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Maailma tarvitsee sankareita (English: The World Needs Heroes) is the fourth studio album by the Finnish…
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There’s an element of Zen that’s involved when listening to Nightwish — you don’t question the pageantry or analyze the music…
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Kuolema Tekee Taiteilijan is the third single released from the album Once by Finnish symphonic metal band…
Once is the fifth studio album of Finnish symphonic metal band Nightwish, released 7 June 2004 by Nuclear Blast Records…
Possibly the biggest success story in the history of Finnish heavy metal, Nightwish celebrated their second chart-topping…
Oceanborn wasn’t just a hit in Finland, it also opened new doors for Nightwish abroad. So naturally, the pressure to come up…
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What Lies Beneath is the third album by finnish singer Tarja, which was released on 1 September (Finland), 3 September…
As one of heavy metal’s most popular subgenres, melodic death metal has seemingly had every possible angle covered, but Finland’s Kalmah have arguably…
Finland via Middle Earth power metal band Battlelore deliver some seriously heavy riding-into-battle riffs on this album, without losing their…
Finntroll and Korpiklaani are the two prime contenders for the throne as “kings of Finnish folk metal.” They both do more or less the same thing…
Apocalyptica was a cool concept to begin with: four classical cellists playing arrangements of Metallica songs. But that was their first EP, and that was a long time ago…
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