New Miserable Experience, featuring an all-star cast picked from bands like Rosetta, Revocation, Model Prisoner and Rivers of Nihil, return with their new single ‘Payback from God’, a hard-hitting synth track out via Pelagic Records!
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News Posts
Dark coldwave artist and goth queen Suzi Sabotage is back with the new Finnish single and music video ‘Suden synty’, out via Out of Line Music!
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Synth rock enigma Zetra have returned with the dreamy, anthemic single ‘So’, the first new music since last year’s release of their debut album, out via Nuclear Blast.
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Synth-driven electronic rock duo The Defect released their new haunting single ‘Broken Minds’ with a mesmerizing video via FiXT!
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French synthwave sensation Carpenter Brut released his take on the Billy Idol classic ‘Eyes Without A Face’, featuring Krystoffer Rygg of Ulver, and part of the official soundtrack to Sumerian Comics’ ‘American Psycho’ comic book series!
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Kat Von D released her latest new dark synth pop single ‘Dead’, including an 80s style workout music video injected with her unique flavour, high fashion and gothic fervour!
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Otherworldly alt duo Zetra emerged from the shadows once more with the new track ‘Starfall’, featuring Svalbard’s Serena Cherry, and announced their self-titled debut album to be released in September via Nuclear Blast Records!
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Swedish dark synth wizards Priest unveiled their new single ‘Just a Game’, another track from their upcoming album ‘Dark Pulse’ set for release in May!
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New Finnish entity Haunted Plasma brings a powerhouse of futuristic synth in symbiosis with the super violent atmospherics of kosmische black metal on their debut album ‘I’, set for release in May via Svart Records! With a first single ‘Reverse Engineer’ out right now!
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Slasherwave outfit Gost unveils ‘Widow Song’, the latest single from their impending new full-length ‘Prophecy’, set for release in March via Metal Blade Records!
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Photo Reports
“Worlds Collide” when The Taste of Armageddon Tour hit Piere’s in Ft Wayne, Indiana and brought banging shows of Powerman5000, Ill Niño, Hed PE and Priest!
A couple of months ago, Elektrik Products satisfied our need for some good beats to dance to yet again by bringing the popular Swedes of Priest back to Helsinki for a crazy night at On The Rocks! And with them came the intense industrial duo Ambassador21, a special “old school electro” set of Freakangel and an opening show of Teknohirvi, the electro version of thrash outfit The Hirvi!
With mind-blowing energy and pure anticipation, Esprit D’air blew the roof off Northumbria University with Diamond Black supporting!
The cold came to Munich in the form of a package of Scandinavian bands, but Liv Sin, Priest and Deathstars managed to warm the souls of those present in the small Strom quickly after waiting in the cold and snow.
Pictures of a great Halloween night with Deathstars, Priest and King Satan at Tavastia in Helsinki, Finland!
After several times of rescheduling and years of waiting, Deathstars finally hit the stage of Olympia-Kortteli in Tampere on October 30th, together with Priest and King Satan on this event by TuskaLive and Grey Beard Concerts & Management.
Pictures of the performances of Pentagram, Burst, Priest, Déluge, Fit For An Autopsy and Watain on the indoor stage of Hellsinki Metal Festival!
Pictures of the second day of Hellsinki Industrial Festival 2022 with Ruoska, Antibody, Agonoize, Nestruction, Gothminister, Moris Blak and Centhron!
The mesmerizing nymphs of Kælan Mikla came back to Finland with their new album and support of label mate Kanga!
Pictures of a fantastic 2nd day at Hellsinki Industrial 2021 with Freak Injection, SynthAttack, State of the Union, Ashbury Heights and Covenant!
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The gates of Tuska 2025 are opening in about 4 hours, and the first day is going to be a blast with shows of Horizon Ignited, Blood Command, Knocked Loose, SKYND, Enemies Everywhere, Bambie Thug, Tyrantti and Bokassa that we believe you shouldn’t miss out on! What acts of today are you looking forward to the most?
The first Tuska 2023 day is here! In a handful of hours the gates will open and 3 days of heavy music will begin! Besides the headliners and some big names, we’ve picked out about 10 bands and artists we believe you should give a shot while you’re at Tuska this weekend with Vended, Kouta, Foreseen and Miseria Ultima today, A.A. Williams, Orbit Culture, Dirt and Nakkeknækker tomorrow, and Vermilia and URNE on Sunday!
The month of April brings us not only Spring in full bloom, but a long list of stellar releases. Here is a selection of those we’re looking forward to the most!
First month of 2022 and there are already a bunch of really cool releases coming! Check out our 13 most anticipated releases of the month!
A mix of doom & gloom, Americana, AOR and death metal… you can’t say that Samoth sticks to one genre only!
Album Reviews
Zetra ignites a sensational and haunting journey, taking the listener on a dark musical adventure on its debut self-titled full-length album. Out now via Nuclear Blast.
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Synth rock duo Zombi has crawled out of its grave once again for a ‘Direct Inject’ dose of vintage seventies-tinged soundtrack scores. Out on Relapse Records.
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Host’s debut release ‘IX’ is a very catchy album and has multiple complex textures and dark gothic themes as you will find yourself sprawling on the ground with sedatives. Nick Holmes & Gregor Mackintosh take a dark direction toward the electro gothic synth/rock music that is fully of catchy choruses and lush electronic textures. Released February 24 via Nuclear Blast Records.
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One man project Golden Ashes brings a second sonic blasting with ‘In The Lugubrious Silence Of Eternal Night’.
2020 may have been a turd of a year so far, at least it provided synthrock duo, Zombi, with an apt title for its first album in 5 years.
Extremely catchy and fun synthpop music from Night Club, yet in it’s on very special way rather dark!
Synths, pop, geeking out, sci-fi and a punky “we don’t care what you think” attitude… enter Hatchling! Everything must be destroyed!
After shattering their own status as grandmasters of gothic doom a few years earlier with the groundbreaking, yet unorthodox ‘One Second’, they upped the ante and did away with their metal pedigree altogether on the daring, yet almost unanimously scorned ‘Host’.
