Finnish rockers Temple Balls recently unveiled new single ‘Tokyo Love’, a track taken from their upcoming self-titled album, set for release next month via Frontiers Music!
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HOKKA unleashes second single ‘Death by Cupid’s Arrow’, out now via Nuclear Blast! Catch them live for the first time in May at Tavastia in Helsinki or this summer at Finnish festivals like for instance Tuska!
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Finnish prog outfit Canvas Of Silence unveils their new vocalist Aino Vuorenmaa with the new official video for ‘The Great Unknown’, a new version of the track that was featured on last year’s released debut album ‘As The World Tree Fell’, out with Rockshots Records!
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Finnish blackened death metal band Karelian Warcry is set to release their third album this spring with Inverse Records and shared a taste with the single ‘Mielen rutto’!
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Finnish melodic death metal act Obscure Fate released their 2nd single ‘Poison Throne’ from upcoming debut album ‘Shades of a Dying World’, set for release in March via Inverse Records!
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Earlier this month, Amorphis unleashed the track ‘Crowned In Crimson’, with frontman Tomi Joutsen singing with his daughter Iida, and the theme song for the upcoming Finnish epic movie ‘Son Of Revenge – The Story Of Kalevala’!
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Finnish melodic metal band Stråle shared their take on The Weeknd hit ‘Blinding Lights’ with a video. The track can also be found on their recently released EP ‘Reformation’, out with Frontiers Music!
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Finnish power metal powerhouse Metal De Facto presents ‘Across The Milky Way’, the first single from their highly anticipated new album ‘The Land Of The Rising Sun – Part 2’, set for release in March 2026 via Reaper Entertainment!
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A new chapter of epic doom metal is about to begin with Finnish supergroup The Solitude announcing their debut album ‘The Sound of Absent Life’ to be released in April 2026 with Reaper Entertainment, unveiling the cover artwork!
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Finnish progressive metal collective Frozen Factory strikes back with a blistering new single and music video ‘Get More Stupid’, another track from their highly anticipated album ‘Apocalypse Inc.’, set for release in January 2026 with Wormholedeath!
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Photo Reports
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!
Nem Agency’s Melancholy Mass Festival made Finland’s dark winter nights just a bit better by bringing us Septicflesh, …And Oceans, Vorna, Assemble The Chariots and Voidfallen on the stage in Tampere and Helsinki.
Apocalyptica recently came to Tampere’s Tuomiokirkko for their ‘Matka Mieleen – Kaamoksen Sellot’ tour. It was an amazing experience and a visual delight.
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