Only a bit over a week until Tuska weekend is upon us! If you weren’t convinced yet you needed to go, here are 9 reasons we believe should be enough motivation! Going from a great line-up, to Tuska KVLT, and the biggest Tuska Expo ever, this is one for the books!

Graveworm’s tenth opus ‘Killing Innocence’ is a solid offering from the Italian veterans. The new songs are saturated with the symphonic and gothic trademarks, as the founding members Stefan Unterpertinger and Stefan Fiori continue to carve their niche in the gothic genre. Out on AFM records.

Tuska 2023 promises to be quite the exciting edition again with a great line-up with something for everyone, the biggest ever “Tuska Expo” in its history and plenty of other stuff to discover! If you’re planning to go, we listed some info in a nice little preview…

Charlotte Wessels

During the pandemic, Charlotte Wessels wrote 1 song per month, resulting in her ‘Tales from Six Feet Under’ releases. And now she was bringing that music live in a series of Dutch club shows! Support came from Blackbriar.

It took 16 years, but The Old Dead Tree have finally written, recorded and released a brand-new track with ‘Terrified’, out now via Season of Mist!

Swallow the Sun

The co-headline tour of Swallow the Sun and Draconian dropped by Het Entrepot in Bruges with warm-up act Shores of Null to deliver us a healthy dose of doom and gloom!

The king of sin Daemon Grey is back with ‘Gothy Love’, including a moody video, released via Out of Line Music!

Tribunal’s debut album offers dark, doomy riffs and a beautiful array of other instruments like the cello and the strings creating a dramatic interplay between the beautiful melodies and the bleak female vocals, ‘The Weight of Remembrance’ offers all these elements in a graceful display. Out via 20 Buck Spin.

Finnish melodeath/doom/gothic outfit Hanging Garden released another single from the upcoming album ‘The Garden’ with ‘The Fireside’. The album is set for release in March via Agonia Records!