Saber, the hottest new heavy metal band out of Los Angeles, signs with RPM ROAR and announced their upcoming new album ‘Lost In Flames’. Fans of Judas Priest, Queensryche and Riot, keep an eye out for these rebel rousers!
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American heavy metal heavyweights Armored Saint are back with a brilliant rendition of the classic track ‘One Chain (Don’t Make No Prison)’, out with a video via Metal Blade Records! Catch them on their European “Saints Will Conquer” tour this summer with stops at excellent festivals like Wacken, Brutal Assault Festival and Alcatraz Festival!
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Ecuadorian/Finnish melodic heavy metal band Black Sun released their second single and video ‘Drown In Sin’, another song from their upcoming album which will be the first with their brand new line-up!
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Bruce Dickinson started his extensive solo tour earlier this week, bringing his latest effort ‘The Mandrake Project’ to people all over Europe! While a bunch of dates are already sold out, there are still some last tickets remaining for some of the stops, don’t miss out on this!
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Canadian heavy metal legends Anvil announced their new studio album ‘One And Only’ to be released in June via AFM Records and unleashed a first killer track with ‘Feed Your Fantasy’!
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Australian blackened heavy metal collective Black Lava announced their upcoming new album ‘The Savage Winds to Wisdom’ set to be released in July and unleashed a first taste of the darkness to come with the single ‘Ironclad Sarcophagus’!
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US heavy metal band Sonja signed to Century Media Records and released their new video/single ‘Discretion For The Generous’!
Catch them on their “10 Year Anniversary Intercontinental Tour”, bringing them to our very own Asgaard venue next week!
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Otherworldly alt duo Zetra emerged from the shadows once more with the new track ‘Starfall’, featuring Svalbard’s Serena Cherry, and announced their self-titled debut album to be released in September via Nuclear Blast Records!
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Belgian music project Entering Polaris dropped a 4th video for the single ‘Glacier’, a track from the double album ‘Atlantean Shores’ and ‘And silently The Age Did Pass’, released last year in June via Freya Records!
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Finnish heavy metal band Oceanhoarse has returned! With new single ‘Killer & the Queen’ and a new line-up, they’re ready to continue their quest to bring proper metal to people around the world!
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Photo Reports
We got to see one of the Raskasta Iskelmää live shows at the sold out Hönö bar in Tampere. Featuring Marko Hietala, Antti Railio and Ville Tuomi on vocals, it’s the perfect summer getaway while waiting for the Raskasta Joulua season. A very fun evening presented by Tuhdimmat Tahdit and Master Events.
After having brought an impression of the first day of TollRock Festival, here are the impressions for day 2 from our photographer with Guano Apes, Thundermother, and Dog Eat Dog!
One of our photographers went to the smaller, but wonderful festival TollRock in Germany a couple of weeks ago and was so kind to share some of his pictures with us of day 1 with Mötorblast, Phil Campbell and the Bastard Sons and Völkerball.
No festivals in Belgium this summer for Iron Maiden, but instead they came for an evening to the Sportpaleis venue in Antwerp for their fans to witness the heavy metal heroes live, with support of The Raven Age.
Pictures of A.A. Williams, Orbit Culture, Finntroll, Marko Hietala and Butcher Babies taking over the tent stage and Inferno stage on the second day of Tuska 2023!
An Ice Nine Kills show is an absolute visual spectacle, and we were at one of their completely sold out shows in Finland at Vanha Ylioppilastalo in Helsinki with support from SKYND and Lansdowne!
Day 2 of Tuhdimmat Tahdit was just as hot. Carnival Academy, Heavy Metal Perse, Antony Parviainen Trio, Turmion Kätilöt, Metalite, Wolfheart, Shereign, Before the Dawn, Brymir, Mokoma, Swallow the Sun and lastly Battle Beast. Master Events gave us a festival that is certainly worth coming back to.
On the third day of Rockfest 2023, we weren’t able to capture as many bands as on the earlier days due to other responsibilities and some artists not wanting any pictures to be taken, but we still caught killer performances on the Red Stage by Soundi by Igorrr, The Hellacopters and Beast In Black!
On the third day of Rockfest 2023, we weren’t able to capture as many bands as on the earlier days due to other responsibilities and some artists not wanting any pictures to be taken, but we still caught epic shows on the main stage by Michael Monroe, and Volbeat!
The second day of Rockfest 2023, the Black Stage brought 3 very different takes on rock music with shows from Crashdiet, Nestor and Cleopatrick.
Lists
2018 was a big year for metal and especially for extreme metal, check out Maxen’s list of the best what 2018 had to bring in his opinion!
Heavy metal, doom and a touch of power in Wouter’s albums of the year 2018 list!
End of the year means albums of the year lists, so here is the one we accumulated from what our editorial team likes!
A list of the top albums of 2018, dominated by tech death releases!
A list of albums of the year 2018 that mostly seems to revolve around energy and emotions, check it out!
2017 was again a massive year for music of all makes, I’ve done my best to narrow it down to the 10 releases that suck with me the most the past year…
Once you go heavy, you never go back… Wouter’s albums of the year hold on to the good olden days of Heavy Metal!
Festival Reports
2 days of extreme metal from the crypts of the underground: SteelChaos, you were great yet again!
The metal day of Lokerse Feesten was hot this year, in every aspect of the word… A hot line up, but also freaking hot weather!
3 days of the best you can find in metal, rock and other related genres all came together on the Suvilahti grounds in Helsinki, what resulted in yet another great edition of Tuska!
The 2018 edition of Dynamo Metalfest was again bull’s eye, the music, the bands, the people, the organisation, the weather. Read all about it !!!
Graspop Metal Meeting went XL for the first time! A review of a chaotic, but fun weekend on our Belgian Holy Grounds.
Only the 2nd edition of The Rock Fest in Finland and we were in for one hell of a massive event!
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…
It’s oh so quiet, it’s oh so hot…! This year’s edition was one of heat, historical events and many records!
A small, but great event with even greater bands from our local scene!
Onze impressie van dag drie van de 42ste editie van de Lokerse Feesten, ook wel gekend als de “Metaldag”…
