A couple of friends of the site are bringing something quite new to Finland with Ankea Festival, to take place next summer in Tampere, giving a space for music that isn’t as much represented at festivals overall with a focus on alternative rock and progressive metal! The first dozen of names confirmed is already pretty impressive with Ihsahn, God Is An Astronaut, Oranssi Pazuzu, Kaelan Mikla, Green Carnation, Circle, A.A. Williams, Bruce Soord, Earthside, Ihlo, Vermilia and Virta!
Czech festival Brutal Assault announced 10 more names for the already absolutely stacked 2022 line-up!
Oranssi Pazuzu has a full slab of cosmic psychedelia ready for this world again and will be sharing it through Nuclear Blast later this year!
Finnish Vesperith announced the release date of her much anticipated cosmic debut album!
Vesperith announces to be releasing her mind-bending debut album via Svart Records!
2 highly interesting Finnish bands merged into a new entity that will bring a captivating release out in this world in 2019!
Headliners & some other awesomeness
Go see what’s new and on what days what bands play!
Tuska goes extreme with 3 more new names!
The final day of Tolminator hit hard! From Milking the Goatmachine and Psycroptic to Hellripper, D.R.I., Oranssi Pazuzu and Ministry, the Tolminator Stage went out with a bang!
The Obscure and Octagon stages delivered some of the most intense sets of Day 1 at Brutal Assault 2025. From the triumphant return of 3 Inches of Blood to the symphonic fury of Fleshgod Apocalypse, the crushing weight of Inter Arma, the haunting doom of Frayle, the occult darkness of Ruïm, and the mind-bending chaos of Oranssi Pazuzu, it was truely a journey through the extremes of heavy music!
Pictures of the 2nd day of Tuska 2023 with Oranssi Pazuzu, Reckless Love, VLTIMAS, Stam1na, Blind Channel, Amorphis, Baroness and Mercyful Fate.
An extensive collection of pictures of a unique event at a historical site with highly interesting and often almost magical bands!
The pictures of a weekend of celebrations and discoveries at the 20th anniversary of Tuska Open Air!
Brutal Assault 2025 – Day 1 set the fortress ablaze right from the start. From 3 Inches of Blood, Skálmöld and Fleshgod Apocalypse to the chaos of Inter Arma, the industrial punch of Static-X, and the psychedelic darkness of Oranssi Pazuzu, the first day was packed with highlights. Add in Frayle, Dying Fetus, Ruïm, Kerry King and Rotting Christ, and it was a perfect start of this year’s edition!
The 2nd day brought us massive shows of Oranssi Pazuzu, Reckless Love, Vltimas, Stam1na, Blind Channel, Amorphis, Baroness and Mercyless Fate!
We had a blast in Barcelona with the Be Prog! My Friend festival edition 2018. Discover how our reporter has conquered the sun, the heat, the beautiful women and of course the music !!!
We got the opportunity to take part in a unique event at a historical site with music and tons of other activities. The highly interesting and often almost magical bands helped celebrating viking history, paganism and the beauty of nature.
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…
Tolminator is already a quite unique and exceptional experience on its own, but they always seem to keep a keen eye on the scenes of different countries and know to pic some of the most promising acts for their line-ups. And this year, we get to welcome our friends of Marche Funèbre, Mordkaul and Brutal Sphincter to be part of the “Belgian Invasion”, but also 2 stellar acts from Finland with melodeath icons Omnium Gatherum and psychedelic black metal collective Oranssi Pazuzu!
Brutal Assault is a proper celebration of everything that is metal and/or extreme and there is something great to be found at any time of the day! We picked out 8 bands that you should go see on the first day of this year’s edition, with Frayle, RUÏM, Orange Goblin, Crystal Lake, Oranssi Pazuzu, 3 Inches of Blood, Sigh, and Brutally Deceased, because they’ll be more than worth your time!
As every year, we put the heads together of our editorial team to decide on our collective “Albums of the Year”, check it out!
An album of the year 2020 list heavily populated with Finnish bands and a mix of several genres, coming from our senior publisher.
Psychedelic, experimental sounds are not an unfamiliar sight in Davinci’s top list of 2020. Go on a discovery into weird realms…
2017 was again a massive year for music of all makes, I’ve done my best to narrow it down to the 10 releases that suck with me the most the past year…
Tuska is finally back again! The Helsinki center metal and rock festival is shaping up to be quite the epic and glorious return!
