Tag Finland
Festering for over 15 years these Finns have been growing ever more confident in their ghastly art and it has been good watching them grow. Having 4 albums, a host of split releases and even a compilation and live album… Continue Reading →
War! What is it good for? Not a lot really, other than perhaps music. I mean is war the love song of the Metal or even Punk world? I would say so. It’s a topic that is covered time and… Continue Reading →
Yep this is Finnish but boy listening to it there is a good chance you will get transported off to the Wild West and the lawless frontiers. Perhaps that is due to the fact that it has been the musical… Continue Reading →
When you delve into death metal through the decades within the specific scenes around the world you find that each part of the world has its own take on the style and one area that has always really caught my… Continue Reading →
The first thing that strikes you about this album is the widely varying track lengths that range from a couple of minutes to fourteen which matches the massively fluctuating styles the band has constructed within the six compositions on this… Continue Reading →
Branded as Epic Folk Metal, Ensiferum’s journey has indeed been epic. And it gets more epic with every album – as time dictates it should. The band are the embodiment of epic, their music, lyrics, image – all epic, and… Continue Reading →
Black Metal is very much a seasonal thing for me, I’m that sad act who ‘prefers it in the winter’. That said I kind of feel that those foundations have been shaken in the last few weeks. What with the… Continue Reading →
Including members of Nekrokrist SS (apparently not political) this is a debut and its country of origin couldn’t be in doubt. Beginning with a gunshot in ‘Bleed’ we are flung straight into a Finnish whirlwind of tumultuous riffing and that… Continue Reading →
One of the joys of this lark is picking up a band who are brand new and mysterious to cover and finding you have a gem on your hands. Of course, it doesn’t always work out that way but as… Continue Reading →
These Finns have been around since 2006 and deal in a primal mix of black, death and grindcore. Every so often I listen to a band and find its extremity strangely relaxing and soporific. Violent Hammer are one such band…. Continue Reading →
October Falls are a longstanding black metal band from Finland, founded by Mikko Lehto in 2001. A one-man project in its beginnings, the band quickly expanded to a full band line up. Today, its three members can look back on… Continue Reading →
“The project conjures layered soundscapes with DIY instruments in the fields of experimental music, noisescapes and dark ethereal ambient” is the way the label manager introduces this latest album from Finland’s Kenneth Kovasin, the creator of [ówt krì]. I simply… Continue Reading →