NEWHVN (UK) & SUMEA (FIN) TO PERFORM AT BAR LOOSE 1.5.2026!
Emerging in 2025 from Liverpool, United Kingdom, Newhvn blends rock, alternative rock and grunge into a genre-defying sound. From the remains of a post-rock instrumental band, Burial at Sea, the project newhvn has surfaced, blending their post-rock roots with shoegaze and post-hardcore influences.
SUMEA will open the evening at Bar Loose. Blending witchcraft and occultism with groovy riffs, progressive drumming, and hints of laid-back, bluesy ’60s rock, Sumea delivers a sound that’s both hypnotic and heavy. The band is most definitely worth checking out if you’re a fan of occult doom rock acts like Witchcraft, Graveyard, Pentagram, or Witch Mountain, and you’re eager to hear a fresh approach built on the genre’s classic foundations.
KAUAN WAYHOME LIVE
Kauan’s live performance of the album Wayhome, recorded at Espoo Cultural Centre on November 14, 2025, was promoted and produced by Blow Up and Gramophone. The show featured two expansive 50-minute compositions, performed from a seated position, accompanied by beautiful lighting and specially crafted background visuals by Mircea Purdea.
SOILENT GREEN and Black Tusk to perform at KULT Helsinki on June 6, 2026!
For the very first time, Soilent Green will take the stage in Helsinki for an exclusive show at Kult, joined by the unstoppable Black Tusk. They say only the strong survive, and for Louisiana veterans, Soilent Green, no truer words have ever been spoken. With a history spanning over two decades, the band has faced more than its share of adversity and struggles. Yet they continue to push forward. Driven by passion, perseverance and an unrelenting will to dominate. Expect their signature blend of savage grindcore intensity, sludge, and southern aggression in what promises to be a crushing live experience.
Joining them are Black Tusk, Savannah, Georgia–based powerhouse formed in 2005 by Andrew Fidler (guitar/vocals), Jonathan Athon (bass/vocals), and James May (drums/vocals). Known for their raw, high-energy fusion of sludge, punk, and stoner rock, Black Tusk built a fierce reputation through relentless touring and acclaimed releases on Relapse Records. After the tragic loss of Athon in 2014, the band emerged stronger, continuing to carry their torch with determination.
EYEHATEGOD (US) and Demonic Death Judge take over KULT Helsinki 10.6.2026
One of the most influential and groundbreaking bands in their genre, EYEHATEGOD, is coming to KULT Helsinki on June 10, 2026! With a legendary career spanning decades, they’ve released multiple albums, played hundreds of chaotic live shows, and spent thousands of miles on the road spreading the spirit of deep Southern blues.
Pharmakon & Heli Hartikainen will perform at Kuudes Linja on April 30, 2026
A collision of breath, voltage and electronic extremity
We’re thrilled to announce that PHARMAKON (US) & HELI HARTIKAINEN will perform at Kuudes Linja on April 30, 2026.
Margaret Chardiet, AKA Pharmakon, is an interdisciplinary sound artist born and based in New York City. Raised by underground musicians and artists, Margaret was surrounded by a collective of the city’s impassioned, cultural detritus. Instead of pursuing higher education, she began the experimental project Pharmakon in 2006, at the age of 16. Pharmakon, as a project, entity, and process, has evolved and exists in true protean form, developing alongside (or more so within) Margaret’s personal experience and auto-didactic philosophies. Her work as a whole is a forced self-possession, a celebration of ferality and viscereality, which performatively abandons a society that has never accepted anything it couldn’t also exploit. Chardiet uses electronic synthesis as a tool to transfer this self-possession physiologically and intra-spatially into the bodies of their audience. Timbre becomes temper. Ferality, a social contagion or biorhythm. Margaret has also played in numerous punk groups that extend out to a greater international D.I.Y. music community, and has composed score and original music for the films Transfiguration (2017) and Sound of Metal (2019)
Heli Hartikainen (Finland) is an award-winning saxophonist, clarinetist, composer, and sound artist whose music merges experimental sonic textures with hypnotic, evolving soundscapes. As a saxophonist, Hartikainen is a passionate instrumentalist who continually pushes the limits of their instrument, themself, and the possibilities of sound technology ever further. Their debut solo album CHRONOVARIATIONS, which utilizes 3D audio technology, won the Finnish Critics’ Association’s honorary prize in 2025 for the year’s most significant artistic breakthrough and was nominated for the Emma Awards, the Finnish equivalent of the Grammys, for Best Jazz Album of 2024.
