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album ‘Light of Death’ to be released in June via Deathwish Inc., and shared a first relentless single with ‘Belief Is Obsolete’!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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“Thrash Grass” outfit The Native Howl dropped the captivating new single and video ‘Mercy’ via Sumerian Records, featuring the ever impressive Lzzy Hale from Halestorm on guest vocals!
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The Swedish youngsters of Hostilia are ready to take on the world with their new vocalist and share their intentions with the remixed version of the track ‘Let Off Some Steam’!
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Photo Reports
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!
After last year’s cancellation, Nervosa came back to Finland on their small “Northern Tour” about a month ago, and set the house on fire with the help of local support Satan’s Fall at On The Rocks in Helsinki!
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Noble Demon is a new label that started in 2020 and is quickly on the rise to be one of the more prominent and big players in the scene!
Not including these records in my top 2020 was just too painful.
2021 promises to be quite the year again for new music releases! With our team we decided on some of the releases we’re looking forward to the most!
As every year, we put the heads together of our editorial team to decide on our collective “Albums of the Year”, check it out!
Maxen delivers us the best of the extreme side of metal year after year and with his albums of the year 2020 it’s no different!
Mazen lists up his favorite releases of 2019 in the black, death and heavy metal scene, check out what he thinks are interesting releases to check out!
The same struggle that comes back every single year: making a selection of the best albums of the year from all the quality releases it has brought forth, so here is the 2018 edition!
End of the year means albums of the year lists, so here is the one we accumulated from what our editorial team likes!
2017 was again a massive year for music of all makes, I’ve done my best to narrow it down to the 10 releases that suck with me the most the past year…
Another year has gone by, so it’s time again to reveal what albums have intrigued me the most last year.
