News Posts

Finnish melodic metal outfit Arion signed to Reigning Phoenix Music and announced to be releasing their 4th album ‘The Light That Burns The Sky’ at the end of next month and shared the track ‘Like The Phoenix I Will Rise’ with a fiery music video! Catch them live on their Finnish tour with Stratovarius and Sonata Arctica, European co-headline tour with Brainstorm or this summer at Tuska!

Power metal powerhouse Brainstorm are gearing up to unleash their new album ‘Plauge Of Rats’ upon the world early 2025 via Reigning Phoenix Music and announced their 2025 co-headline tour with Arion!

While the summer is about to be wrapping up, we can already look ahead towards the summer of 2025, especially after Tuska just announced the first 16 confirmed acts for next year’s edition with Electric Callboy, Powerwolf, Nothing More, Orbit Culture, Kim Dracula, Korpiklaani, Marko Hietala, Tarja, Charlotte Wessels, thrown, Eihwar, Timo Rautiainen & Trio Niskalaukaus, Blood Command, Arion and Tyrantti and the first announced headliner with Lorna Shore!

What do you think? What bands are you still hoping for?

Finnish melodic metal outfit Arion shared their new video single ‘Wings of Twilight’ featuring Melissa Bonny from Ad Infinitum, which saw its live debut at 70.000 Tons of Metal last week!

Last headliner for Tuska has been announced with a healthy dose of heavy metal of all walks accompanying them!

Photo Reports

Last Friday, Stratovarius and Sonata Arctica came to Tampere’s fully packed Tavara-Asema for their “Nordic Power Titans tour 2025”. In addition, they also brought along Arion to warm up the room for them. While the sound wasn’t always quite on point, that didn’t stop the evening from being a great amount of fun. An event by Grey Beard Concerts & Management.

Best Of 2023 Tom VM

Our Benelux and France head of accreditation and most active photographer in that region, Tom VM, made his own selection of favorite pictures he took in 2023, including some new stuff that wasn’t shared on our site before with Biohazard, Bleed From Within, Brutal Sphincter, Brutus, Electric Callboy, Michael Schenker Group, Sepultura, Arion, Blackrain, Overdrivers, Avatar, Winery Dogs, Charlotte Wessels, Devin Townsend, Dream Theater, Extreme, Ghost, Michael Angelo Batio, Arch Enemy, Doodseskader, Halestorm, I Prevail, Powerwolf and SKYND!

Pictures of the Arion, Clawfinger, Blind Guardian and Apocalyptica shows at the first day of Hellsinki Metal Festival 2023.

Dream Theater

Progressive metal masters Dream Theater are touring the world with their “Top of the World” tour showing they are true masters at what they do. We got to see them at 013 Poppodium in Tilburg, Netherlands with the Finnish progressive/symphonic power metallers of Arion opening!

The last Friday before the Christmas period, our photographer ScarletMemory Photography got to enjoy one last great concert for this year with Arion, Memoremains and Battle Beast.

The pictures of an energetic release show at Tavastia for both Arion and Cyan Kicks!

What a way to close Nosturi down! The Best Tour Ever Part 1 brought some of the best bands of the Finnish scene to the stage one more time to blow the roof off! The proof is in the pictures…

Since last year Finland is yet another big rock and metal event richer. The Rock Fest immediately caught the attention of people all over the country and far beyond those borders with big names like Rammstein and Evanescence gracing the line-up. Despite quite a few obvious flaws and bugs in the organisation, it was an overwhelming succes […]

Gig Reports

What happens when two of the most well known power metal bands of the country tour together as co-headliners? Sold out gigs like the one at Tavara-Asema in Tampere last Friday is what happens. Sonata Arctica and Stratovarius, together with support act Arion, made sure to create an evening to remember. An event by Grey Beard Concerts & Management.

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!

What a way to close Nosturi down! The Best Tour Ever Part 1 brought some of the best bands of the Finnish scene to the stage one more time to blow the roof off!

Lists

14 melodic metal/rock albums from Finland that we still wanted to give some proper attention to and you should check out still too if you haven’t yet!