SONATA ARCTICA, MOKOMA, VIIKATE, POISONBLACK, HERRA YLPPÖ & IHMISET, BATTLE BEAST and INDICA are the first bands confirmed for Sotkamon Syke 2012 festival which will take place in Sotkamo, on August 3rd and 4th. Details on the festival are available at this location....

Finnish thrash metal band MOKOMA played their first-ever full length acoustic gig at Tavastia Club in Helsinki, Finland last Saturday, April 9th. The band has played a couple of songs as acoustic arrangements before (At YleX radio channel, at the opening of Recordshop X Tampere store, for example) and the latest EP Juurta jaksain contained an a...

STAM1NA, MOKOMA and BARREN EARTH are among the artists that were honored at the Finnish Metal Awards, which was held Saturday night (February 19) during the Finnish Metal Expo (the main event of Helsinki Metal Meeting) at the Cable Factory in Helsinki, Finland. Members of the Finnish metal media pre-selected the candidates and the people cast t...

APOCALYPTICA and HIM are among the nominees in the "Metal Album Of The Year" category at next year's Emma Gaala (Finnish Grammy equivalent), which will be held on February 26, 2011 at Barona Areena in Espoo, Finland. The awards ceremony will be televised on Finnish TV channel YLE TV2 on February 26 at 20:10-21:50 and 2...

"Hei Hei Heinäkuu", the new video from Finnish thrash metallers MOKOMA, can be viewed below. The song comes off the band's seventh full-length album, "Sydänjuuret", which was released in March. The CD debuted at pos...