Category: CD/DVD Reviews

  • 09-08-2007 Poets of the Fall

    Venue: Kaivahuone Helsinki (Finland) By: Nina Mende Kaivohuone is one of the — if not THE — fanciest clubs in Helsinki located in the main city park. Right to the left in the entrance area you can find a Black Jack table, in the club you can find two bars on the left and the stage on the…

  • 08-08-2007 Uniklubi

    Date: 08-08-2007, Tulisuudelma, Vantaa (Finland) By: Nina Mende Tulisuudelma in Vantaa…. sounds like something big, but it’s only one bar of many in the Sokos Hotel in Vantaa with a little stage (about the size of  Nachtleben/Frankfurt, Kuudes Linja/Helsinki or Wild at Heart/Berlin) but a cool venue. Many different places to sit on the sides of the dancefloor…

  • 03,04,05-08-2007 Wacken Open Air

    03/04/05-08-2007, Wacken (Germany) By: Wouter van de Kamp

  • 04/05-08-2007 Ankkarock

    04/05-08-2007 Ankkarock

    Location: Vantaa (Finland)By: Sabine van Gameren Ankkarock is one of Finlands most well known festivals. Every year, many Finnish but also international acts playing on the festival. In my opinion, This festival is the best organized festival I have been to and I have seen many! What makes me say this? Well, Ankkarock takes good…

  • Sonata Arctica – 05/08/2007

    Tony Kakko and Elias Viljanen By: Sabine van Gameren  �   A lot of things going on for Sonata Arctica, Touring all over the world with   their latest release Unia. Tempelores prepared some questions for them.

  • Rubik – 04/08/2007

    Artturi Taira and Samuli Pöyhönen – 04/08/2007 By: Sabine van Gameren Those who have read the review from Ankkarock, will probably remember this band. Rubik took some time to answer our questions.

  • Poets of the Fall – 05/08/2007

    Marko By: Sabine van Gameren Poets of the fall… one of the best pop/rock bands in Finland. Are they ready for the rest of the world? We asked them questions like these…

  • 04-08-2007 Schollenpop

    Date: 04-08-2007, Zuider-strand, Netherlands By: Elvira Visser   Schollenpop is one of those festivals that have something special. This festival   is a free festival on a superb location, the beach. Located on the beach the   festival attracts most people when the sun shines. As this was one of the first   actual sun days…

  • 02-08-2007 Tunes of Dawn

    Support: Electric Monk; Venue: Factory,  Helsinki(Finland) By: Nina Mende Factory is probably the tiniest club I’ve ever been to and should be called garage rather than factory. the stage is so little, the light was super bad and the sound…. and the club just seemed to be the home of chaos itself… a really dirty…

  • 02-08-2007 Megaphone

    02-08-2007 Megaphone

    Date: 02-08-2007,Support: Hollow Heart Semifinal, Helsinki(Finland) By: Sabine van Gameren Hollow heart was about to open this night. In semifinal, which is a little brother from Helsinki’s most famous venue Tavastia. When Hollow started of with a long electronic part, I was really pleased. Sounded quite ok. Too bad that after this intro, the keys became so less…

  • Velcra – Hadal

    Release date: 30-05-2007, Label: Underarts By: Sabine van Gameren Velcra started as a typical mix between nu-metal and Industrial. This Finnish band might be not that well known in Europe, but that might change with the latest release. With their new album Hadal they seem to have made some changes from what they have done…

  • 28-07-2007 Stonehenge

    Location: Steenwijk (Netherlands) By: Wouter van de Kamp Due to circumstances I wasn’t able to make it to the first band and was about to miss the first part of the second band. The first band didnt have my personal interest and the second one turned out to have cancelled their gig due to vocal…