Tuska just delivered an early Christmas gift by confirming 13 more names for the 2026 lineup with acts like Pain, D-A-D, Gatecreeper, The Funeral Portrait, aurorawave and of course a bunch of Finnish names again like Swallow The Sun, Survivors Zero, Kallomäki and more!
Finnish metal festival institution Nummirock is celebrating its 40th anniversary in 2026 and announced the first 12 names with Satyricon, Moonsorrow, Rise of the Northstar, Omnium Gatherum (also celebrating their anniversary), Immortal Disfigurement, Uada, and more!
Finnish folk metal icons Ensiferum released their latest new album ‘Winter Storm’ via Metal Blade Records a week ago, and now unveiled a video for the track ‘Fatherland’! Catch them live in December with Swallow The Sun in Finland, or in Europe and North America in 2025!
Finnish masters of melancholy Swallow The Sun unveiled yet another single of their upcoming album ‘Shining’ last week with ‘MelancHoly’! Mark October 18th in your calendar for the official release of the album via Century Media Records!
Finnish doom/death metal act Grain Of Pain released its debut full-length album ‘The Moon Lights The Way’ via Noble Demon last Friday, and celebrates with a captivating video for opening track ‘Beneath’!
Finnish outfit Octoploid, bassist Olli-Pekka “Oppu” Laine’s latest new project shared the single & video for ‘The Dawns In Nothingness’, the opening track of upcoming album ‘Beyond The Aeons’, set for release in July via Reigning Phoenix Music!
Dark folk artist Kati Rán signs with Svart Records to release her new full-length album ‘SÁLA’ in May!
Swallow the Sun announced to have recorded a new album that will be released in November via Century Media, read all about ‘Moonflowers’ here!
Finnish super group Mercury Circle released yet another song from their upcoming ‘Killing Moons’ album with ‘Black Mirrors’! Check it out!
Finnish “new doom” outfit Mercury Circle shared the first single of their upcoming debut full-length! Check it out for some gorgeous music!
Swallow The Sun’s ninth studio album “Shining” mixes all the elements and ingredients of their recent works together, displaying the shifting tides of heaviness and a melodramatic style of gothic doom into again a milestone of excellence for the Finns, out tomorrow via Century Media Records.
Swallow The Sun on the eighth album upholds the definite tone of melancholy that showcase luxurious and spaciously rich the melodies of melodic doom metal.
The already great doom outfit Clouds gathered some guest vocalists to raise the bar for this year’s doom metal releases, even in all the sadness and sorrow there’s always a silver lining to be found…
Insomnium is taking you away on a viking group’s voyage towards doom and damnation…
Pictures of the first day of Hellsinki Metal Festival 2024 with on stage 3 shows from Swallow The Sun, Soen, Obscura, and Massacre!
Day 2 of Tuhdimmat Tahdit was just as hot. Carnival Academy, Heavy Metal Perse, Antony Parviainen Trio, Turmion Kätilöt, Metalite, Wolfheart, Shereign, Before the Dawn, Brymir, Mokoma, Swallow the Sun and lastly Battle Beast. Master Events gave us a festival that is certainly worth coming back to.
The co-headline tour of Swallow the Sun and Draconian dropped by Het Entrepot in Bruges with warm-up act Shores of Null to deliver us a healthy dose of doom and gloom!
At the end of May, Swallow the Sun finally came to Tampere on their Moonflower tour. With support of Edge of Haze and Kaunis Koulematon, they gave us a really nice evening at the famous Tullikameri Pakkahuone venue.
Pictures of the first day of Finland’s SaariHelvetti festival held in Tampere in 2021! With a whole slab of quality Finnish metal bands from start to finish!
