Finnish melodic death/doom metal outfit Shadecrown are poised to release their new album ‘0’ via Inverse Records in July and recently unveiled a second single with ‘Tear-blind’!
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Popular Finnish rock outfit The Rasmus declare a new era with their upcoming album ‘Weirdo’, out in September on Better Noise Music and Playground Music, and share their new single ‘Break These Chains’ featuring Blind Channel’s Niko Vilhelm on guest vocals!
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Finland’s notorious black metal titans Archgoat took command of the Servants of Chaos festival stage and are now sharing a full video of their ferocious performance! For those who are at Steelfest this weekend, make sure you catch the show of these legends!
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Finnish metal sensation Battle Beast unleashed their new song ‘Last Goodbye’, a first taste of their upcoming new album set for release with Nuclear Blast later this year! Catch them this fall on their European tour, or if you can’t wait, see them at festivals like Rockfest and Tuska Festival!
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Finnish legends …and Oceans are presenting the last single ‘Förnyelse i Tre Akter’ in the run up to their new album ‘The Regeneration Itinerary’ coming out later this month with Season of Mist!
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Finnish black metal outfit Iku-Turso set the release date for their mini-album ‘Wolfheart’ on June 6 with Purity Through Fire and unleashed a first track with ‘Pagan Beasts’!
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Finnish metal revelation Bloodred Hourglass recently revealed their new single and video ‘The Crown Is Permanent’, a battle cry released via Out Of Line Music and another taste of their upcoming new album!
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Beast In Black and Blizzard Entertainment join forces to release the new track ‘Enter The Behelit’ in celebration of the upcoming crossover event of Diablo and Berserk! The single is out now with Nuclear Blast!
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Finland’s leather metal maniacs Tyrantti and pro wrestling promotion FCF Wrestling are joining forces in an unprecedented alliance, bringing the hottest summer event in Helsinki with “Lihaa Mattoon!”, an evening filled with live action, beer, hot food and heavy metal!
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Finnish industrial metal maniacs King Satan released a brand new live video for the track ‘The Carnivalesque of Dark and Light’, featuring Chris Eggvn! Taken from their latest album ‘The Devil’s Evengelion’, released last year via Noble Demon!
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Besides starting the new year properly looking to the future, this month we’re also still looking back at all the awesomeness that 2023 brought us. One of those awsome things was the already 3rd edition of the by Bloodred Hourglass curated festival Black Box Mikkeli. They were able to bring a killer line-up again on the 2nd day of their event with besides a fantastic show by themselves, Insomnium, Gaerea, Balance Breach, I Am Your God and Lastout!
Pictures of yet another excellent show by the legendary Finnish metal band Amorphis at the gorgeous Kulttuuritalo venue in Helsinki!
Welcoming events that try to bring something different and out of the norm to Finland, we went to the second night of the club festival Hellsinki Techfest with Sirkuit Preiker, Khroma, Balance Breach and Hacktivist back in September for some killer music and high energy!
Lord of the Lost wrapped up their year with a mini tour in Finland, that ended with a sold out gig at Olympia-kortteli in Tampere, with as support Rain Diary and Gothminister. An event by TuskaLive and Grey Beard Concerts & Management that served as the perfect last show in 2023 for our photographer!
Without question, the biggest deathcore band in the world, Lorna Shore made their stop at Jäähalli, the biggest venue in Helsinki, bringing their biggest stage production yet to a sold out crowd on their “The Pain Remains EU Tour”, and with them they had Rivers of Nihil, Ingested and Distant, resulting in massive pits from start to finish!
Shereign finished off their year with a gig at Tampere YO-Talo on December 9th, organized by Nem Agency. They brought along Ikinä, Everwave and Lastout to make the night complete with up-and-coming Finnish artists.
Fitting for December we went to see André Linman perform some Christmas songs at Vaasa’s Trefaldighetskyrkan in Finland awhile back!
Yet another great gig of the Amorphis “Halo Finnish tour” at Tampere’s Pakkahuone last week, in front of an almost full house. An event hosted by TuskaLive.
The second night of John Smith Rock Frozen 2023 was pretty epic with some of the best of the Finnish scene with Red Eleven, Kiuas, Finntroll, Turmion Kätilöt and headliners Amorphis! Throw on top of that the Swedish up-and-comers of Orbit Culture, and you know it was good!
We had a great time catching Poets of the Fall on the last stop of their 20th anniversary tour, at Tampere’s Pakkahuone venue on December 1st!
