The legendary Bristol, based thrash metal patrol Onslaught have launched an official lyric video for the track ‘Strike Fast Strike Hard’. Onslaught issued seventh full-length studio album Generation Antichrist on August 7th, 2020 through AFM Records. Generation Antichrist marks the first Onslaught album to feature new vocalist Dave Garnett. The new frontman…
Eddie Van Halen dead at 65
Eddie Van Halen, the legendary guitar innovator and virtuoso who led Van Halen through five decades and three lead singers, establishing himself as one of the all-time great players in rock history, died Tuesday after a long battle with cancer. He was 65. “I can’t believe I’m having to write…
SaariHelvetti Tampere Finland
How many festivals have been arranged in this current crazy era of covid-2019 ? Most of them, maybe all of them have been canceled or then postponed. The map of European festivals have mostly been blank and totally dead. Some countries allowed these big gatherings to happen in August…
Brutal Assault confirms the line-up for 2021
As Brutal Assault had to be inevitably postponed to 2021 lots of you have been curious about the line-up. With great pleasure we can announce that the vast majority of the original line-up (90 %) is now confirmed for the next year! If you can’t find any of your bands…
Onslaught – Nige Rockett
INTERVIEW WITH NIGE ROCKETT OF ONSLAUGHT The British thrash metal icon Onslaught finally released the seventh long waited album called GENERATION ANTICHRIST. The seven-year gap between albums is a long era, but the British thrashers have been touring but also undergone changes in the line-up. GENERATION ANTICHRIST is one hell…
Finnish melodic metallers Thunderstone returns with “Virus 2020” single
After a period of hibernation, Finnish melodic metallers Thunderstone were planning to get together this spring, start working on new material and play gigs. Then the pandemic hit. Confined to their homes in different countries, the band was not content on resting on their laurels. “Now that we’ve been more or…
Phil Demmel – Vio-lence, BPMD etc..etc..
INTERVIEW WITH PHIL DEMMEL OF VIO-LENCE After leaving Machine Head, Phil Demmel has been busy during the past few years. The legendary Vio-lence returned to stages and several projects with different musicians such as BPDM(Blitz, Portnoy, Menghi, Demmel) going on have kept the axeman Phil Demmel hectic since the departure.…
Thrash metal legend Onslaught release a lyric video for new song “Religiousuicide”
The legendary British thrash metal outfit Onslaught has launched a new song called “Religiousuicide” from the forthcoming album titled GENERATION ANTICHRIST due out on the 7th of August on AFM. This is also the first Onslaught album to feature the new vocalist, Dave Garnett, replacing the longtime singer Sy Keeler. …
Speed Metal Party: Whiplash (USA) + more // Tullikamarin Klubi Tampere Finland
Speed Metal Party is coming again! A handsome table setting has been received for the metal festival to be held at the Customs Chamber Club on Saturday 15 August. The main band is the legendary WHIPLASH. Founded in 1984, the American Thrash metal band released the classic Power and Pain…
ONSLAUGHT To Release New Album ‘Generation Antichrist’ On August 7th
UK Thrashers ONSLAUGHT will release their long awaited new album entitled ‘Generation Antichrist’ through AFM RECORDS on August 7th. The album mixed by ‘Grammy Award’ winning producer DANIEL BERGSTRAND (Behemoth / In Flames / Meshuggah) at ‘Dugout Studios – Uppsala, Sweden is the follow up to the critically acclaimed ‘VI’ Generation Antichrist will be…
ONSLAUGHT NAME NEW VOCALIST
UK Thrashers ‘Onslaught’ have confirmed ‘Dave Garnett’ as their new vocalist and replacement for the recently departed ‘Sy Keeler’ (‘Garnett’ has already appeared onstage with ‘Onslaught’ deputising for ‘Keeler’ at ‘The House of Metal’ Festival in Umea, Sweden earlier this year.) ‘Onslaught’ guitarist Nige Rockett comments: Obviously it was a…
The singer and bassist, Fernanda Lira, quits Nervosa
Goodbye, NERVOUS! Everything has a beginning and an end, life is made of beginning and the end, it is the natural cycle of things. Some of these endings are pretty challenging and that’s definitely the hardest of my life – the hardest decision of my life. I thought I would…
Smackbound – Netta Laurenne
INTERVIEW WITH NETTA LAURENNE OF SMACKBOUND Smackbound – another new, yet interesting band emerging from Finland. Even though the band’s sounds unfamiliar for all the readers. When the band consists of members from the leading metal names of the Finnish metal scene such as Stratovarius and Wintersun, this definitely…
Roadburn 2020 postponed
Due to the recent announcements from the Dutch government that all events in the Netherlands are forbidden until June, it will be impossible for us to hold Roadburn in April as planned. We know that many of you had already guessed that this would be the case, and we appreciate…
Brutal Assault 2020 – Abbath confirmed
ABBATH -Official-, one of the legends of Norwegian black metal, a founding member of mighty Immortal and owner of one of the most iconic voices, will return to the Josefov Fortress with a new album „Outstrider“ this summer! And the second piece in today combo are the Tasmanian devils Psycroptic. While…