Last year, the alternative-rock icons, THE SMASHING PUMPKINS, released their 13th studio album “Aghori Mhori Mei,” and on August 24th, 2025, they brought their Aghori Tour to Helsinki, at the notorious Icehall venue at Nordis. As it happens, this year also marked the 30th anniversary of the band’s magnum opus, “Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness,” so it was kind of written in the stars that the band would, perhaps, cater to us GenX fans by playing more than a few bangers from this gargantuan album classic. As per my usual bad karma, I had missed all their previous three concerts in this neck of the woods over the years, so there was no better occasion to finally put things right than this. Plus, the warm-up act had been announced to be MYRKUR, the atmospheric black-metal solo project of Danish powerhouse vocalist Amalia Bruun, the haunting debut “M” of which celebrates its 10th anniversary this year. I’d never seen her on stage either. So, this event was one of those “Two headliners for the price of one” type of things. At some point, Billy Corgan noted that the event had been sold out. No wonder, with a banquet like this! Check our photo gallery of the evening here…
Myrkur
Smashing Pumpkins
Photos by Laureline Tilkin
