Finnish gothic metal band For My Pain… are to embark on an album release tour in January 2026 in their homecountry after they released their upcoming new album ‘Buried Blue’!
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Finnish powerhouse Battle Beast released their new album ‘Steelbound’ with Nuclear Blast last week and celebrated the occasion with a music video for the track ‘Twilight Cabaret’!
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Finnish melancolic stars Kaunis Kuolematon announced their new album ‘Kun Valo Minussa Kuoli’ to be released next month with Noble Demon and unveiled first single and video ‘Merta’!
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Tuska is bringing Megadeth to its 2026 line-up as the headliner for the Friday and adds 13 more bands to the line-up with Trivium, P.O.D., Stam1na, Lost Society, Paleface Swiss, Return To Dust, The Browning, Dogma, Slope, 802, Allt, Atlas and Kneel Before The Death! All ticket classes are available right now!
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Finnish progressive metal band Humming Whale released the first single ‘Ocular’ from their upcoming debut album ‘Chasing Rabbits’, set for release next month via Inverse Records!
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Finnish heavy psych trio Mount Palatine joined the Argonauta Records family and shared the new single ‘The Sands’ to celebrate the signing!
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Finnish dark folk outfit Ínkar recently shared their new single ‘Meri’ with a captivating video! If you want to have a chance to see them live, go to Pakanafestarit this weekend!
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Finnish Sonic Rites 2026 just got heavier and darker with the newly added Russian Circles, Pelican, OvO and Helsinki’s own Vestal Climax, joining an already stacked lineup!
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Newly confirmed for the Steelfest 2026 line-up: Demonical, Mavorim, Shape of Despair and underground legends Beherit. Last week also brought the exclusive and unique shows of Holocausto and Erzebet to the bill. Deströyer 666 is no longer part of the lineup.
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Finnish rockers Temple Balls announced their return last week with the new single and video ‘There Will Be Blood’, out now via Frontiers Music!
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Photo Reports
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
Hip hop legend The Game dropped by Kulttuuritalo in Helsinki, Finland to celebrate 20 years of ‘The Documentary’ with his fans. And what a party it was!
The pictures of the Enemy Inside show at On The Rocks in Helsinki, Finland.
Silent Planet came back to Europe with their “Superbloom” headline tour and brought with them Like Moths To Flames, VEXED and Avoid! We caught them in the beginning of February at Korjaamo in Helsinki for a great night of metalcore and alternative metal! Brought to us by TuskaLive!
Last month, both of our home countries met at a great event with some of the top of the underground metal scene like Unhoped, Rapid, Galvanizer and the very first appearance in Finland of the Belgian speed metallers of Bütcher!
Jonne Aaron seemed to radiate joy and happiness throughout his entire performance last week at Tavara-Asema in Tampere, Finland. I wish all artists would enjoy performing as much as he seemed to enjoy this gig.
Ankor has been getting a lot of attention and making new fans this past festival season in Europe, and it clearly got caught by TuskaLive as well, bringing this exciting group back to Helsinki for a completely sold-out and packed night at On The Rocks. And with the addition of special guests Conquer Divide and openers A Dark Reborn, the party was complete!
Last Friday, Stratovarius and Sonata Arctica came to Tampere’s fully packed Tavara-Asema for their “Nordic Power Titans tour 2025”. In addition, they also brought along Arion to warm up the room for them. While the sound wasn’t always quite on point, that didn’t stop the evening from being a great amount of fun. An event by Grey Beard Concerts & Management.
Eluveitie started 2025 with the first leg in Europe of their “ÀNV Rising” tour, with support from Infected Rain and Ad Infinitum, and we saw it was good at one of the first stops at Kulttuuritalo Helsinki back in January! An event by TuskaLive.
TOTO recently played a show at a full Nokia Arena in Tampere together with Christopher Cross, marking the end of their ‘The Dogz Of Oz’ European Tour. The evening delivered a great feeling of nostalgia.
Finnish “disko metal” icons Turmion Kätilöt, together with King Satan, turned Tampere’s Tavara-Asema into a steaming hot party on last week’s Saturday night. An event by Nem Agency.
Album Reviews
With ‘Alloy’ Svart Records continues its quest to make all of Skepticism’s back catalogue available again.
Finnish outfit Norrhem has crafted a remarkable combination of melodic black/folk metal with their release ‘Koitos’!
Santa Cruz is back with a new line-up and a new sound. You can read the review of ‘Katharsis’ here.
By one of the many lakes in Finland, Jasmin Saarela, leading lady in psychedelic supernauts Jess & the Ancient ones, has written her first solo record ‘Under the Red Light Shine’. a hauntinly beautiful record full of soul and melancholy.
Wheel brings you a sound that is very much inspired by Tool, but with a great personality and great songwriting skills!
Devil Worshipper takes you on a demented and emotional ride littered with sin and temptation. And Satan, of course Satan!
In 2018 The hellish intronauts of Oranssi Pazuzu and Dark Buddha Rising came together for a one off event, commissioned for the Roadburn Festival, ingeniously monikered The Waste of Space Orchestra. Syntheosis is the studio interpretation of that psychotropic interdimensional journey.
If you only want distorted guitars, then Battle Beast’s latest is 50/50 for you. If you want to hear the art of composing and the use of different elements that are mastered by the band, then this album will most definitely touch you.
In case you missed out on the original birth death doom as a genre or are just feeling a bit nostalgic, have a listen to Asphodelus’ “Stygian Dreams” which takes you back to the mythical times of the early nineties
Trollheims Grott delivered a relentless shotgun blast to the face with their new black metal release “Aligned with the True Death”!
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