Dawn of Solace is gearing up to release their 4th album ‘Affliction Vortex’ in February 2025 via Noble Demon and shared last week yet another single with ‘Fortress’!
Links
News Posts
Finnish melodic death metal band Defiled Serenity is set to release their debut album ‘Within the Slumber of the Mind’ in February 2025 via Inverse Records and shared a second single and video with ‘Exiled to Infinity’!
Links
Rising Finnish alt-metal force Luna Kills announced their highly anticipated album ‘DEATHMATCH’ set for release in April 2025 via SharpTone Records and shared another track with the new single/video ‘sugar rush’!
Links
Old school Finnish speed metal band Arched Fire released their latest single ‘Northbound Train’ with Inverse Records, a track that is both a tribute to their roots and journey and possibly a mark for an end of an era!
Links
Finnish metal band Black .44 are back after nine years and shared a first single and video ‘Again’ from the upcoming sophomore album ‘Bloodlines’, set for release in February 2025 via Inverse Records!
Links
Tony Kakko’s Himmelkraft unveiled their first single and lyric video ‘Uranium’, a taste of what is to come with their self-titled debut album set for release in March 2025 via Reaper Entertainment!
Links
Helsinki-based rock outfit East Electric released their latest single ‘Killer On The Run’ a while back, a third track from their upcoming debut album!
Links
Some weeks ago, Finnish melodic death metallers Admire the Grim shared the 2nd single and title track of their upcoming debut full-length ‘Resist’, set for release early 2025 via Inverse Records! Join them and guest vocalist Stam1na’s Antti Hyyrynen in their resistance against all oppression!
Links
Finland’s celebrated Von Hertzen Brothers announced a new European run for 2025 in support of their recently released album ‘In Murmuration’!
Links
Finnish band Heathen Hearts finally recorded and released their take on the Turbonegro classic ‘All My Friends Are Dead’! Without Turbonegro the band would have never started, so this is a quite monumental occasion for them!
Links
Interviews
We sat down with Esa from Metal De Facto to talk about how things have been going for the band since their first album, their new album ‘Land of the Rising Sun part 1’ (out since today via Rockshots Records), why they went for the Japanese culture as the theme and their hopes and plans for the future of the band!
They’re playing a release show tonight in Tampere and tomorrow in Helsinki, be there and contribute in making power metal great again!
Links
We sat down with the Finnish rockers of The Empire Strikes to have a chat about their new album ‘Motell Scandinavia’, how come it took so long to get it out, what the idea is behind the title and some nice background bits about how some of the songs came together! Catch them live at their release show in Helsinki tonight or Spain and Germany later this year!
Links
We talked with June and Eemeli from Mors Subita about their new album ‘Origin of Fire’ (released recently via Out of Line Music) and how taking more time to record and working with Tue Madsen for the mixing and mastering resulted in a more organic, full sound that was aggressive with a touch of old school heavy riffing.
And we laugh about their drummer possibly regretting asking for a song with blastbeats and a fan knowing the lyrics of a new song better than Eemeli at one of their recent shows…
Links
Last Spring, we sat down with Julius and Matti from I Am Your God to talk about their new album ‘SINister’ (released in May via Out of Line Music), how it shows their growth as a band, what they did differently this time and why the album title is written the way it is.
Links
An extensive and interesting talk with King Aleister Satan, vocalist for the Finnish industrial metal outfit King Satan, about their touring with Deathstars and Gothminister, unveiling a bit about the upcoming 4th album, and his vision behind the “Spiritual Anarchy” concept and on Satanism as a whole!
Links
A chat with Bloodred Hourglass about their pretty amazing year thus far, and the new album ‘How’s the Heart?’, how they’re not afraid of trying out any ideas or leaving things out when a song calls for it, and how they’ve stepped up their game yet again with this record.
Links
A chat with Jukka from Omnium Gatherum about their recent US tour, how they got their new EP ‘Slasher’ together with the first track featuring their new guitarist and a cover of the famous 80s song ‘Maniac’, a hint at new music that is in the works and upcoming festival shows and European tour with Paradise Lost, Primordial and Harakiri For The Sky.
Links
A good week ago at Rockfest 2023, shortly before his set at the festival, we met up with Finnish rock ‘n’ roll icon Michael Monroe, where he talked candidly about meeting Vince Neil for the first time, reconnecting with Nikki Sixx, an upcoming Michael Monroe album, the documentary about his life that is coming really soon now, the recent Lords Of The New Church reunion show and more!
Links
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!
Links
A chat with Mr. Lordi about the new Lordi album ‘Screem Writers Guild’ (out since March 31st via Atomic Fire Records), how he was inspired by the “Universal Monsters”, a couple of things he did differently for this album and how the process was to get to their new looks. He also gives us a brief update about a translation of his recently released monster of a book about everything Lordi!
Links
