Tag: album review
REVIEW: Coldbound – The Gale
“61°43’N17°07’E” is not only the first track on “The Gale”, the fourth release of COLDBOUND, it also marks the whereabouts of Sweden-based Finnish musician Pauli Souka. The...
REVIEW: Wheel – EP The Divide
The Finnish metal scene already has a wide variety of tastes on its platter, one of the more recent additions to the scene is...
REVIEW: Suotana – Land of The Ending Time
Suotana, a Finnish melodic death metal band, who have strong influences from melodic black and power metal, will release their new album “Land Of...
REVIEW: Dyecrest – Are You Not Entertained?
Dyecrest has been up and about for quite a while now. By winning 2nd place in the competition of Young Metal Gods, the band...
REVIEW: AFTER FOREST – AFTER FOREST: ACT II & III
After Forest is a progressive metal band from Vaasa, which was founded in 2007. "Act I", the first album was released in 2015, a...
REVIEW: Amorphis – Queen Of Time
"Queen of Time" by AMORPHIS will be released by Nuclear Blast on May 18th, 2018. The album has the prospect of being one of...
INTERVIEW: Dyecrest — "When record sales were still huge, you had...
In 2004 hard rock act Dyecrest managed to surprise Finland with their debut album. The band, who had won the Young Metal Gods competition,...
REVIEW: Circences – Tightrope Walk on the Ground
The power and strength of one sole person, is sometimes unbelievable. I often spend time thinking about how sometimes it's possible that one person...
REVIEW: Follow the Cipher – Follow the Cipher
What's with the water in Falun? The small town in Sweden has brought us so many power metal bands, after Sabaton and Twilight Force, comes now Follow the...
REVIEW: Deep River Acolytes – The Hour of Trial
I'm listening to Deep River Acolytes as I'm on the train. Their new album "The Hour of Trial" is blasting through my earphones. Yet another local...
REVIEW: Dimmu Borgir – Eonian
Eight years it has been quiet around Dimmu Borgir, except a handful of live shows and the release of their live DVD "Forces of the...
REVIEW: Fear of Domination – Metanoia
"Metanoia", the 5th album of industrial/shock metal act Fear of Domination, emphasizes on the transformation the band has gone through, with their new lineup, also...
REVIEW: Bloody Falls – Thanatos
Formed in summer 2017, Finnish band Bloody Falls is about to release their debut album "Thanatos" April 27th 2018 through Inverse Records. Isn't it...
REVIEW: Tonttu – EP: Riimuja ja Tonttuja
Music doesn't always have to be taken serious, right? When I received a press release from a band named Tonttu, I couldn't believe the amount of...
REVIEW: Kobra and the Lotus – Prevail II (Musicalypse Archive)
In 2017, KOBRA AND THE LOTUS released their hardest-hitting album thus far, "Prevail I," with the promise of its sequel less than a year later. The...
REVIEW: Black Royal – Lightbringer
Some weeks ago, I had the amazing idea to promote local Finnish bands by starting a playlist on Spotify, promoting the newest singles those...
REVIEW: My Kundalini – The Art of Dying
Sometimes some emails you get manage to catch your attention right away. When Jukka-Pekka Miettinen (ex-ArthemesiA, ex-Ensiferum, ex-Stone Beast, Kirkkokahvit) reached out to me...
REVIEW: Mors Subita – Into The Pitch Black
I probably have mentioned this many many times already, but we here in Finland have a strong local scene. Smaller bands get bigger and...
REVIEW: Kamelot – The Shadow Theory
Kamelot is one of the most celebrated power metal bands out there. They have had a long and successful career and is still going strong,...
REVIEW: The Hayleys – Raato
The Hayleys is a Finnish rock/metal/punk act from Jyväskylä. The band was formed in 2011 and after releasing three English language albums as Hayley's...