Tag: finnish

• Swallow The Sun Casts NYC’s Gramercy Theatre Into an Abyss of Grief and Beauty

  

  Ryan Murray | Co-Owner | Chief Editor | Contributor | Photographer r.m.music84@gmail.com Few bands can channel pure melancholy into something as soul-stirring as Swallow the Sun. On Monday, February 24th, at Gramercy Theatre, the Finnish masters of melodic doom-death returned to New York City with a set that left the audience suspended in a twilight…

  Ryan

  8 Mar 2025

  reviews

  finnish, gramercy theater, melancholy, melodic death metal, metal, nyc, review, swallow the sun

• Review of Finntroll’s ‘Vredesvävd’

  Review by Ryan Murray | September 15, 2020 Folk metal band Finntroll, from Helsinki Finland, is releasing “Vredesvävd”, their first studio album in seven years via Century Media Records on Friday, September 18th! With a career spanning over two decades, Finntroll has managed to sell over 50,000 albums in the US alone and has gained…

  Ethereal Metal Webzine

  15 Sep 2020

  heavy metal, Interviews, reviews

  finnish, Finntroll, metal, review

• Fun Interview with Elina Siirala (Leaves’ Eyes)

  Interview by Jessica Clingempeel | Official Facebook Some quarantine fun with Elina Siirala of Leaves’ Eyes! • What made you want to become a musician?After building my own violin with a piece of wood, nails and rubber bands, it showed quite a strong interest towards starting lessons myself. • What are some of your hobbies…

  Ethereal Metal Webzine

  14 May 2020

  heavy metal, Interviews, reviews

  finnish, leaves’ eyes, metal, nordic, norwegian, rock, swedish, vikings

• Review of ‘Phantoms of Yesterday’ by Welkins Boreal

  Review by Ryan Murray | October 18, 2019 It’s been a long time since I’ve listened through a Goth Rock album, but Welkins Boreal’s new release “Phantoms of Yesteryear” is, for me, somewhat reminiscent of The Crüxshadows and Type O Negative.  “Sleep Eternal” is the album opener.  Chugging guitars and pulsing drums opens up the…

  Ethereal Metal Webzine

  18 Oct 2019

  heavy metal, reviews

  finnish, metal, progressive, rock, welkinsboreal

• A Critique of Mape Ollila’s Once Upon A Nightwish

  Reviewed by Brian KelmanRevised 6/8/2014 A Critique of Mape Ollila’s Once Upon A Nightwish: Part 1 I was blissfully unaware of the Nightwish with Tarja Era when its drama took place between 1996 and 2005. I don’t have the emotional baggage that comes with following and loving the band’s career and then living through the…

  Ethereal Metal Webzine

  20 Apr 2019

  heavy metal, reviews

  finnish, metal, nightwish, nordic, symphonicmetal, tarja, tarja turunen

• Interview with Lauri of Stratovarius (A Nordic Symphony/Enigma: Intermission II)

  Interview by Joshua Becker & Jessica Clingempeel10/2/2018 A Nordic Symphony tour has officially started, how has it been so far? Today is the second show, so it´s early to tell yet. But Stratovarius camp is feeling good and it´s nice to play some new and other songs we haven´t played in a long time. It´s…

  Ethereal Metal Webzine

  2 Oct 2018

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  a nordic symphony, finnish, interview, metal, stratovarius, tarja, timo kotipelto