Photo Reports
The crowd was ALIVE at the downtown Columbus, Ohio venue, Kemba Live, on this warm July night. Starset was the headliner with support from Red and Divide The Fall. Upon walking into the venue, we were immediately impressed. There was already a big crowd, which was so good to see! We made our way through the sea of people down to the pit, and anxiously waited for the first band to take the stage.
Day 1 of Sauna Open Air didn’t have the best weather yet, but that couldn’t stop us from having a good time. With bands like Fear of Domination, Alestorm, Beast in Black, Turmion Kätilöt and Bullet for my Valentine it’s pretty much impossible to not have fun. The new location also work quite nicely and offered everything necessary for a relaxed festival time. During Michael Monroe‘s show there weren’t that many people yet sadly, but it got quite full as the day progressed. I guess the first day being on a Thursday was a bit tricky for a lot of people to get there earlier. Overall there would be 22.000 people visiting the festival during the 3 days.
Swedish melodeath legends Dark Tranquillity and Finnish folk metal party gang Ensiferum joined forces and embarked on a huge European co-headlining tour during April and May. Adding to that a couple of promising bands to warm up the crowds, we knew this was a tour we couldn’t miss out on. So when they got to the Finnish shore for a couple of stops there, we made sure we were there at the Helsinki show on a sunny Sunday eve!
It’s like boiling hot in the venue, packed with excited sweaty people, on this summer sunday evening. Trash Boat is touring with great music and messages of love and tolerance. They seem to be having a lot of fun doing so. They make the ground shake and the crowd move. Excellent support act.
Like it isn’t already hot enough, when Enter Shikari enters the stage vocalist Roughton “Rou” Reynolds is wearing a green fur coat. Because of all the hyperactive movement on stage it didn’t take too long until he and drummer Rob Rolfe where both bare-chested. There were two rules for the show: love one another and dance like nobody’s watching. The crowd embraced those rules and had an amazing evening singing along to all the songs. It was a crazy evening with Rou, Chris and Rory performing in the middle of a circle pit and bassist Chris Batten jumping from the speakers.
Shaman’s Harvest and Crobot with special guests Any Given Sin and Hell Came Home absolutely raised the roof on Thursday June 9th, 2022 at Rockstar Lounge in Ft. Wayne, Indiana. Four awesome bands each with their own style and genre lit the stage up with a banger of show.
Right after an already exhausting Tuska 2022, I couldn’t help to go on the road again to catch one of the shows of the Ukranian folktronica sensation Go_A at On The Rocks in Helsinki. Like most, having caught on to this project after their participation in Eurovision 2021 with ‘Shum’, I had been looking forward to possibly catching them live and now finally the time was there. And I was not disappointed! Not only was the music incredible live, the overall atmosphere of love and togetherness that permeated everything at the venue, including hugs between vocalist Kateryna Pavlenko and the crowd, and the regular show of support for the struggles of the band’s home country made this a show to not forget any time soon!
On a sunny day in June 2022 Agnostic Front – the pioneers and godfathers of N.Y.C.H. – made a stop-over on their 40 year anniversary European tour at the Cafe Central in Weinheim. They created total mayhem and turned the totally sold-out venue into a massive mosh-pit. The crowd did go wild with the band entering the stage and after the first cords there was no stopping.
It was a sweat driving experience nobody who attended will forget – especially the moment when the crowd unintentionally knocked over the PA at one side of the stage due to massively moshing around.
Roger Miret (vocals), Mike Gallo (bass), Craig Silverman (guitar), Danny Lamagna (drums) and founding member Vinnie Stigma (guitar) created a total blow-out. Another highlight was Vinnie Stigma playing his guitar in the mid of a great circle pit. You weren’t there? You missed quite something.
We’re back! After all the years of cancelations, Tuska is finally happening again! With a hunger for one of our favorite festivals, and a very solid lineup consisting of a combination of rebookings from the canceled editions, surprising additions, and plenty of attention for local talents, we felt almost as excited as when we went to our very first Tuska back in 2016! After 2 rather exhausting days with memorable shows of quite a few bands, we were really looking forward to the usually more chill Tuska Sunday to slowly fade out of the festival weekend. There were still some very promising bands that would hit us with some killer shows, though!
We’re back! After all the years of cancelations, Tuska is finally happening again! With a hunger for one of our favorite festivals, and a very solid lineup consisting of a combination of rebookings from the canceled editions, surprising additions, and plenty of attention for local talents, we felt almost as excited as when we went to our very first Tuska back in 2016! After a great first day with memorable shows of quite a few bands, we were in a really good mood for the second day of acts we had been looking forward to, and to discover more of the festival itself!
We’re back! After all the years of cancelations, Tuska is finally happening again! With a hunger for one of our favorite festivals, and a very solid lineup consisting of a combination of rebookings from the canceled editions, surprising additions, and plenty of attention for local talents, we felt almost as excited as when we went to our very first Tuska back in 2016!
