News Posts

One of Finland’s most promising metal bands, Balance Breach, unleashed their new single ‘The Last Ember’ featuring Florestan Durand of NOVELISTS, a track from their upcoming album ‘ABYZMAL’ set for release next month via Out Of Line Music!

Metalcore stars on the rise Balance Breach released the new video single ‘Empty Eyes’, another track from their upcoming album ‘ABYZMAL’, set for release in May via Out of Line Music!

Finnish metalcore act Balance Breach released the brand-new single ‘The Spark’ via Out of Line Music! Catch them live this week as support for Normandie in Finland!

Rising stars of the Finnish metalcore scene Balance Breach are back with yet another banger of a single!

Balance Breach shows what is next for them and it sounds even more aggressive and dark than ever before! Time to look forward to their future album!

Finnish metalcore newcomers Balance Breach revealed a new lyric video for the song ‘Show You The Sun’!

A night of up-and-coming and promising metalcore outfits from Finland with Balance Breach, My Favourite Nemesis and Dead End Scene!

Promising Finnish metalcore outfit Balance Breach releases the title track of their upcoming album “Dead End Diaries”, check it out!

The promising youngsters of Finnish metalcore outfit Balance Breach released the single ‘Most of This’ with a cool music video!

Festival Reports

One of the highlights of our adventures in the Finnish Autumn/Winter season, was most definitely the 3rd edition of Black Box Mikkeli, with on the 2nd day a celebration of Finnish metal with Lastout, I Am Your God, Balance Breach, Insomnium, the foreign black metal storm that is Gaerea, and of course an amazing set by Bloodred Hourglass, bringing their latest album in full!

Photo Reports

Besides starting the new year properly looking to the future, this month we’re also still looking back at all the awesomeness that 2023 brought us. One of those awsome things was the already 3rd edition of the by Bloodred Hourglass curated festival Black Box Mikkeli. They were able to bring a killer line-up again on the 2nd day of their event with besides a fantastic show by themselves, Insomnium, Gaerea, Balance Breach, I Am Your God and Lastout!

Welcoming events that try to bring something different and out of the norm to Finland, we went to the second night of the club festival Hellsinki Techfest with Sirkuit Preiker, Khroma, Balance Breach and Hacktivist back in September for some killer music and high energy!

Lost Society blew the roof off a sold out Tavastia in Helsinki, and brought with them the metalcore upstarts Balance Breach and our favorite alt-rockers Luna Kills!

A look back at the energetic shows from Normandie, Balance Breach and Delta Enigma at On The Rocks back in December!

A welcome reunion with Bloodred Hourglass, MyGrain, Marianas Rest and Balance Breach for the top of the Finnish up-and-coming scene!

The pics of the very first Black Box event in Mikkeli with headliner Bloodred Hourglass, Wolfheart, Sara and Balance Breach!

Pics of a night of up-and-coming and promising metalcore outfits from Finland with Balance Breach, My Favourite Nemesis and Dead End Scene!

Lists

The summer festival season is over, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t plenty of exciting fests happening over the next couple of months this autumn/winter in Finland with Helsinki Techfest and Kaamos Metal Cruise already this weekend, HKI SKEPU FEST V, Lost In Music, Steelchaos, Hellsinki Industrial Festival 2023, Fall Fest 2023, Black Box Mikkeli, Melancholy Mass Festival 2023 and Unholy Winter Fest!

Some good old familiars and a couple of big surprises made it to the albums of the year 2020 for Glenn!

Interviews

A talk with the guys of Balance Breach about their new album ‘ABYZMAL’ (released on May 26 via Out of Line Music), and how they really stepped up their game by allowing the songs to dictate what direction they were taking it!

Gig Reports

Lost Society brought with Balance Breach and Luna Kills a showcase of the future of the Finnish heavy music scene in front of a completely sold out and packed to the brim Tavastia in Helsinki!

Throwback to Normandie finally making it back to Finland to celebrate their 2021 release ‘Dark & Beautiful Secrets’ and blew the roof off On The Rocks with the support from Balance Breach and Delta Enigma.

A welcome reunion with Bloodred Hourglass, MyGrain, Marianas Rest and Balance Breach for the top of the Finnish up-and-coming scene!

Report of the first ever Black Box event in Mikkeli with Bloodred Hourglass, Wolfheart, Sara and Balance Breach!

A night of up-and-coming and promising metalcore outfits from Finland with Balance Breach, My Favourite Nemesis and Dead End Scene!