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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News Posts
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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Rock duo Bones UK released the single ‘BIKINIS’, a track from their upcoming sophomore album ‘SOFT’, set for release in September via Sumerian Records!
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Myles Kennedy to release his third solo album ‘The Art Of Letting Go’ via Napalm Records in October and share the debut single ‘Say What You Will’ with an accompanying video!
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Punk rock legends The Offspring announced their new album ‘SUPERCHARGED’ to be released on October 11th via Concorde Music and shared a first track with ‘Make It All Right’!
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The iconic Slash announced his highly anticipated sixth solo album ‘Orgy of the Damned, set for release in May via Gibson Records, and filled with blues classics and special guests! With the announcement comes a first single with the Howlin’ Wolf blues standard ‘Killing Floor’, featuring Brian Johnson of AC/DC on vocals and Steven Tyler of Aerosmith on harmonica!
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Pearl Jam announced their 12th studio album ‘Dark Matter’ to be released in April on Monkeywrench Records and Republic Records, followed by a massive world tour!
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Hardy releases a banger of a country rock single with ‘Rockstar’, a tongue-in-cheek track paying homage to iconic rock bands with a great video, released via Big Loud Records / Big Loud Rock!
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North Sea Echoes, the new project featuring Fates Warning members Ray Alder and Jim Matheos, have dropped the new single ‘Unmoved’, from their upcoming debut album ‘Really Good Terrible Things’ set for release later this month via Metal Blade Records.
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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!
Photo Reports
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!
Black Stone Cherry fans flocked to Piere’s in Fort Wayne, Indiana for a night of good rocking out! And not only BSC blew us away, the support from Giovannie & The Hired Guns and Jigsaw Youth was amazing!
Every year the Lost in Music Festival brings around 100 Artists to Tampere, showcasing what the Nordic region has to offer of music. And we made it to one of the shows happening at Olympia-Kortteli, featuring rising stars Bloodred Hourglass, One Morning Left and Shereign. It was packed, it was hot and it was a big party!
Album Reviews
Kissing Dynamite is ready to rock again and spread rock music all over the world! With positivity as the key message.
Kyle Pfeiffer aka Blacklite District released a brand new rockin’ record that holds a lot of promise after getting his life back on track!
Great rock by the talented guys from Beyond The Labyrinth, both seated in history and contemporary sounds!
There are modern rock and melodic metal parts in this EP, there are classical parts, there are parts where it’s all combined into one. But most of all, I love storytelling and these Tales are amazing.
With Vengeance, Twelve Foot Ninja continues to build on their path to becoming one of the more crazy hard-to-define bands within the metal genre.
Back, and vulnerable, Badflower delivers us an album that is a little on the lighter side musically but packs a punch lyrically.
Atreyu delivers a mix of passion, rhythm and guitar riffs with motivational lyrics and drive while maintaining it easy to jam!
A dark aesthetic, melodic vocals, and sick riffs. That’s just SOME of what you get from Sharone and her newest album Morbid Illusion
Pop Evil released ‘Versatile’, which is the album we didn’t know we needed! For those who think rock is dead, think again!
Myles Kennedy has proven again what a talented songwriter he is. The Ides Of March is filled with emotionally songs that are going from ballads, blues to rock , even some jazz and country.
