Miss Velvet has released her bold, cinematic ‘Triptych’ EP via Mother Ride Records, but not before unveiling her electrifying new single and video ‘Pistols At Dawn’!
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Finland’s largest rock festival Rockfest is back this summer at a new location, and has just before the weekend completed the line-up with the addition of Manic Street Preachers, D-A-D, Millencolin, H.E.A.T., Crownshift, Sara, Awake Again and Toivo-Olavi!
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Papa Roach kicked off their massive “Rise of the Roach tour” earlier this week, but not before they unleashed their latest single ‘Even If It Kills Me’, a track showing off their alternative rock roots that made them famous!
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London-based rock band on the rise The Molotovs signed with UK independent label Marshall Records to continue to bring their explosive rock music into this world, becoming part of the new generation of Marshall music!
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British rock icons Skunk Anansie released their brand-new single ‘An Artist Is An Artist’, their first new music in almost 3 years, out now via FLG! Catch them on their European and UK tours this spring!
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Swedish Captain Black Beard will decide ‘When It’s Over’ and that time is definitely not now! They just unleashed the single and music video for the upcoming album set for release via Mighty Music! Get ready for some “disco AOR”!
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Modern rock powerhouse Pop Evil shared the new, dark track ‘Wishful Thinking’, another single from their upcoming new album ‘What Remains’, set for release in March via MNRK Heavy!
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Finnish rock sensations Ginger Evil unveil their latest single ‘Black Waves’ in anticipation of the release of their debut album ‘The Way It Burns’ via Frontiers Music next month!
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Swedish rock royalty The Hellacopters shared a video for the new single ‘Do You Feel Normal’, another taste of their new album ‘Overdriver’, which is due out on January 31st via Nuclear Blast! Catch them live in the Nordic region and Germany shortly after or this summer at festivals like our yearly home away from home Alcatraz festival in Belgium!
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This past year has been amazing yet again with milestones being set on our site, Asgaard club and more. We want to thank all our supporters, partners and crew for 2024 and are looking to make it our mission in 2025 to lift our community and music scene to even bigger heights! Who’s in?
Gig Reports
What better to fill up a Saturday night than going to see some of the best local bands that Finland has to offer with The Empire Strikes and Temple Balls?
Swedish Fatboy set up shop in On The Rocks and turned Helsinki into a Southern American rockabilly hotspot!
Rock ‘n’ roll, good vibes and good music… Camu and his friends brought the house down!
The LA rap rockers of Crazy Town came to bring some of their Californian sun to Finland!
Before the full Rockfest madness kicked off, we got a night of quality rock music with Rainbow!
Rocking the Monday blues away with The Vintage Caravan and Black Mirrors!
A night of Swedish rock ‘n’ roll on a Finnish stage with Backyard Babies and Satan Takes A Holiday!
Enter Shikari is a band of extremes. They’ve switched back and forward between styles and genres and we witnessed their newest show. As It Is was there to warm up the crowd and delivered!
Twenty years. Two decades. Almost an entire generation. That’s how long long the Beglian rockers of Triggerfinger have been around. That calls for a celebration, right?
The Beast In Black is back ‘From Hell With Love’ and set the stage, venue and every single fan ablaze!
Photo Reports
THUNDERMOTHER’s ‘Dirty & Divine Tour 2025’ brought together an almost 100% female rock night. Together with COBRA SPELL and VULVARINE a great night of classic heavy and hard rock is traveling around Europe and we got to see them in Stuttgart on the first leg of the tour. The tour will go on with the second leg, kicking off on 21 March 2025. Get your tix soon, it might sell out fast.
This year’s “Motocultor across Europe Tour” kickoff show was at Poppodium 013 in Tilburg, The Netherlands, headlined by Moldovan favorite Infected Rain and support acts Semblant, Elyose, Miruthan, and Skin On Flesh!
Every year we like to look back at the amazing shows we captured, and in 2024 Anna/ScarletMemory Photography covered bands like Vola, Apulanta, Marko Hietala, Cyan Kicks, Stam1na, Kotiteollisuus, Blind Channel, Cyhra, Sigh, Everwave, Sonata Arctica, Neonfly, Altamullan Road, Avatar, Raskasta Joulua, Beatrix, Battle Beast, Steve ‘n’ Seagulls, Áilu Valle, Amoc and Trio Boogiemen mostly in Tampere, Finland!
The tradition at GrimmGent is for all photographers to set up our personal collection of our favourites. Always an illustrious collection, sometimes with shots that haven’t even been published here. This is my Tom Treuten selection of highlights in 2024.
With their 5th album ‘Attracted To Danger’, THE NEW ROSES are currently on tour in Europe. With MOONSHOT from Finland as the support act, the German rockers are thrilling the masses. At their gig in Stuttgart, we had the pleasure of witnessing this amazing rock performance.
Vola’s ‘Friend of a Phantom’ tour passed through Finland last week and hit Tampere’s Pakkahuone on Tuesday November 5th. It was a filled with emotion, not only from Vola, but also the support acts Feather Mountain and Charlotte Wessels. This almost overwhelming rollercoaster ride of emotions was brought to us by TuskaLive.
The last weekend of October, Apulanta played two glorious shows at Nokia Arena in Tampere, Finland in front of a huge crowd of fans, and joined by Lahtis Sinfonia Orchestra. A show that somehow felt simultaneously simplistic and very grand, with a well-thought-out light show and setlist featuring rarely played tracks live!
Smash Into Pieces were back in Finland a while back, and we got to see their show at Tampere’s Pakkahuone, where they played in front of a full house alongside Cyan Kicks. A wonderful night of good music and atmosphere, hosted by Live Nation Finland.
Time to celebrate 35 years of psychedelic stoner rock: we caught MONSTER MAGNET at one of their stops on their anniversary tour, bringing us together with support DAILY THOMPSON a night full of psychedelic infused Stoner-Rock at LKA Longhorn in Stuttgart, Germany! And they showed that they’re still an excellent live band and still the benchmark against which established and upcoming bands must measure themselves.
Between their festival summer dates in Europe, CLUTCH have given a few club shows called the “New World Samurai Tour 2024”. On one of the hottest days of German summer 2024 they turned up the heat some degrees more with an outstanding gig at Substage in Karlsruhe. Supported by Green Lung, a great night of blues and stoner infused rock and some notes of classic NWOBHM left a happy crowd.
Festival Reports
HVNK PNKRCK 3.0 came, grabbed us by the nuts and threw us into the fray of several steaming moshpits with energetic punk, hardcore and rock ‘n’ roll!
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…
It’s oh so quiet, it’s oh so hot…! This year’s edition was one of heat, historical events and many records!
The first edition of a festival that is aiming for the stars! With a lot of good but also a lot of bad happening…
On the last weekend of April 2017, Groezrock took place at Meerhout, a town located in Antwerp (Belgium). Like told before in the preview, the weather left us hanging a bit .. and so did traffic a little. But that didn’t keep all the Punkrock/Hardcore lovers at home. By the time I arrived on Friday, a […]
Grimm Gent took a trip South to explore the fourth edition of the Rock ‘n’ Roll Festival in Longwy, France.
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