Kürøishi: Käärme sisälläsi, myrkyttää maailmani Release year: 2021Label: Break The Records/Fight Records/SPHC Records Behind the rather odd name of Kürøishi are to be found five Finns, whose collective CV is some kind of impressive: Terveet Kädet, Lapin Helvetti, Deathbound and … Continue reading Kürøishi with snakes inside
NAPALM TED: Cesspool Of Human Mind Release year: 2021Label: self-released/Mögähead Napalm Ted, whose name strikes me as a silly play on the name Napalm Death, have been going at it for six years. During this time, the crust and death … Continue reading Cesspool of napalm
MAYHEM: Atavistic Black Disorder/Kommando Release year: 2021Label: Century Media Norwegian legend Mayhem‘s 2019 album Daemon (reviewed here) was a surprisinly strong album after several that at best were fair to middlin’ quality for almost two decades. Looking back, nothing since … Continue reading Hey ho, let’s mysteriis dom Sathanas
NISTIKKO: Tuhannen pasuunan voimalla Release year: 2021Label: Suicide Records With a past discography steeped in grindcore, it comes as no surprise that Finnish Nistikko continue down a path of furious, dark and extreme punk on their newest album. However, according … Continue reading With the strength of a thousand trombones
LAWMAKER: All Work, No Class Release year: 2021Label: self-released Oi! and working class street punk are forms of music that are often derided as sounding rather samey; someone once made the joke that there are about a dozen oi! albums … Continue reading Sons of the working class
TORO BRAVO: Mes Tokia Karta Release year: 2021Label: Pasidaryk Pats Records, Mangy Little Mut Records Originating in the UK, oi! has since it’s inception and maturing in the late 70’s and early-to-mid 80’s spread throughout the world. Still, apart from … Continue reading Straight outta Lithuania
LAKI & JÄRJESTYS: Kuka lystin kustantaa? Release year: 2021Label: Hellstone Records Finnish oi! has always been something of a rare commodity. The scene itself is small but resilient, but home-grown bands tend to be quite few, and many of them … Continue reading Law, order and brickwall oi!
LIVE BY THE SWORD: Exploring Soldiers Rise Release year: 2021Label: Rebellion Records US-Dutch Live By The Sword have been at it for a few years already, releasing a few 7″‘s and one 12″ MLP as well as partaking on a … Continue reading Living by the sword
LÄHDÖN AIKA: Alku Release year: 2019Label: self-released There’s a definite hardcore element to Finnish Lähdön Aika’s sound, despite them often being labelled as doom metal or sludge. In fact, I think there’s more hardcore than either of the two aforementioned … Continue reading No serenity for Lähdön Aika
DISCREANT: Community Standards Release year: 2019Label: Stadin Rec With thirteen tracks and a running time of ten minutes, and a name starting with “Dis”, it’s pretty easy to guess what’s contained on Community Standards, the first proper release of Finnish … Continue reading The hardcore standards of Discreant
Only Death Is Real 