Swiss folk metal giants released their triumphant new album ‘Ànv’ today via Nuclear Blast and shared a video for the track ‘Taranoias’ to celebrate!
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Dutch symphonic metal band Blackbriar announce their brand-new album ‘A Thousand Little Deaths’ to be released in August with Nuclear Blast and share the new single ‘The Fossilized Widow’ with a captivating video!
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Some time ago, Machine Head unveiled another taste of their upcoming album ‘UNATØNED’, set for release on April 25 via Nuclear Blast Records, with the single ‘BØNESCRAPER’! We can’t wait to hear the rest of the album and catch them live when they hit up Europe this summer at festivals like Alcatraz Festival!
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Dutch symphonic metal giants Epica have today released their new album ‘Aspiral’ with Nuclear Blast and to celebrate share an epic music video for the track ‘Fight to Survive – The Overview Effect’!
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Earlier this week, to celebrate their European tour with Satyricon and Rotting Christ starting, Behemoth shared the new video and single ‘Lvciferaeon’, another track from their upcoming album ‘The Shit Ov God’, set for release in May with Nuclear Blast!
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Dutch symphonic metal band Blackbriar released their brand-new song ‘I Buried Us’, out now via Nuclear Blast with a captivating music video!
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Steel City Kings Malevolence announced their new album ‘Where Only The Truth Is Spoken’ set to be released in June via MLVLTD and Nuclear Blast Records and shared the first single/music video ‘If It’s All The Same To You’!
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Symphonic metal frontrunners Epica return with spellbinding 3rd single ‘T.I.M.E.’ from upcoming album ‘Aspiral’, set for release in April via Nuclear Blast!
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Eluveitie shared the new single ‘Awen’ from upcoming new album ‘ÀNV’, set for release in April via Nuclear Blast Records!
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British death metal legends Benediction released another single from upcoming album ‘Ravage Of Empires’, set for release in April via Nuclear Blast, with ‘Crawling Over Corpses’!
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Album Reviews
Melodic heavy metal stars Dynazty released their latest album on valentines day with Nuclear Blast earlier this year. A solid album that plays with melodies and pitches and a great addition to their discography!
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The U.S. black metal supergroup Scour presents a demonic presentation on their first full length album “Gold”. Mr. Philip Anselmo goes full-time brutal and demonic on the album, released via Nuclear Blast Records.
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Marko Hietala’s new album ‘Roses from the Deep’ released through Nuclear Blast showcases the amazing skill and the variety that these guys are capable of. From the lyrics and the instrumentation to the mix, everything on this album has been executed masterfully. Catch Marko on his small Finnish release tour starting next week, and this summer at festivals like Tuska!
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Here is the seventh piece of resistance in the history of Fit For An Autopsy called ‘The Nothing That Is’, another masterpiece and their magnus epos (for now), out via Nuclear Blast! Catch them on their EU/UK tour that started yesterday, you won’t want to sit this one out!
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Tenth studio album “Sunraven” from these Swedish heavy doomsters conveys the majesty of Grand Magus and evokes a relentless quality, in sounding all-powerful, and majestic. Out since yesterday, October 18th, via Nuclear Blast!
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Zetra ignites a sensational and haunting journey, taking the listener on a dark musical adventure on its debut self-titled full-length album. Out now via Nuclear Blast.
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Korpiklaani is a great example that music is universal. With their 12 studio album ‘Rankarumpu’, they prove again that they’re a great folk metal band that never disappoints. Out on Nuclear Blast Records.
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Arizona death metal five-piece Gatecreeper shows their knack for Swedish HM-2 distortion-filled riffs on their third album ‘Dark Superstitions. Out on Nuclear Blast.
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Clocking under one hour the forefathers of British gothic doom metal My Dying Bride capture some of their best works in recent memory. ‘A Mortal Binding’ is musically perfect and evocatively beautiful in every sense. Out via Nuclear Blast Records on April 19th.
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‘Vault Of Horrors’ is coming in heavy with killer songs and a long, impressive list of guest appearances! Don’t miss out on the 12th full-length release of Aborted, out via Nuclear Blast!
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Gig Reports
Eluveitie proved to us to be in top form when they dropped by in Helsinki at the end of January on their “ÀNV Rising- Europe pt I” tour with the support of the always energetic Infected Rain and first time visitors Ad Infinitum! An event by TuskaLive.
With Turmion Kätilöt you always get an amazing disko metal party and with supporting acts Japanese black metal outfit Sigh and the Finnish melancholics of Marianas Rest we got quite the diverse musical evening at Pakkahuone in Tampere, Finland to start a long Easter weekend! An event organized by Nem Agency.
Gig report of Turmion Kätilöt with Sigh and Marianas Rest in Pakkahuone on March 28th 2024 in Tampere (Finland), organized by Nem Agency.
Gig report of Turmion Kätilöt with Sigh and Marianas Rest in Pakkahuone on March 28th 2024 in Tampere (Finland), organized by Nem Agency.
With 3 bands being shining lights for (the future of) metal, and all 3 of them having a brand-new album in their pocket, Amaranthe, Dragonforce and Infected Rain turned Black Box Helsinki into a true celebration of heavy music about a month ago!
Modern metal outfit CyHra came to present their latest album ‘The Vertigo Trigger’ to their Finnish fans starting with a show at Yo-Talo in Tampere, with support band Neonfly, turning the night into a celebration of good music and community!
Sabatons ‘Tour To End All Tours’ came finally to an end, but not before also bringing the fire to Finland. With the Support of Lordi and BABYMETAL, they gave us an incredible show at the sold out Jäähalli in Helsinki last week. Thanks to TuskaLive and Grey Beard for bringing them here!
Lost Society brought with Balance Breach and Luna Kills a showcase of the future of the Finnish heavy music scene in front of a completely sold out and packed to the brim Tavastia in Helsinki!
Finally, after 3 years of waiting the “State of Unrest” tour transformed the magical music temple Ancienne Belgique into a pumping meltdown of metalheads. Lamb Of God was the absolute winner of moshpits and crowdsurfing while Kreator treated the German thrash fans. Municipal Waste was the excellent opening act to warm up the audience.
Trivium and Heaven Shall Burn came to Finland to tear it up at Kulttuuritalo Helsinki, but not before Obituary and Malevolence softened up the crowd with some killer sets! An event by Live Nation Finland.
The kickoff of the European tour of Kataklysm came in a package of some old school Canadian death metal mixed with the Swedish melodic death metal of Soilwork topped with a sauce of the progressive antics of Wilderun. Quite a lot of variation which satisfied a lot of people. Make sure you catch this tour whenever it comes to a venue near you!
Battle Beast proved with their Jäähalli show in Helsinki that they are one of Finland’s up-and-coming heavy metal greats and can put down one hell of a show, with the support from Ensiferum and Kiuas. A production by Master Events.
