Finnish thrashers Mutant Blast haunt fans with a horror inspired video for the track ‘Final Day’, from their upcoming album ‘Soulsteeler’, set for release in September via Rockshots Records!
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News Posts
Finnish folk metal titans Ensiferum to release ‘Winter Storm’ full-length in October via Metal Blade Records and unveiled a first single with ‘Winter Storm Vigilantes’!
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Finnish black metal band Curse Upon A Prayer shared the single ‘A Heav’n Of Hell’, another track from their upcoming new album ‘The Worship: Orthoprax Satanism’, set for release at the end of July!
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Finnish heavy metal band Oceanhoarse is back after a brief hiatus with a new line-up and a brand-new video single ‘Logos’, out now via Noble Demon!
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Industrial metal heretics King Satan sign with Noble Demon for the release of their upcoming and highly anticipated fourth album ‘The Devil’s Evangelion’ set for release later this year. And to kick things off properly, they unleashed a music video for first single ‘New Aeon Gospel’!
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Finnish melancholic melodeath act As The Sun Falls share the official video for ‘Through Sorrow and Grief’ featuring Gogo Melone from Aeonian Sorrow and a track from their latest album ‘Kaamos’, released earlier this year via Theogonia Records! Catch them this Friday at our very own venue Asgaard!
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Finnish pagan metal artist Vermilia shared her latest single ‘Nocturne’ with a video, a cover version of the old Finnish classic song of the same name and originally written as a poem by one of the greats of Finnish poetry!
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Finnish metal masters Wolfheart unleashed a crushing first single and video with ‘Grave’ from the upcoming new album ‘Draconian Darkness’ set for release in September via Reigning Phoenix Music and announced the “Draconian Darkness Over Finland 2024” tour. Catch them also this summer at Hellsinki Metal Festival, or later this year on tour with Dark Tranquillity, Moonspell and Hiraes on the “Endtime Signals European Tour 2024”!
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Finnish/Australian collective The Eternal revealed an official video for the new single ‘When The Fire Dies’, another track from their upcoming album ‘Skinwalker’, set for release by the end of this month via Reigning Phoenix Music!
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Finnish cult band True Black Dawn announced their upcoming new album ‘Of Thick-circling Shadows’ to be out next month via W.T.C. Productions and shared a first track with ‘Algol’!
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Interviews
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!
A short talk with a clearly tired Ontto from Oranssi Pazuzu about their psychedelic and cosmic take on black metal!
Photo Reports
Pictures of Blood Command at On The Rocks in Helsinki, Finland.
Kvelertak and Cancer Bats started quite the riot at Kulttuuritalo Helsinki some weeks ago!
When a legend like John Lydon comes to a venue near you with his almost as legendary band Public Image Ltd., you know you can’t miss out! And so did our photographer when they took over the stage at Ääniwalli in Helsinki with the support of local hardcore punk heroes Bob Malmström!
Right in the beginning of this month, Michael Monroe, Sami Yaffa, Nasty Suicide and Karl Rockfist showed what a true rock ‘n’ roll show is when Demolition 23. took over the legendary Tavastia in Helsinki for a fully sold out show. This night was the epitome of what a rock ‘n’ roll show should be, brought to us by true legends of the Finnish rock scene!
Last month, Circuit Breaker Bookings with All Out Productions brought grindcore juggernauts Full Of Hell all the way from US to a fully sold out On The Rocks. And with supporting acts Kuvotus and Dome Runner, this was by far one of the most intense nights we have witnessed of late. A night full of blood, sweat and broken glass, with constant moshpits and stagediving!
The Sonata Arctica “Arctic Storm Finland Tour 2023” has been a massive success, and we got to go to one of the first stops at Pakkahuone in Tampere. With them, they’re bringing the glam rock favorites Reckless Love and the energetic alternative rock/metal upstarts Luna Kills!
Awhile ago, the Finnish leg of the Wolfheart and Before the Dawn co-headline tour started, and with support of Brymir, we got a very nice night of Finnish melodeath at the not so crowded Pakkahuone in Tampere, organised by Master Events.
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.
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Pictures of the Daði Freyr show at Tavastia in Helsinki, Finland.
Pictures of Samael, Before The Dawn and Bury Tomorrow on the second outside stage at Hellsinki Metal Festival!
Pictures of Bloodred Hourglass, I Am Morbid, Leprous and Emperor performing on one of the outdoor stages at Hellsinki Metal Festival!
Album Reviews
Devil Worshipper takes you on a demented and emotional ride littered with sin and temptation. And Satan, of course Satan!
In 2018 The hellish intronauts of Oranssi Pazuzu and Dark Buddha Rising came together for a one off event, commissioned for the Roadburn Festival, ingeniously monikered The Waste of Space Orchestra. Syntheosis is the studio interpretation of that psychotropic interdimensional journey.
If you only want distorted guitars, then Battle Beast’s latest is 50/50 for you. If you want to hear the art of composing and the use of different elements that are mastered by the band, then this album will most definitely touch you.
In case you missed out on the original birth death doom as a genre or are just feeling a bit nostalgic, have a listen to Asphodelus’ “Stygian Dreams” which takes you back to the mythical times of the early nineties
Trollheims Grott delivered a relentless shotgun blast to the face with their new black metal release “Aligned with the True Death”!
The wolves are back! Finnish epic winter metal outfit Wolfheart brings you another set of their gorgeous creations.
Even after 23 years Skepticism’s debut “Stormcrowfleet” still stands as a monolith of doom.
This just shows how powerful music is. This shows why music brings people together. Even though we don’t know what a person is saying, just listening to it and feeling it can spread the message.
Blue Eyed Sons is something you got to hear, with every new release I hear of them they get better…
The swansong of Alghazanth, a Finnish black metal band that has been around for decades…
