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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After unveiling all the headliners for the 2024 edition, Graspop Metal Meeting confirmed 84 more names for next year’s massive event! Tickets available from this Saturday on!
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Finnish melodic metal heroes Silver Bullet surprise with their take on the Judas Priest classic ‘Night Crawler’!
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Can’t attend Hellfest Open Air this year? Just like we did in previous years, GRIMM Gent will bring you live updates from Hellfest 2022! General info about Hellfest can be found in our Encore section: Hellfest Festival Guide. Check out our liveblog down below : (initially, it might take a couple of seconds to load, so if […]
As usual, Wacken has announced the first names for the 2021 edition, including the “horror” theme that will take over the holy grounds next edition!
The lineup announcement for the 15th anniversary edition of Hellfest (2020)! Are you excited yet? We sure are! Check which bands have been announced!
Out of nowhere, Graspop just dropped 74 new names for their 25th edition.
Wacken XXX is over, but don’t be sad, there’s plenty of exciting news to be shared around about the future!
We’re leaving for our yearly metal summer holiday in Slovenia… if you can’t be there with us at Metaldays, come and check out our live center!
Finland’s biggest rock & metal event has completely finished their 2018 line-up!
Album Reviews
“Invincible Shield” is an album showing how Judas Priest can sound ultimately aggressive, pure, and straightforward heavy metal, out via Sony Music. There seems to be a consensus that this is one of their best albums since long, on par with some of their classics like ‘Painkiller’!
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RAM is back with an album loaded with the classic sound of heavy metal with a clear improvement in songwriting and style!
Grand Magus’ “Wolf God” is an excellent album and in my opinion this might be their best effort to date.
The roots of NWOBHM resonates throughout the whole album with zeal and passion.
Pounder’s debut full-length album is quite refreshing and the band has managed to bring some energizing tunes without emulating other bands.
Sisters of Suffocation have released a new album! It’s so varied, one could even say it’s multiple albums in one!
Khemmis’s third album “Desolation” shapes traditional harmony to modern metal
Lists
August proves to be a highly exciting and surprisingly full month for new releases! Here is a small selection of those that are most anticipated by our editorial staff!
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!
