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

The reason for forming folk metal is simple, according to founding Korpiklaani vocalist and guitarist Jonne Järvelä. “There’s just a lot of fun in this sound of music,” he says.

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 ...