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Album Review: Evanescence – SanctuaryJun 17, 2026
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Album Review: Evanescence – Sanctuary

Album Review: Evanescence – Sanctuary

🎶 Evanescence🌎Arkansas, U.S.A.📀 Sanctuary® BMG / Columbia Records📅 05/06/2026 The new millennium has brought seismic changes to music—and to society in general. Technology continues to evolve at a…

Jun 17, 2026

EDGUY announces first concert in a decade

EDGUY announces first concert in a decade

Jun 17, 2026

AMARANTH vocalist Mikael Sehlin teams up with VALKYRIE’S FIRE in epic new single “Burning Sky”

AMARANTH vocalist Mikael Sehlin teams up with VALKYRIE’S FIRE in epic new single “Burning Sky”

Jun 17, 2026

ILLEGAL MIND released their new single, “Never Wanted”

ILLEGAL MIND released their new single, “Never Wanted”

Jun 17, 2026

Album Review: Duir – Catarsi

Album Review: Duir – Catarsi

Jun 16, 2026

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Album cover for Evanescence: a woman in dark armor against red fog, with EVANESCENCE and SANCUARY text

Album cover for Evanescence: a woman in dark armor against red fog, with EVANESCENCE and SANCUARY text

Album Review: Evanescence – Sanctuary

Kostas Boudoukos Jun 17, 2026

🎶 Evanescence🌎Arkansas, U.S.A.📀 Sanctuary® BMG / Columbia Records📅 05/06/2026 The new millennium has brought seismic changes to music—and to society in general. Technology continues to evolve at a breathtaking pace, trends come and go, YouTube artists rise to fame overnight only to disappear…

Album cover art for a metal band showing hooded, ghostly figures around a rearing horse on a desolate battlefield with a red ribbon sweeping through the scene, and the band name in the top left.

Album cover art for a metal band showing hooded, ghostly figures around a rearing horse on a desolate battlefield with a red ribbon sweeping through the scene, and the band name in the top left.

Album Review: Duir – Catarsi

Kostas Boudoukos Jun 16, 2026

🎶 Duir🌎Verona, Italy📀 Catarsi® AOP Records📅 26/06/2026 Italian outfit DUIR return with their second full-length album, Catarsi, an ambitious concept work set against the backdrop of World War I. Through six…

Album Review: Laughing After Botox – Perception of Insanity (EP)

Kostas Boudoukos Jun 14, 2026

🎶 Laughing After Botox🌎Larisa, Greece📀 Perception of Insanity® Independent release📅 12/06/2026 Two years after their formation and having already offered a first glimpse of their potential through their debut single, Larissa-based…

Album cover for August Burns Red's Season of Surrender featuring a stylized tree with a twisting trunk, bare branches, and a circular sun backdrop.

Album cover for August Burns Red's Season of Surrender featuring a stylized tree with a twisting trunk, bare branches, and a circular sun backdrop.

Album Review: August Burns Red – Season of Surrender

Kostas Boudoukos Jun 5, 2026

🎶 August Burns Red🌎Pennsylvania, U.S.A📀 Season of Surrender® Fearless Records📅 05/06/2026 Twenty-three years after taking their first steps on the metalcore scene, AUGUST BURNS RED have firmly established themselves as one…

Hooded dark figure in a stormy, eerie landscape with twisting, skeletal trees and red text on the left over a red-lit pool of water

Hooded dark figure in a stormy, eerie landscape with twisting, skeletal trees and red text on the left over a red-lit pool of water

Sinistrous Mist: A Voice Through Constellations album review

Spyros Tribos Jun 3, 2026

With “A Voice Through Constellations” Sinistrous Mist return with an album that does not merely follow the traditional black metal formula, but seeks to expand it, deepen it, and pull…

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MAMMOTHFEST 2026 June 10–13, 2026 Soul skg Open Air Thessaloniki

Poster for Mammothfest 2026 seen from a cockpit perspective with neon yellow band names and dates (June 10–13, 2026) against a space‑themed background and camel silhouettes far in the distance.

Poster for Mammothfest 2026 seen from a cockpit perspective with neon yellow band names and dates (June 10–13, 2026) against a space‑themed background and camel silhouettes far in the distance.

Jun 2, 2026

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May 12, 2026

Dimmu Borgir announce UNHOLY HALLOWEEN

Dimmu Borgir announce UNHOLY HALLOWEEN

Dimmu Borgir announce UNHOLY HALLOWEEN

Apr 7, 2026

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Apr 4, 2026

🎶 Cave🌎Ludwigsburg, Germany📀 …Into The Promised Land®Metalapolis Records📅 17/04/2026 German hard rock band CAVE return with their second full-length album, “…Into The Promised Land”, a release that successfully balances classic hard rock roots with modern influences. One of the album’s strongest assets is its…

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On the occasion of Firewind’s upcoming 10th album, “Stand United” which is expected to be released on March 1, 2024 by AFM Records, we had the pleasure to contact Gus G. to help…

