Tag: Helsinki
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Hellbound @ Tuska Open Air 2018 in Helsinki
Friday Denmark’s Baest started the 2018 edition of the Tuska off with with a surprisingly tight death outfit in the veins of Entombed or Bloodbath. Definitely was unexpected, and definitely a surprise out of the gate. Baest hasn’t even released an album at this point, but their debut is coming later this month. They’ll be…
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Hellbound @ Tuska Open Air 2017 in Helsinki
Once again I find myself in Helsinki to attend the Tuska Open Air Festival, which has become a staple in my yearly concert plans. The weather called for rain, but for the most part we were lucky to dodge shit weather — mostly. One thing I love and admire about this festival is that the…
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Hellbound @ Tuska Open Air 2016 in Helsinki
Friday At this point for me, Tuska has become a second festival home. It has the right feel in terms of scope of bands, location, weather, and lastly: friends. This year was jam packed with all sorts of stuff I wanted to see. Many of the bands I had seen before, but maybe it has…
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Hellbound @ Tuska Open Air 2015 in Helsinki
The annual Tuska Open Air festival in Helsinki has become my most traveled metal festival aside from ProgPower USA in Atlanta, Georgia. People go nuts over the bigger festivals in Germany like Wacken and Summer Breeze as well as others like Hellfest in France, but I think the Finnish people have it right. It’s just…
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Desolate Shrine – The Heart of the Netherword
So apparently the folks at Dark Descent Records (home of THANTIFAXATH, HORRENDOUS, & LVCIFYRE, among others) don’t want to give hapless metal scribes even a brief respite. Feels like we’re barely out of year-end review season (and into the new year) and they’ve already dropped yet another hands-down triumph. Hailing from the Nordic climbs of…
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Dö – Den EP
You’d think that with a name like Dö, these guys would be completely unGoogleable, but in fact both the second and third search-engine results are related to this band. I guess the umlaut must be what does it. Anyhoo, this Finnish doom trio has just put out its second EP, a half-hour slab of blackened,…
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HELLBOUND @ TUSKA OPEN AIR 2014: DAY ONE
Tuska Open Air Festival 2014 Helsinki, Finland (6/27/14) Waking up a bit groggy from the Barren Earth show the previous night, I tried to become coherent as quickly as possible so that my cohorts and I could get to the bus station to head into downtown Helsinki as quickly as possible. During the Tuska festival,…