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Category: Editorial

  • 01-01-2009 Finntroll

    Supports: Battlelore, Metsatöll; Venue: Nosturi, Helsinki (Finland) By: Nina Mende & Sabine van Gameren I did not expect Nosturi to be that crowded on a New Year’s Day. A long queue of metal heads – or let’s rather say of folk metal heads – were waiting outside waiting to get in for the show.

  • 31-12-2008 Plantera

    Supports: Vanity Beach, Wankers of the Zoo Crew; Venue: Dante’s Highlight, Helsinki (Finland) By: Sabine van Gameren & Nina Mende It is New Years Eve, three bands are scheduled in Dante’s Highlight in Helsinki, one of the rising clubs in the area.

  • 27,29,30-12-2008 Helldone Festival

    Venue: Nosturi & Tavastia, Helsinki (Finland) By: Nina Mende Day 1 (Nosturi, 27.12.2008) The first and extra day of Helldone took place at Nosturi in Helsinki with only two bands playing: HIM and 45 Degree Woman.

  • 27-12-2008 Stereojunks!

    Venue: Semifinal, Helsinki (Finland) By: Nina Mende A little late I arrived at Semifinal, because it is some walk form Nosturi to Semifinal and also because HIM were running late. So I missed seeing Dead By Gun but I arrived just before Stereojunks! began playing.

  • 26-12-2008 Maj Karma

    Supports: Wiidakko; Venue: Nosturi, Helsinki (Finland) By: Nina Mende Back in Finland and back to the shows. Tonight Nosturi was the place to be. Maj Karma was playing there with Wiidakko, two Finnish bands singing in Finnish only. The venue was not very crowded, the upstairs was partially closed.

  • Negative – 17-12-2008

    By: Nina Mende

  • Your Favorite Enemies – Love Is A Promise Whispering Goodbye

    Label: Hopeful Tragedy Records By: Nina Mende Your Favorite Enemies is a Canadian band you might have heard of before at myspace and maybehave seen one or the other YFE-communities. When Alex Foster (vocals), Jeff Beaulieu (guitar), Sef (guitar), Ben Lemelin (bass), Miss Isabel (vocals and keys) and Charles Moose Allicy (drums) got together to…

  • 21-12-2008 Die Happy

    Supports: Trustgame; Venue: Kuz, Mainz (Germany) By: Nina Mende Now this is what I call an opening act. Trustgame rocked the full KUZ in Mainz. Trustgame is a five piece band from Duisburg/Germany playing rock music.

  • Before the Dawn – Soundscape of Silence

    Releasedate: 31-10-2008; Label: Stay Heavy Records By: Sabine van Gameren Before the Dawn is a melodic Dark Metal band from Finland which started in 1999 as a solo project of Tuomas Saukkonen. During the years, there were some more official members added and some have gone as well. Now Before the Dawn released their 5th…

  • 19-12-2008 Negative

    Supports: Substyle; Venue: Batschkapp, Frankfurt (Germany) By: Nina Mende No photo pit but totally crowded: The Negative show in Frankfurt was the complete contrast to the one in Erfurt. The venue was full way before the bands began to play, but several people from Erfurt were at this show as well. Since there was no…

  • Catamenia – VIII – The Time Unchained

    Releasedate: 24-10-2008; Label: Massacre Records By: Sabine van Gameren Catamenia, started back in 1995, is already up for their 8th full length album. The Finns make melodic Black metal and had loads of lineup changes through the years. Recently they dropped the keyboards out of their music. “VIII: The Time Unchained” is the name of…

  • Bible of the Devil – Freedom Metal

    Releasedate: November 2008; Label: Cruz Del Sur Music By: Elvira Visser Hailing from Chicago are the Rock ‘n Roll metallers Bible of the Devil and have completed their fifth full length album entitled “Freedom Metal”, which is a follow-up on their 2006 release “The Diabolic Procession”. The band has been around for almost 10 years…