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Finnish death metal outfit Soul Incursion shares the first single and title track of their upcoming EP ‘Eternal Darkness’, set for release next week on December 15!

A couple of days ago, Tuska announced a 2nd batch of confirmed names for the 2024 edition, and they got us even more excited about next summer! With Bad Omens, Zeal & Ardor, Tarot, Sonata Arctica, Warmen, Annisokay, Solence, Beyond The Black, Ankor, Rytmihäiriö, and I Am The Night! Go get your tickets now!

Hellsinki Metal Festival, the most exciting new player in the Finnish summer festival season this year, is throwing down the gauntlet with a really exciting first batch of announcements for next year’s edition!

Helsinki-based progressive metal outfit Egres released a new, explosive single ‘Higher Beings’ via Inverse Records, possibly offering a glimpse of their future direction.

Finnish noisemongers Goatburner shared an unsettling video for ‘Dismemberment’, the latest single of their upcoming album ‘Fatal’, set for release next week via Time To Kill Records!

Finnish death metal outfit Disguised Malignance shared their new single ‘Unearthly Extinction’, from their debut album ‘Entering the Gateways’, set for release via Prosthetic Records at the end of this month!

Tuska unleashed the first batch of bands for the 2024 line-up and it seems they put their chips strongly on modern metal/metalcore with Bring Me The Horizon, Bloodred Hourglass, Bury Tomorrow, Make Them Suffer, Infected Rain and Fixation, proggy music with Opeth, Vola, Voyager and Riverside, and power metal with Alestorm, Angus McSix and Brothers Of Metal. And of course, festival regulars Amorphis and Stam1na belong to the party as well!

What do you think of the line-up already? Who do you hope to be added still?

Finnish death metal band Disguised Malignance shared a new single and music video, ‘Confined’, from upcoming debut album ‘Entering the Gateways’, set for release in September via Prosthetic Records.

Helsinki, Finland’s Disguised Malignance signed to Prosthetic Records to release their debut album ‘Entering the Gateways’ and shared a first single with ‘Malignant Visions’!

Helsinki-based doom metal outfit God Disease unleashed the new track ‘Built By Dead Hands’, a track from the upcoming album ‘Apocalyptic Doom’ to be released next month via Gruesome Records!

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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.

Hellsinki Metal Festival is becoming a permanent fixture in the Finnish summer festival landscape, and after 2 successful editions, the organisation decided they didn’t want to wait for another year. In comes a smaller winter edition of the main event about halfway December 2024, bringing amazing extreme metal bands together like Omnivortex, Batushka, Belphegor and headliners Dark Funeral!

They’re celebrating a quarter of a century long career this year, but last November we still caught Comeback Kid in Helsinki while on tour through Scandinavia and Europe! A real bombshell of a hardcore music night with amazing support bands Spaced and Prowl warming up the crowd!

Finnish metal institution Wolfheart decided to wrap up their year with one last show at On The Rocks in Helsinki, and with them they brought the melodeath talents Swansong and Scythe of Sorrow to warm the crowd up for a great night of Finnish metal! An event by Nahka Agency!

Finland’s band of misfits King Satan released their latest album ‘The Devil’s Evangelion’ via Noble Demon, and such an epic album deserves a proper release tour of course. With them, they brought their friends of the dark elektro duo Miseria Ultima to open the night, and doomy outfit The Abbey as direct support at the Helsinki stop. An excellent night of great music and friends, and with all bands in absolute top form!

On the back of the release of their latest album ‘Friend of a Phantom’, VOLA embarked on an extensive European tour and dropped by Vanha Ylioppilastalo in Helsinki, Finland in November to repeat the amazing performance they had at Tuska this past summer! With them, they brought the ever enchanting Charlotte Wessels and Feather Mountains. An event by TuskaLive.

Pictures of the “Rise from the North” tour striking down in Helsinki, Finland with In Flames, Arch Enemy and Soilwork bringing some of the best the world of melodic death metal has to offer!

Within Temptation dropped by in Helsinki on their “Bleed Out tour 2024” that is taking over arenas all over Europe and treated us to a visual and musical spectacle like only they can deliver. With them they brought guest artists to do some songs with them and support band Annisokay!

The pictures of an amazing night with the headlining show from Future Palace at On The Rocks in Helsinki, with the support from Our Promise and Revnoir!

Pictures of the captivating performances of Noiduin, Kallomäki, Valkeat, the fire ritual and several dark fusion dance groups at this year’s Pakanafestarit in Finland!

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