Finest Grind’n’Crust

from Goat E Borg

As if out of nowhere the album “Back from the Goats” of the goat herd MILKING THE GOATMACHINE appeared in 2009 and this year they can be seen on all well-known festival stages of the metal world. The sudden appearance fits the band history. According to their own statements, the brothers Goatleeb and Goatfreed Udder came to earth from their planet GoatEBorg in 2008 to usurp world domination with their Goatgrind (the mentally intact earth metaller would probably call it Death/Grind).

WARMEN

WARMEN was for many years something like a solo project with band character of the then Children Of Bodom keyboardist Janne “Warman” Wirman. WARMEN 2023 provide a maximum of variety – and not expected hardness – in their musical reorientation. HERE FOR NONE heralds a new era – freely following the motto “The king is dead, long live the king” WARMEN are not only musically setting out for new shores – due to the new line-up it can now be rightly said that WARMEN are now spectacularly taking over the musical heritage of Janne’s former band. HERE FOR NONE is brutally varied, but in itself extremely coherent – and thus the new reference work in terms of melodic hardness from Finland!

Sonata Arctica frontman Tony Kakko

There is great power in secrecy. Detached from the world, brewed under a strict code of confidentiality, a new lifeform came into existence. Led by none other than Sonata Arctica frontman Tony Kakko, this new beast of his gained momentum in the massive shadow of his wildly successful power metal superheroes, slowly, steadily, biding its time, waiting for the right moment.

 This moment is now.

With his self-titled debut, Tony Kakko opens the curtains into this strange new world of his just enough to take a first peek – and instantly hunger for more. A master story teller and a wizard of conjuring musical emotions, Himmelkraft stages Kakkos trademark talents in a wholly new, unexpected and thrilling way. “I don’t think it would make any sense releasing Sonata-type music through another band,” he says. “People would just assume the album is full of Sonata outtakes or leftovers. I don’t operate that way.”

Melodic Death From Finland

Finland is still considered “the land of metal” and regularly sends impressive bands out into the world. This undoubtedly includes the band HORIZON IGNITED, founded in 2017 by guitarists Johannes Mäkinen and Vili Vottonen. With their albums “After The Storm” (2019) and “Towards The Dying Lands” (2022), the guys already were able to impressively demonstrated this. The latter has now been streamed almost 4 million times.