Armed with needles and a yarn of wool, teams of avid knitters danced Thursday to the deafening sounds of drums beating and guitars slashing at the first-ever Heavy Metal Knitting World Championship in ...

Finland’s approach to modern folk music is vastly different than the singer-songwriter-centric subgenre most Americans are familiar with. Over there, it’s not so much a harbinger of heartbreak or ...

Getting tangled up in metal is very calming. The 2022 Heavy Metal Knitting World Championship went down in Joensuu, Finland, last week and let’s just say the video from the event leaves me feeling ...

Here are the five best new metal bands from Finland, as chosen by Wolfheart guitarist/vocalist Tuomas Saukkonen. Finland is a notorious hotbed of heavy metal and has been for decades with fans often ...

When Amorphis guitarist Esa Holopainen talks about the band’s thirty-year history, there’s a hint of nostalgia about its early days in the 1990s, when the Finnish metal outfit burst onto the scene ...

Get ready, Australia. Finland’s power metal juggernauts Battle Beast are finally bringing their demonic anthems down under for the very first time in March 2026. Armed with colossal riffs, ...

"What have you done with our music?!" Doppelgänger Releasing has unveiled the US trailer for the Finnish indie film called Heavier Trip, a hard rock comedy sequel to the 2018 film Heavy Trip. The ...

PHOENIX (3TV/CBS 5) - Finnish heavy metal artist Tarja is stopping in Phoenix on her 2023 Living the Dream Tour. She’ll be stopping in 12 cities across the U.S., starting Wednesday, June 14, in ...

With ear-splitting excess, flamboyant virtuosity and a talent for transgression, where classical music has led, metal has followed. Let’s hope the Philharmonia’s Metal Orchestrated concert turns it up ...