News Posts

Stray From The Path signed with SharpTone Records and unleashed their ferocious new single ‘Kubrick Stare’ to celebrate! Catch them live in Europe starting this Thursday as special guests for Spiritbox!

Hardcore legends Orchid announce ‘The Skull Sessions’, the first unreleased music in 20 years set to be released in March! Catch them on tour right now on the West Side!

Metalcore legends Poison The Well are having a promising 2025, signing with SharpTone Records, just dropped their first new song in 15 years with ‘Trembling Level’ and are gearing up to celebrate their 25th anniversary with a tour in the US in April and in Europe and the UK in September!

UK sextet Raging Speedhorn have returned with a new wrestling inspired video for ‘Every Night’s Alright For Fighting’, a track from their upcoming new album ‘Night Wolf’, set for release in March via Spinefarm!

Santa Cruz hardcore band Scowl announced their new album ‘Are We All Angels’ set for release in April via Dead Oceans and unleashed a first captivating single with ‘Not Hell, Not Heaven’!

Swedish black and sludge metal outfit This Gift Is A Curse embrace the abyss on new single ‘Ascension’, a taste from their upcoming album ‘HEIR’, set for release in March via Season of Mist!

Danish death metal/metallic hardcore outfit Lifesick is kicking off the year with a new video for ‘Peace Through Superior Firepower’, a track from their last year released album ‘Loved By None, Hated By All’ out via Metal Blade Records!

Italian hardcore stalwarts Rescüe Cat released their brand-new single ‘Flesh & Weapon’, the title track from their upcoming album, set for release via Time To Kill Records in February!

Dutch metal/hardcore veterans Zubzero are ready for the world to get to know them, and unleash the single ‘The Essence Of Our Existence’, a track from their upcoming EP ‘Perverserverance’!

Belgian metalcore act X-Pozed impressed yet again at last year’s Alcatraz, and have now released their new single ‘Back Down’, an explosive track coming with a matching music video!

Photo Reports

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!

Kvelertak

Kvelertak wrapped up their “Krøterveg te helvete” tour in Trix, Antwerp with support from the Canadian hardcore punk formation Cancer Bats!

We caught the renown German metalcore outfit Annisokay killing it at the Backstage venue in Munich, with the support of 2 promising bands with Fixation and To Kill Achilles!

Kvelertak is continuing to take Europe by storm on their “Krøterveg Te Helvete Tour” presenting their latest work, in the company of Cancer Bats as support. We were there at the Backstage venue in Munich, Germany last week!

Kvelertak and Cancer Bats started quite the riot at Kulttuuritalo Helsinki some weeks ago!

First edition of the charity festival named Aütfëst, held in Bruay-La-Buissière, France. Profit goes to Autism related organisations. With shows from Overflow Guy, Titans Rage, Death Structure, Kamizol K, Overdrivers, Xaon, and BlackRain!

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!

Second day at an exciting edition of Alcatraz with H.E.A.T., Sepultura and Biohazard on the main stage!