Finnish folk metal icons Ensiferum released their latest new album ‘Winter Storm’ via Metal Blade Records a week ago, and now unveiled a video for the track ‘Fatherland’! Catch them live in December with Swallow The Sun in Finland, or in Europe and North America in 2025!
Finnish masters of melancholy Swallow The Sun unveiled yet another single of their upcoming album ‘Shining’ last week with ‘MelancHoly’! Mark October 18th in your calendar for the official release of the album via Century Media Records!
Finnish doom/death metal act Grain Of Pain released its debut full-length album ‘The Moon Lights The Way’ via Noble Demon last Friday, and celebrates with a captivating video for opening track ‘Beneath’!
Finnish outfit Octoploid, bassist Olli-Pekka “Oppu” Laine’s latest new project shared the single & video for ‘The Dawns In Nothingness’, the opening track of upcoming album ‘Beyond The Aeons’, set for release in July via Reigning Phoenix Music!
Dark folk artist Kati Rán signs with Svart Records to release her new full-length album ‘SÁLA’ in May!
Swallow the Sun announced to have recorded a new album that will be released in November via Century Media, read all about ‘Moonflowers’ here!
Finnish super group Mercury Circle released yet another song from their upcoming ‘Killing Moons’ album with ‘Black Mirrors’! Check it out!
Finnish “new doom” outfit Mercury Circle shared the first single of their upcoming debut full-length! Check it out for some gorgeous music!
Shores Of Null announce the guests that will be featured on their upcoming ambitious album “Beyond The Shores”!
Finnish “New Doom” outfit Mercury Circle released a brand new video to celebrate their new EP ‘The Dawn of Vitriol’. Check it out!
Swallow The Sun’s ninth studio album “Shining” mixes all the elements and ingredients of their recent works together, displaying the shifting tides of heaviness and a melodramatic style of gothic doom into again a milestone of excellence for the Finns, out tomorrow via Century Media Records.
Swallow The Sun on the eighth album upholds the definite tone of melancholy that showcase luxurious and spaciously rich the melodies of melodic doom metal.
The already great doom outfit Clouds gathered some guest vocalists to raise the bar for this year’s doom metal releases, even in all the sadness and sorrow there’s always a silver lining to be found…
Insomnium is taking you away on a viking group’s voyage towards doom and damnation…
Day 2 of Tuhdimmat Tahdit was just as hot. Carnival Academy, Heavy Metal Perse, Antony Parviainen Trio, Turmion Kätilöt, Metalite, Wolfheart, Shereign, Before the Dawn, Brymir, Mokoma, Swallow the Sun and lastly Battle Beast. Master Events gave us a festival that is certainly worth coming back to.
The co-headline tour of Swallow the Sun and Draconian dropped by Het Entrepot in Bruges with warm-up act Shores of Null to deliver us a healthy dose of doom and gloom!
At the end of May, Swallow the Sun finally came to Tampere on their Moonflower tour. With support of Edge of Haze and Kaunis Koulematon, they gave us a really nice evening at the famous Tullikameri Pakkahuone venue.
Pictures of the first day of Finland’s SaariHelvetti festival held in Tampere in 2021! With a whole slab of quality Finnish metal bands from start to finish!
Only a bit over a week until Tuska weekend is upon us! If you weren’t convinced yet you needed to go, here are 9 reasons we believe should be enough motivation! Going from a great line-up, to Tuska KVLT, and the biggest Tuska Expo ever, this is one for the books!
If you are still looking for a great summer destination, here are 10 festivals that might make Finland the ideal place to go for you with #Horizon23, Rockfest, Tuhdimmat Tahdit, Nummirock, Tuska, John Smith Festival, SaariHelvetti, Dark River Festival, Hellsinki Metal Festival and Flow Festival!
Putting all the favorites of our team of writers and photographers together, we’ve come to a really diverse and interesting overall AOTY list!
C’kes albums of the year 2021 is again a mostly atmospheric affair, a really interesting mix of different genres and emotions!
An albums of the year list that focuses on quite a few deathcore and metalcore releases, but also has room for some more melancholic affairs.
In the run towards the end of the year, it seems like everyone is releasing something new in November, so here is our a bit more extensive list of most anticipated albums of this month!
Samoht’s albums of the year 2019 are as usual a combo of doomy stuff, non-metal and heavy as fuck metal!
Again, 2019 was an incredible year for music. Check out what we think were the albums of the year!
