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REVIEW: Halo One – Fragile Hearts Awake
For years, I thought metalcore was a somewhat dissident faction from the established metal brotherhood. It seemed like a threat that I declined to...
REVIEW: Labyrinth – Welcome to the Absurd Circus
Power metal fans, rejoice! A new LABYRINTH album has been released. Their ninth studio effort, “Welcome to the Absurd Circus,” came out on January...
Tuska 2021: Baroness, Finntroll, Korpiklaani, and many others!
Taking place on the first weekend of July in Suvilahti, Helsinki, Tuska festival has added a heavy batch of new names in the 2021...
Interview with Accept — “Nobody is immortal, but we can pretend,...
German heavy metal act ACCEPT is back with the release of their new album "Too Mean to Die," out on January 29th, 2021, via...
Silver Lake, solo project of Esa Holopainen (AMORPHIS), to sign with...
Nuclear Blast proudly announce the signing of the solo project of AMORPHIS guitarist Esa Holopainen, SILVER LAKE. Esa Holopainen made good use of his...
Battle Beast re-sign to Nuclear Blast
BATTLE BEAST and Nuclear Blast have renewed the bond of their successful partnership: the Finnish heavy metal sextet re-signed to the metal global player!
Eero Sipilä, bassist of BATTLE...
REVIEW: Soen – Imperial
Swedish progressive metal band SOEN are releasing their newest opus, “Imperial,” on January 29, 2021, via Silver Lining Music. SOEN is one of those...
REVIEW: Phantom Elite – Titanium
After a wonderful debut in 2017 with “Wasteland” and landing a multi-album deal with Frontiers Music in 2019, PHANTOM ELITE are getting ready to...
REVIEW: Suad – Waves
Every now and then, an artist comes along who can outperform the volume of the distorted guitars of a stereotypical metal platoon with a...
Interview with Nervosa — “I’ve seen you playing, you’ve got this.”
Mid-2020, Brazilian thrash metal act NERVOSA surprised us with some drastic lineup changes. With a new lineup, the band worked really hard towards the...
REVIEW: Orbiter – EP: The Deluge
ORBITER is a five-piece stoner doom band formed in Helsinki in late 2014, of which first EP, “The Deluge,” was released independently on January,...
12.1.2021 Pihka is My Name @ Camden Live Lockdown Streams (#36)
When the coronavirus hit in 2020, livestreams became the big new thing in seeing music while maintaining a social distance. As of 2021, streams...
REVIEW: Jason Bieler & The Baron Von Bielski Orchestra – Songs...
The somewhat odd coupling of an album's overarching, apocalyptic theme and the 1980s-tinted, feel-good hard rock wasn't exactly an option on my bingo card...
Interview with Jason Bieler — “My lifetime of listening to music...
Jason Bieler, mostly known for "Love is on the Way" by SAIGON KICK, is releasing his latest solo album, "Songs for the Apocalypse," under...
Melodic death/doom unit Marianas Rest to release new Album, “Fata Morgana,”...
Emerging from the Finnish coastal town of Kotka, melodic death/doom metal strikers MARIANAS REST will unleash their third studio album, Fata Morgana, on March 12, 2021 via Napalm...
Metal De Facto’s “Imperium Romanum” available in vinyl limited edition
After the release of the highly acclaimed debut album "Imperium Romanum," Finnish power metallers METAL DE FACTO and Rockshots Records are now releasing the record in a limited...
Simulacrum releases new single, “Arrhythmic Distortions.”
Finnish progressive metal band SIMULACRUM released a new single "Arrhythmic Distortions" and a music video consisting of studio material. The song is the second...
Marko Hietala and an industry of shit
What a start to 2021. First we lose the legendary Alexi Laiho (ex-CHILDREN OF BODOM, BODOM AFTER MIDNIGHT), and now we hear that the...
Marko Hietala leaves Nightwish
Marko Hietala, most known as the bass player in NIGHTWISH, just posted a statement about his resignation from NIGHTWISH and public life. Read the...
REVIEW: Nervosa – Perpetual Chaos
A few months after we saw Brazilian thrash metal act NERVOSA live in Helsinki, the band announced that two members, vocalist/bass player Fernanda Lira...