De Profundis, Cnoc An Tursa, and Owlcrusher Kick Off Hordes X 2026 Lineup Hordes X fest has just announced the first batch of bands appearing at its sixteenth edition!!! Taking place across the stages of Hidden and Music Hall Dundee, the oldest metal fest is Scotland, Hordes X, is back…

Hordes X 2026   The Beast in the East, Scotland’s oldest metal fest, Hordes X, is back for its SIXTEENTH edition!!! Featuring two days of stacked extreme metal and old school bands (plus some curveballs), the influential live platform returns to the twin venues of Hidden and Music Hall Dundee,…

M2TM Scotland 2026 – Grand Final   The guest headliners for this year’s Scottish Metal 2 The Masses Grand Final have been announced, and the date approaches… M2TM is the award winning live initiative from the UK’s biggest independent metal festival, Bloodstock Open Air. A Mecca for the nation’s metalheads,…

Dog Tired and Ten Ton Slug – Japanese Tour Scottish riffmasters, Dog Tired, are headed to Japan, with Ireland’s Ten Ton Slug! Long time SDM partners in noise, Dog Tired, are teaming up with leading Irish purveyors of riff-filled sludge, Ten Ton Slug, for five dates in Japan this November!…

Eihwar – Hugrheim (album stream) Eihwar’s new album, Hugrheim (Season of Mist), is advance streaming in full!!! Sometimes, our metal souls need a little soothing, with a bit of folk music. Naturally, we still tend to keep it to the darker side. Bands such as Wardruna, Heilung, and Nytt Land…

Riket – 1948: Att döda ett barn Swedish death metal unit, Riket, unleash their new, darkly historic music video. SDM first came across Riket, somewhat unexpectedly, at a Balkan Metal Meet event, in Tirana, Albania, a couple of years ago. They impressed us there, so it’s great to so them…

Godsticks Scottish Supports Announced   A fest of Scottish prog metal joins Wales’ Godsticks on their two date Noerthern trek Crafted around chugging guitar riffs, intricate solos and driving rhythm section, this unique outfit are coming to Scotland for two shows under the Slow Dragon Music banner. The dates form…

Dragon Fire: Opeth – §3 Prog metal masters, Opeth, have dropped a new animated video for Paragraph 3. I think we’re all aware that when Opeth returned to their heavier vocal style, they saw a resurgence in interest. Having first picked up on the band back around Blackwater Park, their…

Dragon Fire: Rotting Christ – Aealo (single) War, tragedy, and spirit reawakened: Aealo rises again Rotting Christ are back with a thunderous reminder of why they still reign over Hellenic black metal. The band have just unleashed their title track as a teaser announcement to the freshly re-recorded edition of…

Dragon Fire: Behemoth and Dimmu Borgir European Tour Two giants of black metal hit the road together next year. Next October will see a real two-headed monster of a tour stomp its way across Europe. Behemoth and Dimmu Borgir have come together for the In League With Satan co-headline tour!…