Tag: musicalypse

Swedish folk metal band HULKOFF have released their second album, "Pansarfolk," on September 25th, 2020, and we were fortunate enough to be able to ask...

Violence, brutality, and a complete lack of compromise - just some of the terms that can be used to describe ANAAL NATHRAKH, a British...

Better known as the singer of RAUBTIER, vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Pär Hulkoff has also been working on his solo project HULKOFF since 2017. The...

Death metal as a musical subgenre has now existed for almost 40 years and it’s hard to neglect KATAKLYSM when talking about the greats...

Creativity is the hellish gift of conjuring dreams into reality. It's a battle with demons, but luckily we survive in reasonable condition... most of...

MAIDENFEST, a local IRON MAIDEN Tribute Festival, took place at Rytmikorjaamo in Seinäjoki, September 2020. Photos by Sami Hinkkanen Instagram - FacebookMusicalypse, 2020OV: 789

OBSIDIAN KINGDOM is a band hailing from Barcelona, which defines their sound as “hard-to-classify heavy with plenty of contrasts.” These kinds of bands tend...

British grindcore pioneers, NAPALM DEATH, return with their new album, "Throes of Joy in the Jaws of Defeatism," The band haven’t released any material...

Ever since its launch a couple of years ago, Sonicbond Publishing has published books in a series called On Track, where the discographies of...

There's no doubt that this year is a period of sweeping change. While the most cynical of minds might be tempted to think that...

Derek Sherinian is a prolific American keyboard wizard, whose name might not instantly ring a bell, but you're certainly prone to have a vague...

The German melodeath band VARG will be releasing their newest record, "Zeichen," on September 18th, 2020, after a 4 year absence since their album,...

It's been 7 years since legendary Finnish pagan metal band FINNTROLL released their latest studio album, "Blodsvept" (2013), but at long last, fans are...

If you're into Finnish adult-oriented rock, you must certainly know of BROTHER FIRETRIBE, a gem in the AOR scene. Fronted by the charismatic Pekka Heino, their...

Arjen Anthony Lucassen's progressive metal opera, AYREON, is back with another album, within a mere year of the release of the DVD of the...

A photoshoot with Pekka Heino of BROTHER FIRETRIBE at Sanomatalo in Helsinki, 2020. Photos by Laureline TilkinMusicalypse, 2020OV: 761

Red and black decorates their faces, purposefully imitating a blood splatter, as the wolves of Bavaria reappear 4 years after releasing their last album,...

The masters of melancholy, Gothenburg melodic death group Dark Tranquillity, are coming out with a new album this year, entitled "Moment." Century Media Records...

During this coronavirus pandemic, we’ve seen quite a few bands broadcast live streams from a wide variety of locations. We’ve seen empty barns, rehearsal...

On September 4th, 2020, (that's tomorrow!) Nuclear Blast Records will release the remastered editions of three 10-or-so-year-old HELLOWEEN albums. Having already covered "Unarmed" (2009) and "7 Sinners"...