Finnish pagan metal artist Vermilia released her first single ‘Vakat’ from the upcoming new album ‘Karsikko’, set for release in early 2025! Catch her the coming week on her Spanish tour, and later this season in Finland for a couple of dates like this year’s Melancholy Mass Festivals in Tampere and Helsinki!
News Posts
Finnish folkloric black metallers The Mist From the Mountains revealed the new track ‘Sáiva’, the second one brought into the world from their highly anticipated upcoming album ‘Portal – The Gathering of Storms’, set for release on October 11th via Primitive Reaction!
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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!
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Finnish melodeath revelation Horizon Ignited are taking things to the next level and released their new single and music video ‘Beneath The Dark Waters’, out via Reaper Entertainment!
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One Morning Left is back with yet another highly infectious track that blends 80s vibes with modern metalcore, and really go for the old school vibes paying homage to Knight Rider with the single ‘Michael, The Knight’, from their upcoming album ‘Neon Inferno’, set for release next month via Arising Empire!
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Finnish sludge masters Demonic Death Judge unveiled their new track ‘Poisoner’, which will be part of the Suicide Records compilation ‘In the Loving Memory of You’, released yesterday and of which all proceeds are going to a suicide prevention organization in Sweden!
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Finnish melodic death metal project Crowen shared ‘Dark Forever’, the first single and music video of their upcoming EP ‘Where The Darkness Falls’, set for release later this year via Inverse Records!
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Finnish doom metal act Grain Of Pain unveiled a lyric video for the track ‘Can’t Be Fallen’ last week, a track from the recently released debut album ‘The Moon Lights The Way’, out since May via Noble Demon!
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The 13th edition of Steelfest is happening in a bit more than 8 months and over the weekend they announced 30 confirmed names for 2025, with of course a nice selection of the top of the Finnish underground scene and plenty of pretty impressive names again, including some exclusive shows of bands like Absu, Osculum Infame, The True Werwolf, Imprecation, Hellwind & Vritrahn and more! Time to get those tickets, we’d say!
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Finnish symphonic doom metal band Infirmum releases first single and music video ‘Burn’ from upcoming album ‘From The Depths I Cried’, expected by the end of this year still!
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Gig Reports
Northlane and friends came to Finland for the very first time and turned On The Rocks in a sweaty and rowdy place to be at.
The legendary black metal band Mayhem came to play to a sold out Tavastia in Helsinki and brought with them some very special guests!
After releasing their new album “Walk The Sky”, Alter Bridge passed by Helsinki to show us what they got!
Prime Time: an event showcasing the talent that 3 bands of the Danish Prime Collective stall brings forth…
After turning quite some heads at Eurovision, the Icelandic industrial outfit Hatari came to play a sold out show in Finland!
The Swedish alternative rock/metal sensation Normandie came back to have a party with their Finnish fans!
Finnish rock’n’roll band The Empire Strikes released their new album ‘Charm’ and celebrated that with a release show!
It’s been about a year since I last saw Children Of Bodom, perfect timing for another show by them!
The prog masters of Soen made a visit to Helsinki, bringing 2 great bands along under the form of Wheel and The Price!
Rock ‘n’ roll, good vibes and good music… Camu and his friends brought the house down!
Photo Reports
An Ice Nine Kills show is an absolute visual spectacle, and we were at one of their completely sold out shows in Finland at Vanha Ylioppilastalo in Helsinki with support from SKYND and Lansdowne!
A true challenge for him, our photographer went to capture the performance art that is a live show of HIDE at Kuudes Linja in Helsinki a couple of months ago, with support from Keretik!
A night of post-punk with the Finnish Grave Pleasures celebrating the release of ‘Plagueboys’ and oppressive industrial metal from Dome Runner at Korjaamo in Helsinki!
A night of incredible music from Ne Obliviscaris, Persefone and Asymmetric Universe at Tavastia in Helsinki at the beginning of last month, the start of what was going to be an incredible tour in Europe for these guys!
On the third day of Rockfest 2023, we weren’t able to capture as many bands as on the earlier days due to other responsibilities and some artists not wanting any pictures to be taken, but we still caught the performances by Finnish legends Xysma and Rotten Sound on the Black Stage!
On the third day of Rockfest 2023, we weren’t able to capture as many bands as on the earlier days due to other responsibilities and some artists not wanting any pictures to be taken, but we still caught killer performances on the Red Stage by Soundi by Igorrr, The Hellacopters and Beast In Black!
On the third day of Rockfest 2023, we weren’t able to capture as many bands as on the earlier days due to other responsibilities and some artists not wanting any pictures to be taken, but we still caught epic shows on the main stage by Michael Monroe, and Volbeat!
The second day of Rockfest 2023, the Black Stage brought 3 very different takes on rock music with shows from Crashdiet, Nestor and Cleopatrick.
The second day of Rockfest 2023, the Red Stage by Soundi was the place to be for stellar performances by Von Hertzen Brothers, Escape The Faith, Testament and Stam1na.
The second day brought quite a rockin’ out to the main stage with national heroes The 69 Eyes and Stratovarius and rock legends Mötley Crüe and Def Leppard.
