News Posts

One of Finland’s most promising metal bands, Balance Breach, unleashed their new single ‘The Last Ember’ featuring Florestan Durand of NOVELISTS, a track from their upcoming album ‘ABYZMAL’ set for release next month via Out Of Line Music!

Finnish hybrid metal sensation Vansidian shared the new single ‘Cycle’ vie Inverse Records! Catch them at this year’s Tuska for some killer music!

Finnish pop metal band Memoremains delivers a dose of 90s nostalgia with the release of their new single ‘In The Dark’, a cover of the Purple Disco Machine & Sophie and the Giants track!

Finnish pop rock outfit Cyan Kicks announced their new upcoming album ‘I Never Said 4Ever’ to be released in May via Ranka Kustannus and shared the captivating video for the single ‘Someone Like You’ to celebrate!

Finnish psychedelic/avant-garde black metal outfit Henget unleashed their 2nd single ‘Henkivallat’ from the upcoming ‘Beyond North Star’ debut album, set for release in May via Season of Mist!

Finnish black metal outfit Ondfødt teamed up with Finntroll’s Vreth on the track ‘Where Death Roams’, another single from the upcoming album ‘Det Österbottniska Mörket’, set for release via Black Lion Records in May!

Metalcore stars on the rise Balance Breach released the new video single ‘Empty Eyes’, another track from their upcoming album ‘ABYZMAL’, set for release in May via Out of Line Music!

Finnish melodeath outfit Mors Subita is back with yet another scathing track under the form of ‘Regenerate’, from the upcoming album to be released via Out of Line Music!

Finnish melodic metal outfit Weightless World released the new video single ‘Initiate Restart’, from their yet unnamed upcoming album to be released via Inverse Records!

Finnish atmospheric progressive metal outfit Alase released new video single ‘Fate’s Intervention’ from the upcoming album ‘A Matter of Time’, set for release in April via Inverse Records!

Photo Reports

Pictures of the Helsinki show of the somewhat rebooted Fear of Domination with support from the up-and-comers of Detset!

Pics of a great line-up of underground and up-and-coming Finnish metal acts at Bar Loose with Crucify The Faith, Ninetyfive50 and Enragement!

Pictures of a great night of Finnish melodeath with Mors Subita and I Revolt at On The Rocks in Helsinki!

Our favorite melodic band from the cold north of Finland, Sonata Arctica, celebrates their 25th anniversary with 2 shows at Tavastia in Helsinki. Check out the pics.

Temple Balls finally gets to play their new music at On The Rocks and brought along the rising youngsters of St. Aurora for their debut show! The pictures of the night…

Finally! The traditional anniversary show of The Empire Strikes was able to take place again! Night of rock ‘n’ roll, here we come! The pics.

Pictures of the second day of underground music at the SteelHordes event in Hyvinkää, Finland!

Pictures of the 1st day of a summer gathering of the wolves of the underground at SteelHordes 2021 in Hyvinkää, Finland!

Pictures of the second day of SaariHelvetti 2021 with some of Finland’s brightest future in metal and absolute legends!

Pictures of the first day of Finland’s SaariHelvetti festival held in Tampere in 2021! With a whole slab of quality Finnish metal bands from start to finish!

Gig Reports

Apocalyptica (****1/2) at Cirque Royale in Brussels: an amazing performance!

The Weekend Man was here!

The Finnish monsters of Lordi were spreading their horror through Europe with their “European Monstour” and with a new album under their arms this was a tour to look forward to. As support they brought along their young-and-upcoming country mates and fellow hard rockers Shiraz Lane and the Gothic inspired Swiss Silver Dust. Since they […]