06th of June, 2018 in Hyvinkää, Finland. On time, exactly 4pm the doors opened for the second Rockfest. Some problems with the cashless bracelets at the entrance were no great

Suotana proves a really important point with their latest offering – the metal underground is alive and well. Land of the Ending Time is a brilliant album with a really

Stam1na celebrated the 10th anniversary release of their “Raja” album with a special gig at Jäähalli´s Black Box in Helsinki. Rytmihäiriö and Skálmöld joined the party as well. We were lucky

For Finnish audience Mokoma needs no introductions. They have been in the core of the Finnish metal industry for 2 decades and their latest release “Hengen pitimet” is their 10th

After a gap of around eight years, one of the most famous black metal bands makes their return: The norwegian band Dimmu Borgir has released their tenth full-lenght studio album entitled

It feels like we’ve been down this road before. It feels familiar, nostalgic. As soon as you hear the opening riff to the title track, “To Drink From The Night

Lunario is a small stage next to the Auditorio Nacional, where the most important artists perform in Mexico City. Located in the west of the city, surrounded of important and

Just when you thought AMORPHIS couldn’t get any more progressive after their previous album ‘Under The Red Cloud’, the ‘QUEEN OF TIME’ comes out to sting you in the face!

Finland’s Demilich has lots of letters, lots of words in their song titles. Hopefully this review will do this justice. On Wednesday, May 9th, Demilich landed at Philadelphia’s Millcreek Tavern.

The Roxy Theatre in West Hollywood is one of the coolest venues in the strip! It is especially the perfect venue when a band that normally plays large venues, wants

I am not very familiar with progressive music in general, but with this being Ihsahn, I had to give it a try. One fact clearly arises by listening to this

It has been a while that I have seen a band releasing an album saying it’s power metal. But at the same time power metal as a genre is something

What an interesting and fresh take on Black Metal this is. Cavus surely made me hungry for more of their dark and soulful music. This album starts of with probably

Finnish melodic death metal band KALMAH has recently been on a 4 dates tour across Finland (Oulu, Vaasa, Tampere and Helsinki) to promote the release of their latest album “Palo“: we

True Norwegian black metal veterans TAAKE unleashed their supreme “Helnorsk Svartmetall” at Korjaamo in Helsinki after 3 years absence from Finnish live scenes. They were supported by 2 local acts: Hexhammer

Once again we get assaulted by Finnish brutality – and this time Wrathrone made sure that I feel it into my core. Reflections of Torment will make you realise that

WINTERSUN and WOLFHEART at Nosturi, Helsinki: it was an epic night of enchanting atmospheres, echoes from the forest and heaviness which blasts the ears: that is how I´d personally define the

Let me tell you a story about a miracle. At least, that’s how it felt back in November when APOCALYPTICA announced a Spanish tour with six dates, including Asturias for

It’s high time that we get a band like Cauldron of Hate, feeding us with something so vile and dark. Sickness surely is an album to rival even the greatest

Here we are at Lepakkomies in Helsinki once again to witness a Thursday night of heaviness with MAGENTA HARVEST, CAVUS and NIGHON. MAGENTA HARVEST is currently on a headlining spring tour