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Album review: HOKKA – Via Misera IV

Former Blind Channel vocalist Joel Hokka teams up with The Rasmus axeman on brooding, goth-metal-tinged debut under his own name.

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“I got to the top and felt lost. I had to rebalance. This is my revenge”: How Joel Hokka is resharpening his blade after Blind Channel

One year ago, Joel Hokka announced he was out of Finnish enormo-rockers Blind Channel. Returning with his own band, HOKKA, and a dark-tinged debut, he tells K! why he had to break out, how he’s been forced to grow up, and how it’s only made him stronger.

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HOKKA have released their second single, Death By Cupid’s Arrow

“A song about the not-so-nice side of love,” says the ex-Blind Channel frontman of new single Death By Cupid’s Arrow.

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“I was on my own. It became a powerful moment of growth”: Inside Joel Hokka’s new band, HOKKA

Former Blind Channel frontman Joel Hokka has returned with a new band, and a new song, In The Darkness. He takes K! behind the scenes of their epic new video, and explains how, after being at the bottom, he’s found his spark again.

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Blind Channel announce hiatus and reveal documentary release

Finnish stars Blind Channel will be taking a break after touring finishes in December…

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“People used to call us a ‘boyband trying to play metal’”: Blind Channel release Backstreet Boys cover

A now-staple of their live set, Blind Channel have just unleashed their official cover of Backstreet Boys’ Everybody…

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“The cops caught me on a stolen snowmobile”: 13 Questions with Blind Channel’s Joel Hokka

Blind Channel man Joel faces K!’s 13 Questions, and tells tales of grand theft snowmobile, rancid fish, and his short, terrifying career as a taxi driver…

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Album review: Blind Channel – Exit Emotions

Finnish chart-topping nu-metallers Blind Channel pour big feelings into even bigger sounds on no-holds-barred fifth album, Exit Emotions…

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Blind Channel: “In Finland you’re told not to follow your dream – we want to be the biggest band in the world”

With sold-out arena shows and conquering tours of the U.S. and Europe under their belts, the wider world is finally waking up to Blind Channel. On the eve of new album Exit Emotions, we head to the belly of the beast in Helsinki, and find a band dead-set on global domination…

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Blind Channel: “One day we want to be in the same pyrotechnic league as Rammstein!”

Ahead of Blind Channel’s first-ever UK headline run, Niko Moilanen and Joel Hokka join Kerrang! from the road to chat about massive production, new music, and their plans to be “super cringy tourists” on tour.

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In pictures: Blind Channel’s wild homeland show in Finland

Backstage, onstage and everywhere in-between at Blind Channel’s standalone headline date at Möysän Musaklubi last Friday night.

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Album review: Blind Channel – Lifestyles Of The Sick & Dangerous

Finnish ‘violent pop’ collective Blind Channel give us a high-sheen look inside the Lifestyles Of The Sick & Dangerous.

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Over 60 genre-spanning acts announced for Serbia’s EXIT Festival

From Napalm Death to Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, EXIT Festival in the Petrovaradin Fortress has got it all.

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Blind Channel share new "violent pop" single Balboa

Eurovision stars Blind Channel have unleashed a triumphant new single (and appropriately-themed boxing video), Balboa.

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The Rasmus team up with Eurovision’s Blind Channel for Dark Side cover

The Rasmus singer Lauri Ylönen joins Finnish Eurovision contestants Blind Channel on their song Dark Side…

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Album review: HOKKA – Via Misera IV

“I got to the top and felt lost. I had to rebalance. This is my revenge”: How Joel Hokka is resharpening his blade after Blind Channel

HOKKA have released their second single, Death By Cupid’s Arrow

“I was on my own. It became a powerful moment of growth”: Inside Joel Hokka’s new band, HOKKA

Blind Channel announce hiatus and reveal documentary release

“People used to call us a ‘boyband trying to play metal’”: Blind Channel release Backstreet Boys cover

“The cops caught me on a stolen snowmobile”: 13 Questions with Blind Channel’s Joel Hokka

Album review: Blind Channel – Exit Emotions

Blind Channel: “In Finland you’re told not to follow your dream – we want to be the biggest band in the world”

Blind Channel: “One day we want to be in the same pyrotechnic league as Rammstein!”

In pictures: Blind Channel’s wild homeland show in Finland

Album review: Blind Channel – Lifestyles Of The Sick & Dangerous

Over 60 genre-spanning acts announced for Serbia’s EXIT Festival

Blind Channel share new "violent pop" single Balboa

The Rasmus team up with Eurovision’s Blind Channel for Dark Side cover

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