The iconic Slash announced his highly anticipated sixth solo album ‘Orgy of the Damned, set for release in May via Gibson Records, and filled with blues classics and special guests! With the announcement comes a first single with the Howlin’ Wolf blues standard ‘Killing Floor’, featuring Brian Johnson of AC/DC on vocals and Steven Tyler of Aerosmith on harmonica!
Pearl Jam announced their 12th studio album ‘Dark Matter’ to be released in April on Monkeywrench Records and Republic Records, followed by a massive world tour!
Hardy releases a banger of a country rock single with ‘Rockstar’, a tongue-in-cheek track paying homage to iconic rock bands with a great video, released via Big Loud Records / Big Loud Rock!
North Sea Echoes, the new project featuring Fates Warning members Ray Alder and Jim Matheos, have dropped the new single ‘Unmoved’, from their upcoming debut album ‘Really Good Terrible Things’ set for release later this month via Metal Blade Records.
Manchester icons Liam Gallagher and John Squire announced their debut album to be released in March via Warner Music and shared a second single with ‘Mars To Liverpool’!
Indomitable Australian rockers The Neptune Power Federation are returning with their 6th album ‘Goodnight My Children’, set for release in March via Cruz Del Sur Music and shared the video single ‘Let Us Begin’!
Post-modern rock outfit The Missing Peace shared their new single ‘Fireworks’ as one of the first tracks of the new music they recently recorded! Fans of bands like Turnstile or Deftones may want to check this out!
The Rolling Stones and Mercury Studios are proud to be releasing ‘The Rolling Stones Live At The Wiltern’ on March 8, arguably one of their best shows ever with a focus on tracks that weren’t played live on a regular basis!
Get your yearly fix of ‘Last Christmas’ without getting “Whammed” with the rock take by Felicity of the Christmas classic, released via Zodhiac Records!
American NWOCR band Hearts & Hand Grenades meld rock, country, hip hop and pop in their new single ‘I Just Want My Rock’, another track from their upcoming album ‘Where I Begin’, set for release on January 26 via Eclipse Records!
Sami Yaffa has worn multiple hats in various different bands such as Hanoi Rocks, Pelle Miljoona OY, New York Dolls, The Hellacopters, just to name a few but now in his 60s he is still going stronger than ever! This legendary bassist just released his second solo album in his illustrious career titled “Satan’s Helpers, Warlazer Eyes & The Money Pig Circus” and brought the album in its entirety to a packed Tavastia in Helsinki!
John J. Presley proved at Backstage in Munich that darkness can be beautiful with his blues rock project, what turned out to be a quite intimate, almost private show for those who came out to enjoy the music!
In honour of their latest album, Everwave played a “big band” show at Tampere’s Hönö Baari last weekend together with Golden Rot and Paha kurki.
Our recently joined photographer Lindy is excited to see what 2024 is going to bring for her, but for now, let’s have a look back at some of her favorite pictures she took in 2023 at shows from bands like Across the White Water Tower, Alesana, Autopsy Affair, Brand of Sacrifice, Currents, Emmure, Greyhaven, Knuckle Puck, Magg Dylan, Magnolia Parl, Midnight Threat, Norma Jean, Origami Angel, Pink Shift, Saliva, See You Space Cowboy, Silverstein, Sweet Pill, The Contactees, The SoapGirls, Virginia, and We Came As Romans!
It has become a true tradition that DIE HAPPY plays some warm-up gigs at the end of December for the shows or tours of the following years. In this round, it’s the ‘Pre-Anniversary Shows 2023’, preparing for the upcoming anniversary tour in 2024, celebrating their 30th anniversary as a band. Support came from Templemind at their stop in Stuttgart’s Im Wizemann in Germany!
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!
Extreme was on tour throughout Europe to present us their brand-new album “Six” and brought The Last Internationale with them as a support act. We caught their high energy shows at their stop at Trix in Antwerp, Belgium!
The last Wednesday night of November at The Clyde Theatre in Fort Wayne, Indiana was definitely NOT a “Nightmare” or a cause for “Panic” for fans anxiously waiting to catch a stop on the “Blackout Tour” with From Ashes to New, The Word Alive, Catch Your Breath and Ekoh!
We had a great time catching Poets of the Fall on the last stop of their 20th anniversary tour, at Tampere’s Pakkahuone venue on December 1st!
Black Stone Cherry fans flocked to Piere’s in Fort Wayne, Indiana for a night of good rocking out! And not only BSC blew us away, the support from Giovannie & The Hired Guns and Jigsaw Youth was amazing!
We sat down with the Finnish rockers of The Empire Strikes to have a chat about their new album ‘Motell Scandinavia’, how come it took so long to get it out, what the idea is behind the title and some nice background bits about how some of the songs came together! Catch them live at their release show in Helsinki tonight or Spain and Germany later this year!
A good week ago at Rockfest 2023, shortly before his set at the festival, we met up with Finnish rock ‘n’ roll icon Michael Monroe, where he talked candidly about meeting Vince Neil for the first time, reconnecting with Nikki Sixx, an upcoming Michael Monroe album, the documentary about his life that is coming really soon now, the recent Lords Of The New Church reunion show and more!
Watch the chat we had with the lovely people of Brunhilde about their infections rock music and latest full-length release ‘To Cut A Long Story Short’!
Watch the interview we had with the people from the up-and-coming Finnish alternative rock band Luna Kills about the band, their music and the new album!
A chat with the Finnish trio that is the indie punk/rock outfit called Messier about their debut album, music and signing to the LA based label SideOneDummy
A video of the chat we had with Ero and Nile of the new Finnish alternative rock outfit St. Aurora about their music and upcoming debut EP ‘They All Remember’!
A chat with brand new vocalist Mike Rivkees of The Rumjacks about their album ‘Hestia’ and more…
A chat with Pekka from Brother Firetribe about their upcoming new album “Feel The Burn” and doing things a bit different this time.
A Skype interview with Rob Martin from RRRags about their upcoming new album and “feel good” heavy rock perfect for a Summer roadtrip!
A video interview with vocalist Arde from Temple Balls about touring with Sonata Arctica and the upcoming tour with Shiraz Lane and Block Buster.
