Volbeat announced their upcoming new album ‘God Of Angels Trust’ to be out in June via Vertigo/Universal and shared a first video single with ‘By a Monster’s Hand’!
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News Posts
Finnish rockers Shiraz Lane share the new video single ‘Dangerous’, the first of their upcoming album, and first new music since they returned to Frontiers Music recently!
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Norwegian band Djerv shared a music video for their international success single ‘Rebel Heart’, which was featured on the official soundtrack for season 2 of the critically acclaimed series “Arcane”!
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The Darkness released their latest and final single ‘Walking Through Fire’ before the release of their new album ‘Dreams On Toast’ at the end of this month via Cooking Vinyl!
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Sweden’s heavy metal outfit Teaser Sweet have revealed ‘Deep in the Woods’, the first single from their upcoming fourth full-length ‘Night Stalker’, set for release in April via High Roller Records!
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Women-led, talented Brazilian rock band Malvada shared recently their new music video and single ‘Dead Like You’, out via Frontiers Music Srl.!
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Iconic Finnish hard rock monster squad Lordi lived up to their name in presenting the frightening music video for their latest single ‘Hellizabeth’, another track from the upcoming album ‘Limited Deadition’, which will be out in March via RPM!
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Finland’s largest rock festival Rockfest is back this summer at a new location, and has just before the weekend completed the line-up with the addition of Manic Street Preachers, D-A-D, Millencolin, H.E.A.T., Crownshift, Sara, Awake Again and Toivo-Olavi!
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Finnish alternative hard rock trio Luponero released another relenting burst of raw energy with their latest single ‘Pickup Artist’, another track unveiled from their upcoming debut album, set for release in March via Icons Creating Evil Art!
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Swedish power rockers The Riven shared the new track ‘Killing Machine’ from the upcoming new album ‘Visions of Tomorrow’, set for release in April via Dying Victims Productions!
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Album Reviews
Kissing Dynamite is ready to rock again and spread rock music all over the world! With positivity as the key message.
Cherokee delivers some old school hard rock and heavy metal vibes with their debut full-length ‘Blood & Gold’!
Reaching back to their old roots Asking Alexandria is back with their newest record to remind us just why we came to love them in the beginning
The new Belgian metal outfit Shocker shows the decent amount of old school heavy metal they can produce with their own sound and personality!
Starlight Ritual’s full-length debut ‘Sealed in Starlight’ sounds as if it actually were sealed away in the eighties by some sorcerer only to be unearthed now 40 years later.
A dirty and intense kiss at an afterparty, that’s what ‘Rubbery Lips’ by Hot Breath sounds like!
The pillars of truth: let’s smash them down with heavy guitars, energetic drums and strong vocals. This is what As We Suffer, from Ottawa (Canada), is doing with their debut album.
What does The Quill from Sweden, do when they can’t perform due to a worldwide pandemic? They create a killer ninth studio album!
You can’t miss Diamante Azzura Boveli when she passes by with her sapphire hair. But you can deffinitely not ignore (nor forget) her once you hear her sing. She is only 24 years old and she’s already crushing it. After her debut album in 2018, she made a killer rock album all independently.
Gig Reports
After 5 long years, Canadian rock ‘n’ roll machine Danko Jones finally came back to the legendary Finnish rock club Tavastia!
We caught Tantric with KrashKarma, This Day Forever and Twenty-Second Dimension at The King of Clubs in Columbus, OH!
A lovely night of AOR and melodic rock from Finnish soil with Brother Firetribe and One Desire at the legendary Tavastia rock club in Helsinki!
We had quite a blast at the St. Paddy’s Day Party at The King of Clubs in Columbus, Ohio with great bands, headed by the ever amazing Nonpoint!
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!
A night of Finnish hard rock around the clock with Shiraz Lane and Violent Fever absolutely kicking ass!
Steel Panther set up shop in Helsinki and brought us a kickass night of fun, titties and metal! Heavy metal rules!
What better to fill up a Saturday night than going to see some of the best local bands that Finland has to offer with The Empire Strikes and Temple Balls?
What a way to close Nosturi down! The Best Tour Ever Part 1 brought some of the best bands of the Finnish scene to the stage one more time to blow the roof off!
After releasing their new album “Walk The Sky”, Alter Bridge passed by Helsinki to show us what they got!
Photo Reports
Day one of Tuhdimmat Tahdit in it’s all renewed version gave us Kotiteollisuus, Marko Hietala, Lost Society, Stratovarius, Mokoma, Stam1na and Amorphis. What a great festival that we sure will return to again in the future.
Pictures of The Darkness at Helsinki’s Kulttuuritalo with the support of Shiraz Lane.
Vandenberg returned with the new album ‘SIN’. The Dutch leg of his tour stopped at 10 different locations through The Netherlands, and we caught him at De Spot in Middelburg for a night of nostalgia and good rock music.
Pictures of the second night of the 2024 edition of Desert Hel, with Dome Runner, Mansion, Maan Tomu and Truckfighters!
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.
The “Back to the 2000s Tour” has been going strong in the US territories, taking people back to the good old days of nu metal and alternative metal/rock and Ozzfest with stellar shows from The Union Underground, SOiL, Ra and Flaw! We caught the stop at Piere’s in Fort Wayne, IN!
A selection of Rachel’s best captures of 2023, with pictures from bands like Mudvayne, Nonpoint, Drowning Pool, From Ashes To New, Shinedown, Fozzy, Butcher Babies, Sumy Cyco, Black Stone Cherry and Saliva!
A selection of Jonna’s best captures of 2023, with pictures from bands Butcher Babies, Electric Callboy, Ghost, Glenn Hughes, Gojira, In Flames, Lorna Shore, The Hu, Ville Valo, Chamber of Unlight, Asagraum, Monuments, Sodom, Batushka, Blind Guardian, and Apocalyptica!
A selection of Vaim’s best captures of 2023, after a long and grueling process of elimination, with pictures from bands like Battle Beast, Gaerea, Trollheim’s Grott, Avslut, Der Weg einer Freiheit, Amenra, Igorrr, Aesthetic Perfection, HIDE, SKYND, Ice Nine Kills, Utuk Xul, Rancid, Sick Of It All, Stratovarius, Testament, Michael Monroe, Volbeat, Hellacopters, Pensées Nocturnes, Amorphis, Biohazard, Killswitch Engage, Converge, Agnostic Front, Taake, Public Image Ltd, A.A. Williams, Butcher Babies, Clutch, Finntroll, Electric Callboy, Ghost, Gojira, Imperial Triumphant, Lorna shore, The Hu and Urne!
One of our newest photographers to have joined the team, Tommy offers a fine selection of cover bands, and gigs from the local club scene with pictures of Sabbra Cadabra, Crowley, Kraken Waker, Self Revolution, The SoapGirls, Nu-Castle, All Before, Audioslaves, Rage, Spartan Warrior, Twin Lizzy, and Red Hot Chilipinos!
