Finnish progressive metal act Time Primer released their new single and music video ‘Above/Below’, a first taste of the music they’re working on right now!
Links
News Posts
Finnish doom metal project Grain Of Pain released their second album ‘Behind Us All’ with Noble Demon yesterday and celebrated with a lyric video for the track ‘Ruins of the Heart’!
Links
Finnish black metal outfit Mourniaty burns the crosses in their music video for ‘Kyynelten Virta’, a track from their debut album ‘Musta maa’, released last year with Inverse Records!
Links
Finnish bestial black/death metal trio Hoc Est Bellum signs with Time To Kill Records for the release of their debut album!
Links
Finnish industrial misfits King Satan formed an unholy union with the Queen of slide guitar Erja Lyytinen and unleashed the new track ‘Black Magick Rock ‘n’ Roll’!
Links
Tarja Turunen announced her new studio album ‘Frisson Noir’ to be out in June via earMUSIC and unveiled a first epic track with ‘At Sea’!
Links
Finnish melodic metalcore outfit Beyond Awareness is releasing their debut album ‘Reflections’ in May with Ranka Kustannus and shared a new single with ‘TAKEMEBACKTOHELL’ to celebrate, featuring Cyan Kicks!
Links
HOKKA return with the next powerful chapter in their musical saga and unleash a cinematic video for new single ‘Blackbird’, out with Nuclear Blast! Catch them live for the very first time in Helsinki this May or this summer at Finnish festivals like Tuska and Tuhdimmat Tahdit, to name a few!
Links
Finnish metal outfit Crimson Day unveiled their first single and video ‘False Prophet from upcoming album ‘Dark Dimension’, set to be released in May via Wormholedeath!
Links
Finnish dark heavy rockers Mandy Manala return with a powerful new chapter, sharing first single ‘Bloodred Chapel of Sin’ from their upcoming album ‘Something Wicked’, out this spring via Argonauta Records!
Links
Album Reviews
Devil Worshipper takes you on a demented and emotional ride littered with sin and temptation. And Satan, of course Satan!
In 2018 The hellish intronauts of Oranssi Pazuzu and Dark Buddha Rising came together for a one off event, commissioned for the Roadburn Festival, ingeniously monikered The Waste of Space Orchestra. Syntheosis is the studio interpretation of that psychotropic interdimensional journey.
If you only want distorted guitars, then Battle Beast’s latest is 50/50 for you. If you want to hear the art of composing and the use of different elements that are mastered by the band, then this album will most definitely touch you.
In case you missed out on the original birth death doom as a genre or are just feeling a bit nostalgic, have a listen to Asphodelus’ “Stygian Dreams” which takes you back to the mythical times of the early nineties
Trollheims Grott delivered a relentless shotgun blast to the face with their new black metal release “Aligned with the True Death”!
The wolves are back! Finnish epic winter metal outfit Wolfheart brings you another set of their gorgeous creations.
Even after 23 years Skepticism’s debut “Stormcrowfleet” still stands as a monolith of doom.
This just shows how powerful music is. This shows why music brings people together. Even though we don’t know what a person is saying, just listening to it and feeling it can spread the message.
Blue Eyed Sons is something you got to hear, with every new release I hear of them they get better…
The swansong of Alghazanth, a Finnish black metal band that has been around for decades…
Photo Reports
Castle Rat brought their “Old World Realms Tour” to Helsinki’s On the Rocks, joined by local doom disciples Mansion. A night of theatrical heavy metal, ritualistic soundscapes, and raw energy opening a portal to an amazing fantasy world!
The Rock Orchestra travels around the country to bring their take on rock and metal classics and turn it in quite the experience both musically and visually, and brought their show to Finlandia-talo in Helsinki a couple of months ago!
A couple of months ago, TuskaLive brought the highly popular Tokio Hotel to Kulttuuritalo in Helsinki for a show the was filled with positivity and love! A wonderfully theatrical experience that was amazing to see!
Nahka Agency brought a great blend of Finnish metal to Tampere’s Tavara-Asema on Friday May 16th with Amoral, Shade Empire and Voidfallen. Unfortunately the turn up wasn’t anywhere near to as much as it should have been for such a night of quality metal music.
In mid-May, Ääniwalli became a vortex of technical brutality and progressive intensity as Born of Osiris brought their tour to Helsinki. With support from death metal and deathcore juggernauts Ingested, the genre-bending Entheos, and Portugal’s The Voynich Code, the night unfolded as a showcase of modern metal’s most forward-pushing acts.
Rivers of Nihil took over Tavastia in Helsinki a couple of months ago and absolutely blew our minds at the end of our weekend back then with the help of Cynic, Beyond Creation and Dååth!
Caliban tore through Ääniwalli with their “Back From Hell Tour 2025,” backed by In Heart’s Wake, Cabal, and Assemble the Chariots. A night of relentless energy and crushing breakdowns!
Motionless In White came back to Finland back in February for their 2nd show ever in the country and brought out quite some people, filling up Helsinki’s Ice Halls nicely. And with Fit For A King to warm us up, it was an epic night! Next up: MiW’s show at Tuska Festival this summer, we’re hoping to see an epic show with some more of their usual theatrics live!
New Wave Of Finnish Heavy Metal organised a Vappu after party with Crimson Day, Everlore and Neverfade at Maanalainen in Tampere. An overall fun event full of heavy music discoveries.
Luna Kills blew the roof off On The Rocks in the beginning of April with their release show, celebrating their new album ‘DEATHMATCH’ in style, and with support Lastout to warm up the crowd, it was a great night of promising bands! In just a couple of days, Luna Kills is kickstarting their first ever European headlining tour, don’t miss out!
SUPPORTED BY
