TRIVIUM have unleashed the official video for their blistering new single “Bury Me With My Screams”, the first taste of their upcoming EP, STRUCK DEAD, due out October 31, a Halloween release befitting the band’s darkest edge. The announcement comes…
Austria’s own diabolical emissaries of black/death metal, BELPHEGOR, have returned from the abyss with a scorching new single, “Sanctus Diaboli Confidimus.” As caustic as it is commanding, the track sounds like a ritual in flames—invoking what’s to come with unholy…
I wasn’t planning on seeing Nailbomb live. Hell, I’d forgotten they even existed. But there I was on a muggy August night in Vienna, jammed into the sweaty, sold-out Szene Club, watching Max Cavalera dig up a corpse and make…
“Just hope nobody dies,” Michael Kiske, Helloween singer, mutters with a nervous laugh. It’s a casual sentence, maybe even a joke on the surface. But the pause afterward betrays the weight beneath it. The weight that creeps in when your…
THE NOCTURNAL AFFAIR are returning to the UK and to mainland Europe for the first time on a 14 city run alongside Wednesday 13 and Drowning Pool on selected dates. They are out in promotion of the last video “Benefit of Doubt” (watch the video…
After years in the vault, industrial punk-metal hybrid Nailbomb is storming back onto the stage with a newly announced European tour this August. Known for their explosive energy and politically charged legacy, the band, originally formed by Max Cavalera and…
Swedish/Canadian/American extreme metal giants ARCH ENEMY have officially unveiled their upcoming “European Blood Dynasty 2025” tour, a sprawling arena trek set to dominate the autumn metal calendar. The tour, supporting their twelfth studio album “Blood Dynasty” (out March 28, 2025…
The Vienna Metal Meeting is back for another skull-rattling edition in 2025, and this year’s lineup is nothing short of monumental. Taking place on October 4th, at the iconic Arena Wien, the one-day metal pilgrimage will be headlined by none…
Originally published in Nocturne Magazine Before Eluveitie, Ensiferum, Turisas and the likes dominated the heavy metal world with their folk-infused metal, one band had the idea to expand their thrash metal foundation with enticing violin sounds, atmospheric keyboard layers, and…
Fantasy heavy metal outfit Castle Rat have released “Wolf I”, a feral second taste of their upcoming concept album “The Bestiary”, out September 19 via King Volume and Blues Funeral. Building on the mythic universe they’ve crafted on stage, the…