Eight years after our first conversation, we sit down again with Author & Punisher in Helsinki. Tristan Shone talks machines, migration, volunteering and why electronic music should still be played live.
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Last Friday, heavy metal outfit Anubis released their new album ‘Anthromorphicide’ via M-Theory Audio and celebrated with a video for the track ‘My Favorite Cage’, featuring guest vocalist Zhariah!
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Loathe announced their highly anticipated new album ‘A Stranger To You’ set for release in July with Sharptone and unleashed a new single with ‘Revenant’, featuring NOWHERE2RUN and Code Orange’s Jami Morgan and Eric “Shade Balderose!
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33 Years after their “last” show, Belgian cult thrash outfit Dead Serious is back and played live in our own venue Asgaard with the support of Steamroller and Phoenix Rebellion! Of course we were there!
Finnish modern metal outfit Silence The Echo unleash their heavier new single ‘Stand Your Ground’, continuing their release momentum after earlier this year having released their debut full-length ‘Liberation’!
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American heavy metal icons Armored Saint present their new single ‘Hit A Moonshot’, another taste of their upcoming ‘Emotion Factory Reset’ album out with Metal Blade Records in May! Catch them live this summer in Europe at festivals like Brutal Assault and Alcatraz!
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German thrash metal legends Kreator brought their massive “Krushers of the World tour” to Helsinki Ice Hall, celebrating their newest album with what stands as one of their largest stage productions ever seen in Finland. Joining them were Bay Area thrash icons Exodus, British death metal pioneers Carcass and powerviolence outfit Nails, making for an exceptionally stacked bill from top to bottom.
NY-based death metal corpse grinders Undeath have signed to Relapse Records for the release of their upcoming already recorded 4th album!
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Upheaval Festival 2026 completed its line-up awhile back and it’s absolutely delicious, with headliners Gojira and Papa Roach and plenty of popular acts both from the US and abroad! Seems like a fest you won’t want to miss out on if you’re any bit close!
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‘Requiem: Reveries of the Dying’, the third full album by Bloody Valkyria, Jere Fervinen’s solo outing, will take you to realms of high fantasy with some soaring melodic black /death metal. Out via Northern Silence Productions.
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