Photo Reports

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!

General review & info about Hellfest can be found in our Hellfest Festival Guide, including a preview of 2023.

2022 was a special year with 2 festival weekends and even higher temperatures, it is always damn hot in Hell!
Luckily there’s plenty of places you can cool down at the festival and we love Hellfest for it!

Check out our liveblog Hellfest 2022  & and check our Photo Report* here:

Hip hop is a music genre that I’ve always loved and when an absolute legend of the culture comes over for a show at a venue nearby, how could I say no to that? Jeru The Damaja, known from classic tracks like ‘Come Clean’, and his work with Gang Starr, is someone you simply don’t want to miss out on. Helsinki based hip hop artist Loasteeze managed to lure him to Finland and completed the night with some stellar Finnish acts like Jodarock and Bentality for what ended up being a hot and steamy night of beats and killer bars.

Once again we did it and joined the all-female #1 rock export from Sweden Thundermother on a stop of their ‘Heat Wave Tour 2022’. This time they got the stage shaking at the Rock & Metal Dayz Festival in Oschersleben, Germany. As headliner the they closed the day with an awesome rock gig and made the crowd go wild. The pure energy and the clean straight rock performed by Guernica Mancini (vocals), Filippa Nässil (guitar), Mona Lindgren (Bass) and Emlee Johanson (drums) is simply stunning. Since they are right in the middle of their tour you’ll have enough gigs upcoming to see them yourself. If you’ll have the chance to do so – don’t miss it!

Enjoy the gallery with pictures from Thundermother: