The coalition of the Norwegian stoner punks of Bokassa and Greek stoner rockers of Planet of Zeus rocked the house seriously. On The Rocks Helsinki was the place to be and those who weren’t there missed out on some good fun!
Photo Reports
Pictures of the second day of brand new festival Desert HEL again filled with fuzz, groove and rock ‘n’ roll with some amazing bands!
Stoned Jesus brought one hell of a show to Magasin 4 and so did support Mothership and Elephant Tree. Check out the pics!
The smoky pictures of a night of doom, sludge and stoner at the Blowup vol. 4 Pre Festival Club!
Gig Reports
Bokassa and Planet of Zeus brought a bunch of stoner and attitude to On The Rocks Helsinki in the beginning of September, kicking off our weekend properly!
What a line-up! And what a night! Extreme music at its best.
One hell of an evening full of doom, sludge, stoner and hipsters at BlowUp vol.4 Pre Festival Club, with Dopelord, Zombie Eater and Tombstoned!
On the 3rd of January, long-haired stoners gathered at Kavka, Antwerp to see Karma To Burn play!
“Hey dude, how are you doing?”
– “WHAT?!”
“Err… HOW YOU DOIN’?!”
– ” CAN’T HEAR A THING MAN, I WENT TO SEE CONAN TWO WEEKS AGO AND IT WAS AWESOME!”
Previews
Sonic Rites 2022 delivers an eclectic mix of underground and intriguing acts from hardcore to post-metal to pagan folk and more!
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Desert Hel 2022, the first ever attempt to make Helsinki a desert city with the best of stoner/doom/desert rock and metal!
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An underground festival filled with doom, sludge, stoner and the likes in a musically hazy and dark weekend…
Brutal Assault 2018 promises to bring together all the great features of the metal subculture. Not only the best music each genre has to offer, but also our visual culture, respect for nature and love for decent beer and food.
Festival Reports
The second day of brand new festival Desert HEL, was another one filled with fuzz, groove and rock ‘n’ roll with some amazing bands!
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The first day of Desert HEL was filled with groovy and fuzzy rock ‘n’ roll vibes with some of the best the country has to offer in stoner and desert rock and metal!
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Lists
Once you go heavy, you never go back… Wouter’s albums of the year hold on to the good olden days of Heavy Metal!
A full year of incredible releases that we are trying to cram into a list of “albums of the year”, here we go again…
Interviews
Nick DiSalvo of Elder about their music: “Maybe it’s just the way I see it, but I feel the music world is still very compartmentalized. You can’t really go out and say “I’m in a rock band””
Since their latest album ‘Black Heaven’ sounds a lot different than the music they made before that, we had some burning questions for Earthless!
