Gig Reports
What happens when you take two of the most well known power metal bands of the country and send them on a tour together? Sold out gigs like this one at Tavara-Asema in Tampere last Friday is what happens.
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In the beginning of the year, Eluveitie embarked on the first leg of their “ÀNV Rising” tour in Europe, taking with them their friends of Infected Rain as direct support and Ad Infinitum as the openers. A pretty exciting package of 3 popular, but also quite different bands with what felt like a bit of something for everyone. We were all too excited about joining this evening of modern metal excellence, and travelled down to the Culture House of Helsinki to catch one of the first stops of the tour!
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TOTO has been around for a good 45 years and have long become a well oil machine of rock music. They recently finished their ‘The Dogz Of Oz European Tour’ and the final gig happened on 02.03.25 at Nokia Arena in Tampere. Together with their special guest Christopher Cross they played in front of 8500 happy fans.
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Long-standing Swedish rock band Thundermother released their new album ‘Dirty & Divine’ recently, and kicked off an extensive tour to celebrate and bring the release to their fans all over Europe! The first leg of the tour brought them to Im Wizemann in Stuttgart, Germany for a night of great rockin’ out. The ladies of Thundermother gathered some of the best of the feminine side of the heavy metal and hard rock scene with Cobra Spell and Vulvarine for support, and we saw it was good!
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“The Poisoned Ascendancy Tour”, a tour celebrating 20 years of ‘The Poison’, the first album by Bullet for my Valentine and ‘Ascendancy’, the second album released by Trivium, and for both breakthrough releases. Europe was the first to get tour dates, but the band will take this show global. I got to experience it at the Lotto Arena in Antwerp, Belgium. Let’s see what these bands will bring to the stage!
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Papa Roach’s ‘Rise of The Roach Tour’ made a stop in Brussels, and we were there to bring you this report!
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Apocalyptica has been around for quite some time now, almost 30 years to be precise. They have created many great cover versions of famous songs, as well as writing their own songs. After so many years, one might ask what is next? For Apocalyptica the answer is to go back to their roots. As they mentioned during the gig, it just felt right to them to challenge themselves by creating a second Metallica cover album: ‘Plays Metallica vol. 2′. To commemorate this they went on an extensive tour, including a handful of shows in their home country Finland. We made it to the gig in Tampere’s prestigious concert hall Tampere-Talo.
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30.8.2024 was like an unholy pilgrim for any and all metalheads around Finland. In 2023 one of the most revered black metal bands of all time shockingly announced they will play one live show for the first time since 1992. But it didn’t stop there, in 2024 Beherit played their first shows outside of Finland in Japan and finally, in August, they played their first show ever in Helsinki. The atmosphere and anticipation even arriving to the venue was palpable seeing hundreds upon hundreds of metalheads gathered around the venue to drink and reminisce from all ages seeing the band for the first time and older metalheads whom have seen the band before many of the other attendees have been even born. This was a generational experience, and you just had to be there to actually experience it.
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In November, Benighted and Baest stopped in Ghent with their “Beast against Beast” European co-headline tour. During the tour Coffin Feeder was the special guest, and tonight Carrion was the local support. Unfortunately I had to miss out on the always great Carrion due to circumstances, but overall this was an absolute killer of an extreme metal night!
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After 20 years, Raskasta Joulua has long become an integral part of the pre-Christmas season in Finland. Each year they go on a big, elaborate tour all around the country, filling some of the biggest venues Finland has to offer. Of course, they will do these shows this year again as well, but for their anniversary tour they also went with some very different shows.
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