News Posts

Extreme metal legends Cradle Of Filth releases their brand-new single ‘Malignant Perfection’ just in time for the Halloween season and ahead of their upcoming ‘By Order Of The Dragon’ UK/Europe tour! Also a taste of things that are to come still, getting closer to the release of their next full-length via Napalm Records!

Last week, zombie metal sensation Dominum announced to be unleashing a second album of undead goodies upon the world with ‘The Dead Don’t Die’, coming to you by the end of the year via Napalm Records, and shared a first single with the title track, featuring Ben Metzner from Feuerschwanz and dArtagnan!

In anticipation of this Friday’s release of their new album ‘Trollslayer’ via Napalm Records, the Italian dwarven power metal army Wind Rose unleashed another single with ‘The Great Feast Underground’!

Tetrarch returned with ‘Live Not Fantasize’, their first new single in three years, out via Napalm Records, continuing to be part of the nu metal revolution that is going on!

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!

Tremonti releases cinematic music video for the album opener ‘The Mother, The Earth And I’ from the upcoming new album ‘The End Will Show Us How’, set for release early 2025 via Napalm Records and available for pre-order now!

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!

Варфоломей’s Batushka announces that with the change of the year, so will a new version of the band will come to life and this under a new name! From 2025, the band will be known as Patriarkh, serving their pilgrims with new music free from litigation and the negativity that came with their former name.

The dwarven power metal warriors of Wind Rose are gearing up to release their new album ‘Trollslayer’ via Napalm Records next month and embark on the “Wolfsnächte 2024” arena tour through Europe with Powerwolf and Hammerfall, and are building anticipation with the epic video single ‘To Be a Dwarf’!

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!

Photo Reports

Swallow the Sun

The co-headline tour of Swallow the Sun and Draconian dropped by Het Entrepot in Bruges with warm-up act Shores of Null to deliver us a healthy dose of doom and gloom!

Nem Agency brought Kamelot along with Myrath, Eleine and League of Distortion back to Tampere. The show was not as crowed as maybe expected, but a lot of fun with excellent music of all 4 bands!

Kamelot

Kamelot is on tour in Europe with their “Awaken the World” cycle, in the good company of Myrath, Eleine and League of Distortion! We caught up with them at their stop at Le Splendid in Lille, France.

The North-American metalcore stars Atreyu and modern metallers on the rise Jinjer warmed up for Bullet for My Valentine at Zenith in Munich, Germany!

Brymir and Master Events put up yet another great show, this time at Torvi, Lahti in Finland. This show won us over with its close, intimate and sweaty atmosphere.

The Scottish pirates of Alestorm docked their pirate ship in Torhout, Belgium. A sold out venue was ready to party with them, fantasy power metallers Gloryhammer, the dwarves of Windrose and fellow pirates Rumahoy.

Aephanemer

Rising stars in the melodeath realms, Aephanemer is touring, and we visited them on their stop at The Black Lab in Wasquehal, France. Warm up act were black folk metallists Sorcières.

Powerwolf

We caught the power metal feast that is Powerwolf’s Wolfsnächte 2022 tour with support acts Dragonforce and Warkings at the Lotto Arena in Antwerp!

Album Reviews

Brymirs new masterpiece ‘Voices in the Sky’ is unleashed to the world via Napalm Records. If you like the band’s previous releases, you will absolutely love this one. it’s bigger, better and even more epic than ever before.

‘A Heartless Portrait (The Orphean Testament)’ proves that even after 25 years of existence, Evergrey still has the ability to impress.

Paddy And The Rats serve us some highly enjoyable Celtic punk to get through our day! Recommended if you’re looking for a recharge!

German thrash metal veterans DESTRUCTION celebrate their 40th anniversary by setting the world ablaze with a new, hard-hitting grenade in the form of their new album, Diabolical (out April 8, 2022 via Napalm Records). As one of the most legendary German thrash metal bands in existence, DESTRUCTION grace the wall of fame alongside giants like Kreator, Sodom and Tankard.

French metal outfit Dagoba delivers with ‘By Night’ an album that very well might be the next step in their career and a schooling in modern metal! A furious blend of metal, electronic elements and neck breaking moves.

Kissing Dynamite is ready to rock again and spread rock music all over the world! With positivity as the key message.

Written from her own experiences in life, Lena Scissorhands and her band-mates bring us another album with some undeniable truths!

Thulcandra’s sonic permutation recaptures the soulful essence that defines the majesty of the Swedish melodic black/death metal.

“Angel of Carnage Unleashed” is full of a menacing atmosphere and bombastic orchestral arrangements that will bring Darkwoods My Betrothed to the turrets of its fame.

“Where Fear and Weapons Meet” reforms the signature sound of these Ukrainian warmongers who conjure a grim sense of fierce black metal.