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In 2018, our Canadian friends from the Northern Myths podcast - which explores Norse mythology, as well as other myths and stories from northern...

At the turn of the millennia, the star of the undisputed heroes of 1990s teenage-angsty alt-rock, THE SMASHING PUMPKINS, had started to dim. The...

Finnish occult murder pop inventors CVLT OV THE SVN have inked a worldwide record deal with Napalm Records.  While rock music seems to have lost its danger and...

Baphomet is the goat-headed deity that represents the Devil on one of the Major Arcana cards in the Tarot deck. Below his massive figure,...

Twenty years ago, the mainstream metal climate favored somewhat peculiar vegetation with nu-metal being the buzzword of the day. While some of the genre's...

With a name like ANTIPOPE, you'd expect maybe something like BEHEMOTH – blasphemous black-metal ripping holy books to shreds either literally on stage or,...

Hailing from Oulu, melodic death metal act MORS SUBITA is ready to release their new album, "Extinction Era," on 30 October 2020. We had...

It seems rather obvious that the 1980s revival shows no signs of having run its entire course yet. Yes, regardless of the fact that...

During the worldwide crisis when bands put themselves on hiatus and sought other options by which to earn their daily beer and bread; reviving...

When I discovered the band DEFECTO four years ago, I was very impressed by the energy in their music and their technical skills. “Excluded”...

Writing a review about a reissue surely has its own features: it’s a release that fans and supporters are already familiar with so, less...

A romantic darkness in the form of doom/death with a gothic touch is the best way I can sum up DRACONIAN, a rather unique Swedish...

BODOM AFTER MIDNIGHT played their first-ever gig ever at Rytmikorjaamo in Seinäjoki, October 2020. Photos by Sami HinkkanenInstagram - FacebookMusicalypse, 2020OV: 1598

Finnish melodic death metal veterans NOUMENA have recently released their sixth studio album, "Anima," on 4 September 2020 via their own label, Haunted Zoo...

There is no album, in recent times, that is more influential but also more polarizing than LINKIN PARK’s classic “Hybrid Theory” (2000). Love it...

Romania may not be the most metal country in the world, but there are still many bands that play variations of this type of...

On March 11th, 2020, The World Health Organization declared that the outbreak of a viral disease, with a name similar to a certain brand...

MORS SUBITA's "Into the Pitch Black" was one of the first albums I ever reviewed for Tuonela Magazine and blew me away with its...

Metal has never been so diverse as it is nowadays. With new subgenres emerging continuously, it's not a big surprise that mainstream pop music...

Hailing from Northern Finland, Rovaniemi, melodic death metal band I AM YOUR GOD is ready to release their debut album "The Resurrection" through Out...