Posted by Siegfried Samer on August 26, 2021
It’s a tough year for metal festivals worldwide, and European festivals are no exception. Numerous festivals had to be postponed yet another year to 2022, including the world-famous Wacken Open Air in Germany, their downsized spinoff “Bullhead City,” which should have taken place in September 2021, and the gigantic Hellfest in Clisson, France. The […]
Posted by Zenae Zukowski on August 20, 2021
Beast In Black have announced their new album, Dark Connection, will be released on October 29th via Nuclear Blast. Guitarist Anton Kabanen comments: “Enter cyberpunk. Flying cars, sprawling metropolis, valleys of neon lights, emotionless killers, gynoids, femmes fatales, shadowy characters, lethal lust, forbidden passion, love larger than life, space travel… All this […]
Posted by Siegfried Samer on August 9, 2021
Since its inception in 2016, Metal On the Hill festival, organized by Austrian powerhouse metal label Napalm Records, has been a bona fide success story for the organizer. After an unfortunate cancellation in 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the festival is back on schedule for its 2021 incarnation (buy tickets here). From 13th to […]
Posted by Zenae Zukowski on May 6, 2020
2020 was going to be the year for excellent tours and reunions. Before the COVID-19 pandemic, we wrote seventeen treks we were looking forward to seeing this year. Sadly, most of them have been postponed or cancelled. With that being said, while tours are still scheduled for this fall, Hammerfall has cancelled their North […]
Posted by Zenae Zukowski on January 9, 2020
2020 is the year we get to see Mr. Bungle’s first shows in twenty years, the return of Mercyful Fate, Faith No More, Rage Against the Machine, and more. We listed seventeen additional tours we’re looking forward to see. 17) Def Leppard, Mötley Crüe, Poison & Joan Jett summer stadium tour Skepticism has been […]
Posted by Zach Fehl on December 23, 2019
I originally wrote a long winded introduction to this, but it sucked so I deleted it for you. Check out the lists of Matt, Bram, Jeff, Zenae, and whoever else here is writing them. We have a thing about the decade. Dope shit came out this year. I know what you’re here for. Lets discuss. […]
Posted by Zenae Zukowski on December 23, 2019
I try to follow the rules, but, once again, another year of good music has gone by, and I was able to narrow it down to 20 instead of 10. There are a bunch of variables that make me connect to a song or artist. Whether it’s the overall vibrations the sound leaves behind […]
Posted by Zenae Zukowski on October 28, 2019
While Hammerfall are currently on tour with Sabaton, these Swedish metal giants will return to North America next fall for a full headlining trek in support of their new album Dominion. The tour is scheduled to kick off on September 14th, 2020 in West Palm Beach, FL and will run through October 19th, 2020 in […]
Posted by Zach Fehl on September 9, 2019
ProgPower USA is the premier U.S. festival for progressive and power metal. For 20 years now they have been a key part in bringing some of the biggest and best names in the international progressive and power metal scenes to the United States. It takes place every September at the Center Stage Theater in Atlanta, […]
Posted by Zenae Zukowski on August 6, 2019
For those who were planning on grabbing tickets for next year’s Wacken Open Air festival, it appears you are too late. All 75,000 tickets for the event sold out in just 21 hours. Unlike other ticket sales, WOA organizers have advised festival-goers from buying tickets from third parties. Next year’s event will take place on […]
