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  There are your standard Heavy Metal festivals – and then there’s 70000TONS OF METAL. Envision this: Lounging on a Caribbean island, soaking up the sun on a pristine white beach. Later on, you feel the warm wind blowing in your face, now sitting in a hot tub on a giant luxurious cruise ship, in front of The Pool Deck Stage, The World’s Biggest Open Air Structure to Ever Sail the Open Seas. Surrounded by Metal fans from all across the globe (known as the United Nations of Heavy Metal at Sea), you headbang to your favorite band. Sounds perfect? Well, it is. Get ready for 70000TONS OF METAL 2025! The thirteenth edition of 70000TONS OF METAL will take place from January 30th to February 3rd, departing from Miami, Florida – Cruise Capital of the World – to Ocho Rios, Jamaica and back aboard the Independence of the Seas. This unique festival will once more see 60 Heavy Metal bands from various subgenres taking the four stages on board, with 3000 metalheads from around the world in atten...

  𝗖𝗢𝗡𝗖𝗘𝗥𝗧𝗦 𝗕𝗘𝗡𝗜𝗚𝗛𝗧𝗘𝗗 (𝗕𝗿𝘂𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗗𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗵 - 𝗙𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲) Formed in 1998, the Stéphanois have become pillars of extreme metal over the years with 8 albums and tours around the world. Inspired by morbid themes and the twists and turns of the human soul, their clever mix of brutality with a clearly assumed unhealthy side, is a reflection of the experiences that their singer had in his profession as a nurse in a psychiatric hospital. After their opus "Obscene Repressed" released in the middle of a pandemic, the four fierce BENIGHTED come to take their revenge and promise real torture to your neck during this warm-up ! 𝗧𝗘𝗡𝟱𝟲. (𝗗𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗵𝗰𝗼𝗿𝗲 - 𝗙𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲) New gem from the French-speaking scene, the guys from TEN56. made a very notable appearance under the Altar during the 2023 edition. Led by the charismatic Aaron Matts (ex-Betraying the Martyrs) and supported by his 4 brothers in arms, the TEN56. are climbing the ranks as quickly as their views so...

Act Of Denial is an international all-star melodic death metal project formed last year in 2020 during the pandemic. So far, they have just unleashed singles ahead of their debut album later in the year. The project was the creation of lead guitarist/songwriter and producer Vojan Koceic or Voi Cox (Koziak, Victim), as he likes to be known and guitarist/lyricist Luger (Benighted, Koziak). Together they have assembled a hell of a line-up for their mighty metal project, which is currently comprised of vocalist Bjorn Speed Strid (Soilwork), bassist Steve Di Giorgio (Death, Testament), drummer Krimh (Septicflesh) and keyboardist John Lönnmyr (The Night Flight Orchestra). Along with other prominent special guests such as Bobby Koelble (Death), Peter Wichers (ex Soilwork), Matias “IA” Eklundh (Freak Kitchen) and Ron “Bumblefoot” Thal (Guns N’ Roses, Sons of Apollo), who all contributed solos to the album. Their early melodic death metal sound and impressive line-up got my attention, so I had...

  Supergroup ACT OF DENIAL Sign With Crusader Records, Announce New Single 'Slave', Teaser Unveiled! International All-Stars melodic death metal band ACT OF DENIAL - feat. by lead guitarist and songwriter Voi Cox (Koziak, Victim), guitarist and lyricist Luger (Benighted, Koziak), vocalist Bjorn Speed Strid (Soilwork), bassist Steve Di Giorgio (Death, Testament), drummer Krimh (Septicflesh) and keyboardist John Lönnmyr (The Night Flight Orchestra) - have signed a deal with CRUSADER RECORDS (Part of the Golden Robot Global Entertainment) which will see their debut album Negative released in 2021. On top of the signing announcement ACT OF DENIAL will release a new single ‘Slave’ on March 29th which features a guest appearance by Ex-Soilwork guitarist Pete Wichers. The band has unveiled the official teaser video for the single, watch it here: https://youtu.be/zRH-g2iQx2c Pre-Save/Order to Slave HERE: https://smarturl.it/act-of-denial-slave Watch the earlier singles, below. ...

