Watch Manowar play a secret show as The Lords Of Steel in Munster, Germany

We recently reported that the former Hartwall Arena – which is now called Helsinki Halli – is facing an uncertain future. Since 2013, the largest concert venue in Finland’s capital Helsinki is owned by Russian oligarchs – Gennady Timchenko and the brothers Arkady and Boris Romanovich Rotenberg – who are now on the EU sanctions...

Founding Manowar guitarist Ross “Ross The Boss” Friedman left the band in 1988 after recording six classic albums with the band, including “Battle Hymns” and “Kings Of Metal”. Manowar has since re-recorded the two aforementioned albums (“Battle Hymns MMXI” in 2010 and “Kings of Metal MMXIV” in 2014), to which Friedman said in an interview with Sofa King Cool that the band should “leave genius alone.” Friedman also didn’t mince words about how...