Nuclear Blast Records has signed HOKKA, a new Finnish rock supergroup featuring former Blind Channel frontman Joel Hokka, The Rasmus founding guitarist Pauli Rantasalmi, and rising drummer Jimi Aslak. The band makes their official musical debut with a video for their...
New & Noteworthy, September 18th – Adrenaline
The wave of excellent release weeks continues today with a jam-packed schedule that will have your ears begging for the music to never stop. Read on for what may be one of the busiest weeks of the entire year! Shinedown, Threat to Survival (Atlantic) Album...Metal Allegiance is dying to show you this song
Supergroups seem to be the norm for many metal musicians out there and that’s just great, because how else are we going to listen what two or more great metal minds can create together? Metal Allegiance has just a little more than “two or more” of...Metal Allegiance to play debut album release show in NYC
Metal Allegiance, the supergroup formed by an immense list of metal musicians, have been busy getting ready to release their self-titled debut album on September 18th through Nuclear Blast Records, but if you were wondering “how are they going to coordinate that...Metal Allegiance shot this song and now is dying
The super-group Metal Allegiance continue releasing updates on their debut album via a series of webisodes. We saw Lamb of God’s Randy Blythe and Exodus’ Gary Holt in the studio on the first episode; the second episode included a few minutes of a track...Follow Us
Nuclear Blast Records signs Finnish rock supergroup HOKKA
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Catch up now: 53 new songs/videos recently released – 11/11/2025
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Interview: Omnium Gatherum’s Jukka Pelkonen on celebrating tenth album ‘May the Bridges We Burn Light the Way’ & full breakdown
2026 will mark Omnium Gatherum's thirtieth year as they close 2025 with their tenth studio album, May the Bridges We Burn Light the Way, out November 7, 2025, via Century Media Records. These Finnish melodic death metal giants have reached a milestone that not many...
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