Interviews 2026

Enemies Everywhere Video Interview

The deathcore band Enemies Everywhere has released its highly anticipated, self-titled debut album. Formed in 2022, the band made a ...

Pretty Addicted Video Interview

Pretty Addicted emerge from the depths of Hell, behold, the children of the Devil. Raised within fundamentalist Christianity and once ...

Nihilus Interview

The Indian metal scene continues to produce bands capable of competing with the genre’s international heavyweights, and Nihilus, a technical ...

Lavina Video Interview

The Serbian metal band Lavina, who first caught the attention of European audiences through their Eurovision appearance, released their latest ...

What Awaits Us Video Interview

What Awaits Us aims to promote awareness through their music: each track is rooted in scientific principles and addresses highly ...

Countless Goodbyes Video Interview

Countless Goodbyes have reached a significant milestone: 15 years as a band. To mark the occasion, they have released a ...

Pauli Hauta-aho Video Interview

Pauli Hauta-aho, one of Finland’s most successful guitarists, is celebrating his 30th career anniversary this year. Over these decades, he ...

Solus Video Interview

Since their formation in 2020, Solus have carved out a distinctive place within Finland's extreme music scene, blending brooding atmospheres ...

Kai Hahto Video Interview

Kai Hahto is widely regarded as one of the most accomplished drummers in the metal world. This year marks his ...

Volucrine Video Interview

Volucrine is a Finnish alternative metal collective that released its debut album in 2011. Four albums, two EPs, and countless ...

Egokills Video Interview

Egokills is a hard rocking metal force founded in 2011. With three albums behind them and dozens of shows across ...

Aston Kalmari Video Interview

Aston Kalmari is a rock band from Lappeenranta, Finland, celebrated for its explosive live presence and sharp, emotionally resonant Finnish ...

Blackment Video Interview

Blackment is a melodic metal force hailing from Hyvinkää, Finland, founded in 2014. Their debut album Plains of Oblivion arrived ...

Rabbit Cult Video Interview

Rabbit Cult is a Finnish "bunnymetal" duo formed by musicians Salla-Marja Hätinen and Marianne Heikkinen. The band is known for ...

Heezer Interview

Stoner rock may be rooted in heavy riffs and hazy atmospheres, but for Finnish fuzz driven outfit Heezer, the story ...

Numento Video Interview

Numento, a progressive melodic death metal band from Finland, has carved out a distinct identity by pairing the intensity of ...

Eluveitie Video Interview

Eluveitie’s fusion of folk metal tradition and death metal ferocity reached a new peak with Ànv, released in spring 2025 ...

Tungsten Video Interview

Tungsten is a Swedish idustrial/folk/power metal band formed in 2016 by former HammerFall and Yngwie Malmsteen drummer Anders Johansson, joined ...

Ikinä Video Interview

For Ikinä, 2026 has been a defining year. First came the release of Valkyria, an intense and emotional album. Then, ...

Accept Video Interview

From the industrial heart of Solingen to the world’s biggest stages, Accept have spent fifty years forging the sound of ...

Brymir Video Interview

Brymir stands as Finland’s hidden metal powerhouse, a band whose explosive melodic death metal has been quietly gathering cosmic momentum ...

Unleashed Video Interview

For more than 35 years, Unleashed have stood as one of the purest embodiments of Death Metal, widely regarded as ...

Hokka Video Interview

Joel Hokka walked away from Blind Channel convinced his relationship with music had run its course. But fate had other ...

Warmen Video Interview

Originally conceived as a side project by Children of Bodom keyboardist Janne Wirman, Warmen has steadily transformed into a fully ...

The Reality Machine Video Interview

What began as a solo project in 2024 has quickly evolved into one of Pori’s most promising new heavy metal ...

Kaunis Kuolematon Video Interview

Since 2012, Kaunis Kuolematon has carried the torch of Finnish melancholy with their blend of melodic death and doom metal, ...

Tabernaculum Video Interview

Australia’s emerging doom metal force Tabernaculum has begun carving its place in the underground with the release of their debut ...

