Women-led, talented Brazilian rock band Malvada shared their new single and video ‘Fear’, out now via their new home Frontiers Music!
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News Posts
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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The Bloody Beetroots are back! Signing with Out Of Line, new song ‘This is Blood’, featuring N8NOFACE and Teddy Killerz, is out now, bringing back their signature “rock-meets-dance” crossover sound and the first single from a 2-part series ‘The Bloody Beetroots Forever Pt. 1 & Pt. 2’!
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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!
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Diamante stepped into the spotlight with her electrifying cover of the iconic Pat Benatar hit ‘Love Is A Battlefield’, as part of the remarkable soundtrack lineup for the “American Psycho” comic series soundtrack, set for release next Friday via Sumerian Records!
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Franz Ferdinand announced their upcoming new album ‘The Human Fear’ set for release early next year via Domino and shared a first single with ‘Audacious’!
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Global rock phenomenon “Samurai Guitarist” Miyavi has revealed details on his upcoming album ‘Lost In Love’, set for release in October via Rise Records and shared the new single ‘We Stay Up All Night’!
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Thundermother’s founder, songwriter and guitar player Filippa Nässil is set to release her debut solo album ‘American Diaries’ via Despotz Records this Autumn, and shared the new single ‘Mount Shasta’!
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A couple of weeks ago, the Swedish rockers of Eclipse rocked us hard on the Alcatraz grounds, and now they have shared their latest single ‘Still My Hero’, a track from their upcoming album ‘Megalomanium II’, out on September 20 via Frontiers Music!
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Rock legend Jerry Cantrell has announced his upcoming new album ‘I Want Blood’ to be released in October via Double J Music and unveiled a first track with the single ‘Vilified’!
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Interviews
A video interview with vocalist Arde from Temple Balls about touring with Sonata Arctica and the upcoming tour with Shiraz Lane and Block Buster.
A video interview with Hannes Kett from Shiraz Lane about the past, the present and the future! Check out the full conversation!
A talk with Timmy from The New Roses about their latest album, playing at Wacken and the upcoming tour!
We talked with Aarni and Jaakko from Block Buster about their new album and more!
“The first time we ever tried it, I fell right on my face” “There’s a video. You wanna see it?” The guys from Crobot are anything but dull! Read the interview taken at Alcatraz festival!
“The first time we ever tried it, I fell right on my face” “There’s a video. You wanna see it?” The guys from Crobot are anything but dull! Read the interview taken at Alcatraz festival!
Danko Jones talked with us about his new album, the state of the music business overall and how good Belgian festivals are!
Danko Jones talked with us about his new album, the state of the music business overall and how good Belgian festivals are!
We had the chance to ask Amanda Somerville a couple of questions about her latest release with Trillium and her life in the music industry!
We had the chance to ask Amanda Somerville a couple of questions about her latest release with Trillium and her life in the music industry!
Photo Reports
With Elena Rud and Deine Cousine two German bands with fantastic female band leaders have put an awesome concert night on the stage at Stuttgart’s Im Wizemann – from indie-pop to solid rock.
Sami Yaffa has worn multiple hats in various different bands such as Hanoi Rocks, Pelle Miljoona OY, New York Dolls, The Hellacopters, just to name a few but now in his 60s he is still going stronger than ever! This legendary bassist just released his second solo album in his illustrious career titled “Satan’s Helpers, Warlazer Eyes & The Money Pig Circus” and brought the album in its entirety to a packed Tavastia in Helsinki!
John J. Presley proved at Backstage in Munich that darkness can be beautiful with his blues rock project, what turned out to be a quite intimate, almost private show for those who came out to enjoy the music!
In honour of their latest album, Everwave played a “big band” show at Tampere’s Hönö Baari last weekend together with Golden Rot and Paha kurki.
Our recently joined photographer Lindy is excited to see what 2024 is going to bring for her, but for now, let’s have a look back at some of her favorite pictures she took in 2023 at shows from bands like Across the White Water Tower, Alesana, Autopsy Affair, Brand of Sacrifice, Currents, Emmure, Greyhaven, Knuckle Puck, Magg Dylan, Magnolia Parl, Midnight Threat, Norma Jean, Origami Angel, Pink Shift, Saliva, See You Space Cowboy, Silverstein, Sweet Pill, The Contactees, The SoapGirls, Virginia, and We Came As Romans!
It has become a true tradition that DIE HAPPY plays some warm-up gigs at the end of December for the shows or tours of the following years. In this round, it’s the ‘Pre-Anniversary Shows 2023’, preparing for the upcoming anniversary tour in 2024, celebrating their 30th anniversary as a band. Support came from Templemind at their stop in Stuttgart’s Im Wizemann in Germany!
The year wrapping up means that we’ll be looking back at the amazing things we’ve experienced, and “album of the year” lists. We’d also like to give some attention to our talented concert photographers who go out and cover shows for us. So here is a first in a series of articles where our artists pick their favorite pictures of 2023 with Anna/ScarletMemory Photography who mostly roams around in Tampere, Finland and pictures from bands like Pain, Sólstafir, Eleine, Myrath, Battle Beast, Brymir, Sabaton, Mors Subita, Lordi, Metalite, Shereign, Diablo, Before The Dawn, Wolfheart, Sonata Arctica, Deathstars, Brother Firetribe, Psychework, Apocalyptica, Voidfallen, Poets of the Fall, Amorphis, Lost Society, and Everwave!
Extreme was on tour throughout Europe to present us their brand-new album “Six” and brought The Last Internationale with them as a support act. We caught their high energy shows at their stop at Trix in Antwerp, Belgium!
The last Wednesday night of November at The Clyde Theatre in Fort Wayne, Indiana was definitely NOT a “Nightmare” or a cause for “Panic” for fans anxiously waiting to catch a stop on the “Blackout Tour” with From Ashes to New, The Word Alive, Catch Your Breath and Ekoh!
We had a great time catching Poets of the Fall on the last stop of their 20th anniversary tour, at Tampere’s Pakkahuone venue on December 1st!
Gig Reports
A night of Finnish hard rock around the clock with Shiraz Lane and Violent Fever absolutely kicking ass!
The newly formed Trve Cvlt Clvb played their very first show at the legendary On The Rocks club in Helsinki and we were there!
Icon For Hire came back to Finland again after 6 years of absence to bring a night of energetic and emotional rock songs!
The hard rocking Swedes of Royal Republic are back in Finland, ready to bring ‘Club Majesty’ to live on the legendary Tavastia stage!
The Used is celebrating their 20th anniversary and are touring through North America visiting smaller venues to give back to their fans!
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?
Swedish Fatboy set up shop in On The Rocks and turned Helsinki into a Southern American rockabilly hotspot!
Rock ‘n’ roll, good vibes and good music… Camu and his friends brought the house down!
The LA rap rockers of Crazy Town came to bring some of their Californian sun to Finland!
