How do you look back at 20 years of playing heavy metal, the constant grind of touring and recording albums and back again? If you’re singer/guitarist Alexi Laiho of the Finnish band Children of Bodom ...

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 ...

There must be something about the frigid cold in Finland. Bands from there are driven to produce some of the best music – and Finnish band Amorphis is no exception. Since their beginnings in 1990 ...

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 ...

Tuomas Holopainen got the idea to form Nightwish while fulfilling his national service in the Finnish army. His plan was to create an acoustic band to make ‘campfire music’. Luckily for metal, he soon ...

Listening to one of Finnish metal band Korpiklaani's frantic songs is like being tackled by a frisky Finnish Lapphund — it's not subtle, but it sure is likable. The band's music fuses humppa (a ...

Seraphine Meschberger loved concerts in Finland so much she'd fly there from Switzerland to attend. She eventually decided to move to Finland and is now working there full-time. She said she loves the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Apocalyptica and The Hu are hitting the road this summer, and the Finnish metal cellist trio is making the tour even more ...

Record labels don’t get much more cult than Svart. Based in Turku, Finland, and primarily devoted to the country’s metal scene, the imprint has unearthed many underground treasures in recent years, ...

Ameriikan Poijat, a Finnish-style brass band based in Northfield, will present three performances in southeastern Minnesota this weekend. — The group will perform at 8 p.m. Saturday at Whistle Binkies ...