Year 2023 is closing out and we at GRIMM have our sights set for next year and all the amazing shows and festivals coming up, but before that, let’s look into this past year in photos once again with a selection of Emerik’s favorite pictures, going from extreme and underground, to legendary bands like Nocturnal Sorcery, Horna, Nunslaughter, Merrimack, Pensées Nocturnes, Sex Messiah, Kalmankantaja, VV, Sick Of It All, Lordi, Michael Monroe, The Hellacopters, Possessed, The Mission, Lorna Shore, Kuvotus, Ingested, Voivod, Sodom, Watain, Burst, Full Of Hell, Demolition 23, and Brujeria!

Back in August, Asgaard’s new live season kicked off with a metalcore/deathcore event in collaboration with Return Bookings, bringing Signs of the Swarm, Mental Cruelty, When Plagues Collide, Knives To A Gunfight and Subvergence to our venue to absolutely destroy!

Celebrating 20 years of Shade Empire with their “songs by request” Hatefeast show in Helsinki!

Passage of Existence is a fine technical death metal album where each track takes a natural course to build up and finally to shape into a growing beast of an album.

Mongrel’s Cross sophomore album makes a larger and heavier approach towards blackened thrash metal and shows a good achievement.

Demonaz has crafted an intellectual material that animates the band as one of the leading acts in the black metal genre.

At War with Reality was entirely loaded with memorable riffs and fast pacing melodic death metal tracks, yet the latest album is immensely great.

Vargrav has crafted an outstanding debut and Netherstorm grips the sombre spirit of the winter.

Memoriam marches with leaps of vigour as they seem undaunted with the spirit of valour.

Spanish death metal band Ataraxy brings with “Where All Hope Fades” the follow-up for their much appreciated debut album!