Popular French shoegaze act Alcest released a brand-new live video for ‘Améthyste’, a track from their latest album ‘Les Chants De L’Aurore’, released via Nuclear Blast! Catch them live the coming months in North America and Asia, or this summer in Europe at festivals like Tuska!
News Posts
Symphonic metal titans Epica announced that their 9th studio album ‘Aspiral’ will be out in April via Nuclear Blast Records and shared a video for the single ‘Cross The Divide’!
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Extreme metal giants Behemoth have revealed the title, cover art and release date of their upcoming new opus ‘The Shit Ov God’, due to be released in May via Nuclear Blast Records and shared a video for the title track! Catch them on “The Unholy Trinity” tour in Europe this spring!
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Folk metal institution Eluveitie announce their new album ‘ÀNV’ to be released in April via Nuclear Blast, and share 2nd single ‘The Prodigal Ones’! Catch them on tour in Europe with Infected Rain and Ad Infinitum starting this week and later this year as support for the Arch Enemy “European Blood Dynasty 2025 tour”!
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Last week, iconic Finnish vocalist and bassist Marko Hietala unveiled another new track with ‘Rebel of the North’ from the upcoming album ‘Roses from the Deep’, set for release next month via Nuclear Blast Records! Catch him on tour in Finland celebrating the new release or this summer at festivals like Tuska!
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Swedish rock royalty The Hellacopters shared a video for the new single ‘Do You Feel Normal’, another taste of their new album ‘Overdriver’, which is due out on January 31st via Nuclear Blast! Catch them live in the Nordic region and Germany shortly after or this summer at festivals like our yearly home away from home Alcatraz festival in Belgium!
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Last week, Eluveitie released their brand-new song ‘Premonition’ with a captivating video via Nuclear Blast, a track in their signature style that is a taste from their upcoming album! Catch them on several tours through Europe starting from January 2025 on!
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Swedish melodeath supergroup The Halo Effect unleashed ‘Cruel Perception’, yet another single and video from the upcoming album ‘March Of The Unheard’, set for release early 2025 via Nuclear Blast!
Progressive death metal outfit Obscura announced their new studio album ‘A Sonication’ to be released early 2025 via Nuclear Blast, offered a glimpse into the next chapter through the single ‘Silver Linings’ and are set to tour throughout Europe with Rings Of Saturn and Gorod starting in February!
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Danish death metal revelation Neckbreakker will embark on their first European headliner tour in 2025 in support of their upcoming debut album ‘Within The Viscera’, set for release in a couple of weeks via Nuclear Blast! Support will be coming from their country mates Galge, don’t miss out!
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Photo Reports
Lost Society and Amorphis gave us a little preview last Friday of the upcoming ‘Halo’ European Tour, when they did a show together at Logomo’s Terassikesä in Turku, Finland.
Polish metal icons BEHEMOTH! are roaming through Europe with their ‘Deathless Summer Tour 2023’ and struck down at Substage in Karlsruhe, Germany with the support of Hypocrisy and SpiritWorld. A gorgeous night of some of the best metal the world has to offer right now, and extreme temperatures despite no pyro being used.
Sabaton brought war to Helsinki and tried burning down the sold out Jäähalli with their fire show. They outdid themselves with this grand masterpiece, brought to Finland by TuskaLive and Grey Beard. Babymetal and Lordi both did a great job warming us up for this spectacle.
Trivium and Heaven Shall Burn resulted in an amazing night of modern heavy metal at Kulttuuritalo Helsinki with the help of Obituary and Malevolence!
A massive celebration of Turmion Kätilöt’s carreer of several decades long at Helsinki’s Black Box Jäähalli with support from Lord Of The Lost and Proteus!
Swedish melodeath legends In Flames filled Jäähalli in Helsinki with a massive crowd, along with fellow melodeath instigators At The Gates and up-and-comers Imminence and Orbit Culture to warm us up!
Machine Head and Amon Amarth are well on their way on their conquest of Europe with “The Vikings & Lionhearts Tour 2022”! This time we caught them in Vorst Nationaal, Brussels, of course again with warming up by The Halo Effect.
Metal bands on the rise Amaranthe and Beyond The Black have been on a co-headline tour through Europe with support from Butcher Babies and Ad Infinitum. And we were at their stop at Trix in Antwerp, Belgium to celebrate these talented men and women!
Amon Amarth is always a spectacle on a stage. Add to that the US metallers Machine Head that finally managed to get to Helsinki and the supergroup The Halo Effect and you know that the night was going to be a good one!
Nightwish finally get to embark on their ‘Human. :||: Nature.’ World Tour and we were there for the Helsinki show!
Album Reviews
Almost four decades later, Cavalera resurrects the classic spirit of Sepultura by re-recording the debut E.P. ‘Bestial Devastation’, hence surprising their fans around the world with a revamped and improved sound quality. The end result surely does not disappoint. Out via Nuclear Blast.
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Max and Iggor Cavalera join forces under the name Cavalera to re-record Sepultura’s classic album ‘Morbid Visions’. But instead of gambling, they have successfully re-defined the raw savage sound with the best sound production and the results couldn’t be more satisfying, This is an excellent re-make of one of the iconic death/thrash metal albums. Out on Nuclear Blast.
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“War Against All” is a declaration of war crafted purely in the spirit of Norwegian black metal. On the tenth album, mastermind and founder Demonaz proves that he is the man behind the legacy of Immortal. Out via Nuclear Blast.
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Host’s debut release ‘IX’ is a very catchy album and has multiple complex textures and dark gothic themes as you will find yourself sprawling on the ground with sedatives. Nick Holmes & Gregor Mackintosh take a dark direction toward the electro gothic synth/rock music that is fully of catchy choruses and lush electronic textures. Released February 24 via Nuclear Blast Records.
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The 18th album “Leviathan II” by the Swedish symphonic orchestral metal Therion wields its fantastic orchestral forte with some mystic soundscapes, Therion aspires to bring a transcendental experience the new album is full of great hits and catchy songs that will appeal to the fans of symphonic metal, released via Nuclear Blast.
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Austria’s blackened death metal act Belphegor conjures us a demonic soundtrack to Walpurgis on its newest album ‘The Devils’ which is the band’s strongest release to date. The eight tracks offer atmospheric and epic qualities without sacrificing any of their trademark blackened aggression. Out on Nuclear Blast.
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After 14 long years The Hellacopters have finally released their new long player called ‘Eyes Of Oblivion’. It was worth the wait – a fantastic hard rock album comes your way!
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‘Oh What The Future Holds’ brings a more sophisticated side of the deathcore genre. Never I had the thought that it was boring or bad. Every song has it’s unique stamp of pure greatness.
Sabaton is back singing about “The War To End All Wars”, telling stories that took place during WW1, going all the way from the beginning to the very end.
The hardcore veterans of Comeback Kid are back with another absolutely banger of an album! ‘Heavy Steps’ comes in and kills!
