Tag: music review
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...
3 Guidelines for writing music reviews
When I was about 14 years old, one of my friends introduced me to the concept of online music magazines. He started working as...
FEATURED SINGLE: Oceanhoarse – Waves
Are you ready for that one song that has so much heavy metal drenched in it, that it will blow your mind? Everyone now...
FEATURED SINGLE: Fear of Domination – Face of Pain
Remember how we announced a little while ago that we would start a new thread called "Featured Single", which is an addition to our...
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...
REVIEW: Atlases – EP: Penumbra
Atlases is one of Finland's newest local bands, founded in 2017 in Pori, by Oceanwake guitarist Ville-Veikko Laaksonen. While writing new material for Oceanwake,...
REVIEW: Mournful Lines – Versatility
Mournful Lines, from Oulu, was founded in 2013. They have been around for quite a while. Their music can be seen as melancholic metal,...
Featured single: Thy Row – Hidebound
Welcome to a new thread in Tuonela Magazine, which is called "Featured Single". Featured single will highlight the coolest singles the local scene of...
REVIEW: Mormânt de Snagov – Depths Below Space and Existence
In the previous post you can read about the mysterious package I got from an unknown sender, containing several Finnish promo albums, EPs, etc....
REVIEW: Dystocracy – EP: Dystocracy
I have virtually no idea who sent me this EP. A package arrived with some promos, normally I ignore those packages that come from...
REVIEW: Auri – Auri
AURI is a band probably not many of you have heard of, but yet it exists out of very familiar faces: Finnish singer Johanna Kurkela, Tuomas Holopainen and Troy...