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Finnish powerhouse Bloodred Hourglass are returning with their seventh studio album ‘We Should Be Buried Like This’, out coming October via Out of Line Music! Pre-orders are open right now!

Finnish rockers The Rasmus shared the new track ‘Love Is A Bitch’, a “wildcard” track for the band, from their upcoming new album ‘WEIRDO’, set for release in September via Better Noise Music!

Melodic death metal icons Mors Principium Est shared with ‘Monuments’ another track from their upcoming highly-anticipated album ‘Darkness Invisible’, set for release in September via Perception Label!

Royal Sorrow shared a music video for the song ‘Samsara’ recently with InsideOutMusic, just before their very first show at this year’s Tuska! Catch them this autumn on tour through Europe with Leprous and Gåte!

Finnish blackened sludge outfit Trypanon announce their new album ‘Through the Portal of Flesh to Achieve Divinity’ to be out in September via Time To Kill Records and unleashed a first single with ‘Veiled In Shadows’!

Melodic metal band Dead End Finland released the new single and music video ‘The Reason’, part of their upcoming sixth studio album to be out later this year via Inverse Records!

Finnish melodic death metal powerhouse Warmen continue their furious rise with one of their heaviest tracks to date: ‘Nine Lives’! Another track from the upcoming album ‘Band Of Brothers’, set for release in August with Reaper Entertainment!

Auri is reaching out to touch your soul yet again with the release of their single ‘Museum Of Childhood’, the 2nd track to be unveiled of their highly anticipated upcoming album ‘III – Candles & Beginnings’, out in August with Nuclear Blast!

Finnish melodic metal band Unén announced the release of their debut album ‘Forever Winter’ in August with Frontiers Music and shared the track ‘Black Heart’! Catch them tonight live at On The Rocks in Helsinki!

Finnish symphonic metal band Viimeinen Oodi Vapaudelle unveils hauntingly epic new single ‘Ballade of the Arctic Traveller’!

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Gig Reports

A crowded tiny venue lurking somewhere on the side of the legendary Tavastia Club in Helsinki, got filled to the brim to celebrate the release of Blue Eyed Sons’ latest EP!

One hell of an evening full of doom, sludge, stoner and hipsters at BlowUp vol.4 Pre Festival Club, with Dopelord, Zombie Eater and Tombstoned!

A cold evening in February, we were taken on a magical journey with the acoustic set of Myrkur!

The Belgians are invading Finland! The nuclear assault was lead by speed/thrash metallers Evil Invaders!

The Belgians are invading Finland! The nuclear assault was lead by speed/thrash metallers Evil Invaders!

Florida based modern metallers Trivium brought some heavy hitters with them under the form of Power Trip and Venom Prison on one of the tours of the year!

Florida based modern metallers Trivium brought some heavy hitters with them under the form of Power Trip and Venom Prison on one of the tours of the year!

Rock ‘n’ roll till we drop on a night where Sweden and Finland comes together under the form of Grande Royale and The Empire Strikes!

After delivering the hard rock album of the year, Shiraz Lane blasted the roof off Nosturi in Helsinki!

Celebrating the release off their latest album, Will to Power (released with Century Media Records),  Arch Enemy went out on tour selling out venues by the hand full. This can be expected when a band like Arch Enemy takes the stage with Jinjer, Tribulation and Wintersun.

Photo Reports

Sami Yaffa has worn multiple hats in various different bands such as Hanoi Rocks, Pelle Miljoona OY, New York Dolls, The Hellacopters, just to name a few but now in his 60s he is still going stronger than ever! This legendary bassist just released his second solo album in his illustrious career titled “Satan’s Helpers, Warlazer Eyes & The Money Pig Circus” and brought the album in its entirety to a packed Tavastia in Helsinki!

At the beginning of March, Amaranthe, Dragonforce and Infected Rain brought quite the spectacle to thousands of fans gathered in Helsinki’s Black Box Jäähalli venue!

A great night of modern metal and metalcore with Polaris, Silent Planet, Thornhill and Paledusk!

Back in February on a cold Sunday evening, things in Tavastia got quite hot when a massive horror show took over with Wednesday 13 playing old Murderdolls tunes in the memory of Joey Jordison, culminating in with the headliner act, British extreme metal legends Cradle Of Filth.

On Friday 15.03.2024 Sonata Arctica started off their “Clear Cold Beyond” tour at Pakkahuone in Tampere together with Temple Balls as support. The show was organized by Grey Beard and TuskaLive.


Our site is dedicated to everything rock and metal with a few sidesteps in music that appeals to the same music fans like synthwave, neo (pagan) folk, industrial,… But some of us do have a taste for music and art that goes beyond these limitations. Enter “GRIMM goes rogue”: where you’ll get a metalhead, punker, rocker,… who ventures into realms beyond their usual habitat with an open mind and give their honest opinion, views and experiences.

"A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it is not open."

Frank Zappa



In honour of the Sámi National Day, G Livelab Tampere organised an event with Áilu Valle, AMOC & Trio Boogiemen, bringing us an interesting experience with Sámi influenced rap and rock!

Cradle of Filth came by for a couple of sold out shows in Finland on their massive Europe tour with Wednesday 13 and Sick N’ Beautiful and we caught this spectacle at Tampere’s Pakkahuone a couple of weeks back!

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!


Our site is dedicated to everything rock and metal with a few sidesteps in music that appeals to the same music fans like synthwave, neo (pagan) folk, industrial,… But some of us do have a taste for music and art that goes beyond these limitations. Enter “GRIMM goes rogue”: where you’ll get a metalhead, punker, rocker,… who ventures into realms beyond their usual habitat with an open mind and give their honest opinion, views and experiences.

"A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it is not open."

Frank Zappa



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.