On Wednesday 17th October a tough time for Finnish kidneys all over the country began as Swedish Pain joined forces with Finnish Turmion Kätilöt (Midwives of Destruction) for the “Kidneys to the limit” minitour.
Wacken 2012 Report
Jalometalli 2012 Report. On the weekend of 10.8 and 11.8. the Finnish metal crowd once again gathered in the Northern Finnish city of Oulu, located a good 666km north of Helsinki at the Gulf of Bothnia for a last summer festival hooray at Jalometalli festival.
Hellfest 2012 Review
Tuska 2012 Live Review
The annual and biggest Rock phenomenon of Scandinavia: Sweden Rock kicks-starts the Swedish summer like a hard rock vitamine injection from hell.
Rockin’ Hellsinki vol. 1: Mötley Crüe + Hardcore Superstar + Crashdïet. Kaisaniemi park, Helsinki, Finland on June 7th 2012.
For some reason Sólstafir always play on a rainy Thursdays at the Nosturi when they play a headliner show in Helsinki. After a one year of not seeing them live it this was the third time round to see them at Nosturi with their incredible new album “Svartir Sandar”.
Agalloch – Live in Helsinki, April 7, 2012
The Faroe Islands joined the W:O:A Metal Battle competition this year and the Faroese edition of the Wacken Metal Battle made its debut Saturday 24th March.
With all the major live events being cluttered for the summertime, there is both an absence of and a demand for metal get-togethers like the Finnish Metal Expo during the darker half of the year.
Arch Enemy Live at The Circus, Helsinki, January 31, 2012. Arch Enemy‘s extensive European run in support of their Khaos Legions album had its final stop in Circus club, Helsinki.
Hardcore Superstar at Tavastia, Helsinki, December 13, 2011
Hardcore Superstar is definitely one of the more successful new generation hardrock/sleaze bands around, but honestly it feels like this whole scene has never really taken off.
It almost seemed like the storm gusts tried to stop people from getting to Nosturi that 3rd December when the US-doom metal pioneers Pentagram were giving their third show in this year in Finland.
If you haven’t heard of the Norwegian powerhouse Kvelertak yet, you must have been living in a cave for the past year. The band has been praised left and right by both media and fans thanks to their 2010’s fresh sounding self-titled debut album.
It seems to become some kind of basic setting when heading to a black metal concert at Kuudes Linja in Helsinki that the night is lit by an almost full moon because on Wednesday 9 th November the full moon was only one night away and was brightening the early winter night to the Wolves in the Throne Room concert.
It was a very special atmosphere when heading to Kuudes Linja that Thursday evening (13.10.2011) for the Negura Bunget concert: A mostly clear sky was lit by an almost full moon, the clarity accentuated by the odd cloud and a cold wind was announcing the coming winter.
Kold Reso Kult (KRK) blackened the autumn again with their 2- days Black Flames of Blasphemy festival that took place in Helsinki for the second time around on 7th and 8th October 2011. KRK has been behind the production of many black metal concerts and festivals in Finland in the last few years and usually one could only report good things so expectations were high for this weekend as well.
Occultfest. A very small underground festival in Hoogeveen, the Netherlands, and was held for the tenth time this year. The name of the fest derives from the fact that the first years there was no permit for the fest and therefore was illegally organized. Since one of the definitions of Occult is secret, disclosed, hidden from view it seemed like a great name for the fest.
On Saturday August 27th 2011, the town of Rijssen, in the east of the Netherlands, was the place to be if you’re into metal. For the sixth year in a row Elsrock festival took place here, a small but very cozy one-day fest. Approximately 2.000 metalheads attended this year’s edition.
Vagos Open Air 2011 – Live Report
