All posts by Elsa Marques

Midsummer is for many the traditional festival Nummirock. It will take place once again at Kauhajoki, Finland. From the 22nd to the 25th of June, the days will be filled with a stunning lineup and hopefully camping in harmony with friends and fellow metalheads to provide you an experience you cannot forget. You might have noticed [...]

THENCE is a finish metal band from Kuopio area whose sound can be described as experimental ambient progressive metal. This is an unusual two men project, that started already in 2003. Unfortunately due to the several parallel projects of the band members the release of their debut album “These Stones Cry From the Earth” only [...]

The Black Planet representative in Finland had the chance to chat with “Freedomination” regarding their first tour: “Finnish Redemption Tour 2016” The band was touring in Finnish territory along side Steelwing (SWE) and other supporting local bands like Nuclear Omnicide (Helsinki) & Devastracktor (Turku). Videos and Photos from Turku and Helsinki shows were included in the [...]

After a long 10 years hiatus, the official webpages announce that TOOL has nearly completed the instrumental parts of the upcoming album. Fans all over the world have been wondering and despairing for some new Tool material after the 10,000 days album release in May 2006. A legal battle, that is finally coming to an [...]

Steelfest opens the season of the Open air “summer” festivals in Finland. It will take place in Hyvinkää, a city located around 1h drive north from Helsinki. The festival started already in  2010 on it’s current format and has been gaining the reputation of one of the finnish festivals that presents the most extreme metal [...]

Stratovarius doesn’t require much introductions in the Symphonic metal scene, being considered one of the bands that gave origin to the genre. They started they career in 1985 and released an impressive number of 16 full albums, reaching ten times the Top 5 charts in Finland (their home country). Their are releasing a “Best of” album called “Best [...]

ARCHITECTS is a British metalcore band formed in 2004 and after the debut album “Nightmares” in 2006, some lineup changes occurred in their second album “Ruin” with Sam Carter replacing Matt Johnson as vocalist and front man of the band. The following albums that gradually reached more audience outside UK were released via Century Media “Hollow Crown” (2009), [...]

Thrash metal band DEATHANGEL from San Francisco surely doesn’t require a lengthy introduction. After their Debut album “The Ultra-Violence” back in 1987 , the seven full length albums released in the almost three decades of this band career managed to gather a good amount of loyal fans. With the 8th full album to be released in May [...]

Stam1na is a finnish heavy metal band that settled to sing in their native language after attempting the first demos in english, fact that doesn’t prevent non-fluent or non Finnish speakers to follow their career. Originally formed in 1996 in Lemi the band has been growing exponentially and all their full length albums managed to reach Gold [...]

GOJIRA is working in the new album, still untitled, and already decided to tease their fans that patiently wait the follow up album of the L’enfant sauvage. The new album is suppose to be released this summer but no specific date was announced by the band yet. The album is being build in Joe DuPlantier’s [...]

Noumena is a Finnish melodic death metal band formed already in 1998, but the first full length album was released only in 2002, after a series of demo albums. In 2005 and 2006 under Spinefarm label they released respectively “Absence” and “Anatomy of life”. Their latest released album “Death Walks with Me” (2013) introduced a [...]

The album will be released on the 8th of April, via Entertainment One Music (eOne Music), and the high expectations are based not only in Zakk Wylde status of american guitar hero, but also due to the fact that his last solo album was released more than 20 years ago. The “Book of shadows” was [...]

Karmøygeddon team organizes several club concerts and two festivals per year: Karmøygeddon (April) and Karmøygeddon Arctic (October) Karmøygeddon Metal Festival 2016 will be held on April 28-30 in Kopervik, Norway. With a pretty luxurious lineup, there is no surprise that organizers already announced that the tickets sales for the festival already surpassed the previous editions. [...]

“The Great Cold Distance” landmark album on KATATONIA’s career is celebrating its 10th anniversary in 2016 and for the occasion they will perform an exclusive show in Bulgaria on the 22th of September. The event will take place at the majestic Roman Theater in Plovdiv, they will divide their performance in two sets. For the [...]