News Posts

New Finnish black metal project Night Shall Drape Us, featuring members of Horna and Behexen, signed with Season of Mist for the release of their debut album somewhere in 2024!

Finnish black metal outfit Chamber of Unlight is releasing its highly anticipated debut album ‘Realm of the Night’ via Werewolf Records in August!

Finnish black metal veterans of Horna premiere a second track from their upcoming much anticipated new album!

Black metal legends Horna return with a new record at last. Check out ‘Saatanan Viha’ off the highly anticipated ‘Kuoleman Kirio’.

A new Luciferian entity has arisen from the murky Finnish waters under the form of Bythos! Check it out!

The Finnish festival Steelfest Open Air can be seen as one of the most renowned underground metal festivals in Europe with every year people coming down to the small city of Hyvinkää from all over the world. They also manage to offer us the best from the black, death and doom metal world every single […]

Photo Reports

Year 2023 is closing out and we at GRIMM have our sights set for next year and all the amazing shows and festivals coming up, but before that, let’s look into this past year in photos once again with a selection of Emerik’s favorite pictures, going from extreme and underground, to legendary bands like Nocturnal Sorcery, Horna, Nunslaughter, Merrimack, Pensées Nocturnes, Sex Messiah, Kalmankantaja, VV, Sick Of It All, Lordi, Michael Monroe, The Hellacopters, Possessed, The Mission, Lorna Shore, Kuvotus, Ingested, Voivod, Sodom, Watain, Burst, Full Of Hell, Demolition 23, and Brujeria!

On Ascension day, Steelfest XI brought a great collection of stellar underground bands to the festival’s indoor stage with Coraxul, Nattverd, Hail Conjurer, Sacrilegious Impalement, The Committee, Horna and Marduk on the first day of the 3-day fest!

Steelchaos day 2 was yet another spectacle, both musically and visually, with shows from Chevalier, Horna, Cadaveric Incubator, Torture Killer, Lord Fist and the epic “Black Metal” anniversary celebration by Venom Inc.!

Pictures of the 1st day of celebration of the dark, obscure and extreme at the 10th anniversary edition of Steelfest!

Pictures of the second day of underground music at the SteelHordes event in Hyvinkää, Finland!

The pictures of the first day of death and black metal at Steelfest 2019!

A showcase of real Finnish black metal to chase away some of that dreadful sun and Summer…

Festival Reports

Steelfest XI was the first time to be a full 3-day event, and the first day was killer with bands like Coraxul, Azazel, Nattverd, Utuk Xul, Hail Conjurer, Nocturnal Sorcery, Sacrilegious Impalement, Loits, The Committee, Pest, Horna, Deströyer 666 and Marduk!

Steelchaos day two was clearly the main day for many people as it clearly drew the biggest crowd with a fantastic lineup from old school heavy metal from Chevalier and Lord Fist to skull crushing death metal from Cadaveric Incubator and Torture Killer and to good ol’ Finnish black metal from Horna. And of course the much anticipated anniversary show by Venom Inc. celebrating the 40th anniversary of the classic ‘Black Metal’ album!

The 1st day of the 10th anniversary edition of Steelfest brought us Trve Kvlt music, Finnish black metal legends and international acts with an intensity that was immense, and was only the beginning of a massive 3 days of this that was to come still…

The second day of SteelHordes 2021 was every bit as impressive and cathartic as the earlier day with stellar acts from the Finnish underground!

First day of Steelfest brought one after the other high quality black and death metal band!

Previews

In about 3 weeks, the eleventh edition of Steelfest will take place in Hyvinkää, Finland and they have yet again a very impressive line-up at this 3-day celebration of the underground!

After 2 years of delays, Steelfest is taking out all the stops with 4 days of underground metal madness in a celebration of their 10th anniversary!

SteelChaos 2020 will bring the Finnish black metal storm to the stage and this is why you can’t miss out on this…

Soon it’s that time of the year again we’ve been looking forward to: Steelfest Open Air opens its doors and starts the Finnish festival season. The second edition of SteelChaos satisfied our needs somewhat (for our report go here) and we recently got the little Easter treat from the organisation under the form of Watain […]

Sargeist unexpectedly dropped a new album, and they’re showing it off in Roeselare this Sunday. They’ll have some genuine black metal acts with them, in the form of Chaos Invocation and Acrimonious!

Lists

Finnish festival Steelfest is a true celebration of the underground, but it you’re not convinced yet, here are some reasons why you should go

Maxen delivers us the best of the extreme side of metal year after year and with his albums of the year 2020 it’s no different!