(news – new single) Metal band Koitos from Finland released a third single from the upcoming debut album!

Photographer: Niko Suominen

Finnish metal newcomer Koitos released a third single ‘Virtaa’ (eng.’Flows’), from the upcoming debut album. Song has more dynamics and it includes crushing riffs but also a delicate clean singing with a mellow piano.

‘The upcoming album deals with loneliness from many different angles. But in this song not in such a traditional way. The narrator of the song hides his mistakes under a hard shell, which emerges as crappy behavior towards others. In the end, people disappear around the narrator and he’s left to lick his wounds in solitude,’ describes the theme of the song by vocalist Matti Hiitti.

Koitos debut album will be released later in Autumn. In addition to the composition and lyrics, the song was recorded and produced entirely by the band itself. The song was mixed and mastered by Rami Nykänen, who has previously worked with bands like One Morning Left and Balance Breach.

Social media links

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/koitosofficial/?hl=fi

Facebook: https://fi-fi.facebook.com/koitos/

(review) Dispyt/Death Crusade – ‘Vanvett/Wojna'(split)

This little ep release is between Finnish Dispyt and Polish Death Crusade. Both bands are featured with two songs on this one. Dispyt are more d-beat straightforward classic Finnish school of hardcore crust punk with two songs, fast, relentless and done in a way only Finns can do. Cold, yet energetic. Also, check out the video for ‘Deras mörker’, nice piece of work. Second song ‘Vanvett’ has a nice apocalyptic doomy part with melancholic little guitar melody miniature in the background of the hardcore punk attack. Death Crusade were already recently featured on the pages of this webzine, so you know what to expect. That means, d-beat metallic crust hardcore punk with angry shouted growled vocals and two songs of total apocalyptic mayhem. Death Crusade are more harsh and brutal then Dispyt and sounding a lot more powerful, at least on this little record. Nice release by two great bands.

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(news – festivals) Time To Rock Festival 2023 – don’t forget about them!

They just want to say hi and hope you don’t forget them at TIME TO ROCK FESTIVAL in southern Sweden. They are usually never included in lists of summer festivals and since they are, after all, a kick ass rock festival since 2006, they hope that before this Summer they can be included in the fine room, together with all the other awesome festivals on your lists.

This year, they’ve also stepped up considerably in terms of bands and band budget, and they’re sitting on a completely world-exclusive trilogy with the legendary Tom G Warrior, who will perform over three days with unique gigs with songs of HELLHAMMERCELTIC FROST and TRIPTYKON. Then they have three punk legends in the form of THE TOY DOLLS, MARKY RAMONE and SHAM 69 and of course classic hard rock and heavy metal in the form of SAXON, BLIND GUARDIAN and MICHAEL SCHENKER mixed with party music with D-A-D, ALESTORM and THE HOOTERS and much, much more.

3 Days – 3 scenes + pre-party on July 7 in scenic Knislinge, 130 km from Malmö/Copenhagen, located along the beautiful Helge River

www.timetorock.se