The Helsinki-based oi! punk band The Bulldozer unleash a fierce, old-school punk outburst with their new single “Kicking Grannies.” The track stomps firmly in the boots of bands like Cockney Rejects and Anti-Nowhere League.
Despite its title, the band is not actually kicking grannies.
“I’m not the one kicking grannies with my boots. Did you know most dangerous men wear suits,” goes one key line in the song.
Kicking Grannies tells the story of older women who still have plenty of fight left in them. The narrative features a rough-looking crowd escorting them to the pub for a game of bingo. At the same time, the track continues a familiar theme for the band: the real threat doesn’t always look like one, it often hides behind neatly dressed figures in positions of power.
Formed in 2023, The Bulldozer represent the SHARP movement (Skinheads Against Racial Prejudice) and combine oi! with traditional punk, spiced up with touches of ska and reggae.
The band’s previous release, Battle Scars EP, explored similar themes, tackling working-class frustration and social inequality. In particular, the track “Breathtakingly Ordinary Man” took aim at “men in suits” disconnected from the realities of everyday people.
The Bulldozer’s debut release was the Shit Drops Keep Fallin’ On My Head EP, released in 2024.
Kicking Grannies won’t be the band’s only release this spring. A four-track EP is set to follow at the end of May.
TERAMAZE unveil “Enemy In The Garden,” the latest single from their upcoming album The Silent Architect.
Built around the timeless narrative of Adam and Eve, the track explores temptation and consequence through a modern progressive lens—balancing restraint with intensity.
Featuring keyboardist Matt Guillory (James LaBrie), the song expands the band’s sonic depth while maintaining its core power.
Video directed by Wayne Joyner (Sevendust, Dream Theater, Alter Bridge).
This is TERAMAZE at their most focused, cinematic, and deliberate.
“The Silent Architect wouldn’t be lyrically and thematically complete without ‘Enemy in the Garden’. It drives the core themes in the album in the most potent way possible, reflecting our short comings back at us.” N Peachey | Vocalist
For fans of: Dream Theater, Tesseract, Devin Townsend
Some albums are planned. Some are demanded — by grief, by love, by the kind of loss that leaves a silence so wide you have no choice but to fill it with the only thing you know.
“For The Hawk” is the new release from Citovitz and The Fireflies of February — the recording project of Polish-born guitarist, composer, and songwriter Andrzej Citowicz, based in Cairo, Egypt. It is available now on all major streaming platforms worldwide. And it arrives on a date that was never truly a coincidence. The official lyric video for ‘I Don’t Have To Hide’ — released also today with the album premiere, May 4th — is available now on YouTube:
May 4th. Star Wars Day. The day the world celebrates the Light Side of the Force.
He was always Light Side. Not once. Not ever, did he choose anything else.
THE HAWK His name is not printed here. Those who knew him need no introduction. Those who didn’t will understand everything they need to know from the music itself.
He was a friend. A mentor. A father figure to both Andrzej and his wife Shereen Shoukry Citowicz. He stood quietly in the background for years — never asking for recognition, never needing applause — and made everything around him better simply by being present. He was the kind of person who would die for the people he loved without hesitation, and never once mention it afterward. The kind of person the world produces rarely and loses too soon.
He was also a devoted Star Wars fan. A Light Side soul in every sense of that phrase — not as metaphor, but as lived practice. He chose good not because it was easy or rewarded or noticed, but because that was simply who he was.
“He stood in the background so we could stand at all. He never asked for anything. He gave everything. Love was not something he spoke about — it was something he did. Every single day.” — Andrzej Citowicz
When he was gone, Andrzej and Shereen faced what so many have faced before them — the impossible task of responding to an absence that language cannot adequately address. They did what they have always done. They turned to music.
A BLESSING, A CURSE, AND THE WEIGHT OF FRIENDSHIP For The Hawk did not begin as an album. It began as a song — Love Is All We Need — written in the spirit of Bon Jovi, warm and wide open and completely unapologetic in its belief that love is the hardest, strongest, most load-bearing thing a human being can carry. Shereen wrote the lyrics as a tribute. As his message, returned to the world in the only form she and Andrzej knew how to give it.
Then the grief kept arriving. And the songs kept coming with it.
This Is One’s For the Hawk. We Are The Good Guys. I Don’t Have To Hide. Love Is All We Need. Each track arrived from the same source — the specific, irreplaceable ache of losing someone who shaped you. Someone whose guidance you did not fully appreciate until the guidance was no longer there. Someone whose friendship was so present, so reliable, so quietly foundational, that you only began to understand its full weight when it was no longer something you could reach for.
“Music is all I can give back. If there is any paying back for his love, his friendship, his heart held out for both of us — for me and for Shereen — then this is it. Every note. Every lyric. Every song on this record.” — Andrzej Citowicz
“For The Hawk” is not a grief project. It is a friendship project. It is a record about the people who stand in the background and hold everything together — unseen, unrewarded, irreplaceable. About the loyalty that does not announce itself. About the loss that does not diminish but deepens everything it touches.
