Former NIGHTWISH singer Tarja Turunen was presented with a gold plaque at the Summer Breeze festival in Dinkelsbühl, Germany for sales in excess of 120,000 copies in Germany alone of her debut solo album, "My Winter Storm", making her the first Finnish solo artist ever to achieve such a goal. She joins a selected grou...

More-Metal.com conducted an interview with Eicca Toppinen and Mikko Sirén of the Finnish rock cello quartet APOCALYPTICA on June 19 in Berlin, Germany. You can now watch the chat below. APOCALYPTICA's Eicca Toppinen explained to The Pulse Of Radio why the band was forced to pull the vocals of SHINEDOWN frontman Brent Smith of...

According to Helsingin Sanomat, Finnish music exports achieved their all-time best result in 2009, indicates a study commissioned by Music Export Finland (Musex). For 2009 the overall market value of music exports was estimated at EUR 32 million, which indicated a growth rate of 38 per cent (EUR 9 million) from the year before. The 2009 figure ...

Eicca Toppinen of the Finnish rock cello quartet APOCALYPTICA has explained to The Pulse Of Radio why the band was forced to pull the vocals of SHINEDOWN frontman Brent Smith off their current single, "Not Strong Enough". Toppinen said that the whole thing was a case of record company politics. "When we were speaking ...

STAM1NA was honored in the "Metal Album Of The Year" and "Band Of The Year" categories at this year's Emma Gaala (Finnish Grammy equivalent), which was held last night (Saturday, February 26) at Barona Areena in Espoo, Finland. Meanwhile, APOCALYPTICA won the "Export" award athe annu...