PHOTO REPORT: Metal Crane Festival 2019 -Day 1- January 18, 2019 at Nosturi in Helsinki, Finland
Sapata, Kaunis Kuolematon, Vorna and Ajattara
Photography by Serena Solomon
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Further promoting their acclaimed current album “To Drink From The Night Itself”, Swedish melodic death metal pioneers AT THE GATES have now started a massive European tour together with Behemoth and Wolves In The Throne Room.
AT THE GATES have released both a strictly limited 7″ EP entitled “The Mirror Black” and a special Digital EP entitled “With The Pantheons Blind“.
Continue reading AT THE GATES launch new video for “The Mirror Black (Feat. Rob Miller)”
Finland’s melodic death metal outfit A Soul Called Perdition is offering a free download of the album “Into The Formless Dawn”. The album is available for free download at the A Soul Called Perdition’s Bandcamp page, and you can stream the album below on spotify.

by Carina Lawrence/ Dark Art Conspiracy
I caught up with guitarist Ville Friman of popular melodic death metal band Insomnium from Finland to discuss the band’s origins, their latest album ‘Winter’s Gate’ and if we can expect a new album soon and about their future plans and upcoming tour in March amongst other things…
Firstly can you tell us about how you arrived at the name
Insomnium?
Just by coincidence really. We had a list of cool sounding words Niilo
had collected and Insomnium was something that popped out from that list.
How did you come to form Insomnium which first began back in 1997?
Well, we grew up in quite small city where you didn’t have that much to do. So basically, out of boredom. Then again, the early nineties were a great time for metal music. Lots of great albums were released and new substyles were forged. We were heavily inspired what happened in the USA and Scandinavia and wanted to be part of this scene.
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