News Posts

Finnish folk metal icons Ensiferum released their latest new album ‘Winter Storm’ via Metal Blade Records a week ago, and now unveiled a video for the track ‘Fatherland’! Catch them live in December with Swallow The Sun in Finland, or in Europe and North America in 2025!

Finnish folk metal titans Ensiferum to release ‘Winter Storm’ full-length in October via Metal Blade Records and unveiled a first single with ‘Winter Storm Vigilantes’!

Finnish black metal entity Satanic North unleashes another blasphemous single with ‘Behind The Inverted Cross’, a track from their upcoming self-titled debut album out in April via Reaper Entertainment!

A while ago, new Finnish black metal force Satanic North unleashed a first single upon us with ‘War’, a track from their debut album set for release in April via Reaper Entertainment!

A new Satanic Panic is on its way with Finnish black metal brotherhood Satanic North announcing their self-titled debut album to be unleashed upon the world in April via Reaper Entertainment! A first single with ‘War’ is coming in a couple of weeks!

Eleine announced an extensive European tour as support for the “I Am On Tour 2023” Pain tour with special guests Ensiferum and fellow support Ryujin! And don’t forget to catch their new album ‘We Shall Remain’ next week, released via Atomic Fire Records!

Ensiferum will be touring throughout Europe in autumn as direct support for Pain’s “I Am On Tour” Europe tour! Make sure you catch them on one of the dates in the 16 countries they’ll hit up!

Catch Finnish powerhouse Ensiferum next year on their ‘Seafarer’s Dream Tour’ through part of Europe!

The first batch of names for the Wacken Open Air 2023 edition was announced over the weekend and pre-sales start in an hour! Don’t miss out!

Finnish heavy metal outfit Amoth released a 2nd single and video from the upcoming ‘The Hour Of The Wolf’ with ‘It Ain’t Over Yet’!

Album Reviews

4 years in the making and it was worth the wait. Ensiferum does a throw to album of the year where epic, gloomy, atmospheric, and melodic are some of the words to describe this journey that is ‘Winter Storm’, out via Metal Blade Records on October 18!

With new elements and looking back at early successes, Ensiferum created a new epic in their career and will be looked at as one of their best for sure!

The Swedish vikings of Grimner offer you “Vanadrottning”; another serving of heavy folk metal!

We reviewed North Hammer’s debut ‘Stormcaller’ check it out here!

Photo Reports

Swedish industrial metal legends Pain are on tour throughout Europe right now, and we caught them at their stop at the Backstage venue in Munich, Germany. Bringing with them Finnish pagan metal giants Ensiferum, Swedish dark symphonic metallers Eleine and Japanese Ryujin, it was quite the night for heavy metal!

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.

Battle Beast showed what a great heavy metal show is like at Jäähalli Helsinki a good week ago with the support of their special guests Ensiferum and Kiuas! A production by Master Events.

Dark Tranquillity and Ensiferum set Helsinki on fire with the help of supporting bands Marianas Rest and Gwendydd! And we were all too excited that concerts like they were before all this misery are happening again in full force! Moshpits, here we come!

John Smith Frozen provided the best possible pre Christmas Party for all us Metalheads. This very welcoming Festival sweetened the time before Christmas on Day one with, among others, Battle Beast, Mustasch and Ensiferum

The pictures of the first day of SaariHelvetti, one of the only festivals in Finland during the summer of 2020! Check it out!

The visuals of an evening of Finnish pagan inspired metal by the viking warriors of Ensiferum and Crimfall and the wolves of Wolfheart!

Photo report Durbuy Rock 2017

Lists

If you are still looking for a great summer destination, here are 10 festivals that might make Finland the ideal place to go for you with #Horizon23, Rockfest, Tuhdimmat Tahdit, Nummirock, Tuska, John Smith Festival, SaariHelvetti, Dark River Festival, Hellsinki Metal Festival and Flow Festival!

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