Khroma shared their first new single ‘Catch The Whip’ from their upcoming 4th album that is set for release in autumn!
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News Posts
At the moment Max Cavalera is still hitting up festivals and cities in Europe with Soulfly, but in August, he’ll be taking over the European festival circuit with the legendary activist band Nailbomb, dropping by Wacken, Alcatraz and Dynamo festival just to name a few!
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Dymytry Paradox is preparing to return to play their most intense headlining tour yet in Europe, Born From Chaos, in 2026! Don’t miss out, because this is going to be a riot!
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Burton C. Bell releases the new single and lyric video ‘Savages’, just in time for his tour in Australia to start in a bit over a week!
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Swedish movie metal act Curse Of Cain unleashed a video for the title track of their upcoming album ‘Achtung!’, set for release in September via ROAR!
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Finnish industrial metal maniacs King Satan released a brand new live video for the track ‘The Carnivalesque of Dark and Light’, featuring Chris Eggvn! Taken from their latest album ‘The Devil’s Evengelion’, released last year via Noble Demon!
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Tampere, Finland-based festival Tuhdimmat Tahdit completed the 2025 line-up with the addition of legendary power metal band Blind Guardian as headliner for the Saturday, plus Amaranthe, Lordi, Michael Monroe, Turmion Kätilöt, Moon Shot and Black Devils! Get your tickets now!
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Last week, we got some great news to wrap up our week with the Tuska 2025 line-up being completed by the addition of Motionless In White, Knocked Loose, Mokoma, Turmion Kätilöt, Imminence, Jiluka, Jarkko Martikainen and Vähäkyrö Drive-By! Time to get those tickets!
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The Duke of Spook is back with new music! Wednesday 13 unleashed the first single ‘When The Devil Commands’ last week, from the upcoming new album ‘Mid Death Crisis’, set for release in April via Napalm Records! We can’t wait to see him on stage at Alcatraz this summer!
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About a year-and-a-half ago, Gothminister blew us away with their live show at our venue Asgaard, and now they’re set out to embark on the “We Come Alive” tour through Europe in March!
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Festival Reports
GRIMM was present at Hellfest 2019, to enjoy some great shows and report on how of an amazing experience it was, yet again!
Yet another day of discovering new talent and enjoying timeless classics. Top that with a RATM after party, and you’ve got yourself a fine second full day at Graspop Metal Meeting 2019.
A brand new festival in Helsinki, Finland that puts the focus on the industrial/electronic side of the alternative music scene, read the report here!
Festival review of Amphi Festival 2018. On 28 and 29 July, Cologne’s Tanzbrunnen became a haven for EBM / Industrial and Goth fans.
The 2018 edition of Dynamo Metalfest was again bull’s eye, the music, the bands, the people, the organisation, the weather. Read all about it !!!
Tuska 2017 promised to be a huge party for metal and rock lovers. With their 20th anniversary they geared up to make it one hell of a celebration…
It’s oh so quiet, it’s oh so hot…! This year’s edition was one of heat, historical events and many records!
A small, but great event with even greater bands from our local scene!
Photo Reports
We set the hard task for our photographers to choose the best 30 pictures that they have shot in 2023 out of possibly thousands of captures, and here is the result of Tom Treuten’s selection with Butcher Babies, Fateful Finality, Fear Factory, Thundermother, Hypocrisy, Spiritbox, Behemoth, Dog Eat Dog, The Cult, Skillet, Agnostic Front, Scorpions, May The Silence Fail, Cannibal Corpse, Ataraxy, Dark Funeral, Goldmann, Solstafir, Ingested, Antiheld, Lansdowne, Völkerball (Rammstein Tribute), Fettes Brot, Danko Jones, Royal Republic, Team Tot, and Mindead!
