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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.

Arts & culture Finnishness

The sisu within you: The Finnish key to life, love and success

Finnish sisu is so simple and straightforward that sometimes it takes a whole book to explain it.

Arts & culture Slideshows

Finnish museum brilliantly leverages the art of Donald Duck

See how Donald Duck became a vehicle for attracting new museum visitors to explore the world of art, beginning with Finnish classics, and find out why he’s so important to the Finns. (Article includes slideshow.)

Arts & culture Webpick

Writer inspires not one, but two statues in the Finnish capital

Author and academic Zacharias Topelius is remembered for his poetry, prose and children’s stories. The year 2018 marks the 200th anniversary of his birth.

Arts & culture Design

Courageous Finnish hobbyhorsing inspires designers

The world’s newest equestrian craze started in Finland. Hobbyhorsing is creative, inventive and independent – all qualities that attract designers, as well.

Arts & culture Environment

In Finnish climate change film, the future still exists

British Finnish documentary film director John Webster takes a new approach to a topic that is important to him and a few billion other people: climate change. Spoiler alert: Don’t abandon hope.

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