Photo: Teppo Ristola
What is your belief? This is the question that the Finns Where’s My Bible ask the world. The single “Fenrir”, released a few weeks ago, is a taste of the upcoming album which promises to be more brutal and dark with themes regarding shamanism, Finnish and Nordic mythology as well as the human mind. Before the highly anticipated South American tour, the band played at MonoMassive in Pori and we took the opportunity to discover something more about this very interesting band.
The first edition of MonoMassive, organized by Meara Music, was held in Pori at the Annis house of cultures on September 9th. Six bands took turns on the two stages: Anzillu, Atlas, Where’s My Bible, Medeia, Black Royal, and Rytmihäiriö. The festival was sold-out thanks also to the possibility of participation of young people under 18 years of age. Hopefully the festival will be repeated next year.
Here some photos taken by Cristina Gregori.
The young Finnish band Stoned Statues recently announced the release of their second album “Guardian” preceded by the single “Not that real”, the album promises to be more progry and heavy. We got to chat with Allu and Jenna before their show at Porispere to find out more about their upcoming album, tours and more.
Photo: Pekka Koret
After the success of the debut album “Confession”, Moon Shot is ready to surprise the world with a heavier and more aggressive album that will see the light in the spring of 2024. We had the opportunity to meet Ville and Jussi before their show at Porispere and talk about their upcoming album, tours and more.
Photo by Marc Sabat, edited by Tuomas Rytkönen
Finnish industrial metal band Turmion Kätilöt released their tenth album “Omen X” last January, which was well received by both the public and the press, and subsequently embarked on their first headlining tour of Europe. Everything is about love as singer Saku “Shag-U” Solin told us during the interview we did before their show at Porispere, where we talked about their latest album, tour, merchandising and much more.
Also this year The Offering had the opportunity to be present at Porispere, the festival that has been held every first weekend of August for more than 10 years in Pori. The particularity of the festival is to offer a wide range of musical genres over the three days, ranging from metal to pop and everything in between. Notable names this year included Within Temptation, Airbourne, Stratovarius, The Rasmus, Beast in Black, Turmion Kätilöt, Diablo, and Stoned Statues to name a few. Sunday was the day dedicated to families called Minispere, for the occasion on the stage performed Käärijä, who represented Finland at the last edition of Eurovision, missing the victory by very few points with his “Cha cha cha”. The festival was sold out on Saturday and Sunday, the weather was also forgiving with summer temperatures and only an hour of rain on Saturday. Below the photoreport by Cristina Gregori and Miika Riikonen.
Photo: Johanna Sjövall
Atlases is a Finnish band formed in 2017, after two albums and several lineup changes, the band presents itself to the world with a third album “Between The Day & I” in which it shows the duality of their music with heavy and melodic modern sounds . After a mini-tour in the Baltics, the band introduced itself to its home crowd in Pori, before the gig we had the chance to have a chat with Rasmus Forssel and Jesse Simola to get to know better the band and their music.
The last appointment with Meara Klubi before the summer was also a pre-release party for Atlases album “Between The Day & I”, as open acts Sirkuit Preiker and Golden Rot.
Atlases is a six-piece fiercely forward-thinking ensemble, whose brushes have touched the metal starting point plus plenty of experimental attitude, with their next album, the band made an unprejudiced leap towards even more original expression, the post metal elements are still present, but the band’s experimental attitude also brought with it songs that were more truncated than before.
Golden Rot is a fresh and modern alternative metal band from Tampere, whose members each gained experience in various genres of heavy music, the songs sound fresh as a mix of influences from metalcore, 90s alternative, progressive metal and catchy radio rock tune of the millennium.
Sirkuit Preiker is a Finnish-language electronic metal project, where Samuli Peltola, best known for Medeia, wanders the boundaries of film music and technical death metal.
Here some photos of the night brought to you from Cristina Gregori.
Another appointment with Meara Klubi, this time setting on fire the stage were: Ecotage a hardcore metal band, whose songs focus on animal rights and environmental issues, Wretched Path a death metal band formed in 2020, whose crew has a solid experience: the collective curriculum of the band members includes names like Pestigore, Northern Discipline, Tukkanuotta, Daniel Lioneye and Godsplague, and Cross To Bear a band that has solidified their place in the domestic hardcore scene over the past decade and serve dark and heavy hardcore, which was also influenced by old school death metal.
Here some photos taken by Cristina Gregori.
Pressure Points is a Finnish progressive metal band founded in 2004, after many lineup changes the band finally found the right balance and on March 17th they released their third studio album “The Island”, which received great reviews. We got to meet with founding members Vili Auvinen and Kari Olli to talk about their latest work, concerts, and future plans.
