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!
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…
Finnish prog metal band Wheel came to present their new release ‘Moving Backwards’ live and showed us the greatness that they bring forth musically! Check out the pictures!
Arch Enemy came to Helsinki to showcase their latest album “Will to Power” and brought with them Ukrainian powerhouse Jinjer!
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.
Wheel brings you a sound that is very much inspired by Tool, but with a great personality and great songwriting skills!
In need of some technically typically djent. These French dudes from Kadinja are bringing us some technically djent that can compete with their bigger brothers in the genre.
Soen takes us on a progressive ride with music that has their signature sound all over!
It’s predictable that The Wake is unpredictable, Voivod steers it spacecraft through a tangled, tantalizing storyline, woven into the most maze-like, edge-of-your-seat musical experience the band have embarked upon since those heady days of the late ‘80s.
The Canadian mad scientist Devin Townsend celebrates the 20th anniversary with a very nice DVD/Blu Ray at the Ancient Roman Theatre in Plovdiv supported by the State Opera Orchestra!
With this 2cd – 2DVD set Haken spoils their fans before letting loose Vector, the new awaited album. Enjoy the gig they played in Amsterdam last year or their appearance on ProgPower, or why not, just enjoy some official videos. Enough stuff to not get bored out there !!!
With all the celebration around the 20th anniversary of Emperor’s magnum opus ‘ Anthems of the Welkins at Dusk’ you might almost be forgiven for forgetting that Ihsahn has been running a very successful solo career for more than a decade.
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