News Posts

Finnish melodeath revelation Horizon Ignited are taking things to the next level and released their new single and music video ‘Beneath The Dark Waters’, out via Reaper Entertainment!

One Morning Left is back with yet another highly infectious track that blends 80s vibes with modern metalcore, and really go for the old school vibes paying homage to Knight Rider with the single ‘Michael, The Knight’, from their upcoming album ‘Neon Inferno’, set for release next month via Arising Empire!

Finnish sludge masters Demonic Death Judge unveiled their new track ‘Poisoner’, which will be part of the Suicide Records compilation ‘In the Loving Memory of You’, released yesterday and of which all proceeds are going to a suicide prevention organization in Sweden!

Finnish melodic death metal project Crowen shared ‘Dark Forever’, the first single and music video of their upcoming EP ‘Where The Darkness Falls’, set for release later this year via Inverse Records!

Finnish doom metal act Grain Of Pain unveiled a lyric video for the track ‘Can’t Be Fallen’ last week, a track from the recently released debut album ‘The Moon Lights The Way’, out since May via Noble Demon!

The 13th edition of Steelfest is happening in a bit more than 8 months and over the weekend they announced 30 confirmed names for 2025, with of course a nice selection of the top of the Finnish underground scene and plenty of pretty impressive names again, including some exclusive shows of bands like Absu, Osculum Infame, The True Werwolf, Imprecation, Hellwind & Vritrahn and more! Time to get those tickets, we’d say!

Finnish symphonic doom metal band Infirmum releases first single and music video ‘Burn’ from upcoming album ‘From The Depths I Cried’, expected by the end of this year still!

Finnish progressive unit The Hypothesis is back to begin a new chapter with an upcoming new album ‘Evolve’ set for release in October via Noble Demon, and a first single shared with ‘Stray’!

Ice-cold Finnish modern metal band Arctis announced their self-titled debut album to be out via Napalm Records in November, and shared their very first single ever with ‘I’ll Give You Hell’! Make sure you catch them on tour in support of Apocalyptica’s Europe tour later this year!

After earlier this year celebrating 30 years of Horna at Steelfest with 3 separate shows each spanning another era of the legendary Finnish black metal outfit, they are now also set to release their highly anticipated 11th album ‘Nyx – Hymnejä Yölle’ in a couple of weeks via W.T.C. Productions!

Photo Reports

The pictures of explosive shows by Alter Bridge, Shinedown and The Raven Age in Helsinki!

After 2 days we were pretty exhausted, but Blowup vol. 5 wasn’t done with us yet. The pictures of day 3 right here!

Day 2 of Blowup Vol. 5 had an even more impressive line-up to get mesmerized by. Here are the pics of the day!

Pictures of a night of hard rock and heavy metal with Black Star Riders and Diamond Head on a cold night in Finland.

Pictures of the first day of the impressive Finnish underground music festival Blowup Vol. 5!

The pictures of a night showcasing the talent that the bands of the Danish group of Prime Collective hold…

Turilli / Lione Rhapsody came to show why they are known as one of the legends of the symphonic power metal genre and we were there!

After turning quite some heads at Eurovision, the Icelandic industrial outfit Hatari came to play a sold out show in Finland! Check out the pics!