Thrash metal icons Flotsam and Jetsam unleashed their new single ‘Primal’ and shared the cover artwork of their upcoming album ‘I Am The Weapon’, set for a September release via AFM Records!
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Finnish thrashers Mutant Blast unleashed their new single ‘Acid Rain’, another track from their upcoming album ‘Soulsteeler’, set for release in September via Rockshots Records!
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Kerry King unleashed the new single and first music video ‘Residue’, a track from the upcoming debut ‘From Hell I Rise’ of his new project, set for release in May via Reigning Phoenix Music!
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Metal powerhouse Umbra Vitae, featuring members of Converge, Twitching Tongues, The Red Chord, Uncle Acid and Tsjuder, announced their sophomore album ‘Light of Death’ to be released in June via Deathwish Inc., and shared a first relentless single with ‘Belief Is Obsolete’!
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Australian metallers Flaming Wrekage shared single ‘Hell On Earth’, another banging track from their upcoming album ‘Terra Inferna’, set for release at the end of April!
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Louisville thrash metalheads Belushi Speed Ball shred heads on new single ‘This Is The Peak’, another track from their upcoming album ‘Stellkira’!
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French groove/nu metal thrash monsters Rage Behind have returned with a relentless new single ‘The Hands Of Revenge’, which was earlier to be found as a bonus track on their debut album released at the end of last year via Atomic Fire Records (Reiging Phoenix Music)!
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Thrash metal outfit Extinct share the song ‘Annihilation By Words’, a track from their upcoming album ‘Incitement Of Violence’, set for release in April via MDD Records!
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Canadian thrash metal/hardcore punk force Supermodel Taxidermy shared the single ‘Lipstick’, a homage to the women in the scene and a track from their upcoming album ‘At What Cost’, set for release in May!
Finnish sludge doom metal band Earthblood is set to release their 2nd EP ‘Witchburner’ via Inverse Records in April and shared first single ‘Sons of Heavy Rain’!
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As usual, Mazen’s top albums are a mix of death metal, black metal and a touch of doom metal, heralding everything that is underground and extreme with bands like Phobophilic, Autopsy, Stormruler, Watain, Shape of Despair, Ars Hmu, Sedimentum, Chaotian, Trolldom and Immolation!
Steelchaos is back! If that is not reason enough to get yourself a ticket still, here are 5 reasons why you should still consider to go this weekend, including the exclusive Finland “Black Metal” 40 years anniversary show of Venom Inc.!
Things are getting ramped up now that the summer period is at its end! Great releases are coming out soon and it showed in the past week with new singles from Slipknot, Gaerea, Alien Weaponry, Brymir, Orbit Culture, Suasion ft. Steffi Pacson and The Callous Daoboys that amazed us!
With the end of summer in sight, we came across 10 releases coming out in August that our editorial team has been looking forward to the most.
The month of April brings us not only Spring in full bloom, but a long list of stellar releases. Here is a selection of those we’re looking forward to the most!
Putting all the favorites of our team of writers and photographers together, we’ve come to a really diverse and interesting overall AOTY list!
An AOTY list with the usual thrash, power and heavy metal suspects, but also a couple of surprises!
12 of the albums we’re looking forward the most in June, there are more, but these are really at the top of our lists! Check it out!
Some of our most anticipated released for May 2021, warning: there is way more exciting music being released, this is only a small selection…
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Cavalera re-recorded the first two albums of Sepultura (‘Bestial Devastation’ and ‘Morbid Visions’) and are touring the world with them on the “Morbid Devastation” tour! We caught up with them at L’Aéronef in Lille, France, and we saw it was good… Support came from Max’s stepson’s band Incite…
Pictures of the massive Stam1na show at the Ice Hockey Hall in Helsinki with special guests Diablo, Corroded and Dear Mother!
The last day of a long and exhausting weekend of great music and atmosphere was all about the Belgian music scene at La Morgue with Aeveris, Brutal Sphincter, Hexa Mera, Mantah and Reject The Sickness!
The last day of a long and exhausting weekend of great music and atmosphere with on the main stage shows from Sacred Reich, Bleed From Within, Blind Guardian, Killswitch Engage and of course, the party that was Electric Callboy!
Second day at an exciting edition of Alcatraz we went to get a bit of a taste of the old school heavy metal that was playing the whole day at La Morgue with EvilDead and Vicious Rumors!
Second day at an exciting edition of Alcatraz with Predatory Void, Shadow Of Intent, Decapitated, and Sodom on the Swamp Stage ripping it up!
Second day at an exciting edition of Alcatraz with H.E.A.T., Sepultura and Biohazard on the main stage!
Pictures of the Asagraum, Chamber of Unlight, Suicidal Angels, Benighted, Impaled Nazarene and Batushka shows at the first day of Hellsinki Metal Festival 2023!
Pictures of the Voivod, Monuments and Sodom shows at the first day of Hellsinki Metal Festival 2023!
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.