The year wrapping up means that we’ll be looking back at the amazing things we’ve experienced, and “album of the year” lists. We’d also like to give some attention to our talented concert photographers who go out and cover shows for us. So here is a first in a series of articles where our artists pick their favorite pictures of 2023 with Anna/ScarletMemory Photography who mostly roams around in Tampere, Finland and pictures from bands like Pain, Sólstafir, Eleine, Myrath, Battle Beast, Brymir, Sabaton, Mors Subita, Lordi, Metalite, Shereign, Diablo, Before The Dawn, Wolfheart, Sonata Arctica, Deathstars, Brother Firetribe, Psychework, Apocalyptica, Voidfallen, Poets of the Fall, Amorphis, Lost Society, and Everwave!
Welcoming events that try to bring something different and out of the norm to Finland, we went to the second night of the club festival Hellsinki Techfest with Sirkuit Preiker, Khroma, Balance Breach and Hacktivist back in September for some killer music and high energy!
Lord of the Lost wrapped up their year with a mini tour in Finland, that ended with a sold out gig at Olympia-kortteli in Tampere, with as support Rain Diary and Gothminister. An event by TuskaLive and Grey Beard Concerts & Management that served as the perfect last show in 2023 for our photographer!
The second night of John Smith Rock Frozen 2023 was pretty epic with some of the best of the Finnish scene with Red Eleven, Kiuas, Finntroll, Turmion Kätilöt and headliners Amorphis! Throw on top of that the Swedish up-and-comers of Orbit Culture, and you know it was good!
Close to the end of the year 2023 there was an event that has left headbangers around the world in ecstatic anticipation—the Fear Factory ‘DisrupTour 2023’. This monumental tour brings together a powerhouse line-up featuring the ferocious Butcher Babies, Ignea and Ghosts of Atlantis. As these bands join forces, they promise to deliver an unforgettable experience for metal enthusiasts, showcasing a diverse range of styles within the genre.
The cold came to Munich in the form of a package of Scandinavian bands, but Liv Sin, Priest and Deathstars managed to warm the souls of those present in the small Strom quickly after waiting in the cold and snow.
A hot and sweaty night in the Halle room of the Backstage club in Munich. Fear Factory are back in a big way, and they were joined by Butcher Babies, Ignea and Ghosts of Atlantis, bringing quite the package with the “Disruptour” all over Europe!
True Crime industrial rock band SKYND has been on tour in Europe for a while now, and we caught them performing live in the Trix club, in Antwerp, with Knife Bride as support!
Swedish industrial metal legends Pain are on tour throughout Europe right now, and we caught them at their stop at the Backstage venue in Munich, Germany. Bringing with them Finnish pagan metal giants Ensiferum, Swedish dark symphonic metallers Eleine and Japanese Ryujin, it was quite the night for heavy metal!
Lists
While we are still regularly looking back at what 2023 brought us, we of course also need to look forward. So here is the first edition of our 2024 series of articles where we bring the editorial team’s most anticipated releases with Escuela Grind, Green Day, The Empire Strikes, Saxon, Frank Carter & the Rattlesnakes, Static-X, The Gems, Lucifer, Manticora and Hiraes in January!
As the festival summer is quickly approaching, May sees many great releases yet again. Our team of writers put together a nice selection of those they are looking forward to the most this month with Deathstars, Cattle Decapitation, Veil Of Maya, The Dark Side Of The Moon, Ghost, Thulcandra, Frozen Soul, Sleep Token, Henget, Vomitory, Immortal, Kalmah and Legion Of The Damned!
2022 was yet again an exceptional year for music. After putting together the favorite releases of most of our members, we came to our editorial top featuring the latest releases from bands like Wolfheart, Muse, Ghost, Electric Callboy, Kreator, Malevolence, Heilung, Machine Head, Wiegedood, Psychonaut, Lorna Shore, Bad Omens, Sylvaine, Parkway Drive, Lamb Of God, Rammstein and Zeal & Ardor!
2023 starts off with quite the bang with new releases from VV, Anti-Flag, Imperium Dekadenz, Turmion Kätilöt, Katatonia, Kiberspassk, …and Oceans, Obituary, Suasion, Dropout Kings and Vėlių Namai!
Finland produces amazing music by the tons every year, and 2021 wasn’t any different. This is a selection of 12 releases by bands we believe might become big pretty soon!
12 of the albums we’re looking forward the most in June, there are more, but these are really at the top of our lists! Check it out!