Legendary British doom band Warning will perform an exclusive show at Kult on 4 September 2026
Legendary British doom band Warning will perform an exclusive show at Kult on 4 September 2026. The band will also release their long-awaited new album in 2026.
Shortly after releasing their now-iconic 2006 album Watching from a Distance, Warning disbanded and remained inactive until reuniting in 2017 for a series of special performances featuring the album in full. Warning, led by Patrick Walker, has now returned to the studio.
“After seventeen years of focusing my attention and energies on other endeavours, production is well underway on a new Warning album, and I’m pleased to find a home for the band with Relapse Records, who will be releasing this long-awaited follow-up to ‘Watching from a Distance’, as well as reissuing the band’s back catalogue.
“Considering the quality and integrity of their releases, I feel privileged, and am grateful to Relapse, for honouring and preserving my past work, and for their trust and confidence in this next chapter of my musical journey.”
The current lineup:
Patrick Walker – Guitar and Vocals
Marcus Hatfield – Bass
Wayne Taylor – Guitar
Andrew Prestidge – Drums
NOTE: KULT is not wheelchair accessible. Read more: https://kulttuuritalo.fi/kult/kavijalle
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Norwegian Grammy-winning noise rock band Årabrot makes their Finnish debut on 22.5.2026 at Sellosali, Espoo
Årabrot’s sonic landscape is a wide and wild field of purposeful contrasts. A world of friction between noise, disharmony, tension, and moments of harmony. Yet there is more than noise rock in their formula—a dark, velveteen grace emerges, hinting at influences from pop and cabaret.
At the heart of Årabrot is Nernes, who embodies the band itself. Formed in Haugesund, Norway, in 2001, Årabrot spent years navigating the blackened, grimy European noise rock underground. In 2014, Nernes’ life changed dramatically when he was diagnosed with a rare and aggressive form of cancer. The illness nearly claimed him, but the long, gruelling process of treatment and recovery gave him space to reconsider his life—and his artistic practice.
Speaking from the deconsecrated church in Djura, Sweden, where he lives with his wife, musician Karin Park, and their young daughter, Nernes, reflects on the experience: “I struggled through that period of extreme sickness by writing our album The Gospel (2016). It was like a big explosion. And after an explosion comes silence. In that silence, you realise that everything has changed—and it was in that silence that the new record was born.”
Having successfully recovered, Årabrot returned stronger than ever. The band has collaborated with renowned producers like Billy Anderson and Steve Albini, and musicians including Ted Parsons (Killing Joke/Swans), Stephen O’Malley (Sunn O)))), and Erlend Hjelvik (Kvelertak), further expanding their powerful and unique sound.
Experimental music pioneer Masami Akita, known worldwide by his moniker Merzbow, is set to deliver an exclusive performance at Ääniwalli in Helsinki on January 14, 2026.
The pioneer of experimental music, Masami Akita, better known as Merzbow, will perform in Finland for one night only – the exclusive show will take place at Kuudes Linja in Helsinki on January 14, 2026.
Having released music since 1980, Merzbow is regarded as one of the most significant and influential figures in the global noise music scene.
Growing up surrounded by psychedelic and progressive rock as well as free jazz, Akita became interested in Dadaism and Surrealism during his student years – influences that led to the creation of a completely distinctive and rule-defying sound world. His work played a key role in shaping the Japanese noise movement and has inspired countless experimental musicians around the world.
Merzbow is not only an artist but also an animal rights activist, whose ethical values are reflected in his art. Above all, however, he is a surprising and unpredictable performer – his live shows are grounded in experimentation, improvisation, and intense presence.
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