Rise Of The Northstar is back with the brand-new single ‘One Love’ and are set to release new full-length ‘Showdown’ in April via Atomic Fire Records!
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Finnish modern metal band Without Warning released their 4th single ‘R.P.B.P’ via Inverse Records, get read to bang your head!
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Rockzilla is back for the thrilling sequel we’ve been wanting. Falling In Reverse and Papa Roach are on the road again for leg two of their USA co-headline tour, including special guests Hollywood Undead and openers Escape The Fate!
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UK heavy metal band Graphic Nature announced their upcoming new album ‘A Mind Waiting To Die’ to be released next year via Rude Records and unleash a new single video with ‘Killing Floor’!
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French modern metal outfit Rage Behind unleash a brand new, wickedly heavy single ‘Season Of Blood’ via Atomic Fire Records!
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In the middle of their massive European arena tour as special guests of Volbeat, Skindred unleashed yet another party anthem with ‘GIMME THAT BOOM’ from upcoming Earache Records debut ‘Smile’!
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Finnish modern metallers Lost Society unleashed with ‘What Have I Done’ another single of the upcoming new album ‘If The Sky Came Down’, out next month via Nuclear Blast!
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Popular Belgian alternative act STAKE shared ‘Deliverance Dance’, a 2nd single from the upcoming album ‘LOVE, DEATH and DECAY’ set for release in September via Hassle Records!
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Estonian pioneering modern metal band Horror Dance Squad brings with their blend of pop, punk and metalcore another breath of fresh air this summer with their latest single Ego Death, out via Inverse Records!
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Finnish proggers Somehow Jo released 2nd single ‘Fata Morgana’ from the upcoming new album ‘Scales And Details’, to be coming in September via Inverse Records!
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Photo Reports
Blind Channel’s biggest show to date was a visual spectacle and everything they’ve worked towards for all these years! With support from Arttu Lindeman, it was a great way to wrap up an amazing year.
A look back at the energetic shows from Normandie, Balance Breach and Delta Enigma at On The Rocks back in December!
We caught Ra at their stop at Piere’s in Fort Wayne, Indiana while being on the road for their “From One 20th Anniversary Tour”, with support from A Killer’s Confession, Blood of Heroes and The Illegals!
On a cold day in October, Volbeat came to warm us up with their hard rock and heavy metal circus at the Nokia Arena in Tampere, Finland. With them, they had the UK ragga metallers Skindred and the US rockers of Bad Wolves, and we saw it was good!
Ashes To New, The Word Alive, Dropout Kings and Eva Under Fire set The Eclectic Room in Angola, Indiana on fire with their high energy sets of alternative metal!
The galactic atmosphere created by Starset and sheer energy coming from both band and crowd was impressive. With the support of Red and Divide The Fall, it was really a great night at Kemba Live! in Columbus, Ohio!
Dark Tranquillity and Ensiferum set Helsinki on fire with the help of supporting bands Marianas Rest and Gwendydd! And we were all too excited that concerts like they were before all this misery are happening again in full force! Moshpits, here we come!
Shaman’s Harvest, Crobot, Any Given Sin and Hell Came Home playing at the Rockstar Lounge in Ft. Wayne, Indiana was a feast for both the ears and eyes back in the beginning of June! Highly recommended set of bands to check out whenever you can!
Nonpoint kicked absolute ass with their high energy, sold-out show at The Machine Shop in Flint, Michigan!
Gig Reports
Blind Channel played the biggest show of their career at Helsinki’s Jäähalli at the end of 2022, a culmination not only of the year but of the whole band’s existence! Support came from the lovely Arttu Lindeman.
Throwback to Normandie finally making it back to Finland to celebrate their 2021 release ‘Dark & Beautiful Secrets’ and blew the roof off On The Rocks with the support from Balance Breach and Delta Enigma.
At the “Does This Look All Killer No Filler tour” stop at Vorst Nationaal in Brussels, Cassyette provided us with something new to check out while Simple Plan and Sum 41 provided a true trip though memory lane.
The co-headline tour of Dark Tranquillity and Ensiferum made a stop in Helsinki with support from Marianas Rest and Gwendydd and packed Vanha Ylioppilastalo to the brim for a night of pure and wholesome energy to lift our spirits!
A night to remember! Shaman’s Harvest, Crobot, Any Given Sin and Hell Came Home all killed it with their shows at the Rockstar Lounge in Ft. Wayne, Indiana with each their own signature style and genre!
The report of an amazing night with shows from Breaking Benjamin, Seether, Starset and Lacey Sturm in Fort Wayne, IN!
