finnish label Fonal Records has added a few tracks from the forthcoming Chamellows album "Rat hearts" in their web jukebox: https://www.fonal.com/
Look for tracks from the new Risto album to be added shortly.

Foxy Digitalis interviews finnish electro duo Kompleksi: https://www.digitalisindustries.com/foxyd/feature_detail.php?id=183

Dark Dose, always one of my favorite music blogs, on finnish neo-folk act Tenhi: https://darkdose.com/?p=134

finnish Eurovision champs Lordi will bring the "Hard rock hallelujah" to Germany and the UK in the coming months: https://www.fimic.fi/fimic/fimic.nsf/news/CC0DE069B7F66CBDC22571B50033F7A6!opendocument

finnish indiepop act Laurila has confirmed that their next album will be released on January 7.

Lupatarkastaja recommends finnish indierock act Vastine: https://lupatarkastaja.samizdat.info/2006/07/20/1710/
Emphasis on the -rock. Love that fat, distorted bass tone.

Laakso spent their summer recording a new album entirely in finnish. No foolin'. It's called "Mämmilä Rock" and will only be released in Finland to begin with, but the band plans to offer up a few copies for sale via their own webstore too. Check out the first single "Hurrin hurjaa elämää" at myspace: https://www.myspace.com/laaksofi

Dark Dose on finnish act Poets of the Fall and the song "Carnival of rust": https://darkdose.com/?p=131

finnish pop act The Phonies will have both of their albums released in the US via Nashville-based label Double D Records. No word on an actual date yet, but soon they say. Read IAT's review of their most recent album "Gran tourettes" right here.

finnish glam-rockers Negative have pushed back their new album "Anorectic" to September 27 and will be releasing the first single "Planet of the sun" on September 6.

MP3: Amorphis - The brother-slayer

Finland's Amorphis was a very important and formative band for me when I first started to get interested in Scandinavian music. I first heard a song from the "Thousand lakes" album on a Relapse comp and was immediately blown away by the combination of brutal death metal and classic folk melodies. Integrating humppa polka with metal sounds like a perfectly awful idea on paper, but I assure you it works (witness the advent of Finntroll for an even better example, but that's a post for another Friday). Even better, the dark imagery of finnish epic poem "The Kanteletar" from which the band derives their lyrics fit perfectly in metal. The band's next album "Elegy" in 1996 was a huge turning point for the band as they had just added 'clean' vocalist Pasi Koskinen and started to soften their sound. Of course, many in the death metal community were less that impressed, but I found the balance of old and new to be just right. Subsequent albums found the band going even softer and my attention has drifted elsewhere, but "Elegy" will always remain a highlight of my collection (though I hear their most recent is a return to form, I have yet to listen myself). Todays mp3 however, does not come directly from said album, but instead from the "My kantele" EP which came out soon afterwards. It's on the mellower side, so don't be scared off by my earlier mentions of brutal metal - it's not even close. The Hawkwind and Kingston Wall covers that also appear on the disc should give you a much better idea of where this is at genre-wise.

Amorphis - The brother-slayer

The tracklist for the "Hahmotushäiriö" compilation LP being put out by finnish label : https://www.kauhajoki.fi/~raliimak/kissankusi.html
Highlights for me include tracks from Fun and The Insult That Made A Man Out Of Mac.

finnish glam-rock act Negative has a new website: https://www.gbfam.com/negative/

Season of Mist has announced the signing of finnish act Ghost Brigade. Listen to their 4-song demo on myspace: https://www.myspace.com/ghostbrigade

finnish musician/artist Verneri Lumi (Rinneradio, Johanna Juhola) now has a proper website all his own: https://www.vernerilumi.com/