Finnish metalcore stars Balance Breach are getting closer to releasing their new album ‘Save Our Souls’ with Out of Line Music in March and shared their latest single ‘Strangers In Crime’ featuring Melissa Bruschi of Hand Of Juno on guest vocals!
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Finnish pop metal outfit Memoremains delivers a full-blood party song with ‘Stand Up’, the perfect song to take a little break and let everything go!
People in Finland, make sure you catch them live supporting Enemy Inside in a couple of months!
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Finnish pagan black metal unit Havukruunu are taking one step closer to the release of their new album ‘Tavastland’ via Svart Records next month by unleashing second single ‘Havukruunu ja Talvenvarjo’!
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Finnish outfit Royal Sorrow unveiled a mesmerizing and infectious new single and video with ‘Evergreen’, out via Inside Out Music! Catch the band live at Tuska Festival this summer!
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Finnish alternative hard rock trio Luponero released their new single and video ‘Everything / Nothing’, a track from their upcoming debut album to be released with Icons Creating Evil Art!
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Finnish melodic death metal outfit Horizon Ignited release yet another single with ‘Ashes’, adding another layer of intensity by bringing in Jaakko Mäntymaa from Marianas Rest on guest vocals! Their new album ‘Tides’ is set for release next month via Reaper Entertainment, catch them after on their mini release tour in Finland or in summer at festivals like Tuska!
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Finnish melodic death metal band Defiled Serenity released a stunning take on Rihanna’s track ‘Unfaithful’, featuring Karisma on guest vocals and another song from the upcoming debut album ‘Within the Slumber of the Mind’, set for release next month via Inverse Records!
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Last year, Finnish metalcore veterans One Morning Left has an amazing year with the release of their latest album ‘Neon Inferno’ via Arising Empire, but now they’re aiming even higher by making a bid for Eurovision with their new high-energy single ‘Puppy’!
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For the first time since long, Finnish thrash metal band Kamala is back with new music! Get ready for a proper punch in the face with ‘Sota sisällä’, out now!
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Finnish hard rock/metal monster squad Lordi take a nostalgic trip with a lyric video for new single ‘Retropolis’, another track to make fans yearn for new album ‘Limited Deadition’ even more. The album is set to be out in March via Reigning Phoenix Music and will be followed by the “Limited Tour 2025”, taking them all over Europe!
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Photo Reports
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.
Our site is dedicated to everything rock and metal with a few sidesteps in music that appeals to the same music fans like synthwave, neo (pagan) folk, industrial,… But some of us do have a taste for music and art that goes beyond these limitations. Enter “GRIMM goes rogue”: where you’ll get a metalhead, punker, rocker,… who ventures into realms beyond their usual habitat with an open mind and give their honest opinion, views and experiences.
"A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it is not open."
Frank Zappa
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!
Cradle of Filth came by for a couple of sold out shows in Finland on their massive Europe tour with Wednesday 13 and Sick N’ Beautiful and we caught this spectacle at Tampere’s Pakkahuone a couple of weeks back!
The UK progressive metallers Tesseract were touring around Europe to present their latest release ‘War of Being’, bringing a visual and musical delight to a packed Tavastia in Helsinki! With them, they brought the German proggers of Unprocessed and US mathcore up-and-comers of The Callous Daoboys!
Tuhdimmat Tahdit brought Brymir’s glorious fish-metal to Hönö Baari in Tampere, Finland to make our weekend good!
Our site is dedicated to everything rock and metal with a few sidesteps in music that appeals to the same music fans like synthwave, neo (pagan) folk, industrial,… But some of us do have a taste for music and art that goes beyond these limitations. Enter “GRIMM goes rogue”: where you’ll get a metalhead, punker, rocker,… who ventures into realms beyond their usual habitat with an open mind and give their honest opinion, views and experiences.
"A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it is not open."
Frank Zappa
Johanna Iivanainen’s & Johanna Kurkela’s Altamullan Road is certainly worth checking out. Fullsteam Agency gave us the opportunity to see their show at Tampere’s Pakkahuone on Valentine’s Day and if you have a chance to experience their blend of cinematic, folk, and pop music yourself I highly recommend doing so.
Avatar dropped by the legendary Helsinki venue Tavastia on their “The Great Metal Circus 2024” tour, bringing their visual spectacle and theatrics properly to Finland. With them they brought the US metallers of Æther Realm, really blowing up the night!
Album Reviews
Melodeath outfit Mors Subita is back with another release, showing off their songwriting skills on a whole new level!
Finnish melodeath outfit myGRAIN comes back with a renewed and rejuvenated sound and energy on their new release ‘V’!
Finnish outfit Balance Breach is setting the tone for what metalcore could sound like and doing a damn fine job at it!
Like the drug, Opium Warlords’ “Nembutal” heals the listener of his or hers anxiety and leaves you sober and with an open mind.
With ‘Seven’, we get -surprise surprise- the 7th full-length by Finnish melodeath mainstays Mors Principium Est.
At this demonic summit of might, Proscription sets forth beyond the stereotypes with ‘Conduit’.
Tuomas Saukkonen’s Wolfheart brings the epic, desperate and dark tale of the Finnish Winter War to life with its signature “Winter metal” sound.
Finnish power metal super group Metal de Facto promises to “make power metal great again” with their debut release ‘Imperium Romanum’ and they’re not far off!
Re-Armed’s long awaited fourth album ‘Ignis Aeternum’ is here. Full of top melodic death metal tracks from Finland.
From the land of the thousand lakes comes Sunken’s debut album’ ‘From Slow Sleep Like Death’, a gloomy collection of classic death doom, full of morose melodies.
