Arts & culture

Helsinki rocks both Pride and heavy metal fest on same weekend

Two annual traditions happen at the same time in the Finnish capital in late June or early July: Helsinki Pride, with its rainbow-coloured parade, and Tuska Open Air Metal Festival, where the dominant colour is black. See our slideshow.

Arts & culture Music

Finnish metropolises vie to win Capital of Metal

With more heavy metal bands per capita than anywhere else in the known universe, Finland is at the heart of the tight-knit global metal community. We see how they determine which Finnish city gets the title of Capital of Metal. We also talk with the Finnish university researcher behind the annual Modern Heavy Metal Conference.

Arts & culture Music

Emerging jazz generation: Finnish teen duo demands attention

The phrase “young generation of Finnish jazz,” with all its promise and expectations, forms a fitting but incomplete description of Milo & Moses, a duo of musicians who were born in 2001.

Arts & culture Webpick

Finland’s Isac Elliot: 17-year-old music veteran

At 17, Isac Elliot of Finland is already a pop veteran. He is starting to take a larger role in steering his own career.

Arts & culture Finnishness

Finland’s inventory of the intangible: music, circus, cuisine and everything in between

Finland’s original approach to cataloguing intangible cultural heritage is collaborative and ongoing. The inventory includes many of the country’s singular strengths and inimitable quirks, some of which might become part of Unesco’s lists of Intangible Cultural Heritage.

Arts & culture Film

Finnish movie rides heavy metal wave onto silver screen

The guys in “Heavy Trip” might not look very intimidating, but they’re the Finnish metal band Impaled Rektum, and they’re determined to reach a festival gig in Norway, through hell and high water.

Arts & culture Music

Helsinki professor becomes pioneer of metal music research

What do Mozart and Judas Priest have in common? Esa Lilja, a Finnish heavy metal scholar, shares the answer with us.

Arts & culture Finnishness

Finnish footprints

You might be surprised how often traces of blue-and-white Finnish influence can be spotted in places near and far.

Helsinki rocks both Pride and heavy metal fest on same weekend

Finnish metropolises vie to win Capital of Metal

Emerging jazz generation: Finnish teen duo demands attention

Finland’s Isac Elliot: 17-year-old music veteran

Finland’s inventory of the intangible: music, circus, cuisine and everything in between

Finnish movie rides heavy metal wave onto silver screen

Helsinki professor becomes pioneer of metal music research

Finnish footprints

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