At the beginning of this month, Blood Command announced to have signed with Arising Empire for the next chapter in their career, and unleashed the brand-new single ‘We Could Be Heaven’ to celebrate!
We’re already looking forward for that promised 2025 new album and seeing them rip up the stage at next year’s Tuska Festival!
Shinedown’s Eric Bass announces his debut solo album ‘Eric Bass Presents: I Had A Name’, set for release in February 2025 and shared a first track and video with ‘Mind Control’!
Finnish rockers The Rasmus signed a joint record deal with Better Noise Music and Playground Music and have announced to be releasing their new song ‘Rest In Pieces’ this Friday October 25th and their “Weirdo” Europe tour for 2025!
Modern rock powerhouse Pop Evil recently returned with the scorching new single ‘What Remains’, out via MNRK Heavy, and has now dropped a music video to go along with it!
Belgian alternative rock outfit #40Something released their new single ‘Just Like Thelma and Louise’, serving you a dose of nostalgic 90s vibe!
A couple of weeks ago, Florida rockers The Haunt shared their latest single ‘Masochistic Lovers’, featuring Craig Mabbitt of Escape The Fate, out via Nettwerk Music Group! A teaser from their still to be announced forthcoming album!
Belgian rock trio Ramkot shared the final single ‘Hollow’ a couple of weeks back, in anticipation of the release of their upcoming album ‘Rosa’, out in November via V2 Records!
Finland’s celebrated Von Hertzen Brothers unveiled 2nd single ‘Ascension Day’ with a music video, a track from their upcoming 9th studio album ‘In Murmuration’, set for release at the end of next month!
Love Is Noise announced debut album ‘To live in a different way’ to be released in February 2025 via Century Media and shared another track with ‘take.one.minute’!
Cyan Kicks kick off new era with the new single ‘Don’t You Say I Didn’t Warn You’, yet another infectious track released via Ranka Kustannus!
It has become a true tradition that DIE HAPPY plays some warm-up gigs at the end of December for the shows or tours of the following years. In this round, it’s the ‘Pre-Anniversary Shows 2023’, preparing for the upcoming anniversary tour in 2024, celebrating their 30th anniversary as a band. Support came from Templemind at their stop in Stuttgart’s Im Wizemann in Germany!
We set the hard task for our photographers to choose the best 30 pictures that they have shot in 2023 out of possibly thousands of captures, and here is the result of Tom Treuten’s selection with Butcher Babies, Fateful Finality, Fear Factory, Thundermother, Hypocrisy, Spiritbox, Behemoth, Dog Eat Dog, The Cult, Skillet, Agnostic Front, Scorpions, May The Silence Fail, Cannibal Corpse, Ataraxy, Dark Funeral, Goldmann, Solstafir, Ingested, Antiheld, Lansdowne, Völkerball (Rammstein Tribute), Fettes Brot, Danko Jones, Royal Republic, Team Tot, and Mindead!
The year wrapping up means that we’ll be looking back at the amazing things we’ve experienced, and “album of the year” lists. We’d also like to give some attention to our talented concert photographers who go out and cover shows for us. So here is a first in a series of articles where our artists pick their favorite pictures of 2023 with Anna/ScarletMemory Photography who mostly roams around in Tampere, Finland and pictures from bands like Pain, Sólstafir, Eleine, Myrath, Battle Beast, Brymir, Sabaton, Mors Subita, Lordi, Metalite, Shereign, Diablo, Before The Dawn, Wolfheart, Sonata Arctica, Deathstars, Brother Firetribe, Psychework, Apocalyptica, Voidfallen, Poets of the Fall, Amorphis, Lost Society, and Everwave!
Shereign finished off their year with a gig at Tampere YO-Talo on December 9th, organized by Nem Agency. They brought along Ikinä, Everwave and Lastout to make the night complete with up-and-coming Finnish artists.
The last Wednesday night of November at The Clyde Theatre in Fort Wayne, Indiana was definitely NOT a “Nightmare” or a cause for “Panic” for fans anxiously waiting to catch a stop on the “Blackout Tour” with From Ashes to New, The Word Alive, Catch Your Breath and Ekoh!
We had a great time catching Poets of the Fall on the last stop of their 20th anniversary tour, at Tampere’s Pakkahuone venue on December 1st!
Smash Into Pieces have become quite the force to be reckoned with in the heavy music scene and together with Cyhra, they set Tavastia in Helsinki ablaze a couple of months ago!
Against The Current kicked off their European tour in Brussels with an explosive evening full of rock at Ancienne Belgique, with support from LØLØ and CallMeAmour.
Pictures of Blood Command at On The Rocks in Helsinki, Finland.
Every year the Lost in Music Festival brings around 100 Artists to Tampere, showcasing what the Nordic region has to offer of music. And we made it to one of the shows happening at Olympia-Kortteli, featuring rising stars Bloodred Hourglass, One Morning Left and Shereign. It was packed, it was hot and it was a big party!
The rockers of The Sounds finally came back to Finland to rock the house and party with their fans and it was simply a blast!
The report of an amazing night with shows from Breaking Benjamin, Seether, Starset and Lacey Sturm in Fort Wayne, IN!
Eivør made it back to Finnish soil to put us under a spell with her gorgeous music and vocals at the legendary Tavastia club in Helsinki!
After an impressive release last year, VOLA came to our neighborhood to bring their intricate music live, with the support of Port Noir and Atlas!
Report of the first ever Black Box event in Mikkeli with Bloodred Hourglass, Wolfheart, Sara and Balance Breach!
Temple Balls finally gets to play their new music at On The Rocks and brought along the rising youngsters of St. Aurora for their debut show!
Before the grounds of “The Island of Hell” was taken over by SaariHelvetti festival, we got to welcome Apocalyptica, Wheel and Cyan Kicks for an amazing night!
A night with music of some of the best bands Finland (and Ginger Vine Management) has to offer with Luna Kills, Blame Me! and Edge of Haze!
A glorious return to Tavastia for the first time in 2021 for us! Couldn’t be better kick-off with the epic metallers of Arion and popular alt-rockers of Cyan Kicks!
Falling In Reverse brings us another performance that goes up in history and makes us even more eager to see live music again!
