New music videos : Children Of Bodom, Butcher Babies & Slipknot!

A while ago these following bands released new music videos. Check them out, really cool ones!

Slipknot will return to Europe in 2016 !

Slipknot have released gigs for many European countries! You can find your local concert (if there will be one) from their website or from Live Nation's page.
Tour will be in january-february 2016, at least all the dates what I have seen so far are at that time.

Photo from the show in Helsinki at this year. Crappy iPhone quality, sorry!

First they announced gigs to UK so I and my friend bought tickets for both London gigs. Then we saw dates for Norway and Sweden at their website and finally there were Finland too. I had to buy a ticket for Finland show too lol. Luckily I got the fanclub ticket so I didn't need to worry and stress about getting them before they sell out.
Wish I could go to Sweden too but it's in Göteborg and I might need to go there by my own so I would prefer Stockholm as I know it better.
And these three will take enough money from me already. :P So I think I will skip Sweden ...

Are you going to somewhere to see them at the beginning of 2016?

Upcoming gigs in Finland !

There are lots of good gigs and tours coming up at this fall in Finland. Here's few of them! I haven't have time to update these or check if there are some other interesting gigs coming up too (probably is!!) but if you have some in your mind please share your info in comments. :)

Bring Me The Horizon in Tuska Open Air 2014

Entwine will start their comeback tour in Lahti at 10.10. They will also play a gig in Helsinki at 16.10. They have also lots of other gigs coming up around the Finland, check them out from their homepage!
In Flames will have their tour in Finland in october too, 13.10. is gig in Tampere and there were three other dates too. Unfortunately I can't make any of these!
Five Finger Death Punch and Papa Roach will bring their tour to Helsinki at 2.11. Can't make it either as I'm in London lol.
Bullet For My Valentine will play a show in Helsinki at 12.11.
Bring Me The Horizon will play a show in Helsinki at 16.11.
Apocalyptica will play a show in Helsinki at 21.11. but they have lots of other dates too in Finland and Europe! I really hope I can make this.
Bandit's 40th Bday party will be in Helsinki at 27.11. and there will play Vanity Ink, New Generation Superstars and Manzana !

There's also lots of interesting tours coming up in 2016 like Halestorm will come back to Finland for two gigs in february! Finally, haven't seen them in ages.
There's also tour dates released from Slipknot for Sweden and Russia in january / february 2016 so let's hope they will come play one in Finland too!

Graspop Metal Meeting, Dessel, Belgium 19.-21.6.2015

Here are my photos from Graspop Metal Meeting 2015. I saw many other shows as well, I didn't take photos of every show. I had only my phone with me as my camera is so shitty ... such a shame, I miss taking photos during the gigs with good camera.

Butcher Babies

With Heidi from Butcher Babies

Asking Alexandria

Hollywood Undead

With Nina Strauss from Alice Cooper

Slipknot

Motionless In White

Lamb Of God

Cradle Of Filth

Autographs from : Arch Enemy, Alice Cooper, Butcher Babies, guitar pics from Twiggy / Marilyn Manson and Ricky Horror / Motionless In White, mask from Marilyn Manson and drumstick from Chris ''3'' / Slipknot !

You can read more about this trip in my life-style blog Skeletons in the Closet !

Part 1 : Graspop Metal Meeting - thursday & friday !

Part 2 : Graspop Metal Meeting - saturday & sunday !

Bullet For My Valentine - Venom tour is coming to Finland! Tickets are on sale!

Finally Bullet For My Valentine announced some Europe dates which include Finland also!
The last albums haven't been maybe the best from BFMV, but those are ok. They also released a few days before European dates a new song from upcoming Venom album and I really like it!
What a shame they are touring with Slipknot and Motionless In White in AMERICA. Why all the good tours are in America?!

Photo : BFMV Facebook

BFMV will play in Helsinki icehall which is quite big place but they won't play for the whole hall - it will be a special gig as they will do it a club gig by closing some areas at the hall. Interesting idea! At the moment there are not any middle-size gig place in Helsinki, maybe this is the solution for it?
I bought my ticket when they came on sale and there are still tickets left in Live Nation! Buy yours before those are gone!
Last time I went to see them alone and it look like it's the same case this year too. Blah. Might go to Stockholm too, not sure about it yet as I am in the end of october/beginning of november in England. What a shame that all those towns in England what I could do are too early in october so can't do them. :(

For other Europe dates I suggest you to check out your local ticket shops for the ticket prices / buying tickets.

Prepare For Hell tour : Slipknot at Helsinki Icehall, Helsinki, Finland 15.2.2015.

