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Finnish blackened death metal band Karelian Warcry have worked with their third album for years and finally it sees the light of day this spring. The first bite from the album, a single "Mielen rutto" (The plague of mind) is now out.

The solo project "Wooden Shadow" by Jeremia Ponto, who just turned 25, from Ylöjärvi, Finland and the latest song "We are the North" is a representative song as its name suggests, in which the north brings honor and strength. The chorus raises the sound levels to the stratosphere and the song's otherwise rich and rich melody can...

DIRKSCHNEIDER & THE OLD GANG are sticking to the plan and supplying fans with new material with iron regularity. With another month comes another visual strike from the album Babylon — this time in the form of a video for one of the wildest tracks on the record, "Propaganda."

Deftones are once again tearing through algorithms, playlists, and sold-out arenas. But long before TikTok, viral nostalgia, and the so-called "'90s revival," there was one image that spoke clearly: Around the Fur was never meant to be an album for everyone. And it certainly wasn't meant to be polite.

The metal world was shaken last year when Dave Mustaine officially confirmed that the upcoming, eponymous album Megadeth will be the definitive final studio chapter of one of the greatest thrash metal legends.
The seventeenth album is set to be released later this year and will close a career spanning more than four decades, during which the...

BABYMETAL are celebrating 15 years of existence and once again proving that they don't care much about the boundaries and dogmas of the metal scene. To mark the anniversary, the band has released a newly recorded version of Headbangeeeeerrrrr!!!!!, one of their very first and now iconic songs from 2011.

The mastermind behind the Avantasia project, Tobias Sammet, spoke in a recent interview for the Brazilian show Bate Cabeça about what truly lies behind the international dimension of his metal opera. Over the years, Avantasia has featured some of the biggest names on the global scene — from Michael Kiske and Jørn Lande to Sharon den Adel...

The Masters of Rock festival is gradually closing its lineup for this year, and it is already clear that Vizovice is in for another four-day metal marathon without genre compromises. From July 16 to 19, legends, current top acts, and new faces of heavy music will meet at the Rudolf Jelínek distillery grounds.

Finnish alternative rock/metal band Latvija has released their sixth single named Pear Tree. Previous releases have been well received on various music platforms. Pear Tree is Latvija's first single with the lyrics in English. And the language choice works well on this one. Man behind the artist name Latvija, Heikki Lätti, has composed music...

Cradle Of Filth frontman Dani Filth used the turn of the year for both a personal and a band-related reflection. In his New Year's message to fans, he highlighted a major milestone — three years sober — while also hinting between the lines that 2025 was one of the most turbulent years in the band's history.

Guitar icon Gus G. (ex-Ozzy Osbourne) confirms that Firewind have no intention of slowing down. The band are currently putting the finishing touches on a new studio album, set to be released later this year via BLKIIBLK, the new metal imprint of Frontiers Label Group. The record will follow Stand United (2024) and appears to be shaping...

Metal once again played a powerful role in the finale of Stranger Things. After Metallica, it was Iron Maiden who made their way into the closing moments of the cult series, with their classic "The Trooper" appearing in the final episode of season five, aired on December 31.