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!
The galaxy’s favorite metal band Galactic Empire announced their new album ‘Cinemetal’ for release in October via Pure Noise Records and shared the single ‘Superman’!
Green Carnation is setting sail on an epic voyage with ‘The Shores of Melancholia’, the start of the first part of their ‘A Dark Poem’ trilogy, set for release in September via Season of Mist, and share a first taste with the single ‘In Your Paradise’!
Prog titans Dream Theater released new song and video ‘Midnight Messiah’ about 2 weeks ahead of the official release of their new album ‘Parasomnia’, out via Inside Out Music/Sony Music!
The prog rockers of Velocranes shared the official video for their single ‘Afterlife Pt. 2’ from their album ‘What If I Die’! Fans of Porcupine Tree, Riverside and Pain of Salvation might want to check this out!
For the prog fans under us who somehow missed this exciting news… Wheel is back with their third studio album ‘Charismatic Leaders’ in May via InsideOutMusic and launched a first single with ‘Empire’ a while ago!
Norway’s avant-garde/post-metal outfit Madder Mortem announce their new album ‘Old Eyes, New Heart’ set for release early 2024 via Dark Essence Records and share a first single/video with ‘Towers’!
New prog metal sensation and supergroup TEMIC announced the first details of their debut album ‘Terror Management Theory’ (set for release in November via Season of Mist) and shared a first single with ‘Count Your Losses’!
Einar Solberg, frontman of Leprous, announced the release of his debut solo album ’16’ in June via InsideOut Music and shared a first track with ‘Grotto’ featuring Magnus Børmark!
Emerging progressive doom band The Abbey unveiled their 2nd single ‘Widow’s Will’ and opened the pre-sales for the upcoming debut album ‘Word of Sin’, set for release in February via Season of Mist!
Katatonia’s thirteenth album ‘Nightmares as Extensions of the Waking State’ picks up where ‘Sky Void of Stars’ left off after the departure of Anders Nyström and sounds both very familiar with a few gems and a curveball tucked away at the end . Out on Napalm records.
Italy’s prog death metal quartet Bedsore paints an obscure and mystical tapestry in the sophomore album “Dreaming the Strife for Love”. The music delves deeper into the dark spectrum of prog rock and death metal. Out now via 20 Buck Spin since November 29.
Out of this world musicianship, a journey through musical subgenres delivered with a groovy sauce on top of it. Parrhesia of Animals As Leaders has it all.
Pure Voivod, that is what ‘Syncro Anarchy’ is all about. Dark, wacky songs. This sonic monster takes you on an unusual ride.
After last year’s impressive fictional compilation album “Killection”, Lordi is back with an even more mind-blowing release as they unleash a back catalogue of 7 albums with “Lordiversity”!
Great rock by the talented guys from Beyond The Labyrinth, both seated in history and contemporary sounds!
With Vengeance, Twelve Foot Ninja continues to build on their path to becoming one of the more crazy hard-to-define bands within the metal genre.
With seemingly effortless vocal transitions and musicianship that surprises at every turn, Jinjer is back with the new heavy album “Wallflowers”!
Liquid Tension Experiment 3 delivers once again what they are known for. Super music food for the more nerdy musical progressive lovers out there.
Rise Radiant is the Caligula’s Horse sound pushed to its extremes: at once its most ferocious and its most touching, its most expansive and its most condensed, its most poetic and its most vicious. A mist have for the prog rockers deep inside of us.
After the break of last year, Rockfest is back with a vengeance and a solid line-up that will rock your world for about 3 days at the new location in Turku, Finland!
Rockfest is back with a vengeance and a solid line-up that will rock your world for about 3 days in Hyvinkää, Finland!
Be Prog My Friend 2018 has done it once again. An outstanding line-up who brings you the best of the past and current progressive metal scene. Check it out !!
The third edition of Dynamo Metalfest will bring a combination of thrash and progressive metal to Eindhoven for all of you to rock out to in a hopefully blistering sun!
Back in 2023, when Leprous was last in Helsinki, we met up with Simen from Leprous to have a fun chat about touring, his highlights when being on tour and supporting your local live and cultural scene!
Since they’re playing in Finland again this coming week, we wanted to share this fun little bit from our archives, so enjoy and don’t miss out on their shows!
An old chat with Olly and Mike from Monuments we dug up from our archives because it was just too much fun to keep it from you!
A chat with the Finnish progressive outfit Wheel about their upcoming sophomore full-length ‘Resident Human’!
The video of the talk we had with Wheel about their quick rise in 2019, some of their highlights of the year and what they think of the new Tool album…
A short talk with Scott about Alex leaving the band, writing music and touring in Europe!
