Year: 2025Label: Rebellion Records/Cosmic Key Creations Metal and punk have never had a harmonious coexistence, though they have always cross-pollinated each other. Metalheads have sneered at the crudeness and perceived lack of musicianship in punk, and conversely punks have mocked … Continue reading STORM OF STEEL: Storm Of Steel
Year: 2025Label: Voodoo Canapé I quote UK act The Zipheads’ website for a description of their style: “The Zipheads play Rock’n’Roll infused with punk, taking influence from the founding fathers of the 1950s like Little Richard and Chuck Berry, via … Continue reading THE ZIPHEADS: Rock ‘n’ Roll Renaissance
Year: 2025Label: Rebellion Records With their third album, US-Dutch Live By The Sword keep on consolidating their sound, and staying away from anything easy to pigeonhole. At this stage, the band exist in a liminal zone between metal and oi!, … Continue reading LIVE BY THE SWORD: The Pagan Pantheon
Year: 2025Label: self-released No, this isn’t the Italian cult metal band Bulldozer nor any of the other numerous bands of the same name, nor Spanish Bulldozer BCN – this is The Bulldozer from Finland. As far as I can tell, … Continue reading THE BULLDOZER: Battle Scars
Release year: 2024Label: Koffin Kats Records I’ll be on the level with ya: US psychobilly act Koffin Kats have never been my favourites. I first got to know them in the mid-noughties, and from the go my opinion of them … Continue reading KOFFIN KATS: Higher Lows
Year: 2025Label: Break The Records/Fight Records/SPHC Records The warhogs are back, true to their style. Finnish Kürøishi are instantly recognizable from their cover artwork, always featuring wild boars, always courtesy of Akihiko “Sugi” Sugimoto. Maybe it’s not characteristic quite to … Continue reading KÜRØISHI: Egocide Of The Warmad
As most of you probably realize by now, 2024 is over and we’ve entered 2025. For those of you who haven’t, consider this a public service announcement. Anyhow, let’s take a look at some of the noteworthy releases of last … Continue reading A year in summation: 2024
Year: 2024Label: Krypta Records Finnish The Carnival are true eccentrics within the realm of extreme/underground music. Granted, it’s no news to anyone that first wave black metal was heavily influenced by punk rock. And later on, plenty of crust acts … Continue reading THE CARNIVAL: Absoluuttinen syntymä
Year: 2024Label: Doom of the Ignorant Subtlety is a fine art, a tough thing to master – and something Finnish Kusipää don’t fuck with. From the name of the project, the Finnish equivalent of dickhead, asshole or bastard, to the … Continue reading KUSIPÄÄ: Discography 2013-2019
Year: 2024Label: Hell’s Tone Records Has it really been two years already? It doesn’t seem like such a long time since Finnish Laki & Järjestys last released something – but, indeed, their debut album Uusi aika was released in 2022. … Continue reading LAKI & JÄRJESTYS: Ei katumusta
Only Death Is Real 