Beast In Black has officially welcomed Finnish guitarist Markus Venehsalo into the band’s ranks and thank Daniel Freyberg for helping them out! Markus will make his live debut next week at a festival in Germany!
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News Posts
Finnish melodeath visionaries Insomnium unveiled the first single and video ‘Shadowlife’ from their upcoming album, set for release in October with Century Media Records!
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Finland’s power trio Rapid shared their new single ‘Witchcraft of Horror’, a track from their upcoming debut album ‘Enter the Realm of Fire’, set for release in August with Dying Victims Productions!
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Razor-sharp Finnish black metal unit Bloodmother signed to the Time To Kill Records roster for their upcoming album ‘Militant Black Magic’!
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Finnish alt-metal powerhouse Luna Kills are back with their new single ‘LOWER’, out now with Sharptone Records and just in time for them to take over Europe with shows at Wacken, Alcatraz and Summer Breeze this summer, and in fall/winter in support of Future Palace and Vianova!
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Finnish psychedelic rock innovators Polymoon released their new single ‘I End, You Begin’, a taste from their upcoming new album ‘Mariposa Magic’, to be released with Vesperian later this year!
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Finnish progressive metal band Oddland announced their new album ‘Unilluminate To Illuminate’ to be out in August via Frontiers Music and shared another single with ‘Soar’!
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Finnish metal force Bloodread Hourglass released their new EP ‘After the Burial’ via Out Of Line Music, closing out the ‘We Should Be Buried Like This’ album cycle and unveiled a captivating video for the track ‘Heartstrings’ featuring blues icon Erja Lyytinen! We’re already looking forward to catching them live again at the end of this month at Tuska Festival!
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Finnish post-metal outfit SEES signed with Agonia Records to release their upcoming debut album ‘Suoja’!
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Lillmåns, known as the vocalist for iconic Finnish bands Finntroll and …and Oceans, recently appeared with a brand-new solo single ‘In Glorious Black and White’, out with Stormbound Records!
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Interviews
Fresh off the release of ‘Prima Bailarina’, we caught up with Finnish artist Nenerchy at her sold-out release show to talk about her genre-defying sound, punk philosophy, anime influences and her upcoming appearance at Tuska next week, that you definitely should go check out!
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A new era begins for Dyecrest. Ahead of the release of ‘Defying Gravity’ this Friday April 24th via Art Gates Records, we sat down with vocalist Heidi and guitarist Henri in Helsinki to talk songwriting, authenticity and rediscovering the band’s spirit.
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Last year, we met up with the mysterious and intriguing Finnish duo Rabbit Cult, who started a new chapter in their musical journey and told us all about their new path forging cool music blending Finnish with kawaii and alternative rock and metal into a unique and sometimes contradicting mixture.
Catch them on the Nordic Metal Cruise in a couple of weeks!
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We talked with the guys from Rimbacher about their debut album ‘High Hopes on the Rocks’, and how they absolutely love that classic rock sound from the 80s, which is the basis of all the music they make!
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We sat down with Nahka-Sami of the Finnish heavy metal heroes Tyrantti to talk about their epic performance at this year’s Hellsinki Metal Festival, their new album ‘Ihmispyramidi’ and where you’ll be able to find them on a stage the coming year! Tuska 2025 is at least one of the places where you can get your shot of Tyrantti heavy metal madness…
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Last year, we met up with Mikko and Juho of Valkeat shortly before the release of their 2nd full-length album ‘Fireborn’ (released via Reaper Entertainment) to talk about how things came together and how they have a mission to create modern folk metal incorporating the kantele and being inspired by Finnish legends and poetry.
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We sat down with Esa from Metal De Facto to talk about how things have been going for the band since their first album, their new album ‘Land of the Rising Sun part 1’ (out since today via Rockshots Records), why they went for the Japanese culture as the theme and their hopes and plans for the future of the band!
They’re playing a release show tonight in Tampere and tomorrow in Helsinki, be there and contribute in making power metal great again!
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We sat down with the Finnish rockers of The Empire Strikes to have a chat about their new album ‘Motell Scandinavia’, how come it took so long to get it out, what the idea is behind the title and some nice background bits about how some of the songs came together! Catch them live at their release show in Helsinki tonight or Spain and Germany later this year!
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Watch the talk we had with Harri and Anne from Lost In Grey about their upcoming album ‘Under The Surface’!
A chat with the remaining members of Bodom After Midnight about their EP ‘Paint the Sky with Blood’, working with Alexi Laiho and the possible future.
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