UK metal band Harbinger shared new single and music video ‘No Vermin’, ahead of their forthcoming Europe and UK tour in support of the Distant and Enterprise Earth ‘The Origin of Madness tour’ that started a couple of days ago! Make sure you go!
News Posts
Metalcore legends Poison The Well are having a promising 2025, signing with SharpTone Records, just dropped their first new song in 15 years with ‘Trembling Level’ and are gearing up to celebrate their 25th anniversary with a tour in the US in April and in Europe and the UK in September!
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Metalcore icons Caliban announced their new album ‘Back From Hell’ set for release in April via Century Media Records and shared a video for the title track featuring Jonny McBee from The Browning! Catch them on their headlining tour this spring with In Hearts Wake, Cabal and Assemble The Chariots or this summer at festivals like Alcatraz!
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Finnish metalcore stars Balance Breach are getting closer to releasing their new album ‘Save Our Souls’ with Out of Line Music in March and shared their latest single ‘Strangers In Crime’ featuring Melissa Bruschi of Hand Of Juno on guest vocals!
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French metalcore stars LANDMVRKS unveiled their latest single ‘A Line In The Dust’ featuring a guest appearance of Mat Welsh (While She Sleeps), another banger from their upcoming album ‘The Darkest Place I’ve Ever Been’, set for release in April via Arising Empire!
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Electric Callboy is taking you “up and down”… their new single ‘Elevator Operator’ is out right now via Century Media Records! Catch them live on their many shows at summer festivals like Hellfest, Tuska or Lokerse Feesten, and of course their world tour starting at the end of this year!
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Estonian metal band on the rise Pridian releases their third single on Century Media Records with ‘Out For Blood’, teasing their upcoming album that is set for a spring release this year!
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Metalcore heavyweights Killswitch Engage share new single and video ‘I Believe’, telling you that “this too shall pass”! Another track from their upcoming album ‘This Consequence’, out next month via Metal Blade Records!
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Leading lights of British metal Employed To Serve return with brand-new single ‘Atonement’, starring Will Ramos of Lorna Shore on guest vocals (including his first ever clean vocals on an album feature)! A track from the long-awaited new album ‘Fallen Star’, set for release in April via Spinefarm Records!
Last year, Finnish metalcore veterans One Morning Left has an amazing year with the release of their latest album ‘Neon Inferno’ via Arising Empire, but now they’re aiming even higher by making a bid for Eurovision with their new high-energy single ‘Puppy’!
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Photo Reports
A selection of Rachel’s best captures of 2023, with pictures from bands like Mudvayne, Nonpoint, Drowning Pool, From Ashes To New, Shinedown, Fozzy, Butcher Babies, Sumy Cyco, Black Stone Cherry and Saliva!
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!
Gig Reports
Prime Time: an event showcasing the talent that 3 bands of the Danish Prime Collective stall brings forth…
The Swedish alternative rock/metal sensation Normandie came back to have a party with their Finnish fans!
Alien Weaponry definitely killed it on their very first gig in Belgium at Le Cercle, on 09/08/2018. The New-Zealander trio knows how to rule a stage, be it through the sheer power of their performance, or their interaction with the crowd.
To summarize this show: Wow, simply amazing. Loved it. We had an amazing night with Trivium and support by Power Trip and Venom Prison!
Zingen in eigen moedertaal, een goede dosis humor en ongelofelijk catchy riffs en melodieën in combinatie met een ongeloflijk charismatische frontman. Fleddy Melculy is geen ééndagsvlieg, zoveel is zeker!
Zingen in eigen moedertaal, een goede dosis humor en ongelofelijk catchy riffs en melodieën in combinatie met een ongeloflijk charismatische frontman. Fleddy Melculy is geen ééndagsvlieg, zoveel is zeker!
9 maart, 11 uur ‘s ochtends: Parkway Drive gaat live op facebook met de boodschap dat ze een intieme show zullen brengen in de AB Club… de dinsdag erop.
Mastodons Arch Enemy are back to destroy with their new album and with them they had the promising Ukranian band Jinjer!
De boodschap die August Burns Red ons meegaf, is dat Messengers na tien jaar nog steeds een relevant album is in het metalcoregenre!
Machinae Supremacy got the geeks in Finland united for a night! And the party was complete with the addition of violent poppers Blind Channel and “party” metalcore outfit One Morning Left!
