Modern metal frontrunners Ad Infinitum are set to release their new album ‘Abyss’ via Napalm Records in October and unleashed a new video single with ‘My Halo’! Catch them live at a handful of festivals this summer, like SaariHelvetti in Finland, and on tour in Europe later this year as support for Kamelot or in the beginning of 2024 as support for Eluveitie!
Spanish metal outfit SynlakrosS released earlier this month their video single ‘Bunnies And Bows’, a banger of a track from their upcoming album ‘Mental Parasites’, set for release in October!
After recently signing with Reigning Phoenix Music, modern metal outfit Enemy Inside released their new single ‘What We Used To Be’! Catch them next weekend at Qstock in Finland or on their European tour early 2025!
Norway’s rising stars in metalcore Fixation released the new single ‘Random Acts Of Violence’ via Indie Recordings last week, while they’re gearing up to embark on their summer tour which will take them to Tuska in Finland next week!
French modern metal heroes Rise Of The Northstar launch the music video for ‘Crank It Up’ from their latest album ‘Showdown’, which they’re still touring with around the world, including a show today at Nummirock in Finland and many more dates to follow this summer!
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!
Finnish heavy metal band Oceanhoarse is back after a brief hiatus with a new line-up and a brand-new video single ‘Logos’, out now via Noble Demon!
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!
Charlotte Wessels returns with a captivating new single ‘Chasing Sunsets’, including a just as mesmerizing music video, another taste of the upcoming album ‘The Obsession’, set for release in September via Napalm Records!
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!
A chaotic fuelled blood rampage. That’s what Malevolence released upon Newcastle. Together with Rough Justice and Pain of Truth they laid down absolute destruction at the University Students Union!
Once again the Backstage München received an explosive night with Tenside dropping by for a hometown show showcasing their brand-new album ‘Come Alive Dying’, and very special guests For I Am King and The Oklahoma Kid!
Last week, after a fantastic 2023, Bury Tomorrow started the new year with a victory lap in their own country with a small UK tour with the support of metalcore/modern metal greats We Came As Romans and Kingdom of Giants! We caught up with them at the Boiler Shop in Newcastle for what was an amazing show!
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 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!
Lord of the Lost wrapped up their year with a mini tour in Finland, that ended with a sold out gig at Olympia-kortteli in Tampere, with as support Rain Diary and Gothminister. An event by TuskaLive and Grey Beard Concerts & Management that served as the perfect last show in 2023 for our photographer!
An albums of the year 2021 list with no compromises and a couple of real surprises!
First month of 2022 and there are already a bunch of really cool releases coming! Check out our 13 most anticipated releases of the month!
With 2021 being again a bit of a weird year, while looking forward to a hopefully better 2022, lets look back at some of the albums I enjoyed the most this past year.
Oktober has many releases again that are some of the most anticipated of the year within our editorial team! Check out the wide range of awesome albums!
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!
Some of our most anticipated released for May 2021, warning: there is way more exciting music being released, this is only a small selection…
Noble Demon is a new label that started in 2020 and is quickly on the rise to be one of the more prominent and big players in the scene!
It wasn’t all bad in 2020. Although it seemed like that sometimes. An example are these awesome albums that were released this year. The bands couldn’t tour, but I’m sure they will the first moment they can. Enjoy!
Albums of the year 2020, ranging from Halestorm to Trivium and more. Get ready to headbang and make your neighbors move.
