Finland

Worldwide black metal terror unit Adaestuo craft a black metal masterpiece on new album, “Krew Za Krew”. Now streaming at Decibel.

Ville Viljanen and Andy Gillion of Finnish melodic death metallers Mors Principium Est crush riffs and burgers in this latest interview.

Hear a new song from old-school Finnish death metallers Festerday.

Finnish atmospheric black metallers Disciples of the Void issue star-gazing new track “Dominion” off their new album via Finland’s Primitive Reaction.

Long-standing Finnish black metallers Trollheims Grott are battle ready on new album, “Aligned with the True Death.”

Wolfheart discuss their new album, Constellation of the Black Light

Mikko Rissanen & Aleksis Laakso from Finnish death-doom-black metallers Totalselfhatred talk the virtues of new album, “Solitude.”

For black metal fans who like their music epic but not cheesy, dark yet still melodic, Vihamieli is definitely a band to watch.

Finnish black metal phenoms Devouring Star explore Sin as a divine trait on new song “Scar Inscriptions.”

Reformed Finnish death metallers Abhorrence premiere new bruiser “Anthem for the Anthropocene.”

Amorphis’ Tomi Koivusaari talks the importance of bees, riffs, and the return of Olli-Pekka Laine.

Convocation discuss their debut effort, Scars Across.

Stream the new album from Hukutus and read their track-by-track analysis of the album.

Finnish depressive black metallers Totalselfhatred slit wrists on new track “Solitude MMXIII.”

Ghastly‘s Death Velour is our Best New Noise.

Check out the lyric-video for “Vedestä Vieraantunut,” from Finland’s own Vermilia.

Stream the title track from the new Galvanizer album now.

Alghazanth manages an excellent balance between the raw sounds of the Norwegian second wave and just enough production value to give the music the extra boost it needs to fulfill its theatrical destiny.

You can rely on Finland to consistently deliver on a few things: pine trees, winning gold medals at the winter Olympics and producing excellent metal.

Stream a new Hooded Menace song now!

Watch a new video from Oddland, recorded during their 2017 European tour.

Stream a new video from US/Finnish black metal band Nihilistinen Barbaarisuus.

The new Sepulchral Curse song is a 10-minute epic that will conclude the band’s EP in December. 

Refinement?  Bah!  Technical acumen?  Bwaaaahhh!  This is crude, grave-stomping, bone-grinding death metal tuned for pit domination and soul desecration.

On this week’s Demo:listen, we lie down on the cool earth and watch the aeons unfurl with Finland’s Burial Choir.

Death/doom from Finland inspired by 19th century tyrants? Vainaja and Decibel have got you covered.

Says vocalist Agathon about the song: “‘The Shameful Kiss’ is about The Ritual conjuring the dark forces. Those forces might be unknown for many, but it does not mean that they do not exist. I think ‘The Shameful Kiss’ caught the old Gloomy Grim mood… Without the keyboards this could be pure Thrash Metal song.”

Finnish black metallers True Black Dawn have preached the good and blasphemous word since 1992. Check out the premiere for the title track on Come the Colorless Dawn, the band’s second full-length, and first album in 15 years.

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Because every day another band records another song.  Because 83% of those songs are unlistenable and you can’t be bothered to sift through the dreck.  Because metal is about not giving a shit and waking your own personal storm.  Because music is universal, expression is boundless, and even indie labels (whatever that means these days)…