It’s always a great sight to see a long line stretch out from the entrance to Clwb Ifor Bach on a week night. The line consists of Viking warriors and pirates, not to mention the bloke dressed as both. Passers by stare and laugh to themselves as a girl clad mostly in furs and war-paint […]

The Bloodstock team are delighted to announce that Finnish symphonic metallers NIGHTWISH have been confirmed for BOA 2008. Along with fellow headliners Dimmu Borgir and Opeth, the addition of Nightwish is set to help make BOA 2008 the best Bloodstock yet.
From humble beginnings in 1996, Nightwish rapidly rose to prominence and were instrumental in driving […]

Photograph: © Owain Richards
It’s the day of the first show on the UK DARK TRANQUILLITY tour and we’re sat in the subterranean venue of the Cardiff Barfly while hundreds, if not thousands, of red jerseyed rugby fans, inebriated, cheer on their team above ground. In a little green room, we take time out to chat […]

Finnish metallers TERÄSBETONI have been selected to represent Finland in this year’s Eurovision Song Contest. TERÄSBETONI won the Finnish national selection with the song “Missä miehet ratsastaa” and will represent the country in the semifinal of the 53rd Eurovision Song Contest on May 20 in Belgrade, Serbia. The band scored a runaway victory in […]

Finnish metallers, Children Of Bodom, have announced a handful of European tour dates in support of their upcoming album “Blooddrunk”. They have announced shows in Finland, festival dates as well as a couple of warm up shows in the UK before their appearance at the Download festival in Castle Donington.
The dates announced are as […]

Photograph: © Owain Richards
On a mild afternoon in Cardiff, the capital of Wales, we climbed aboard a big Swedish tourbus parked almost right outside Cardiff’s illustrious castle in the centre of the city to have a chat with Finnish metal band Omnium Gatherum. Meanwhile, Dark Tranquillity’s Mikael Stanne slept soundly in a bunk next door.
We […]

Finnish folk metal band MOONSORROW have released the following details regarding their forthcoming EP:
The release date of “Tulimyrsky EP” is set to March 26th by Spikefarm Records. Although called an EP, the length of this opus is somewhere past one hour. It consists of one new song, two covers and two old demo songs reworked.
Looking […]

Fan-filmed video footage of CHILDREN OF BODOM performing the new song “Tie My Rope” for the first time at this year’s annual Spinefeast event (dubbed Spinefeast At Sea 2008), which took place January 31 - February 1 aboard the Tallink Galaxy cruise chip in Finland, can be viewed below.
TIE MY ROPE 

AMARANTH (NIGHTWISH COVER)

CHILDREN OF BODOM […]

According to Kerrang! magazine, this year’s Download festival will take place the weekend of June 13-15 and will be headlined by Welsh rockers LOSTPROPHETS, Orange County punkers THE OFFSPRING and one other as-yet-undisclosed legendary rock band (strongly rumored to be KISS).
Other bands confirmed for this year’s festival include metal gods JUDAS PRIEST and Finnish love […]

Finnish power metallers SONATA ARCTICA have confirmed that they will play six dates in the UK and Ireland this April. The dates are as follows:
April 21 - London Carling Academy
April 22 - Leeds Rio’s
April 23 - Glasgow Garage
April 25 - Sheffield Corporation
April 26 - Dublin Button Factory
April 27 - Dudley JB’s