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  • Tuska Festival once again proved why it remains one of Europe’s premier metal festivals, welcoming a record-breaking 66,000 visitors to Helsinki’s Suvilahti over three unforgettable days. Despite Finland’s ever-changing summer weather, Friday and Saturday both sold out with 23,000 attendees each, while…

    Tuska 2026 Broke Attendance Record as 66,000 Metal Fans Celebrated Another Historic Weekend
  • Some albums are collections of songs. Others are experiences. Obscured Horizons, the upcoming release from Australian doom/gothic metal veterans The Eternal, belongs firmly in the latter category. Across nine emotionally interconnected tracks, the album unfolds like the stages of an inner…

    The Eternal’s Upcoming Album is an Emotional Rollercoaster
  • In the heart of Finland’s metal underground, Vanguard are carving out a sound that refuses to sit inside any mold. For their debut full-length, the band traded click tracks and computers for sweat-drenched rehearsals, old-school recording methods, and endless late-night jamming, reshaping chaos into…

    A story from start to Fin(n)ish – Introducing: Vanguardian
  • Dark cabaret metal collective Tardigrade Inferno have announced their third studio album, “Hush”, set for release on March 5. Alongside the announcement, the band have unveiled the official music video for the album’s first single, “Hide ‘n’ Seek”, offering an evocative first glimpse into the…

    Tardigrade Inferno announce new album “Hush”
  • Finnish Symphonic Death Metal Descends Into a Spirit-Haunted Wilderness Finnish metal continues to birth bands that blur the line between brutality and beauty — and KARU stands firmly at the center of this storm. With their new album Perdition, released…

    KARU – Perdition
  • Where the Machines Hum, the Shadows Whisper, and Humanity Signs Its Own Release Papers Helsinki doesn’t sleep in winter.It only slows its pulse—just enough for the heavy-hearted, the sharp-minded, and the restlessly creative to slip through the cracks of the…

    FROZEN FACTORY – Apocalypse Inc.
  • In the frozen underbelly of Finland’s metal landscape, some bands roar, some vanish and some return like a storm that never truly stopped rumbling. WILLFIRE, the Finnish heavy metal trio forged in Järvenpää’s industrial veins, comes back with a new…

    WILLFIRE – “Inside Job”: A Bleeding Ember in the Finnish Metal Night
  • AITTALA announce new EP Ill-Gotten Gains; watch “Isolation” video (Exitus Stratagem Records)

    AITTALA are back in the black
  • First Strike from Their Upcoming Album Dressed in Flesh – Out September 12, 2025 via Golden Robot Records From the frostbitten edges of Finland’s twilight landscapes, Serpico emerge once more-scarred, sharpened, and roaring. Their new single, “Hard as a Cannonball,”…

    SERPICO Return from the Northern Shadows with Explosive New Single “Hard as a Cannonball”