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Rauta recently reviewed Burden of Ymir – From Elivagar [BLACK METAL REVIEW] [...]

Rauta recently commented on Norwegian cult black metal: Ildjarn – Worst to Best [OPINION] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuEpU_VPR2A [...]

Rauta recently reviewed Ellende – Triebe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pV9UY-_fs4 [...]

Rauta recently interviewed a band part of the new wave of Finnish black metal: Mormânt de Snagov [...]

Fullsteam Agency brings the genre iconic band Carpenter Brut to Helsinki. The event will take place on 28th March at The Circus venue and will rely on Youth Code as opening band. The French single-man synthwave phenomenon Carpenter Brut will be back to Helsinki. For those who still don’t know the act, the artist combines influences from [...]

Some bands are a rare treat to witness live, and the Norwegian post-metal giants Virus (not to be confused with at least 20+ other groups sharing the same name) is definitely one of them. Alongside with Grave Pleasures, the group warmed up Blowup That Gramophone’s Helsinki-based Blowup (Vol. 3) festival extravaganza, which brings experimental and [...]

Next Friday, 17th of February 2017, Helsinki will welcome again URFAUST. Their last appearance in the country was in 2014 at Steelfest Festival and their return has been highly awaited. They will headline the event relying in TOTALSELFHATRED as main support band, TELOCH and KYY. The event will take place at Virgin Oil Co. venue, [...]

Turku Saatanalle V is once again organised by Metallihelvetti (Metalhell) and will take place at Gong1 venue in Turku (Finland). It can honestly be said that the upcoming weekend (3-4 February) will bring one of the most awaited events from the beginning of 2017 in Turku area. Profanatica and Ajattara will be the headliners of this event full of solid [...]

Read what you can expect from this exceptional event, held at Nosturi venue in Helsinki (Finland) already this week wednesday (October 12th). Highlighting the come back to Helsinki of the acclaimed Australian band Ne Obliviscaris, currently touring in Europe with Enslaved. The event counts also with the presence of the Finnish bands Brymir and Oddland.  ODDLAND With a [...]

A one-of-a-kind album release by the almost forgotten SCUM band is expected by the end of 2016. The five elements band is a classic Finnish death metal band that was formed in 1990 in Parikkala (East Finland). Their start coincided with the onset of the Finnish death metal scene. Quickly discovered and  started working with [...]

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 [...]