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…
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Best of 2020: Marko Syrjälä
1. AC/DC: Power Up Who could have believed that after all the changes and difficulties the band went through in recent years, we would still see a new AC / DC record? And what kind of record? POWER UP is simply the band’s best release since 1990’s RAZOR’S EDGE. The…
Samer El Nahhal – Supernova Kill Road
Reviewed: October, 2020 Released: 2020 / Independent Rating: 3 / 5 Reviewer: Cristóbal Torres After being part of Lordi for fourteen years, Samer El Nahhal released his first solo album called: SUPERNOVA KILL ROAD. Although his main publicity hook is to say that he was the bass player known as…
Lordi – Killection
Reviewed: March 2020 Released: 2019, AFM Records Rating: 3.5/5 Reviewer: Lee Carter You know LORDI, right? Finland’s monstrous masked metallers and winners of Eurovision in 2006? The band may not quite have the collective mainstream’s consciousness to the extent that it did back when they shocked Europe’s annual musical cheese-fest,…
Black Sun – Power metal from Ecuador
INTERVIEW WITH BLACK SUN (Santiago Salem – Bass, Nicolás Estrada – Drums, Christopher Gruenberg – guitar and Nino Laurenne – producer) Metal music is a universal phenomenon. There are a lot of great and amazing bands from every part of the world. How many of readers out there are familiar…
Jean Beauvoir discusses recent collaboration with the Finnish monster band Lordi, the state of solo career, Crown of Thorns, Voodoo X, and how it was to work with KISS in the 80’s.
JEAN BEAUVOIR INTERVIEW BY MARKO SYRJALA LIVE AND OFFSTAGE PHOTOS BY MARKO SYRJALA AND TARU SAARINEN Originally from the legendary punk band the Plasmatics, Jean Beauvoir is nowadays a multi-platinum solo artist who wrote and performed the hit song “Feel the Heat”, lead song for Sylvester Stallone’s highly successful “Cobra”…
The Finnish monster metallers LORDI releases a new video – “Naked In My Cellar”
The Finnish monster metallers LORDI released the second single and the video called ”Naked In My Cellar” of from the forthcoming album called SEXORCISM due out on the 25ht of May. Lordi’s ninth album was recorded at the prestigious Finnvox Studio last Autumn. The album was mixed by Mikko Karmila who…
LORDI To Release Ninth Studio Album ‘Sexorcism’ In May
Finnish metal / hard rock group Lordi issue ninth full-length studio album Sexorcism on May 25th, 2018 through AFM Records. The disc is described in a press release as “a full-on and uncensored shot of Lordi brand hard rock and roll” and “possibly (the band’s) most controversial record to date.” Lordi’s line-up…
Kiss Expo- Helsinki Finland
What the hell am I doing here – was the first question popped up to my mind, when standing in the front of the Nosturi club. Kiss hasn’t been my ultimate passion, even though they do have a number of great songs in the repertoire, unlike the opinion of my…
LORDI with SPIRAL CELL @ The Bluebird Theater, Denver CO
LORDI with SPIRAL CELL @ The Bluebird Theater, Denver CO Feb. 11, 2017 Review and photos by by Kyle Moore (The Metal Magnus) Finland’s LORDI suddenly found themselves a heap of fame when they won the 2007 Eurovision Song Contest. This event is something quite unfamiliar to us Yankees, but nonetheless…
Tuska 2016
The Tuska Open Air Festival has carved its name as one of the most important metal festivals amongst all other metal festivals in Europe. The media, label staff and PR -people travel all over the world to attend and feel and see the metal culture in Finland. All in all,…
SWEDENROCK 2016
REVIEW AND PHOTOS BY ARTO LEHTINEN AND MARKO SYRJALA Once again here we are again as the Finnish Metal-Rules.com two-man-team made their annual road trip to Sweden Rock. The 2016 line up presented a wide range of metal and hard rock as usual. Over 70 bands offered one hell of…
Lordi @ Reading Sub 89, April 1, 2015
Lordi Sub 89, Reading, England 1st April 2015 Review and Photos by Ashlinn Nash
SKOGSROJET Festival 2013 featuring Twisted Sister, Helloween, Lita Ford, Lordi etc…
REVIEW AND PHOTOS BY MARKO SYRJALA Skogsrojet is one of these newer hard rock/metal festivals organized in the promised land of festivals, Sweden. The two-day event is held in the outlying village of Rejmyre, and the nearest town is Norrkoping, about 40 kilometers away. The festival was held for the…
HELLFEST 2013
Hellfest Festival 2013 @ Clisson, France 21st– 23rd June 2013 Review by Kirsty Birkett-Stubbs Photography by Tess Donohoe It may be some people’s epitome of hell, Michael Buble fans I’m looking at you, but for the metal/rock community Hellfest’s towering gateway looks positively pearly. This year’s line-up is so jam-packed…