A tiny sign of life

This post is supposed to be a little update on what’s going on here. There hasn’t been much going on here lately and I was terribly late with some of my concert reviews because my mental health went down the drain towards the end of last year. Now I’m currently working on it, which means I also have a bit of time to sort out stuff on this website. That’s also the main reason why there haven’t been any book or album reviews lately. I didn’t have the time and energy to write anything, although I managed to read quite a few amazing books (I might come back to some of them at some point, because one of them – Cemetery Boys – was an absolute 5 star read last year!). Let’s just say … life’s been busy. I’ve removed info on venues from my concert reviews. For now, they’re stored in

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Concert review: Turmion Kätilöt & King Satan, Club Volta Cologne, 19 January 2025

This concert was a long awaited one. I’ve been a fan of Turmion Kätilöt for about 16 years, roughly. Back then, a friend of mine sent me the first episode of an animated online series called Bunnykill. The background music struck me immediately: a heavy industrial metal song in Finnish. It was Turmion Kätilöt’s second single Verta Ja Lihaa, which then made me dig up more music of that band. I fell for Turmion Kätilöt and kept listening to them. I missed their last headline tour with stops in Germany, so this time I was lucky to squeeze one of the shows into my concert schedule. They came in tow with another Finnish band that combines heavy music with electronic sounds: King Satan were a perfect match for that evening. Here’s how it was in more detail.