Last year, at Steelfest we were blown away by the performance of Columbian power-trio Witchtrap. We loved the old school blackened thrash and speed metal, and now we get to look forward to more of it through their upcoming album ‘Hungry as the Beast’, set for release at the end of September via Hells Headbangers Records!
East Bay thrash metal legends Sadus revealed a new lyric video for ‘The Devil In Me’ in anticipation for their upcoming shows in Europe like an appearance at Alcatraz Metal Festival. Don’t miss out!
Finland’s thrash metal titans Prestige are set to reissue their iconic album ‘Parasites In Paradise’, out for re-release on August 9 via Massacre Records!
Nothing Sacred, one of Australia’s pioneering heavy metal bands, is kicking off their highly anticipated 2024 European summer tour tomorrow at Headbangers Open Air, taking them all over Europe until they wrap things up at Speed Metal Party in Tampere, Finland halfway August!
Finnish thrashers Mutant Blast haunt fans with a horror inspired video for the track ‘Final Day’, from their upcoming album ‘Soulsteeler’, set for release in September via Rockshots Records!
Cavalera shared another track from the upcoming re-recording of the legendary Sepultura album ‘Schizophrenia’ with ‘From The Past Comes The Storms’, including an animated video! The re-recording is set for release in a couple of weeks via Nuclear Blast Records!
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!
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!
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!
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album ‘Light of Death’ to be released in June via Deathwish Inc., and shared a first relentless single with ‘Belief Is Obsolete’!
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.
Body Count is in the house! And as they say with every release: they are still as angry as ever! Get ready for some good metal music…
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.
The outdoor stage on the 2nd day of Steelfest XI was the place for explosive and often high velocity performances by Tsatthoggua, Sex Messiah, Grenadier, Witchtrap, Kalmankantaja and Behexen!
