Gearing up for a busy summer touring schedule that will bring them to for instance Tuska next week, Infected Rain present a new music video for the track ‘PANDEMONIUM’ from their latest album ‘TIME’, released earlier this year via Napalm Records!
System Of A Down’s Shavo Odadjian unveiled his new project Seven Hours After Violet, featuring members of Left To Suffer, Winds of Plague and Scarypoolparty, and dropped the debut single ‘Paradise’ with a trippy video. It also marks the launch of his new joint label venture 1336 Records in partnership with Sumerian Music Group!
Alternative metal band Ankor signed to UNFD for the release of their upcoming album and unleashed to celebrate the single ‘Embers’ with a mesmerizing video! Catch them this summer at a bunch of European festivals including some of our favorites like Tuska, Wacken and Alcatraz!
Void of Vision announced their new album ‘What I’ll Leave Behind’ to be released in September via UNFD and shared the compelling new single and video ‘Gamma Knife’, detailing vocalist Jack Bergin’s personal growth after a near death experience!
Bleed From Within released a brand-new anthem with ‘Hands Of Sin’, including a captivating video, via Nuclear Blast right when they were about to embark on a European summer festival tour this month with stops at Download and Graspop among others. Or catch them at the end of the year as special guests for the European tour of Slipknot!
German metalcore veterans Neaera unveiled a video for latest single and title track ‘All Is Dust’ of their upcoming new full-length, set for release at the end of this month via Metal Blade Records!
Rising UK nu-core band Sunfall releaes their new single and video ‘Blood Moon’, another teaser for their eagerly anticipated debut album ‘Les Morts Son Nés Ici’, set for release via Out Of Line Music at the end of June!
Aussie metalcore behemoths Alpha Wolf released their hotly anticipated new album ‘Half Living Things’ via Greyscale Records and SharpTone Records last Friday and celebrate with a video for the track ‘Haunter’!
Metalcore outfit Make Them Suffer returned armed with a glossy yet blistering new single ‘Epitaph’, out via Greyscale Records and SharpTone Records! Catch them live this Summer at European festivals like Copenhell, Graspop and Tuska Open Air, and select club dates!
British metallers Graphic Nature announced their upcoming second album ‘Who Are You When No One Is Watching?’ for a July release via Rude Records and shared the scathing new single ‘To The Grave’ as a first taste!
The very last day of Belgium’s biggest yearly metal event with the very last (we promise) show of Kiss!
Day 0 of GMM has been a solid warm up for a couple of years and this year is was no different.
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 !!!
Only the 2nd edition of The Rock Fest in Finland and we were in for one hell of a massive event!
The first edition of a festival that is aiming for the stars! With a lot of good but also a lot of bad happening…
On the last weekend of April 2017, Groezrock took place at Meerhout, a town located in Antwerp (Belgium). Like told before in the preview, the weather left us hanging a bit .. and so did traffic a little. But that didn’t keep all the Punkrock/Hardcore lovers at home. By the time I arrived on Friday, a […]
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”…
A selection of Jonna’s best captures of 2023, with pictures from bands Butcher Babies, Electric Callboy, Ghost, Glenn Hughes, Gojira, In Flames, Lorna Shore, The Hu, Ville Valo, Chamber of Unlight, Asagraum, Monuments, Sodom, Batushka, Blind Guardian, and Apocalyptica!
A selection of Vaim’s best captures of 2023, after a long and grueling process of elimination, with pictures from bands like Battle Beast, Gaerea, Trollheim’s Grott, Avslut, Der Weg einer Freiheit, Amenra, Igorrr, Aesthetic Perfection, HIDE, SKYND, Ice Nine Kills, Utuk Xul, Rancid, Sick Of It All, Stratovarius, Testament, Michael Monroe, Volbeat, Hellacopters, Pensées Nocturnes, Amorphis, Biohazard, Killswitch Engage, Converge, Agnostic Front, Taake, Public Image Ltd, A.A. Williams, Butcher Babies, Clutch, Finntroll, Electric Callboy, Ghost, Gojira, Imperial Triumphant, Lorna shore, The Hu and Urne!