Andrzej and Shereen have faced much in recent years. Loss upon loss. The kind of accumulation that would silence many artists. Instead, it has done the opposite — driving both of them deeper into the work, further into the honesty that has always defined Citovitz and The Fireflies of February at their best.
MAY THE 4TH BE WITH HIM The choice of May 4th as the release date arrived with the particular logic of things that feel inevitable in retrospect. Star Wars Day. The day the galaxy celebrates the Light Side. The Jedi. The ones who chose good because it was right, not because it was easy — who stood in the fire and did not become it.
He was exactly that.
“I told myself it was coincidence. I know now that it was not. He was always Light Side. This was always his day.” — Andrzej Citowicz
On the day of the album’s premiere, a special official lyrics video was released for I Don’t Have To Hide — one of the most intimate tracks on the record. A song about the freedom that comes from being fully known and fully accepted by another person. The kind of freedom H gave to everyone around him, simply by being who he was.
THE MUSIC: CITOWICZ WITH GUITAR IN HAND Musically, For The Hawk is unmistakably Andrzej Citowicz. The guitar is first. It is always first. Modern technology surrounds it — the home studio in Cairo, the production, the arrangements — but the heart of every track beats with the same pulse it always has: a guitarist who grew up in Wałbrzych, Poland, absorbing Bon Jovi, Def Leppard, Desmond Child, and the great power ballad tradition of the late 1980s and early 1990s as if his life depended on it.
Because in some ways, it did.
That DNA runs through every track on this album — the melodic hooks, the emotional guitar work, the cinematic arrangements that make vulnerability feel enormous rather than small. Phil Collen’s harmonized leads. The Bon Jovi warmth that turns a love song into a declaration. The Def Leppard wall of sound that makes a chorus feel like the world opening up.
But For The Hawk is not nostalgia. It is a man with a guitar and fifty years of scars, writing songs for someone who mattered, in the only musical language that has ever felt completely honest to him.
“The guitar is always first. Modern technology helps me build what I hear. But what I hear — I have been hearing since the early 90s. That has never changed. And with this album, more than any before it, I did not want it to change.” — Andrzej Citowicz
SHEREEN: THE LYRICAL SOUL Shereen Shoukry Citowicz is not a supporting presence on this record. She is one of its two central voices. Her lyrics — on Love Is All We Need and throughout the album’s emotional architecture — carry the particular honesty of someone who has processed grief not as a subject but as a lived experience, and found a way to transform it into something that reaches far beyond the personal.
After nearly 18 years of marriage, Andrzej and Shereen have built a creative partnership that continues to deepen and surprise. She gives him words he could not find alone. He gives her music that carries those words further than either of them could go separately. For The Hawk is their most unified and most personal collaboration to date.
“Without her — there would be nothing. Not the music. Not the courage to finish it. Not the reason to begin again every time the silence got too heavy. She is not just the person I come home to. She is the reason the guitar sounds the way it does.” — Andrzej Citowicz
AVAILABLE NOW For The Hawk is available now on all major streaming platforms worldwide. The official lyric video for ‘I Don’t Have To Hide’ — released on the day of the album premiere, May 4th, 2026 — is available now on YouTube. Youtube link: https://youtu.be/id41xCN6u8Y?si=KxZJTsx1GD8yoU6l
This is independent music in the truest sense. No label. No industry machine. Just a home studio in Cairo, a guitar, a marriage built partly on music, and the memory of a man who deserved to be honoured in the only way Andrzej and Shereen know how.
“May the Force be with him. It always was. Light Side. Forever.” — Andrzej Citowicz
TRACK CREDITS Music & Guitars: Andrzej Citowicz Lyrics: Andrzej Citowicz / Shereen Shoukry Citowicz Recorded & Arranged: 2026 Premiere Lyrics Video: I Don’t Have To Hide — May 4th, 2026 Artist: Citovitz and The Fireflies of February Dedicated to: H — Light Side. Forever. 🦅
BAALZAGOTH, a band from Polish town Kostrzyn nad Odrą, makes it clear from the very first notes: there is no room for compromise, salvation, or mercy. Embracing the aesthetics of blackened death metal, the band delivers music that is brutal, direct, and consciously aimed at religious dogma. Their sound is a sonic execution – heavy, dense, and permeated with a darkness that not only accompanies but overwhelms.
Baalzagoth draws from the hellish legacy of the death metal scene—you can hear echoes of the merciless power of Morbid Angel, the suffocating chaos of Incantation, the ritualistic severity of Immolation, and the extreme intensity of Hate Eternal. However, this is neither a copy nor a nostalgic homage – the band takes what is heaviest, most sinister, and most primal in death metal, then ramps up the brutality to the breaking point.