Prepare For Hell tour : Slipknot at Hovet, Stockholm, Sweden 11.2.2015.

SPIT IT OUT!

More crappy phone photos. :/ Though these are a lot better than the ones in my camera. Need to buy more camera, so can get better quality photos. :/

Prepare For Hell tour : Slipknot at Oslo Spektrum, Norway 10.2.2015.

Slipknot ; Prepare For Hell-tour !

Sorry for being so silent lately! I was supposed to write some posts for you guys which would come out when I was on the road but I didn't have enough time to do them. Sorry. :(

But the reason why my last week was a "bit" hectic was because I attended to Slipknot's Prepare For Hell-tour! And we (me and my friend Tytti) couldn't go just to Helsinki show so we decided to do also the shows in Norway at Oslo Spektrum and in Sweden at Hovet Stockholm. Because we have been waiting their "comeback" for yeeeeaaaaaaars and one show wouldn't be enough.
And I am so happy we decided to do more than one show! Like best times ever!

I guess it's pretty obvious that this tour was super rad and just simply fucking perfect! We were really scared if we will get to front row in any gigs but we got there at every gig yaaaaaayyy!!
We also met James, Shawn and Sid after the show in Oslo and Sid also in Helsinki a day before the gig.
I will write reviews and show some gig photos from the gigs as soon as possible. Unfortunately my camera is still broken and I had only iPhone, but Tytti had her camera and got some good photos so if she let me share her photos here they will be a better quality photos. I still do have few nice ones. :)

Did any of you see Slipknot during their Prepare For Hell-tour? How was it?
I think these have been one of the best Slipknot shows what I have ever seen. All setlists were PERFECT and the band kick asses so damn well. I also like how the old and new songs sound so good together, perfect combination.

The only thing what annoy me is that the tour is over and we have to wait for summer to see them again, hehe.

Year 2014 in ROCKHOLIC

Hi and so sorry for being so silent lately. I am organizing stuff for my both blogs and hope I can start to roll both of these better and as soon as possible.

It have been 2015 on for a while already but let's take a quick look about year 2014. This year I wasn't going for gigs so much as before, this year I went for as many gigs as I usually do in two or three months. Such a shame! It was really hard and bad year for me, I am very happy it's finally over.
I wanted to go here and there to see my favorite bands, but I couldn't do it as I wasn't able to travel because of my health issues. At the moment I am so sad and pissed off because my back problems ruined most of my year ... but I think I also learnt a lot from all things what happened and I hope I am little bit more wise now.
I think you must deal with all shit before you can move on. Accept everything what happened and instead of hating - learn something!
Luckily I got a great ending for the year 2014, as being a part of Hobbit Fan Contest-competition winners (my friend won and I got to be her plus one!) and I also start to see lots of exciting tours for 2015. :)

Anyway, 2014 - show us what you got!

It was super hard to choose just three options in every question, so in some I let myself to add one + - Because I really couldn't let it out of the list. Most of all the gigs what I saw were excellent and super awesome, which why it was super hard to choose top three. But no matter which questions, I could answer at least 10 bands/members/songs/etc. but these ones are the ones which first came to my mind.
But you can pretty easily see, which bands and music styles were my favorites. Though nowadays I don't listen so much ''just something'' or anything what I don't really like. I am also a bit bored to find new bands so I just stay listening the ones who I like and if there come some good new band what I like then I start to listen it. But I am not searching and craving for new bands like I maybe did before. Actually it would be a good thing if I wouldn't like any more bands, it's enough hard for now to plan where to go for gigs and so on. :D But I must say sometimes I need a break from some genres - it happen sometimes. Sometimes I need something totally fresh and forgot one genre for a while - just to find it again and when it sounds interesting again. I'm also not so into just one genre anymore, there were times when one special genre were more popular than other ones. Now I have found my favorites from different genres and I think these are fine. Some kind of balance between all the genres.


The best bands - Top 3 ;

1. Rob Zombie
2. Wednesday 13
3. Profane Omen

I didn't have a chance to see Zombie or W13 at all in 2014 - even both were touring in Europe. :( Anyway I listen them a lot during the year and they are part of the stuff/people who kept me in (some kind of) sense during the year and made me want to not give-up.
Profane Omen I saw in april for their own gig and in Nummirock. I have been in their huge fan from 2007 and they never, never disappoint me. I didn't realize how much I missed them before I saw them on the gig again! Their music, gigs and the guys themselves are always super awesome. And they always make me so happy!


