Tag Finland
You all know I love Death Metal, but do I ever get bored of it? Well yes actually. When I was younger and more of an elitist I’d pick Obituary over Manowar, now it’s the reverse. Plus, the fact that… Continue Reading →
Finnish Juggernauts Sadistik Forest have delivered another crunching and bruising package in the form of 4 track EP, ‘Obscure Old Remains’, which will maul and batter you from the opening chords of ‘Mandragore’ to the closing echoes of ‘Waters Black’…. Continue Reading →
There are some bands that you just instantly fall in love with, such is the case for me and Impaled Nazarene. I heard their debut album Tol Cormpt Norz Norz Norz… pretty early on in my Extreme Metal journey. It… Continue Reading →
Is it really 4 years since I reviewed “The Horse and Other Weird Tales” by Finns Jess and the Ancient Ones? Of course time stands for Jess and chums – somewhere around 1967 in a haze of patchouli, flowers and electric kool aid. Exactly how it… Continue Reading →
Amorphis guitarist Esa Holopainen has decided it’s high time he mixed things up a bit. I guess 30 years in the same band can do that to a guy, but it’s not like Amorphis with their Dark Metal stylings are… Continue Reading →
It’s been 4 years since I reviewed ‘I Am Become’ and Hanging Garden released ‘Into That Good Night’ in the intervening years, where vocalist Riikka Hatakka became a permanent member. This is also the seventh album for the Finnish septet… Continue Reading →
Blachthrashingdrunkenmetalpunx rejoice. Here we have a split 7” vinyl release (although sent to us on a burnt CD) of two very kvlt outfits. Both have two tracks on respective sides of the record and although it is short weighing in… Continue Reading →
Throat sound like they should be some awful metalcore, sample driven, knuckleheaded cagoule wearing, tight jeans wearing blot on the heavy music horizon band, but luckily for me (and you) they’re not that at all. In fact, what these glorious… Continue Reading →
The Signature Dark label focuses mainly on dark ambience, drone, minimalism and experimental music. [ówt krì] ‘s soundscapes have been fitting this bill for quite some time so it would seem to be the perfect match. There’s not so much… Continue Reading →
Children Of Bodom are I would say a very iconic band, at least for my generation. Hate Crew Deathroll is certainly an album that I would cite as a bridge between softer Metal and more Extreme music. To me it… Continue Reading →
This band’s previous self-titled album proved to be enjoyable and interesting fuel for the imagination with its range of experimental sound improvisations so it was good to hear that two years on, Tottumiskysymys has another work out there. For those… Continue Reading →
Petri Kuljuntausta is the founder of Akusmata, a sound art gallery in Helsinki, Finland. He is also an established composer and sound artist himself, and recently collated and edited the book “Sound, Art and Climate Change”, in which he… Continue Reading →