The Ocean shared their new single ‘Belligerence’ from upcoming album ‘Solaris’, set for release in September with Pelagic Records!
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Sci-fi metal innovators Voïvod dropped a new video clip for the song ‘Holographic Thinking’ from their recently with Century Media Records released ‘Symphonique’ album! Catch them in Europe right now with club shows and appearances at festivals like for instance Alcatraz Festival!
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Ecuadorian progressive metal trio Minipony unveiled the single ‘Pachanga’ a couple of weeks ago with a music video, the first taste of their upcoming EP ‘Detach’, out still this month via Subsound Records!
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Progressive metal standouts Stellar Circuits shared their new single ‘Stargazer’, out now everywhere via Nuclear Blast! Catch them on tour in Europe with Evergrey coming November and December!
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Belgian progressive post-metal outfit Traels shared their new single ‘Centered’ from their upcoming album ‘A Study of Absence’, set to be released in November through their new label Polderrecords!
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Green Carnation just recently announced the third and last part of their ‘A Dark Poem’ trilogy, ‘The Messiah Complex’, to be out in September with Season of Mist, and shared the lead single ‘Unconditional Artificial Chemistry’!
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Progressive, alternative metal band Haken announced the release of their new EP ‘in a fever dream’ in September with InsideOutMusic and shared the new single and video ‘delirium’! Catch them on tour all over Europe shortly after the release!
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Symphonic metal project Eternal Recurrence released their debut self-titled EP and a music video for the track ‘Precious Stones’ featuring Mordian and James Dorton on vocals!
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Progressive heavy metal act Crystal Throne unveiled their new single and lyric video ‘Children Of The Ruins’, a first glimpse in their upcoming album ‘Chantry Of Sacrifice’!
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Progressive gothic metal collective The Eternal have unveiled their latest new video single ‘Existing To Expire’, a track from their upcoming album ‘Obscured Horizons’, out in September via Reigning Phoenix Music!
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Photo Reports
In mid-May, Ääniwalli became a vortex of technical brutality and progressive intensity as Born of Osiris brought their tour to Helsinki. With support from death metal and deathcore juggernauts Ingested, the genre-bending Entheos, and Portugal’s The Voynich Code, the night unfolded as a showcase of modern metal’s most forward-pushing acts.
Rivers of Nihil took over Tavastia in Helsinki a couple of months ago and absolutely blew our minds at the end of our weekend back then with the help of Cynic, Beyond Creation and Dååth!
Opeth released an absolutely brilliant new album with ‘The Last Will And Testament’ last year, and now they brought it to the stage all over Europe. And we in Helsinki were honored to be the first stop of the tour back in February, getting a first taste of their new work live. And with Grand Magus to warm us up, this was a brilliant night for the (metal) music lovers among us! An event by Fullsteam Agency
Every year we like to look back at the amazing shows we captured, and in 2024 Anna/ScarletMemory Photography covered bands like Vola, Apulanta, Marko Hietala, Cyan Kicks, Stam1na, Kotiteollisuus, Blind Channel, Cyhra, Sigh, Everwave, Sonata Arctica, Neonfly, Altamullan Road, Avatar, Raskasta Joulua, Beatrix, Battle Beast, Steve ‘n’ Seagulls, Áilu Valle, Amoc and Trio Boogiemen mostly in Tampere, Finland!
Finland’s band of misfits King Satan released their latest album ‘The Devil’s Evangelion’ via Noble Demon, and such an epic album deserves a proper release tour of course. With them, they brought their friends of the dark elektro duo Miseria Ultima to open the night, and doomy outfit The Abbey as direct support at the Helsinki stop. An excellent night of great music and friends, and with all bands in absolute top form!
We caught Vola before on their European tour when they visited Finland. But on this night we managed to see them again, this time in Eindhoven, Netherlands. And with their special guest Charlotte Wessels playing somewhat of a home show, the night turned into an unforgettable one for sure!
On the back of the release of their latest album ‘Friend of a Phantom’, VOLA embarked on an extensive European tour and dropped by Vanha Ylioppilastalo in Helsinki, Finland in November to repeat the amazing performance they had at Tuska this past summer! With them, they brought the ever enchanting Charlotte Wessels and Feather Mountains. An event by TuskaLive.
Pop Evil and Bad Wolves joined forces on the “Animal Instinct Tour” touring through the US, bringing along Sierra Pilot and ONI for the ride! We caught them at their Thanksgiving eve show at Pierre’s in Ft. Wayne in Indiana!
Vola’s ‘Friend of a Phantom’ tour passed through Finland last week and hit Tampere’s Pakkahuone on Tuesday November 5th. It was a filled with emotion, not only from Vola, but also the support acts Feather Mountain and Charlotte Wessels. This almost overwhelming rollercoaster ride of emotions was brought to us by TuskaLive.
Eleine’s show at DVG Club Kortrijk was electrifying, with Ignea’s powerful performance setting the stage. Ignea’s captivating blend of progressive and symphonic metal, combined with Eleine’s dynamic stage presence and infectious energy, created an unforgettable evening for the enthusiastic audience.
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A small grab of what we are looking forward to the most of the many exceptional releases coming our way during May 2022!
The month of April brings us not only Spring in full bloom, but a long list of stellar releases. Here is a selection of those we’re looking forward to the most!
March is one hell of a month! Yet again tons of releases to pick from, so here is a small selection again of what we highly recommend and is most anticipated for us!
Putting all the favorites of our team of writers and photographers together, we’ve come to a really diverse and interesting overall AOTY list!
12 more releases of March 2021 we have been looking forward to for a while! Check it out!
Not including these records in my top 2020 was just too painful.
Another year has gone by, so it’s time again to reveal what albums have intrigued me the most last year.
Once you go heavy, you never go back… Wouter’s albums of the year hold on to the good olden days of Heavy Metal!
A full year of incredible releases that we are trying to cram into a list of “albums of the year”, here we go again…
Album Reviews
Green Carnation releases their first new album in 14 years and it’s a musical masterpiece like you’d come to expect from these prog masters.
As far as musical valentine gifts go they don’t get much sweeter than this. Ihsahn has just released the first of two EPs dedicated to his hometown of Telemark in Norway.
“Pitfalls” is the album that nobody expected from Leprous. Alternative and progressive mixed as one topped with beautiful emotional melodies.
With the unchained Macro, Jinjer defy any boundaries. It brings us a cocktail of how modern heavy progressive metal should sound like.
Wheel brings you a sound that is very much inspired by Tool, but with a great personality and great songwriting skills!
In 2018 The hellish intronauts of Oranssi Pazuzu and Dark Buddha Rising came together for a one off event, commissioned for the Roadburn Festival, ingeniously monikered The Waste of Space Orchestra. Syntheosis is the studio interpretation of that psychotropic interdimensional journey.
In need of some technically typically djent. These French dudes from Kadinja are bringing us some technically djent that can compete with their bigger brothers in the genre.
Soen takes us on a progressive ride with music that has their signature sound all over!
Let your imagination run free when you listen to Fabulae Dramatis’ album ‘Solar Time’s Fables’. Find out here how.
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