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’!
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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!
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Finnish bestial black/death metal trio Hoc Est Bellum signs with Time To Kill Records for the release of their debut album!
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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’!
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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’!
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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!
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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!
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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!
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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!
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Finnish death/doom metallers Hanging Garden revealed music video and new single ‘Eternal Trees of Turquoise’, another track from their upcoming album ‘Isle of Bliss’, out this Friday via Agonia Records!
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Jonne Aaron seemed to radiate joy and happiness throughout his entire performance last week at Tavara-Asema in Tampere, Finland. I wish all artists would enjoy performing as much as he seemed to enjoy this gig.
Ankor has been getting a lot of attention and making new fans this past festival season in Europe, and it clearly got caught by TuskaLive as well, bringing this exciting group back to Helsinki for a completely sold-out and packed night at On The Rocks. And with the addition of special guests Conquer Divide and openers A Dark Reborn, the party was complete!
Last Friday, Stratovarius and Sonata Arctica came to Tampere’s fully packed Tavara-Asema for their “Nordic Power Titans tour 2025”. In addition, they also brought along Arion to warm up the room for them. While the sound wasn’t always quite on point, that didn’t stop the evening from being a great amount of fun. An event by Grey Beard Concerts & Management.
Eluveitie started 2025 with the first leg in Europe of their “ÀNV Rising” tour, with support from Infected Rain and Ad Infinitum, and we saw it was good at one of the first stops at Kulttuuritalo Helsinki back in January! An event by TuskaLive.
TOTO recently played a show at a full Nokia Arena in Tampere together with Christopher Cross, marking the end of their ‘The Dogz Of Oz’ European Tour. The evening delivered a great feeling of nostalgia.
Finnish “disko metal” icons Turmion Kätilöt, together with King Satan, turned Tampere’s Tavara-Asema into a steaming hot party on last week’s Saturday night. An event by Nem Agency.
Marko Hietala had a special Valentine’s gift for us when he played a sold out show at Olympia-kortteli in Tampere. The show also included appearances from Noora Louhimo and JP Leppäluoto as guest vocals on some of his songs. Thanks Master Events for the access. Always a pleasure to see in a live setting, we’re all too happy to welcome him again on the Tuska stage this summer!
Getting a show packed on a Wednesday isn’t something everyone can do, but for a supergroup like The Halo Effect no problem. Together with Bloodred Hourglass they brought one heck of a hot show to Tampere’s Tavara-Asema a couple of weeks ago. Thanks to Fullsteam Agency for welcoming us to the event!
Eluveitie, Infected Rain and Ad Infinitum came to Tampere’s Tavara-Asema as part of their ‘Ánv Rising Tour pt I’ at the end of January, bringing their great music to one of Finland’s most beautiful cities. An event by TuskaLive.
Ginger Vine Management & PR gave us access to Apocalyptica’s “Plays Metallica vol. 2” show at Tampere-Talo on the 23rd of January. A show that was not only great to listen to, but also was visually great, with light arrangements that just helped the music to shine even brighter.
Interviews
We talked with Spellgoth and Bobby Undertaker from the wacko industrial/disko metal band Turmion Kätilöt!
Album Reviews
Finnish melodic death metal from the highest standard!
Thyrane blasts you back to the past with this remastering from the 1998 original.
Celebrating 20 years of being symphonic metal’s leading vehicle of spirit with a live DVD!
If you’re looking for something “more quiet” to listen to (for once or not) look no further! Black Dreams might just have what you need, and there’s only one way to find out, isn’t there?
Insomnium is taking you away on a viking group’s voyage towards doom and damnation…
A bunch of young guys playing a bunch of old music with a message of peace and love… put in your player and rock out!
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