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Just back from playing a great show at the very last Wildfest in Belgium, Finnish rock band Shiraz Lane return with yet another single and visualizer video with ‘Plastic Heart’ out via Frontiers Music! Catch them on tour in the UK next month and select dates in Finland, Spain and Norway the rest of the year!

Amorphis announced to be releasing their 15th studio album ‘Borderland’ via Reigning Phoenix Music in September, just in time for their European tour with Arch Enemy, Eluveitie and Gatecreeper, and Finnish headline tour!

It was only yesterday we posted a list of events that would make Finland worth the visit this Summer, in which we mentioned the CoolHead Live concert series, and here they are with a brand-new announcement! Septicflesh will be coming to play supported by Afsky and Vermilia on July 3rd, in cooperation with Nahka Agency!

Warmen are ready for the next step! Their new album ‘Band Of Brothers’ is set for release in August via Reaper Entertainment with a special release show at Summer Breeze Open Air! But also catch them at for instance Hellsinki Metal Festival!

Finnish melodic death metal giants Before The Dawn present another dark and powerful glimpse into their upcoming album ‘Cold Flare Eternal’, set for release in September via Reaper Entertainment, with the new single ‘Fatal Design’! Catch them live this summer at John Smith Rock Festival in Finland or on tour with Wolfheart in September!

Finnish metal force Suotana announced to release ‘Ounas II’ via Reaper Entertainment in August and then embark on a tour through Europe with countrymates Wolfheart and Before the Dawn!

Finnish heavy rock juggernauts Leverage are back and share their new single ‘Tales Of The Night’, from their upcoming new album ‘Gravity’, set for release in June via Frontiers Music!

Finnish rock sensation Moon Shot just returned from their first-ever European headlining out, but are ready to get going again with “The Power over Summer 2025” tour taking them all over the place again with the only Finnish shows being at Rockfest, Tuhdimmat Tahdit and John Smith Rock Festival! Catch them at your favorite festival the coming months!

Finnish metal icon Marko Hietala is set to return to stages across Finland with “Roses From The Deep – Tour Pt. 2” this fall. But if you can’t wait, be sure to catch him live at festivals like Tuska, Wacken and more this summer!

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The UK progressive metallers Tesseract were touring around Europe to present their latest release ‘War of Being’, bringing a visual and musical delight to a packed Tavastia in Helsinki! With them, they brought the German proggers of Unprocessed and US mathcore up-and-comers of The Callous Daoboys!

Tuhdimmat Tahdit brought Brymir’s glorious fish-metal to Hönö Baari in Tampere, Finland to make our weekend good!


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Johanna Iivanainen’s & Johanna Kurkela’s Altamullan Road is certainly worth checking out. Fullsteam Agency gave us the opportunity to see their show at Tampere’s Pakkahuone on Valentine’s Day and if you have a chance to experience their blend of cinematic, folk, and pop music yourself I highly recommend doing so.

Avatar dropped by the legendary Helsinki venue Tavastia on their “The Great Metal Circus 2024” tour, bringing their visual spectacle and theatrics properly to Finland. With them they brought the US metallers of Æther Realm, really blowing up the night!

In honour of their latest album, Everwave played a “big band” show at Tampere’s Hönö Baari last weekend together with Golden Rot and Paha kurki.

Last week, Cyhra, together with NeonFly, started off their short Finland tour at Tampere’s YO-Talo with a blast of a show organised by Nem Agency.

The Nordic weeks in Rock over Germany have been going on. Just a week after a fabulous BEAST IN BLACK tour stop in Stuttgart, another headliner from Finland’s power-metal top-notch acts conquered another concert venue in town with a show deluxe: BATTLE BEAST on their ‘Circus Of Doom Over Europe Tour 2024’. Support was given by INDUCTION and SAINT DEAMON.

Whenever Finnish bands travel around in other parts of the world, we tend to try catch them live at least once. The “Glory and the Beast” tour brought together three of the most exciting bands in the European power metal scene: Brothers Of Metal, Gloryhammer and our Finnish friends of Beast in Black. The tour enthralled fans throughout Germany with a spectacular blend of epic melodies and high-energy performances. See and feel the power of this night of their stop-over in Stuttgart, Germany!

Last Monday, TuskaLive and Grey Beard Concerts & Management brought the carnival to town. To be precise, the Swedish band Avatar and along with them Æther Realm from the USA. Avatar played a very fun show at Olympia-Kortteli in Tampere, including magic tricks, balloons and of course some good old heavy metal.

At the end of January, Battle Beast and Merta came through Tampere’s Pakkahuone for a powerful sold out show presented by Tuhdimmat Tahdit and Master Events.