"Emerald Forest And The Blackbird", the fifth full-length album from Finnish doom metallers SWALLOW THE SUN, has entered the official chart in the band's home country at position No. 2. Released on February 1 via Spinefarm Records, the CD was recorded du

Nightwish's seventh studio album is an ambitious extension of their comfort zone. Is it me or is Nightwish essentially trying to one-up themselves on every album they put out now? Century Child saw the recruitment of Finnish metal legend Marco Hietala as

If you're not familiar with French band Monarch, they've been churning out monstrously heavy drone/doom music over the course of the last decade, highlighted by such albums as 2007's Dead Men Tell No Tales and 2010's Sabbat Noire. Led by vocalist Emilie

"Cathedral Walls", the new video from Finnish doom metallers SWALLOW THE SUN, can be seen below. The song, which features a guest appearance by Anette Olzon of NIGHTWISH, comes off the band's fifth full-length album, "Emerald Forest And The Blackbird", w

Symphonic metal juggernauts Nightwish push their boundaries further than previously thought possible on their latest album, the towering Imaginaerum. When Finnish symphonic metal giants Nightwish fired their lead singer in 2005, nobody could have conceiv

The long awaited Nightwish follow-up to Dark Passion Play from 2007, Imaginaerum, is a masterpiece. The greatest thing since the creation of fire. Grander the invention of the wheel. A tour de force that has pushed the power metal and classical music sce