Album Review: Eihwar – Hugrheim

Album Review: Eihwar – Hugrheim

Album Review: Eihwar – Hugrheim

Mar 14, 2026

🎶 Eihwar🌎 France📀 Hugrheim® Season of Mist📅 13/03/2026 EIHWAR—that is, Asrunn and Mark—are a truly unique band. They formed as recently as 2023, and within just two or three years, they’ve gone…

Kreator – “Krushers of the World” album review

Kreator – “Krushers of the World” album review

Kreator – “Krushers of the World” album review

Jan 16, 2026

Against the flow of things, against the erosion of time, Kreator — among the few remaining hardcore survivors of the 1980s — continue relentlessly to deliver high-quality thrash metal. Yes,…

Album Review: Dailalos – Dante

Album Review: Dailalos – Dante

Album Review: Dailalos – Dante

Jan 24, 2026

🎶 Daidalos🌎 Brunswick, Germany📀 Dante® Rockshots Records📅 20/2/2026 DAIDALOS is a symphonic Black Metal project created by Tobias Püschner in 2020 in the midst of the pandemic. From this alone, one can…

Album Review: Garde – Harbinger of revenge and war

Album Review: Garde – Harbinger of revenge and war

Album Review: Garde – Harbinger of revenge and war

Dec 24, 2025

🎶 Garde🌎 The Netherlands📀 Harbinger of Revenge and War® Heidens Hart Records📅 01/11/2025 GARDE is a strange case of a band, having been around since 2000 but only released their first album,…

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Live Report: Groza, Plague (Gazarte, Athens, Greece – 10/06/2026)

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Jun 11, 2026

Iron Maiden live in Athens 23/5/2026

Large stage screen displaying Iron Maiden Run for Your Lives World Tour 2026 graphic with a neon-green monster reaching forward and bold red lettering, rigging above.

Large stage screen displaying Iron Maiden Run for Your Lives World Tour 2026 graphic with a neon-green monster reaching forward and bold red lettering, rigging above.

May 24, 2026

Live Report: Katatonia, Universe217 (Floyd – Athens – Greece, 08/05/2026)

Live Report: Katatonia, Universe217 (Floyd – Athens – Greece, 08/05/2026)

Live Report: Katatonia, Universe217 (Floyd – Athens – Greece, 08/05/2026)

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Live Report: Metallica, Gojira, Knocked Loose (O.A.K.A. – Athens – Greece, 09/05/2026)

Metallica M72 World Tour banner featuring Gojira and Knocked Loose logos, date May 9, 2026 at Athens Olympic Stadium.

Metallica M72 World Tour banner featuring Gojira and Knocked Loose logos, date May 9, 2026 at Athens Olympic Stadium.

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Album cover for Evanescence: a woman in dark armor against red fog, with EVANESCENCE and SANCUARY text

Album Review: Evanescence – Sanctuary

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EDGUY announces first concert in a decade

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Dimmu Borgir announce UNHOLY HALLOWEEN

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Album cover for Evanescence: a woman in dark armor against red fog, with EVANESCENCE and SANCUARY text

Album cover for Evanescence: a woman in dark armor against red fog, with EVANESCENCE and SANCUARY text

Album Review: Evanescence – Sanctuary

Kostas BoudoukosJun 17, 2026

Album cover art for a metal band showing hooded, ghostly figures around a rearing horse on a desolate battlefield with a red ribbon sweeping through the scene, and the band name in the top left.

Album cover art for a metal band showing hooded, ghostly figures around a rearing horse on a desolate battlefield with a red ribbon sweeping through the scene, and the band name in the top left.

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Live Report: Groza, Plague (Gazarte, Athens, Greece – 10/06/2026)

Three hooded figures stand by a snowy lake at night, holding blazing torches as mountains loom behind them.

Kostas BoudoukosJun 11, 2026

Iron Maiden live in Athens 23/5/2026

Large stage screen displaying Iron Maiden Run for Your Lives World Tour 2026 graphic with a neon-green monster reaching forward and bold red lettering, rigging above.

Large stage screen displaying Iron Maiden Run for Your Lives World Tour 2026 graphic with a neon-green monster reaching forward and bold red lettering, rigging above.

Spyros TribosMay 24, 2026

Live Report: Katatonia, Universe217 (Floyd – Athens – Greece, 08/05/2026)

Live Report: Katatonia, Universe217 (Floyd – Athens – Greece, 08/05/2026)

Live Report: Katatonia, Universe217 (Floyd – Athens – Greece, 08/05/2026)

Kostas BoudoukosMay 12, 2026

Live Report: Metallica, Gojira, Knocked Loose (O.A.K.A. – Athens – Greece, 09/05/2026)

Metallica M72 World Tour banner featuring Gojira and Knocked Loose logos, date May 9, 2026 at Athens Olympic Stadium.

Metallica M72 World Tour banner featuring Gojira and Knocked Loose logos, date May 9, 2026 at Athens Olympic Stadium.

Kostas BoudoukosMay 11, 2026

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