Some towns are known for their berry festivals. Others for their lobsters. In Finland, a small rural community is making waves for something else: a heavy metal legacy. Finland’s long been known as ...

Before there were blogs there were these things called magazines, and the only metal magazine we still get excited about reading every month is Decibel. Here’s managing editor Andrew Bonazelli… ...

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 ...

Matching American thrash with Scandinavian black metal and new school death metal, Children of Bodom have never been able to comfortably fit within just one sub-genre of extreme metal. Their ...

MAENTSAELAE, Finland — Most teens may not get excited about church, but in Finland, they go out of their way to attend the latest testimony to the country’s infatuation with heavy-metal music: Metal ...

Finnish doom-death metal band Swallow the Sun returns to Israel May 21, performing at Tel Aviv’s Gagarin Club. Band vocalist Mikko Kotamäki said band members were struck by the vibrancy of the Israeli ...

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 ...

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 ...

Alexi Laiho, front man for Finnish metal band Children of Bodom and supergroup Bodom After Midnight, has died, his record label has confirmed. He was 41, his management told CNN. "It is with heavy ...

Italian rockers Maneskin won the Eurovision Song Contest last night, but another competing group has captured the hearts of viewers and dominated social media conversation: Finnish nu-metal sextet ...