News Posts

Metal-punk trio BAT hit you with the perfect Hallows Eve movie list for horror maniacs in their music video for the track ‘Horror Vision’, from their latest album ‘Under The Crooked Claw’ out now via Nuclear Blast. So if you’re looking for inspiration for a horror filled weekend, go check it out!

All For Metal are thanking their loyal fans by inviting them to their very own ‘Temple Of Silence’ with a brand-new video for the track from their latest album ‘Gods Of Metal (Year Of The Dragon)’ out via Reigning Phoenix Music!

Last week, zombie metal sensation Dominum announced to be unleashing a second album of undead goodies upon the world with ‘The Dead Don’t Die’, coming to you by the end of the year via Napalm Records, and shared a first single with the title track, featuring Ben Metzner from Feuerschwanz and dArtagnan!

The metal band for all video game nerds, Super Monster Party spawns new single ‘Blue Hurricane’ for Sonic the Hedgehog’s 33rd birthday, a track you’ll also find on their upcoming album ‘Rage Quit’, set for release in November!

Grave Digger announced their upcoming new album ‘Bone Collecter’ to be released via ROAR (a division of RPM) in the beginning of 2025, which is the year that marks their 45th anniversary for which they will be touring extensively to celebrate!

Mötley Crüe is celebrating the 35th anniversary of their landmark album ‘Dr. Feelgood’ by releasing a limited edition box set of the album, available for pre-order now!

Last week, Black Label Society unleashed the bradn-new single ‘The Gallows’, out now via Spinefarm Records and exactly what fans of the band should expect of them!

A speed metal bombardment has been unleashed upon the world through the first single and video ‘The Blitz’ from the upcoming Steel Inferno album ‘Rush Of Power’, to be released via From The Vaults!

Battle-hardened heavy metal warriors Grand Magus are gearing up to release their new album ‘Sunraven’ on October 18th via Nuclear Blast Records and unleashed second single ‘The Wheel Of Pain’! Catch them live in the beginning of 2025 in Europe as special guests for Opeth!

We are still remembering the goth darkness we got to enjoy for a moment in the Helldorado stage tent at Alcatraz earlier this summer with Unto Others, and in a couple of weeks we’ll get to enjoy more of this new era of the band with their new album ‘Never, Neverland’ out via Century Media Records! Another single with ‘Momma Likes the Door Closed’ was released about a week ago, and it’s all we’ve ever wanted with heavy riffing and goth vibes!

Photo Reports

Pictures of the massive Stam1na show at the Ice Hockey Hall in Helsinki with special guests Diablo, Corroded and Dear Mother!

Kvelertak

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

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!

Drowning Pool, Salive, Adelitas Way and Any Given Sin are touring the US with “The SNAFU tour” and we got to enjoy a great night of American metal/rock in Fort Wayne, Indiana!

Wind Rose is taking over Europe with their very first headlining tour “European Warfront 2023”, with support from the German heavy metallers of All For Metal and US metal outfit Seven Kingdoms, a recipe for a proper celebration of all that is classic heavy/power metal! We caught up with them at the Backstage venue in Munich and saw it was good!

Infected Rain

Infected Rain came back to Belgium a second time this year on their “Heyday tour 2023”, the place to be was DVG Club in Kortrijk, accompanied by warm up act All Hail the Yeti!

The last day of a long and exhausting weekend of great music and atmosphere was all about the Belgian music scene at La Morgue with Aeveris, Brutal Sphincter, Hexa Mera, Mantah and Reject The Sickness!

Second day at an exciting edition of Alcatraz we went to get a bit of a taste of the old school heavy metal that was playing the whole day at La Morgue with EvilDead and Vicious Rumors!

Album Reviews

The new Belgian metal outfit Shocker shows the decent amount of old school heavy metal they can produce with their own sound and personality!

The fourth album from Belgium’s combat metal unit FireForce is a really tasty slab of heavy metal!

NWOBHM from Latin America in 2021? Lucifer’s Hammer proves that it can work with their third album ‘The Trip’, out on High Roller Records.

Starlight Ritual’s full-length debut ‘Sealed in Starlight’ sounds as if it actually were sealed away in the eighties by some sorcerer only to be unearthed now 40 years later.

From times before the great heavy metal cataclysm of the grunged nineties Blazon Rite leads us into the ‘Endless Halls of Golden Totem’.

With their second album ‘When Good Men Go To War’ Vexillum takes us on an epic and heroic adventure. Are you ready to set sails and join them?

After a few delays, German heavy metal band Orden Ogan‘s new album ‘Final Days‘ has finally been released in March 2021. This album, a dark sci-fi concept, is once again produced by Sebastian ‘Seeb’ Levermann (vocals). “After creating a Dark Wild West scenery for ‘Gunmen’ and having storylines about monasteries in moorlands, apocalyptic ice worlds […]

Attention, (music-) world! BRUNHILDE is coming! The band with the legendary name released their debut full-length and it’s quite the banger!

Australian Butterfly brings us a traditional heavy metal album filled with retro sounds that go from hard to soft and back hard again!

After 3 years EINHERJER returns with ‘North Star’. A great addition to their already 25 year long existing discography.