their 20th anniversary they geared up to make it one hell of a celebration…
Local talents and bigger names from Finland gather to mosh and dance on punk & hardcore for 2 nights!
