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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Industrial infused nu-metal misfits Wristmeetrazor shared a new music video for ‘DogdayGod’ at the end of last month, a track from their latest release ‘Degeneration’, out via Prosthetic Records!
People in the UK, don’t miss out on their tour early 2025!
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Perfectly timed for the Halloween days, Gothminister released a new EP and a music video for the title track ‘Tonight’ via AFM Records! Catch them on their “We Come Alive” tour in 2025!
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Finnish industrial metal heretics King Satan have unleashed another single and video with ‘Abyss Of The Souls’, a third single of their upcoming album ‘The Devil’s Evangelion’ set for release on November 8 via Noble Demon!
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Finland’s resident industrial satanists King Satan are building anticipation for the release of their upcoming 4th album ‘The Devil’s Evangelion’, set for release via Noble Demon in November, by unleashing their latest single ‘Chaos Forever Now’ featuring Nachtmahr!
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Symphonic metal outfit Aevum joined forces with Octo Crura to release the powerful new single ‘Be a Lady’, blending djent and industrial metal into their usual sound, resulting in a fierce anthem of empowerment! A single of their upcoming album ‘Kaleidoscope’, set for release early 2025 via DarkTunes Music Group!
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Inferno Metal Festival confirmed Satyricon, Rotting Christ, Attan, Uma and Dizmal for next year’s edition! Get your tickets and book your hotel asap!
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Purest Form unleashed their new single and video ‘Burn’ upon the world, a perfect blend of heavy metal and EBM resulting into a relentless modern industrial sound!
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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 industrial metal favorites Fear Of Domination are finally back with new music through the single ‘Monster’ out via Ranka Kustannus and a first taste of their upcoming seventh album, to be expected in early 2025!
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In 10 days, Kortrijk in Belgium, will turn the heavy up again with Hell’s Balls Belgium, just like they do every summer with Alcatraz festival. In case you weren’t sure yet why you should go, here are what we think are valid reasons for you to be there…
What are you the most excited about of this year’s editions of the festival? Let us know in the comments!
Tomorrow it’s again that time of the year: Tuska weekend is upon us! If somehow you weren’t convinced yet that you need to go, here are 10 reasons we believe should be enough motivation to still get a ticket if any are available still! Going from a great line-up, to Tuska KVLT, Tuska Expo expanding further and simply an amazing atmosphere! See you there!
In Helsinki and still looking for something to do this weekend? Don’t hesitate and start your festival season early by going to Desert Hel 2024 that has a stellar line-up with Finnish bands Heezer, Orbiter, Polymoon, Kairon; IRSE!, Dome Runner, Skyjoggers, Mansion and Maan Tomu and excellent visitors from abroad with Italian doom rockers on the rise Messa and stoner rock legends Truckfighters! If that doesn’t convince you enough, be sure to read more details on why we think you should go!
While we are still regularly looking back at what 2023 brought us, we of course also need to look forward. So here is the first edition of our 2024 series of articles where we bring the editorial team’s most anticipated releases with Escuela Grind, Green Day, The Empire Strikes, Saxon, Frank Carter & the Rattlesnakes, Static-X, The Gems, Lucifer, Manticora and Hiraes in January!
As the festival summer is quickly approaching, May sees many great releases yet again. Our team of writers put together a nice selection of those they are looking forward to the most this month with Deathstars, Cattle Decapitation, Veil Of Maya, The Dark Side Of The Moon, Ghost, Thulcandra, Frozen Soul, Sleep Token, Henget, Vomitory, Immortal, Kalmah and Legion Of The Damned!
2022 was yet again an exceptional year for music. After putting together the favorite releases of most of our members, we came to our editorial top featuring the latest releases from bands like Wolfheart, Muse, Ghost, Electric Callboy, Kreator, Malevolence, Heilung, Machine Head, Wiegedood, Psychonaut, Lorna Shore, Bad Omens, Sylvaine, Parkway Drive, Lamb Of God, Rammstein and Zeal & Ardor!
2023 starts off with quite the bang with new releases from VV, Anti-Flag, Imperium Dekadenz, Turmion Kätilöt, Katatonia, Kiberspassk, …and Oceans, Obituary, Suasion, Dropout Kings and Vėlių Namai!
Finland produces amazing music by the tons every year, and 2021 wasn’t any different. This is a selection of 12 releases by bands we believe might become big pretty soon!
12 of the albums we’re looking forward the most in June, there are more, but these are really at the top of our lists! Check it out!
Interviews
While being at Helsinki Techfest for their very first show outside Estonia, we met up with the metal band Pridian to talk about an excellent 2024 with some bucketlist shows, but also the major news that they are signed to the Century Media Records roster for their upcoming album!
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An extensive and interesting talk with King Aleister Satan, vocalist for the Finnish industrial metal outfit King Satan, about their touring with Deathstars and Gothminister, unveiling a bit about the upcoming 4th album, and his vision behind the “Spiritual Anarchy” concept and on Satanism as a whole!
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A chat with MC Raaka Pee and Shag-U about their tour with Nightwish, why you should probably not miss out on their arena show at Helsinki Ice Hall tonight and why their new album ‘Omen X’ might divide some of their fans!
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MC Raaka Pee and Shag-U from Turmion Kätilöt talk about their music, meeting Mike Patton, booze, laser pussies, disco balls and strong beats…
We talked with Spellgoth and Bobby Undertaker from the wacko industrial/disko metal band Turmion Kätilöt!
