News Posts

Last week, as an early Halloween treat, Enemy Inside unleashed the single and video ‘Fuck That Party’, a spooky new track featuring none other than Zak Tell, frontman of Clawfinger, out via Reigning Phoenix Music! We put it in our Halloween playlists, did you check it out already?

Boston based metal act Major Moment released a heartfelt and emotive animated video for the track ‘You’ll Never Know’, out now on all streaming platforms!

Bloodywood is back! They announced to have signed with Fearless Records for the next chapter of their career, and unleashed the new single ‘Nu Delhi’, a homage to their home city!

In anticipation of this Friday’s official release of her new album ‘The Obsession’ via Napalm Records, Charlotte Wessels reveals the dramatic new single and video ‘Ode To The West Wind’ featuring Alissa White-Gluz!

Ukrainian metal act Ignea will be on tour with Eleine next month in the EU and UK as the special guest on their ‘We Shall Remain’ tour, showing off their own latest album ‘Dreams of Lands Unseen’, released earlier this year via Napalm Records!

Spanish modern metallers SynlakrosS shared a teaser video for their upcoming 5th album ‘Mental Parasites’, set for release in a couple of weeks on October 3rd and pre-orders are open right now!

German modern metal sensation April Art is getting really pumped about their upcoming album ‘Rodeo’, set for release next month via Reaper Entertainment and shared the new single ‘Not Afraid’ recently!

The Browning unleashed their new single ‘OMNI’ featuring The Defect, and the title track of their upcoming new album set for release in November via FiXT!

Modern metal frontrunners Ad Infinitum shared the new anthem ‘Surrender’ last week, yet another track from their upcoming new album ‘Abyss’, set for release next month via Napalm Records!

Modern metal force League Of Distortion are back with a second album ‘Galvanize’, set for release via Napalm Records in October and unleashed a music video for the title track, kicking off the anticipation good!

Photo Reports

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!

Eleine’s show at DVG Club Kortrijk was electrifying, with Ignea’s powerful performance setting the stage. Ignea’s captivating blend of progressive and symphonic metal, combined with Eleine’s dynamic stage presence and infectious energy, created an unforgettable evening for the enthusiastic audience.

Silhouette of the bass player/vocalist of the band Septicflesh backlit by bright light, glowing white in the center and pink to reddish further out. The silhouette is pink to red due to the lighting.

After an exemplary show at Alcatraz this past summer, Septicflesh graced Belgium again with their presence on their “Modern Primitive European tour”, dropping by the DVG Club in Kortrijk. And with support by Equilibrium, Oceans and Scar of the Sun, it was quite the death metal night of epic proportions!

Pictures of the third day of Alcatraz 2024, with on the Prison Stage explosive shows from Audrey Horne, Soil, Jinjer, Korpiklaani, Gene Simmons Band and Architects!

Pictures of the second day of Alcatraz 2024, with on the Prison Stage explosive shows from Finntroll, Spiritbox, Dio Disciples, Testament, Epica and Europe!

Pictures of the first day of Alcatraz 2024, with on the Helldorado Stage Ankor, Bizkit Park, Red Fang, Heideroosjes and Hatebreed!

Pictures of the first day of Alcatraz 2024, with on the Helldorado Stage a serving of punk and hardcore with Funeral Dress, The Casualties, Cro-Mags, Madball and Life of Agony, modern metal from Sylosis and post-metal with The Ocean!

Day 5 of the Lokerse Feesten was blast, marked by the exclusive Belgian appearance of the iconic band Korn. The day was a whirlwind of diverse acts, each bringing their unique energy to the stage with especially on the Club Studio Brussel quite the mix of genres with Woyote, Ho9909, The Warning and Klakmatrak!

While on the road supporting In This Moment and Ice Nine Kills on tour in the USA, the Swedish metallers of Avatar came to bring their “Great Metal Circus” to the Clyde Theatre in Ft Wayne, Indiana. One of the few headlining stops they’re doing, providing people the chance to get the full experience and freakshow treatment that usually comes with the band, providing a night to remember for many there! Support came from locals Mantra of Morta!

The popular US horror movie inspired metalcore outfit Ice Nine Kills came to Munich and, helped by From Fall to Spring and Ghost Kid, left a trail of blood in the TonHalle.

Interviews

While being at Helsinki Techfest for their very first show outside Estonia, we met up with the metal band Pridian to talk about an excellent 2024 with some bucketlist shows, but also the major news that they are signed to the Century Media Records roster for their upcoming album!

We sat down with Jessie and Eleni of Ankor after their show at this year’s Tuska Festival, the last stop of a crazy weekend that took them to 3 different countries in 3 days, and had a short chat about their busy summer, the way they like to release new music and how 2024 really seems to be a big year for the band.

Yesterday, they announced a major European tour for 2025 which will take them to most countries of the continent. You won’t want to miss out on that, tickets are available starting tomorrow!

A chat with Bloodred Hourglass about their pretty amazing year thus far, and the new album ‘How’s the Heart?’, how they’re not afraid of trying out any ideas or leaving things out when a song calls for it, and how they’ve stepped up their game yet again with this record.

Today we’re already sitting down with Fixation again to have a chat about their soon-to-be released new album, but back in February, we already had a short conversation with vocalist Jonas Hansen about touring with Devin Townsend, their music and what he hopes to accomplish with it, some of his personal vocal inspirations, and how he would describe their music using just visuals.

A talk with Joonas and Ben from Oceanhoarse about the new album ‘Heads Will Roll’ and how their state of mind was different with the recording of this one, trying to get a more raw and dirty sound to take it even closer to a live feeling than before!

A chat with vocalist Shawter from Dagoba about the new album ‘By Night’ and much more!

Watch the chat we had with vocalist Jarkko from the Finnish melodeath outfit Bloodred Hourglass about their upcoming new album ‘Your Highness’!

Watch the full interview with vocalist Daan Swinnen from the Belgian modern metal outfit Off The Cross about their new album ‘Enjoy It While It Lasts’!

We have a chat with Patrick Walch, the man behind the successful and interesting new label Noble Demon! Check out what he has to say!

Watch the interview with Finnish band Awake Again about their music and the high level of energy they usually crank out in everything they do.