All For Metal just released their powerful second studio album ‘Gods Of Metal (Year Of The Dragon)’ with Reigning Phoenix Music, and celebrated with a monumental and epic music video for the track ‘Year Of The Dragon’!
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News Posts
Powerwolf unleashed their new album ‘Wake Up The Wicked’ last week via Napalm Records and released the thrilling, cinematic music video for the track ‘We Don’t Wanna Be No Saints’ to celebrate!
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Unto Others are back with new album ‘Never, Neverland’ set for release in September via Century Media Records and shared the single ‘Angel of the Night’. Catch them on tour in Europe in August with stops at festivals like Wacken, Brutal Assault and Alcatraz Music!
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Heavy metal legends Satan recently announced their upcoming new album ‘Songs In Crimson’, set for release in September via Metal Blade Records, after which they’ll embark on an extensive UK/Europe tour, including a stop at our very own Asgaard venue!
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Armored Saint is set to reissue their ‘Revelation’ and ‘La Raza’ albums on vinyl next month via Metal Blade Records and are starting their European summer tour today at Headbangers Open Air, taking them also to festivals like Wacken and Alcatraz Festival!
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Finnish melancholic metal act Endless Chain unleashes a music video for their new single ‘Beyond What You Believe’, another track from upcoming album ‘Agony’, set for release at the end of August! Fans of Insomnium, Swallow the Sun and Amorphis may want to pay heed!
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Nothing Sacred, one of Australia’s pioneering heavy metal bands, is kicking off their highly anticipated 2024 European summer tour tomorrow at Headbangers Open Air, taking them all over Europe until they wrap things up at Speed Metal Party in Tampere, Finland halfway August!
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Swedish metal vikings Brothers Of Metal revealed with ‘Heavy Metal Viking’ the first song from their upcoming new album ‘Fimbulvinter’, set for release in November via AFM Records! For a proper viking party, catch them this summer at a small selection of European festivals like Tuska this weekend, or on tour through Europe after the release of their album!
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Finnish heavy metal band Oceanhoarse is back after a brief hiatus with a new line-up and a brand-new video single ‘Logos’, out now via Noble Demon!
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Canadian heavy metal legends Anvil shared their latest new single ‘World Of Fools’, another track from their upcoming new album ‘One And Only’, set for release next week via AFM Records!
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Interviews
We had the chance to ask Amanda Somerville a couple of questions about her latest release with Trillium and her life in the music industry!
Ironborn started as a coverband, but brings more often own written material. Wonder what the band’s plans are for the future? Find out here.
Would you like to know how Guilty As Charged is doing 4 years after their last album? Find out here in this interview I had with the band.
Would you like to know how Guilty As Charged is doing 4 years after their last album? Find out here in this interview I had with the band.
We talked with the only original Judas Priest member still in the band, Ian Hill, about (of course) music, drinks and food!
We talked with the only original Judas Priest member still in the band, Ian Hill, about (of course) music, drinks and food!
Check out what Johannes Andersson had to say about Tribulation’s new album Down Below here!
Check out what Johannes Andersson had to say about Tribulation’s new album Down Below here!
We interviewed Diablo Blvd. when they arrived in Belgium from 70.000 Tons Of Metal. “We watched the Superbowl with the singer of Cannibal Corpse while a dinosaur was dancing on Justin Timberlake.”
We interviewed Diablo Blvd. when they arrived in Belgium from 70.000 Tons Of Metal. “We watched the Superbowl with the singer of Cannibal Corpse while a dinosaur was dancing on Justin Timberlake.”
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.
Photo Reports
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 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!
Pictures of the performances of Pentagram, Burst, Priest, Déluge, Fit For An Autopsy and Watain on the indoor stage of Hellsinki Metal Festival!
Pictures of the Arion, Clawfinger, Blind Guardian and Apocalyptica shows at the first day of Hellsinki Metal Festival 2023.
Every year, one day of the 10-day long Lokerse Feesten is dedicated to metal. A day full of headbanging, mosh-pits and heavy guitars with this year Hammok, Biohazard, Doodseskader, Bullet For My Valentine, Psychonaut, Megadeth, Slift, Within Temptation, Stake and Amenra.
