Nashville symphonic power metal band Valkyrie’s Fire signed a worldwide deal with Eclipse Records and are set to release their debut EP ‘Ascension’ in November!
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Symphonic metal collective Imperia revealed the details on their upcoming new album ‘Dark Paradise’, set for release next month via Massacre Records and shared a first video single with ‘Better Place’!
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Symphonic melodic metal overlords Rhapsody Of Fire are celebrating the release of their new album ‘Challenge the Wind’ via AFM Records with a lyric video for closing track ‘Mastered by the Dark’! Catch them this summer at festivals like the amazing John Smith Rock Festival in Finland!
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Swedish dark symphonic sensation Eleine unleashed the video and single ‘Suffering’ via Reigning Phoenix Music and announced their 2024 “We Shall Remains” European tour! Don’t miss out!
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Montreal’s Valfreya’s ‘Dawn Of Reckoning’ is a blackened folk descent into mythological madness and is available for your listening pleasure as of today!
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Symphonic extreme metal outfit Paradise In Flames meld classical and metal music in new video single ‘Concerto No 6 Minor, Cold Spring’, a track from their upcoming album ‘Blindness’ set for release in June!
Italian symphonic metal band Rossometile shared their new single and video ‘Gehenna’, the title track of their upcoming seventh album, set for release in May!
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Symphonic metal band ANA push Haute Couture to a new level in the music video for ‘Scars’, a track from their recently via Eclipse Records released album ‘The Art of Letting Go’!
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Swedish symphonic metallers Tungsten invite us to celebrate this year’s Walpurgis Night early by unveiling ‘Walborg’, the first single from their upcoming album ‘The Grand Inferno’, set for release via Reigning Phoenix Music later this year!
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Finnish druid metal band Unshine released their fifth full-length album ‘Karn of Burnings’ on Rockshots Records last week and celebrated with their new lyric video for the single ‘Aettarfylgja’!
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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!
Before setting out to take over Europe with their co-headline tour, Before The Dawn and Wolfheart hit several cities throughout Finland, and we were there when they dropped by Tavastia in Helsinki, with the support of Brymir!
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)!
Every year, one day of the 10-day long Lokerse Feesten is dedicated to metal. A day full of headbanging, mosh-pits and heavy guitars with this year Hammok, Biohazard, Doodseskader, Bullet For My Valentine, Psychonaut, Megadeth, Slift, Within Temptation, Stake and Amenra.
The second day brought quite a rockin’ out to the main stage with national heroes The 69 Eyes and Stratovarius and rock legends Mötley Crüe and Def Leppard.
Elina Siirala and her band Angel Nation played a show in The Crossover Music Pub in Ghent with warm up act Flowerleaf kicking off the night.
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!
Wheel, Epica and Apocalyptica came together in Munich to bring a dream night for lovers of expectedly crafted music from the hand of excellent artists
Kamelot is on tour in Europe with their “Awaken the World” cycle, in the good company of Myrath, Eleine and League of Distortion! We caught up with them at their stop at Le Splendid in Lille, France.
Lists
Oktober has many releases again that are some of the most anticipated of the year within our editorial team! Check out the wide range of awesome albums!
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!
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
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!
On the first day of Hard Rock fest Avelgem we could witness some of the most talented Black Metal artists of our time perform live in the little town of Avelgem.
It’s oh so quiet, it’s oh so hot…! This year’s edition was one of heat, historical events and many records!
