Finnish black thrash outfit Beatrix opened the new year with the release of their aggressive new EP ‘Deathsent Ceremony’, and are gearing up to record their first full-length this spring!
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Dutch metal band Inherited released their new single ‘Urban Guerilla’, giving a taste of their “Slayer meets Hatebreed in a dark alley” groovy thrash sound!
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Finland’s degraded fiends Scumripper are finally back with their highly anticipated second album ‘For a Few Fixes More’, set for release in February 2025 via Dying Victims Productions and Headsplit Records, and shared a teaser medley to get you totally excited!
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The Dutch thrash collective Grindpad hit us up with a new single and lyric video, offering a proper metal alternative for the holiday season with ‘X-MAS MOSH’!
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Montreal-based CHÜZO unleash the vengeance of their self-decribed “Aggro-Metal” in their new music video ‘Brand New Cell’, a track from their recently released EP ‘M.T.M.D (Maximum Threshold, Minimum Decay)’! The blend of grindcore, Swedish death metal, thrash and hardcore punk is quite the sonic assault!
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Speed metal outfit Steel Inferno are gearing up for the release of their new album ‘Rush of Power’ next week Friday, November 29th via From The Vault and amp things up with a video for their latest single ‘Electrocuter’!
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After a hiatus year, Rockfest is back! New location, but also a rather action packed first batch of confirmed names for the 2025 edition with names like Muse, Judas Priest and Till Lindemann topping the bill!
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Alcatraz Festival is a strong and outspoken supporter of the local, Belgian music scene and shared over the weekend their “Under One Flag” selection of amazing Belgian bands for the 2025 edition of the event!
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German thrash metal legends Destruction are set to release their 16th album ‘Birth of Malice’ in 2025 via Napalm Records and unleashed an eponymous battle hymn with the new track ‘Destruction’!
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Beyond the Gates announced the first wave of bands for the 2025 edition with the return of King Diamond for the first time in almost 2 decades, special sets from Abbath, Triptykon and Destruction, and on top of that I Am Morbid, Hellbutcher, Hellripper and Dark Sonority!
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Photo Reports
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.
Pictures of Avatar, Lost Society, Jinjer, Arch Enemy and Gojira taking over the main stage on the first day of Tuska 2023!
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 the performances by Finnish legends Xysma and Rotten Sound on the Black Stage!
The second day of Rockfest 2023, the Red Stage by Soundi was the place to be for stellar performances by Von Hertzen Brothers, Escape The Faith, Testament and Stam1na.
Album Reviews
With the newest album, Sodom rides the maelstrom of violence, “Genesis XIX” is yet another worthy album added to the band’s extending catalog.
Take 4 talented metal musicians, seventies rock classics dipped in a heavy/thrash metal sauce and that’s what you get with BPMD’s first album…
The first EP of Jairo “Tormentor” Guedz’s new band The Troops of Doom is out, bringing back some old school Brazilian death/thrash!
Belgian metal outfit Chalice brings an appetizer to what is to become most likely a full-length release. Check it out!
Belgian metal band Téras delivers a nasty thrash record interlaced with the right amount of black and death metal to kick in some teeth!
The Belgian maniacs from speed metal outfit Bütcher released their second album and it’s quite the blistering metal attack!
Gomorra’s debut album ‘Divine Judgement’ is truly a blast packing fast, aggressive and groovy riffs and overall virtuosity.
Finnish thrash metal youngsters of Lost Society are back with a brand new release and it offers absolutely ‘No Absolution’! Check it out!
‘V’ is fueled by aggression and the coherent intensity the songs is inflated by the dynamic enthusiasm, but its consistency makes some of the tracks sound average.
Belligerent metal for fans of old-school thrash with modern influences.
