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The beginning of a new year means the beginning of a new concert season! Starting the year off at a smaller-scale show, Musicalypse went...

BROTHER FIRETRIBE performing at the Virgin Oil Co. in Helsinki, February 2015. Brother Firetribe Photos by Lene L.Musicalypse, 2015OV: 6751 Recent posts Related posts

If you have followed the Finnish metal scene, or what's new in melodic metal in general for the past year, you have probably come...

If there's one thing that BLIND GUARDIAN are well known for, it's an impressive level of consistency with their material. From 1995's "Somewhere Far...

SONATA ARCTICA headlining Tampere's Pakkahuone with ARION warming up the stage, January 2015. Arion Sonata Arctica Photos by Lene L.Musicalypse, 2015OV: 5889 Recent posts Related posts

The time seems ripe for Australians to be making their way to the Nordics. On November 26th, 2014, PARKWAY DRIVE, a metalcore band from...

While co-founding photographer Jana Blomqvist doesn't shoot regularly for Musicalypse anymore, you can still find her work here and there in our galleries and...

Australia folk rock band THE BEARDS performing at Debaser Strand in Stockholm, November 2014. The Beards Photos by Jana Blomqvist & Marco ManziMusicalypse, 2014OV: 5290 Recent...

Don’t you just love beards? Musicalypse thinks beards are pretty great. In fact, we think they’re so great that when we found out that...

It has been an awfully long time since Finland has seen soprano beauty Tarja Turunen, but prior to her annual Christmas shows throughout smaller...

TARJA TURUNEN performing at Verkatehdas in Hämeenlinna, November 2014. Tarja Photos by Jana BlomqvistMusicalypse, 2014OV: 4911

IN FLAMES performing at the Helsinki Ice Hall (Jäähalli), November 2014. In Flames Photos by Jana BlomqvistMusicalypse, 2014OV: 6576

There are few albums that I can say I actually "listened the shit out of," but the DEVIN TOWNSEND PROJECT's epic 2-disc dual album...

The Swedish pop metal magnates of AMARANTHE are back again with another hard-pop album through Nuclear Blast Records soon. I've been trying to decide...

On September 25th, 2014, following the release of their 2014 studio album, "Space Police: Defenders of the Crown," EDGUY made an appearance in Helsinki’s...

Several decades ago, tight pants, wild hair, and kinky lyrics may have made you think about good old bands like DEF LEPPARD and AEROSMITH....

Unioni-Festivaali was a newcomer to Finland in the fall of 2014. This was a 2-day Friday/Saturday festival that fell on September 19th & 20th,...

After following a multitude of albums that were all very highly rated, you'd think it would be hard for Taylor Davis to impress me....

The 17th annual Tuska Open Air Metal Festival kicked off at the Suvilahti industrial site again on the 27th of July, 2014. There were...

The coldest Finnish midsummer in 30 years, a bunch of good bands, and hundreds of crazy metalheads in the woods. What happened, why and...