A selection of 30 photos that Helder likes a lot from one of his most productive year considering covering concerts, including captures of Fear Factory, Atreyu, Jinjer, Rolo Tomassi, Stone, The Kooks, Pixies, Wunderhorse, Yours Truly, You Me at Six, Lake Malice, Bloodywood, Epica, Avatar, The 69 Eyes, Nova Twins, Cam Cole, Sabaton, The Lumineers, Grailknights, All For Metal, The Baboon Show, Combichrist, Megaherz, The BossHoss, Cancer Bats, Kvelertak, Fixation, Ignea, and Butcher Babies.
Besides starting the new year properly looking to the future, this month we’re also still looking back at all the awesomeness that 2023 brought us. One of those awsome things was the already 3rd edition of the by Bloodred Hourglass curated festival Black Box Mikkeli. They were able to bring a killer line-up again on the 2nd day of their event with besides a fantastic show by themselves, Insomnium, Gaerea, Balance Breach, I Am Your God and Lastout!
Our Benelux and France head of accreditation and most active photographer in that region, Tom VM, made his own selection of favorite pictures he took in 2023, including some new stuff that wasn’t shared on our site before with Biohazard, Bleed From Within, Brutal Sphincter, Brutus, Electric Callboy, Michael Schenker Group, Sepultura, Arion, Blackrain, Overdrivers, Avatar, Winery Dogs, Charlotte Wessels, Devin Townsend, Dream Theater, Extreme, Ghost, Michael Angelo Batio, Arch Enemy, Doodseskader, Halestorm, I Prevail, Powerwolf and SKYND!
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!
Welcoming events that try to bring something different and out of the norm to Finland, we went to the second night of the club festival Hellsinki Techfest with Sirkuit Preiker, Khroma, Balance Breach and Hacktivist back in September for some killer music and high energy!
The last Wednesday night of November at The Clyde Theatre in Fort Wayne, Indiana was definitely NOT a “Nightmare” or a cause for “Panic” for fans anxiously waiting to catch a stop on the “Blackout Tour” with From Ashes to New, The Word Alive, Catch Your Breath and Ekoh!
Back in August, Asgaard’s new live season kicked off with a metalcore/deathcore event in collaboration with Return Bookings, bringing Signs of the Swarm, Mental Cruelty, When Plagues Collide, Knives To A Gunfight and Subvergence to our venue to absolutely destroy!
We caught the renown German metalcore outfit Annisokay killing it at the Backstage venue in Munich, with the support of 2 promising bands with Fixation and To Kill Achilles!
Finnish metalcore misfits One Morning Left are sitting on a banger of an album with ‘Hyperactive’, mixing in the right amounts of 80s kitsch creating a neon monster along the way!
ANNISOKAY’s latest release ‘Aurora’ is a daring album due to the mixing of other genre’s in their metalcore.
Although you didn’t see it coming, you’re stuck in it. It attacks you, shows what it’s capable of, and then leaves. This 30 minute debut record by Abigail’s Affair is powerful, it smacks you in the face.
I went through, listened to and reviewed the newest release from Black Veil Brides. Here’s the re-make you didn’t know you needed!
Finnish outfit Balance Breach is setting the tone for what metalcore could sound like and doing a damn fine job at it!
On this Halloween day, we’re looking back at the last release of one of the most prolific metalcore bands of recent times: Ice Nine Kills!
Metalcore outfit Fit For A King is back with a 6th installment, hopefully continuing “The Path” they earlier set for themselves…
This metalcore power party on a disk is also the 10th anniversary of Eskimo Callboy and together with the new singer, it’s the beginning of a new chapter.
Line-up changes are always scary and don’t always turn out for the best… which can’t be said about Make Them Suffer.
With ‘Fracture’ Bleed From Within has released an energetic, if somewhat less than original, metalcore album.
