Tuhdimmat Tahdit and Master Events brought one very hot festival to Tampere’s Ratinanniemi. It started with Verikalpa and ended with Beast in Black, but we also can’t forget about all the bands in between: Transworld Identity, Prestige, Ensiferum, Bloodred Hourglass, Dynazty, Lordi, Mors Subita, Dead by April and Diablo.

Vancouver’s Hardball put a new spin on grunge, infusing it with hardcore punk on the single ‘Worried As Shit’. Fans of Nirvana, Wipers and Hüsker Dü, you may want to pay attention…

The Hickey Underworld is back! After a break of eight years, they are ready to slap you in the face once again with their quirky alternative rock music. We caught them at their show at Great Gigs in the Park in Sint-Niklaas, Belgium together with the space rock/psych punk of Penus and poetry reading from Johan Sebastiaan Stuer.

One of our reporters survived Punk Rock Bowling & Music Festival 2023 in Las Vegas last month, and once he got sobered up and rested, he managed to remember 10 absolute highlights of the event!

Tenacious D was in town with their “Spicy Meatball tour”, and of course we had to go and see what Jack Black and Kyle Gass had in store for us on this tour when they played at Vorst Nationaal in Belgium. Support came for the one man musical centipede Steel Beans.

British rock outfit Asking Alexandria released their latest single and music video ‘Psycho’, another track from their anticipated new album ‘Where Do We Go From Here?”, set for release this fall via Better Noise Music!

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!

A night of post-punk with the Finnish Grave Pleasures celebrating the release of ‘Plagueboys’ and oppressive industrial metal from Dome Runner at Korjaamo in Helsinki!

Grave Pleasures came to Korjaamo in Helsinki at the end of April to celebrate the release of their latest album ‘Plagueboys’, and with the band we danced our way into the weekend. But not before we first got an intense show from the industrial metal support act Dome Runner.