Finnish progressive heavy psychedelic rockers Craneium signed with Majestic Mountain Records for their upcoming releases and shared the new single/video ‘Empty Palaces’ to celebrate!
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Finnish melodeath titans Wolfheart are set to make history as the first European metal band to ever perform in Saudi Arabia as part of XP Music Futures, the renowned music conference in Riyadh!
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Finnish extreme metal outfit Kneel Before The Death unleashed the single ‘Rise’ via Ranka Kustannus, showcasing their vision of merging death metal, deathcore, black and symphonic elements into an exciting concoction! Expect a debut album to be released in the Spring of 2025!
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After a hiatus year, Rockfest is back! New location, but also a rather action packed first batch of confirmed names for the 2025 edition with names like Muse, Judas Priest and Till Lindemann topping the bill!
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Power metal powerhouse Beast In Black announced they’ll be very special guests for the legendary Helloween on their “40 years” anniversary tour in Europe in 2025! And on the stop in Helsinki, they’ll be playing a full set to celebrate a decade of the Beast! Something you won’t want to miss out on!
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Reanimated Finnish death metallers August Moon shared the new track ‘Exitus’, the second revealed from the band’s long-awaited debut album ‘Something Eldritch and Macabre’, set for release in December via Personal Records!
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Finnish rock sensations Ginger Evil announced the release of their debut album ‘The Way It Burns’, set to be out in early 2025 via Frontiers Music and shared the video single ‘Hands Move To Midnight’!
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Gothic metal outfit The Eternal revealed the new standalone single ‘Everlasting – MMXXIV’, an upgraded re-recording of their classic song ‘Everlasting’, out via Reigning Phoenix Music!
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Finnish deathgrind veterans Cannibal Accident are set to release their 5th album ‘Disgust’ in early 2025 via Inverse Records and recently unleashed a first double single with ‘Scorched Meat Tactics – Explicit Everything’!
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Finnish horrorcore outfit As I May unleashed their new EP ‘Dark Royal Revy’ earlier this month, inspired by the “Nightmare on Elm Street” movie series!
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Gig Reports
A report of Go_A performing at Coolhead Live in Helsinki, Finland.
Lost Society and Amorphis played at Logomos Terassikesä in Turku, Finland last Friday and although there were some issues it was still a very enjoyable show from two great Finnish bands.
Ice Nine Kills finally made it to Finland for 2 sold out shows, and we were at the Helsinki show in Vanha Ylioppilastalo back in May with support from special guests SKYND and openers Lansdowne! They quite literally killed it!
HIDE is easily the most oppressive, yet mesmerizing live performance I’ve had the pleasure of experiencing, and a couple of months ago at Kuudes Linja in Helsinki I got another chance of being blown away by them. Support came from the gloomy metalpunk locals of Keretik.
Grave Pleasures came to Korjaamo in Helsinki at the end of April to celebrate the release of their latest album ‘Plagueboys’, and with the band we danced our way into the weekend. But not before we first got an intense show from the industrial metal support act Dome Runner.
Ne Obliviscaris came to Tavastia in Helsinki to kick off their tour promoting their recently released ‘Exul’, and proved that they can overcome anything with an intense and masterful performance! Supported by their Andorran friends of Persefone and the Italian instrumentalists of Asymmetric Universe, they gave us a night of mind-bending prog music!
The French symphonic melodic death metal outfit Aephanemer came to On The Rocks, saw a wild crowd and conquered everyone’s hearts! Here’s for hoping that they get to come back to Finland some time really soon! And local up-and-comers Numento definitely got us warmed up properly for the main event!
Daniel Graves came one last time with Aesthetic Perfection as a headlining band to Finland and took us on a ride through some of the most popular tracks of the band’s history, giving us a night to remember! Support came from Mechanical Vein.
Imminence came back to Finland to play an absolutely killer show for a completely sold out On The Rocks in Helsinki, with the support of the Norwegian deathpop maniacs of Blood Command!
Sabatons ‘Tour To End All Tours’ came finally to an end, but not before also bringing the fire to Finland. With the Support of Lordi and BABYMETAL, they gave us an incredible show at the sold out Jäähalli in Helsinki last week. Thanks to TuskaLive and Grey Beard for bringing them here!
Photo Reports
Pictures of the first night of the 2024 edition of Desert Hel, with Heezer, Orbiter, Polymoon, Kaire; IRSE! and Messa!
Orbit Culture came, saw and blew us away at Vanha Ylioppilastalo in Helsinki, Finland! And with the support of their country mates of Bite Down, we got a showcase of the promising new music coming from Sweden!
An alternative way to celebrate Easter weekend with Rytmihäiriö and Finntroll at their stop at Tavastia in Helsinki on the “Jesus är död, nu ska vi dricka” tour!
Turmion Kätilöt came to Tampere’s Pakkahuone for a big Easter party. Along came Japanese black metal legends Sigh and Finnish melodeath doomsters Marianas Rest. An event by Nem Agency and Tullikamari Tampere.
Sami Yaffa has worn multiple hats in various different bands such as Hanoi Rocks, Pelle Miljoona OY, New York Dolls, The Hellacopters, just to name a few but now in his 60s he is still going stronger than ever! This legendary bassist just released his second solo album in his illustrious career titled “Satan’s Helpers, Warlazer Eyes & The Money Pig Circus” and brought the album in its entirety to a packed Tavastia in Helsinki!
At the beginning of March, Amaranthe, Dragonforce and Infected Rain brought quite the spectacle to thousands of fans gathered in Helsinki’s Black Box Jäähalli venue!
A great night of modern metal and metalcore with Polaris, Silent Planet, Thornhill and Paledusk!
Back in February on a cold Sunday evening, things in Tavastia got quite hot when a massive horror show took over with Wednesday 13 playing old Murderdolls tunes in the memory of Joey Jordison, culminating in with the headliner act, British extreme metal legends Cradle Of Filth.
On Friday 15.03.2024 Sonata Arctica started off their “Clear Cold Beyond” tour at Pakkahuone in Tampere together with Temple Balls as support. The show was organized by Grey Beard and TuskaLive.
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In honour of the Sámi National Day, G Livelab Tampere organised an event with Áilu Valle, AMOC & Trio Boogiemen, bringing us an interesting experience with Sámi influenced rap and rock!
