Nuclear Blast Records has signed HOKKA, a new Finnish rock supergroup featuring former Blind Channel frontman Joel Hokka, The Rasmus founding guitarist Pauli Rantasalmi, and rising drummer Jimi Aslak. The band makes their official musical debut with a video for their...
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We sound like a broken record, but the amount of awesome tours that have been revealed this past week is fantastic. The latest addition? TesseracT with Intronaut and Cloudkicker. TesseracT has been picking up a lot of steam since Altered State and have already toured...Between the Buried and Me, Deafheaven, Intronaut, The Kindred to tour
We’ve still got a few weeks left in 2013, but 2014 is already starting to heat up as a pretty solid touring year. Now we can add another Between the Buried and Me tour to the list. They’ll be heading out on the road in February with Deafheaven, Intronaut...Follow Us
Nuclear Blast Records signs Finnish rock supergroup HOKKA
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