Ukrainian stoner rock outfit Stoned Jesus signed with Season of Mist for their upcoming new album!
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Kapitur released an impressive cover, including the use of a cello, of Sepultura’s “Roots Bloody Roots”!
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Technical prog band Obsidious released another single of their upcoming debut album with ‘Under Black Skies’!
Instrumental proggers of Animals As Leaders released another track from their upcoming album ‘Parrhesia’!
French prog metal outfit Tranzat unleashed the video for “Lord Dranula”, a track from their upcoming new album “Ouh La La”!
Progressive metalcore outfit ONI is back with a brand new track ‘The Lie’, the first of their upcoming new full-length!
In anticipation of the release of their new album ‘Halo’, Amorphis’ vocalist Tomi Joutsen talks about the vocals and lyrics in a new docu episode!
The Russian prog rockers of Velcrocranes signed to InsideOutMusic for the release of their debut album ‘What If I Die’!
New Finnish festival Hellsinki Metal Horizons added 7 more names to what promises to be a mind-bending experience!
Montreal’s extremists Fall of Stasis unleash another track from their upcoming album ‘The Chronophagist’ with ‘Baal Arise’!
Previews
Rockfest is back with a vengeance and a solid line-up that will rock your world for about 3 days in Hyvinkää, Finland!
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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!
Album Reviews
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.
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Pure Voivod, that is what ‘Syncro Anarchy’ is all about. Dark, wacky songs. This sonic monster takes you on an unusual ride.
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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.
With Virus, Haken created once again a very enjoyable progressive album with a conceptually link to Vector.
With Nero Di Marte’s Immoto, a swift blend of theatrical vocals, spoken word and grunts, dissonant filth and melodic pieces, post / progressive / avant-garde / dissonant / black / death / atmospheric metal in a clean and polished package is served.
Photo Reports
Danish prog outfit VOLA came to a stage nearby to play their new music and brought along their friends of Port Noir and Atlas!
Igorrr is on tour in Europe and the USA. We were there on their show in Lille, France.
Pictures of one of the 30th anniversary shows by Amorphis, a great trip back into time with one of Finland’s top bands!
The pictures of the first day of SaariHelvetti, one of the only festivals in Finland during the summer of 2020! Check it out!
Finally! The Belgian lock down period is over and little by little we’re able to attend gigs again. be it small ones, but it’s something… My first show sure was something though!
Pictures of a proggy night in Helsinki with Monuments, Heart of a Coward and I Built The Sky! Check it out!
Opeth came to amaze us in Helsinki with a progressive show that had heaps of atmosphere and chill vibes. Not a bad way to spend your Wednesday night! See the pics here!
What a way to close Nosturi down! The Best Tour Ever Part 1 brought some of the best bands of the Finnish scene to the stage one more time to blow the roof off! The proof is in the pictures…
Pictures of the last show of Children of Bodom the way as we know it…
The prog masters of Soen made a visit to Helsinki, bringing 2 great bands along under the form of Wheel and The Price! And we were there, here are the pics…
Lists
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!
March is one hell of a month! Yet again tons of releases to pick from, so here is a small selection again of what we highly recommend and is most anticipated for us!
February 2022 is yet again brimming with great releases, here’s a small selection of our most anticipated ones!
Putting all the favorites of our team of writers and photographers together, we’ve come to a really diverse and interesting overall AOTY list!
An albums of the year 2021 list with no compromises and a couple of real surprises!
First month of 2022 and there are already a bunch of really cool releases coming! Check out our 13 most anticipated releases of the month!
Oktober has many releases again that are some of the most anticipated of the year within our editorial team! Check out the wide range of awesome albums!
August proves to be a highly exciting and surprisingly full month for new releases! Here is a small selection of those that are most anticipated by our editorial staff!
Our 9 most anticipated releases of the first half of the month March of 2021… get ready for some real good music coming your way!
As every year, we put the heads together of our editorial team to decide on our collective “Albums of the Year”, check it out!