The best male singers/artists - Top 3 ;

1. Corey Taylor - Slipknot
2. Chris Motionless - Motionless In White
3. Oliver Sykes - Bring Me The Horizon
+ Jamie Anderson - Sister


The best female singers/artists - Top 3 ;

1. Liv Sin Jagrell - Sister Sin
2. Alissa White-Gluz - Arch Enemy
3. Taylor Momsen - The Pretty Reckless


The best new bands in 2014 - Top 3 ;

1. Motionless In White
2. In This Moment
3. Chrome Division

Yes, all of these bands are definitely not new bands. But this year they really hit me! Not literally, haha. This year I fell in deep love with all of them. There are not so many new or "new" bands anymore, who could wake-up this flame inside of me and make me love them. But these bands did!
In my opinion MIW's latest album is definitely the best from them, there's no any weak songs, it's just a beautiful and strong album. And what I have seen about their live performances, they rock super much!!
In This Moment I have know for a while too, but I wasn't so into them in the beginning. It felt like there were something in their music which annoy me a bit. Don't know for sure what was it, but when I heard Big Bad Wolf first time I was like "oh my God yessss!". I like female singers with strong, unique voices and metal with industrial vibes. Which makes ITM in my eyes good of course!
I saw and heard about Chrome Division first time before Nummirock, I knew them somehow just a Shagrath's side-project but oh my Gaaad! Filthy, catchy rock'n'roll! There's nothing better in world than honest badass rock'n'roll, and Chrome Division play that kind of music. Here, take my heart, it's all yours!


The best albums - Top 3 ;

1. Slipknot - .5: The Grey Chapter
2. Deathstars - The Perfect Cult
3. Motionless In White - Reincarnate
+ Sister - Disguised Vultures

I think all of these three albums were the albums, which don't have any bad or boring songs (we all know that there is almost always these good albums which don't have bad songs - but all of them are not as strong and brilliant as the rest of the album). Pure perfection from the start to the end! Specially new Slipknot album is just huge masterpiece!! When it was released I listen only that one for a week - non-stop and nothing else. It's perfection.
And I must give a special shout out to Sister. I have liked a lot of all their EPs and albums but this newest one is definitely the best one from them. Very united, strong album which all songs are pure awesomeness and would sound brilliant at live.


The best songs - Top 3 ;

1. Slipknot - Custer
2. Motionless In White - Final Dictvm feat. Tim Skold
3. Skid Row - We Are The Damned
+ Sister Sin - Count Me Out
+ Sister - Dmn

This was so hard and I would love to add more and more, but I needed to stop at some point lol!


The best music videos - Top 3 ;

I like the most very artistic videos where are some nice, scary story and they are visually very catchy, beautiful and simply awesome. And all of these definitely are like that!

1. Slipknot - The Devil In I


2. Sister Sin - Chaos Royale


3. Motionless In White - Reincarnate


+ In This Moment - Big Bad Wolf 


+ Deathstars - All the Devil Toys



The best gigs - Top 3 ;

1. Bring Me The Horizon - Tuska Open Air, Finland
2. Profane Omen - Nummirock, Finland
3. Deathstars - Klubi Tampere, Finland
+ Skid Row - Getaway Rock Festival, Sweden
+ London After Midnight - Tavastia, Finland


The best festival ;

Wacken Open Air, Germany


The best gig/concert place ;

I didn't go so many gigs but I think I visited the most often at Tavastia, which is ok.


The best merch-product ;

I like the most of legendary band shirts - they are just awesome. I bought for example Chrome Division shirt which backside is hilarious ; "Every time I have sex with my boyfriend I think about Chrome Division guys." And I like a lot of my Bring Me The Horizon's Sempiternal-shirt too!

The best / favorites gig photos in 2014 ;

Dimmu Borgir at Getaway Rock Festival, Sweden

Apulanta at Tavastia, Finland

London After Midnight at Tavastia, Finland

Deathstars at Klubi, Finland

Bring Me The Horizon at Wacken Open Air, Germany

Michael Monroe at Getaway Rock Festival, Sweden

Bullet For My Valentine at The Circus, Finland

Bring Me The Horizon at Tuska Open Air, Finland

DORO ar Getaway Rock Festival, Sweden

Profane Omen at Nosturi, Finland

Dimmu Borgir at Tuska Open Air, Finland

Bring Me The Horizon at Wacken Open Air, Germany

Bullet For My Valentine at The Circus, Finland

DORO at Getaway Rock Festival, Sweden

Bring Me The Horizon at Tuska Open Air, Finland

Dimmu Borgir at Getaway Rock Festival, Germany

Bring Me The Horizon at Wacken Open Air, Germany

Profane Omen at Nosturi, Finland

Dimmu Borgir at Tuska Open Air, Finland

That was 2014 in a nutshell. Rock on!