News Posts

Power metal powerhouse Brainstorm are gearing up to unleash their new album ‘Plauge Of Rats’ upon the world early 2025 via Reigning Phoenix Music and announced their 2025 co-headline tour with Arion!

Symphonic power metal band Valkyrie’s Fire harvest souls for Valhalla with their ‘Ride of the Valkyrie’ music video, a track from their recently via Eclipse Records released EP ‘Ascension’!

Italian metal outfit Risen Crow unveiled their first single and video ‘Risen Crow’, a track from their upcoming album ‘Requiem For a Damned Love’, set for release early 2025 via Rockshots Records!

Helloween is working hard on a follow-up to their acclaimed reunion album, released a couple of years ago via Reigning Phoenix Music, but are also gearing up to go on a massive “40 Years Anniversary Tour” in 2025 and 2026, and have announced the dates for the European leg in 2025 with very special guests Beast In Black!

Italian power metal force Frozen Crown unleashed the video single ‘I Am The Wind’, a track from their new album ‘War Hearts’, which is out since last Friday via Napalm Records!

All For Metal are thanking their loyal fans by inviting them to their very own ‘Temple Of Silence’ with a brand-new video for the track from their latest album ‘Gods Of Metal (Year Of The Dragon)’ out via Reigning Phoenix Music!

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’!

The metal band for all video game nerds, Super Monster Party spawns new single ‘Blue Hurricane’ for Sonic the Hedgehog’s 33rd birthday, a track you’ll also find on their upcoming album ‘Rage Quit’, set for release in November!

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’!

Photo Reports

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!

Best Of 2023 Tom VM

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!

The second night of John Smith Rock Frozen 2023 was pretty epic with some of the best of the Finnish scene with Red Eleven, Kiuas, Finntroll, Turmion Kätilöt and headliners Amorphis! Throw on top of that the Swedish up-and-comers of Orbit Culture, and you know it was good!

Swedish industrial metal legends Pain are on tour throughout Europe right now, and we caught them at their stop at the Backstage venue in Munich, Germany. Bringing with them Finnish pagan metal giants Ensiferum, Swedish dark symphonic metallers Eleine and Japanese Ryujin, it was quite the night for heavy metal!

The Sonata Arctica “Arctic Storm Finland Tour 2023” has been a massive success, and we got to go to one of the first stops at Pakkahuone in Tampere. With them, they’re bringing the glam rock favorites Reckless Love and the energetic alternative rock/metal upstarts Luna Kills!

Wind Rose is taking over Europe with their very first headlining tour “European Warfront 2023”, with support from the German heavy metallers of All For Metal and US metal outfit Seven Kingdoms, a recipe for a proper celebration of all that is classic heavy/power metal! We caught up with them at the Backstage venue in Munich and saw it was good!

Pictures of the Arion, Clawfinger, Blind Guardian and Apocalyptica shows at the first day of Hellsinki Metal Festival 2023.

On the first day of Alcatraz 2023, we caught Eleine, Wind Rose, Rise of the Northstar, Bury Tomorrow, Powerwolf and Michael Schenker Group taking over the Prison Stage (mainstage)!

Album Reviews

The fourth album from Belgium’s combat metal unit FireForce is a really tasty slab of heavy metal!

With their second album ‘When Good Men Go To War’ Vexillum takes us on an epic and heroic adventure. Are you ready to set sails and join them?

Adamantis brings us a power metal release that doesn’t surprise but heralds the great bands of the genre!

After a few delays, German heavy metal band Orden Ogan‘s new album ‘Final Days‘ has finally been released in March 2021. This album, a dark sci-fi concept, is once again produced by Sebastian ‘Seeb’ Levermann (vocals). “After creating a Dark Wild West scenery for ‘Gunmen’ and having storylines about monasteries in moorlands, apocalyptic ice worlds […]

Italian power metal outfit Labyrinth released yet another impressive album after their comeback from a while back.

Gather your weapons and raise your banners, as we march into battle to the beat of Warkings’ brand of power metal!

Holy Mother’s new album was recorded because of their love for the music, the fans and in loving memory of their bass player Randy Coven.

Finnish power metal super group Metal de Facto promises to “make power metal great again” with their debut release ‘Imperium Romanum’ and they’re not far off!

Gomorra’s debut album ‘Divine Judgement’ is truly a blast packing fast, aggressive and groovy riffs and overall virtuosity.

Grimgotts is a symphonic power metal band up to their second album ‘Dragons Of The Ages’. If you like pirate metal from Alestorm and Lagerstein, don’t hesitate to check these guys out.