Finnish deathcore revelation Kneel Before The Death unveiled their latest new single ‘The Weight of Truth’, marking the beginning of a new, more electronic and aggressive era, out now with Ranka Kustannus. Catch them live this summer at Nummirock and Tuska!
Brand-new Finnish festival Ankea Festival completed its first line-up last Friday with the addition of Leprous, Textures, Sylvaine, Royal Sorrow and Demonic Death Judge, continuing to build a highly impressive roster of bands!
Last week, the Tuska 2026 line-up was completed with the last 3 confirmed bands: Japanese heavy metal icons Loudness, Finnish melodeath heroes Warmen and Leeds alternative rock/metal outfit Caskets!
Finnish festival Tuhdimmat Tahdit recently announced some more names for their 2026 line-up with HOKKA, Stam1na and Danko Jones joining an already diverse and exciting roster!
Finnish progressive folk outfit Iterum Nata unveils a raw, transformational journey with new album ‘Heartwood’, set for release in April via Nordvis Produktion and recently unveiled a first single with ‘Forgiveness Undone’, featuring King Dude!
Finnish rock band Shiraz Lane recently unveiled an official music video for the track ‘Stone Cold Lover’, a single from their latest album ‘In Vertigo’, out with Frontiers Music!
Swedish underground rock label Majestic Mountain Records announced their first label fest in Finland to happen on February 21 at Lepakkomies in Helsinki with Kaiser, Craneium, I Am Low and Mushroom Caravan Overdrive on the line-up!
Finnish power metal outfit Metal De Facto are unleashing ‘Gojira’ with a hilarious music video, another track from their upcoming album ‘The Land Of The Rising sun – Part 2’, set for release March 6 via Reaper Entertainment!
Finnish industrial metal band Ruoska shared the final single ‘Ikirouta’ before the release of their new album ‘Kade’ on February 27!
Finnish doom metal outfit Grain Of Pain announced their new album ‘Behind Us All’ to be out in March via Noble Demon and share a first track with ‘To Burn Inside’!
Swallow The Sun’s ninth studio album “Shining” mixes all the elements and ingredients of their recent works together, displaying the shifting tides of heaviness and a melodramatic style of gothic doom into again a milestone of excellence for the Finns, out tomorrow via Century Media Records.
4 years in the making and it was worth the wait. Ensiferum does a throw to album of the year where epic, gloomy, atmospheric, and melodic are some of the words to describe this journey that is ‘Winter Storm’, out via Metal Blade Records on October 18!
The new and highly anticipated eleventh album “Nyx – Hymnejä Yölle” from the Finnish black metal icons Horna is a pure definition of evil. One of this year’s top black metal releases, out via World Terror Committee tomorrow, September 13th!
Back with a vengeance, Wintersun has risen with a brand-new chapter in the Time sage. ‘Time II’ is finally out now on Nuclear Blast Records.
What do you think? Was it worth the wait? Let us know in the comments!
Korpiklaani is a great example that music is universal. With their 12 studio album ‘Rankarumpu’, they prove again that they’re a great folk metal band that never disappoints. Out on Nuclear Blast Records.
Recorded in a contemporary art gallery, Hanging Garden reinvented their signature gothic doom sound into a dreamy, ethereal type of shoegaze on this outstanding live EP ‘Citylight Sessions’, out on Agonia Records this should appeal to both longtime followers of the band and fans of later day Katatonia or even The Gathering.
With ‘Clear Cold Beyond’ Sonata Arctica are re-visiting their faster and heavier roots and will delight older fans, while possibly surprising some of their more new fans. Out via Atomic Fire Records (Reigning Phoenix Music) since last Friday!
The fifth installment “Dismal Spells Part II: The Night Circus” from the project Druadan Forest invites us to traverse through this sonic creation of V-Khaoz’ visual worlds, released on February 23rd via Werewolf Records.
Tampere’s Everwave are giving us an early Christmas present, with their slow roasted second album ‘Another Lifetime’ which dropped on December 1st. They spiced up their existing sound with some new elements and took their music another step forward.
Finnish symphonic black metal collective Vargrav presents its third opus entitled “The Nigthold”, and resuscitates the principles of symphonic black metal with superior quality, out via Werewolf Records on December 15th.