  New All-Stars melodic death metal band ACT OF DENIAL - feat. by lead guitarist and songwriter Voi Cox (Koziak, Victim), guitarist and lyricist Luger (Benighted, Koziak), vocalist Bjorn Speed Strid (Soilwork), bassist Steve Di Giorgio (Death, Testament), drummer Krimh (Septicflesh) and keyboardist John Lönnmyr (The Night Flight Orchestra) - have revealed the tracklisting and announced the new special guests for upcoming album "NEGATIVE". The band stated: "Now when the album is soon to be mixed and mastered and that would be in the next few weeks we would like to say a couple of words for the upcoming album titled 'NEGATIVE', revealing its tracklisting (read below) and announcing the new special guests who have contributed to this project as guest appearances; - MATTIAS IA EKLUNDH, Swedish guitarist and vocalist, known for his work with Freak Kitchen, Jonas Hellborg Trio and Art Metal; - PETER WICHERS is best known as one of the founding members of Swedish melod...

  New All-Stars melodic death metal band ACT OF DENIAL - feat. by lead guitarist and songwriter Voi Cox (Koziak, Victim), guitarist and lyricist Luger (Benighted, Koziak), vocalist Bjorn Speed Strid (Soilwork), bassist Steve Di Giorgio (Death, Testament), drummer Krimh (Septicflesh) and keyboardist John Lönnmyr (The Night Flight Orchestra) - have released their third single 'Down That Line', now available on Bandcamp, Hearnow, Cd baby, Spotify, Youtube and iTunes. The song is taken from the band's upcoming debut album 'Negative'. Watch 'Down That Line' video here: https://youtu.be/mLwkF-3n1lE The band stated: "We are proud to release our 3rd and new single "Down That Line" and this time in full band line-up. All band members contributed to this video recording in their home studios. Another melodic death metal song different from previous ones and this time with Bjorn Strid as lyricist and amazing vocal melodies and range gives this son...

  New All-Stars melodic death metal band ACT OF DENIAL - feat. by lead guitarist and songwriter Voi Cox (Koziak, Victim), guitarist and lyricist Luger (Benighted, Koziak), vocalist Bjorn Speed Strid (Soilwork), bassist Steve Di Giorgio (Death, Testament), drummer Krimh (Septicflesh) and keyboardist John Lönnmyr (The Night Flight Orchestra) - have unveiled the official teaser video for the band's new single 'Down That Line', coming out on October 25th, on Bandcamp, Hearnow, Cd baby, Spotify, Youtube and iTunes. Watch the 'Down That Line' teaser video + introduction of John Lönnmyr, here: https://youtu.be/Vd64Yyt05KE "Besides the official teaser for our new single 'Down That Line', in this video we are presenting our amazing keyboardist John Lönnmyr (The Night Flight Orchestra). John is the versatile keyboard player heard and seen in The Night Flight Orchestra, Aunt Nancy, Monochromatics, Valinor’s Tree and more. Hammond organ, analog synths (Moog!!) ...

  New All-Stars melodic death metal band/project ACT OF DENIAL was formed in 2020 and composed of lead guitarist and songwriter Voi Cox (Koziak, Victim), guitarist and lyricist Luger (Benighted, Koziak), vocalist Bjorn Speed Strid (Soilwork), bassist Steve Di Giorgio (Death, Testament), drummer Krimh (Septicflesh) and keyboardist John Lönnmyr (The Night Flight Orchestra). Voi and Luger told us: “This is now just a continuation of what we have been doing all our lives and only now in our 'older age' we have done something serious. Of course when it comes to music, at least for us, we wanted to record an album with some of the best musicians in metal music and the ones that we listened to when we were kids. We are not saying that this is something special what we are doing, but this means a lot to us and basically we are doing this for ourselves and our closest friends first but also for all the metal fans around the world who we hope are going to like our new music. Anybody can...