Fourteen months after last summer’s EP “Beaten Will Rise” made an impact on Planet Metal, Jyväskylä Finland Melodic Thrash quartet Justice Theory have returned with “Fireborn“. It’s the first of a number recorded in sessions earlier this year referenced at a show back in February at Freetime Live with Slash The Smile…
A fifth studio album “Raven And The Nightsky” from the resurgent Dark The Suns recorded with sound engineer Teemu Liekkala (Joviac, Everlore, Raskasta Iskelmää) recording and mixing is on the way. The four single from that “Swans of the Frozen Waters” has been given the full music video treatment ahead of a release via Inverse
A long gestating project that has only recently borne fruit, Sargassus have roots that go back more than a decade with guitarist Teemu Leskinen and drummer Matias Rokio having played and practised together for years before sharing any of their sonic creations. Curiously most of the songs that they have written have been composed intuitively
Uniting Death Thrash enthusiasts from across the globe, Khiral from Helsinki Finland have shared their first new material in single “Versions Of Reality” after a couple of years of radio silence. Their second full-length album “Shards” surfaced in August 2021 and saw the band take a huge death defying leap forward in terms of composition,
That would be “One Common Society“. Mixed and mastered by Second To Sun frontman Vladimir Lehtinen (Grima, Ultar) and combining Melodic Black and Death Metal, Finland’s i Helvete have announced “Yksi Yhteinen Yhteiskunta” as the title of their sophomore album. A concept record which tells the story of a movement that sees the direction of the modern world as
Finnish label Inverse Records have announced that they will be distributing a new album from multi instrumentalist Tuomas Kauppinen. He’s credited with acoustic guitar, vocals, bass, djembe, drums and electric guitar on “Hyperborean Ecstasy” which is being released under the moniker Nobody and finds him painting in textures of Black Metal. “Excommunicated” is the first
49 days after their last one, Finnish Progressive Metallers Damnation Plan have released third single ‘Dreamdead‘ off their new upcoming album ‘The New Horizon‘. The new song represents something of a more straightforward style of metal from record than the previously released 8 minute progressive epics ‘The New Horizon‘ and ‘Under The Veil Of Sea‘.
Having members in their ranks known for their work in To/Die/For, Burning Point, Antipope and Downstone, Finnish quintet Death’s-Head and the Space Allusion can be excused for having only released one album “The Counterbalance” in the past seven years. That drought is set to come to an end in 2023 however as their next magnum opus
Finnish Progressive Death inspired Post-Metal band Sargassus have released the first single “Breed of the Exodus” from their upcoming EP “King Of The Sun“. Set to be released on 17th August via Inverse Records. Interestingly, the majority of the bands songs are composed intuitively in live jamming sessions by drummer Matias Rokio and guitarist Teemu
Curiously sharing cover art with September single “Out Of Time“, Finnish Melodic Death Metal band Erase This Earth have released new single “King Of Lies” via Inverse Records. Both cuts follow the bands 2022 EP “Signs” with the band having hints of Tech and Progressive in their sound…
