TrollfesT is celebrating their 20th anniversary, and will be doing so by releasing the compilation album ’20 Years in the wrong lane’! And they celebrated the announcement by releasing their take on Korpiklaani’s ‘Happy Little Boozer’, including a hilarious music video!

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Amorphis managed to captivate our reporter once again when attending to their stop at Pakkahuone in Tampere on their “Halo Finland 2023 Tour”, a wonderful night hosted by TuskaLive and Greybeard Concerts & Management.

Die Apokalyptischen Reiter release new song ‘Adler Fliegen’, a track from their upcoming EP ‘Die Mutter des Teufels’, to be released as a limited tour edition at the five concerts of the Schrei!nachten tour at the end of this month!

The second night of John Smith Rock Frozen 2023 was pretty epic with some of the best of the Finnish scene with Red Eleven, Kiuas, Finntroll, Turmion Kätilöt and headliners Amorphis! Throw on top of that the Swedish up-and-comers of Orbit Culture, and you know it was good!

Introducing: Pirate Queen, the all-female pirate metal band that unleashed their debut single ‘Pirates from the Sea’ from their 2024 debut album set for release via Despotz Records!

The Polish black metal institution Batushka brought their unholy sermon to the halls of Helsinki’s Vanha Ylioppilastalo and brought with them the Russian pagans of Arkona, the pretty epic Canadian Aeternam and Latvian vikings of Varang Nord!

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Last month, we got to go to the very last stop of the Polish black metal collective Batushka “Black Pilgrimage tour 2023” at Vanha Ylioppilastalo in Helsinki, with the good company of Arkona, Aeternam and Varang Nord!

After his departure from Equilibrium last year, Robse is back with epic power with a band bearing his name, and their debut album ‘Harlekin und Krieger’ announced for a May 2024 release via Reaper Entertainment!

Faroe Islands-based metal collective Týr announced the “Battle Ballads North American headlining tour” for next year (tickets available tomorrow) and unveiled the cover art of their upcoming Metal Blades Records album ‘Battle Ballads’!