Modern metal band Never Obey Again released a video for the track ‘Control’, from their recently released second album ‘Trust’, out on Scarlet Records!
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Finnish pop metal outfit Memoremains delivers a full-blood party song with ‘Stand Up’, the perfect song to take a little break and let everything go!
People in Finland, make sure you catch them live supporting Enemy Inside in a couple of months!
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Finnish melodic metal outfit Arion signed to Reigning Phoenix Music and announced to be releasing their 4th album ‘The Light That Burns The Sky’ at the end of next month and shared the track ‘Like The Phoenix I Will Rise’ with a fiery music video! Catch them live on their Finnish tour with Stratovarius and Sonata Arctica, European co-headline tour with Brainstorm or this summer at Tuska!
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Italian metal legends Lacuna Coil are going on full force with the release of their latest single ‘Gravity’ last week, the 5th single from their upcoming album ‘Sleepless Empire’, out next month via Century Media Records!
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Finnish melodic metal band Unén are excited to share their new single ‘Sky’, out now via Frontiers Music, a first taste of what is to come!
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Melodic metal champions Cyhra have signed with Reigning Phoenix Music and unleashed their lastest single ‘Superman’ to herald the new era of the band!
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Last month, the French metal outfit Novelists unleashed a double single with ‘CODA’ and ‘KO’, showing off the diversity you can expect from their upcoming album and taking the scene by storm!
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Dutch symphonic metal powerhouse Ylisia released its brand-new video for the emotionally charged track ‘September’, a track from their album ‘Underneath’, set for release in December via Wormholedeath!
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Italian metal outfit Risen Crow unveiled their first single and video ‘Risen Crow’, a track from their upcoming album ‘Requiem For a Damned Love’, set for release early 2025 via Rockshots Records!
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Boston-based Major Moment released music video and single ‘Staged’, in anticipation of the release of their upcoming album ‘The Pain That Makes Us Grow’ set for release in late this year!
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Album Reviews
Avantasia gives us once again a pearl of an album full of magical stories and adventures. ‘Here Be Dragons’ is out now via Napalm Records! We can’t wait to experience the epicness on the upcoming tour!
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With ‘Clear Cold Beyond’ Sonata Arctica are re-visiting their faster and heavier roots and will delight older fans, while possibly surprising some of their more new fans. Out via Atomic Fire Records (Reigning Phoenix Music) since last Friday!
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Katatonia proudly presenting their hauntingly beautiful next studio album ‘Sky Void of Stars’ out January 20 via Napalm Records. It’s a classic Katatonia album, no surprises there. If you are a fan of melodic, melancholic metal and dark lyrics, you won’t want to miss out on this one.
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After Volume 1 of ‘Acoustic Adventures’ came out in January via Atomic Fire Records, its follow up wasn’t far behind. Volume 2 focuses more on the faster tunes in Sonata Arctica’s catalogue, but is just as filled with tender emotions.
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Sonata Arctica immortalized the acoustic versions of some of their classics on the new album »Acoustic Adventures Volume One«.
Another gem in the rich history of excellent albums that Evergrey releases into the world. Dense powerful music with deep emotional lyrics.
Delain brings a new album with quite an unique concept. Find out here how they did that.
Helix is surprising. It’s catchy and poppy. But also sturdy and material for head banging. Definitely give it a listen if you’re in for something new.
I took them 13 years to release a demo and a single, but here’s the first album!
Photo Reports
This year’s “Motocultor across Europe Tour” kickoff show was at Poppodium 013 in Tilburg, The Netherlands, headlined by Moldovan favorite Infected Rain and support acts Semblant, Elyose, Miruthan, and Skin On Flesh!
If you didn’t choose to attend WITHIN TEMPTATION’s ‘Bleed Out Tour 2024’ stop in the Porsche Arena on the 3rd of December in Stuttgart and its surroundings, you missed out! Their show was a visual event of its own that ranges in the absolute top without a doubt. Support acts BLIND8 (Ukraine) and ANNISOKAY (Germany) completed the line-up to make it an outstanding concert highlight!
Kamelot’s “Awaken the World Tour 2024” stopped by the Trix venue in Antwerp, Belgium. And together with supporting acts Frozen Crown, Blackbriar and Ad Infinitum, they made the event a complete package of symphonic and power metal brilliance!
Within Temptation dropped by in Helsinki on their “Bleed Out tour 2024” that is taking over arenas all over Europe and treated us to a visual and musical spectacle like only they can deliver. With them they brought guest artists to do some songs with them and support band Annisokay!
At the beginning of March, Amaranthe, Dragonforce and Infected Rain brought quite the spectacle to thousands of fans gathered in Helsinki’s Black Box Jäähalli venue!
On Friday 15.03.2024 Sonata Arctica started off their “Clear Cold Beyond” tour at Pakkahuone in Tampere together with Temple Balls as support. The show was organized by Grey Beard and TuskaLive.
Cradle of Filth came by for a couple of sold out shows in Finland on their massive Europe tour with Wednesday 13 and Sick N’ Beautiful and we caught this spectacle at Tampere’s Pakkahuone a couple of weeks back!
We set the hard task for our photographers to choose the best 30 pictures that they have shot in 2023 out of possibly thousands of captures, and here is the result of Tom Treuten’s selection with Butcher Babies, Fateful Finality, Fear Factory, Thundermother, Hypocrisy, Spiritbox, Behemoth, Dog Eat Dog, The Cult, Skillet, Agnostic Front, Scorpions, May The Silence Fail, Cannibal Corpse, Ataraxy, Dark Funeral, Goldmann, Solstafir, Ingested, Antiheld, Lansdowne, Völkerball (Rammstein Tribute), Fettes Brot, Danko Jones, Royal Republic, Team Tot, and Mindead!
The year wrapping up means that we’ll be looking back at the amazing things we’ve experienced, and “album of the year” lists. We’d also like to give some attention to our talented concert photographers who go out and cover shows for us. So here is a first in a series of articles where our artists pick their favorite pictures of 2023 with Anna/ScarletMemory Photography who mostly roams around in Tampere, Finland and pictures from bands like Pain, Sólstafir, Eleine, Myrath, Battle Beast, Brymir, Sabaton, Mors Subita, Lordi, Metalite, Shereign, Diablo, Before The Dawn, Wolfheart, Sonata Arctica, Deathstars, Brother Firetribe, Psychework, Apocalyptica, Voidfallen, Poets of the Fall, Amorphis, Lost Society, and Everwave!
Close to the end of the year 2023 there was an event that has left headbangers around the world in ecstatic anticipation—the Fear Factory ‘DisrupTour 2023’. This monumental tour brings together a powerhouse line-up featuring the ferocious Butcher Babies, Ignea and Ghosts of Atlantis. As these bands join forces, they promise to deliver an unforgettable experience for metal enthusiasts, showcasing a diverse range of styles within the genre.
