The second day of Rockfest 2023, the Red Stage by Soundi was the place to be for stellar performances by Von Hertzen Brothers, Escape The Faith, Testament and Stam1na.
The second day brought quite a rockin’ out to the main stage with national heroes The 69 Eyes and Stratovarius and rock legends Mötley Crüe and Def Leppard.
Norwegian black metal duo Ekrom presents a superb slab of atmospheric/symphonic black metal. The first full length album “Uten Nådigst Formildelse” brings a fair mixture of atmospheric and grim black metal that in its authentic form. Released via Edged Circle Productions.
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The Swedish melodic metal/rock outfit Cyhra is back, and announced a brand-new full-length to be released in August via Nuclear Blast with ‘The Vertigo Trigger’ and unveiled the new single ‘Life Is A Hurricane’!
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A new chapter for the Belgian death metal band Carnation has begun: a new look, an upcoming new album with ‘Cursed Mortality’ (out in November via Season of Mist), and some surprising new touches in their new music! Last week, they unveiled some of their plans with the artwork of the upcoming album and the title track as the first single!
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The third album from the Oregon-Portland based-death metal quartet Torture Rack, “Primeval Onslaught”, includes many highlight tracks. No frills here, just fucking primitive and putrid old school death metal from start to finish, Torture Rack will leave you all satisfied. Released via 20 Buck Spin!
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The French symphonic melodic death metal outfit Aephanemer came to On The Rocks, saw a wild crowd and conquered everyone’s hearts! Here’s for hoping that they get to come back to Finland some time really soon! And local up-and-comers Numento definitely got us warmed up properly for the main event!
