Let your voice be heard!
Silent majority? NO THANKS. When the majority remains silent passive and indifferent, then the anti-democratic extreme minorities in Europe use
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Editorial
Fuck 2020: Stung by Shelob, saved by four-legged therapist
Time to introduce a new feature here, named after a thought we all probably had: “Fuck 2020”. Probably no need
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Quo vadis, Jon Schaffer?
A very short time after writing this, I plug my iPhone into the radio in my car and press the
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RIP Alexi Laiho
This is something I hate to write about – therefore I hardly ever do it and stick to social media
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FAME: Heavy Metal as museum-material?
In Finland, where Metal is mainstream, you can indeed get surprised. For example during a visit to the National Museum
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Net-activism: Where are the Metalheads?
Brilliant and subversive activism, which also involved K-Pop fans (see e.g. here https://www.motherjones.com/2020-elections/2020/06/k-pop-stans-tiktok-trump-tulsa-rally-campaign/ ) and it’s also a powerful statement
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Welcome to pandemic life-style
My attitude might be old-fashioned – “only write&publish when you indeed have something to say”, quite unlike this social media
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Ville Valo & Agents play Badding
The legendary Finnish songwriter and poet Rauli “Badding” Somerjoki would celebrate his 71st birthday this year. Previously unreleased Badding songs
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The new Air Guitar World Champion comes from Japan
Girl power: A record number of female contestants participated at the final on August 24, 2018, in Oulu, Finland, altogether
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Vote for the Finnish Metal Metropolis!
There’s no doubt: Finland is the heavy metal nation on the globe! More than 53 metal bands for every 100,000
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