Before HIM cornered the market in Finnish goth metal, Helsinki’s The 69 Eyes had the elegantly wasted after-midnight look and ...

In Finland, alternative bands such as Korpiklaani and Ensiferum spent most of the 1990s ushering in a wild new subgenre now known as “folk metal,” which blends accordions, violins and ...

Metal has been a challenging genre for me to keep up with lately. I lost one of my closest friends in the world the day after Christmas, and though I’d been tending toward a more goth and post-punk ...