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For some reason, it has been hugely difficult to get excited about new or new-ish metal bands over the last few years. While my...

HARAKIRI FOR THE SKY performing at Elmun Baari in the lower half of Nosturi in Helsinki, August 2017, with EVIL DRIVE as support. Evil...

Finnish band As I May release the first single "Hero" of their upcoming album. The new album is being released in 2018 by Fast Factory...

Jolly Roger Festival 2017 at Arena in Vienna. Underside Epsilon Hirsch Effekt Belphegor Trivium Amon Amarth Photos by Maria SawickaMusicalypse, 2017OV: 6701

Finnish band Hamartia from Tampere hands a very powerful debut EP "Ílios" with a lot of depth, which they released in July 2016. The...

Northern Finland is home to a new genre: Melancholic metal. What is that, you may ask? A genre used to describe the music Finnish...

Meet Junktone, established in 2016 in Tampere. Put 5 experienced players together in a band who bring a mixture of metal, '90s Seattle grunge,...

Finnish black metal band and winner of Wacken Metal Battle: From The Void have released their brutal music video "Man Created God". From the Void is...

Sauna Classic in Tampere was introduced as a successor to the late Sauna Open Air and celebrated for the first time on July 28-29th,...

Sauna Classic Garden Party Festival taking place at Eteläpuisto (South Park) in Tampere, July 2017. Day 1 Day 2 Photos by Lene L.Musicalypse, 2017OV: 6118

In spite of having just been here twice last summer, the RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS decided to return to Finland once again this year....

For the second year in a row, we made the trip to Central Finland to see what the good people at John Smith Festival...

John Smith Festival 2017 at the Peurunka resort in Laukaa. Day 1 Day 2 Extra Photos by Lene L.Musicalypse, 2017OV: 6893

This album showed up in the mail a few weeks ago, and has been sitting on my desk ever since. I've never heard of...

Chester Bennington (41) lead singer of Linkin Park, has been found dead by a employee on Thursday in his house. The death is been...

ACID KING performing at Kuudes Linja in Helsinki, July 2017, with ALBINÖ RHINO and WOODRUE as support. Albinö Rhino Woodrue Acid King Photos by Marco ManziMusicalypse, 2017OV:...

The Norwegian prog masterminds LEPROUS are in full swing on tour and promoting their upcoming album, "Malina." Hot off the heels of their appearance...

And so the climax of WINTERSUN's controversy is finally upon us! For those of you who are late to the party, WINTERSUN has been...

Progressive metal legends DREAM THEATER are out on the road this year, celebrating the 25th anniversary of their best-selling and most popular album, "Images...

Just when I thought I had a few days to recover after Tuska Open Air, I had to go see yet another great band....