Nightwish finally get to embark on their ‘Human. :||: Nature.’ World Tour and we were there for the Helsinki show!
We caught Tantric with KrashKarma, This Day Forever and Twenty-Second Dimension at The King of Clubs in Columbus, OH!
After an impressive release last year, VOLA came to our neighborhood to bring their intricate music live, with the support of Port Noir and Atlas!
We had quite a blast at the St. Paddy’s Day Party at The King of Clubs in Columbus, Ohio with great bands, headed by the ever amazing Nonpoint!
Interviews
A chat with Sara Strömmer of Shereign about the release of their debut album “Ghost Diaries”, the themes and artwork of the album, the planned release shows with Dark Sarah and how she would describe the band in images, with a very interesting result!
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I got to chat with Sharone and discuss her upcoming album Morbid Illusion as well as Cinco De Mayo outfits, archery adventures and inspirations!
A chat with Ariel Bloomer and Shawn Jump of Icon For Hire about their music and way of life just before they hit the stage in Helsinki!
A talk with Joel andd Niko about how they’re planning to take on the world with their “violent pop revolution”. Spoiler: it’s not only with their looks…
We talked with vocalist Maja Shining about touring, their music, inspiration and being empowering to women and girls in the music business!
Album Reviews
‘Will of the People’ is probably the most exciting piece of music that Muse has released in the last decade with something for fans of all the different sounds they’ve had in their 28 years of existence. Released via Warner Records and Helium-3.
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Mantah brings you low tuned and heavy guitar riffs. Their album ‘Evoke’ gives a mix between late 90s nu metal, modern metal and metalcore, very melodic and heavy at the same time. A beautiful album to listen to, musically at first, but also lyrically when you take the time to dive deeper into this album.
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Requiem brings us 9 tracks that while maintaining a bit of earlier Korn sounds also brings us modern Nu-Metal sounds and packs a punch.
Gemini Syndrome brings with the 3rd Degree – The Raising the final chapter in their trilogy. An excellent and powerful album full of hooked and groovy melodies.
For the first time in almost 10 years Evanescence puts out new music. Get ready to jam to this heavy hitting masterpiece.
From Ashes To New bring back the nu metal/rap metal sound from a couple of decades back and do it damn well!
“Pitfalls” is the album that nobody expected from Leprous. Alternative and progressive mixed as one topped with beautiful emotional melodies.
Crossfaith raises the party again on “Ex-Machina” with their signature sound of metal, electronic music and melody!
Nonpoint’s new album might be better suited to be played in the background than with your full focus towards it. Save it for car rides rather than headphone listening. Read more about it here!
Khemmis’s third album “Desolation” shapes traditional harmony to modern metal
Lists
2023 starts off with quite the bang with new releases from VV, Anti-Flag, Imperium Dekadenz, Turmion Kätilöt, Katatonia, Kiberspassk, …and Oceans, Obituary, Suasion, Dropout Kings and Vėlių Namai!
Another week with amazing releases, check out the 13 singles that caught our attention with Rue Vox, Enter Shikari, …And Oceans, Aphyxion, Dirty Shirt, For I Am King, Hoaxed, Seas On The Moon, Stake, Suicide Silence, VV, Demeted and Tallah!
The music industry is at it again at full force after the festival season with a massive amount of really cool releases coming out, just look at the number of our most anticipated releases for September have grown into and then we probably could have included more still. With new albums from Blind Guardian, Yungblud, Wolfheart, Slipknot, Starcrawler, Lost Society, The Hu, Vermin Womb, Vermilia, Bloodbath, Slugcrust, Electric Callboy, Innumerable Forms, Tribal Gaze, Gaerea and Graceless, it’ll be quite the month again!
Things are getting ramped up now that the summer period is at its end! Great releases are coming out soon and it showed in the past week with new singles from Slipknot, Gaerea, Alien Weaponry, Brymir, Orbit Culture, Suasion ft. Steffi Pacson and The Callous Daoboys that amazed us!
With singles from Wolfheart, Electric Callboy, Luna Kills, Aeveris and Bastarður we introduce our new article series in which we recommend and highlight some of the singles that really impressed us and stuck by us recently! More coming soon!
The month of April brings us not only Spring in full bloom, but a long list of stellar releases. Here is a selection of those we’re looking forward to the most!
Finland produces amazing music by the tons every year, and 2021 wasn’t any different. This is a selection of 12 releases by bands we believe might become big pretty soon!
12 more releases of March 2021 we have been looking forward to for a while! Check it out!
