Noise rock/punk collective Heavenly Blue announced their upcoming new album ‘We Have The Answer’ set for release in April via Secret Voice Records and shared a single with ‘Static Voice Speaks to Static Me’!
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News Posts
The sludge metal punks of Black Tusk announced their upcoming new album ‘The Way Forward’, set for release in April via Season of Mist, by unleashing first single ‘Brushfire’!
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Notorious and prolific Cleveland cult Midnight will unleash its sixth full-length ‘Hellish Expectations’ via Metal Blade Records in March and share the first single ‘F.O.A.L.’ (AKA ‘Fuck Off And Live’)!
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Norwegian black metal/punk legends Haust unveiled ‘Left To Die’, another track from the upcoming album ‘Negative Music’, set to be released in April via Fysisk Format!
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London punk rabble-rousers The Chisel are gearing up for the release of their highly anticipated new album ‘What A F*cking Nightmare’, set for release on February 9th via Pure Noise Records and share one more taste with the final single ‘Bloodsucker’!
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Exciting new punks Noah and the Loners announce ‘A Desolate Warning’ EP and share their riot-inciting new single ‘Crash Landing’!
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Alt-punk collective Gen and the Degenerates are telling the world that ‘Kids Wanna Dance’ with another single from their upcoming album ‘Anti-Fun Propaganda’, set for release in February via Marshall Records!
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Estonian punk outfit Elukas unveils powerful ‘Laika’ lyric video, exploring the ethical dimensions of scientific experimentation on animals, and a track from their EP ‘Loomad Koos, recently reissued via Wormholedeath.
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Norwegian stoner punks Bokassa ricochets into 2024 with their bold new single ‘The Ending Starts Today!’, another track from their upcoming album ‘All Out Of Dreams’, set for release next month via Indie Recordings!
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Punk outfit The Chisel delivers yet another banging track with ‘Those Days’, heralding the Oi! hooks and hardcore stomp that everyone love! A track from their upcoming album ‘What A F*cking Nightmare’ set for release via Pure Noise Records next month!
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Photo Reports
With Gary’s selection of his favorite pictures, we dive into his 2023 in punk with The Adolescents, The Interrupters, Fea, Sloppy Seconds, The Svetlanas, The Damned, L7, Madam Bombs, Roy Ellis & The Aggrolites, The Casualties, Surfbort and Suzi Moon captured at Punk Rock Bowling, The Darts, The Soap Girls and Tokyo Honey Trap captured at some of the smalles venues in his area, and The Rumkicks and Hi-Fi Spitfires captured at Rebellion Festival!
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!
Pictures of Blood Command at On The Rocks in Helsinki, Finland.
Kvelertak is continuing to take Europe by storm on their “Krøterveg Te Helvete Tour” presenting their latest work, in the company of Cancer Bats as support. We were there at the Backstage venue in Munich, Germany last week!
When a legend like John Lydon comes to a venue near you with his almost as legendary band Public Image Ltd., you know you can’t miss out! And so did our photographer when they took over the stage at Ääniwalli in Helsinki with the support of local hardcore punk heroes Bob Malmström!
People at the Backstage venue in Munich were eager to see The Baboon Show play the songs of their new album ‘God Bless You All’ live, and we were not disappointed! What an energetic punk and rock ‘n’ roll show was that! Support came from the equally killer Spiders, both bands you need to go see live whenever you can!
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!
A true challenge for him, our photographer went to capture the performance art that is a live show of HIDE at Kuudes Linja in Helsinki a couple of months ago, with support from Keretik!
The Hickey Underworld is back! After a break of eight years, they are ready to slap you in the face once again with their quirky alternative rock music. We caught them at their show at Great Gigs in the Park in Sint-Niklaas, Belgium together with the space rock/psych punk of Penus and poetry reading from Johan Sebastiaan Stuer.
Quite legendary punk and hardcore band Belgian Asociality still exists, and a couple of weeks ago they played in our very own Asgaard to celebrate the 10th anniversary of our organisation, with the support of Evil Pony’s and Klabanus!
Lists
An albums of the year 2021 list with no compromises and a couple of real surprises!
Some of our most anticipated released for May 2021, warning: there is way more exciting music being released, this is only a small selection…
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!
A list consisting of the best honest, true and ball kicking releases of 2018!
Festival Reports
The last day of Tuska was as usually the “chill-out” day, but delivered some nice surprises and great bands!
GRIMM was present at Hellfest 2019, to enjoy some great shows and report on how of an amazing experience it was, yet again!
Helsinki Punk ‘n’ Roll Day brought a bunch of really interesting punk bands together on one stage!
Razernij combined yet again the best of 2 worlds: good heavy music and good craftbeer! Check out our experiences here!
Leffingeleuren was a unique and special experience with rock ‘n’ roll played in a small town that probably doesn’t see much of the world otherwise…
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!
HVNK PNKRCK 3.0 came, grabbed us by the nuts and threw us into the fray of several steaming moshpits with energetic punk, hardcore and rock ‘n’ roll!
The 11th edition of Roadkill Festival was one to remember, with excellent performances by Raketkanon, Acid King, The Lords of Altamonts, Pentagram and many more!
Not the kind of thunderdome you’d expect, again a year of musical highlights, this time on much different looking festival grounds…