Since its inception, Baalzagoth has consistently forged its own identity: anti-religious, dark, and ruthless. Their compositions are tightly constructed, precisely constructed—massive riffs, a crushing rhythm section, and a tempo that leaves no room for breath. This is music that attacks head-on, without embellishment, without flirting with lightness – pure, primal power.
The culmination of this journey is the album “No God, No Savior” – the band’s most polished, ruthless, and mature release. It’s intense and conceptually coherent material, consciously evolving their existing sound toward even greater extremes and expressiveness.
All music was written and arranged by the band, except “Auto da fé” which was composed, performed and recorded by Michał “Joda” Sobczyński. Ika Klimaszewska (soprano vocals & vocal samples) appears as a guest on the tracks: “Satan”, “Excommunicatus ab humanitate”, “Auto da fé” and “Gloria Apostasiae”. Drums were recorded at Sound of Records Studio by Mikołaj Kiciak (Blindead 23, Leash Eye), guitars at Tetra Wave Studio by Krzysztof Kostencki (Morrath, Sothoris), and the material was subsequently recorded, edited, mixed, and mastered at Heinrich House Studio by Filip Hałucha (Azarath, Behemoth, Hate). The album cover artwork was conceived by Oktavius, with artwork and layout created by Ksenia Kot, based on a photograph by Maciej Pieloch. Band photography was done by Maciej Pieloch (Batushka, Hate).
The band comments on the upcoming release: “No God, No Savior is not just an album—it’s a manifesto of extremes. A sonic declaration of the rejection of the idea of salvation, an affirmation of chaos, and the triumph of darkness over the illusion of meaning. Baalzagoth doesn’t attempt to reinvent death metal. We remind you what this genre truly is: aggression, negation, and the unbridled violence of sound. No compromise. No god. No salvation.“
New studio album “No God, No Savior” will be released on June 6, 2026 in digital format and on CD via the Polish underground label Putrid Cult (pre-order). Below you can stream lyric video for the single “No God, No Savior“.
The crushing soundscape of stoner rock dominates Finnish metal outfit Karahka’s new single “Temptations.” Punk undertones and a foundation rooted in traditional heavy metal complete the track in a way that fits seamlessly into Karahka’s distinctive style.
The band has also released a music video for ”Temptations.”
“We’re currently working on new material for our third album, set to be released next winter. Over the past year, we’ve accumulated a solid batch of riffs and lyrics to develop,” says guitarist Juuso Vettenranta. “The upcoming full-length revolves around mental health issues, and Temptations fits the theme perfectly, so we refined it into the first single and a warning of what’s to come.”
Formed in 2020, the Finnish band Karahka released their debut album Dark Side of the Night in 2024.
A single titled “This Means War,” taken from the prolific group’s December 2025 album Modern Fanfares, landed on several Spotify playlists and has been streamed over 60,000 times on the platform.
Karahka is also planning to hit the road even before the release of their upcoming album.
“Our management is currently organizing a UK tour. Negotiations are already quite far along, and I can confidently say we’ll be heading to the UK in November,” Juuso adds.
Line-up: Jaan Lehti: Drums, Vocals Juuso Vettenranta: Guitar, Backing Vocals Mikko Teittinen: Guitar, Backing Vocals Ari Enqvist: Bass, Vocals
Rock Hard Festival Greece has announced the final line-up for 2026 edition, which will take place at Technopolis City of Athens, in Greece on September 11th & 12th.
BLOOD FIRE DEATH (performing A Tribute to Quorthon and the music of Bathory)
STRATOVARIUS (Special 90s set)
MORGANA LEFAY (Rare reunion show)
PRIMORDIAL
TRIUMPHER
Saturday 12/9
ANGRA (performing ‘Holy Land 30th’ Feat. Kiko Loureiro)
DIRKSCHNEIDER (performing special Best Of Accept set)
BLAZE BAYLEY (Iron Maiden Anniversary show)
FRANK BLACKFIRE (best of Sodom & Kreator set)
DREAMLORD
The VIP package includes full access for the whole weekend, access to special viewing area, special VIP bar, a souvenir courtesy of the Rock Kommander game, and an exclusive 2-LP gold vinyl pressing of ANGRA’s landmark album “Holy Land”.
In September Metal Department will release the first ever pressing of “Holy Land” on vinyl, and they will supply those lucky 100 VIP ticketholders with this ultimate concert souvenir! 100 copy edition only, pressed on gold double vinyl, exclusively for the VIP’s at the Rock Hard Festival Greece! (a standard version of “Holy Land” will be available for the general public at the festival stands as well, on both CD and vinyl 2-LP)
THE ROCK ALCHEMIST – Italian Rock Band from Turin with a strong sonic identity that blends modern rock with progressive, hard, alternative, and pop elements!
Kimmo Kuusniemi’s SARCOFAGUS return with a Historic 2010 Concert Video Premiere on YouTube! Click image to watch the video
Metal Shock Finland (World Assault ) 