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Slipknot‘s Corey Taylor has debuted a brand new mask at the band’s first show in 18 months.Yesterday (September 4), the Iowa metal icons performed at Rocklahoma Festival in Pryor, Oklahoma, marking their first show since playing Hartwall Areena in Helsinki, Finland, in February 2020.The annual three-day event kicked off on Friday (September 3) and features a line-up of big names including Mastadon, Andrew W.K., Steel Panther, Rob Zombie, Puddle Of Mudd, Grandson and more.Taylor’s new mask

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentIn the run up to Series Mania, European network Arte and German public broadcaster NDR have boarded “Helsinki Syndrome,” a contemporary Nordic Noir thriller series headlined by “Vikings” star Peter Franzén and created by Mikko Oikkonen (“Bordertown”). “Helsinki Syndrome” is the first series jointly produced by Beta Film and leading Finnish production banner Fisher King which is part of the Beta Nordic Entertainment Group.

Annika Pham Helsinki-based sales outfit The Yellow Affair, behind Hulu’s transgender TV drama “Rūrangi,” has boarded the Finnish pic “The Grump: In Search of an Escort.”The third installment in “The Grump” series about the stubborn elderly Finnish farmer, the pic is produced by Markus Selin, Jukka Hele and Hanna Virolainen for Finnish production powerhouse Solar Films, in co-production with Raoul Reinert for Germany’s Aspekt Telefilm.This time around, on the pretext of finding a replacement for

Gojira have announced a UK and European tour for 2022 – check out the schedule below.The French band will hit the road in the new year for a run of shows in support of their seventh album ‘Fortitude’, which was released in April.Beginning the tour in Helsinki, Gojira will go on to make stop-offs in Oslo, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Berlin, Prague, Budapest and other cities throughout January into February and March 2022.They will touch down in London on March 4 for a headline concert at Alexandra

Art, love, jealousy and freedom are themes at the heart of Tove, the biopic of Swedish-Finnish Moomins creator Tove Jansson (Alma Pöysti). Her drawings of the hippo-like Moomintrolls became world famous, graduating from books and comic strips to theater, TV series, movies and even a theme park. But the Tove we meet in 1944 Helsinki is struggling to pay the rent with her paintings, little knowing that her fortune will be made by the cartoons her sculptor father mocks.

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentThe hit BBC drama “The Replacement” is set for a Finnish adaptation produced by Helsinki-filmi (“Tove”) for local streamer Elisa Viihde.The Elisa Viihde original series has started filming in the metropolitan area of Helsinki under the helm of filmmaker Jyri Kähönen (“Sorjonen,” “Trackers”).

Mikko Oikkonen, creator of Netflix Finnish crime series Bordertown, has received the greenlight for his next project, the Nordic thriller Helsinki Syndrome. Finnish public broadcaster YLE and world sales group Beta Film have come on board to back the eight-hour limited series, which will begin shooting in Finland in June.

John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentJan Mojto’s Munich-based production-distribution company Beta Film has boarded Nordic suspense thriller “Helsinki Syndrome,” the first common project with Finland’s Fisher King since Beta took a majority stake in the leading Finnish production company in 2019.Coinciding with the Fisher King deal, Beta launched the Sweden-based Beta Nordic Studios (BNS), a umbrella hub grouping its production interests in the Nordic region.BNS aims to leverage Beta

HELSINKI -- A Norwegian museum said Tuesday that a famous statue of a baby boy stomping his feet in anger has been removed from a park in the capital, Oslo, for repairs after someone vandalized it by trying to saw off its left ankle.The bronze Sinnataggen sculpture is considered a national treasure and is arguably the most famous work by Norwegian sculptor Gustav Vigeland, who died in 1943 and has also designed the Nobel Peace Prize medal.It depicts a small angry boy and was most likely modeled

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Annika Pham ‘Vikings’ star Peter Franzén will headline premium Finnish series “Helsinki Syndrome” from “Bordertown” creator Mikko Oikkonen, co-writer Antti Pesonen and helmer Juuso Syrjä.The eight-part suspense thriller is produced by Beta Film-backed Fisher King for Finnish pubcaster Yle.

Elvis Costello has shared a chilling new song called ‘Newspaper Pane’ – you can listen to it below.Set to land on Costello’s upcoming new album, ‘Hey Clockface’, due out October 30, his latest offering was recorded after the coronavirus pandemic separated the singer-songwriter from his regular collaborators.While the rest of the songs on ‘Hey Clockface’ were recorded in Helsinki and Paris, ‘Newspaper Pane’ was written and produced in New York by composer/arranger Michael Leonhart, with the help

Lana Del Rey‘s breakthrough hit ‘Video Games’.The country queen, who has appeared on RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars 3, released a video of her performing the track in a grainy homage to Del Rey’s original clip in 2011.

