Danish progressive metal band Danefae released the song ‘Fuglekongen’, the second single from their upcoming new album ‘Trøst’, set for release early 2025!
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Finnish metal outfit The Hypothesis celebrates last Friday’s release of their new album ‘Evolve’ via Noble Demon with a video for the powerful single ‘Watch The World Burn With Me’!
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Finnish progressive metal band Rioghan is set to release the second studio album ‘Kept‘ on February 14th 2025 via Inverse Records. The first single ‘Edge‘ is unleashed and the stunning music video shot and edited by Aarni Visuals can be seen here: https://youtu.be/SYz0locEGn4 Rioghan comments on the Edge -single: ” ’Edge’ sets the directions to the new album’s […]
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Finnish band Royal Sorrow, formerly known as Edge of Haze, signed an international deal with InsideOutMusic and shared the brand-new video single ‘Metrograve’ to celebrate!
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Finnish progressive post-metal collective Besra shared a video for the title track of their upcoming EP ‘Equilibrium’, set for release on November 1st via Suicide Records!
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Arjen Lucassen announced 5 Ayreon “An Amazing Flight Through Time” shows at the end of 2025 in the 013 venue in the Netherlands to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the project! Tickets are going for sale on October 31st for this unique and exceptional event!
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Blackened progressive metal band Dawn Of Ouroboros shared a new music video for the track ‘Cephalopodic Void’, from their latest album ‘Velvet Incandescence’ released last year via Prosthetic Records!
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Swedish prog titans Opeth will be releasing their 14th studio album ‘The Last Will & Testament’ on October 11th via Reigning Phoenix Music and just shared a second offering from the record with “§3”!
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Fabulae Dramatis releases the new video single ‘The Jungle of Ego’ in anticipation of next week’s release of their new studio album ‘Violenta’ on September 5!
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Massive Scar Era shared the new single ‘School Girls’, a collaboration with Entheos’ Chaney Crabb, giving a voice to recent Egyptian history and a track from the upcoming EP ‘Assyad’, out in October!
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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!
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 year wrapping up means that we’ll be looking back at the amazing things we’ve experienced, and “album of the year” lists. We’d also like to give some attention to our talented concert photographers who go out and cover shows for us. So here is a first in a series of articles where our artists pick their favorite pictures of 2023 with Anna/ScarletMemory Photography who mostly roams around in Tampere, Finland and pictures from bands like Pain, Sólstafir, Eleine, Myrath, Battle Beast, Brymir, Sabaton, Mors Subita, Lordi, Metalite, Shereign, Diablo, Before The Dawn, Wolfheart, Sonata Arctica, Deathstars, Brother Firetribe, Psychework, Apocalyptica, Voidfallen, Poets of the Fall, Amorphis, Lost Society, and Everwave!
Pictures of yet another excellent show by the legendary Finnish metal band Amorphis at the gorgeous Kulttuuritalo venue in Helsinki!
Shereign finished off their year with a gig at Tampere YO-Talo on December 9th, organized by Nem Agency. They brought along Ikinä, Everwave and Lastout to make the night complete with up-and-coming Finnish artists.
Yet another great gig of the Amorphis “Halo Finnish tour” at Tampere’s Pakkahuone last week, in front of an almost full house. An event hosted by TuskaLive.
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!
The Technikum venue in Munich was completely filled with musicians and aspiring musicians, to welcome the virtuosity and weight of Animals As Leaders, who came very well accompanied by the Swedes Allt last week!
Pictures of Bloodred Hourglass, I Am Morbid, Leprous and Emperor performing on one of the outdoor stages at Hellsinki Metal Festival!
Second day at an exciting edition of Alcatraz we had a very black metal heavy one with Gaerea, Taake and Belphegor, old school punk with The Exploited, gloomy industrial from Godflesh and one of Finland’s favorite bands Amorphis!
