Review Date: January 2021 Released: 2020, Independent Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: RC2000 Unredeemer is a relatively new band from Finland, and they’ve released their 4-song EP called 4-19-23. Vocalist Saša Pul hails from Croatia and joined the band after moving to Finland. After a brief intro, “Defiance” kicks in and right…
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Corrosium – Undertow
Reviewed: January 2021 Released: 2020, Inverse Records Rating: 3/5 Reviewer: Kat Knite Bombastic metal band Corrosium from Kytäjä, Finland emerged in the final stretches of 2020 to deliver us their brand new EP, Undertow. Unlike their debut album, for which some of the songs were written before the formation of the band, the…
Haase, Antti (Dir.)- Monsterman (Lordi documentary)
Reviewed: January, 2021 Released: 2014 Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: JP 2020 was the year I mostly gave up. I’ve tried my whole life to support bands and independent film-makers but they make it harder and harder by not making the product available for sale. It is extremely annoying that this documentary…
CORROSIUM Interview
Interview with Olli Laine (Drummer) and Teppo Tirkkonen (Vocalist) of CORROSIUM Interview by Kat Knite Official Website – Facebook – Instagram – Spotify Listen to Undertow here: Spotify – Amazon Music Bombastic metal band Corrosium from Kytäjä, Finland, have recently released their new EP Undertow through Inverse Records. Check out what they had to…
Interview with Lie In Ruins
Interview with Roni S. (vocals and bass) & Tuomas K. (vocals and guitar) Interview by Demitri Levantis Follow the band: www.facebook.com/lieinruins/ lieinruins.bandcamp.com/ With the release of their third studio album, “Floating in Timeless Streams” coming this month, I caught up with Finnish death metal group, Lie In Ruins to…
Interview with SATAN’S FALL
Interview by Jack Merry www.facebook.com/SatansFall satansfall.bandcamp.com www.hrrecords.de www.facebook.com/hrrecords We were lucky enough to have a chat with Miika Kokko and Tomi Mäenpää of Finnish heavy metal band SATAN’S FALL about their brand new debut album ‘Final Day,’ the ongoing global pandemic, what TV they’ve been enjoying, and everything else in-between!
Lie In Ruins – Floating in Timeless Streams
Reviewed: December 2020 Released: 2020, Dark Descent Records Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Demitri Levantis Finland’s death metal institution, Lie In Ruins, have returned with their third album “Floating in Timeless Streams.” It is an album that I can best describe as a harrowing experience put to music, detailing the darkness and…
Chalice – Trembling Crown
Reviewed: December 2020 Released: 2020, High Roller Records Rating: 2.5/5 Reviewer: Kieron Hayes According to their bio, Finland’s Chalice have spent the last 5 years composing the songs present on Trembling Crown, their debut full-length. This only makes it all the more a shame, then, that the album is so…
Kaunis Kuolematon – Syttyköön Toinen Aurinko
Reviewed: December 2020 Released: 2020, Noble Demon Rating: 3.5/5 Reviewer: Kieron Hayes There’s a particular subdivision of metal that I tend to think of as “melodeath-doom”. Seems pretty self-explanatory, a merger of melodic death metal with death-doom, or more generally, melodeath that has a strong melancholic leaning. While maybe not…
Imperium – Drummer Mika Brushane
Drummer Mika Brushane – Imperium Interviewed by: Anders Sandvall Thanks to Birgitt Schwanke at GerMusica PR for setting up the interview. Thanks to AOR Heaven for the promo pictures of the band. Imperium is a solo project run by Finnish drummer Mika Brushane. Mika has decided it’s time to unveil…
Spiritual Holocaust – Echoes of the Apocalypse
Reviewed: [November 2020] Released [2020 More Hate Productions] Rating [3.5/5] Reviewer: Peter Atkinson They may hail from Finland, but Spiritual Holocaust certainly have an ear for old school Swedish death metal. The band’s second album is awash in the classic buzz-sawing, HM2 pedal-powered riffs and d-beat battery championed by Grave,…
Mors Principium Est – Seven
Reviewed: October 2020 Released: 2020 AFM Records Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Peter Atkinson After 20 years and six previous albums, the one-time Finnish sextet Mors Principium Est have whittled themselves down to a mere duo for album number seven, which fittingly bears that as its title. In the time since 2017’s…
Brother Firetribe – Feel The Burn
Reviewed: October, 2020 Released: 2020, OMN Label Services Rating: 3/5 Reviewer: Erich Listen to opening track “I Salute You” from Brother Firetribe’s fifth LP FEEL THE BURN, you would be justified in believing that you were hearing a song from the soundtrack to the 1986 film Iron Eagle. The truth…
Tanna – band leader/singer/guitarist Tapani “Tanna” Tikkanen
Band leader/singer/guitarist Tapani “Tanna” Tikkanen – Tanna Interviewed by: Anders Sandvall Thanks to Birgitt Schwanke at GerMusica PR for setting up the interview Thanks to AOR Heaven for the promo pictures of the band Promo pictuers taken by: Minna Asp/MimosArt Tapani “Tanna” Tikkanen is the band leader/singer/guitarist of his self-titled…
Sinisthra – Drummer Erkki Virta
Drummer Erkki Virta – Sinisthra Interviewed by: Anders Sandvall Thanks to Roberto at Rockshots Records for setting up the interview. Thanks to Rockshots Records for the promo pictures of the band. Thanks to Miika Storm Photography for providing promo pictures of the band Drummer Erkki Virta from Finnish dark metal…