Metal From Finland News

A new video interview with Tarja Turunen, from the Masters of Rock festival, can be viewed below. The interview also includes high-quality recordings of the performance at the same festival.  

Professionally filmed video footage of INSOMNIUM's performance at this year's Ilosaarirock festival, which was held July 16-18, 2010 in Joensuu, Finland, can be viewed at this location (courtesy of the Finnish broadcasting company YLE). INS...

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Former NIGHTWISH singer Tarja Turunen's cover version of the WHITESNAKE classic "Still Of The Night" is one of the bonus tracks included on the two-CD "deluxe edition" of her sophomore solo album, "What Lies Beneath&quot...

Munich-based Audrey DUJARDIN representing TERRORIZER magazine covered the TUSKA and RUISROCK festivals. Photos of FINNTROLL from Turku's RUISROCK festival have been posted online. Click on the thumbnail to access the gallery.   FINNTROLL ...

SADISTIK FOREST, a death metal group from Oulu, Finland, has signed a deal with VIOLENT JOURNEY RECORDS. The band's self titled debut will see the light of day at August 12th 2010. The official album release gig is played at August 14th 2010 in ...

Tero Tolkki of Metal From Finland interviewed Lullacry-members Sami and Tanja. During the interview we discovered the reasons for their hiatus and also how things look in the future. Below couple of excerpts "After your Vol 4-album Lullacry sor...

Finland's SONATA ARCTICA have announced a South America tour for October. It will include some countries the band has never played in before. Confirmed dates so far are as follows: October 16 - Mexico City, Mexico - Circo Volador 18 - San Salva...

Metal Hangar 18 reports that a building in the city of Kavarna, Bulgaria features a specially commissioned portrait of former NIGHTWISH singer Tarja Turunen painted onto it. The artist responsible for the Turunen piece is Jasen Nenkov, who has previ...

Video footage of KALMAH's performance at this year's installment of the Metalcamp festival

Finnish/Swedish symphonic metallers NIGHTWISH are in "the deepest countryside of Finland" working on material for their new studio album, which they will begin to record on October 15 for a late 2011 release. Commented keyboardist/mainman...

Former NIGHTWISH singer Tarja Turunen performed a special "Classic and Divine" opera rock show with a symphonic orchestra and choir on June 12, 2010 at the Miskolc International Opera Festival at at the Miskolc Ice Hall in Miskolc, Hungary...

Munich-based Audrey DUJARDIN representing TERRORIZER magazine covered the TUSKA and RUISROCK festivals. Photos of MEGADETH and FINNTROLL from Helsinki's TUSKA festival have also been posted online. Click on the thumbnails to access the galleries...

Finnish rock cello quartet APOCALYPTICA has uploaded video footage of the band's recent trip to Mexico, including clips from two sold-out shows in Mexico City at Teatro Metropolitan on July 8 and July 9 and footage of the pre-sale and signing se...

TARJA TURUNEN to Release Highly Anticipated Sophomore Release, WHAT LIES BENEATH, in the US on August 31, 2010 via The End Records Video For First Single, "Falling Awake," Debuts Today

Below you can listen to Tarja's new single, "Falling Awake" and watch a video from the recordings of the album "What Lies Beneath".  

  Munich-based Audrey DUJARDIN representing TERRORIZER magazine covered the TUSKA and RUISROCK festivals. Photos of OZZY OSBOURNE at RUISROCK and the world wide exclusive show of ZILTOID the OMNISCIENT featuring maestro DEVIN TOWNSEND, TESTAMEN...

On July 11, Aniruddh "Andrew" Bansal of Metal Assault conducted an interview with bassist/vocalist Marco Hietala (TAROT, NIGHTWISH, SINERGY). You can now listen to the chat in two parts below. "I Walk Forever", the new video fro...

Finnish extreme metallers IMPALED NAZARENE have issued the following update: "First things first: After 18 years, [Jarno] Anttila (guitar) has stepped aside from IMPALED NAZARENE. "There is no drama or bullshit involved. Jarno is simply ...

Finnish rock band NEGATIVE was interviewed on the teen TV show "Summeri" (which airs on the YLE TV2 channel) in June, a couple of days after the release of the group's fifth album, "Neon". Watch the chat below. (Note: The int...