Reviewed: December 2021 Released: 2021, Saturnal Records Rating: 3.5/5 Reviewer: Kira Levine Finnish black metallers Solacide, (formerly known as Dim Moonlight) have returned with their second album, Fall From Eternity. Active since 2004, this is their first release in five years. It comes after their debut The Finish Line, with…
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Olio Tähtien Takana – Spectral Katharsis
Reviewed: November 2021 Released: 2021, Avantgarde Music Rating: 3.5/5 Reviewer: Kira Levine Olio Tähtien Takana, Finnish for ‘A Creature Beyond the Stars’ is the symphonic black metal brainchild of multi-instrumentalist v-KhaoZ. He is a member of bands such as Vargrav and Druadan Forest. After a collaboration with the vocalist Hellwind…
Interview with Bloody Hell
Interview with Bloody Hell – Esa Orjatsalo (guitar) 3rd May 2021 Interview by Andrea Di Stasio Facebook | Spotify Hey and thank you for your time. Please state your name and position in the band. Hi! Thank you for the interview. I’m Esa Orjatsalo and I play guitar in Bloody…
Bloody Hell – The Bloodening
Reviewed: May 2021 Released: 2021, Rockshots Records Rating: 3.5/5 Reviewer: Andrea Di Stasio “Angry young men become grumpy old men” – Bloody Hell breaks their 6 year-long silence, coming back to the heavy metal scene with this unique statement that accompanies their second album “The Bloodening”. What can I say?…
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…
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…
Convocation – Ashes Coalesce
Reviewed: July 2020 Released: 2020, Everlasting Spew Records Rating: 4.5/5 Reviewer: Kira Levine Seasoned musicians Lauri Laaksonen and Marko Neuman joined forces to create death/doom outfit Convocation. They are set to release their sophomore record Ashes Coalesce on July 3rd, following up 2018’s Scars Across. The band states: “The second…
Re-Armed – Ignis Aeternum
Reviewed: June 2020 Released: 2020, Black Lion Records Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Kat Knite Finnish melodic death metal band RE-ARMED strike again with their fourth full length album, ‘Ignis Aeternum’. Together since 2001, the band has undergone several lineup changes and released three previous albums in their two-decade long journey.…
RE-ARMED – Interview with Jouni Matelainen, Iiro Karjalainen, & Allan Välimaa
RE-ARMED – Interview with Jouni Matelainen (vocalist), Iiro Karjalainen (drummer), & Allan Välimaa (guitarist) Interview by Kat Knite re-armed.net facebook.com/rearmed twitter.com/ReArmedOfficial youtube.com/ReArmedOfficial We caught up with members of Finnish melodic death metal band RE-ARMED to chat about their upcoming album ‘Ignis Aeternum’, as well as to ask questions about their…
Sabaton + Apocalyptica + Amaranthe @ SSE Wembley Arena, London
Sabaton + Apocalyptica + Amaranthe @ SSE Wembley Arena, London 8th February 2020 Review by Jack Merry Photography by Graham Hilling
Vorna – Sateet Palata Saavat
Reviewed: September 2019 Released: 2019, Lifeforce Records Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Demitri Levantis Progress and evolution of a band’s sound is something always changing, it can go one way or another or even stay the same the whole time yet remain true to whatever original values a band had at the…
SONATA ARCTICA announce release date for the upcoming album “Talviyö”
On September 6th, Finnish melodic metal titans SONATA ARCTICA will release their 10th studio album called “Talviyö” (which means Winter Night), including 11 new tracks. “Talviyö” was recorded between September 2018 and May 2019, produced by Mikko Tegelman and SONATA ARCTICA in Studio57. Additional recordings took place in various other…
Swallow the Sun – When a Shadow is Forced Into the Light
Reviewed: February 2019 Released: 2019, Century Media Records Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Kieron Hayes I haven’t properly listened to Swallow the Sun since their melodic death-doom debut, so this will be something of an update and education. I have read about their works though: I know that Songs From the North…
Primordial + Moonsorrow + Der Weg Einer Freiheit @ Islington Assembly Hall, London
Primordial + Moonsorrow + Der Weg Einer Freiheit @ Islington Assembly Hall, London April 16th 2018 Review by Beandog Photography by Oliver M.
Unshine – Astrala
Reviewed: April 2018 Released: Jan 19th (EU) Feb 9th (North America) on Rockshots Records Rating: 3.5/5 Reviewer: Rebekah Ann Unshine are a Finnish quintet with four previous albums under their belt, after moving around releasing their albums through different record labels they have settled with Rockshots Records who have just released…