News Posts

Brazilian progressive power metal legends Angra are celebrating kicking off their European “Cycles Of Pain” tour by releasing a new music video for the track ‘Here In The Now’!

Female-fronted power metallers Fatal Fire unleashed a fiery new video for the single ‘Kingslayer’, a track from their upcoming debut album ‘Arson’ set for release on March 28th on MDD Records!

Power metal legends Rhapsody of Fire announced their upcoming new album ‘Challenge the Wind’ to be released in May via AFM Records and shared the new single and title track with a fiery video!

Power metal titans Firewind celebrate the release of their record ‘Stand United’ via AFM Records with a new video for the title track!

German heavy metallers Stormhunter unleashed their ‘Vagabond’ single, a track from their upcoming much-anticipated album ‘Best Before: Death’, set for release on March 21st via MDD Records!

Mighty German heavy metal/power metal unit Hammer King are striking again with their new single ‘The Devil Will I Do’, a track from their upcoming new album ‘König und Kaiser’, set for release via Napalm Records on March 22nd!

German dark power metal act Orden Ogan unveiled the music video for sensitising new single ‘My Worst Enemy’, a track from their upcoming album ‘The Order Of Fear’, set for release this summer via Reigning Phoenix Music!

Swedish power metal outfit Bloodbound announced their anniversary live album & Blue-ray ‘The Tales of Nosferatu – Two Decades of Blood (2004 – 2024)’, to be released via AFM Records in April and shared a live video for the track ‘The Warlock’s Trail’!

Lutharo is proud to present their last single ‘Creating A King’ before the release of their upcoming album ‘Chasing Euphoria’ via Atomic Fire Records (Reigning Phoenix Music) next month! Get ready to bang your head!

After just recently announcing signing with Reigning Phoenix Music, All For Metal is already back to rock out with us by unleashing the music video for their take on the classic ‘Rock You Like A Hurricane’!

Lists

Last month of 2021, still some releases coming in December that are most anticipated by our team of writers!

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!

If power metal is your thing, you might want to check these releases out if you haven’t yet. If you’re not a fan of the genre, still check them cause these are good ones!

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!

Heavy metal, doom and a touch of power in Wouter’s albums of the year 2018 list!

Once you go heavy, you never go back… Wouter’s albums of the year hold on to the good olden days of Heavy Metal!

Festival Reports

All aboard The Sabaton Cruise 2018 Review. The battle has been fought and is reviewed here!

3 days of the best you can find in metal, rock and other related genres all came together on the Suvilahti grounds in Helsinki, what resulted in yet another great edition of Tuska!

Only the 2nd edition of The Rock Fest in Finland and we were in for one hell of a massive event!

We went to the second day of the first ever edition of the Metal Crane festival in Helsinki, to be smashed by melodic death metal and wallowing in depression through post-black metal!

Tuska 2017 promised to be a huge party for metal and rock lovers. With their 20th anniversary they geared up to make it one hell of a celebration…

It’s oh so quiet, it’s oh so hot…! This year’s edition was one of heat, historical events and many records!

Grimm Gent took a trip South to explore the fourth edition of the Rock ‘n’ Roll Festival in Longwy, France.

Photo Reports

Pictures of Beast In Black and Metal De Facto playing at Coolhead Live.

Metfest 2023 at the Tollwood area in Munich, Germany… a celebration with superheroes, warriors, good music and of course mead, with Feuerschwanz, Fiddler’s Green, Warkings and Grailknights!

Day 2 of Tuhdimmat Tahdit was just as hot. Carnival Academy, Heavy Metal Perse, Antony Parviainen Trio, Turmion Kätilöt, Metalite, Wolfheart, Shereign, Before the Dawn, Brymir, Mokoma, Swallow the Sun and lastly Battle Beast. Master Events gave us a festival that is certainly worth coming back to.

Tuhdimmat Tahdit and Master Events brought one very hot festival to Tampere’s Ratinanniemi. It started with Verikalpa and ended with Beast in Black, but we also can’t forget about all the bands in between: Transworld Identity, Prestige, Ensiferum, Bloodred Hourglass, Dynazty, Lordi, Mors Subita, Dead by April and Diablo.

On the third day of Rockfest 2023, we weren’t able to capture as many bands as on the earlier days due to other responsibilities and some artists not wanting any pictures to be taken, but we still caught killer performances on the Red Stage by Soundi by Igorrr, The Hellacopters and Beast In Black!

Sabaton, Lordi and Babymetal in Munich: A hot, exuberant and wild night at the Olympiahalle.

Tuhdimmat Tahdit and Master Events organized Battle Beast’s first ever show in Nokia, Finland. As support, they brought along Crimson Sun. An enjoyable evening for everyone.

US power metal legendary band Kamelot came, saw and conquered all of our hearts at Vanha Ylioppilastalo in Helsinki, with the help of Myrath, Eleine and League of Distortion back at the end of March!

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!