Finnish doom/stoner rock trio Kaiser shared the new single ‘Awaken Monster’, another taste of their upcoming new album ‘2nd Sound’, set for release in March via Majestic Mountain Records!
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News Posts
The Finnish underground scene welcomes a formidable new entity under the form of Entheomorphosis and their debut album ‘PYHÄ KUILU’ out in May via Svart Records! Featuring members from Dark Buddha Rising and the genre-defying Mr Peter Hayden/PH/Enphin, this will be yet another exciting entity coming from Finland!
Release show at this year’s edition of Sonic Rites Festival in Helsinki in the last weekend of May!
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Finnish melodic death metal legends Before The Dawn have signed to Reaper Entertainment for the worldwide release of their new album, on which they’re working right now and should be released later this year still!
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One of Finland’s frontrunners of the modern rock scene, Shiraz Lane, has announced to make a return to their former label Frontiers Music for the release of their upcoming new album! Get ready for the first single ‘Dangerous’ on February 26th, and catch them at a select amount of shows including an appearance at the very last Wildfest in Belgium!
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Finnish modern metal outfit Without Warning unleashed their electronic metal take on the Muse classic hit ‘Time Is Running Out’, released with Inverse Records!
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Finnish metal unit I Am Your God released their new single and music video ‘Death Row’ via Out Of Line Music and announced their upcoming new album ‘Δ’ with pre-orders starting this coming Monday!
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It’s really going to be quite the year for Finnish alternative metal band Luna Kills! Not only are they releasing their new full-length album ‘DEATHMATCH’ on SharpTone Records in April, they just announced a very first European tour, ready to take the world by storm!
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Finnish black/thrash metal institution Urn is set to release their new album ‘Demon Steel’ via Osmose Productions at the end of March and are revealing a first track in the beginning of next month!
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Finnish pagan atmospheric black metal artist Vermilia has unveiled a new video for her latest single ‘Veresi’, a track from her upcoming album ‘Karsikko’, set for release next week Friday February 14!
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Finland’s melancholic goth doomsters Hanging Garden shared the new single ‘The First Sunrise’, a track from their upcoming EP ‘The Unending’, set for release in March with Agonia Records!
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Photo Reports
Getting a show packed on a Wednesday isn’t something everyone can do, but for a supergroup like The Halo Effect no problem. Together with Bloodred Hourglass they brought one heck of a hot show to Tampere’s Tavara-Asema a couple of weeks ago. Thanks to Fullsteam Agency for welcoming us to the event!
Eluveitie, Infected Rain and Ad Infinitum came to Tampere’s Tavara-Asema as part of their ‘Ánv Rising Tour pt I’ at the end of January, bringing their great music to one of Finland’s most beautiful cities. An event by TuskaLive.
Ginger Vine Management & PR gave us access to Apocalyptica’s “Plays Metallica vol. 2” show at Tampere-Talo on the 23rd of January. A show that was not only great to listen to, but also was visually great, with light arrangements that just helped the music to shine even brighter.
Hellsinki Metal Festival is becoming a permanent fixture in the Finnish summer festival landscape, and after 2 successful editions, the organisation decided they didn’t want to wait for another year. In comes a smaller winter edition of the main event about halfway December 2024, bringing amazing extreme metal bands together like Omnivortex, Batushka, Belphegor and headliners Dark Funeral!
They’re celebrating a quarter of a century long career this year, but last November we still caught Comeback Kid in Helsinki while on tour through Scandinavia and Europe! A real bombshell of a hardcore music night with amazing support bands Spaced and Prowl warming up the crowd!
Finnish metal institution Wolfheart decided to wrap up their year with one last show at On The Rocks in Helsinki, and with them they brought the melodeath talents Swansong and Scythe of Sorrow to warm the crowd up for a great night of Finnish metal! An event by Nahka Agency!
Finland’s band of misfits King Satan released their latest album ‘The Devil’s Evangelion’ via Noble Demon, and such an epic album deserves a proper release tour of course. With them, they brought their friends of the dark elektro duo Miseria Ultima to open the night, and doomy outfit The Abbey as direct support at the Helsinki stop. An excellent night of great music and friends, and with all bands in absolute top form!
Country music isn’t just for warm summer days as Steve ‘n’ Seagulls skilfully demonstrated when they played their last gig of 2024 at Tampere’s Klubi on Friday the 20th of December.
On the back of the release of their latest album ‘Friend of a Phantom’, VOLA embarked on an extensive European tour and dropped by Vanha Ylioppilastalo in Helsinki, Finland in November to repeat the amazing performance they had at Tuska this past summer! With them, they brought the ever enchanting Charlotte Wessels and Feather Mountains. An event by TuskaLive.
Master Events gave us yet another great evening when they booked Raskasta Joulua to perform an acoustic set at Tampere’s Kaleva Church on the 26th of November. The show with Antti Railio, Marko Hietala and Ilja Jalkanen was a full success, although very different from the usual Raskasta Joulua shows.
Album Reviews
The masters of melancholic doom Dawn of Solace are back, get ready for the melancholic trip of your life on their latest release ‘Affliction Vortex’, out via Noble Demon tomorrow February 14!
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Marko Hietala’s new album ‘Roses from the Deep’ released through Nuclear Blast showcases the amazing skill and the variety that these guys are capable of. From the lyrics and the instrumentation to the mix, everything on this album has been executed masterfully. Catch Marko on his small Finnish release tour starting next week, and this summer at festivals like Tuska!
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Finnish death metal band Ashen Tomb presents a brutal old school record in their debut full length album “Ecstatic Death Reign”. The quintet delivers brutality, grooves and ferocity in the vein of Entombed with death-doom metal vocals drawing elements from Disma, out via Everlasting Spew Records.
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Finland’s symphonic/melodic black metal outfit Pestilent Hex crafts the traditional sound of Scandinavian black metal on the second full length album “Sorceries of Sanguine & Shadow”, out via Debemur Morti Productions since last week’s Friday.
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The new face of deathcore has arrived. If you thought Lorna Shore is ruling the genre all along, you clearly never heard of the Finnish Enemies Everywhere before. Where Lorna blew you away with a full-length, these guys only need 4 songs with ‘Endless Discord’, out via Ranka Kustannus!
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Busy bee Tuomas Saukkonen returns once more to Wolfheart with his 7th album ‘Draconian Darkness’.Out on Reigning Phoenix Music.
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Swallow The Sun’s ninth studio album “Shining” mixes all the elements and ingredients of their recent works together, displaying the shifting tides of heaviness and a melodramatic style of gothic doom into again a milestone of excellence for the Finns, out tomorrow via Century Media Records.
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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!
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The new and highly anticipated eleventh album “Nyx – Hymnejä Yölle” from the Finnish black metal icons Horna is a pure definition of evil. One of this year’s top black metal releases, out via World Terror Committee tomorrow, September 13th!
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Back with a vengeance, Wintersun has risen with a brand-new chapter in the Time sage. ‘Time II’ is finally out now on Nuclear Blast Records.
What do you think? Was it worth the wait? Let us know in the comments!
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