As a band, how do you go about making the choice of which cuts to pre-release from your next album? Surely each one is like your child and inseparable? For Finnish Alternative Groove Metal band Exision their choices have been made simple. Two guest vocal appearances, two singles, done. The first, “Persona Non Grata”, saw them joined
A man with a rich and varied history as a multi instrumentalist, Swallow The Sun drummer Juuso Raatikainen has started a new project in which he is joined by vocalist Okko Solanterä (Horizon Ignited, I Am the Night). They’re calling the new beast Sounds Of Delusion and the first taste of their creations is “Blood Washes Away
While Finland maybe synonymous with Melodic Death Metal and Folk Metal, it’s not a place from which you might expect to hear a band claim Technical Deathcore as their sound. Seinäjoki based five piece Boreal Grave have other ideas and cutting against the grain offer debut record “I Am Your Bane” as evidence it can be
Cinematic Progressive Metal ambassadors Egres have shared an epic five minute long exploration of the impact of memories and remembering on the human perception of the happiness of life lived in “Retrieval“. Touching on the concepts of experiencing and remembering selves, the themes and lyrical narrative were visioned by the cinematic composition. Unconventional structures with semitone
Having submitted evidence in “Infinitum” and “The First Daylight” as evidence, the court demanded more. So Finnish Melodic Death Metal band Dimman have selected “The Acrimony” as a third piece of the puzzle from their second studio album “Consciousness” in hope of gaining further attention. 28th February will see the records release via Inverse Records in
After his departure from the band in 2023, Rudy Fabritius is credited as the drummer on a new full length record from Finnish Progressive Metal band Joviac. Set for a 16th May release via Inverse Records the third album from the group is called “Autofiction Pt. 1 – Shards” and was mastered by Teemu Liekkala
Age is but a number and it has no baring on the ability of a band to deliver us to the nirvana of a decent record. That’s why we’re not bothered about the fact that Pestilent Scars are a five piece Melodic Death Metal band from Oulu whose line up are all between 18 and
As doom approaches with the bleak sounding “Within the Slumber of the Mind” on 21st February via Inverse Records, Defiled Serenity have taken a moment to premier another pre-release single from it in “Exiled To Infinity“. If you missed it, the Melodic Death Metal band from Loimaa Finland have already given us “Your Worst Enemy”
Including movie clips from The Internet Archive of “Catastrophe 1977” by Larry Savadove (1977), “Circus Day in Our Town” by Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, inc, (1949) and “Grave Concerns” by Northampton Community Television (2016), all used with permission, a music video for the ominous sounding “End Of Days” has been shared by Inverse Records from Post-Metal
After their debut EP “Rogue Five” earned them a Finnish tour and their first gig abroad at Bloodstained Metal Fest in Estonia, Melodic Death Metallers Admire the Grim will be hoping their debut album “Resist” will take them a step further. Ahead of the 31st January via Inverse Records release, the band have shared the