Suicide Chain Video Interview

Rising from the backwoods of Jyväskylä, Finland, Suicide Chain have carved out their own lane with a sound that’s as ...

Allt Video Interview

Allt, the progressive metalcore force formed in 2020 in Karlskoga, Sweden, have built a reputation for blending crushing riffs with ...

Queensrÿche Video Interview

Formed in 1982 in Bellevue, just outside Seattle, Queensrÿche emerged as one of metal’s most forward‑thinking forces. From their self‑titled ...

Kallomäki Video Interview

It begins with the sound of a bow drawn across strings, a call from a time long forgotten. Kallomäki’s music ...

Despiser Video Interview

Despiser has emerged as a defining force in Oulu’s new wave of metal, blending the region’s melancholic Northern melodies with ...

Paleface Swiss Video Interview

Paleface Swiss stands as one of Zürich’s fiercest deathcore exports, a powerhouse whose impact hits with bone‑deep intensity. Since forming ...

Caskets Video Interview

Caskets have become one of Leeds’ most compelling post‑hardcore exports, delivering a crushing blend of modern metal, electronic grit and ...

The Funeral Portrait Video Interview

The Funeral Portrait emerged from Atlanta in 2014, forging a world where theatricality, sharp visual style, and an uncompromising creative ...

Bloodred Hourglass Video Interview

Following the success of "We Should Be Buried Like This," Bloodred Hourglass returned last May with "After the Burial," an ...

Nenerchy Video Interview

Nenerchy has created a sonic identity that defies classification: her music is an electrifying collision of rap, rock, and drum ...

Lunarsea Video Interview

Born from the remnants of Hollowearth in the early 2000s, Italy’s Lunarsea built their reputation on ambitious studio work long ...

Bloody Falls Video Interview

Bloody Falls, the metal quintet formed in 2017 in Valkeakoski, Finland, just released their fourth studio album, "IV," via Art ...

Folkrim Video Interview

After igniting the scene with Embers in 2024, Folkrim reemerge from the Finnish coast with a new offering steeped in ...

Katatonia Video Interview

Before their performance at the Ankea Festival in Finland, we had the opportunity to meet Niklas Sandin, Sebastian Svalland, and ...

Rioghan Video Interview

Fresh off the release of their EP Frozen last spring, Finnish band Rioghan, a genre-bending band constantly shifting between alternative ...

Kælan Mikla Video interview

Shortly before their performance at the Ankea Festival in Finland, we met Kælan Mikla, the Icelandic trio whose music seamlessly ...

Themata Interview

The Finnish heavy metal scene is no stranger to slow-developing projects, taking years to form, hone their sound, and finally ...

Heimwerker Video Interview

Austrian chaos‑collective Heimwerker is not just another punk band, they are a full‑blown incursion from an evil parallel universe lurking somewhere ...

Maneaters Interview

Pure energy, emotional depth, and a strong sense of identity: these are the elements that define the Maneaters, the all-female ...

VOV Video Interview

VOV is a Finnish symphonic metal band known for their ability to blend classical influences with melodic metal and narrative ...

Cumbeast Video Interview

Cumbeast is a brutal and groovy Finnish deathgrind band formed in 2005, known for their distinctive sound: a blend of ...

Eihwar Interview

In a very short time, Eihwar have transformed from an unexpected experiment into one of the most intriguing forces in ...

Neverfade Video Interview

2026 started with a bang for heavy metal band Neverfade. In addition to playing several shows in both Finland and ...

Resumption Video Interview

Resumption is the new doom metal project from Wilhelm Lindh (The Gardnerz, ex-Tristitia, ex-Pandemonium, ex-Allameda). This project bridges the gap ...

Terravia Video Interview

With the debut album A New World, Norwegian act Terravia is positioning themselves as a new comet in the prog ...

Uhrattu Video Interview

Uhrattu is a new Finnish band that fuses black metal with elements of death/doom to create a wicked hybrid of ...