News Posts

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!

Finnish rockin’ metal band Miss Vain is set to release their second EP ‘Sempiternal Drive’ via Inverse Records in April 2025 and shared a first single and music video with ‘Remedy’!

Finnish grindcore legends Rotten Sound announced the reissue of ‘Murderworks’, their acclaimed third full-length album, via Time To Kill Records, out early 2025!

Finnish melodic death metal heavyweights Voidfallen have announced their highly anticipated sophomore album ‘The Rituals of Resilience’ to be out early 2025 via Noble Demon, and shared the single ‘Pyre of Vengeance’ with a video!

Finnish melodic death metal rising stars Horizon Ignited presented another spectacular song from their upcoming album with ‘Welcome To This House Of Hate’, out via Reaper Entertainment with a scorching video!

Finnish symphonic black metal duo Pestilent Hex unveiled ‘Through Mirrors Beyond’, a second track from their upcoming album ‘Sorceries of Sanguine & Shadow’, set for release via Debemur Morti Productions at the end of this month!

Dawn Of Solace announces new album ‘Affliction Vortex’ to be released in February 2025 via Noble Demon and shared the first single and video with ‘Murder’!

Finnish folk metal icons Ensiferum released their latest new album ‘Winter Storm’ via Metal Blade Records a week ago, and now unveiled a video for the track ‘Fatherland’! Catch them live in December with Swallow The Sun in Finland, or in Europe and North America in 2025!

Cardinal Fleet from Finland released their first song ‘The Heat’, influenced by the early 2000s skate punk style, and a track from their upcoming debut EP ‘Surfaces’ set for release in early 2025 via Inverse Records!

Finnish rockers The Rasmus signed a joint record deal with Better Noise Music and Playground Music and have announced to be releasing their new song ‘Rest In Pieces’ this Friday October 25th and their “Weirdo” Europe tour for 2025!

Interviews

We talked with Aarni and Jaakko from Block Buster about their new album and more!

We had a chat with Normandie about their music, touring and more!

We’ve been a long time fan of the Finnish comic book artist JP Ahonen. Mostly famous for his Belzebubs web series, he has other amazing works like ‘Sing No Evil’ (read our review of the graphic novel here). With his Belzebubs creation taking off even more with a recently released full-length album by the fictional […]

We talked with Espoo, Finland based brewery Fat Lizard Brewing Co. and Children Of Bodom about their collab craftbeer “Lake Bodom pre-prohibition lager”!

We talked with Espoo, Finland based brewery Fat Lizard Brewing Co. and Children Of Bodom about their collab craftbeer “Lake Bodom pre-prohibition lager”!

We had a nice little chat with Sami about Hellfest, his love for France and how the music scene is in his home country Finland…

We had a nice little chat with Sami about Hellfest, his love for France and how the music scene is in his home country Finland…

Now that Finnish Melodic death metal band Mors Subita released their third full lenght. we couldn’t help but to send them some questions regarding the new album as well as some other stuff. check it out.

We talked with Larissa Stupar of Venom Prison about their tour with Trivium, music and her opinion about a bunch of things! Check it out!

We talked with Larissa Stupar of Venom Prison about their tour with Trivium, music and her opinion about a bunch of things! Check it out!

Gig Reports

Report of the first ever Black Box event in Mikkeli with Bloodred Hourglass, Wolfheart, Sara and Balance Breach!

The industrial melodeath outfit Fear Of Domination got on stage for the first time with their new live vocalist Jess and we were there!

A night of quality underground heavy music from the Finnish scene with Enragement, Ninetyfive50 and Crucify The Faith!

Mors Subita and I Revolt came, saw and absolutely conquered On The Rocks in Helsinki with their kickass melodeath!

Our favorite melodic band from the cold north of Finland, Sonata Arctica, celebrates their 25th anniversary with 2 shows at Tavastia in Helsinki.

Temple Balls finally gets to play their new music at On The Rocks and brought along the rising youngsters of St. Aurora for their debut show!

Finally! The traditional anniversary show of The Empire Strikes was able to take place again! Night of rock ‘n’ roll, here we come!

Before the grounds of “The Island of Hell” was taken over by SaariHelvetti festival, we got to welcome Apocalyptica, Wheel and Cyan Kicks for an amazing night!

A night with music of some of the best bands Finland (and Ginger Vine Management) has to offer with Luna Kills, Blame Me! and Edge of Haze!

A glorious return to Tavastia for the first time in 2021 for us! Couldn’t be better kick-off with the epic metallers of Arion and popular alt-rockers of Cyan Kicks!

Photo Reports

The Polish black metal institution Batushka brought their unholy sermon to the halls of Helsinki’s Vanha Ylioppilastalo and brought with them the Russian pagans of Arkona, the pretty epic Canadian Aeternam and Latvian vikings of Varang Nord!

Hexvessel turned, with the support of Unfyros, Kuudes Linja in Helsinki into a magically doomy place filled with smoke, and darkness.

On Thursday November 16, Mors Subita made it to Klubi, Tampere for one of their ‘Origin of Fire’ release shows, in good company of Marianas Rest. Nem Agency presented a nice evening of Finnish metal.

Danko Jones got us shakin’ to the pure rock ‘n’ roll show he brings every time he takes over the Tavastia stage in Helsinki. Warm-up was served by local rock heroes Dirt.

A night of extreme metal blasting in our face with Lorna Shore bringing their ‘The Pain Remains EU tour’ to Finland with the good company of Rivers of Nihil and Ingested.

We also took some pictures of Brother Firetribe coming to town on their “Band On A Mission” Finland tour, where they rocked the G Livelab venue in Tampere, brought there by Master Events!

Today, they’re starting their extensive “Shake Your City” European tour at a sold out Tavastia in Helsinki, but earlier this year, to celebrate the release of their new album ‘Electric Sounds’, the Canadian rockers of Danko Jones dropped by in Helsinki. For a private rock party where only a select amount of fans and music professionals had a great time seeing them in a small club stage setting!

Pictures of the massive Stam1na show at the Ice Hockey Hall in Helsinki with special guests Diablo, Corroded and Dear Mother!

Pictures of the first night of Fall Fest 2023 with Blackwater Holylight and Iron Jinn!

Last Friday, Psychework hit the last stop of their ‘Spark Of Hope’ tour at Hönö Baari in Tampere, where they were presenting their new album of the same name. Support was provided by Scars of Solitude. Although this gig by MasterEvents wasn’t very packed, it was still quite the night of good Finnish music.