Ed Meza @edmezavarParis-based Kinology has acquired world rights for Finnish director Aino Suni’s psychological thriller “A Girl’s Room.”Cannes-based Adastra Films is teaming on the project with Hamburg shingle and “System Crasher” producer Oma Inge Film and Helsinki-based Made.Suni’s feature debut follows Elina, a 17-year-old aspiring Finnish rapper forced to leave her home for the south of France after her mother finds a French boyfriend.

Spike Lee has shared a new version of the video for Michael Jackson’s ‘They Don’t Care About Us’ to mark what would be the star’s 62nd birthday.The acclaimed director was behind the camera for the two original videos for the track – one shot in Brazil and another set in a prison.The new visuals for the ‘HIStory: Past, Present and Future’ track incorporate footage from 2020’s Black Lives Matter protests from locations around the world, including Rio De Janeiro, Helsinki, Atlanta, Cape Town, and

Spike Lee just updated Michael Jackson’s music video for “They Don’t Care About Us.”

HELSINKI -- The Baltic nation of Latvia has banned the state-controlled Russian television channel RT, saying that it is effectively controlled by a media figure who is under European Union sanctions. But the man in question, Dmitry Kiselev, mocked the move Tuesday, saying that he never was in charge of RT.

Review of Klaus K Design Hotel in Helsinki LGBTQ+ friendly – Before we start with our review of the Klaus K Hotel Helsinki, we want to warn you, it is going to be a very sexy gay-friendly hotel article. Not only because of all the sexy and intimidating painting by Touko Valio Laaksonen, much better known as Tom of Finland.

RELEASESElvis Costello has released new single ‘No Flag’, recorded earlier this year in Finland. “I wanted to go somewhere nobody knew me”, he says.

Review of Klaus K Design Hotel in Helsinki LGBTQ+ friendly – Before we start with our review of the Klaus K Hotel Helsinki, we want to warn you, it is going to be a very sexy gay-friendly hotel article. Not only because of all the sexy and intimidating painting by Touko Valio Laaksonen, much better known as Tom of Finland.

Created using a 100-year-old singing bowl found in an antique shop in Delhi

Olivia Bowen has been keeping fans updated with her house renovations but there's been one new addition she is super excited about – a hot tub. The reality star beauty, who married her Love Island co-star Alex Bowen, shared her delight at the arrival of the inflatable spa pool by Lay-Z-Spa which is currently in stock on Argos for £800.

fans were forced to bid farewell to two of the show's beloved characters. At first, they watched Berlin sacrifice himself in order to save the gang. The second season ended with the criminal standing in front of the Spanish police and taking a bullet to his chest while Tokyo, Rio, Nairobi, Denver, Stockholm, and Helsinki climbed through the tunnel and made an escape with the loot. Thankfully, the character returns time-to-time via flashbacks and helps propel the story ahead. 

Money Heist Season 2 watched Berlin sacrifice himself to help his team escape the Royal Mint of Spain. The beloved character took several bullets to the chest as Nairobi, Helsinki and others made an escape from the Mint with the money.

The long-running British duo Autechre have released seven new installments of their AE_Live series. The series offers up previously released live soundboard recordings from their shows, and the latest batch features seven different shows from 2016 and 2018. They include concerts in Dublin, Melbourne, Oslo, Helsinki, Zagreb, and elsewhere. They’re all available to stream, purchase, and download here.

Money Heist Season 4 releases today. The Netflix show, known as La Casa de Papel in Spanish, is about to reveal how Professor salvages his heist at the Bank of Spain while saving Tokyo, Rio, Helsinki and others inside the bank. Money Heist Season 3's finale left fans on a cliffhanger after Nairobi was shot in the chest. The heist member was tricked by Alicia Sierra using Nairobi's son and shot her down. The internet went crazy speculating if Nairobi follows the fate of Berlin. 

Money Heist is undoubtedly one of the most searched web series on Netflix. It takes the top spot in the list of top 10 trending shows on the online streaming website.

When singer-songwriter Alma-Sofia Miettinen was 16, she placed fifth in a 2013 season of the Finnish show Idols. She returned to school afterward, putting her musical ambitions on hold. A year later, though, one of the show’s judges, rapper Sini Sabotage, asked to tour and write together. Miettinen was all in, and officially started her career as ALMA.

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Megadeth returned to the stage for the first time since frontman Dave Mustaine’s throat cancer diagnosis in Finland on Monday.

BTS just released the seventh installment of their travel vlog series Golden Closet Film (G.C.F.) today (Dec. 27), and this time, the K-pop boy band headed to frigid Finland for their "winter package."