Following from a 2024 sold-out festival, with over 150,000 visitors from 80 countries, Tons Of Rock is thrilled to reveal Green Day as the first headliner and to announce further acts for its 2025 edition, including: Jinjer, Electric Callboy, Kim Dracula and more. To complete the announcement, the festival pre-sales go live today and tickets will be available for purchase here.
Located in the city center of Norway’s capitol Oslo, Tons of Rock is the largest rock festival in the country and it is becoming one of the biggest annual meeting point for all rock and metal fans in Europe. And now, legendary punk rock band Green Day are announced as main stage headliner on 26th June, with the performance being their exclusive Norwegian show.
Hellsinki Metal Festival – Winter Edition 2024 Announcement
The Hellsinki Metal Festival, which sold out on its second day in August, is also expanding into a winter event. Hellsinki Metal Festival – Winter Edition 2024 roars on December 14 at Helsinki’s Kaapelitehdas, and the performers of the first indoor festival will be Dark Funeral, one of the best in Swedish black metal, Belphegor, Austria’s gift to lovers of blackened death metal, and domestic experts in the field Kyy and Omnivortex.
Kaapelitehdas was not chosen as the venue for the event by chance – metal has been celebrated in the same place during the years of the Finnish Metal Expo fair, and Hellsinki Metal Festival promoter Toni Törrönen also remembers those events fondly.
TRIBULATION release new single and video for ‘Murder in Red
Sweden’s goth metal maestros TRIBULATION recently announced the release of their forthcoming 6th studio album Sub Rosa in Æternum, due 1st November via Century Media Records. The first long player after their award-winning album Where the Gloom Becomes Sound in 2021 they’ve also dropped a cinematic music video for the record’s fourth single, ‘Murder in Red’.
Continue reading TRIBULATION release new single and video for ‘Murder in RedGerman Symphonic Metal Icons XANDRIA Announce New EP, “Universal Tales” + Official Video for First Single “No Time To Live Forever” Out Now
German symphonic metal icons XANDRIA are about to chart new paths with their epic upcoming nine-track EP, Universal Tales, out on November 22, 2024 via Napalm Records! This EP follows the success of their latest top 10 charting album (German charts), The Wonders Still Awaiting (2023), which introduced an impressive new line up featuring the fantastic Ambre Vourvahis, who stuns audiences with her vocal talent that blends elements of rock grit, operatic highs and even growls.
This fresh sounding masterpiece highlights XANDRIA‘s reinvention by elevating their trademarks to a new level, setting the bar for modern symphonic metal while presenting four brand new majestic songs that showcase the band’s refined versatility and impressive intensity.
Continue reading German Symphonic Metal Icons XANDRIA Announce New EP, “Universal Tales” + Official Video for First Single “No Time To Live Forever” Out NowLACUNA COIL announce new album and release ‘Oxygen’ single
Italian metal titans LACUNA COIL announce their 10th studio album, Sleepless Empire, their first collection of new songs since 2019’s Black Anima, with their new single ‘Oxygen’. The new song comes with a mesmerising new music video, filmed in Latina and directed by Daniele Tofani, that shows singer Cristina Scabbia in the lead role.
Continue reading LACUNA COIL announce new album and release ‘Oxygen’ singleRefused Enlist Cult Of Luna For Cover Of ‘Tannhäuser / Derive’
Refused are continuing the overdue 25th anniversary celebration of their seminal 1998 record with ‘The Shape Of Punk To Come Obliterated’: a 12-song tribute album featuring covers from prominent names in hardcore, available to stream on November 8th via Epitaph Records. After approaching 12 bands with the request to “rearrange or deconstruct” each song, today they share a dark and expansive take on the operatic 10-minute saga ‘Tannhäuser / Derive’, reimagined by fellow Swedes, Cult of Luna.

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